TOBY PETZOLD

There’s a report in the Telegraph about some recent Israeli tourists venturing into Syria:

A US official has confirmed that Israeli warplanes carried out an air strike “deep inside” Syria, escalating tensions between the two countries.

The target of the strike last Thursday remained unclear but Israeli media reported that a shipment of Iranian arms crossing Syria for use by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon was attacked.

And these Democratic assholes in the Senate are fretting about what we might do to poor old Iran? But there really isn’t any choice. The Israelis know this, but idiots like Bernie Sanders? He turns his back on necessity.

Further on in the report we read:

Another theory gaining ground yesterday was that Israel was deliberately attacking the Russian-made Pantsyr air defence system recently bought by Damascus. The sale includes provision for the Pantsyr system to be shipped on to Iran and it is possible the Israeli attack was co-ordinated with America to probe the effectiveness of the system. It is believed that Iran would use the Pantsyr system to defend its nuclear facilities.

Sounds good to me. Once again exposing the inferiority of Russian military technology in the Middle East while reminding the floor-kissers in Iran that they’ll get the same when the time is right? Rock on.

Is Hillary deliberately being dry and boring so as to guarantee the least possible media attention paid to her testimony?

What a snooze!

Watching a little bit of the Petraeus-Crocker testimony before the Congress on C-SPAN.

Why is it that New Jersey constantly sends pieces of shit to the Congress like Robert Menendez? The Democratic Party in that state is so miserably corrupt that its Representatives and Senators have no moral authority to speak to anything.

Fuck these clowns. Real Americans know that pieces of shit like Menendez are just partisan hacks in service to our country’s enemies.

One reason to reject the oppression of the monotheistic model of religious life is that people often “come to Jesus” —or to whomever— on their knees. They are desperate and anxious little animals that find God at the end of The Rope. It’s contemptible.

Whatever higher truths there may be, I shall not find them out of fear, but only love.

Therefore, I will wash only my own feet til Sophia dawns upon me. And I will wash my hands well —lest I catch Pygmalion off of doorknobs.

There are a lot of false assumptions these days in the War against Islamofascism, one of them being that our presence in Iraq is a “recruiting tool” for terrorists. If the evidence for this is the propaganda and rhetoric of the jihadists, then what can one to say to this most recent bull from Osama bin Laden? There’s only two things that one can really draw from his meandering and whiny gibberish: he sees al-Qaeda’s failure in Iraq as a threat to global jihad. And that he is well-versed in the logic and rhetoric of the Democratic Party and its Leftist propagandists.

Osama is worried about Iraq because it is a failure of his dreams. It is where jihad goes to die —not to be strengthened or emboldened.

Don’t doubt it for a moment: Iraq is a humiliation for Osama just as Osama is an embarrassment to the Democratic Party.

It’s funny how a casual comment from another that touches on a very specific dislike of your own is like a shared moment of perfect, ineffable truth. Writes Glenn Reynolds:

I’M SKEPTICAL ABOUT THE CLAIMS THAT THE fake butter flavoring in microwave popcorn causes lung disease in people who eat it, but I have to say that I’ve always found it disgusting. Maybe my sense of smell is different, but to me it’s always smelled more like rancid motor oil than butter, and I always hate it when people are microwaving popcorn at the office. So if people want to ban the stuff based on dubious science, well, I’ll be less upset than I might otherwise be . . . .

I made the mistake a long time ago at work of making too much of my utter disgust at the smell of artificial butter-flavored microwave popcorn. I think it has possibly become the tool of the passive-aggressives with whom I work. But who can stand such a stench? Popcorn in general is nasty enough, but with that godawful shit added to it? It smells like a concoction of gym sock squeezings and rancid Parmesan cheese.

Hell, I hope they find out that microwave popcorn is the most carcinogenic thing since nuclear fall-out and ban it altogether.

Welcome, Wyatt.

As much as I love watching and even sometimes following high-level championship tennis, I really dislike doubles matches. I find them tedious and slightly lame.

Singles matches, on the other hand, are all about dueling it out. Man against man. Hot Russian chick against hot Russian chick.

The President of the United States was in Iraq today —al-Anbar, to be more precise— and I didn’t learn about it from the fucking idiots on the TV, but from reading about it online.

I remember a few years ago when Bush went to Iraq for Thanksgiving. Some chick from one of the major networks actually wondered aloud at a White House press conference whether it had been the right thing to do for Air Force One to issue false flight plan information.

You know: because it deceived the reporters.  

It’s no mystery to me, but a guest poster at Andrew Sullivan’s blog observes:

Anti-totalitarianism was once an animating feature of the Democratic Party, and the American left in general. It was FDR who led the United States against Fascism, Harry Truman who aided anti-communists fighting in Turkey and Greece and John F. Kennedy who stated that the United States “would pay any price, bear any burden” to defend freedom abroad. The American labor movement played a crucial role in fighting communism (both domestically and internationally), with the AFL-CIO’s Lane Kirkland, the “Champion of American Labor,” at the helm.

What has happened to this spirit? That’s a question I ask today, in reference to Bayard Rustin, one of the most enigmatic, independent-minded, consistent–yet barely remembered–heroes of 20th century liberalism (he also happened to be openly gay, an aspect of Rustin’s life that Andrew examined here). A social democrat to the end, he joined other liberals (many of whom would eventually become neo-conservatives) in supporting Scoop Jackson for president in 1976, formed the Coalition for a Democratic Majority to fight the McGovernite wing of the party and was a founding member of the Committee on the Present Danger. He was also a strong supporter of Israel and one of the few black American leaders to warn of the dangers that a Zimbabwe led by Robert Mugabe would bring to bear.

Liberals and anti-war Leftists are not united or motivated by any belief in the power of Americanism or in the country that created it, but only by partisan hatred and their inability to deal with their recent electoral failures (and I would certainly include 2006 in that, which was heralded by the disgusting whores in Big Media as a “Democratic mandate,” but which was never going to be anything of the kind). Thus, when the only thing that matters is attacking the other party, it is no surprise that the Democrats’ rhetoric is usually indistinguishable from that of the al-Qaedists, Ahmadinejad, and his Shiite proxies. The Democrats find themselves allied with totalitarians and followers of sharia —too stupid to realize that they are supporting anti-democratic ideological zealots.

Just like when they were servicing Chairman Mao and Uncle Ho.

And Fidel and Che.

Stalin, too.