Archive for June 2010

Scary stats (but no surprise)

The American public’s reactions to the Arizona law has been one of “broad approval,” as revealed in a recent survey from the Pew Research Center. A quick review below provides some basic details: * 59 percent generally support the Arizona law. * 73 percent approve of the provision “requiring people to produce documents verifying legal [...]

Sexual Assault Prevention Tips

(Guaranteed to Work!) This via facebook friends; the originator seems to have been a correpondent of the blogger at Rage Against the Manchine. We’ve been seeing lists of these tips for decades. This one, if rigorously followed, might actually work!

Limited Liability and Slow Violence

Ever seen a company name like “Acme Industrial LLC”? The LLC means “Limited Liability Company.” Per the arbiter of all definitions online, Wikipedia: “The primary characteristic an LLC shares with a corporation is limited liability…” and if you follow up on the definition of “limited liability” you find that this is “a concept whereby a [...]

Jewish flotilla to break Gaza siege

The German-Jewish organization Jewish Voice for Peace in the Middle East is preparing a Jewish flotilla to the Gaza Strip. “We intend to leave around July,” a member of the organization, Kate Leitrer, said to Ynet. “We have one small craft so far, in which there will be between 12 and 16 people, mostly Jews.” [...]

Dead Pelican Sunhats (or “Lemonade, lemonade…”)

Starting in another month or so the toxic soup composed of oily tropical seawater and decomposing coastal vegetation and sea life will be stirred up and driven inland by tropical storms and hurricanes. Gulf Coast oil-grunge will become the de facto new national style: oil-streaked skin and clothing and perhaps a dead pelican for a [...]

USS Liberty

Not the first time Israel has attacked a ship. A former Navy attorney who helped lead the military investigation of the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty that killed 34 American servicemen says former President Lyndon Johnson and his defense secretary, Robert McNamara, ordered that the inquiry conclude the incident was an accident. In [...]

How to defend the indefensible

If there is one piece of ancient wisdom that has never lost even a bit of its validity over the centuries, it is Cornelius Tacitus’ axiom that, “Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.” Indeed, this appears to be the underlying principle of the US-Israeli PR campaign that has been launched in the [...]

Flotilla terrorist weapons photos

On the Israeli ministry of foreign affairs’ Flickr page, the pictures of the so-called weapons seized on the ships taking part in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla provide ample evidence of the deviousness of those darned anti-semitic terrorists. Be forewarned: the following pictures are not for the faint-hearted. FULL