When Hezbollah guerrillas sneaked into Israel last month, killing and capturing Israeli soldiers and setting off the current crisis, their goal was to trade them for a Lebanese man held by Israel.Seems like the kind of guy who deserves to get off.
The prisoner, Samir Kuntar, was part of a cell that in 1979 raided an apartment building in the northern Israeli town of Nahariya, terrorizing the Haran family. Mr. Kuntar shot Danny Haran in the head, killing him, while his daughter, Einat, 4, watched, then smashed the girl’s head in with his rifle butt, killing her as well. Mr. Haran’s wife, Smadar, hid in the attic with their 2-year-old daughter, so afraid that the girl would cry out that she accidentally suffocated the girl to death.
Friday, August 04, 2006
Oh, My Bad
I wasn't aware that Hezbollah was actually negotiating over the release of a particular person. It's this guy!
Dear Israel
Dear Israel,
Please, please, stop killing our innocent children who are living in hospitals and nurseries. Yes, we know that the moment these children are able to walk we will strap bombs to their chests and have them kill you, but at least GIVE THEM THAT CHANCE! You're not only taking away lives, but rights as well. That's so undemocratic of you.
We think a ceasefire is necessary, and the use of disproportionate force must stop now. A ceasefire will give us time to negotiate. What do we want to negotiate? Well, nothing really. We really just want you to stop killing us. Yes, we know, we started this, and do so every time, but this time it's different. Why? Well, I don't know. It just is. Can't something just be different for the sake of it? I mean, this time we are actually getting you to kill innocent people who really don't want us here. That's different!
Back to the ceasefire which will lead to talks. Basically, we just want you to leave. Is that so wrong? Lets stop fighting until the next time we decide to launch a missile into a random neighborhood, kidnap some of your people, or have a child walk onto a bus and blow it up. Remember a while back when you agreed to leave Gaza? We don't understand why you can't just leave altogether (or die, your call).
The strange thing about this is your desire to keep killing us, and not negotiate. Everyone will realize once that happens that there's really nothing to negotiate, that we started this, AGAIN, and that we're really just a bunch of racists. Maybe you're right in not partaking, since everyone already knows this, but doesn't care. All your bombing is doing is giving us airtime on CNN, which helps humanize us. We appreciate that tremendously. More than you'll ever know!
CNN is currently running a piece about our youths, who dream of being part of Hezbollah. That's because our official governments don't give us anything to live for, so we have to fill the void (even though you have given us a chance to be educated, and have jobs). Basically, you're our golden goose.
All the Arab countries give us cash every time we attack you. We can't get this money any other way. People love us because after you blow something up we come in and fix it. Granted, if we never attacked you we'd never have to get the money to fix it, but this creates jobs! Also, if we never had a chance to fix it we'd never get to be a player in the political world. And we're just as greedy as everyone else. In fact, our greed is worse because we're willing to claim lives. The Muslim countries love it too because as long as you exist they don't have to fix any problems at home. They can just blame Israel. You guys are really the total package! Come to think of it, maybe it's better if you did stay? Who knows anymore?!?!? The whole thing is crazy and convoluted. What can i tell you?
ANYWAY, again, lets have a ceasefire so we can discuss NOTHING. And stop the disproportionate use of force. Every time one of us dies, you should kill one of your own. That would really be fair to everyone...except you, but then again, nothing is fair to you, so why stop now?
We were just reminiscing about how America never used disproportionate force, especially in World War II. And see how everything has worked out for them?
Shalom,
Hezbollah Douche Bags
Please, please, stop killing our innocent children who are living in hospitals and nurseries. Yes, we know that the moment these children are able to walk we will strap bombs to their chests and have them kill you, but at least GIVE THEM THAT CHANCE! You're not only taking away lives, but rights as well. That's so undemocratic of you.
We think a ceasefire is necessary, and the use of disproportionate force must stop now. A ceasefire will give us time to negotiate. What do we want to negotiate? Well, nothing really. We really just want you to stop killing us. Yes, we know, we started this, and do so every time, but this time it's different. Why? Well, I don't know. It just is. Can't something just be different for the sake of it? I mean, this time we are actually getting you to kill innocent people who really don't want us here. That's different!
Back to the ceasefire which will lead to talks. Basically, we just want you to leave. Is that so wrong? Lets stop fighting until the next time we decide to launch a missile into a random neighborhood, kidnap some of your people, or have a child walk onto a bus and blow it up. Remember a while back when you agreed to leave Gaza? We don't understand why you can't just leave altogether (or die, your call).
The strange thing about this is your desire to keep killing us, and not negotiate. Everyone will realize once that happens that there's really nothing to negotiate, that we started this, AGAIN, and that we're really just a bunch of racists. Maybe you're right in not partaking, since everyone already knows this, but doesn't care. All your bombing is doing is giving us airtime on CNN, which helps humanize us. We appreciate that tremendously. More than you'll ever know!
CNN is currently running a piece about our youths, who dream of being part of Hezbollah. That's because our official governments don't give us anything to live for, so we have to fill the void (even though you have given us a chance to be educated, and have jobs). Basically, you're our golden goose.
All the Arab countries give us cash every time we attack you. We can't get this money any other way. People love us because after you blow something up we come in and fix it. Granted, if we never attacked you we'd never have to get the money to fix it, but this creates jobs! Also, if we never had a chance to fix it we'd never get to be a player in the political world. And we're just as greedy as everyone else. In fact, our greed is worse because we're willing to claim lives. The Muslim countries love it too because as long as you exist they don't have to fix any problems at home. They can just blame Israel. You guys are really the total package! Come to think of it, maybe it's better if you did stay? Who knows anymore?!?!? The whole thing is crazy and convoluted. What can i tell you?
ANYWAY, again, lets have a ceasefire so we can discuss NOTHING. And stop the disproportionate use of force. Every time one of us dies, you should kill one of your own. That would really be fair to everyone...except you, but then again, nothing is fair to you, so why stop now?
We were just reminiscing about how America never used disproportionate force, especially in World War II. And see how everything has worked out for them?
Shalom,
Hezbollah Douche Bags
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Puerto Rican Power
Too good is Ween:
Puerto Rican Power!
The power of love.
I respect my mother and Jesus up above...
Puerto Rican Power the power of love!
I own a Toyota with mag wheels and gloves
And I respect Santana and...
Jesus up above...
Puerto Rican Power the power of love.
I know this Cuban he thinks he's really tough
He tried to kiss my sister and Jesus up above...
Puerto Rican Power the power of love, Love Mang.
Oh!
Puerto Rican Power, the power of love.
Puerto Rican Power, and JESUS UP ABOVE.
Puerto Riacn Power, the Power of love...mang.
Love Mang.
It's Possible
Say Abizaid:
Next week they can say "We saw this coming..."
The head of the U.S. Central Command on Thursday said sectarian violence in Baghdad was as bad as he has ever seen and could lead to a civil war.He knows it's possible based on the fact that it's already happening!
"Sectarian violence probably is as bad as I've seen it, in Baghdad in particular," Army Gen. John Abizaid told the Senate Armed Services Committee. "If not stopped, it is possible that Iraq could move toward civil war."
Next week they can say "We saw this coming..."
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
This Says it All
There's an article in the Times about overcrowding in Congressional elevators because too many non-congressfolk are inside the Capitol Building.
This once happened:
This once happened:
Members of the House have their own elevators, too, but senators are fewer in number, are more recognizable and tend toward a tall aristocratic archetype. House members blend more seamlessly with the masses and are harder to recognize, which creates its own problems. (Congressional staff members related an incident in 2001, in which they recalled the freshman Representative Melissa Hart of Pennsylvania, who is white, admonishing Representative Julia Carson, who is black, that the elevator they were riding on was members-only. Ms. Carson, of Indiana, proceeded to introduce herself to her new colleague, offense taken.):)And of course, the other racist scumbag had his moment:
(In 1994, Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina was said to have engaged in excessive touching of his then-freshman colleague Patty Murray of Washington. Ms. Murray later asked for and received an apology from Mr. Thurmond, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported at the time. Through a spokeswoman, Ms. Murray declined to comment.)
Monday, July 31, 2006
Shaken
It's seriously ridiculous that Condi Rice is the diplomat we send over to the Middle East in times of crisis. She has not a clue what to do, or an understanding of how to act.
After reading this morning in the Times that Ms. Rice was "shaken" after having learned of the bombings in Qana, Lebanon I couldn't help to think, "What the hell has left her 'shaken?'" Apparently, she was VISIBLY "shaken" since every news report has said the same exact thing. Last week she stood on the stage and gasped. She then raised her hand to her head in apparent exasperation. If it wasn't exhaustion she must have been just plain-old-disgusted. Either way, it's not the way a diplomat acts when in public.
But what really really made me wonder was how in the world news about dying people, particularly children, could possibly have left her "shaken." Maybe it wasn't the dying people; maybe it was the fact that this situation ruined her chance to succeed in the Middle East? Maybe it's because she looked bad during her big moment? I doubt it's the latter, which really leaves with the former, right? Right. She can't be so visibly upset about failure, although Republicans have been helping her succeed for years. But I really doubt it's that.
Is this woman "shaken" by the death of innocents in Lebanon that every media outlet noticed it? If so, has she not gotten used to it over the last 3 years! Has the media-ignored death toll in Iraq of innocent people not "shaken" Ms. Rice to her core? I mean, maybe she too has been in the dark like most Americans. Afterall, we don't show the carnage taking place in Iraq because we don't want to upset Americans while they eat their dinners, or prepare for bed. We don't want to seriously talk about what George W. Bush, and Ms. Rice, of course, have done in Iraq, which is connected directly to what's happening in Lebanon. We were told the democracy movement in Lebanon was a direct consequence of the democracy push in Iraq, right? Weren't the conservative pundits telling us this? Therefore, this too must be directly related. Yet, of course, they're silent.
But again, back to Ms. Rice. "Shaken." Our media ignores the casualties of "women and children" in Iraq, but it is now completely on display in Israel. It seems to me that since the iraq images are not on television, and her boss only reads the USATODAY while getting news from Ms. Rice, that they too are not seeing the carnage that does exist.
No different from the rest of America, Ms. Rice and Mr. Bush are in the dark about what they've done. They never listen to contrarians, and get their news through their own funnel. So they too don't see on a nightly basis what is really going on. This is why they can continue their policies of destruction. This is why Americans allow them to do so, since we don't see it either. We are all ignoring reality. But it's ridiculous that the leaders are too.
When women and children die in Lebanon by the gun of those whose hand has been forced, and this shakes the American diplomat, it should tell you all you need to know: She is in the fucking dark about the policies she supports worldwide.
After reading this morning in the Times that Ms. Rice was "shaken" after having learned of the bombings in Qana, Lebanon I couldn't help to think, "What the hell has left her 'shaken?'" Apparently, she was VISIBLY "shaken" since every news report has said the same exact thing. Last week she stood on the stage and gasped. She then raised her hand to her head in apparent exasperation. If it wasn't exhaustion she must have been just plain-old-disgusted. Either way, it's not the way a diplomat acts when in public.
But what really really made me wonder was how in the world news about dying people, particularly children, could possibly have left her "shaken." Maybe it wasn't the dying people; maybe it was the fact that this situation ruined her chance to succeed in the Middle East? Maybe it's because she looked bad during her big moment? I doubt it's the latter, which really leaves with the former, right? Right. She can't be so visibly upset about failure, although Republicans have been helping her succeed for years. But I really doubt it's that.
Is this woman "shaken" by the death of innocents in Lebanon that every media outlet noticed it? If so, has she not gotten used to it over the last 3 years! Has the media-ignored death toll in Iraq of innocent people not "shaken" Ms. Rice to her core? I mean, maybe she too has been in the dark like most Americans. Afterall, we don't show the carnage taking place in Iraq because we don't want to upset Americans while they eat their dinners, or prepare for bed. We don't want to seriously talk about what George W. Bush, and Ms. Rice, of course, have done in Iraq, which is connected directly to what's happening in Lebanon. We were told the democracy movement in Lebanon was a direct consequence of the democracy push in Iraq, right? Weren't the conservative pundits telling us this? Therefore, this too must be directly related. Yet, of course, they're silent.
But again, back to Ms. Rice. "Shaken." Our media ignores the casualties of "women and children" in Iraq, but it is now completely on display in Israel. It seems to me that since the iraq images are not on television, and her boss only reads the USATODAY while getting news from Ms. Rice, that they too are not seeing the carnage that does exist.
No different from the rest of America, Ms. Rice and Mr. Bush are in the dark about what they've done. They never listen to contrarians, and get their news through their own funnel. So they too don't see on a nightly basis what is really going on. This is why they can continue their policies of destruction. This is why Americans allow them to do so, since we don't see it either. We are all ignoring reality. But it's ridiculous that the leaders are too.
When women and children die in Lebanon by the gun of those whose hand has been forced, and this shakes the American diplomat, it should tell you all you need to know: She is in the fucking dark about the policies she supports worldwide.
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