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IDF Kills Giant Jew-Eating Rabbit
Middle East | Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:03:23 am PST
Last Friday on Hamas TV, Gaza’s children learned that the IDF had killed Assud, the giant Jew-eating rabbit.
Very sad, but at least the bunny didn’t have to undergo amputation.
LGF on Dennis Prager
Blogosphere | Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:25:36 am PST
I’ll be calling in to the Dennis Prager radio show at 9:30 this morning; you can listen over the web at the KRLA 870 website.
A Soldier's Mother on the UN School Incident
Middle East | Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:12:29 am PST
A heartfelt and insightful post on the Gaza UN school incident, at A Soldier’s Mother: The Images they Show...
This is the point none of the media will make:
Yesterday, mortars were fired FROM the school In Jebalya. This was a direct and intentional attack on Israel, on Israel’s soldiers and population. Mortars are explosions. They are loud. You can’t pretend you didn’t hear them. Many months ago, I went to a ceremony on a base where Elie had completed his basic training. Part of the ceremony included Elie’s group showing their parents what they had learned. After the awards and the talking, some of the soldiers ran to the armored personnel vehicles, while others, including Elie sat on the ground and watched. An officer came near me, as I stood watching with my youngest daughter. He told me to sit down with the girl “on your lap.” So, we sat down, as the soldiers were doing. As another officer was explaining to the crowd about the types of explosives that would be fired, where they would be targeting (the hill a few kilometers in the distance), etc. I saw the soldiers stick their fingers in their ears.
I thought to myself - they’ve been doing this - they know. So I told my daughter to do the same...quickly. She did, and so did I. Except - then I couldn’t hear the explanation and so I uncovered my ears. Now, I’ve lived in Israel more than 15 years, but there is still sometimes a delay factor in my Hebrew comprehension. Now they are going to fire...took me too long and so, I heard and felt the BOOM as the cannons fired.
Everyone in that building yesterday KNEW that the school was being used as a launching ground...and yet, apparently not one of those thought it would be a smart thing to leave. That seems strange to me, unnatural. I was once in Jerusalem, walking with my two daughters when something “exploded” ahead of me. Everyone around me stopped, as I did. It was a bus hitting something that went flying in the air and crashed loudly into something else. People began to move and yet I stood there, unsure what to do. It should be both human instinct and parental instinct to move away from danger.
And the people who now mourn the “innocents” who died in yesterday’s attack on the United Nations school don’t question why people remained in the building from which these weapons were fired. They don’t question that this defies human instinct and certainly what should have been every parent’s first reaction.
(Hat tip: Snapped Shot.)
Overnight Open Thread
Open | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:22:08 pm PST
The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
A Pro-Hamas Demonstration in Columbus, Ohio
US News | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:18:15 pm PST
LGF reader ciaospirit has video clips from the pro-Hamas, pro-genocide demonstration in Columbus, Ohio, featuring an Ohio State professor who refuses to condemn Hamas, at hourglass1941.
Here’s an astoundingly moronic representative of the “Middle East Peace Forum,” who says Hamas is “a social service organization just like the Jewish Community Federation.”
Deported Hamas Terrorist Now an LA Times Columnist
Media | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:05:22 pm PST
Leading Hamas terrorist Mousa Abu Marzook, deported from the United States in 1997, gets back into the US via a column in the Los Angeles Times: Hamas speaks.
Vile. Evil. Disgusting. Foul. Take your pick. There is something deeply wrong with our mainstream media.
Contact the Los Angeles Times and tell them what you think about giving a voice to genocidal mass murderers.
PJTV: Gaza Updates
Video | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:48:37 pm PST
Interesting video reports from the US and Israel at Pajamas TV’s Gaza Updates, featuring Caroline Glick, Allison Kaplan Sommer, Richard Landes, and other names you may recognize.
Toronto: Hamas Supporter Assaults Reporter
Video | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:34:51 pm PST
In Toronto, a Hamas supporter smacks a citizen journalist who asks, “Why do you say Hitler didn’t do a good job?”
(Hat tip: Killgore.)
The Door Opens - Update: The Door Closes
Open | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:19:07 pm PST
Registration is open for a limited time.
Read all the rules before you register.
Commit them to memory.
Don’t register with a proxy.
Don’t register with a throwaway email address.
Don’t register more than one account at a time.
Don’t be a jerk.
Don’t be a troll.
Do play nice.
And then everything will be groovy.
UPDATE at 1/6/09 6:50:35 pm:
Now closed with 69 hatchlings.
Hamas Steals Humanitarian Supplies, Then Sells Them for Profit
Middle East | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:45:39 pm PST
Report: Hamas stealing aid supplies to sell to residents.
A number of reports from the Strip paint a picture of very difficult humanitarian conditions, not least because of Hamas itself. The suspicion is that the group’s operatives have seized control of any supplies passing through the crossings – including those sent by Israel and international organizations.
Reports say Hamas takes a cut out of all aid that arrives, including flour and medicine. Supplies intended to be distributed without gain among the population are seized by the group and sold to the residents, at a profit to the Hamas government.
One such incident was recorded Monday, when a convoy of trucks carrying supplies through the Kerem Shalom crossing was opened fire upon and seized by Hamas gunmen. Similar incidents occurred with trucks carrying fuel.
France 2 Apologizes for Using Phony Gaza Attack Video
Media | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:15:39 pm PST
France’s public TV station France 2 (perpetrator of the Mohammed Al-Dura hoax) was taken in by that footage from an accidental explosion of a truck full of rockets at a Hamas rally, and yesterday they retracted their report and apologized: French TV apologises over footage mix-up.
PARIS: France’s public broadcaster was forced to apologise to viewers yesterday after it mistakenly used amateur footage shot in 2005 to illustrate a report on the current Gaza conflict.
France 2 television on Monday broadcast part of an amateur video presented in a voiceover commentary as showing the fallout from an Israeli air strike on a civilian area in Gaza on January 1.
Dating from September 2005, the video, which has been widely circulated on the Internet, actually shows civilians wounded in the accidental explosion of a pick-up truck loaded with Hamas rockets at a rally in Jabaliya refugee camp.
Alerted by the French website LePost.fr, France 2 admitted its mistake yesterday and made a formal apology to viewers in its midday news broadcast.
“It is an error on our behalf. There was an internal malfunction in the checking of information,” a France 2 executive told AFP.
The France 2 article (in French) is here: Vidéo intox de Gaza sur France 2: ‘Ça a gueulé dans la rédaction’.
All over the world, the mainstream media is suffering from these kinds of “internal malfunctions in the checking of information.”
(Hat tip: zombie.)
Norwegian Doctor in Gaza Supported 9/11 Attacks
Middle East | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:58:57 pm PST
Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor in Gaza, is all over the mainstream media, claiming that Israel is indiscriminately and purposely murdering civilians. He’s given interviews to the BBC, CBS, NBC, CNN, ABC, the Independent, Sky News, and the New York Times, among others.
And in 2001, shortly after the 9/11 terror attacks, this supposedly impartial Norwegian doctor (actually a radical Marxist member of Norway’s Red party) expressed support for the hijackers.
In an interview with the Norwegian daily, Dagbladet, shortly after the attacks, Gilbert stated:
“The attack on New York was not surprising, after the policy that has led the West in recent decades. I am upset over the terrorist attack, but am equally upset over the suffering which the United States has created. It is in this context that the 5000 dead people must be seen. If the U.S. government has a legitimate right to bomb and kill civilians in Iraq, then there is also a moral right to attack the United States with the weapons they had to create. Dead civilians are the same whether they are Americans, Palestinians or Iraqis.”
When asked by Dagbladet if he supported the terrorist attack on the U.S., he replied:
“Terror is a bad weapon, but the answer is yes, within the context I have mentioned.”
Of course, not a single mainstream media report on the creep mentions any of this.
Darwin Missed the Pink Lizards
Sci/Tech | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:04:37 pm PST
Biologists have discovered that a rare pink iguana found only on a single volcano in the Galapagos Islands is a surprising example of ancient evolutionary diversification—and Charles Darwin never even saw it.
Charles Darwin visited the Galapagos islands in 1835 but didn’t make it to the northernmost volcano, Volcan Wolf, which is the lone habitat for these pink lizards. Later travelers and scholars also seem to have missed or failed to report the curiously striped creature until 1986 when some Galapagos National Park rangers spotted the animals. Still, no scientists had looked into whether they represented a distinct species until now.
What they found was surprising. Instead of being some slight variation on the Galapagos iguana theme, the pink lizards represent a distinct and early branch of the genetic tree. The genomic analysis of the species suggests that they broke from other iguanas about five million years ago, much deeper in history than most other Galapagos species, like Darwin’s finches. In addition to the genetic differences, the pink iguanas also perform the characteristic mating ritual “head-bob” differently.
Tuesday Afternoon Open
Open | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:28:06 pm PST
And there, emerging from its lair, we see the green-spotted warbling open thread...
We Got Mail!
Weird | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:12:41 am PST
The conflict in Gaza has really stirred up the wackos, and they’re pouring their fury into illiterate emails sent to little old me. Here are the latest two messages sent through our contact form by Hamas supporters and Jew-haters; first, from St. Louis, Missouri, with the descriptive title “Assholes...” and the phony but almost humorous return address “americandickheads@yahoo.com:”
You dickheads are shameless... 555+ Palestenian, mostly innocent, killed, and what 5 Israeli’s killed by chance... genocide ongoing in Gaza at the hands of the putrid and horrific Zionist criminals, and you pricks have the NERVE to marginalize and BLAME THE PALESTENIANS for their own deaths?
Then we have a love note sent from Dubai, with the title, ‘Shame on little green “Hitlers”:’
You people are truely sick! It is sicking to see how the little green “Hitlers” are enjoying the Jewish massacare of the Palestinians.
UN Schools Notorious for Shielding Terrorists
Middle East | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:55:46 am PST
As the world screams about the UN school incident in Gaza, here’s a reminder of what goes on at these places: EXCLUSIVE-Gaza headmaster was Islamic Jihad ‘rocket-maker’.
RAFAH, Gaza Strip, May 5 (Reuters) - By day, Awad al-Qiq was a respected science teacher and headmaster at a United Nations school in the Gaza Strip. By night, Palestinian militants say, he built rockets for Islamic Jihad.
The Israeli air strike that killed the 33-year-old last week also laid bare his apparent double life and embarrassed a U.N. agency which has long had to rebuff Israeli accusations that it has aided and abetted guerrillas fighting the Jewish state.
In interviews with Reuters, students and colleagues, as well as U.N. officials, denied any knowledge of Qiq’s work with explosives. And his family denied he had any militant links at all, despite a profusion of Islamic Jihad posters at his home.
But militant leaders allied to the enclave’s ruling Hamas group hailed him as a martyr who led Islamic Jihad’s “engineering unit” — its bomb makers. They fired a salvo of improvised rockets into Israel in response to his death.
(Hat tip: Diamond Bullet.)
UN School Used by Terrorists As a Weapons Dump
Middle East | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:52:12 am PST
The UN and the mainstream media are wailing and accusing Israel of war crimes (yes, again) after the IDF returned fire at a UN school from which Palestinians were firing mortars.
The explosives and booby traps installed in the school by Hamas then blew up, killing dozens of people.
And the world blames Israel.
30 reported killed in blast at UN school.
At least thirty people were reportedly killed and 53 wounded in an explosion in a UN-run school in the town of Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip, according to Palestinians. The IDF issued a statement saying the school grounds were used by terrorists to fire mortar shells at the troops.
The infantrymen returned mortar shell fire into the school grounds, the army said. Defense officials told The Associated Press that booby-trapped bombs in the school triggered the secondary explosions which killed scores of Palestinians on the site.
In 2007, the IAF actually filmed some of these terrorists at a Gaza school, firing mortars into Israel. The media don’t seem to care.
Emerson: Why Does The New York Times Love Hamas?
Media | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:35:23 am PST
Steve Emerson asks: Why Does The New York Times Love Hamas?
In the past week, the Fourth Estate’s Hamas cheerleaders have stripped away any pretense of being honest or neutral, with the New York Times continuing to take the side of the terrorist group in one of the most shameful journalistic episodes I have ever seen. In following the Times coverage for the past six months and checking external sources of information, one can see a clear pattern of propagandistic reporting favoring Hamas that selectively suppressed or willfully misrepresented information.
It’s bizarre and disgusting to see much of America’s media making excuses for a bloodthirsty, openly genocidal death cult. Something is deeply wrong with journalism in this country.
Overnight Open Thread
Open | Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:49:50 pm PST
My friend, you have seen this incident based on sworn testimony. Can you prove that it didn’t happen? Perhaps on your way home, you will pass someone in the dark, and you will never know it, for they will be from outer space. Many scientists believe that another world is watching us this moment. We once laughed at the horseless carriage, the aeroplane, the telephone, the electric light, vitamins, radio, and even television! And now some of us laugh at outer space. God help us... in the future.
— Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space
The 2008 Weblog Awards
Blogosphere | Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:57:53 pm PST
Voting is open for the 2008 Weblog Awards, and LGF is nominated for Best Conservative Blog.
Which will undoubtedly infuriate some people who think we aren’t pure enough.
We Got Mail!
Weird | Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:16:32 pm PST
Received this evening from a reader in Kuala Lumpur, who followed a link from the “Most Blogged” section of a Yahoo News article:
you are lying thru your teeth if you want to deny those pictures as ”staged".. how is it staged ? just because that shows how cannibal, uncultured, self subservient monstrous idiots you are .. may yo and the rest of your sickening zionist honcos rot in hell one day
Tech Note: Comment Ratings
Sci/Tech | Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 3:20:56 pm PST
One feature readers have requested for our comment ratings is the ability to simply cancel a rating (aka, a “ding”) and remove a vote. The method that we’ve been using only allowed you to reverse your ding — in other words, you could only change your rating from plus to minus. Once you threw your hat in the ring, it stayed there.
But now, comment ratings behave differently; if you reverse your rating, it removes it entirely and adds/subtracts one from the overall rating, and your name vanishes from the ding list (which you see by clicking the rating number itself).
This puts you back to square one, so to speak, and you can then rate the comment either up or down again — both the plus and minus buttons will be clickable.
Monday Afternoon Open
Open | Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:15:52 pm PST
It’s a first Monday of 2009 open thread...
Jihad in Anaheim
US News | Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:22:34 am PST
At an anti-Israel protest yesterday in Anaheim, California, open support for jihad from a woman in disguise:
“Peaceful inner struggle,” anyone?
UPDATE at 1/5/09 12:02:14 pm:
Here are more photos of the demonstration, at which protesters carried signs with swastikas, wore T-shirts with pictures of Yasser Arafat, and exhibited a quilt with the slogan “One Global Family:” demonstration anaheim photos - Daylife.
Staged Photos Pouring Out of Gaza
Media | Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:54:28 am PST
We should not forget that every television image and every news photograph coming out of Gaza right now is filtered through Hamas. The photographers filing pictures for Reuters, Associated Press, and Agence France Presse are all Palestinians, and all propagandists for Hamas—or they wouldn’t be allowed to take pictures in Gaza.
With that in mind, here’s yet another example of news photographs staged for propaganda purposes by terrorists and their allies: CAMERA Snapshots: Green Helmet’s Successor?
UPDATE at 1/5/09 11:06:16 am:
Israellycool has another example: the same injured child being paraded around by two different men.
Here are the two images at Daylife.com:
A Palestinian father carries his wounded baby daughter into a hospital in Gaza City...
A Palestinian carries a child into the Shifa hospital in Gaza City...
JihadTV Makes Deal with Sony
Middle East | Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:25:31 am PST
Coming to Sony Ericsson mobile phones: JihadTV.
The Al Jazeera Network has announced a partnership with Sony Ericsson, where RSS feeds of its news content will be pre-installed on four models of its mobile devices in both the Middle East and North Africa.
This means that owners of these phones will soon be able to enjoy quality Al Jazeera programs like this: a birthday party for a child killer, Samir Kuntar, who forced a little girl to watch as he shot her father, then bashed her brains out with a rifle butt.
Sony Ericsson should be ashamed of themselves for promoting this evil hatred.
Guardian Hits Bottom, Digs
Middle East | Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:00:03 am PST
In Britain’s most disgusting newspaper: an obituary for a genocidal mass murderer.
A big, bearded man, usually surrounded by balaclava-clad fighters, he was hated by Israelis. Yet on the streets of Gaza, where economic and social misery has boosted Hamas’s reputation during the past five years, he was something of a hero. He was famed for fighting alongside his men and being seen with them publicly. And he was not merely a fighter. He was highly regarded as an Islamic academic.
Retch.
Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:43:44 pm PST
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
— Philip K. Dick
Ken Miller Dissects the Creationists' Next Tactic
Sci/Tech | Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 7:48:02 pm PST
Biologist Ken Miller, the Discovery Institute’s worst enemy, has three terrific guest posts at science writer Carl Zimmer’s blog, destroying the DI’s latest attempts to rewrite the history of the Dover creationism lawsuit:
Smoke and Mirrors, Whales and Lampreys: A Guest Post by Ken Miller
Ken Miller’s Guest Post, Part Two
Ken Miller’s Final Guest Post: Looking Forward
The only relevant question at this point is why the Discovery Institute keeps highlighting its own failings in this way. Why are Casey and his employers now — three years after the Dover trial — trying to rehabilitate the tattered credibility of both Michael Behe and Pandas? What mischief are they planning now? The only conclusion I can draw is that they must be maneuvering for the next round of state board hearings or legislative sessions — and I’m concerned. These folks are a whole lot better at politics and public relations than they are at science, and that means that everyone who cares about science education should be on guard.
Australian Hatefest Slideshow
Images | Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 6:18:59 pm PST
Here’s a slideshow of photos emailed by an Australian reader, showing what was happening in Melbourne today, as Hezbollah supporters and genocide advocates took to the streets.
With their children.
Tech Note: Link Ratings Reversible
Sci/Tech | Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:11:35 pm PST
By popular demand (actually by request of two or three people