Bydio

So I was reading an opinion titled “Britain is a hotbed of anti-Israeli sentiment” and I decided to write some words after reading a few of the comments.

I love these putzes. They have no clue about what’s going on in Israel, but they blame Israel for their woes. The scenario usually goes something like this:

“I’m a Jew, but I don’t like Israel because they act all apartheid-like and are doing genocide to the Palestinians. Why don’t people understand that when they complain about Israel to me, I agree with them. I’ve never been to Israel, but if they’re going to try to represent Jews around the world, they should act better and let the Palestinians live in peace and stop making war in Lebanon and all over the place. Don’t they understand that when they do all that they make it hard for me to live peacefully where I live?”

Seriously, to me that’s like getting a skull punch in a bar fight. Stunning, and it hurts in weird ways.

First of all, most of these Jews are young and only know the peer pressure opinion of the collective. Most everyone goes through that, but too often it continues into adulthood, where they should learn more and have a more critical mind. Unfortunately we see less critical thinking.

Second, Israel doesn’t represent all Jews, it’s a Jewish state that has its own issues to deal with. However, all these people who complain to you about Israel because you are Jewish, that’s one of the reasons Israel was created. Israel is the Jewish “Home Base” in a game of life-or-death tag. When those same people blame you for what Israel does because all you dirty, scheming, money-grubbing Jews are all the same, this just proves a point why Israel needs to exist. You can’t be persecuted for being a Jew in Israel, so that’s your safe haven.

If you, as a Jew, have issues with the way Israel deals with its hostile neighbors, then you should delve into the history and make sure you have your facts straight. There’s a LOT of info out there, so fair warning, it’ll take some time. Once you have that history in mind, then state your case for change if you still believe change needs to be made. As you are right now, you’re nothing but a whiner who wishes all your “friends” would leave you alone because those Israelis are so mean to the poor, downtrodden Palestinians by killing them en mass and stealing their land. Stop being a tool and read about it A LOT MORE. If you can’t put in the time to learn, keep your half-assed opinion to yourself.

Start here and work your way around the net.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/

An important read: Barry Rubin “The Fall of Lebanon”

On every point, Hizballah, Iran, and Syria, got all they wanted from Lebanon’s government: its surrender of sovereignty. They have veto power over the government; one-third of the cabinet; election changes to ensure victory in the next balloting; and they will have their candidate installed as president.

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The UN Security Council on May 22 endorsed the Lebanon agreement even though it totally contradicted the Council’s own resolution ending the Hizballah-Israel war, thus betraying the commitments made to Israel about stopping arms smuggling, disarming Hizballah, and keeping that group from returning to south Lebanon. The UN’s total reversal of its demands from two years ago—constituting a total victory for Hizballah—did not bring a flicker of shame or even recognition that this in fact had happened.

The UN is truly a shameful organization, useless in so many ways. However, all of the western powers are falling over themselves to capitulate to Islamic states, not just Iran, but Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Gaza/Judea/Sumaria. I honestly don’t understand what our governments are doing. They — the politicians and the governments as a whole — are astoundingly stupid in their actions, and the excuse of diplomacy leaves an ashy taste in the mouth when viewed through the lens of recent attempts.

Go read that whole article, and see what a REAL leader says about the situation.

The Fall of Lebanon.

So I’m watching the BBC America News, and it’s infuriating in some ways, but I was thinking: Why would they downplay using terms “Islamic” and “Muslim”? After all, it’s truthful in many ways for certain stories.

So I keep on thinking (trouble): Could the BBC, realizing the influence they have on the way people think (repetition of the same story over and over makes the problem seem bigger), be trying to reduce the impact of possible retribution if they continued to report jihad violence as it is?

They reported tonight (April 28, 2008) on the mosque that was burned by other Muslims because the sect “deviated” from normal Islam. The BBC didn’t report what that deviation was, but because I’d read about it earlier at Jihad Watch, I knew why: the sect didn’t follow the Jihad ideology; no violence.

Toning down the idea of Jihad might paint all Muslims as violent, and story after story about violent Muslims and Jihad would alarm many people, possible leading to violence against Muslims at home (Europe and America). This would fit in with a Liberal-Socialist understanding of the situation. They’d be wrong to do it, but I could see how this line of thought could influence the BBC to present stories in a certain less-Jihadalicious light.

I remember the news channels fucking with Chelsea Clinton in the 90s, calling her names because she wasn’t one of the “beautiful people” like her parents. Chelsea definitely wasn’t the hot girl in class, she had dweeb looks, but she wasn’t wretched. The reporters were really the wretched ones; supposed adults using grade school insults against a child forced into the public spotlight.

It seems John McCain was one of the douchebags on that boat:

“Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly?” he asked. “Because Janet Reno is her father.”
–John McCain, Republican Fundraiser, 1998

But Chelsea Clinton isn’t ugly now. She looks pretty, all made-up and smiling:

Makeup? Check. Hairdo? Check. Growing into your features? Possibly. Plastic surgery? Could be. However — and I can only guess — but I’m pretty sure she’s just as soulless and scam-alicious as her mom on the inside.

I already have no intention of voting for any of the candidates in the 2008 Presidential election. They’re all repulsive people, which is borne out in their words and deeds. Hillary Clinton is a lying scammer. Barack Obama is a Democrat tool who surrounds himself with hate-mongers, and John McCain is the embodiment of the unprincipled politician who has turned my stomach ever since I found out what Democrats and Republicans were.

Opine mightily about the politicians, if you so choose, but stop ragging on their kids, you assholes.

[note: Chelsea Clinton is fair game now, since she's an adult and is stumping for her mom.]

Sandy Szwarc, BSN, RN, CCP, at the Junkfood Science blog, writes some great articles. The one posted on April 7, 2008, called “House-to-house searches — for twinkies and guns?” is yet another fantastic article.

She talks about the recent initiatives by police in Boston, MA, and Washington, D.C., to go house to house in specified neighborhoods and, without warrants, search homes for guns. The populace has been mostly against this, it seems (which is good to hear), but plans to do such things still grind forward.

This is linked to health searches of homes — proposed in England, California, Missouri and New York — to curb health problems related to sexual activity, eating and smoking (three of the golden pleasures, in my book).

As part of the plans of Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt, “unfit and overweight Britons will get doorstep visits from NHS staff to track those at risk of future illness.”

Proposals were made by the California Department of Health for door-to-door searches of young Latina and African American women in low-income neighborhoods to assess their health risk behaviors, purportedly to tackle HIV and STDs.

A program funded by the National Cancer Institute, targeted 350,000 families of preschoolers in St. Louis, Missouri, who received a knock on the door asking them about their eating habits, going through their pantries and reviewing their grocery shopping lists.

A similar anti-obesity initiative was introduced last summer by Dr. Mehmet Oz, author of the You on a diet diet book and an Oprah regular. Funded by $250,000 from the New York City Council, the program he founded is called HealthCorps. Modeled after the Peace Corps, it pays college graduates to go around the city and council kids on diet and exercise.

And why should ALL of us be concerned about “reasonable” gun control measures?

Jews were prohibited from owning guns by order of SS Reichsführer Himmler on November 10, 1938, said professor Halbrook, and all weapons were confiscated in a door-to-door search known as the Night of the Broken Glass. [Image from People’s Observer, November 10, 1938.] As the New York Times had reported that November, in just weeks the entire Jewish population of Berlin had been disarmed, and any resistors were shot. Finding those Jews who had firearms was simple, because the laws from 1928 required extensive police records on gun owners and the police used gun registrations.

“The disarming of the Jews made individual or collective resistance in the future impossible,” [Stephen P. Halbrook, Ph.D., J.D.] concluded in the Arizona journal. “The record establishes that a well-meaning liberal republic would enact a gun control act that would later be highly useful to a dictatorship. That dictatorship could then consolidate its power by massive search and seizure operations against political opponents… It could enact its own new firearms law, disarming anyone the police deemed dangerous…”

Simply put, guns and knives and all kinds of weapons should not be registered with any government agency. Registration is a big part of our lives, from homes to cars to our very selves (Driver’s Licenses and Social Security numbers), and being without it is not easily envisioned. However, any and all encroachments should be dealt with sceptically and harshly, with the understanding that other people rarely know better than you how to live your own life.

The pantry police are not good for you or your ability to live freely and as you see fit, and that’s just one of the thousands (literally) of proposals and laws that treat you more like a child and less like an adult.