Every additional day that Jonathan Pollard continues to be in prison is proof of the double standard that is used against him. Every additional day that the Israel- Hamas War continues will bring increasing proof of the double standard that is used against us. I use “Mr. History” to guess at how the future will… [Read more…]
OAHU, HAWAII (SR) – The entire world is fixated on President-elect Obama, waiting for his inspired insight that will no doubt bring Israeli hostilities to an end and usher in an era of Middle East peace and cooperation. Armies of reporters followed the strapping President-to-be around an exclusive Hawaiian golf course as he played a round, hoping… [Read more…]
Today’s Golden Oldie is from 1975. I pulled it out of the Dry Bones Archives because a reader left a comment on the blog yesterday to suggest it as pertinent. He did so because he remembered the “Could we be sane and the rest of the world be crazy?” line. The 1975 cartoon was a… [Read more…]
December 31, 2008 by TonyfromOz
One thing we have always done well here in Australia is New Year Fireworks displays. Where we live they had an excellent display lasting for 5 minutes in a park only half a mile away, and we watched it from our front driveway. In Sydney they always put on a huge display, the focus being… [Read more…]
December 31, 2008 by TonyfromOz
This is just one of the stories current at the moment, that of the Israeli response to the situation in Gaza. What I just cannot understand is this. Israel unilaterally pulled out of the Gaza Strip, and a tenuous peace plan was put in place. Any break in that peace plan came only from the… [Read more…]
December 31, 2008 by TonyfromOz
My good lady wife and I have been away visiting with our daughter and her family. They live in Rockhampton, 500 miles to the North of here. A little like here, except a lot warmer and the humidity made it stickier even on top of that. We only had one day under 90 and that… [Read more…]
Israel has finally hit back at Gaza. The anti-Israel choir will soon be in full song. For the Main Stream Media the genocidal war against the Jewish State is just not newsworthy …but the rage of those who would deny us the right to defend ourselves will find their way into newspaper editorials, be featured… [Read more…]
Shalom from the war zone! Our friend, Avner Boskey, an Israeli Messianic Jew here in Israel has written an accurate account of what is going on in Israel in the Gaza Strip and what led up to the attack. He has given us permission to forward his letter. Lura & Eddie Beckford, Arad, Israel –… [Read more…]
TEHRAN (SR) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a religious decree ordering Muslims around the world to defend Palestinians in Gaza against Israeli attacks “in any way possible.” Answering the call, thousands of protesters in Damascus, Syria ran amok for hours like so many over-caffeinated chickens, burning Israel and U.S. flags, yelling anti-Semitic phrases, and cutting themselves with swords… [Read more…]
December 30, 2008 by Sniper One
Common sense… at work… (GoUpState) The attorney general is proposing to do away with parole so that violent offenders spend more time behind bars and victims of violent crimes will know how long their attackers will be behind bars when they are sentenced. It is unreasonable for victims to have to relive their ordeals each… [Read more…]
Santa and his helpers stand under palm trees at Baghdad’s first public Christmas festiv By Nancy Morgan As we come to the end of a turbulent year, a new poll pretty much sums up the state of our country: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are now the most admired man and woman in America, according… [Read more…]
“Even the Rabbi and his wife at Nariman House were sexually assaulted and their genitalia mutilated” Remember, the Rabbi’s wife was pregnant. WHY this was kept from the public? Who are they protecting and why? Hiding it, pretending it didn’t happen? Why? Who would shield us from the truth and cover up the heinous barbarity… [Read more…]
by Tim Potts A Closer Look at the PA Legislative Surplus One of our faithful correspondents concludes his emails with a quote attributed to Thomas Pynchon: “If they can keep you asking the wrong questions, they never have to worry about the right answers.” This insight is bound to arise when talking about the recently… [Read more…]
A Classic Marx Brothers Film from 1930. Here are many of the classic jokes from Groucho Marx you may have heard over the years. more about “Animal Crackers“
by: Bill Dupray One of the greatest privileges of living in Virginia, especially for history buffs, is that we are neck-deep in Civil War country. I live within 50 miles of some of the most significant battles, and have walked the battlefields of Bull Run (I and II), Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Chancellorsville, The Wilderness, and many… [Read more…]
For years we have been hearing the same story from the Three Stooges running Israel’s foreign policy (Livni, Barak and Mr. Comb-over himself, Prime Minister Olmert). “This time we really truly mean it, we are not going to take it any more! WE are definitely going to stop Hamas from sending rockets and mortars into… [Read more…]
BREAKING NEWS Israeli warplanes retaliating for rocket fire from the Gaza Strip pounded dozens of security compounds across the Hamas-ruled territory in unprecedented waves of airstrikes Saturday, killing nearly 200 people and wounding 270 others in the single bloodiest day of fighting in years. Most of those killed were security men, but civilians were also… [Read more…]
Oval Office Watch Grim proving ground for Obama’s housing policy - See Chicago slum residents protesting Barack Obama HERE. Who We (Still) Are Peggy Noonan, Online WSJ.com We should experience “the current crisis” as “a gigantic wake-up call.” We’ve been living beyond our means, both governmentally and personally. “We have to be willing to face… [Read more…]
Mark Silverberg I was asked recently to explain why Israel was “ghettoizing” the Palestinians by constructing a security barrier in areas that have served as transit points for terrorists entering the country. The questioner noted that, as a Jew, I should be more sensitive to the concept of a ghetto, and its dehumanizing effects on… [Read more…]
By Dr. Robin McFee As we celebrate Christmas, the message of Peace, and the hope for a better world with a yearning that this indeed is the year when Christ’s message will be the heralding of at least momentary acts of kindness, cessation of violence and a coming together of all peoples, we are met… [Read more…]
Oval Office Watch Obama’s Hawaiian Vacation: Bodysurfing, Boogie-boarding, and Birth Certificate? Rick Saunders, America’s Right.com Berg v. Obama, perhaps the last case still standing–no pun intended … okay, maybe a little–before the U.S. Supreme Court and drawing into question whether Barack Obama is eligible to serve as president goes before the Justices in conference on… [Read more…]
As reported in the Jerusalem Post: Choosing your own Christmas trees from KKL-JNF forests “I can’t believe that Israelis ensure that Christians in Israel have Christmas trees! This is really cool!” We were speaking to Nathan, a student at the Jerusalem University College on Mt. Zion, whom we met at KKL-JNF’s traditional Christmas tree distribution… [Read more…]
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