As most of you know by now, I don't actively do politics here any longer, except every now and then to bring your attention to something particularly juicy posted on Pourquoi Pas?, in which case I usually post here just a sample of the article.
This one being short and since I have the author's explicit permission, I'll post it in its entirety. Still, as mentioned before, I don't intend to get into any political discussion here. If you want to argue, go do it where the original article is posted. Rabbi Arik Ascherman has spent years planting himself atop doomed Palestinian homes, reading extracts of international law to Israeli forces as they demolish the buildings beneath his feet.
Along the way he has been a persistent embarrassment to the Israeli government as a fervent Zionist who claims to reflect the true soul of the Jewish state by resisting its oppression of Palestinians. He has been arrested many times but this week, for the first time, the 45-year-old director of Rabbis for Human Rights was convicted for his form of resistance.
The rabbi was arrested when he objected to the Israeli security forces tying a Palestinian to the front of a jeep as a human shield against stone throwers. On other occasions he has been attacked by club-wielding Jewish settlers.
The prosecution has asked the court to sentence Rabbi Ascherman to do community service after he was convicted of obstructing the demolition of illegally built Arab homes in East Jerusalem by standing in front of the bulldozers. It is a dangerous business; an American peace activist, Rachel Corrie, was killed doing the same in the Gaza Strip.
There are people in the world that bring hope. I am thankful for the hearts of those like Rabbi Ascherman.
If your experience of blogging is limited to tBlog, go check Surrogate's post (titled "Mr. S.") here.
Alternatively, if you're aware there IS life outside the tBlog community (like a million to one more bloggers out there), you can also find Surrogate's same post here.
Here is T-Rex in full siesta mode in Dianne's arms. It's a daily ritual: Dianne stretches on the bed to watch some TV, and T-Rex snuggles on her chest. I wish I could do that!
Yesterday we went to take our old bomb to the local garage for a service. While waiting around we spotted this little cutie below. The engine is only a few CCs and the little monster can do several hundred kilometers per liter of gasoline. Its top speed is 120km/h.
We want one!
(Photo taken with a Canon EOS 300D and reduced 100 to 1 for web publishing)
I wondered once or twice in the past years why confirmed fascist/racist Noguru had Sisters Talk in his links. I didn't think much of it, only that, as the most of the tBlog community commented, maybe Noguru fancied the idea of lesbians maids playing with each others while he jerked off.
But now I know. Get a load of this:
Sisters Talk posts something about the issue of "gender sensitive" toilets.
Wow, how exciting a topic for tBlog politics section! Toilets!
Anyhow, I dumbly comment that (slightly condensed):
“I think it's really a pathetic issue and that common gender toilets are the norm in France and nobody complains about unisex toilets here, and that really, we are all just human beings with our sexual preferences, but there are more important issues in the world than "gender toilets", such as millions of ppl dying of hunger every year, so don't you ppl have anything more important to worry about than fucking toilets?”
Reply from Sisters Talk is:
"And do we have anything else to worry about? Mmm... nope!"
Hey, fair enough, right?
Genia/Sisters Talk has nothing to worry about anything else than gender sensitive fuckin' toilets. Wow! ----
Still, I was taken aback some with such bluntness, so I dared replying:
"Well, lucky you. Thanks for confirming the issue of millions starving isn't a concern to you". ------
Well.... that, apparently, is such an outrageous statement that Sisters Talk replied:
"WhyNot: I've had enough of your antics. Unlike Noguru, I won't be shutting down my comments to deal with you. I'll simply shut you down. See ya!".
Which she did - meaning, I've been honored being blocked off from further commenting, LOL.
Wow, fancy that: getting a statement by someone she couldn't care less about ppl dying like flies in the world, daring obtaining the confirmation, and poof! you're banned from further commenting!
Yep, I now understand why Sisters Talk is in Noguru's favorites, LOL. Ah, how I love fascism at its best!
This is wonderfuly juicy stuff, and will make for great material on PP and other Blogger sites I'm a member of. I can't wait to post a rendition of this on the Progressive Blog Alliance.
Thanks Sisters Talk for showing your true fascist colors :-)
This was 2 years ago when we were living in the Var. Huge forest fires destroyed entire mountains.
The pics here are from the village we lived in. They may not be as impressive as the stuff you see on TV, but I can tell you it was scary enough. At some stage the wind was pushing the smoke our way and we had to stay inside and close all the windows to be able to breathe.
Italian journalist injured by U.S. fire after release from Iraq captors
Italian daily Il Manifesto's journalists celebrate in the Manifesto's headquarters inRome, Friday, after learning of the liberation of their colleague Giuliana Sgrena, who was kidnapped in Iraq a month ago. (AP/Domenico Stinellis)
ROME (AP) - A freed Italian hostage was injured and an Italian intelligence officer killed Friday in Iraq after a U.S. armoured vehicle fired on a car in which they were riding, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said.
Berlusconi, an ally of the United States who has kept troops in Iraq despite public opposition at home, said he has asked the U.S. ambassador for an explanation. "Given that the fire came from an American source I called in the American ambassador," Berlusconi told reporters. "I believe we must have an explanation for such a serious incident, for which someone must take the responsibility."
In Baghdad, the U.S. military said coalition forces at a checkpoint have fired on a car carrying a freed Italian hostage.
The shooting occurred at a roadblock near the airport.
Berlusconi confirmed that the former Italian hostage, journalist Giuliana Sgrena, was injured by shrapnel. She was taken to a U.S. military hospital by U.S. troops, where she had a minor operation on her left shoulder to remove a piece of shrapnel, he said.
Nicola Calibari, the head of Italian Secret Services in Iraq, was shot dead.
Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, said a shooting incident occurred as the Italian woman was being brought into U.S. military control at Camp Victory, the U.S. military base near Baghdad International Airport.
He offered no other details, including whether anyone was killed or who did the shooting.
Sgrena, who was abducted in Baghdad on Feb. 4, was shown in a video pleading for her life and demanding that all foreign troops - including Italian forces - leave Iraq. So there. No need for terrorists to shoot hostages any longer, just ask the local US troops.
Ok girls, no more sex for you. It's bad, it's dirty, and it puts America in great danger of evil things like EU, socialism, not going to church, or worse. In fact, its tantamount to sedition and terrorism.
But thanks to God who blesses Texas all day long (and America), there is an answer. Here at the The IRON HYMEN Youth Purity Center, you can find out all about it and how to protect your hoo-hoo from filfthy commie hungry peckers.
Here is a preview:
The IRON HYMEN Abstinence-Only Education Program is produced by the US Dept. of Health & Human Services and the White House Office of Youth Purity.
A Very Special Iron Hymen Dispatch from First Lady Mrs. George W. Bush:
TEN THINGS EVERY GIRL SHOULD KNOW ABOUT BOYS AND THEIR VILE PRIVATE PARTS:
A few samples:
Boy privates are often said to resemble hot dogs, although if you ask me, the ones I've seen always called to mind something like those cute little Austrian cocktail weenies they sell 8 to a can. But I think famed author Lynne Cheney described the male unmentionable best when she recalled recoiling at "an old Frankenstein's monster bratwurst that looked like it had rolled under the couch for a month and got covered in dust bunnies and would make you spit up if you even so much as halfheartedly nibbled the tip of it."
The stuff that comes out of boys every time they use you has as many calories as seven whole pints of Häagen-Dazs. That's why all the girls who do "it" always get so fat and ugly and have that ulcerated skin that screams to everyone in church, "I am an insatiable slut!"
While almost all American boys have human-looking privates, most foreign boys have privates like German Shepherds or half-open tubes of Max Factor lipstick.
Up until the moment in your wedding when he says "I do," a boy's privates sport a treacherous spine of jagged scales, which may or may not secrete acid and weapons-grade anthrax – for which, apparently, only Ann Coulter has developed the antibodies.
Here are some samples of the Take the "IRON HYMEN" Abstinence-Only Pledge
I, [My Name], hereby pledge:
To never do rough stuff like ride horsies or bikes with hard seats, which could break my vagina's freshness seal and make me totally unlovable.
To never let tampons violate the sanctity of my hoo-hoo, because tampons are really nothing more than thirsty little albino penises.
Finally, a couple of testimonial samples:
Crystal F.: "I used to suffer terribly from dirty dreams about boys. Thankfully, now my Iron Hymen Libido-Be-Gone™ thong panties keep my dreams clean – and my yucky cooter bone-dry!"
Muffy P.: "OHMIGOD, like, Iron Hymen taught me to respect myself way too much to ever let some hairy creep hock man-lugies on my Godly cervix like it's some gross subway platform!"
Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar is a 60 year-old engineer, a 1967 graduate of Marquette University, living in Baghdad, who had criticized Saddam Hussein in his time as a "ruthless dictator" and has no intention of holding his tongue now.
Here is his letter addressed to Mr Bush for those who actually care what's going on there...
Blogs that suck:NoGuru's blog
(fascist, racist and proud of it. Hatred and dumb rhetoric are his fav. pastimes). "Just my opinion, but I'll stick to it, just like a fly to shit" Reducto's blog
(written with the vision and logic of a deep-fried zucchini. Highly recommended for a good laugh)
BushLover's blog
(take a Noguru fruitcake, add more fascist sauce, sprinkle with threatening & bullying spices, and you've got a perfect BushLover dessert). Rsheinfield's blog
(pro-israel fanatic - anything the Israel gov says or does is gospel, including mass murder)
RedTigress's blog
(same as above + delightfully racist and fascist. An embarrassment to the Tiger species)
SithSense's blog
(same as above, + he just LOVES dead bodies and massacres)
Jim Doney's blog
(kinda like Reducto's blog. Just change "zucchini" to "potato")
ajhankin's blog
(same as above)
Defensor's blog
(another fascist bore)
LynnKramer's blog
(curious case of religious zealotry having reached advanced paranoiac delusional condition. Also a delightful source of racist blogs (her fav targets are the French, closely followed by Germans - but any European target will do just fine)
jrogg's blog
(not quite as dumb as Reducto, but ok for a bit of fun every now & then. There's hope for him)
Stepdad's blog
(yet another [sigh!] fascist nutcase)
Deshanews's blog
(same as above)
Camel dropping's blog
(A shameful insult to the otherwise very cute and cudly species of camels and dromedaries.
But, as CamelFace himself proudly announces, his thinking mode is achieved by farting through his own brain)
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