It's despicable that he was even nominated.

Nothing new about leftists trying to hijack an election

Best bet at the moment (if you just want to defeat Cole) is Israellycool with 25% of the vote to Cole's 33%. Michael Totten is the next best at 19%.

Whoops! Should have posted this here:

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

In terms of Pali propaganda, this couldn't be a better example. Juan Cole, the ISM, Adam Shapiro's "brave" wife, Israeli soldiers denounced for "firing on children" (with appropriate Darth-Vaderesque score in the background), and tons of useful idiots weeping over IDF brutality and Israel, the "rogue state".

All packaged for ready consumption and unquestioned by the consumers.

Anybody out there know Korean? I'd love to know what the voice-over is saying...

Done.

Shit we talk about The Middle East so much ( and rightfully so ) why aren't we in that category?

Juan Cole?!?!?!?!?

The man is a lunatic. How can he possibly even be nominated?

I'd rank him among the three worst professors in America, right up there with Leonard Jeffries and Ward Churchill, to name a couple.

Voted. Thanks for the link.

The problem is the good guys are split between Israellycool and Michael Totten.

welp......you all have firehosed the weblog awards and I can't get in....damnit!

D.A.R.E. to say no to Juan Cole.

re: #3 The Mongoose

Best bet at the moment (if you just want to defeat Cole) is Israellycool with 25% of the vote to Cole's 33%. Michael Totten is the next best at 19%.

They got my vote - and will continue to do so.

To be more explicit (I can sometimes be too obscure for my own good), please check out the link in my #4 here to see what kind of vile propaganda Cole gets up to every single day.

re: #2 Thor-Zone

Nothing new about leftists trying to hijack an election

If/when he loses, can he ask for a recount? ;-)

re: #3 The Mongoose

Best bet at the moment (if you just want to defeat Cole) is Israellycool with 25% of the vote to Cole's 33%. Michael Totten is the next best at 19%.

Yes.

Everyone: Focus your votes on Israellycool and Michael Totten. Nothing is gained by spreading around on the other sites.

GAZA - AP PHOTOSHOP FAKE?

muqata.blogspot.com is imploring readers to examine the following photo for possilbe photoshopping, fautography...

The Photo in question:
[Link: www.cbc.ca...]

re: #9 Alouette

The problem is the good guys are split between Israellycool and Michael Totten.

Ain't it always so?

re: #6 Nevergiveup

Shit we talk about The Middle East so much ( and rightfully so ) why aren't we in that category?

Only one category per blog... so, some bloggers are in categories that you wouldn't normally expect...

re: #16 zombie

Yes.

Everyone: Focus your votes on Israellycool and Michael Totten. Nothing is gained by spreading around on the other sites.

I voted for Israellycool since:
1. I like his blog, and
2. He has the best chance of beating Juan Cole.

re: #7 zombie

Juan Cole?!?!?!?!?

The man is a lunatic. How can he possibly even be nominated?

I'd rank him among the three worst professors in America, right up there with Leonard Jeffries and Ward Churchill, to name a couple.

Thy're a couple? I hope they find happiness.

re: #4 Cato the Elder

I'm surprised the soldiers didn't arrest her or give her a good spray of mace. Also, the video is edited to make it appear that she stops him from firing. He shoots at least one over her head and he gets a couple shots into the mob to his left.

Sheesh! I wish I'd known about that guy's website back when I was trying to teach Little Reject how to recognize propaganda...

re: #9 Alouette

The problem is the good guys are split between Israellycool and Michael Totten.

as well as elder of zion

re: #21 Honorary Yooper

I voted for Israellycool since:
1. I like his blog, and
2. He has the best chance of beating Juan Cole.

That's what I did as well.

re: #17 GNIDAthe#seCond

GAZA - AP PHOTOSHOP FAKE?

muqata.blogspot.com is imploring readers to examine the following photo for possilbe photoshopping, fautography...

The Photo in question:
[Link: www.cbc.ca...]

Is that an American Flag at the very top of the smoke plume?

re: #16 zombie

Yes.

Everyone: Focus your votes on Israellycool and Michael Totten. Nothing is gained by spreading around on the other sites.

U R Bossy

re: #16 zombie

Yes.

Everyone: Focus your votes on Israellycool and Michael Totten. Nothing is gained by spreading around on the other sites.

Exactly. I will post updates as best I can, looks like Totten has some momentum so he may become the horse to back. Either way, vote splitting is Cole's friend.

re: #20 lawhawk

Only one category per blog... so, some bloggers are in categories that you wouldn't normally expect...

Actually i was joking but I guess it is kinda like the Oscars. Why some people are in best Actor/Actress and some are in supporting is always funny.

Juan Cole? That name sounds like one of the african 419 scam artists I've been baiting.

Somebody tell Al Gore that Cole is bad for the environment and maybe he'll be disappeared.....
/

I face a similar situation in the Best Small Blog category, and some site calling itself Rumproast is running away with things.

If you're going to vote there, Nice Deb or Chatting in the Sky are fine... I know I can't possibly catch up to those three leading vote getters; and there's something just a little odd about how rumproast is running away with things...

re: #17 GNIDAthe#seCond
http://muqata.blogspot.com/ - see updates for latest developments. From The Muqata:

Israeli Bloggers question authenticity of AP photograph from "Gaza" -- many believe it is photoshopped or even not from Gaza at all!

The AP Comment for the picture states: "An explosion after an Israeli strike in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, as seen from Gaza City. (Adel Hana/Associated Press)"

The following is noted.

1. We don't know of mountains near Gaza like those in the background.
2. The debris "flying" away from the explosion appears to be "photoshopped" in.
3. Israeli bloggers are now trying to determine where this photo is really from in the first place

(source from rotter, Israeli bloggers)

re: #34 lawhawk

Done. Good luck! The power of the Lizard Army is excellent, as is your blog.

done

From Muqata; I knew this would creep in sooner or later.

7:45 PM Foreign sources are saying that the US has supplied the Israel Air Force with many new types of ammunition to test them out in Gaza.

re: #39 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

From Muqata; I knew this would creep in sooner or later.

why that's never been done in all the history of warfare...splendid idea!

In fact, Nice Deb reports that Wonkette is pushing traffic to beat PUMA and conservative bloggers in the contests.

This is odd.....
UN: Israel admits rocket fire was not from within school

Israel told foreign diplomats Wednesday that Palestinian militants had not fired rockets from within a United Nations' school, a UN official said. Israeli military officials said on Tuesday that militants had fired rockets from within the school, and that attack provoked Israeli artillery fire which landed near the school and killed more than 40 Palestinians in the Jabalia refugee camp, many of whom were seeking refuge from fighting.

"The Israeli army is briefing diplomats privately that the militant fire from Jablia yesterday did not come from inside the UNRWA school compound, but from the outside," said Chris Gunness, a spokesman for the UN Relief Works Agency, which aids Palestinian refugees.

Gunness said the claim was a "major allegation against a neutral UN development agency" which "within a day turns out to be completely baseless."

UNRWA's Gaza director, John Ging, had said earlier that to the best of his knowledge no rockets were fired from within the school.

An Israeli military spokesman declined comment.

How do we tell who paid for this press release? Is it really from the UN?

That was easy. Next?

re: #39 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

From Muqata; I knew this would creep in sooner or later.

Sounds like a good idea to me.

re: #43 Killgore Trout

I call bullshit. There's no source.

re: #19 taxfreekiller

Any thing is possible, Obama will be Pres. Jan. 20.

If Al Gore does not over heat us first.

As cold as it has been here lately, I am clearly "Another Alaskan In Favor Of Global Warming"

/channeling recently viewed bumber sticker in Talkeetna

re: #39 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

From Muqata; I knew this would creep in sooner or later.

Wait a minute - I thought it was the Zionists who were the puppet-masters, and the military-industrial complex who were the dupes. Since when is it the other way around?

Does this mean my Zionist World Conspiracy dividend checks aren't gonna come any more?

Jumping Jacks Fail

US Training, Supporting, Funding FAIL.

This is also who we are fighting against.

Sorry to go OT, but I have to re-post this:

If this has been posted already, forgive me!

If not - please do have a look at Your text to link...

There is a photo from AP which is, according to Israelis, not from Gaza, an looks photo-shopped.

I've contacted Charles - there is a direct request for Lizards to get their teeth into this!

Re: #39
I saw that and thought it was odd, why would we need to give Israel stuff to test out when we are running two campaigns already? Plausible deniability is
the only thing I can think of, but we would be blamed anyway...

Done, with pleasure.

re: #39 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

From Muqata; I knew this would creep in sooner or later.

All I have to say about that is: Cool!

re: #45 Nevergiveup

Sounds like a good idea to me.

so now for whatever else the palis are they are Guinea pigs?...what a world

"and begged his audience of leftist drones to vote for him."

Typical leftie. No shame at all.

re: #45 Nevergiveup

Sounds like a good idea to me.

They did the same thing in the Lebanon war. They accused Israel of using munitions which would cause cancer or with effects which violated the Geneva Convention. All of it turned out to be bullshit then too.

re: #43 Killgore Trout

This is odd.....
UN: Israel admits rocket fire was not from within school

How do we tell who paid for this press release? Is it really from the UN?

"earthtimes"? doesn't pass the sniff test.

re: #43 Killgore Trout

This is odd.....
UN: Israel admits rocket fire was not from within school

How do we tell who paid for this press release? Is it really from the UN?

Earthtimes is the site that was on? Hmmmm.

Instant effect. Cole now at 31.7%, Israellycool 24.8%, Totten 21.7%. Totten is gaining primarily because of the appeal on his own website, I suspect, with LGF votes going to him and Israellycool.

ISRAELLYCOOL!

re: #39 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

From Muqata; I knew this would creep in sooner or later.

Makes sense. Gaza is nothing more than a Zionist proving ground after all!

/

Looks like the Lizard army is workin hard.. Their websites hamsters are going really sllow

re: #46 buzzsawmonkey

The fact that Israeli rounds go where they're aimed has to be the result of nefarious new technology rather than training.

Nope. Act of God. heh.

Latest film from Gaza.

re: #51 taxfreekiller

not within the school

that means the roof or from the windows or play ground, or front steps

or the tunnel underneath

re: #17 GNIDAthe#seCond

GAZA - AP PHOTOSHOP FAKE?

muqata.blogspot.com is imploring readers to examine the following photo for possilbe photoshopping, fautography...

The Photo in question:
[Link: www.cbc.ca...]

Maybe ... but that looks like an extreme telephoto lens setting, which could "shorten" the background radically. Those hills in the background could appear larger and closer than they are.

The debris looks a little suspicious, but it could be large pieces of a structure; that looks like a helluva big explosion.

I don't really see anything obviously faked.

re: #59 Guanxi88

They issue paid press releases. CAIR uses them all the time.

re: #56 albusteve

so now for whatever else the palis are they are Guinea pigs?...what a world

Well they keep bitching that jobs are hard to come by.

re: #53 WitchDoctor

Re: #39
I saw that and thought it was odd, why would we need to give Israel stuff to test out when we are running two campaigns already? Plausible deniability is
the only thing I can think of, but we would be blamed anyway...

it's part of the R&D process...nothing wrong with it

re: #9 Alouette

The problem is the good guys are split between Israellycool and Michael Totten.

It is a problem - ordinarily I'd have gone for Michael Totten, full blast.
But since the start of the war in Gaza, I've been to Israellycool's blog incessantly, and because of the war he's getting my vote.

re: #44 VioletTiger

That was easy. Next?

Cake Wrecks under Best Food category.

I can't read that site without laughing til I cry.

re: #39 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

From Muqata; I knew this would creep in sooner or later.

Let me know when they drop the gay bomb, I will want to see that spectacle.

"your text to link"

I was sort of hoping the typo, "lonk" would catch on...

re: #75 Desert Dog

Let me know when they drop the gay bomb, I will want to see that spectacle.

Would that effect goats?

re: #43 Killgore Trout

This is odd.....
UN: Israel admits rocket fire was not from within school

How do we tell who paid for this press release? Is it really from the UN?

Author is DPA, a German news service I believe.

re: #75 Desert Dog

Let me know when they drop the gay bomb, I will want to see that spectacle.

I'm not worried about that. It's when they later drop the nude bomb that I will be worried.

Juan Cole is a terror apologist, and a bug-eyed twit to boot.

Isreallycool!

re: #70 Killgore Trout

They issue paid press releases. CAIR uses them all the time.

Good, saves me having to wade through Deutsche Presse-Agentur nonsense. As I said "earthtimes".

Any source or group with "earth", peace, people's, etc., in the name may, in general, be dismissed outright, and many should probably be critiqued and corrected with bulldozers.

I can't open the fookin' page. I'm planning on voting for Isreallycool, once from here, once from Chicago, and once as "Mickey Mouse" from Minnesota.

re: #43 Killgore Trout

This is odd.....
UN: Israel admits rocket fire was not from within school

How do we tell who paid for this press release? Is it really from the UN?

Very bizarre. 48-hour rule on that one. There's so much disinformation flying around, I don't trust anyone any more.

re: #7 zombie

Juan Cole?!?!?!?!?

The man is a lunatic. How can he possibly even be nominated?

I'd rank him among the three worst professors in America, right up there with Leonard Jeffries and Ward Churchill, to name a couple.

Ward Churchill is no longer a perfesser, I'm glad to say.

Your first sentence leaped into my addled brain as

The man is a lunatic. How can he possibly even be
(a) nominated
(b) elected
(c) noticed
(d) all the above

re: #6 Nevergiveup

Shit we talk about The Middle East so much ( and rightfully so ) why aren't we in that category?

We water it down with all that ID/creationist stuff.
/

re: #68 buzzsawmonkey

This article was published about 15 minutes before the press release.....
UNRWA '99.9% certain' gunmen didn't fire from shelled school

"We are 99.9 percent certain that there were no militants or militant activity in the school or in the school compound," said Christopher Gunness, spokesman of the UN Relief and Works Agency, following a preliminary investigation conducted by the international relief organization.
...
IDF officials maintained Wednesday that a number of mortar shells were fired at IDF units "from within the Jabalya school. In response to the incoming enemy fire, the forces returned mortar fire to the source."

An IDF statement said that two Hamas operatives, Imad Abu Ashkar and Hassan Abu Ashkar, were among the bodies found at the school. A spokeswoman decline to explain, however, how the operatives were identified.

She said that the IDF did not have any video of this particular incident.

I suspect the press release might be really from the UN and they are lying about the private statements from Israeli officials.

re: #84 zombie

Trust Israel.

The only ones answerable to a free press, judicial system and the people.

re: #43 Killgore Trout

This is odd.....
UN: Israel admits rocket fire was not from within school

How do we tell who paid for this press release? Is it really from the UN?

Inside, outside, does it really make a difference?

re: #69 Charles

Maybe ... but that looks like an extreme telephoto lens setting, which could "shorten" the background radically. Those hills in the background could appear larger and closer than they are.

The debris looks a little suspicious, but it could be large pieces of a structure; that looks like a helluva big explosion.

I don't really see anything obviously faked.

but it's a bit suspicious in the aggregate, isn't it?

re: #17 GNIDAthe#seCond

GAZA - AP PHOTOSHOP FAKE?

muqata.blogspot.com is imploring readers to examine the following photo for possilbe photoshopping, fautography...

The Photo in question:
[Link: www.cbc.ca...]

Whatever that shrapnel is flying through the air - it's huge!

Can I nominate Iowahowk for the best Mid-west blog?

re: #84 zombie

Very bizarre. 48-hour rule on that one. There's so much disinformation flying around, I don't trust anyone any more.

I'm with you on that one Zombie....To me this Gaza thing is beginning to feel a lot like Lebonon of 2006. I'm just waiting on the Green Helmet guy to show up.

re: #66 Peacekeeper

Oy.

Roland Burris headed back to Illinois to appear before the impeachment panel.
Chicago radio is reporting that they want to ask him if he paid for the appointment. Seriously.

re: #94 WriterMom

Oy.

Vey

re: #78 Charles

There's also the UN's Department of Political Affairs

re: #93 Thor-Zone

I'm with you on that one Zombie....To me this Gaza thing is beginning to feel a lot like Lebonon of 2006. I'm just waiting on the Green Helmet guy to show up.

You can wait all you want - he won't show up. Got a gig at CNN and NPR

re: #87 Killgore Trout

Very interesting KT.

It looks like you might be nailing them right now.

re: #69 Charles

It could be. But that looks like an extreme telephoto lens setting, which could "shorten" the background radically. Those hills in the background could appear larger and closer than they are.

The debris looks a little suspicious, but it could be large pieces of a structure; that looks like a helluva big explosion.

I don't really see anything obviously faked.

Israelis who have apparently blogged about this photo say there are no mountains in that area.
(I'm repeating what is said on The Muqata's blog).

Well if he wins then the Award itself becomes a black mark - like the Nobel peace prize.

re: #90 jwb7605

but it's a bit suspicious in the aggregate, isn't it?

I think that's the point...what the hell is the difference

re: #69 Charles

I was going to ask-and maybe people more familiar with explosives could answer...why is there a gap between the ground and the smoke-a clear gap where there is no smoke at all?

re: #95 opnion

Roland Burris headed back to Illinois to appear before the impeachment panel.
Chicago radio is reporting that they want to ask him if he paid for the appointment. Seriously.

It's a valid question.

And it puts him on record saying yay or nay. And if it is found that he did pay for it in some way, does lying to the panel constitute perjury?

re: #87 Killgore Trout

I told Kenneth (who posted that earlier this am) that I saw ANOTHER UNWRA spokesman this morning (unfortunately saw Dem Now! on TV) saying the exact same thing word for word. INcluding the 99.99% BS.

Obviously they're sending out talking points to all their activists.

THey openly and un-apologetically have Hamas, etc, terrorists on their payroll.

They are actively participating in Hamas' war against Jews.

re: #104 Silhouette

It's a valid question.

And it puts him on record saying yay or nay. And if it is found that he did pay for it in some way, does lying to the panel constitute perjury?

Will he be under oath?

Gah. I'll have to try later from home, without the IE7 suckitude. Can't get the thing to fully load.

The brave UN that abandoned Iraq and Iraqis after one bomb.

re: #43 Killgore Trout

Who is Earthtimes?
No attributions, other than Israel, or Israeli diplomats.

aboutus.org on Earth times....

Contact
Whois information is public, but in response to some people wanting to keep their contact information private, many domain name
Registrars offer a "privacy" or "proxy" service to mask the domain name owner. This domain is most likely using a proxy service.

re: #43 Killgore Trout

This is odd.....
UN: Israel admits rocket fire was not from within school

How do we tell who paid for this press release? Is it really from the UN?

Especially since the IDF said MORTARS were fired from the school. (And stiill says so, from what I can tell)
Some idiot at the UN asked the IDF "Were rockets fired from the school", was told "No" and put out this press release.

Here's the chilly view of Old Faithful Geyser. Next eruption predicted in about an hour.

Oh - and Mr. Cole: No whining, whiners should be thrown overboard; perhaps keelhauled.

If you google DPA
the 6th result goes to the UN's Palestine page

re: #91 bosforus

Whatever that shrapnel is flying through the air - it's huge!

Seriously, that shrapnel looks suspicious. Granted, it's a big explosion, but compared to the buildings next to it that shrapnel looks to be about 2 stories in height. If the target was a building, I would think the concrete would be blown to smithereens and not projected in giant chunks. Just my first thoughts.

re: #108 Ben Hur

The brave UN that abandoned Iraq and Iraqis after one bomb.

the UN is a veritable death machine

re: #106 Nevergiveup

Will he be under oath?

Good question. Probably related to how much authority the panel has.

I don't know.

re: #69 Charles

It could be. But that looks like an extreme telephoto lens setting, which could "shorten" the background radically. Those hills in the background could appear larger and closer than they are.

The debris looks a little suspicious, but it could be large pieces of a structure; that looks like a helluva big explosion.

I don't really see anything obviously faked.

re: #103 WriterMom

I was going to ask-and maybe people more familiar with explosives could answer...why is there a gap between the ground and the smoke-a clear gap where there is no smoke at all?

One detail I might point out:

While I agree it doesn't look too faked, one thing that bothers me is that the mushroom cloud shape had time to form, while the debris is still mid-flight. It would seem rather that the debris should have already finished its trajectory before the mushroom could take shape, which takes a few seconds. Though, it's still not entirely definitive.

And even if it was fake, what does it prove?

re: #108 Ben Hur

The brave UN that abandoned Iraq and Iraqis after one bomb.

Yeah, that was another high point in UN history? You even wonder why the UN was bombed since they were complicit with Saddam in scamming all that money?

re: #114 bosforus

Seriously, that shrapnel looks suspicious. Granted, it's a big explosion, but compared to the buildings next to it that shrapnel looks to be about 2 stories in height. If the target was a building, I would think the concrete would be blown to smithereens and not projected in giant chunks. Just my first thoughts.

About the concrete - I gotta disagree - no less an authority than Alex Jones says that concrete doesn't disintegrate except from placed demolition charges.

re: #100 yma o hyd

That is true. It's flat desert, until you get to the Sinai. Those mountains look like the Judean Hills actually, seriously...the region of Beersheva and Eilat and Gaza does not look like that!

re: #114 bosforus

Rebar will hold together large chunks of concrete.

Ojoe, architect.

re: #43 Killgore Trout

Of course they didn't fire them from inside the school. The damn ceiling is in the way. They fired them from right outside the school per the IDF video from 2007. You do not fire mortars from within buildings if they still have a ceiling. If the ceiling is gone, the remaining wall(s) may shield you a tad against rifle fire, but that's all.

Juan Cole does not appear on the list at this time.

I saw him listed, checked the results, went back to vote, but then his name was gone.

They're pulling a Clinton.

Were you alone with Monica?

Well, no, there were other people.....in the building.

Suddenly, you have to be exact.

"Inside" means from within the building.

To us, "from the school" means anywhere on or within the immeadiate proximity of the school - close enough that the chances of the return fire hitting it would be high.

Think, drug-free school zone.

re: #113 buzzsawmonkey

To my mind, the notion that there has to be video evidence for everything an army does in the middle of a shooting war is ridiculous. This is a standard that is only imposed by people who believe that there is no possible justification for the armed action in the first place, and that the military therefore must prove itself innocent of war crimes allegations for everything it does.

No military on earth could meet this standard, which is of course the point; the objective is to find Israel "guilty of war crimes" for anything for which it does not possess incontrovertibly exonerating evidence, while continuing to ignore the ongoing war crimes of the Hamas regime.

well said...it is splitting hairs as intriguing as it is

re: #117 zombie

One detail I might point out:

While I agree it doesn't look too faked, one thing that bothers me is that the mushroom cloud shape had time to form, while the debris is still mid-flight. It would seem rather that the debris should have already finished its trajectory before the mushroom could take shape, which takes a few seconds. Though, it's still not entirely definitive.

My thoughts also. I'll get a video of a cloud like that forming and time it.

re: #104 Silhouette

It's a valid question.

And it puts him on record saying yay or nay. And if it is found that he did pay for it in some way, does lying to the panel constitute perjury?

I am fairly sure that he will be under oath, so if that is the case it would be perjured testimony.
Burris is a partner in a "Consulting " firm that has contributed to Blago, but that really isn't relevant since they all contrbute all over the place.

re: #87 Killgore Trout

Was there not a video posted on here yesterday of rockets being fired from the school? An old one, but nonetheless?

Funny Business in Minnesota

Under Minnesota law, election officials are required to make a duplicate ballot if the original is damaged during Election Night counting. Officials are supposed to mark these as "duplicate" and segregate the original ballots. But it appears some officials may have failed to mark ballots as duplicates, which are now being counted in addition to the originals. This helps explain why more than 25 precincts now have more ballots than voters who signed in to vote.

re: #97 Killgore Trout

There's also the UN's Department of Political Affairs

Yeah, that's more likely. Yesterday the AP reported this.

Two residents of the area who spoke by telephone said they saw a small group of militants firing mortar rounds from a street near the school, where 350 people had gathered to get away from the shelling. They spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.

They may have been setting up the claim that the terrorists were in a street near the school but not the school itself.

re: #117 zombie

zombie, I don't know what it proves except again they are liards.

Look at the Judean hills [Link: gallery.tourism.gov.il...]

These are the West Bank demonstrations in Bilin [Link: ghth.files.wordpress.com...]

re: #118 Nevergiveup

Yeah, that was another high point in UN history? You even wonder why the UN was bombed since they were complicit with Saddam in scamming all that money?

Cover.

They needed a mistake to get everything out of there before the US intellegence gathered evidence.

re: #79 Hard Right

Please, please, not in Washington DC! The result of that with Pelosi, Frank, Reid, Byrd and Kennedy would be a weapon of mass destruction.

re: #117 zombie

While I agree it doesn't look too faked, one thing that bothers me is that the mushroom cloud shape had time to form, while the debris is still mid-flight

Very good point.

re: #121 Ojoe

Rebar will hold together large chunks of concrete.

Ojoe, architect.

Rebar! I knew there was something not sitting right about my conclusion. Yep, that would do it.

re: #91 bosforus

Just looked at the photo & I think the fragments could be rusted corrugated iron, they are bent; they don't look like concrete to me.

re: #132 Ben Hur

Cover.

They needed an excuse mistake to get everything out of there before the US intellegence gathered evidence.

More good.

The other mountains in Israel are of course up north...like around Nazareth and the Galilee

[Link: www.christusrex.org...]

re: #123 Lawrence Schmerel

Oh, it is Informed Comment. Never mind.

re: #117 zombie

What is the description of what we are looking at in that photo? That information would help.

[Link: 3.bp.blogspot.com...]

this is taken from navey daneal were my grand daughter lives the smoke is from gaza

Thanks for the post, Charles, and thanks for the support lizards!

I think Michael and I are disadvantaged in a sense since we are splitting the vote. And let's not forget Elder of Ziyon and Martin. I'm just honored to be in the same category as those guys.

Of course, I would like to win this thing, but if Michael takes it, he will be a deserving winner.

Please don't let Cole win this!

re: #28 buzzsawmonkey

You're giving short shrift to Noam Chomsky, Kevin MacDonald, Rashid Khalidi, and Cornel West, but I forgive you.

Not to mention Norman Finkelstein and Nadia Abu El Haj.

BBL

Secondary explosions inside the building could also have driven large pieces into the air.

got Totten vote in(damn slow ass site)..

re: #130 Charles

Two residents of the area who spoke by telephone said they saw a small group of militants firing mortar rounds from a street near the school, where 350 people had gathered to get away from the shelling. They spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.

That also implies that the terrorists went to the location of the crowd and fired.

re: #136 Ojoe

Just looked at the photo & I think the fragments could be rusted corrugated iron, they are bent; they don't look like concrete to me.

Nope, those are the glide-wings off the latest zionist genocide weapon. See, they detach as the warhead free-falls into the orphanage, and autonomously steer to strike the nearest widow.

re: #69 Charles

Charles, if you look on top of the hills in the background, I am sure that those are West Bank settlements in the Judean Hills.

re: #113 buzzsawmonkey

I was really hoping that one we be caught on tape.

OT: Stunning phone call transcripts of calls between Mumbai terrorists and their handlers.

[Link: www.foxnews.com...]

"Keep your phone switched on," a handler said in the midst of the siege, "so that we can hear the gunfire."

The ruthless exchange comes from a transcript of phone calls Indian authorities say they intercepted during terror attacks. They were part of a dossier of evidence New Delhi handed Pakistan this week that it says definitively proves that the siege was launched from across the border.

"We have three foreigners, including women," one gunman said into the phone.

The response was brutally simple: "Kill them." Gunshots then rang out inside the Mumbai hotel, followed by cheering that could be heard over the phone.

re: #82 Guanxi88

Good, saves me having to wade through Deutsche Presse-Agentur nonsense. As I said "earthtimes".

Any source or group with "earth", peace, people's, etc., in the name may, in general, be dismissed outright, and many should probably be critiqued and corrected with bulldozers.

That's an excellent corollary to the old rule that a country with Democratic Republic in its name is probably neither.

re: #149 Guanxi88

Nope, those are the glide-wings off the latest zionist genocide weapon. See, they detach as the warhead free-falls into the orphanage, and autonomously steer to strike the nearest widow.

Don't forget the baby-formula-poisoning bomblets.

I can't get it to come up. It it an IE bug?

re: #155 Occasional Reader

Don't forget the baby-formula-poisoning bomblets.

That's on the Mark II version, still in testing.

re: #155 Occasional Reader

And the penis-shrinkers.

re: #69 Charles

It could be. But that looks like an extreme telephoto lens setting, which could "shorten" the background radically. Those hills in the background could appear larger and closer than they are.

The debris looks a little suspicious, but it could be large pieces of a structure; that looks like a helluva big explosion.

I don't really see anything obviously faked.

OMG, that's Hedora!

I agree with Writer MILF.

Doesn't look Gaza-ish to Hur.

re: #145 Charles

Secondary explosions inside the building could also have driven large pieces into the air.

Good call Charles....That could explain why the smoke cloud is so large and the "chunks" are still in the general area of the explosion(s).

Did I just write that?!?

re: #160 Ben Hur

BENHUR! LOL.

Doesn't it look like this: [Link: www.israelnationalnews.com...]

The youtube video shows them shooting mortars withen feet of the building!

re: #152 karmic_inquisitor

OT: Stunning phone call transcripts of calls between Mumbai terrorists and their handlers.

[Link: www.foxnews.com...]

I mentioned this before; a liberal family member over the holidays made a passing reference to "those hotel fires" in Mumbai.

Inability to look evil in the eye = Liberal value

re: #117 zombie

It proves another AP shilling, perhaps?

Tjhis is the quote from the Muqata:
'The AP Comment for the picture states: "An explosion after an Israeli strike in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, as seen from Gaza City.(Adel Hana/Associated Press)"

SOURCE FROM HERE -- SEE IT FOR YOURSELF)

The following is noted.

1. We don't know of mountains near Gaza like those in the background.
2. The debris "flying" away from the explosion appears to be "photoshopped" in.
3. Israeli bloggers are now trying to determine where this photo is really from in the first place.

Ongoing investigation - we will keep you posted. (source from rotter, Israeli bloggers)

Then again, I haven't been there since my last Pali Child hunt.

Muslim male enhancement product.

re: #130 Charles

They may have been setting up the claim that the terrorists were in a street near the school but not the school itself.

That's possible. It's also possible that the secondary explosions were caused by the Israelis hitting their small stash of mortars.

For those seeking only to defeat Cole, Michael Totten is now the leading opposition.

Cole: 29.8%
Totten: 25.0%
Israellycool: 24.3%

This is what the Gaza strip looks like: flat, sandy desert.

[Link: www.decolonizing.ps...]

re: #17 GNIDAthe#seCond

GAZA - AP PHOTOSHOP FAKE?

muqata.blogspot.com is imploring readers to examine the following photo for possilbe photoshopping, fautography...

The Photo in question:
[Link: www.cbc.ca...]

I can almost certainly say that this picture is fake. However, I'm not sure what's the purpose of it though, because Israel does pummel Hamas with half a ton + bombs. But this isn't the terrain of Gaza.

re: #168 Ben Hur

I haven't been there since I needed gentile blood for Matza, but STILL...

re: #168 Ben Hur

Then again, I haven't been there since my last Pali Child hunt.

Shirking your duties, eh? What kind of genocidal monster are you? Turn in your decoder ring immediately.

re: #110 Kosh's Shadow

Especially since the IDF said MORTARS were fired from the school. (And stiill says so, from what I can tell)
Some idiot at the UN asked the IDF "Were rockets fired from the school", was told "No" and put out this press release.

For F*cks sake...

I just turned the photo upside down. It's Sideshow Bob with a Unix beard.

re: #174 WriterMom

I haven't been there since I needed gentile blood for Matza, but STILL...

Us, we always just ordered from the bakery. Not as nice as homemade, but a lot less clean-up.

Going out on a limb.

It's actually a photograph of the moment when FATAH headquarters was blown up from an underground tunnel that took Hamas months to dig and was set off during their coup.

So sayeth Hur.

re: #160 Ben Hur

I agree with Writer MILF.

Doesn't look Gaza-ish to Hur.

Is referring to yourself in the third person one of your New Year's Resolutions?

Server timeout. Did we break da widdle website?!?
JAFLW

re: #178 Guanxi88

Less transfat, too.

re: #172 WriterMom

This is what the Gaza strip looks like: flat, sandy desert.

[Link: www.decolonizing.ps...]

Any landing-strip pictures?

re: #171 The Mongoose

For those seeking only to defeat Cole, Michael Totten is now the leading opposition.

Cole: 29.8%
Totten: 25.0%
Israellycool: 24.3%

MIKE TOTTEN MUST NOT BE FORGOTTEN!

re: #123 Lawrence Schmerel

Juan Cole does not appear on the list at this time.

I saw him listed, checked the results, went back to vote, but then his name was gone.

Cole's blog ("Informed Comment") is still showing up for me.

re: #182 WriterMom

Less transfat, too.

Depends on the bakery and the gentile-stock, of course. Some areas, you get more trans than others.

OT -

I can see that everything is working as planned with all the bailout money. Markets are way down today, jobs are falling faster than dead flies, and we got real estate moguls in Chicago offing themselves.

Keep those bailouts coming!

re: #173 Age Of Freedom

I can almost certainly say that this picture is fake. However, I'm not sure what's the purpose of it though, because Israel does pummel Hamas with half a ton + bombs. But this isn't the terrain of Gaza.

It looks more like S. Lebanon than Gaza doesn't it?

Charles, this photo by Nidal al-Terrorist is also suspicious:

[Link: blogs.reuters.com...]

Gaza just does not have this type of topography.

re: #179 Ben Hur

Going out on a limb.

It's actually a photograph of the moment when FATAH headquarters was blown up from an underground tunnel that took Hamas months to dig and was set off during their coup.

So sayeth Hur.

Really? They did that?

Gotta give the genocidal terror swine some credit for sheer moxie on that one, if so.

Ah! Got on finally.

Informed comment: 29.6%
Michael J Totten: 25.5%
Israellycool: 24.3%

As of 16:52 EST

JAFLW

There's absolutely no reliable source that supports this false Israeli "admission" of Hamas not firing from Schools.

The evidence against Hamas (or generally any Islamic terror group) shooting as armed civilians from within crowded civilian areas against Israeli civilians has been proven forever.

The following is a political satire by freelance journalist Stefan Frank, originally in German and translated by me. The source is http://www.lizaswelt.net/2009/01/die-logik-der-nah ostexpertokratie.html

How a Hamas sympathizer would have commented on the global political situation at the end of 1944

Already once, from 1914 to 1918, Great Britan has waged war against Germany. Germany has remained undefeated in battle and long-lasting stability has not been achieved as the events of 1939 have shown. But the british government has not learned from that. It reacted with inappropriate bombing of densely populated areas to primitive, self-made V2-rockets going down on London continously which admittedly spread fear and terror but do not do any real damage.

But even with brute force Great Britan cannot win this war. Because even if it succeeded in crushing the leadership of the NSDAP, the organization would not be at its end at all. There are enough frustrated, radicalized young men who are ready to take the places of killed NSDAP members. The NSDAP is not a terror group but a mass organization which runs wellfare institutions and has been legitimated through elections. Even a complete stop to the bombarding of Great Britain can only be achieved for a short time, according to experts' opinions. The operation would admittedly weaken the infrastructure of the NSDAP but in the long run it would be capable again to fire rockets onto british soil.

"There will be no victor in this war", a Europa expert summed up his assessment of the situation. "The NSDAP will temporarily stop its rocket attacks and then take revenge – perhaps even with suicide attacks in Great Britain." The only ones who benefited from the british operation have been the extremist organizations in all of Germany. The moderate forced in the NSDAP are weakened by the war while the radicals win new followers.

An immediate ceasefire is neccessary. Adolf Hitler and Rudolf Heß have been hinting in the past that they might be ready to agree to one under certain conditions. A long-lasting peace in Europe is only possible when Great Britain withdraws from the German colonies and helps to improve the social and economical situation in the German territories. It is only out of desperation over the injustice done to them over decades that the Germans have started a World War. London has to understand that.

////

re: #133 Shr_Nfr

Please, please, not in Washington DC! The result of that with Pelosi, Frank, Reid, Byrd and Kennedy would be a weapon of mass destruction.

Projectile vomitting, bleeding from the eyes....dogs and cats living together...

re: #185 Throbert McGee

Thanks. I made a mistake.

re: #185 Throbert McGee

Cole's blog ("Informed Comment") is still showing up for me.

When I voted, there was NO JUAN COLE LISTED. I was curious as to which blog he was associated with. Looks like someone changed the name ON PURPOSE to help confuse the issue.

re: #141 yochanan

[Link: 3.bp.blogspot.com...]

this is taken from navey daneal were my grand daughter lives the smoke is from gaza

What a beautiful photo. Also very scary.

re: #180 Occasional Reader

Is referring to yourself in the third person one of your New Year's Resolutions?

It's an annoying habit I've picked up.

It'll fade.

The Hur hopes.

Just refreshed the Blog Awards page. Totten went up 300, Cole went up 16. I think we can take him down.

It looks like Hugo has reversed himself. He is going to continue using Joe Kennedy as a useful idiot. Per the WSJ headline. No story yet.

re: #187 Walter L. Newton

OT -

I can see that everything is working as planned with all the bailout money. Markets are way down today, jobs are falling faster than dead flies, and we got real estate moguls in Chicago offing themselves.

Keep those bailouts coming!

Rink please

re: #198 Ben Hur

It's an annoying habit I've picked up.

It'll fade.

The Hur hopes.

Think of it this way; it could be construed as a symptom of gender confusion. (The Her)

That should cure you right quick.

re: #198 Ben Hur

It's an annoying habit I've picked up.

It'll fade.

The Hur hopes.

I don't know. That is how it all started with Golum?

re: #130 Charles

Good call. That's exactly what the UN is claiming......
Israeli official and UN prick debate the school bombing

The UN isn't ruling out that they were firing from "near" the school. His claim is that they weren't "in" the school.

re: #202 Ben Hur

Rink please

What? "Rink?"

re: #200 Shr_Nfr

It looks like Hugo has reversed himself. He is going to continue using Joe Kennedy as a useful idiot. Per the WSJ headline. No story yet.

maybe senator caroline called him?

re: #206 Walter L. Newton

What? "Rink?"

Similar to robster craws.

re: #150 WriterMom

Charles, if you look on top of the hills in the background, I am sure that those are West Bank settlements in the Judean Hills.

I think the locality of this photo is one of the points in question - is it really from Gaza, as AP says, or is it from somewhere else?

Is AP lying again, and have they recycled an older photo, after sexing it up?

And our President-elect's buddy, Billy Ayers.

re: #143 Lynn B.

Not to mention Norman Finkelstein and Nadia Abu El Haj.

re: #143 Lynn B.

All excellent nominees for the academic Hall of Shame, but please let us not forget the adorable Bernardine Dohrn and her heroic hubby Ayers!

*gag*

re: #196 Walter L. Newton

When I voted, there was NO JUAN COLE LISTED. I was curious as to which blog he was associated with. Looks like someone changed the name ON PURPOSE to help confuse the issue.

Evil always needs a mask. At least initially.

re: #206 Walter L. Newton

What? "Rink?"

...should say, "Rink, prease".

JAFLW

re: #208 Hard Right

Similar to robster craws.

Yeah. prain engrish.

re: #202 Ben Hur

Rink please

If you meant link, here...

(to the real estate guy)

[Link: www.cnn.com...]

re: #189 WriterMom

Now that one looks seriously suspicious. The lighting on the hill in the foreground in completely different than the lighting in the background.

Looks more like this...I bet those shots are either from Bilin with the smoke doctored in or from another village.

[Link: www.palestineremembered.com...]

re: #27 ggt

Is that an American Flag at the very top of the smoke plume?

Most certainly is, and you know what? I ain't a rocket scientist when it comes to spotting "shoppe" photos, but that looks pretty lame to me....

re: #214 jwb7605

Yeah. prain engrish.

STOP IT!

re: #214 jwb7605

Yeah. prain engrish.

I feel ronery.

re: #203 Occasional Reader

Think of it this way; it could be construed as a symptom of gender confusion. (The Her)

That should cure you right quick.

You may be on to something.

I honestly did that by accident at least three times!

re: #219 Walter L. Newton

STOP IT!

Why so clanky?

re: #212 Occasional Reader

I could be wrong, but I thought I saw Juan Cole's name listed by his blog the first time I looked at it, then when I went back to vote, it just said "Informed Consent" without his name.

re: #217 WriterMom

I bet those shots are either from Bilin

We must stop the cycle of violence in Bilin.

No, wait... we must stop the Billin' cycle. That's what I meant to say.

re: #219 Walter L. Newton

STOP IT!

Ruh roh!

JAFLW

re: #208 Hard Right

Similar to robster craws.

I asked my Chinese girlfriend once if she wanted to 69.

She replied, "Why you want beef with brocolli?"

re: #218 Marvo76

Most certainly is, and you know what? I ain't a rocket scientist when it comes to spotting "shoppe" photos, but that looks pretty lame to me....

I don't think it's an flag at all. And I still ask the question, what is the photo suppose to be about. I find no info on a caption or context.

A little context would help.

Anyone?

re: #203 Occasional Reader

Are you suggesting that BEN HUR, our BEN HUR should "question his gender"?

GAAAAA

re: #226 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

HA

re: #218 Marvo76

Most certainly is, and you know what? I ain't a rocket scientist when it comes to spotting "shoppe" photos, but that looks pretty lame to me....

It's not an American flag. It's a light-colored piece of debris (like the others), with a puff of the black smoke where the "stars" would be.

Juan Cole & indeed most liberals, should put in a call to these guys

Juan Cole's name was "cleansed" from the voting page using Clean Cole technology.

re: #226 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I asked my Chinese girlfriend once if she wanted to 69.

She replied, "Why you want beef with brocolli?"

I thought that one was a hot dog and a taco.
/

re: #232 Occasional Reader

Juan Cole's name was "cleansed" from the voting page using Clean Cole technology.

It was already bankrupt.

re: #224 Occasional Reader

No, it's the cycle of violins...the sax and the violins.

re: #69 Charles

Maybe ... but that looks like an extreme telephoto lens setting, which could "shorten" the background radically. Those hills in the background could appear larger and closer than they are.

The debris looks a little suspicious, but it could be large pieces of a structure; that looks like a helluva big explosion.

I don't really see anything obviously faked.

Look close at the flag, if indeed it is going out and up, then why is it stretched as if in the breeze? shouldn't it be laying and trailing the heavier flagpole?

re: #219 Walter L. Newton

STOP IT!

Solly, Lalter.

TAKING CHANCE - HBO MOVIE TO AIR IN FEBRUARY
POSTED BY BLACKFIVE
"Chance Phelps was wearing his Saint Christopher medal when he was killed on Good Friday. Eight days later, I handed the medallion to his mother. I didn't know Chance before he died. Today, I miss him." - LtCol Michael R. Strobl, USMC (Ret.), “Taking Chance”

Four and a half years ago, I was asked to post "Taking Chance" by LtCol Michael Strobl. It evoked one of the strongest reactions on BlackFive that I have seen since starting the blog in mid-2003. The story also gave me the honor to get to know some of the friends and family and Marine brothers of Chance.

I included Taking Chance in the Blog of War (Chance is one of the men that the book is dedicated to) and we have followed it's trajectory until, finally, it will be aired as a movie on HBO on February 21st. Kevin Bacon will portray LtCol Strobl.

[Link: www.blackfive.net...]

Watch the Trailer!

re: #220 Occasional Reader

I feel ronery.

Well, if you like pina coradas...

re: #224 Occasional Reader

Definitely. No mor billin' out dem damn bunks like American Express eater. Crap, all Amex has to do is to stop sending me all those damn solicitations for their crap card and they will save billions a year just on me alone.

re: #205 Killgore Trout

I see the UN 'investigation' consisted of sending "one of their best people" in Gaza to hear what Gazans had to say about the controversy.

re: #226 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I asked my Chinese girlfriend once if she wanted to 69.

She replied, "Why you want beef with brocolli?"

My Chinese Dr said I have Ed Zachery disease.

re: #236 Marvo76

Look close at the flag, if indeed it is going out and up, then why is it stretched as if in the breeze? shouldn't it be laying and trailing the heavier flagpole?

It's not a flag. Why would it be the same color as all the other debris? Why wouldn't it be on fire if it was a piece of cloth? If it was a light piece of cloth, it would not have blown that high.

It's not a flag.

LGF gets some accolades from NRO for forcing the media to be far more balanced in its coverage of this go round between Israel and the terrorists than in previous flareups.

Israel in the Balance

This is not the fall of 2000, when Yasser Arafat began a war with Israel, and when the mainstream media became a conduit for almost unadulterated PLO propaganda. These were the days when Tom Brokaw, on the NBC Nightly News, introduced a report with the words “Israeli riot police stormed the shrine, opening fire with rubber bullets and live ammunition on Palestinians who were throwing stones.” In fact, the confrontation in question began when worshippers poured out of the Al-Aqsa Mosque after an inflammatory sermon and tossed bottles, stones, and other deadly objects on worshippers at the Western Wall.

This is not even the summer of 2006, when Israel invaded Lebanon to stop a rocket barrage similar to the one the country is now getting from Hamas. Through the mainstream media, Hezbollah shut down the Israeli offensive with a carefully calculated stream of images of civilian casualties.

Of course, this is a war, and things can change on a dime — particularly as the conflict drags on and Hamas throws more of its civilians into the incinerator to provide fodder for “outreach” to the world community. But for the time being, one sees a rather dogged insistence on balance. This week on CNN, after the typical near-hysterical piece on mounting civilian casualties in the strip (again, no mention of the absence of a civil-defense system or of Hamas’s calculated use of civilians as human shields), a piece showing Israelis running for bomb shelters in Ashkelon and Beersheba aired. The segment included an interview with a Palestinian scholar who alleged that Israel had brought rockets, grads, kassems, et al., on herself with her continued “occupation” — but also clips of a powerful Israeli spokesman, who reminded viewers that Israel had tried to allow the Palestinians to develop their state for some time, but Hamas didn’t seem to want the party to end.

So what’s has happened between 2000 and the present? A number of factors have allowed Major Avital Leibovich, head of the foreign-press department in the IDF Spokesman’s Unit, to say, “I’m surprised for the better. The coverage has been balanced on most channels, even on some outlets not known for being pro-Israel.”

One big one is the creation and growth of web-based communities such as CAMERA, littlegreenfootballs.com, and honestreporting.com, which monitor coverage, share information with each other, and launch e-mail and phone-call campaigns in response to distortions. CAMERA (Committee for Accurate Middle East Reporting of America), the oldest and best-funded of the bunch, tirelessly scans headlines and transcripts and demands retractions and corrections. It often gets them. It is probably the New York Times public editor’s worst nightmare.

re: #220 Occasional Reader

I feel ronery.

So ronery

re: #69 Charles

Maybe ... but that looks like an extreme telephoto lens setting, which could "shorten" the background radically. Those hills in the background could appear larger and closer than they are.

The debris looks a little suspicious, but it could be large pieces of a structure; that looks like a helluva big explosion.

I don't really see anything obviously faked.

Good point.

I wonder if the so called shrapnel is rolled roofing material fragments? Maybe the force of the explosion and the heat drove it into the air.

re: #233 CyanSnowHawk

I thought that one was a hot dog and a taco.
/

Now what was really funny is when I went to a Japanese place with my Japanese wife and was outraged to see bukkake noodles on the menu. I couldn't believe that could offer those until she explained it just meant they were covered in a cream sauce.

Boy was my face red.

BTW, bukkake on the internet is very very NSFW!

re: #235 WriterMom

No, it's the cycle of violins...the sax and the violins.

Last song by the talking heads, if memory serves - not a bad one, either.

re: #247 Hard Right

So ronery

How ronery?

re: #246 Rancher

LGF gets some accolades from NRO for forcing the media to be far more balanced in its coverage of this go round between Israel and the terrorists than in previous flareups.

Israel in the Balance

This is great, but it will really mean something when the MSM writes an article such as this. Meanwhile, it's preaching to the choir.

re: #224 Occasional Reader

We must stop the cycle of violence in Bilin.

No, wait... we must stop the Billin' cycle. That's what I meant to say.

Violins in Berlin?

re: #250 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Now what was really funny is when I went to a Japanese place with my Japanese wife and was outraged to see bukkake noodles on the menu. I couldn't believe that could offer those until she explained it just meant they were covered in a cream sauce.

Boy was my face red.

BTW, bukkake on the internet is very very NSFW!

There's a Stroganoff joke here somewhere.

re: #250 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Now what was really funny is when I went to a Japanese place with my Japanese wife and was outraged to see bukkake noodles on the menu. I couldn't believe that could offer those until she explained it just meant they were covered in a cream sauce.
Boy was my face red.

BTW, bukkake on the internet is very very NSFW!

Too darned funny! Now we know where the NSFW name came from.

re: #255 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

There's a Stroganoff joke here somewhere.

And it should stay exactly where it is.

re: #247 Hard Right

So ronery

re: #238 Nevergiveup
Is this the same LtCol Michael Strobl from the Wisconsin/Illinois area Never?

re: #227 Walter L. Newton

I don't think it's an flag at all. And I still ask the question, what is the photo suppose to be about. I find no info on a caption or context.

A little context would help.

Anyone?

This is the AP caption for that photo (from the Muqata)
"An explosion after an Israeli strike in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, as seen from Gaza City.(Adel Hana/Associated Press)"

So - is this photo from where AP says it is - or isn't it?
Thats the first questin, and Lizards seem to agree it can't be ...

re: #239 buzzsawmonkey

Pssssssssst.

Oh.... bite me!

re: #216 Killgore Trout

Look at the full size image. It's as if the foreground was placed on the background.

Everyone is going for the easy "Ronery" song, so I'll go for the more obscure "You are worthless, Alec Baldwin!"