David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 15, 2010, 6:19 am
In a "news analysis", A 90-Day Bet on Mideast Talks, Ethan Bronner and Mark Landler of the New York Times analyze the issues involved in the possible agreement of Prime Minister Netanyahu to extend a building freeze for another 90 days. However one line sticks out as describing the problem with thi...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 15, 2010, 6:18 am
From Larry Sabato last week: Obama may be able to count on the 200 electoral votes in the Democratic states, but if his reelection had been scheduled last week, he might well have lost every swing state--all of which he won in 2008. After all, most Republican candidates for top offices did quite we...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 15, 2010, 6:03 am
IsraMom hosted the 60th edition of the Kosher Cooking Carnival. Do the math. Divide 60 by 12 and you get 5. Batya's kept the Kosher Cooking Carnival going for 5 years. Much of blogging is transient. Keeping a project alive for 5 years is not easy feat. 5 years in blogging time is virtually an eterni...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 15, 2010, 5:46 am
In a bit of fractured history, Saeb Erakat writes in the National (h/t Martin Kramer): On November 15, 1988, the Palestine Liberation Organisation declared statehood by passing the Palestinian Declaration of Independence while exiled in Algiers. That declaration constituted the Palestinian people's...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 14, 2010, 2:39 pm
In order to hit a number of targets he doesn't much like, Thomas Friedman came up with an analogy, I believe I can fly: If you jump off the top of an 80-story building, for 79 floors you can think you're flying. It's the sudden stop at the end that tells you you're not. His first frequent non-fli...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 14, 2010, 1:32 pm
In order to hit a number of targets he doesn't much like, Thomas Friedman came up with an analogy, I believe I can fly: If you jump off the top of an 80-story building, for 79 floors you can think you're flying. It's the sudden stop at the end that tells you you're not. I hope to get to all his e...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 13, 2010, 10:47 pm
Here's a setback for San Francisco Moonbats, who have been preparing a sort of legislative Happy Meal. It includes, as you may have heard, a food item:San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has vetoed a ban on sales of McDonald's Happy Meals with children's toys as too intrusive. "Parents, not politician...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 12, 2010, 6:27 am
When I read something like this Mediterranean summit canceled again due to Arab threat to boycott over Israel (via Daily Alert Blog) An international summit of Mediterranean leaders has been canceled for the third time because Arab states threatened to boycott if Israel was invited. I wonder how ...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 11, 2010, 10:32 pm
There were two recent news stories about attempts to stop commemorations of what Ma'an News terms "the death of anniversary of the death of Yasser Arafat." Oh well, we get the idea. I can't say for sure, but I think this one, ascribing anti-Arafat motives to Zionist Entity Forces, is false:Israeli f...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 11, 2010, 2:58 am
The Watcher's Council nominations are up. Council Submissions Simply Jews - Mutual backscratching society Joshuapundit -Jews, Democrats And 'Progressives' Right Truth - Obama Forces Jihad Down India's Throat, and America's The Colossus of Rhodey - Election Post-Mortem Rhymes With Right - Keith Olber...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 11, 2010, 2:05 am
Last week, Former President Clinton wrote an op-ed making the fanciful claim that there would have been peace in the Middle East had Yitzchak Rabin not been murdered. I showed from the historical record that his claim was not accurate. But there's another assumption that's faulty here. Implicity Cl...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 11, 2010, 12:32 am
Jeffrey Goldberg liked this quote: "There's nothing in the Chumash that says I can't drive a Lamborghini." The quote is from Shyne, a former protege of Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs. Shyne, born Jamaal Barrow, was convicted of reckless endangerment in a nightclub shooting in 1999. As you can tell from ...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 10, 2010, 8:30 am
Tweeted by Martin Kramer - Ehud Ya'ari writes: For the last few months, a forty-three-page Arabic-language booklet has been emailed to Hamas activists in the Gaza Strip and to select members of the group in the West Bank and elsewhere. Titled The Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamic Revolution in Ira...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 10, 2010, 3:54 am
via Instapundit, Beer Lubricated the Rise of Civilization ... "The brewing of alcohol seems to have been a very early development linked with initial domestication, seen during Neolithic times in China, the Sudan, the first pottery in Greece and possibly with the first use of maize. Hayden said cir...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 10, 2010, 3:54 am
Reflecting MeropeIn the well known Pleiades star cluster, starlight is slowly destroying this wandering cloud of gas and dust. The star Merope lies just off the upper left edge of this picture from the Hubble Space Telescope. In the past 100,000 years, part of the cloud has by chance moved so close ...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 10, 2010, 3:12 am
What is a Paraprosdokian? According to the Wikipedia entry, it is: ... a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 9, 2010, 8:43 am
Here is the trailer, with English subtitles, for a Turkish movie following Polat Alemdar and his team as they go to Israel to track down the Israeli military commander who planned and and carried out the May 31, 2010 Israeli boarding of the Gaza Flotilla ship, the Mavi Marmara.  About what you mig...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 9, 2010, 5:17 am
Bradley Burston, a reporter for Ha'aretz who recently went on a speaking *tour* in the United States for the anti-Israel group, J-Street recently wrote: This time the guest was The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. And not the coolly analytical pundit you're used to. This time he was talkin...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 9, 2010, 4:57 am
Thomas Friedman who is an expert - "expert" in this case means being able to say things with no factual support and have no one question you - wrote The Reality Principle in 2003. Have you noticed how often Israel kills a Hamas activist and the victim is described by Israelis as ''a senior Hamas of...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 8, 2010, 7:58 am
In a recent essay describing her alienation from NPR, Bookworm identified the first point of departure: There was only one problem with this neatly enclosed little universe: Israel. You see, unlike stories about domestic politics, where my only understanding of the facts came from NPR itself, whe...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 8, 2010, 6:56 am
Elie and I alternate hosting Musical Monday. We give you the lyrics and you guess the theme tying the lyrics together. There are still unidentified lyrics at last week's Musical Monday #163. What ties the groups of songs - mostly pairs - together? 29 and 30 don't 100% fit the theme, but if you know ...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 7, 2010, 1:58 pm
John Ging: Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Based on Ha'aretz Ging not only asks the question but answers it too: The defense establishment has taken the unusual step of granting the United Nations Relief and Works Agency approval to take four weapons into Gaza. The weapons, submachine...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 7, 2010, 1:18 am
This Week's Watcher's council winners are UP! Here are the top vote getters. Council Winners First place with 2 2/3 votes! - Bookworm Room - NPR's carefully crafted tales -- and why I don't listen anymore Second place with 2 votes - The Glittering Eye - Tyrant For a Day Non Council Winners * First...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 5, 2010, 7:15 am
In January 1998 when Binyamin Netanyahu was serving his first term as President and Bill Clinton was President of the United States, Clinton was pressuring Netanyahu to cede territory to the Palestinian Authority. Netanyahu refused until the Arafat and the Palestinian Authority started observing the...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 5, 2010, 2:58 am
In Return to the norm: Similarly, the massive Republican swing of 2010 was a reaction to another rather unprecedented development - a ruling party spectacularly misjudging its mandate and taking an unwilling country through a two-year experiment in hyper-liberalism. A massive government restructu...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 5, 2010, 12:11 am
It's conspiracy time. As Dr. Seuss observes in the special Zionist edition of One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish: "From there to here, from here to there, conspiracies are everywhere!" It has always been our ongoing mission to enlighten our readers about the truly hidden stories at the bottom o...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 2, 2010, 4:42 am
UNESCO has declared that Ma'arat Hamachpelah and Kever Rachel (the cave of the Patriarchs and the tomb of Rachel) are Palestinian mosques. The UNESCO board voted 44 to 1, with 12 abstentions, to declare Rachel's Tomb, which it referred to as the "Bilal bin Rabah Mosque," as "an integral part of the...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 2, 2010, 4:42 am
Today's Washington Post quotes Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman about American concerns regarding Syria. Syria needs to pressure Iran and Hezbollah to rein in their activities in Lebanon if it wants to rebuild relations with the United States, the top U.S. diplomat for the Middle East s...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 1, 2010, 6:26 am
Recently, reports appearing the media contradicted assertions made by the Goldstone report. These go to the beliefs promoted by Judge Goldstone and his confederates that Israel's restrictions imposed on Gaza constitute collective punishment, that Israel did not take adequate care to avoid civilians ...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 1, 2010, 6:22 am
As Instapundit warns, "don't get cocky." I don't know what to make of this story, Next for GOP leaders: Stopping Sarah Palin (via memeorandum) Top Republicans in Washington and in the national GOP establishment say the 2010 campaign highlighted an urgent task that they will begin in earnest as soo...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Oct 31, 2010, 5:06 pm
Whoops. for those of you keeping score at home, this is Haveil Havalim #289. I am very sorry. Isramom hosted edition #288. A few years ago at a Jewish blogging conference there was a discussion whether J-bloggers constituted a community. Events of the past few days I think have answered that quest...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Oct 31, 2010, 7:24 am
Council Winners First place with 2 1/3 votes! - Bookworm Room - Why Tom Friedman is an idiot Second place with 2 votes - Mere Rhetoric - Turkey Leveraging Obama's Failed Russia "Reset" To Isolate Israel, Boost Iran Non-Council Winners First place with 2 votes! - Simply Jews - Angela Merkel, multik...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Oct 31, 2010, 6:56 am
My daughter just received the latest Kosher by Design cookbook (for teens and 20 somehings). She made the snowball cookies and the chocolate chocolate chip sticks for Shabbos. I wish I could say I helped but all I did was buy the white chocolate chips for the latter recipe.
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Oct 31, 2010, 6:56 am
My daughter just received the latest Kosher by Design cookbook (for teens and 20 somehings). She made the snowball cookies and the chocolate chocolate chip sticks for Shabbos. I wish I could say I helped but all I did was buy the white chocolate chips for the latter recipe.
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Oct 29, 2010, 12:19 pm
There were indications that the US was thinking of getting more involved in the talks--apparently that is true: the US wants Israel to lease land from Abbas: Palestinian sources confirmed that both sides were discussing the option that Israel would lease land in east Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Oct 29, 2010, 4:52 am
Ethan Bronner reports in a letter from Tel Aviv on Remembering Rabin, Some See His Legacy Fading Bronner quotes Ben Dror Yemini: "The truth is the opposite," he wrote. "Rabin's assassination saved the Israeli left wing." He added that before the killing, "There were terror attacks that gave ris...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Oct 28, 2010, 7:29 am
The New York Times covers a book that claims In Writings of Obama, a Philosophy Is Unearthed (via memeorandum). The philosophy of the President as claimed by the book's author is one of "pragmatism." But more than that: "He would have had to deny every word," Mr. Kloppenberg said with a smile....
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Oct 28, 2010, 7:26 am
Watcher's Council submissions are posted. Council Submissions The Colossus of Rhodey - What happens when you blindly follow "the narrative" GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD - Iraq Casualty Myth Bookworm Room - Why Tom Friedman is an idiot The Razor - Peering Into The American Political Landscap...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Oct 28, 2010, 7:02 am
The other day Elder of Ziyon blogged about The Palestinian Arab plan for de-legitimizing Israel, 1968 and observed: While the PLO has not been as successful in rallying the Arab nations behind it in recent years, its propaganda plan has been executed flawlessly. Even though their plan describes how...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Oct 28, 2010, 6:40 am
Blair Lee on the difference between the two candidates for Governor (h/t MD Policy on Twitter): Ehrlich said that a $127 million state education aid program, funded with federal stimulus money, is unaffordable next year once the stimulus disappears. O'Malley responded by calling Ehrlich anti-ed...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Oct 28, 2010, 12:11 am
How often do news headlines in Iran feature the word "annihilate"? Once a day?Bolivian President Evo Morales said on Wednesday that his country would annihilate Imperialism soon with the support of anti-Imperialist states. Speaking at Iran's Parliament, Morales endorsed anti-Imperialist states ...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Oct 27, 2010, 10:31 pm
In concluding its endorsement of Barack Obama two years ago, the editors of the Washington Post wrote in their conclusion: But Mr. Obama's temperament is unlike anything we've seen on the national stage in many years. He is deliberate but not indecisive; eloquent but a master of substance a...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Oct 27, 2010, 7:10 am
A few days ago the Washington Post reported Halt to Palestinian peace talks could become permanent: In perhaps the shortest round of peace negotiations in the history of their conflict, talks between the Israelis and Palestinians have ground to a halt and show little sign of resuming. And of cour...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Oct 27, 2010, 7:06 am
Yesterday Elder of Ziyon blogged about the failure of Qatar to meet its pledges to the Palestinians and concluded. We once again see how deep Arab commitment is to helping out Palestinian Arabs in their everyday lives. It is paper-thin. In related news, Lebanon, which long had had the most restr...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Oct 26, 2010, 1:00 pm
"Pro-Zionist sites are up in arms" they declare, with a link to this. They continue:The level of hostility and the personal attacks on Lauren are quite disgusting. Don't be surprised though. Zionism teaches supremacy over others who do not subscribe to its corrupted way of thinking.A number of ...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Oct 26, 2010, 2:33 am
The Wikileaks story about the Iraq war has been getting press lately. Today the Washington Post published an odd editorial, Wikileaks's leaks mostly confirm earlier Iraq reporting. Unsurprisingly, Instapundit emphasizes different aspects of the Wikileaks revelations. (One odd thing about the ed...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Oct 25, 2010, 9:06 pm
Abdul Alim Musa is a name worth knowing. According to Wikipedia:In a video aired by Fox News, Musa stated, from behind a podium at the University of California at Irvine on Sept. 9, 2001, that "If you don't stay out of our way and leave us alone, we're going to burn America down."We also lea...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Oct 25, 2010, 7:26 am
Future of Capitalsim criticizes Thomas Friedman's column, The election that wasn't on ecomomic grounds. What's astonishing to me is that this year's midterms elections are one of the most defining elections of recent times. Yet Friedman dismisses it because the results appear not be...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Oct 25, 2010, 7:26 am
I'll use this as a place holder. Musical Monday #162 is not yet complete, I hope to finish it tonight. Now I'm done. The theme this week is more of a progression. Elie would probably break it up into subgroups. Good luck and enjoy! 1) It's a thousand pages, give or take a few, 2) She...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Oct 25, 2010, 7:02 am
With an article titled Some question insistence on Israel as Jewish State, the New York Times officially joins the anti-Israel crowd. No doubt there are those who disagree with Netanyahu as to whether Israel should be called a Jewish state. However, since one of the premises of Palestinian national...
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