tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353662514859208402024-03-05T22:10:31.784-08:00The Wayward InfidelShariah can't stop what it doesn't expect.Tincthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07022087188427898442noreply@blogger.comBlogger108125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735366251485920840.post-66445837595410136792011-10-21T14:54:00.000-07:002011-10-21T14:54:16.746-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ding dong! The wicked witch of the West (Middle-East) is <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/20/muammar-gaddafi-dead-libya_n_1021843.html">dead</a>!<br />
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What will happen with Libya now that Qaddafi is out of everyone's hair? Let's just hope they don't go down the same road Egypt has taken.</div>Tincthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07022087188427898442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735366251485920840.post-47559997264145365832011-09-11T10:29:00.000-07:002011-09-11T10:29:52.791-07:00Remembering<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In memoriam of the 2,985+ souls that perished on September 11th, 2001.<br />
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Let us learn our lesson. Never again.</div>
Tincthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07022087188427898442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735366251485920840.post-81009315856888859342011-07-28T14:38:00.001-07:002011-07-28T14:40:31.941-07:00Not Dead YetI realize it's been a couple months since I last made a post.<div><br /></div><div>What with graduation, job searching, and personal affairs, my life is pretty hectic right now. Rest assured I'm still alive (apologies to my fans in the MSU and beyond). When I find the time and the piss and vinegar to start ranting against Shariah and Islamic terrorism again, I'll be back right here at Wayward Infidel.</div>Tincthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07022087188427898442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735366251485920840.post-5330242254832516992011-04-09T14:03:00.000-07:002011-04-09T14:20:11.243-07:00Being a Jew at UCI<div><a href="http://blogs.uci.edu/mainstreetuci/2010/12/28/being-a-jew-at-uci/">This is a little old</a>, but I wrote a piece for a UCI blog a few months ago. Just some of my thoughts on being Jewish at UCI.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Every day now, we're hearing how extreme right-wing pro-Israel organizations like the Zionist Organization of America are attacking Jewish students at UCI for being involved with the Olive Tree Initiative. They're also adamant in trying to convince us that we're victim of a Nazi-like environment. A lot of these people have experienced such aggression firsthand, so I can see where they're coming from. But these people also only bother to visit our campus when on its worst week of the year, when the Muslim Student Union is out in force. They don't pay attention to the rest of the year, when the campus is relatively quiet. Yet they have the nerve to demand people to cut funding to the UCI Hillel and Jewish Federation because UCI Jewish students are engaging in moderate organizations like OTI. I heard they actually called one of our former <i>shaliachs </i>"anti-Israel." The guy served in the IDF and was probably as Zionist as you can get without forfeiting reason and logic like these people.<br /><br />It's starting to piss me off because it's revealing more and more how, outside of Israel, it's the extremist camps fueling the controversy over Israel and the Palestinians. If we stick up for Israel at all, the MSU and liberals feels obligated to go out of its way to tell people we're racists supporting apartheid and all that happy shit. If we engage with people who are critical of Israel, not even to the point of anti-Zionism but just genuinely critical, then the more conservative people in the pro-Israel/Jewish community feel obligated to tell everyone we're anti-Israel terrorist sympathizers and all that stupendous tripe.</div><div><br /></div><div>If both camps would just hold their tongues and respect the fact that not everyone has to think the same way they do, things around here would be a helluva lot more peaceful.</div>Tincthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07022087188427898442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735366251485920840.post-85966623278618400042011-02-14T16:10:00.000-08:002011-02-26T11:46:04.095-08:00Dresden: 17,000 People Turn Out to Rebuff Neo-NazisYesterday, the anniversary of the bombing of Dresden, Germany, around <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/germans-form-human-chain-to-ward-off-neo-nazi-dresden-rally-1.343191">17,000 people</a> in Dresden joined hands to block a neo-Nazi march that has become correlated with the anniversary of the city's bombing.<div><br /></div><div>I think it's a little saddening when I talk to the uncommon Jew who still holds negative views of the Germans for the Holocaust. Like any society should, they have gone the extra several dozen miles in trying to make up for the Holocaust and World War II. The German people know they screwed up, they're not foisting the blame onto anyone else's shoulders, and they've done everything they can to apologize. In fact, they're still trying to make up for it in their embrace of multiculturalism, and they're starting to pay for it.</div><div><br /></div><div>The events in Dresden yesterday are hard proof that the Germans are humans first and nationalists second. When the people, not just the government, make an effort on the scale of seventeen THOUSAND to confront the extremist ghosts of their country's past, you know that their society has for the most part expunged the contagion.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is what should be happening in Arab and Islamic countries. Whenever Hamas or Hezbollah or any hardcore Islamic organization tries to march, the citizens of that neighborhood should be taking to the streets and emulating the Dresden protest. Root out the hatred! Purge your community of the parasite that's sickening the world's image of you.</div><div><br /></div><div>So far, the number of such Islamic protests is a smack-in-the-face zero (or very, very close it). The number of instances of foisting the responsibility/blame for Islamic extremism onto another party's shoulders? The number would shatter the charts.</div>Tincthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07022087188427898442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735366251485920840.post-65463292900302377552011-02-10T13:14:00.000-08:002011-02-10T13:19:57.014-08:00Stand With Truth! Eleven Ways to Fight for Justice<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; "><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">My friend gave me the idea for this satirical piece. If you're informed about UC Irvine, you'll know what it's poking fun at.</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> ________________________________________________</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">So you've been following the news, maybe even read the article instead of just the byline, formed a strong opinion with no intent to look into opposing narratives, and now you want to stand up to oppression and injustice. Perhaps there are people starving in Africa. Perhaps minorities are being killed and women are being raped senselessly in the Middle East. Or perhaps a diplomat from a foreign country you've never in your life been to yet just can't stand is due to give a speech on your campus. Whatever the reason, you can't stand idly by while this injustice happens right in front of you.</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">Good for you! But before you do, you're going to need a game plan. The road ahead is not an easy one. The following are tips to help you stand up for what's right and completely unresearched.</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">1. <strong><span class="Apple-style-span" >Organize </span></strong>Make sure you get in contact with other like-minded people who know only half of the necessary facts. Sometimes people need a kick in the butt to get them going, so it might help to whip up a boogeyman to get their rears in gear. For example, inform them about this or that country that's doing horrible, awful, inhumane things to these or those poor people. Really convince them that this country is pure evil, the Satan-spawn of the world. Abusing Nazi analogies over and over really helps. Before you know it, your peers will be clamoring for action. You might even start believing it yourself, too!</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">Careful, though; be sure not to present the controversial matter in its entirety; otherwise your peers may actually be forced to think for themselves, and you don't want that. And for the love of all that is unresearched and brainwashed, do NOT do any original research yourself, or you risk exposing yourself to the evils of propaganda. Always, always, ALWAYS get your information from biased news sources and organizations no rational person would trust. They know what's up. It also helps if they hate America.</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">2. <strong><span class="Apple-style-span" >Run Recon on Your Enemie</span>s</strong> Now that you and your group are ready for action, it's time to find where your ill-formed opinions are needed most. Research the student clubs on your college campus, and find the ones that don't agree with your cause. In fact, find the ones that half-agree with you but also try to play the middle ground just so you can tell them to screw off and show them what awesomely close-minded SOBs you all are. Once you've done that, find out if these student groups are holding any events. It doesn't matter what the subject of the event is; they don't share your viewpoint, so they're Hitler.</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">3. <strong><span class="Apple-style-span" >Map Out a Plan</span></strong> Now that you've tracked down the offending student clubs on your campus and researched their events, it's time to pick the one you'll be sabotaging. In the name of peace and justice, of course. Generally, the bigger the event the better. This way you stand the chance of getting more media coverage, which is half the reason you're doing this anyway, you silly egotistical sociopath you.</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">Be sure to discuss your plans online or via mail. Whatever you choose, it is<span class=" fbUnderline" style="text-decoration: underline; ">vital</span> that you leave a paper or electronic trail for the authorities to find later on. This will likely lead to greater controversy after the event, giving you another chance to publicize your cause. Never mind how impossibly stupid this may seem; it's for justice!</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">4. <strong><span class="Apple-style-span" >Get Your War Paint On</span></strong> It's a well-known fact that the more identical members of a group look, the more intimidating they are. Be sure your members are all dressed similarly at the least. When you walk into that event, you want people to know you plan on making an obnoxious amount of trouble.</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">5. <span class="Apple-style-span" ><strong>Strategic Placement</strong> </span>Spread your cohorts out through the event. This way, when you launch your plan into action, your peers can make as much noise as humanly possible to create the illusion that there are people with valid opinions who support you in standing up to tyranny. In reality, everybody in the room - political opinions notwithstanding - will think you and your friends are a group of immature foggy-headed twats. But that's alright. You're enlightened! You know better than they do, poor souls.</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">6. <strong><span class="Apple-style-span" >Be Patient</span></strong> Timing is everything. Wait until the perfect moment to unleash your attack. If the event is featuring a speaker, give him some time before you launch your plan. Remember, you are high on truth. You have a bad case of the justice munchies and this guy is the only apartheid brownie in the whole frikkin room.</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">You're going to have to put up with the speaker's lies and propaganda long enough to wait for the perfect moment. Two, maybe even three entire seconds should be enough. Then you can jump into action. Remember, genocide is not free speech! In fact, it's not any kind of speech because it's a physical action.</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">7. <strong><span class="Apple-style-span" >Strength!</span> </strong>Remember why you're here! Be solid in your conviction. Stand up and make sure the entire room is aware of your polite but unthinkably obnoxious interruption. After all, this is a free country, and you're entitled to your freedom of speech just like everyone else. Except for everybody in this room. They don't count.</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">You are a megaphone for your cause, and you must amplify its message as loudly, rude, inconsiderate, and annoying as you can. That'll make your message really stick!</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">8. <strong><span class="Apple-style-span" >Choose Your Words Wisely</span> </strong>Let the speaker know exactly what you think of him! Remember to use as many buzz words and sound bites as possible, for dramatic effect. Words like "racism," "genocide," "apartheid," and "Nazi" are all extremely effective in getting your point across. Don't be surprised if the speaker even says that he agrees with you, but only because of your eloquent and majestic diction.</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">9. <strong><span class="Apple-style-span" >Don't Give Up</span>! </strong>Very likely, the oppressive lackeys of the school's regime will escort you out in an autocratic attempt to silence your message just because you're a minority/are not white. Don't worry, though; your peers inside will continue the fight! Make sure that before the event, you've established very clearly you will not let this event finish (and remember; leave a paper trail of it). How dare these students who oppose your opinion try and host a large-scale event that is in no way controversial and in fact only discusses history! What do they think they have, freedom of speech? Homey, please.</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">After 10 or 11 polite interruptions, have your supporters leave the room in an unnecessarily noisy manner. And just when everyone in the room thinks they can finally enjoy the event without interruption... SURPRISE! There you and your partners in justice are outside the event, chanting and screaming and holding up signs that no one in the event can read or even see. Do not let them silence truth, no matter how obnoxious and contorted it is!</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">10. <strong><span class="Apple-style-span" >The Aftermath</span></strong> Undoubtedly, the club that held the event you gloriously triumphed over will exert their far-reaching power and resources to get the school administration to punish you for exercising your freedom of speech to shut someone up. On top of controlling the world media and banks, now they control your school, too?! That's ok; the first day you set foot on campus you knew the administration of this school was corrupt because they work white-collar jobs and make more than four figures a year. The bastards.</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">Deny, deny, deny! There may be an electronic trail of e-mail messages proving beyond the shadow of a doubt what you did, but these people aren't enlightened like you are, so if you keep denying they'll eventually buy it.</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">11. <strong><span class="Apple-style-span" >Milk It for All It's Worth</span> </strong>Be sure to publicize your and your peers' plight as much as possible. Make flyers, approach professors, create petitions in order to gather support for you and your fellow freedom fighters. Point out to them the sheer idiocy of the idea of punishing someone for breaking a law when all they were doing was standing up for what's right. Don't these people know that your cause makes you exempt from the law?</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">Only tell people enough to make you look pitiable and defenseless, a poor group of students whose only crime was exercising their basic American rights (even though you think America is a racist, imperialist regime, but thinking about that hypocrisy isn't really conducive to your cause, so don't worry about it). And for the love of God, whatever you do, DON'T tell people the full story! If they learn any of the crucial facts that fully explains the situation and puts it into context, they may understand what actually happened. And you can't have that! </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">But if you're the kind of person who would read this guide, then you already know the dangers of not twisting facts and giving people half-truths. You should also already be a master at playing the victim card.</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">Congratulations! You have successfully taken advantage of the school and American civil liberties to gather support for a heinous violation of the First Amendment. What a glorious display of our forefathers' values! What a fantastic exhibition of the founding principles of this beautiful, imperialist country, where a person can make a complete ass of himself in public and be praised as a patriot for it! Pat yourself on the back, my friend in freedom. You're a real American hero!</p></span>Tincthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07022087188427898442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735366251485920840.post-74955165109309466192011-01-22T10:39:00.001-08:002011-01-22T10:45:03.514-08:00POLL: Jerusalem Arabs Prefer Living Under Israeli SovereigntySo much for apartheid. A <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4013000,00.html">recent poll</a> conducted by American Pechter Middle East Polls and the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion revealed that the majority of Arabs in East Jerusalem would prefer to live in Israel if a Palestinian state were formed.<div><br /></div><div>Ynet News reports:</div><div></div><blockquote><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Arial, David, 'Courier New'; font-size: 14px; ">"The study also showed that Jerusalem's Palestinian residents were interested in keeping their Israeli Identity cards and enjoying the State's health and social benefits. Some<span class="Apple-style-span" > 35%</span> of them said that Israeli citizenship is their preferred citizenship and only <span class="Apple-style-span" >30%</span> chose to be citizens of the future Palestinian state. An additional <span class="Apple-style-span" >30%</span> said that they didn't know, or preferred not to answer the question.<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p>And what would the neighbors say? When asked "if most people in your neighborhood” would prefer to become citizens of Palestine or of Israel:<span class="Apple-style-span" > 31%</span> estimated that most people prefer Palestinian citizenship; <span class="Apple-style-span" >39%</span> estimated that most people prefer Israeli citizenship; and<span class="Apple-style-span" > 30%</span> declined to answer or said they didn’t know."</span></div><div></div></blockquote><div>The poll has shocked a lot of people, even me. Still, it's a testament to the fact that people abroad make the conflict out a lot worse than it actually is, that they respond a lot more radically than most of the people in the thick of it.</div><div><br /></div><div>I wonder what the anti-Zionists will say about this one.</div>Tincthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07022087188427898442noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735366251485920840.post-60686902679223247912010-12-02T15:59:00.000-08:002010-12-02T16:15:06.198-08:00National Emergency Declared in IsraelA forest <a href="http://blog.lurey.org/post/2074190720/national-disaster-israel-fire">fire</a> has broken out in Northern Israel, claiming over 100 lives. Many more are missing, and an entire forest has been destroyed.<div><br /></div><div>Several foreign countries have already pledged their support to the Jewish state, including Romania, Greece, Cyrpus, and even Turkey.</div><div><br /></div><div>Israelis all over the country are opening their homes to those displaced by the fire.</div>Tincthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07022087188427898442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735366251485920840.post-28226932556560425382010-11-14T17:11:00.000-08:002010-11-14T17:14:36.397-08:00Sir, Don't Define My Gender for MeA quote from the ingeniously humorous Neil Lazarus I thought deserves special mention:<div><br /></div><div>"If Israel really was an apartheid state, then the bus bombings during the intifada would never have happened because Palestinians wouldn't have been allowed on the same buses as Israelis."</div>Tincthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07022087188427898442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735366251485920840.post-10882190316587536522010-08-25T02:21:00.000-07:002010-08-25T02:37:09.496-07:00Keith Oberman: Another Educated Fool<div>This video is an excellent example of why I have very little respect for the hard Left (I have different reasons for disliking the hard Right). </div><div><br /></div><div>This guy- and all the fans cheering him on in the comments- has absolutely no idea what's going on with the Ground Zero Mosque: the shadowy financial mysteries, the influence of the investors, the past rhetoric of Rauf, and so on. His Angry Liberal Holier-Than-Thou Dance starts out amusing, but gets a little sad towards the end.</div><div><br /></div><div>I wouldn't be surprised if the Left supports the mosque purely because the Right opposes it.</div><div><br /></div><div>As I said in an earlier post, we should not target an entire religion for the actions of a few. However, people who have taken the time to actually <i>research</i> the matter instead of just watching the mainstream media will discover that the details of the Ground Zero Mosque place its planners closer to radical Islam than truly moderate Islam. For example, money coming in from Qatar is going to carry Qatari-based ideologies with it into the mosque- meaning bruisingly radical Islamic ideologies. Check out my <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/a-patriotic-muslims-warning-on-ground-zero-mosque/">interview with Dr. Zuhdi Jasser</a> for more on this.</div><div><br /></div><div>This clueless Oberman Leftist clown is right down there next to the Rightist racists who oppose not just the construction of Park 51 but all mosques in the US. Both groups are only hurting their own causes whenever they open their mouths.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QZpT2Muxoo0?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&hd=1&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QZpT2Muxoo0?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&hd=1&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object>Tincthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07022087188427898442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735366251485920840.post-88811559925205697372010-08-18T09:06:00.001-07:002010-08-18T09:08:22.087-07:00A Patriotic Muslim’s Warning on Ground Zero MosqueDr. Zuhdi Jasser is founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy. As a self-proclaimed "Jeffersonian" Muslim, he has some very unique views on the Ground Zero mosque, Muslims in America, and Islam as a whole.<div><br /></div><div>Check it out <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/a-patriotic-muslims-warning-on-ground-zero-mosque/">here</a> at Pajamas.</div>Tincthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07022087188427898442noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735366251485920840.post-30413267991152983082010-08-09T14:36:00.002-07:002010-08-09T14:38:51.764-07:00Israel's 9/11 Memorial<div>A very easy way for a country to identify who its friends truly are.</div><div><br /></div><object width="580" height="360"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CRPYTiN5Oso&hl=en_US&fs=1?color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&hd=1&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CRPYTiN5Oso&hl=en_US&fs=1?color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&hd=1&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="580" height="360"></embed></object>Tincthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07022087188427898442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735366251485920840.post-54989265873286606192010-08-08T17:30:00.000-07:002010-08-08T17:52:33.778-07:00Islam: Verbal Carpet Bombing vs. Verbal SnipingIt's always been my wish to see Islamic extremism eliminated, at the very least from US soil. But not like <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/us/08mosque.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1">this</a>.<div><br /></div><div>I wholly and completely oppose the Ground Zero Mosque. I don't believe its organizers are naive or empty-headed enough to think such a building, in such a sensitive area, could possibly foster outreach and understanding. I am certain their intentions are malicious and driven by the very kind of extremism they profess to oppose.</div><div><br /></div><div>But that's just the one mosque. These others, that are facing more and more opposition from what I'm seeing to be mostly conservatives and hardcore Christians, should not necessarily be put on trial. Until proven guilty, that is.</div><div><br /></div><div>These people have realized the blasphemous and disrespectful nature of Ground Zero Mosque for the Islamic slap in the face that it is. But they've taken it too far. Not every mosque- in the US, anyways- is a hive of terrorism.</div><div><br /></div><div>If you read my interview with OC Apostate in the post below, you'll notice she briefly discusses a mosque in Orange County. One of its former imams preached very progressive and truly (if relatively) tolerant ideals. He was later deposed, of course, but that one man is proof enough that not all practicing Muslims are evil.</div><div><br /></div><div>These mosque protesters that are popping up all over the country are responding to Islam in nothing more sophisticated than a knee-jerk reaction. There is no thought in it, no reasoning or strategy. They learn of the one Mega Mosque that threatens to overshadow Ground Zero, and decide that all mosques must bear the same intent. These people are acting without pause for thought, and it is really very embarrassing for those of us who are committed to the fight against Islamic extremism, and not Islam as a whole. They're like the KKK showing up at an anti-Black Panthers rally.</div><div><br /></div><div>Yes, there are definitely mosques and imams in the US that have been found to harbor weapons and/or terrorist ideologies. For the most part, they've been handled by the FBI.</div><div><br /></div><div>But let's not jump the gun here. I've no doubt that many of these mosques being harangued by minimally-informed if uber-patriotic Americans are in fact quite peaceful, and mean no harm. Those mosques don't deserve to be harassed. In fact, they should be empowered to help us fight the real Islamic threat.</div><div><br /></div><div>But if we blindly attack anyone with a Quran under their arm and verbally carpet bomb an entire religion, then who are we to condemn the extremist monsters that we say commit the same exact evil?</div><div><br /></div><div>You can't hope to win a war by raking your submachine gun back and forth across a field of people. That's how civilian casualties happen, and how their civilian peers grow to resent you and turn into more enemies. It's far more effective- and ethical- to target and take out the truly hostile individuals only.</div><div><br /></div><div>I mean, Christ. When did we become racists?</div>Tincthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07022087188427898442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735366251485920840.post-41565351470264744582010-08-01T10:26:00.001-07:002010-08-01T10:28:30.026-07:00**EXCLUSIVE**: Interview With Former UCI MSU Member"OC Apostate", as she has chosen to identify herself, was once an enthusiastic member of the MSU at UC Irvine. You can read about her struggle to detach herself from the community- and Islam, though she says the two choices were unrelated- <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/campus-apostate-former-uc-irvine-muslim-student-union-member-%e2%80%94-and-former-muslim-%e2%80%94-speaks-out/">here</a>.Tincthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07022087188427898442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735366251485920840.post-12165577403780728702010-07-28T15:27:00.000-07:002010-07-28T15:55:51.903-07:00Inception<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqaTEJi1xjkUefk4YqIbhhIjRs-TLf3KKX47mNoD8Q1pLdspJSUJlTp0-OeR_R4qDB9ZBfF4hhV22LJkSsGSYbDEmy2Z8qgBggTb8coRb2HPkA7kwaVLL2Z7sgTcShE4r8OK_iKPCxEtU/s1600/inception_still.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 133px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499089215968263730" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqaTEJi1xjkUefk4YqIbhhIjRs-TLf3KKX47mNoD8Q1pLdspJSUJlTp0-OeR_R4qDB9ZBfF4hhV22LJkSsGSYbDEmy2Z8qgBggTb8coRb2HPkA7kwaVLL2Z7sgTcShE4r8OK_iKPCxEtU/s320/inception_still.jpg" /></a><em><span style="font-size:78%;"> Joseph Gordon-Levitt (center) battles a baddie in a hotel hallway amid constant shifts in gravity, one of the movie's most visually- and </span><span style="font-size:78%;">psychologically- stunning scenes.</span> </em></div><div align="left"><br /><br />I've been looking forward to seeing <em>Inception</em> since the moment I saw the trailer for it months ago. Not once did I even fear it would wither in the theater where it shone in the trailers. </div><div align="left"><br />I'm going to skip all the gushing and just say that I had found 3 different things when I left the theater; wild and newfound respect for Nolan, respect for DiCaprio, and a new favorite movie of all time.<br /><br />The word everyone is using to describe it is "cerebral," and for good reason. This thing will turn your head inside out, psychologically and visually.<br /><br />Go. Watch. Enjoy. Brutal as movie ticket prices are, I plan on going back to re-watch it. </div>Tincthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07022087188427898442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735366251485920840.post-65563880615598598192010-07-22T12:01:00.001-07:002010-07-22T19:10:08.450-07:00Holding Israel to Double-Standards: Zionists Are Guilty as Well<div id="text_expose_id_4c4895083784a0ba9eb7b" class="comment_actual_text text_exposed">Lately I've noticed that whenever someone attacks Israel for something illicit- an IDF soldier using a Palestinian as a human shield, for example- Zionists instantly jump to the fore and cite the numerous atrocities the Muslim and Arab world commit, insinuating in the comparison that Israel's mistakes are not nearly as bad as her enemies'.<br /><br />This kind of response is half-right; but I can't help but feel that these pro-Israelis are beginning to get the idea that Israel is a heavenly and pure country, and its people incapable of sin.<br /><br />Remember the old phrase, 'No one is perfect.' Well, the same can definitely be said of countries and governments, don't you think?<br /><br />We are always saying that Israel deserves to be treated like every other country on Earth. Enough with the double standards! Let Israel defend her people! Stop vilifying her for acting in self-defense! But we ourselves are often guilty of reversing this double-standard policy; whenever Israel (or, to be more apt, one of her soldiers) does something overtly wrong, it's as if we try to blind ourselves to the act so that we can only see Israel's good. At the same time, we bemoan the same actions committed by other countries and militaries.<br /><br />This is a fatal, hypocritical mentality. As long as we think like this, we cannot hope to successfully defend Israel in our classrooms, newspapers, and streets. Instead of confronting these wrongful acts head-on, we will always be skirting them by directing attention to the wrongdoings of Hamas and extremist Muslim/Arab groups. Diversion is not the best method of defense because it can only last for so long. So, we must confront the fact that Israel has made mistakes, and that some Israeli soldiers have indeed committed the atrocious acts we don't like to think about.<br /><br />The fact is that Israel IS just like any country on Earth, especially in that she is governed and populated by humans. Humans who are, after all, only human.<br /><br />Let's look at an example...<br /><br />There are people in the US military who have, for whatever reason, intentionally killed Afghani or Iraqi civilians, but everyone knows it is not US military policy to do so; nor is it US government or even US social policy. There is no US document propagating the genocide of the Afghanis. Anyone who genuinely desires a genocide of the Afghani people do not reflect the sentiments of the general population but that of a small minority. So it follows that a US soldier who knowingly shoots an innocent fruit vendor in Baghdad was acting on his own behalf, not that of the US; in fact, US military policy forbade him from doing such a thing, but he did it anyway; he has "broken the rules." Such incidents reflect the <span style="font-style: italic;">individual</span>, not the greater whole. And as we always say, Israel is a lot like the US. The same logic applies to Israel.<br /><span class="text_exposed_show"><br />In the Arab and Muslim world, of course, instances of abuse and torture and the like <span style="font-style: italic;">are</span> the general norm, against foreigners and against their own people. This is the difference between the West and the Arab/Muslim world.</span><br /><br /><span class="text_exposed_show">Let's be real... people commit evil in every country on Earth, in every city on Earth, in every house, apartment, hut, cave, cardboard box on Earth. Israel is no different, but whenever an Israeli, often an IDF soldier, commits evil in the way of shooting an innocent civilian or using a human shield, anti-Zionists blow it out of proportion and make it seem like it's the policy of the entire state, as if Israeli society functioned like a hive. In reality it's the policy of that one individual. And because so many people make such a huge deal out of it, we feel the need to totally and completely defend Israel; acknowledging that she has faults is to acknowledge defeat because the other side is so focused on those faults.</span><br /><br />We must remember, though, that to admit fault is not to admit we are wrong. All of us have our own faults as people, and to admit to them is not to admit being a bad person because <span style="font-style: italic;">everyone</span> has their own faults. Having faults does not make you a lesser person; it means you are normal. And acknowledging our shortcomings serves to make us stronger individuals. So if countries and militaries are made up of people with faults, it follows that those countries and militaries will inevitably exemplify some faults as well. If we are able to admit that the IDF (made up of Israeli <span style="font-style: italic;">people</span>) has its faults and makes mistakes, we can stop being so preoccupied in pretending they don't exist. We can instead focus on exemplifying how these faults and mistakes (human shields, killing civilians, racism, etc.) do not define Israeli government and society, and are more anomalies than they are common occurrences, just as they are in every Western society. Likewise, compare this to Arab and Muslim society, where such faults have unfortunately come to define their societies and governments. Only the delusional and uninformed can believe that instances of racism and violence are isolated incidents in the Arab/Muslim world; the tower of evidence to the contrary is staggering in the behemoth shadow it casts over us.<br /><br />I realize that I'm simply describing the "double-standard problem" that Israel is always subjected to, but a lot of us (me included) can easily be sucked in to believing Israel is incapable of doing wrong. It's an easy habit to fall into without even noticing, and it can stem from having to constantly defend Israel and focus on her good features.<br /><br />So please, let's be honest with ourselves: instances of IDF soldiers using human shields, abusing Palestinians, etc. DO happen, (remember, the Israelis are only human) but what differentiate them from Hamas and the Arabs is that these instances don't reflect military, government policy, or social norms. Where they are anomalies in Israeli/Western society, they are<span class="text_exposed_show"> common practice in the Arab/Muslim world. What's more, not only are foreigners victim to these practices in the Arab and Muslim world, but so are many, way too many Arabs and Muslims as well.</span><span class="text_exposed_show"> But it's important to keep in mind that this is not a result primarily of religion or creed; first and foremost, it's because they're human.<br /><br />As Romanian punk vocalist/guitarist/moustache extraordinaire Eugene Hutz once chastised, "It is easier to see evil as entity... not as condition inside of you and me."<br /></span></div>Tincthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07022087188427898442noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735366251485920840.post-38159027890460715922010-07-21T23:10:00.000-07:002010-07-21T23:50:14.132-07:00Frank Sinatra's Love Affair With the Jews<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFdlgzKYC6eIQtCvMP70xk7aY5ZP0eJVvRMSH58CIx5FDiASx20PpQWWnRIc1ovaUKKhr4PZlMcmMFPfbwbaok6qLRijW6SMI_8kcfMT-jBJBKJdKTyH7Da6h1xu5w-j2wgNOT0p9qwDY/s1600/Frank_Sinatra.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFdlgzKYC6eIQtCvMP70xk7aY5ZP0eJVvRMSH58CIx5FDiASx20PpQWWnRIc1ovaUKKhr4PZlMcmMFPfbwbaok6qLRijW6SMI_8kcfMT-jBJBKJdKTyH7Da6h1xu5w-j2wgNOT0p9qwDY/s320/Frank_Sinatra.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496613076126045282" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 255, 255);"><br /><br />Here's something for you Sinatra fans. Very cool history... turns out Ol' Blue Eyes was a pretty great friend to the Jews.</span><br /><br />Francis Albert Sinatra (1915-1998) may have been one of America 's most famous Italian Catholics, but he kept the Jewish people and the State of Israel close to his heart, manifesting life-long commitments to fighting anti-Semitism and to activism on behalf of Israel.<br /><br />Sinatra stepped forward in the early 1940s, when big names were needed to rouse America into saving Europe's remaining Jews, and he sang at an "Action for Palestine " rally (1947). He sat on the board of trustees of the Simon Wiesenthal Center ; and he donated over $1 million to Jerusalem 's Hebrew University , which honored him by dedicating the Frank Sinatra International Student Center . (The Center made heartbreaking headlines when terrorists bombed it in 2002, killing nine people.) As the result of his support for the Jewish State, his movies and records were banned in some Arab countries. Sinatra helped Teddy Kollek, later the long-serving mayor of Jerusalem but then a member of the Haganah, by serving as a $1 million money-runner that helped Israel win the war.<br /><br />The Copacabana Club, which was very much run and controlled by the same Luciano-related New York mafia crowd with whom Sinatra had become enmeshed, happened to be next door to the hotel out of which Haganah members were operating. In his autobiography, Kollek relates how, trying in March 1948 to circumvent an arms boycott imposed by President Harry Truman on the Jewish fighters in Eretz Yisroel, he needed to smuggle about $1 million in cash to an Irish ship captain docked in the Port of New York. The young Kollek spotted Sinatra at the bar and, afraid of being intercepted by federal agents, asked for help. In the early hours of the morning, the singer went out the back door with the money in a paper bag and successfully delivered it to the pier.<br /><br />The origins of Sinatra's love affair with the Jewish people are not clear but, for years, the Hollywood icon wore a small mezuzah around his neck, a gift from Mrs. Golden, an elderly Jewish neighbor who cared for him during his boyhood in Hoboken, N.J. (years later, he honored her by purchasing a quarter million dollars' worth of Israel bonds). He protected his Jewish friends, once responding to an anti-Semitic re mark at a party by simply punching the offender. Time magazine reported that Sinatra walked out on the christening of his own son when the priest refused to allow a Jewish friend to be the godfather. As late as 1979, he raged over the fact that a Palm Springs cemetery official in California declared that he could not arrange the burial of a deceased Jewish friend over the Thanksgiving holiday; Sinatra again -- threatened to punch him in the nose.<br /><br />Sinatra famously played the role of a Jewish pilot in Cast a Giant Shadow, the 1966 film filmed in Israel and starring friend Kirk Douglas as Mickey Marcus, the Jewish-American colonel who fought and died in Israel's war for independence (Sinatra dive-bombs Egyptian tanks with seltzer bottles!) He donated his salary for the part to the Arab-Israeli Youth Center in Nazareth , and he also made a significant contribution to the making of Genocide, a film about the Holocaust, and helped raise funds for the film. Less known is Sinatra in Israel (1962), a short 45-minute featurette he made in which he sang In the Still of the Night and Without a Song. He also starred in The House I Live In (1945), a ten-minute short film made to oppose anti-Semitism at the end of World War II, which received an Honorary Academy Award and a special Golden Globe award in 1946.Tincthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07022087188427898442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735366251485920840.post-11336173812356167522010-07-15T11:21:00.000-07:002010-07-15T11:26:17.331-07:00Taliban Training Monkey Death SquadsHaven't been updating recently because I'm visiting the family. Usually don't like to deal with terrorism when I'm doing that. But I couldn't pass this up.<br /><br />Chinese rumors that the Taliban is training monkey death squads to kill US troops.<br /><br />That's right.<br /><br />Monkeys.<br /><br />Apparently they said it's because the US tried a similar program back in Vietnam, and the decision was meant to be ironic. Well, it sure will be ironic when a clueless simian squad accidentally incinerates an entire Taliban compound with the RPGs the Taliban gave them.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntn3QRn4_Iw&feature=player_embedded#at=27">Enjoy.</a>Tincthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07022087188427898442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735366251485920840.post-53423701095711177202010-06-30T13:48:00.000-07:002010-06-30T13:49:51.946-07:00Yousef Granted Asylum in USIn the past few months, Mosab Yousef - the Son of Hamas- has been facing the threat of deportation from the US on the grounds that he is a "terrorist threat."<br /><br />Thankfully, his asylum trial has taken an <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100630/ap_on_re_us/us_israel_hamas_spy#mwpphu-container">unexpected turn</a> for the better.Tincthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07022087188427898442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735366251485920840.post-53636295973505773082010-06-28T18:20:00.000-07:002010-06-28T18:22:58.521-07:00Queers Against Israeli ApartheidThis pisses me off.<br /><a href="http://queersagainstapartheid.org/"><br />Queers Against Israeli Apartheid</a>.<br /><br />If I was a lesser man, I'd let idiots like this turn me into a raging homophobe. I just hope they're in California the day Israel legalizes gay marriage, because I'll be laughing my Zionist head off.Tincthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07022087188427898442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735366251485920840.post-35257008396463479822010-06-27T14:00:00.000-07:002010-06-27T14:05:44.130-07:00Blame the Government, Not the People... Unless It's IsraelMany people oppose the Iranian regime but support its people. But a lot of those same people oppose both the Israeli government and the Israeli people.<br /><br />Where is the balance? Click <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/pc-morality-blame-the-government-not-the-people-unless-its-israel/">here </a>for some of my insights at Pajamas Media.Tincthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07022087188427898442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735366251485920840.post-20990607630893616782010-06-21T15:30:00.000-07:002010-06-21T15:52:11.456-07:00Times Square Bomber Would "Plead Guilty 100 Times and More"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ0s78FFRUH5hhOmo3JfCOmiDFSG1ZapPdTl5T2IJp3HybRVKNj75yaO8uycoVmwF5mo9W0QJSDz64kM_HVTIuLaw4ADBzGoXEKF1unRwOBvYgGZFV8iptYO5qA4NWjsqdbDuIg4wyO4I/s1600/SOS.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 242px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ0s78FFRUH5hhOmo3JfCOmiDFSG1ZapPdTl5T2IJp3HybRVKNj75yaO8uycoVmwF5mo9W0QJSDz64kM_HVTIuLaw4ADBzGoXEKF1unRwOBvYgGZFV8iptYO5qA4NWjsqdbDuIg4wyO4I/s320/SOS.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485363116663448050" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-born US Muslim suspected of orchestrating the attempted bombing of Times Square of May 1st, has told U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum that he "pleads guilty 100 times and more."<br /><br />Courtesy of <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_times_square_car_bomb">Yahoo! News</a>:<br /><p></p><blockquote><p style="font-style: italic;">"One has to understand where I'm coming from," Shahzad calmly told [the judge], who challenged him repeatedly with questions such as whether he worried about killing children in Times Square. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"I consider myself ... a Muslim soldier."</span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;">The 30-year-old described his effort to set off a bomb in an SUV he parked in Times Square on May 1, saying he chose the warm Saturday night because <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">it would be crowded with people who he could injure or kill.</span></p><p style="font-style: italic;">Shahzad <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">dismissed the judge's question about the children</span> by saying the U.S. didn't care when children were killed in Muslim countries.<br /><br /></p></blockquote><p></p>This has become a disturbing spectacle in terrorism suspect trials; the suspect shows absolutely no remorse for his intentions and happily pleads guilty to plans of mass murder.<br /><br />These people, for lack of a better word, like Shahzad consider citizens of entire countries to be soldiers in a war if that country is engaged in war. In their minds, they are not attacking innocents; they are attacking military targets. Shazad's sentiments of being a "Muslim soldier" are literal.<br /><br />Whether these vermin truly believe in such a flawed perspective or have merely fooled themselves into doing so , I can't say for sure; it may be one or the other, or it may be both.Tincthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07022087188427898442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735366251485920840.post-28719205025976891352010-06-20T11:48:00.000-07:002010-06-20T11:54:53.428-07:00Father's DayA happy Father's Day to all you dads.<br /><br /><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB127698574120408443.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsTop">Here's</a> something that, for me, describes a very important part of fatherdom. The father in question sounds a lot like my own. He's a great man. Served in the IDF and managed to raise 3 sons so they won't be eaten alive by the world.<br /><br />Toda raba, Aba. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be the man I am today.Tincthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07022087188427898442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735366251485920840.post-63754770658907980412010-06-14T16:37:00.001-07:002010-06-14T16:46:09.107-07:00UC Irvine Muslim Student Union Suspended for 2010-2011 School YearIt's finally happened.<br /><br />Read all about it <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/muslim-student-union-suspended-at-uc-irvine/">here</a>.<br /><br />The MSU released a statement over their club listserv bemoaning the decision because it would "deprive current and incoming Muslim students" of a cohesive Muslim community and all that nonsense.<br /><br />Their leadership should have taken that into consideration before they risked their entire club to shut up the Israeli ambassador. Now they're paying for it; if the Muslim community in Irvine is pissed, they should be pissed at the MSU leadership who organized this thing.Tincthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07022087188427898442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735366251485920840.post-58612485663946796002010-06-12T17:11:00.000-07:002010-06-12T17:13:48.875-07:00New FormatNo, the glue you sniffed is not tripping you out.<br /><br />WI is now using a new template, particularly because the old one was too restrictive in its width.<br /><br />All feedback is welcome; just post it in the comments box.Tincthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07022087188427898442noreply@blogger.com0