Muslim Brotherhood needs to understand...

The article The Schoolmarms Tell the Terrorists to Play Nice by prof Barry Rubin is written with unusual for him harsh overtones. I can eas...

Income tax - down the toilet

This item is of a personal interest to me: The Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper said authorities recommended the 1.5 million truck drivers in ...

Camel urine - for imams only

The thesis seems to be conclusively proven by this : Two Turkish men were hospitalized on arrival to Turkey after drinking camel's milk ...

Golden eagle snatches a kid. Well, almost.

A real drama, but thankfully, with a happy ending. Anorak has a special opinion on the reasons for this attempt.

Learning English from CIA

The sentence that caught my attention in this article is at the end of the quote: The official, described as having direct knowledge of an ...

This is why The Fat Man

And this is the problem with the moral outrage of moral people who recoil at the killing. If their anger is devoid of context and forgetful ...

Fresh? It's practically live!

From here .

The Council Has Spoken!

Council Winners *First place with 3 1/3 votes! Joshuapundit – A Game Change In Syria Second place with 2 votes – Bookworm Room - The Lef...

Iran competes for a place in Ripley's "Believe It Or Not" Compendium

The article starts with an interesting quote, to whit "An Iranian official is saying the country may open a controversial military sit...

One potato, two potato - bingo!

Good news for me: Engineers at Chicago-based Boeing Co. used sacks of potatoes as stand-ins for passengers as they worked to eliminate weak...

Judeopundit on Juan Cole on "the flowering of Christianity" in the Middle East

Judeopundit aka Yitzchak Goodman on the moronic ruminations of the so called professor. An exceptionally elegant takedown. And a must read.

Dmitri Yakovlev bill - the cannibal's mistake

Tit for tat in US-Russia relationship is one of many traditions surviving the demise of the Soviet Union. The story of Dmitry Yakovlev bill,...

Why is this man smiling?

As the old IDF saying goes: "This is what you have and with it you must win". This ToI article shows clearly that Bibi is what we...

Fatwa against Christmas and Facebook

In a normal course of events I would have skipped this blighted subject: verbal shenanigans of a certain imam or pastor or rabbi are interes...

Did the Earth move for you, dear?

Of course, the article attracted me purely out of prurient interest. As such, an extended quote is on the way: An Australian court has rule...

Watcher’s Council Nominations – Christmas Edition

Council Submissions Joshuapundit - A Game Change In Syria The Noisy Room – Big Business and Marxist Collusion – Bourgeois Socialism The Po...

Michael Jackson in a tree stump - a Christmas present to Shaun

Shaun , being an expert in that stuff, will definitely detect the image in the picture: Me, I am stumped - no Christmas miracle for me. Full...

Tolkien is one of the Good Guys, and an anti-Nazi to boot!

This is for Jewish and philo-semitic lovers of Tolkien and all things Middle Earth. It's okay to be a fan, because Tolkien was not only ...

Human Rights Watch (partially) changes its tune - but only partially

Here's a turn up for the books: HRW "blasts Hamas for targeting Israeli civilians with rockets". This comes, of course, just ...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

To all our Christian and non-denominational friends wherever and whoever you are. And for a smile: And for the cat lovers (my kind of people...

Israel, Assad & chemical weapons

The Times of Israel has this story , which starts with the following quote: "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Israel wa...

Speaking (or pressing 'send') too soon

I should have know that I spoke too soon. No sooner had I pressed "send" on the previous item (that and this one via The Elder of ...

Couldnt happen to a nicer clerico-fascist regime

The Times of Israel has stumbled across a new virus apparently targeting Iranian computer systems. That's the reason for the heading to...

The Guardian report on Christmas in Bethlehem

Another year, another Christmas. The survivors of the Mayan end of the days are blearily opening their eyes looking forward to some hearty c...

Woman says missed skunk, shot husband

Yep, as the story is told : A Texas woman told authorities she was trying to shoot a skunk with a handgun when she accidentally shot her hus...

If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget...

The rest of that psalm (the exact fate of the right hand) is disputed in its various English translations , but a recent case of forgetting ...

The most turgid headline I've seen

And it belongs to a BBC article: GM sprouts 'could blow away flatulence'

The Council Has Spoken!

Council Winners *First place with 4 votes! The Right Planet – Talking Past Each Other Second place with 3 votes – Joshuapundit- The Newt...

Not good news for Israel: Jordan underestimates Israeli intelligence capability, & Israel implies an attack on an Iranian cargo vessel &/or its cargo

The following comes from The Tablet, with the second link coming from the Haaretz article The Tablet links to. It suggests that UN sources (...

Idle thoughts (of someone else)

What did they depict first on the Canadian flag that they had to cover with a maple leaf afterward? *** 5 symptoms of laziness: 1... *** If ...

Suzy Favor Hamilton naked or Mayan calendar December 21 2012?

I don't know - let the better hot search win. And I don't know whether calling one's daughter Favor is worse than believing some...

Half a billion dollars left at the Western Wall: what now, you may want to know?

That's a fact : Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, who oversees Jerusalem’s Western Wall, said a worshiper found an envelope at the site Wednesda...

Patty Lewis - still here to entertain

If you have never seen this PC-inspired series of e-mails from an alleged Human Resources Director of a medium sized company, you should rea...

Mike Harris of Phoenix AZ and Zionist death squad in Newtown

Our signals department is rarely sleeping on the job, and this time wasn't exceptional: the electronic ink has barely dried, and the inf...

Put in a tight corner

Catching the moment - isn't this what photography is all about? From here .

Watcher’s Council Nominations – Getting Ready For Christmas Edition

Council Submissions The Right Planet – Talking Past Each Other The Colossus of Rhodey – It’s Time For “Fun With ‘Progressives’” The Poli...

The world ends in three days: are you prepared?

It pays to be prepared, and here are some Russians who, out of civic responsibility, offer a free end of the world service: Тhe ad above say...

Challah on Monday

On a very light note (sort of), and via The Elder of Ziyon , comes this small item . Note the spelling (and I guess the pronounciation) of t...

One for the "If only..." column

Here's a short item from The Times of Israel , to be filed in the "If only..." column. Typical quote (just about sums the thre...

Not knowing when you're well off: step forward Palestinian youths announcing a new intifida

Winston Churchill famously said that "To jaw, jaw is better than to war, war". He was talking during the Cold War, a phrase he had...

Copenhagen: Jews and policemen, beware

The first category mentioned above is not a big surprise for anyone who watches the news from Northern Europe - the cradle of most progressi...

Google Search news: no more boobs, ladies and gentlemen

Mostly gentlemen, I guess, but who knows: I don't have any access to statistics of that kind. Anyway, here is the gist of the news : If ...

The phantoms of ceasefire, proportionality and other Middle East myths - Part II

Farmer Jones and farmer Smith, or Parable of Proportionality . Wild West circa 18.. It was a warm and sunny April morning. Farmer Jones was ...