Strange Bedfellows

Money can bring anyone together. I’m glad we can all agree that the Holy Land should be well-stocked with weapons!

What do you call it?

From an interesting chat at the Washington Post on ‘Munich’, the new film from Steven Spielberg detailing the retribution done by Israeli security/intelligence forces following the killing of 11 Israeli Olympic athletes in 1972:

Walter Reich: Actually, the current Israeli counter-terrorism policy of “targeted assassinations” and building a security fence is working. The citizens of no country in the world face as serious a terrorism challenge as Israel does. Yet, despite the fact that Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade are trying to carry out terrorist attacks almost constantly–with occasional breaks–there are fewer now that their leaders are being assassinated and the northern part of the fence has been erected (forcing terrorists to move south in order to get into Israel). This is a terrible situation–for both Palestinians and Israelis–but it’s working to stop terrorism. What would you do? What should any country do when it faces an enemy that says that it welcomes death, worships it even, and won’t stop blowing up civilians, all of whom it considers legitimate targets, until Israel is eradicated.

I think the most ironic part of this commentary is you could flip all of this around by substituting the word Palestine for Israel. I would say that average Palestinian faces just a big a threat from the Israeli military (and let us not forget about the occasional random crazy Israeli fuck who seems to like to go and play Duck Hunt with Palestinian civilians) as Israeli’s face from Palestinian terrorists. ‘Assassinations’, ‘targeted killings’, and ‘strategic operations’ only serve as a euphoneistic facades to cover up the idea of formal terrorism carried about by the military.

Secondly, did this man watch this summer as people had to be dragged out of the West Bank? What is being conviniently ignored is that a significant part of the Israeli population is opposed to a Palestinian state, are vehemently right-wing, racist, and dogmatic. There are extremes on both sides and are equally dangerous, considering Israel has a nuclear stockpile.

There is no innocence or guilt, and there is no need to distinguish or label acts of violence. The point is that a lot of people end up dead on both sides who probably could care less otherwise.

lowest common denominator, take 2

In tribute to the worlds worst website, Townhall.com, a stirring forum forum for the idiocy that pervades across America.

Americana Idiotique

Who’s in a bunker?
Who’s in a bunker?
Women and children first
And the children first
And the children
I’ll laugh until my head comes off
I’ll swallow till I burst
Until I burst
Until I

Who’s in a bunker?
Who’s in a bunker?
I have seen too much
I haven’t seen enough
You haven’t seen it
I’ll laugh until my head comes off
Women and children first
And children first
And children

Here I’m allowed
Everything all of the time
Here I’m allowed
Everything all of the time

Ice age coming
Ice age coming
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both
Ice age coming
Ice age coming
Throw it in the fire
Throw it in the fire
Throw it in the

We’re not scaremongering
This is really happening
Happening
We’re not scaremongering
This is really happening
Happening
Mobiles squirking
Mobiles chirping
Take the money and run
Take the money and run
Take the money

Here I’m allowed
Everything all of the time
Here I’m allowed
Everything all of the time

Here I’m allowed
Everything all of the time
Here I’m allowed
Everything all of the time

The first of the children
The first of the children
The first of the children
The first of the children

God makes you stupid

“In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion in the prosperous democracies. … The United States is almost always the most dysfunctional of the developed democracies, sometimes spectacularly so, and almost always scores poorly.”

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