The streets of Gaza are now calm for the first time in a very long time.

All the lies that are fit to print.

From the day Hamas won the general elections in 2006 it offered Fatah the chance of joining forces and forming a unity government. It tried to engage the international community to explain its platform for peace.

Heh.

"The streets of Gaza are now calm for the first time in a very long time".

That's what happens when you kill everyone.

What does Hamas want? Hamas wants to kill people, whether Jews, fellow Palestinians or anybody else unfortunate enough to get in their way.

Next question, please. . .

"We want to get children back to school (so they can learn how to hate more deeply), get basic services functioning again (like building rockets and suicide belts), and provide long-term economic gains for our people (good luck with that)." jeez.

What Hamas Wants?

We already know what Hamas wants. We're not interested.

The streets of Gaza are now calm for the first time in a very long time.

Damn, I liked it better when they were wiping each other out. They lack dedication.

Aside from the occasional rocket propelled grenade attack on some ruler wielding nuns all is peaceful as we bring shari'a to everyone.

The streets of Gaza are now calm for the first time in a very long time.

Yeah, when everyone is hiding in there homes in terror, it might be called "calm."

We have begun disarming some of the drug dealers and the armed gangs and we hope to restore a sense of security and safety to the citizens of Gaza.

Disarming them is easy after you've gunned them down and drug the body down the street.

NYTimes is not fit for cage liner or fish wrap.

Ahmed Yousef is both!

I'm not just a terrorist, I took over the country !

The streets of Gaza are now calm for the first time in a very long time. We have begun disarming some of the drug dealers and the armed gangs and we hope to restore a sense of security and safety to the citizens of Gaza. We want to get children back to school, get basic services functioning again, and provide long-term economic gains for our people.

We also promise to make sure the trains run on time and that all undesirables will be taken to relocation camps.

"The streets of Gaza are now calm for the first time in a very long time". And now we can begin our real work, veiling women, closing down schools and educational institutes that edicate women, painting the windows so women can not be seen, and preventing women from getting medical care, and allowing 9 year old girls to be married off to middle aged men as second third and fourth wives, as well as reinstituting the sharia law based custom of "temporary marriages" right after we kill all the Christians or force them to convert to Islam, of course. And we will also outlaw barbers, kite flying, cut off the hands of musicians, and stone dessenters or immoral women.

From the day Hamas won the general elections in 2006 it offered Fatah the chance of joining forces and forming a unity government.

It's so sad when two factions united by a unwaivering bloodthirsty desire to exterminate Jews just can't quite get along. So sad.

/sarcasm meter pegged

Meanwhile, Gazans continue looting the Erez crossing...
Yahoo pic

Palestinians dismantle the terminal at Erez Crossing, in the northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, June 20, 2007 About 200 Gazans, petrified by the chaos in the Hamas-controlled coastal strip, have been camped out for six days in a tunnel reeking of trash, urine and sweat on the Palestinian side of the Erez crossing with Israel, pleading with Israeli authorities to grant them safe passage to the West Bank. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered the army on Wednesday to allow into Israel any of the hundreds of Gazans holed up at the fetid crossing who might desperately need medical care.

also see: this and that.

From the day Hamas won the general elections in 2006 it offered Fatah the chance of joining forces and forming a unity government. It tried to engage the international community to explain its platform for peace. It has consistently offered a 10-year cease-fire with the Israelis to try to create an atmosphere of calm in which we resolve our differences. Hamas even adhered to a unilateral cease-fire for 18 months in an effort to normalize the situation on the ground. None of these points appear to have been recognized in the press coverage of the last few days.

Nor has it been evident to many people in the West that the civil unrest in Gaza and the West Bank has been precipitated by the American and Israeli policy of arming elements of the Fatah opposition who want to attack Hamas and force us from office. For 18 months we have tried to find ways to coexist with Fatah, entering into a unity government, even conceding key positions in the cabinet to their and international demands, negotiating up until the last moment to try to provide security for all of our people on the streets of Gaza.

Poor hamas. They're just misunderstood!

/And Evil is the victim of Good

"The streets of Gaza are now calm for the first time in a very long time".

Either the people are too scared to come out of their homes or they are fleeing from Gaza to Israel or Egypt to get to the West Bank!

NYTIMES sez:
Ahmed Yousef is the political adviser to Ismail Haniya, who became the Palestinian prime minister last year.

US GOVT: He's a terrorist.
ABU HALABIYYE, Ahmad Yousef, Gaza City, Gaza, Palestinian; DOB 1952
(individual) [NS-PLC]

The next NYT Op ed will be from Sir Ossama bin Laden.

Ralph Peters wrote a great article about Hamas. It is quite insightful.

I made my own comments here:

Fanaticism Trumps Numbers and Wins

OT OT OT

Fox is reporting that United Airlines has suffered a massive, system-wide computer failure. All flights cancelled.

I blame Bush. Or the Jews. Or both.

Anyone catch theri puff piece on the 'glorious' Kingdom of Kush, yesterday?

A petty ancient slave society made out to be some grand culture, only because the people may have been black.

Their agenda must be getting more obvious to their wider readership, I would think . . .

Sadly, it became apparent that not all officials from Fatah were negotiating in good faith. There were attempts on Mr. Haniya’s life last week, and eventually we were forced into trying to take control of a very dangerous situation in order to throw people from high buildings, provide bullets into the backs of heads and establish law and order.

Now that this has been accomplished we can get back to the business of killing the jewish people.

Check out Steve Erlanger's "report" that is actually a multimedia PR presentation for Hamas.

Vomit inducing...

Ahmed Yousef's dossier: In a December 2004 interview with the Hezbollah television station Al-Manar, Yousef explained how Zionists must have been behind 9/11:

"Israel excels at espionage within the U.S., and is capable of disguising many operations as Islamic. In other words, Israel is capable of penetrating certain Islamic circles, of directing and running them behind the scenes, so that they will conduct operations from which Israel benefits. Anyone who considers the events of 9/11 cannot say that the Muslims gained anything. ... No one could have captured the pictures [of the attacks] so perfectly except for the cameras in the hands of several Mossad agents, who were near the scene of events and succeeded in filming the scene so that it will always serve Zionism to remind the world of the Arabs' and Muslims' crimes against America. ... Today, there is much evidence casting doubt on the ability of these Muslims, with their meager means, to carry out such an operation, and there are others … Who profited from this operation more than the Zionist movement? Since the end of the Cold War, Israel has been trying to attain a position that would allow it to direct American policy ..."

Definitely NYSlimes grade.

#18 NoSubmission

But is he a good terrorist or a bad terrorist?

/State Dept

Of course it's not a coincidence that this piece appears less than one day after Jimmy Carter voiced his support for Hamas.

We want to get (male - ed) children back to school

fixed that

Would the NYT print even Hitler's early spews on the grounds that he's a "marginalized voice that deserves at least to be heard"? Because I'm betting there's some nitwit editor at the NYT who actually thinks (sic) that Hamas gets no break these days, especially from those fascists at Fox, so let's give this guy a fair hearing.

Does the NYT really bend over that far and stick its ass that high in the air just to get a story? If so, they're an absolute disgrace to the profession.

Hamas is openly genocidal. It's in their charter. Period.

Hamastan facing food shortage

Take a wild guess at who's going to get blamed for this.

but we also want to shoot peace protesters, throw rivals off of buildings, savagely beat a rival until is head is mush and continue kicking his corpse mob style, loot business, and blow up buildings.

We want to get children back to school, get basic services functioning back to killing Jews again, and provide long-term economic gains for our people.

I look forward to future NYT opinon pieces by spokespeople for:

Al Qaeda
The Aryan Brotherhood
The Muslim Brotherhood
KKK
North Korea
Janjaweed Militia
Khmer Rouge
Ritualistic Infant Murderers of North America (RIMNA)

(okay, I made that last one up)

The streets of Gaza are now calm for the first time in a very long time.

He lies. They may have run fatah off, but there is still islamic jihad and al-qaeda in gaza running loose. Gaza is like a steel cage death match to see who's allah is better.

We want to get children back to school, get basic services functioning again, and provide long-term economic gains for our people. To get women into burlap bags, kill Christians, and any Jews that are crazy enough to come here. We will also be willing to receive fellatio from all NYT reporters, as long as they pay the customary price of ass worship and blind adoration

Calm streets in Gaza? I guess gunfire, public executions and people fleeing to Israel is considered calm.

Israelis hit Gaza

The first of many installments, no doubt.

Terrorism and Financial Intelligence

[Link: www.treasury.gov...]

their archives are interesting too...

[Link: www.treasury.gov...]

The Times sided with Stalin too. At least they are consistant.

Ritualistic Infant Murderers of North America (RIMNA) = Planned Parenthood

/couldn't resist

Schools, basic services, economy.

Yes, must get Murder Mouse back on TV,

start spending that money on weapons that was earmarked for sewer upgrades,

and destroy any remaining multi-million dollar greenhouses that were purchased for our benefit.

Has Gaza been stripped yet?

Ah, the streets are quiet, the children are back in school and the Joos pies are in the oven. The NYSlimes wrote such things about Hitler in the 1930's Do we expect anything different today?

#30 JammieWearingFool

Hamastan facing food shortage

Damn. If only they had some greenhouses or something to grow food in.

Picked this up at Tim Blair's place.

Seymour Hersh is getting his stuff from Robert Fisk.

Sharp-eyed reporters in Beirut read the article in astonishment. Siniora, of the Lebanese Sunni establishment, was assisting allies of Al-Qaida who had split off from a pro-Syrian organization? And the United States was aware of this and might even be planning it, in order to strike at Hezbollah? And all this was in the context of aid to the Sunni forces in the Middle East in their conflict with Shi'ites backed, according to Hersh, by Iran? A world turned on its head. How could it be?

But it was published in The New Yorker, a magazine known for its meticulous fact-checking. The Lebanese reporters began investigating the story on their own.

Hersh said he heard the story from Robert Fisk,

Maybe it's fortunate that the left is incapable of shame. Where else could the rest of us get this sort of entertainment for free?

Hamastan facing food shortage

Eat the giant mice!

Hat tip: Terp Mole

Sweet!

Da JOOOS were the only winners on 9/11!

/you know you wanted to say it

Now this is what I call blogging.

hahahahahahaha Hamas is our ally in the "war on drugs"

hahahahaahahahah

Lord help me, but GW Bush might be dumb enough to believe it. I know San Fran Nan is, and obviously Baghdad Jim McDermott and Rep. Moran the moron are.

So, the Paper of Record's editorial page has no problem putting a Hamas shill on its page. This guy ignores the fact that Hamas also tried to assassinate Fatah's Abbas. That goes down the rabbit hole, but Fatah thugs trying to eliminate Haniyeh is proof that Hamas is in the right? Of course, since this is the op-ed page, facts, logic and reasoning are ignored.

Gotcha.

What a load of hooey.

BTW, I've got my daily roundup on the situation in the territories.

The streets of Gaza are now calm for the first time in a very long time. We have begun disarming some of the drug dealers and the armed gangs and we hope to restore a sense of security and safety to the citizens of Gaza. We want to get children back to school, get basic services functioning again, and provide long-term economic gains for our people.

And I'm sure that "all of the trains would be running on time" ... if only the savages actually had any trains.

OT

Is America screwed?

New Gallup Poll shows every probably Democrat candidate beating every probable Republican candidate.

Interestingly enough, The Silky Pony, John Edwards, does better than Hussein Obama or the neo-Stalinist in a pantsuit, maybe because with the $400 per hair cut good looks, he seems less extreme than the other two quasi-Marxists.

44 Kragar LOL let them eat greenhouse beams. That seems to be the only thing they haven't destroyed yet.

More Gaza multiculturalism
Ethel C. Fenig

"I expect our Christian neighbors to understand the new Hamas rule means real changes. They must be ready for Islamic rule if they want to live in peace in Gaza," said Sheik Abu Saqer, leader of Jihadia Salafiya, an Islamic outreach movement that recently announced the opening of a "military wing" to enforce Muslim law in Gaza.

Any further attempts to marginalize us, starve our people into submission or attack us militarily will prove that the United States and Israeli governments are not genuinely interested in seeing an end to the violence. We won't do that.

We'll just arm both sides, seal the borders, and stand back.

Can you even imagine the e-mail correspondence between the New York Times and the terrorist?

Ahmed Yousef:
Hello, my pretty New York Times dhimmis...I have an op-ed that I would like to pitch to you.

NYT: AHMED..good to hear from you. What's up? How can we help-and by the way-way to go on the liberating of Palestine from those cretin Fatah 'men'.

Yousef: The people of the Islamic Republic of Palestine in Gaza thank you for all of your support through the years-now can we get back to my op-ed before I order someone to blow your shitty little infidel head off?

NYT: Of course, Ahmed, of course-we digresss...you name it.

54 Ed No, we aren't screwed if the GOP nominee is willing to run AGAINST Bush. If it's Romney, who is the Bush family fave, yes I think we can look forward to Madame President Hillary.

#42 peacekeeper:

Here's an idea of how bad the situation is in Gaza.

A guy was spending hours with a hammer to break through a foot of concrete to strip Erez junction of copper wire so that he could sell it for $2.50 per kilo. A day's work might give him enough for $10.

There's nothing to loot.

There's nothing of value in Gaza. This is what Hamas and Fatah have wrought, and gives you some insight into how and why the Palestinians went hog wild on Arafat's villa. When you've been deprived of practically everything, despite the hundreds of millions in aid sent to the "Palestinians" you wonder where the money goes. Well, thanks to the sticky fingered kleptocrats in Fatah, Hamas, and the PA in general, it never reaches the Palestinians themselves.

That's why the claims by the US, Israel and others that the aid is again flowing is meaningless - the only ones who will benefit are Fatah's kleptocrats, not anyone else.

Oh, cry me a river, you bloothirsty, lying sack of maggot-infested monkey crap!

We all know what Hamas wants, so get this through your thick skull into that filth-ridden puddle of mush you call a brain, Mister Yousef:

WE. DON'T. WANT. TO. GIVE. HAMAS. WHAT. THEY. WANT!

Cepiche?

#60 lawhawk

There's lots of sand. Let them make glass. And there's lots of hate...not much else.

57 If you parasites would decide to grow your own damn food and make your own damn consumer goods nobody would be able to "starve you out."

Interesting how stopping the international welfare payments become equal to starving them out.

He forgot to mention anything about Global Warming.

Hamas vows to fight Global Warming

I just noticed that Digg no longer has it's own special link here.

#61 R.S

Oh, cry me a river, you bloothirsty, lying sack of maggot-infested monkey crap!

Oh, come on...tell us how you really feel.

Hawk
I agree with you 100%. At least they got to see, however briefly, how their masters were living.

I wonder if Arafat's peace prize has been melted down yet?

Islam is not mentioned.

I suppose this shoots the whole "there is no left-wing bias in media" argument to Hell.

The NYT editors obviously have no shame, and these "journalists" are anything but -- they are lazy mouthpieces for those with a shared worldview. Hence, this evil garbage.
I really despise these damnable cowards! They are so far distanced from reality that they no longer understand what freedom is.

I have no doubt today's useful idiots would present Leni Riefenstahl with an Academy Award and a Palme d'Or for Speaking Truth To Power or some other such nonsense. They'll join her in hell someday.

Oops - never mind. That apparently pops up if used.

That apparently pops up if used.

Yep, that's the way they were designed.

#65 macofromoc 6/20/2007 8:53:53 am PDT

He forgot to mention anything about Global Warming.

Hamas vows to fight Global Warming

Their flag is Green.

Never mind - Part II. It's only visible iy you open the comments.

Boy, I'm slow today.

There's nothing of value in Gaza.

Nonsense! What about all the weapons?

...the US was behind Pearl Harbor...

Oh, my! I never heard that one before! --now, what my father always said, makes sense...that he didn't believe in conspiracy theories-- I could never figure out from whence he got his firm belief...since he was drawn into fighting in WWII after that incident, I can see how he would say such a thing --I nearly "went off" at a newbee last night, thinking he'd just said the moon landings were a spoof...he wasn't serious; he was teasing...but I recognized the love in myself of that moon landing era...and today can see where my Dad was coming from --thanks, Charles.

These very pictures [of the 9/11 attacks- ed] were filmed expertly, so that they would be a constant reminder to America and the Western World that islamic terrorism is a threat.

Funny- I thought that's what the koran was for.

The streets of Gaza are now calm for the first time in a very long time.

It's because they are so very "organized"

#75

I stand corrected

OT:

Gal Gadot speaks out against those who called her posing for Maxim's ad campaign in support of Israel. (Yes, it's a shameless opportunity to post something eminently pleasing to the eye as opposed to the usual ugliness associated with Hamas, Fatah and the terrorist/thug regimes in the region).

Hamas made a sacred promise at Mecca to abide by a unity govenrment agreement. They overthrew the agreement by violence; they broke written promises made at what claim in their holiest site.

Fatah was not innocent but Hamas utterly smashed the agreement into the dust.

No one made them do this; it is the product of who they are and who their financial supporters are and who their leaders are and where their leaders are located.

That the NYT is blind to this is who they are.

The NYT is complicit in trying to give these scum a clean bill of health. The only cure for fascism is overthrowing the fascists- peacefully when an "el supremo" dies and by bullets when the party is entrenched.

Streets get very calm when neighbours are given parachuting lessons from high rise buildings-without the parachutes.

The streets of Gaza are now calm for the first time in a very long time.

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

NY Times - terrorists... Check!

They are providing aid and comfort to our enemies and the enemies of our Allies...

In earlier days, when the US government had balls and teeth, the editorial board would be led out in chains...

Sadly, we are all Dhimmified now...

that film clip is priceless

he says Israelis infiltrate and control Islamic terror groups

wow

and Israeli agents got all those swell films of the Twin Towers coming down, because they knew it was gonna happen, and wanted the films for propaganda value

wow

what an imbecile

so I guess those darn Israelis are fooling everybody... except him, of course

#78 Ma Sands

There are people who believe the moon landings were phony.

Gotta go to the doctor now. Bye.

Howdy al-Reuter's! {waves} Bit crowded in that spiderhole of yours, isn't it? Don't ya'll have some nice fluff articles to write on the Religion of Body Pieces?

And we wonder why US gas prices are $3.00 per gallon or more.

I'm reminded of Dan Aykroyd's bit:

"It's a floor wax and a dessert topping!"

Someone above mentioned that there are quite a bit of guns in Gaza. They're not made locally, and there are so many of them, that they are cheaper than ever - $1,400 for an AK-47, as compared to $2,800 a year ago. The arms dealers need to move quite a lot to make the same amount of money, which begs the question of where they find the money when everyone is scrounging for bits and pieces.

Well, of course we know the answer - all that charity money coming in isn't for food, but for arms. Hamas has no problem buying guns and ammo.

OT note:

Reuters
Today: 9
Yesterday: 2

/slow news day ?
//relaxing before Friday's post-prayer riots ?

#82 lawhawk:

You gotta love a cover gal named, well, "Gal".

And there's this:

"Obviously, I don't think it's pornographic, or I wouldn't have done it," said Gadot, 22, who's starting law school in the fall.

Gal, if you're reading this; I am totally available to give you 1L pointers.

#82 Lawhawk

Attractive, and she wasn't so vain and foolish as to get breast implants.

Ron Paul...

sorry, it's Terrets

Oh, as for the food situation - Hamas claims that the food will run out in 2-4 weeks.

The Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip could start running out of flour, rice, edible oil and other commodities in 2-4 weeks unless Israel reopens the border crossings, the United Nations said Wednesday.

Gaza's crossings with border countries Israel and Egypt, including the Rafah Crossings in the south, the Karni commercial passage in the center and the Erez Crossing in the north, have been closed since late last week when Hamas assumed full control over the Strip after five days of fighting with the rival Fatah party.

Concerned Gazans have been stocking up on essentials, fearing the crossings with remain shut. The World Food Program estimates flour prices have risen 40 percent.

Here's a novel idea. Grow some in greenhouses as opposed to using 'em as rocket launching platforms. Oh wait.

abu-hoo-hoo...

One of those is planned for the New Jersey Complex called Xanadu, which will be located at the Meadowlands Sports Complex...

#91 danger close

I know. It is so silly. :)

Good analysis at the American Thinker: The Hamas strategy at work.

With Gaza now the new terror Grand Central Station, all the radical groups housed there - Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and Hamas - are players with agendas. And with Gaza now totally in their hands, the mischief making will be exported. While new Western money from the US, Israel and the EU pours into Abbas and Fatah, destabilization efforts are sure to be directed from Gaza towards the West Bank, Israel, Lebanon, Egypt and Iraq.

Some commentators have suggested that we (the US, Israel, the Europeans) should let Hamas now "stew in its own juices" in Gaza. But this is naive. Hamas, as pointed out by Caroline Glick, is quite purposeful, as are its sponsors, Iran and Syria. It will not self-destruct nor concede power, much as the individual lives of the Palestinians may continue to be miserable or even worsen.

The sudden war initiated by Hamas on Fatah in Gaza was not an accident set off by some tripwire. Hamas saw that Jordan and Egypt were starting a major re-supply of weapons to Fatah in Gaza funded in part by the US. An eventual struggle between the two sides was anticipated. So Hamas, a more determined and much better organized fighting force, though smaller in number than Fatah in Gaza, was able to preemptively strike and quickly destroy its rival in the strip.

Of course, the international community will not allow Palestinians in Gaza to starve, just because Hamas prefers to import weapons rather than food. Food and medicine will be supplied for humanitarian reasons (since Israel left the strip, the Palestinians have done such a good job destroying their economy that in Gaza about 80% of the population depends on food aid from abroad).

[Link: www.americanthinker.com...]

I have no doubt today's useful idiots would present Leni Riefenstahl with an Academy Award and a Palme d'Or for Speaking Truth To Power or some other such nonsense. They'll join her in hell someday.

QFT

#97 Occasional Reader

Gal, if you're reading this; I am totally available to give you 1L pointers.

Tsk, tsk, tsk... And what would the wife say about that?

/

IIRC, Gaza has beaches, and would make an ideal resort community, perhaps with a casino and a theme park, and would attract visitors from Egypt and Israel. Those who didn't work in the tourist industry, could grow the fruits and vegetables ,in greenhouses, that would be served in the restaurants and hotels.

Except, of course, there is no fun in Islam.

NYTIMES IGNORES THE OBVIOUS

Fears in Arab World Following Gaza Coup: Hamas Is Threatening Entire Arab World

The following are excerpts from op-eds critical of Hamas in the Arab press:

Hamas Has Buried the Palestinian Cause and Has Become Its Enemy

In the Egyptian government daily Al-Ahram, columnist Makram Muhammad Ahmad wrote: "Hamas has seized power in Gaza for a while, but it has dealt a death blow to the Palestinian cause, and buried it – God only knows for how long. [By taking over Gaza, it has] isolated the Strip from the West Bank - something Israel has wanted to do for a long time, and now Hamas has handed it [this achievement] on a silver platter.

Iran and Syria Are Behind the Gaza Coup

In an op-ed titled "The Gaza Earthquake," Al-Sharq Al-Awsat editor Tariq Al-Humayd wrote: "The preparedness of the Hamas fighters... proves that while Hamas and its leaders were crying out about lack of funds, Hamas was [actually] amassing arms and ammunition. Someone is providing it with regular funding, and as a result it appeared to be better prepared [for fighting] than the legitimate authorities.

"The source of the funds is obviously Iran. Today, no one has control over Hamas... except Iran, its economic patron, and Syria, where Khaled Mash'al resides. The tangled threads [that pass through] the entire Arab region lead to two countries only – Syria and Iran..."(3)

The Islamic Emirate of Gaza Threatens the Entire Arab World

In his op-ed "The Gaza Earthquake," Tariq Al-Humayd wrote: "What is happening in Gaza, and the emergence of the Hamas's Islamic emirate there, can only be described as an earthquake, and not only for the Palestinians... The impact of this Islamic emirate on our Arab world will not be like that [caused by] the emergence of the Taliban Emirate, [for] it is more dangerous, to the point where it will [threaten] Arab security.

How very sad.

Other quotes from the article of Ahmed Yousef:

"It [Hamas] tried to engage the international community to explain its platform for peace.”

Hamas has made their platform for peace, “Death to Israel”, abundantly clear over the past 10 or so years. What further explanations are necessary?

"It [Hamas] has consistently offered a 10-year cease-fire with the Israelis to try to create an atmosphere of calm in which we resolve our differences.”

But see Mr. Yousef’s later comment:
“We continue to believe that there is still a chance to establish a long-term truce.”

This is negotiation in bad faith; it is actually the Islamic tactic of offering a truce while they build up their strength in order to resume hostilities.

“We reject attempts to . . . pass Hamas off as an extreme and dangerous force.”

How many people did Hamas beat to death, or throw from the tops of buildings? Where were the lists of charges, due process, the trials? Where is / was Amnesty International?

As for Mr. Yousef's claims to desire "provide long-term economic gains" for the Gazans, this is just a desire to resume welfare payments for the first Islamic Easter Island.

The Muslims have consumed everything of value in Gaza, and no longer have the capability to feed themselves, just like the natives on Easter Island before the appearance of Europeans.

This is a microcosm of the entire Middle East and most Muslim lands; the inhabitants over-populate, consume all, then try to emigrate; in Gaza's case, to Israel.

Does the NYT, AP, AFP, Reuters or any other MSM source, cover the current situation on the Gaza-Egyptian border?

Admittedly, Mr. Yousef’s writing appears as an op-ed piece, and therefore should be expected to be biased, but his writings are propaganda, whitewash and revisionism; is this now what the NYT considers “op-ed”.

Are there no big ol’, seegar chompin’, two-fisted, brave editors at the NYT, to say “We’ll publish just about any opinion, as long as it can be logically argued and supported by facts and reasoned arguement, and does not advocate crimes or illegal actions, but this writing by a Hamas mouthpiece is covered with flies and may get us a visit from the Health Department. Do a re-write and resubmit, and we’ll consider printing it.”

Just a little OT:

An excellent article here about Jimmah Carter and the Iranian Revolution.

#78 Ma Sands

Silly, everyone knows the Jews were behind Pearl Harbor. The evidence supports it!

#107 Ed Mahmoud's Sock Puppet

Those who didn't work in the tourist industry, could grow the fruits and vegetables...

Unless they learn how to grow assault weapons, I doubt they'd be interested...

#90 FriarsTale 6/20/2007 9:01:24 am PDT

that film clip is priceless

he says Israelis infiltrate and control Islamic terror groups

Don't forget. The Jewish victory in the six day war and the following humiliation of the Palestinians is also the reason for his limp dick.

Those Jews. Is there nothing they can't do?

I love this guy's reasoning: Israel benefited the most, so it must have been responsible.

It is akin to what we hear from Muslims: Islam is a religion of peace, and therefore Muslims could not have killed 3,000 people. Next, we are going to hear that because Israel benefits from Palestinian infighting, Israel must be behind it.

This is a simple logical fallacy that any reader of detective novels could expose instantly: the guilty party does not always benefit. Perhaps we should name this the "Islamist fallacy." It should take its place with other fallacies in logic texts.

Sadly a gullible Arab speaking public falls for this reasoning.

The other striking claim in the video is even more stupid: The pictures were too good to have been taken by anyone other than Mossad agents.

This is only going to work for people who have never heard of pocket cameras and video recorders and don't realize that NY is a tourist and the media center. But, hey, why not give it a try and see who falls for this line.

The US has not had a spotless past. The Gulf of Tonkin resolution was based upon governmental misrepresentation. But Pearl Harbor? C'mon Ahmad, you can do better than that.

It all reminds me of the Nazi big lie. Say stupid things often and loudly enough, and eventually they will stick.

#112 Kragar

And the sinking of the Titanic. . .

Israel hits Gaza after rocket attacks but the huffers want Israel nuked for cheap oil.
[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...] Bob

I am going to Israel in 5 weeks. I hope you will all send me money which I will turn over to Hamas for their social action projects(man powered flight, a Farfur in every home and a burqua on every woman). Alternatively, I might use your money to buy myself jewelry.

NoSUb

Once again proving that the MSM knows nothing about the subject it comments on and uses to form public opinion.

Juneteenth crowd in Austin kills passenger in car that hit child.

AUSTIN, Texas - A crowd attacked and killed a passenger in a vehicle that had struck and injured a child, police said Wednesday.

Police believe 2,000 to 3,000 people were in the area for a Juneteenth celebration when the attack occurred Tuesday night. The man who was killed had been trying to stop the group from attacking the vehicle's driver when the crowd turned on him, authorities said.

The Austin Police Department identified the victim as David Rivas Morales, 40. The child was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

O/T
. Gazastan Restive.

'Israel fired missiles and sent tanks on a foray into Gaza on Wednesday, killing four Palestinians in the deadliest military action since Hamas militants took control of the coastal strip.
...
Israeli aircraft fired missiles at two rocket launchers in northern Gaza, in the first aerial attack on the strip since Hamas vanquished the rival Fatah of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. No injuries were reported in the strike, which came in retaliation for militant rocket fire on Israel.

Israeli tanks, meanwhile, rolled about 600 yards inside southern Gaza before dawn, and four militants were killed in a gunbattle, Palestinian hospital officials said.'
//AP

101 lawhawk, 107 Ed

Let them eat sand. Or let them eat Saudi donations. NOT ONE MORE AMERICAN DIME

Are any of you planning on writing a Letter to the Editor of the Slimes?

#112 Kragar

Silly, everyone knows the Jews were behind Pearl Harbor. The evidence supports it!

No Jewish lifeguards reported to work in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. Think about it!

I call for no more links to HuffPo and Kos!

I can't resist to look at the comments.

Then I get pissed for a while.

I calm down only after I wash the palestinian blood off my Joo tax conflict diamonds.

Miss Malkin has an excellent roundup of fact checks on Mikey Moore's Sicko...
The Sicko circus comes to D.C.

Everywhere he looks, Moore finds French happiness. But this phrase is as close to an oxymoron as French rock. In a poll, 85 percent of the French recently said their country is heading in the wrong direction. Right direction? Nine percent. In France in 2003, 15,000 mostly elderly hospital patients died in an August heat wave–because hospitals lack air conditioning and doctors were on vacation. The French parliament blamed the health care system. That’s five times 9/11’s toll, all of it preventable, all of it unlamented by Moore.

She also found a very interesting site: FreeMarketCure

121 Mandy Hmmm was it a car with folks just doing the drunk driving that Americans won't do?

It may be a very interesting case.

I wonder where he hides the crack pipe?

deadliest military action

Killing four of a Qassam launching unit that just had fired non-laser guided missiles into civilian area with intent to kill/maim civilians.

Wow.

Imagine how they'd describe a pali civil war with dozens executed in front of their families (and journalists) and people getting thrown from windows.

WOW! Islamic troofer? unreal.

JJ

gosh, just goes to show ya that Jimmy Carter was right. We surely are dealing with the wrong people, the Fatah. Why don't we just wipe all of them out, with luck Jimmy would be there polishing shoes huh?

#119 madisonsfriend

I am going to Israel in 5 weeks. I hope you will all send me money which I will turn over to Hamas for their social action projects(man powered flight, a Farfur in every home and a burqua on every woman).

I sure just an oversight on your part - but you failed to provide your PayPal address.

124 tfc3rid

Are any of you planning on writing a Letter to the Editor of the Slimes?

I think Charles should fax a piece over.

#133 apachegunner

Because engaging in genocide would make us no better than they are...

And dammit, fix your quote:

YourYou're here only because I let you, this is my reality you've your own.

=)

gosh, I will fix that immediately, how in the world could one such as I make such a mistake?

Re: Mandy's 121 I've said several times that the dem party bigs are possibly in more trouble with their base than the GOP. You'll never read about it in the NY Slimes or any others...but blue collar folks of all colors are PISSED OFF about the illegal alien invasion.

Folks like The Prophet Obama and his racist pastor have kept the lid on black anger by convincing the rank and file that all the ills of blacks are caused by Whitey...

Obama may have been right about the whole "quiet riots" taking place every day in the Black community, but just blind to the direction those riots will go.

128 funky chicken

The story doesn't say. The driver escaped and is cooperating with the police.

#125 Kenneth

The radio broadcasts are a dead giveaway. The code to launch the attack was "TORAH! TORAH! TORAH!"

/I love that joke.

Good Lord! Has anyone posted this yet?

Politicians reacted in disbelief to the revelation that for over two hours yesterday, the BBC News website carried a request for people in Iraq to report on troop movements.

The request was removed from the website after it sparked furious protests that the corporation was endangering the lives of British servicemen and women.

According to accounts last night, a story on a major operation by US and Iraqi troops against al-Qa’eda somewhere north of Baghdad contained an extraordinary request for information about the movement of troops.

gobsmacked.

The Washington Post has also in the past given op-ed space to arch terrorist and faux Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. For too many Upper West Side Jews, the N.Y. Times is the Talmud.

134 tfk

Bush derelict of duty to enforce current law.

US Constitution - Article II Section 3:

"...he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed..."

It does not say, "shall lobby to change the laws to his liking."

#118 softball dad
I (against my better judgment) clicked on the link to the Puffington Host - what a bunch of sick crypto Stalinist Fascists they are!

What Hamas wants
What Hamas needs
What Hamas wants
What Hamas needs

Yeah come on

ouuuhooo

I wanna thank you for giving me time to breathe
Like a rock you waited so patiently
While I got it together
While I figured it out
I only looked but I never touched
'Cause in my heart was a picture of us
Holdin' hands, makin' plans and it's lucky for me you understand

What Hamas wants
What Hamas needs
Whatever makes me happy sets you free
And I'm thanking you for knowing exactly
What Hamas wants
What Hamas needs
Whatever keeps me in your arms
And I'm thanking you for giving it to me
ouuu
hunnn yeah

No all the time i was blind
I was so confused
Run away just to hide it all from you
But baby you knew me better,then i knew myself
They say if you love something let it go
If it comes back it's yours
That's how you know
It's for keeps, yeah, it's for sure
And you're ready and willin'

/Jimmy Carter

128 funky chicken

121 Mandy Hmmm was it a car with folks just doing the drunk driving that Americans won't do?

Wow! That's some conclusion you've come to. A Spanish guy gets beat to death by rioting blacks over a minor traffic accident and drunk driving while illegal comes to mind?

140 Mandy I wonder if they will give him immunity if he is an illegal?

He did hit a child with a car...and said child was part of a 2000-3000 person celebration. I dunno about you, but I tend to drive about 2 miles an hour around big parties with kids. Or I go out of my way to avoid the places with kids.

It could be very interesting, or it could become nothing. We'll see.

Can it be that there were no ISM in Gaza during the last few days?

Can it really be that they would survive?

ISM was very attached to Fatah (created and financed by Arafat). I find it hard to believe they could survive a rout by Hamas.

Anyone know what is going on there (at ISM)?

#138 apachegunner

Sorry, but it's a grammatical pet peeve...

The ISM knew.

147 no limit Yep.

Driving while drunk is part of their culture, don’t you know? Movie director Robert Clark and his 22-year-old son were beneficiaries. Don’t you want to benefit, too?

We’re so fortunate to have Mexican culture among us, aren’t we? They jump over the border, bringing with them a rich heritage, indeed. Their wonderful contributions only enrich America. We’re very blessed to have them. Celebrate diversity!

(Pictured: Formerly law school-bound college track and field star Joycelyn Gardiner, killed by a drunk illegal alien - MM has a picture of the car)

More death-by-illegal-alien sources:

Driver Pleads Guilty to Running Down Pedestrian
Teen Responsible for Fatal Crash Was Unlicensed
Driver Charged With DWI in Fatal I-40 Wreck
Admitted Illegal Immigrant Faces Vehicular Manslaughter Charges
Tragedy links family, officer
Officials crack down on illegal immigrants since fatal crash - Yeah, right…
Fatal wreck leads to 15-year sentence
Brother guilty in fatal crash
Illegal Immigrant Pleads Guilty
Speeder crashes, sends three to hospital
Year following infamous immigrant DUI crash…

[Link: lashawnbarber.com...]

#142 grayp
Disgraceful.

144 Ojoe

Bush derelict of duty to enforce current law.

US Constitution - Article II Section 3:

"...he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed..."

It does not say, "shall lobby to change the laws to his liking."

Ah, fellahs, I'm pretty sure the President has the Constitutional authority to propose laws and submit such proposals to congress for consideration. Presidents have been doing just that for over 200 years.

#142 grayp

Politicians reacted in disbelief to the revelation that for over two hours yesterday, the BBC News website carried a request for people in Iraq to report on troop movements.

BBC logo

None of these problems in Gaza would be happening if Rachel Corrie were still alive.

Killgore Trout,

I linked the Kyle Smith blog review last night. Read the whole thing on Malkin's site.

OT
Anti kissing campaign in Egypt un the guise of preventing bird flue. We course we know that this is just more Islamic bullshit.
[Link: www.wnd.com...]

This kid's a hoot...

Iraqi Kid Loves America And Bush - Iraq

#131 jjmckay1216

WOW! Islamic troofer? unreal.

All true Muslims are troofers. They're taught cognitive dissonance from birth.

/their collective reality is not objective and that's why trying to reason with them is futile

They have tribes in Iraq?

/MSM

#95 lawhawk

Someone above mentioned that there are quite a bit of guns in Gaza. They're not made locally, and there are so many of them, that they are cheaper than ever - $1,400 for an AK-47, as compared to $2,800 a year ago. The arms dealers need to move quite a lot to make the same amount of money, which begs the question of where they find the money when everyone is scrounging for bits and pieces.

That is a LOT of money for an AK. That's a well-tuned smith-built model here, or three whole cheapass Century Arms ROMAKs, if you prefer. Of course ours are semi-auto, but even that makes our guns relatively more expensive. Something tells me their AKs don't have to meet the requirements of GCA '68, the 1986 restrictions, or Section 922r.

Does having to smuggle the guns via tunnel or "fishing boat" drive the prices up?

Years ago there were AKM kits on the market that were originally Russian-supplied PLO guns, confiscated by Israel, and then cut up for sale here. I kinda wish I could afford one of those kits now. I like the idea of having a genuine Commie AK removed from terrorist hands by Israel, to be used by me for fun instead of killing Jews.

#158 JammieWearingFool
I'm intrigued by FreemarketCure. I think it's too easy to pick apart Mikey's work. What's really tough is finding alternate solutions.

The source article on the BBC and troop movement. The awkward reporting and strange comments from the BBC make me think that "the journalist" responible was a muslim.
[Link: www.telegraph.co.uk...]

Just a feeling.

In fact, Gazans are so happy, they're leaping for joy. Sadly, several have been on the edge of tall buildings when doing so...

157 tfk Go man go!

Lott's scum.

#152 funky chicken

147 no limit Yep.

Driving while drunk is part of their culture, don’t you know?

The story at hand provides no information as to whether the driver was intoxicated.

The story (here) is about an angry mob killing a Spanish man (whose immigration status is unknown) who very well may be third generation for all we know.

I, and most, usually wait for the facts before making unfounded conclusions.

But that's just me - And most everyone else here at LGF for that matter.

annelid gets it!

165 annelid

I was raised in the South and I never heard of Juneteenth until I moved to Denver in the late 80s.

Sshhh...

Our sole focus is Palestinian rights and good governance

And killing Joooz.

Somewhat OT

An AP story has abboud denouncing Hamas as "murderous terrorists". I guess that makes Fatah "good" terrorists!

Sadly, it became apparent that not all officials from Fatah were negotiating in good faith.

That little fact became all apparent when we first heard of the agreeable members from Hamas debating their bound and gagged Fatah counterparts. I can completely see how Fatah was the winner on this one. I mean think about it...the Fatah folks that negotiated their side won out by getting an all expense paid trip to visit forty virgins after they were chucked off the roof tops, while the poor Hamas guys got stuck with, well, Gaza :(

Hillary blames the Iraqis.

154 Kenneth

Well Bush is acting then as a private citizen.

Article II says nothing about laws originating from the executive;

and Article I Section 1 begins with the sentence

"All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, ..."

I wish he'd stick to his job.

I'm waiting for the Zionist were behind the Bolshevik Revolution video.

I have had to make my new puppy an outdoor dog, as the NYT is too expensive on the wallet for potty training him, and too hard on my temper for any other use.

Compassionate Islamofascism

Wow, those Iranians are really showing a soft side.

#181 maddogg

I have had to make my new puppy an outdoor dog, as the NYT is too expensive on the wallet for potty training him, and too hard on my temper for any other use.

May I suggest you inquire of your local news-stand - if you may have the unsold copies of the Times? One days worth of unsold's should provide a years worth for your puppy's needs.

More and more I am convinced this whole thing is Pallywood. Sort of a Good Terrorist/Bad terrorist thing.

Fatah, and Hamas are still best friends, BUT now they figured out a way to loosen up the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Gaza nice&calm? Excellent news! Let's send back the folks who tore their way into Israel. Calm is so beneficial for patient recovery.

#183 NoLimit

Heh. Thats a good idea, then I could send the contents back to the NYT and submit them to the editorial dept.

#184 Buck

Fatah, and Hamas are still best friends, BUT now they figured out a way to loosen up the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Bingo, Sir.

#175 MacBoy

Our sole focus is Palestinian rights and good governance

And killing Joooz.

ALL: NOBODY ESCAPES THE PALI INQUISITION!

Hamas #1: Our chief goal is Pali rights

Hamas #2: And good governance.

Hamas #1: Our chief goals are Pali rights and good governance.

Hamas 3#: and killing JOOOS

Hamas #1: Amongst our goals are such diverse elements

Terp Mole!

Another hat tip! You are the master!

//smackdown - Natalie still sits humbly at zero.

What's this "New York Times" you are all talking about ?

/

Last night on Hannity & Colmes they had Walid Shoebat and Fouad Ajami on as guests. Ajami told the girlie man Alan Colmes that "Hamas and Fatah are both the children of Arafat."

When asked what he thought about foreign affairs, Bill Clinton replied, 'I don't know, I never had one.'

Here is a must see video, once again from our friends at Fox. This time it is Brian Kilmeade interviewing Walid Shoebat. Watch the video and see if you agree with Brians "principles"?

The Bill Clinton revised judicial oath: 'I solemnly swear to tell the truth as I know it, the whole truth as I believe it to be, and nothing but what I think you need to know.'

We continue to believe that there is still a chance to establish a long-term truce.

I'm glad to hear that, truly I am. After all, who among us does not aspire to a long term truce? Think of all the expressions in English (or Hebrew translation) that reflect our deep longing for long term truce:

Long Term Truce Now!

What's So Funny 'Bout Long Term Truce, Love, and Understanding?

Land for Long Term Truce!

Long Term Truce Out, Baby!

and my personal favorite:

Give Long Term Truce a Chance!

#154 Kenneth:

I'm pretty sure the President has the Constitutional authority to propose laws and submit such proposals to congress for consideration. Presidents have been doing just that for over 200 years.

Of course he does. Nobody said he can't propose new laws.

But that doesn't give him the authority to simply ignore the existing laws in the meantime.

Ever notice when you use a word repeatedly (or violate it), it becomes meaningless?

The same S**T is in the Washington Post.

Engage with Hamas
[Link: www.washingtonpost.com...]

A sample...

"Palestinians want, on their terms, the same thing Western societies want: self-determination, modernity, access to markets and their own economic power, and freedom for civil society to evolve."

LOL. Yes, of course, "their own terms" being the utter destruction of Israel, and murder or exile of all of its non-Muslim inhabitants.

#149
Check out ISM's website. They are planning to land all over the Gaza beaches(but not until august 15). They claim there are Palistinian fishermen that they will be working with(i was thinking it is more like the "sleep with the fishes") I say show some balls- and get to Gaza today!

Bill clinton's commencement address at the U of Michigan:

"for the purposes of your being here today, what makes you a community? Not the fact that you're wearing a uniform and all kinds of interesting things underneath--like running shoes and things like that."

clinton always thinking about things underneath clothing.

The new Nazi Germany meets the new Japan...Ahmadinejad:

A strong Iran will help Russia

"Iran's relations with Russia are strategically significant," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the state-run IRNA news agency reported Wednesday.

"We believe a strong Iran will be beneficial to Russia," IRNA quoted the president as saying.(Dudi Cohen)

[Link: www.ynetnews.com...]

TROOFERS BEWARE

Laugh of the day...

Russia: Iranian missiles not a threat

[Link: www.ynetnews.com...]

To quote a wise man.

Rope.

Tree.

Journalist.

Some assembly Required.

#163 pawn of the oppressor:

Yes, the costs for smuggling those weapons into Gaza has much to do with the prices I mentioned.

The original story on which I based those figures is here.

On second thought (see my 115), there is no way we're going to teach Ahmed's audience to think. Might as well join them in their logical fallacy: Who really benefited from 9/11? The Arab oil producers because the price of oil has risen so dramatically. The Saudis and the Iranians did it.

We can continue to play this game: Who benefited from Pearl Harbor? The Japanese who today have a robust economy that is not weighed down by supporting a military. Guess the Japs did it, just as some of us suspected all along.

OT OT OT OT OT
LGF has not commented much on the war in Lebanon of the Lebanese fighting the Palestinians, If this were Israel doing this, the green helmets would be out in force showing the world how Israel is killing the Pals.

VIDEO!

Iraqi Kids Love Bush and America

we were forced into trying to take control of a very dangerous situation in order to provide political stability and establish law and order.

How are you establishing law and order when you're marching people out into the streets and assassinating them and marching them to the tops of buildings and hurling bound and blindfolded them to their deaths. GJ New York Times.

There is a part of me that actually does feel for the Palestinian people even if I have never felt more intense rage than the day I saw them dancing for joy in their dust covered streets after 9/11.

What must it be like to live life never knowing you are a voluntary pawn in a much bigger game? Stupid rubes being used to feed the appetites of the tyrants of Saudi, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Iran, and to a great degree useful tools for the infidels of Russia and China. For you and future generations, no matter the outcome of Israel's existence, you are always going to be on the outside looking in.

Palestine, let me clue you in to something you fail to recognize. Israel is the best friend, perhaps the only real friend you got. She's the only one who doesn't take advantage and actually shows pity for your cause.

And you're the fool to not recognize it. One day it will be too late.

199 Sure, sure, but why the hell do we have to support them in their quest for universal human desires blah blah.

You know, most of us have to get a damn job and support ourselves.

Hey Hamasastanis...GET A JOB, BUILD YOUR OWN DAMN LIVES

Buck,

Pass go, collect $200.

You done nailed it.

#56 easy

(Christians) must be ready for Islamic rule if they want to live in peace

That sums it all up, doesn't it?

They only "peace" they ever have in mind is our surrender.

Ahmed Yousef provides indisputable evidence Zionist agent on grassy knoll.

192 Joel

Last night on Hannity & Colmes they had Walid Shoebat and Fouad Ajami on as guests. Ajami told the girlie man Alan Colmes that "Hamas and Fatah are both the children of Arafat."

I saw that.

Colmes: ABBAS is a terrorist? ABBAS?!

Arab U.S. Prof. Sees PA Society Heading for Nowhere..."So the masked men of Fatah have the run of the West Bank while the masked men of Hamas have their dominion in Gaza. Some see this as a tolerable situation... It’s always tempting to look for salvation in disaster, but in this case it’s sheer fantasy

[Link: www.israelnationalnews.com...]

The streets of Gaza are now calm for the first time in a very long time ...

Catholic compound ransacked in Gaza

Oops, spoke too soon.

#199 june_july:

Ahmed Yousef is a shill for Haniyeh. Of course he's going to push the Hamas position because that's what he's paid to do.

We, however, are not paid to buy the WaPo or their excuses for opening up their editorial page to every petty dicator and terrorist group, or their shills.

Hamas is a terrorist group - and as such deserves no seat at the table.

I'd say the same thing of Fatah, but the diplomats have all colluded to give 'em a say - a big mistake in my book.

#217 No Submission

How shocked he must have been. When he has been daily assured by the MSM that Abbas is the moderate.

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,130,000 for Abbas moderate.

Jeez nolimit, kinda sensitive aren't you?

I was just talking smack, based on several reports in the last couple of days and over the last year about the drunk driving habits of our "guests" from the south.

nothing more, nothing less.

Caribbean tropical wave likely to become a Hurricane in 4 to 6 days!

That is a monster wave centered near 8ºN, 82ºW.

Of course, in 4 to 6 days it will be well into the Pacific.

Yurpian Community says close enough to bring some bad weather to Acapulco, before heading out to sea.

BTW, Yurpian is also all over a monster cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, look forward to a huge post late this week or weekend for our Indian and Bangladeshi readers!

Now, nice looking waves come off Africa every three or four days, but the water temps are marginal, and dry Saharan air to the North inhibits development. That is normal for June.

Don't be ungrateful Bastids. The average combined June and July time period brings just over 1 named tropical cyclone, and we've already had Barry, so its ok even if we go 6 more weeks without a storm.

Now, we have already established that almost the entire Gulf of Mexico is warmer than 28º, the limit for major cyclones, and all of the Gulf is well over the magic 26.5º required for hurricanes. But we need to get the depth of the water warmer than 26º deeper. Now, we aren't doing too bad, with a lot of the Gulf having at least 25 meters of warm water, and some parts over 50 meters. Bad is a relative term. Actually, deep warm water allows slow moving major storms to maintain their strength, which increases the chances of another Rita, Ivan or Katrina. Now that I am a homeowner, and have a deductible on my insurance that means a big storm would cost me money up front, not to mention long term in higher premiums, I'm not quite as excited as I used to be about Cat 5s in the Gulf.

Anyway, still seven days away from the earliest major cyclone impact (1957s Hurricane Audrey, a Cat 4 that made landfall same place as Rita, on the Texas-Louisiana line), and the real action is August and September.

Anyhow, yesterday's Alabama severe storms not quite as rambunctious as they move through Northern Florida.

This is about the only chance, and it is a remote one, for any tropical activity during the next 7 days for the US. Very slight chance the vorticity maximum and associated decaying frontal boundary might get over warm water, develop concentrated thunderstorms, feed back and develop. The old "Canadian polar low to warm core tropical cyclone" trick.

0Z Canadian sort of hinted at that, but suggested it would head East and away from US.

New GFS says no development, but the remaining weakness left by the disturbance drifts Westward into the Gulf, and pulls a fairly vigorous (for this early in the season) tropical wave into the Gulf and into Louisiana, with abundant rainfall Monday and Tuesday, with some of the moisture maybe aiding drought stricken Alabama.

Just A Grunt...

I agree with Brian's principle... Makes snese to me... Why are we so afraid to put it into action?

NYT = No more Relevant:Only A Historic Footnote.

#219 Sabra

Crosses were broken, a statue of Jesus was damaged, and prayer books were burnt at the Rosary Sisters School and nearby convent, said Father Manuel Musallem, head of Gaza's Latin church.

Worldwide Christian rioting including random attacks on anyone Muslim to begin in...

Oops, forgot that we're sane.

#209 miclaine:

On the contrary, LGF and those who post here have mentioned this quite a bit. The hypocrisy of the media, the media bias, and the yellow journalism in covering the Middle East is pervasive.

Just note that the UN has no problem condemning Israel for human rights violations, but stands silent on Palestinians tossing other Palestinians off rooftops or Hamas shooting up a bunch of Fatah thugs in the back even after saying they could go free.

ploome. It is a strange story. Makes one wonder who is in charge at the BBC.

A lunchtime must read...

We Can’t Win Wars by Permission

Our rules of engagement concerning collateral killing are strangling us in the war against fanatical jihadists – including those from Iran. Collateral killing has become a higher priority than our own self-preservation – how did this happen? The United Nations preaches that democracies are only entitled to defend themselves up to the point where they don’t harm the enemy’s fellow citizens - even while that enemy fights from behind those citizens.

Read the whole thing..

the UN Human Rights Council is a total joke- look at the members.

#82 lawhawk
Gal Gadot speaks out against those who called her posing for Maxim's ad campaign in support of Israel. (Yes, it's a shameless opportunity to post something eminently pleasing to the eye as opposed to the usual ugliness associated with Hamas, Fatah and the terrorist/thug regimes in the region).

That Gal's hot bod could make a bishop kick out a stained-glass window.

Continental Flight Becomes Incontinent

[Link: www.king5.com...]

I'll tell ya, it's breakin loose all over.

Lawhawk,

I like your blog. Very nice!

219 Sabra, 227 Sil

Crosses were broken, a statue of Jesus was damaged, and prayer books were burnt at the Rosary Sisters School and nearby convent, said Father Manuel Musallem, head of Gaza's Latin church.

Uh, I think it may be time for a massive air evac operation. Somebody needs to get those poor people out of there.

222 funky chicken

Jeez nolimit, kinda sensitive aren't you?

I was just talking smack, based on several reports in the last couple of days and over the last year about the drunk driving habits of our "guests" from the south.

nothing more, nothing less.

In context your conclusions are founded. But not with regard to this story. Overall, illegals commit no more crimes, nor commit DUI offenses in any greater numbers than Americans do.

To wide-brush all illegals as criminals, is criminal. It is Americas fault these folks are here, not there's. I blame GWB for at least 5 million of the 12 - 15 million. He failed to act when provided the opportunity after 911. That was the time to do it.

I know for a fact - if I was a Mexican National, I'd be here too.

This dude's getting on my nerves.

Bloomberg says he's not running

Make up your mind, little man, or even the lamestream media is going to toss you aside.

217 NoSubmission
re: AlanColmes
That girlie man carried water for Hamas back in April 2002 and Hezbollah last summer. He is a real appeaser in the Neville Chamberlain mode. Netanyahu gave him a great smackdown last year when Colmes mentioned (allegedly) 2,000 people at an anti war demo in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu said "really, I must have missed it, too bad, did they hold it in a phone booth"?

230 BGB uh oh. Somebody's gonna accuse you of being too much like babbazee and funky chicken and tfk.

The 12Z GFS also suggests St. Louis almost gets to 100ºF Sunday, and does get to 100ºF on Monday.

It isn't really Summer, until STL gets to 100ºF.

BGB...

Excellent article... So true... Why are we doing this to ourselves?

The New York Times used to have columns written by Youssef Ibrahim, on business matters. If The New York Times wants to pause in its promotion of the Hamas jihaditerrorists, it should provide column space to Youssef Ibrahim for his article on the Gaza situation, and why it has to be contained. The Gaza Strip under Hamas has joined Jihadistan, and is a threat to Arab regimes, including that of Egypt and that of Jordan. Read his excellent article.
[Link: jewishworldreview.com...]

Oh, Charles ? (And everybody else.) Iowahawk's at it again. Heh.

Hat tip - jpsfudimo.

#236 NoLimit

part of the problem is this, why should illegals recognize or respect our driving laws if they won't recognize or respect our immigration laws.

There actually is a disproportionate amount of drunk driving among the illegal aliens. I know you will probably want some solid evidence on that so I'll take a few minutes and get the DOJ statistics for you.

Not OT:

Ian Williams of the Grauniad does his own bit of shilling for Hamas, in Who won the election?. Subtitle: "By continuing to punish Hamas, Israel and the US are ignoring the democratic will of Palestinians".

Truth turned to grow like an onion:

As Hamas developed, a secondary point was that the last thing that hard-line Israeli factions, of the kind who seem to be running the security services, wanted was a partner who will negotiate. There is no conceivable negotiated solution that does not involve withdrawal from the occupied territories and recognition of genuinely independent Palestinian statehood that even now, few Israeli politicians have unequivocally supported.

That is why, of course, there is a suspicious, what one could call a statistically significant correlation, between Hamas's acceptance of cease-fires, and Israeli assassinations of its leadership. There are times when Israeli security forces to seem to function as as if they were the militias of right-wing Israeli factions.

Inevitable "Zionists = Nazis" canard:

The fighting in Gaza is above all the responsibility of the gun-worshippers on both sides. There is little to choose between the assorted armed militias now shooting it out. But those who crammed a million and half people into a ghetto, restricted their water supplies, bombed their power stations, cut off funding for government services and occasionally lob shells and "precision" bombs into their apartments cannot escape their responsibility for the carnage. [Emphasis mine. --ZY]

#237 JammieWearingFool
Nanny Bloomberg still has more reasons to make New Yorkers lives miserable like making sure you do not eat too much ice cream in the summer. Bloomy knows best.

re #242

Annexation of Gaza must be contained

By Youssef M. Ibrahim

[Link: www.JewishWorldReview.com...] | There are many ways to look at the Hamas victory in the Gaza Strip last week, but the most relevant is that Gaza has joined the expanding Jihadistan terrorist landscape.

Gaza is only the most recent addition to Jihadistan's several cities in Iraq, the tribal regions along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, much of Somalia, and the Hezbollah-controlled areas of southern Lebanon — yet another place for terrorist-masters to meet, organize, plan, and operate.

It will be a farce if President Bush and Prime Minister Olmert spend their meeting today discussing a two-state solution or how many millions of dollars are needed to shore up the non-existent authority of Fatah. What is needed is a plan to stop the addition of Gaza to Jihadistan, to contain it, and to bleed it.

Egypt and Jordan are just as concerned as Israel.

Read the rest of this excellent, spot-on, analysis.

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A US Soldier who loves his toys..

Linked over at GCP by Jfpsdumo (sp?)

Latest Iowahawk take on Dan Ra^ther and al-Katie Couric

#236 No limit

To wide-brush all illegals as criminals, is criminal.

I have to assume you are being sarcastic here. Isn't being an "illegal" (your word) a "crime"?

What is the definiton of the word "criminal" again?

It is Americas fault these folks are here, not there's. I blame GWB for at least 5 million of the 12 - 15 million. He failed to act when provided the opportunity after 911. That was the time to do it.

See above.
Is it George Bush's fault you made that last post?

I know for a fact - if I was a Mexican National, I'd be here too.

If you were a Mexican national you'd be sitting in your living room posting on LGF?

Seriously speaking, America attracts immigrants like honey attracts bumblebees (and flies). If you want to place fault on a gov't for illegal Mexican EMIGRATION, I think the fault lies squarely on the Mexican gov't.

#236 NoLimit
"Overall, illegals commit no more crimes, ..."

That is untrue. Illegals make of 28% of Federal Inmates giving them a crime rate 6 times that of the population at large. That figure is up an extraordinary 3% in 2 years. As for DUIs and traffic offenses, records are not generally kept by immigration status, but an illegal commits a crime in over 40 States merely by driving. A crime similar to what Ms Hilton got 40 days in jail for.

Abbas correctly identifies half the terrorists in the Muslim-occupied portions of Israel:

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas harshly criticized the Islamic Hamas on Wednesday for taking over Gaza last week, saying its members were "murderous terrorists" who tried to assassinate him recently.

From Yahoo,

Palestinian leader calls Hamas 'murderous terrorists'

I'm glad I got a screen capture of that. It now appears Yahoo's wisely removed the story from their home page, and changed its title. Somewhere, an insensitively honest headline editor is getting spanked.

236 nolimit you may have left off a sarc tag on that one. If not, I'll just give you Thomas Sowell from National Review Online:

What about illegal immigrants working outside of agriculture? They are a great bargain for their employers, because they are usually hard-working people who accept low pay and don’t cause any trouble on the job.

But they are no bargain for the taxpayers who cover their medical bills, the education of their children, and the costs of imprisoning those who commit a disproportionate share of crime.

[Link: article.nationalreview.com...]

Hamas won the elections, but that doesn't mean anyone who isn't a Palestinian has to give them money for it.

Those other countries, including Israel and the US have their own elections, and laws that are supposed to deny Hamas any funds because it is a terrorist organization dedicated to Israel's destruction.

The US and Israel have recognized Hamas's win for what it is - a reason to limit aid to the Palestinians, which is certainly within their legal right to do so.

#237 jammie:
Bloomberg has good reason not to enter the race. Once he does, he'll get picked apart by the media. It's the same reason that Fred! and Al Gore have refused to commit. It is a smart decision since it is still quite early to get into the race.

Besides, he's probably trying to figure out how to market himself to everyone.

Here is Walid Shoebat last night on Hannity & Colmes talking about the nihilism of these Hamas/Fatah murderers.

237 JWF what a shame. I think Bloomberg had a chance to siphon off somewhat rational people from Madame Hillary's campaign.

How very sad.

LOL

Photo
Members of the Hamas Executive force patrol Gaza.

Executive?

Islam: The Power of "No...Slowly, ever so slowly, it is beginning to dawn on Americans that anything we attempt to do to entice the Middle East into the 21st century is likely to meet with defeat because its Muslim population, held in the grip of brutal men and a brutal theology, remains impervious to the possibility of peace, of freedom, of individual liberty.

What they are especially good at is saying “No.” They have been saying no to anything that smacks of modern civilized behavior for a very long time and that resistance has been largely tolerated in the West because (a) their nation may sit atop a lot of oil and/or (b) they are oppressed by their fellow Arabs

A very good read... [Link: www.newmediajournal.us...]

My mistake. The video of Walid Shoebat is from an appearance on Fox & Friends not last nights Hannity & Colmes.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas harshly criticized the Islamic Hamas on Wednesday for taking over Gaza last week, saying its members were "murderous terrorists" who tried to assassinate him recently.

At the risk of sounding excessively juvenile, takes one to know one.

Okay.

What the HELL is Juneteenth?

Austin: Crowd Kills Man After Car Hits Kid...

Milwaukee: Wild teens pull man from car, beat him...

WHAT did I tell you?

Britain 'sorry for upset' over Rushdie honour

Not that it was a particularly tricky call.

258 NoSubmission
I see they took their masks off - I wish they would put them back on.

Wife of Soldier Missing in Iraq Faces Deportation, Attorney Says

BOSTON — The wife of a soldier missing in Iraq could face deportation, her lawyer told a television station.
Army Spec. Alex Jimenez , who has been missing since his unit was attacked by insurgents in Iraq on May 12, had petitioned for a green card for his wife, Yaderlin, whom he married in 2004, Boston's WBZ-TV reported Tuesday.
Their attorney, Matthew Kolken, said Yaderlin illegally entered the United States from the Dominican Republic in 2001.

Just friggin' great. Here I sit and say deport the illegals when you find them and then something like this happens, or what I classify as worst case scenario. If there are provisions in the law to allow her receiving a green card as her lawyer contends then it should be granted. If however there isn't then she must abide by the ruling of the immigration courts. It hurts me to say that but soldiers are not above the law which is pretty obvious due to the number of them now behind bars. It does break my heart to say that.

I don't know if this has been posted re the self-hating Jews who own al-NYT, and their non-response to news of the Holocaust, that might have, if not hidden in a small blurb, on a back page, have saved an untold number of lives..

Book Reveals: New York Times Buried Holocaust News

How the NYT Missed the Story of the Holocaust While It Was Happening

The Journalism of The Holocaust

And their requisite Israel bashing:

All The News That’s Fit to Print?:The New York Times and Israel.

#216 No Submission
Juneteenth is the day that the slaves were notified in TX of the Emancipation Proclamation, almost 2 years after it ws signed.

#262 not 216
PIMF

#219

Crosses were broken, a statue of Jesus was damaged, and prayer books were burnt at the Rosary Sisters School and nearby convent, said Father Manuel Musallem, head of Gaza's Latin church.

That's it! Now I'm seething. Make the signs! Round up the swarm!

/Irony meter sets new high and breaks

#255 lawhawk:

Hamas won the elections, but that doesn't mean anyone who isn't a Palestinian has to give them money for it.

Another thing they don't seem to get is the fact that being elected to the Palestinian parliament doesn't automatically grant one a "get out of jail free" card.

If the Palestinians are dumb enough to elect convicted criminals to office, that's their problem, not Israel's.

#243 song_and_dance_man

If one breaks American federal law to come to America then they have committed a crime and are criminals.

Hey, you don't enforce the laws and you left the door open - hell, I'm coming in, you dumb gringo's.

267 Just_A_Grunt
I see...

So they celebrate by dragging people from cars and beating them into a bloody pulp?

#258 NoSubmission
Something strange about that photo. I thought all HAMAS had to have beards...

What the HELL is Juneteenth?

It's a celebration for 'african americans' because they feel that we didn't have enough 'holidays for blacks'...or something.

#262 NoSubmission

It's the anniversary of the date that slaves in Texas learned that the Emancipation Proclamation was signed two years earlier.

HOWEVER, the Emancipation Proclamation did not, in fact, free any slaves at all. It was a brilliant propaganda ploy to give the North the moral authority and keep Britain and Europe from trading with the Confederacy.

The EP declared slaves in the Union free. There were no slaves in the Union; they were all in the South, which had seceded. As the North conquered the Southern states, the slaves in the newly-restored state, now a part of the Union, were in fact freed, but Texas's slaves were not free until it surrendered.

No Sub
here is a link for juneteenth.

#262 NoSubmission

Here you go!

And next? Coming to a county near you: Celebrating Egypt freeing the Jewish slaves!

/Note from the current Egyptian government to all Jews in the world: Your reparations will be in the mail, with interest accrued./

Uh, can anyone do the math? It never was my best subject.

OT