Mahmoud (the Mad) Ahmadinejad under Beirut

In the picture: Mahmoud the Mad emerges from a manhole in the Beirut's sewer system, after visiting his bosom buddy Sheikh Nasrallah in his bunker.

This confusing Lieberman...

Lieberman pointed to the American pledge of allegiance. He noted that the Yisrael Beiteinu party is "willing to adopt the American law word for word."

I am totally confused now. Read the American pledge of allegiance again. It says:

I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Oh boy... what does Lieberman want from us? First it's Jewish and democratic, now it's flag of USA...

P.S. It's our Lieberman not yours, if until now you were confused too.

UFOs over New York City?

(If the embedded clip doesn't show, look here).

That's it? For a self-respecting city it's a pretty poor show...

WaPo Helen Thomas article: correction required

In the article Helen Thomas on being anti-Semitic: 'Baloney!' a correction is required . The paragraph:

"(It was) very hard for the first two weeks. After that, I came out of my coma," Thomas said.

Was reviewed by the family physician and declared misleading.

"The coma Ms Thomas is experiencing is stable and there is no reason to assume the situation is going to change," he said.

As for the accusation of antisemitism leveled at Ms Thomas: As long as she insists upon looking like a Jew from an anti-Semitic cartoon :

any discussion of this subject would be unnecessary.

Musical news from Jerusalem

Bibi conducts the first ever public performance of The Loyalty Oath musical. The troupe was carefully selected from the members of the government.

China: the letter of 23 party elders calls for freedom of speech.

The letter says freedom of expression is promised in the Chinese constitution but not allowed in practice. They want people to be able to freely express themselves on the internet and want more respect for journalists.

I can imagine how the Chinese junta feels about this. Not that I want to give them any ideas, but:

Not yet. But soon...

Protecting Allah from Shiva Nazar Ahari

Here is Shiva Nazar Ahari, an Iranian women’s rights activist:

And here is Allah:

Well, strictly speaking it's not Allah, but his closest live representative on Earth: the Rage Boy. After all, we wouldn't want to enrage the Rage Boy more by putting up the Allah's picture here?

Anyroad, you would guess that Allah, in his infinite wisdom and power as materialized in the body of Rage Boy doesn't require special protection from a wee girl like Shiva? And you would be wrong, since:

On the eve of Ahmadinejad's arrival to New York, Shiva Nazar Ahari, a prominent young female defender of human rights, received a heavy sentence of six years in prison on charges including the vague crime of "waging war against God" -- a convenient catch-all offense for anyone who criticizes the regime and its human rights record.

Now, at least, those of you who were worried about the possible threat to Allah coming from this direction, can sleep soundly. Allah is protected by the wisdom of Ayatollahs and their minion Mahmoud the Mad.

More than 2,000 care about new Gap's logo!

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Friends Like Dubai Just Blow You Out of the Sky

Well, well, well… What’s a little retaliation amongst sahibis?
“Canada's top soldier and two cabinet ministers were up in the air Monday, their flight plans disrupted after the United Arab Emirates denied them landing in retaliation for a failed business deal.”
Fair is fair.  It would appear that the opulent sheikhdom might have grown a little overconfident protected by the western soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Perhaps a tender reminder might do them good.
In the mean time the Afghans have been like waaay too rough with the poor Taliban and Al Qaida captives.  Perhaps on the way out of the region Canadian soldiers could make both the Talibs and the Emiratis a favour and provide free shipping services for the former to recuperate around some nice place like Dubai. 
I am sure the sheikhs will find their business booming.  Literally.  They deserve it.


  

Assclown Award winner - Hugo Chavez

Conveniently forgetting that China has a capitalist economy now, Hugo Chavez proves once again that he is an asslicking supporter of totalitarian oppression and dictatorship, by denouncing this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.

Says Sonia and adds:

Yep.

Sorry, Sonia, I can't join the call for a new Pinochet, tempting as it may seem. People of Venezuela will have to regurgitate and barf out the blighter by other means.

Iran should have received S-300 missiles...

Country's defense minister says missile defense system "is not in contradiction with any international commitments" of Russia or Teheran.

Why be so humble? I say Iran deserves lots of SS-27 missiles. Lots and lots of them, spread evenly over all the places where their army and the heroic Revolutionary Guard reside(d)...

Kim Kardashian naked in W magazine?

I still don't know who she is, let alone what is W magazine... so here:

Isn't it much more restful than Kim, whoever she is?

Danny Ayalon, the astonished "diplomat"

The insidious Danny Ayalon writes in JP about almost wall to wall criticism of the "loyalty oath":

It is simply astonishing to hear all the criticism of what should be an uncontroversial amendment.

I know that anything stupid or vile of Lieberman's invention would be "uncontroversial" to his pet "diplomat" (Don't let's forget that "The writer is deputy foreign minister and an Israel Beiteinu MK".)

I am really losing track of astonishing things that happen around the Lieberman/Ayalon pair of clowns. Let's take a look at few:

1. Ayalon's treatment of the Turkish ambassador.

2. Lieberman's diplomatic savvy.

FM tells French, Spanish FMs to solve Europe's problems before coming to Israel...

3. The mere fact that Mr Ayalon passed the exams necessary to become a diplomat in our foreign service.

4. The mere fact that a common thug becomes an FM...

5. Enough...

Archaeologists Find Mini-Pompeii Buried in Norway

It must have been one heck of a tornado. How do you say in Italian "Luigi, I have a feeling we are not in Napoli anymore... besides, my backside is freezing off..."?

P.S. Google translates it into "Luigi, ho la sensazione che non siamo a Napoli più ... inoltre, il mio sedere è il congelamento off ...". That "off" in the end somehow doesn't inspire...

The unerring GPS of Fareed Zakaria

I have read the ingenious proposal by Fareed Z. on How to end the war in Afghanistan and am still trying to get the bad (very bad) taste out of my mouth. Why ingenious? It looks like with a few small compromises with Taliban, like selling the Afghanistan's women down the river and some such little confidence-building gestures, peace in Afghanistan could be achieved in a jiffy. But I'll let better people write about this travesty. Meanwhile, a question to the history buffs (or just experts) on this quote:

If you look at any good study of civil wars, what you find is that most of them end in a negotiated settlement.

I suspect that, like the rest of the article, it is full of crapola, but could someone confirm this feeling for me? Or reverse it?

Thanks.