Nothing Rhymes With Fire Orange...

Emergency preparedness is always important to be working on. You never know when something awful could happen which could render you helples...

Beautiful Women of the Silver Screen: Julie Christie

The Summing Up, Friday, November 30, 2012

 Check out my review of THE SESSIONS on Crimespree Cinema. The Summing Up, Friday, November 30, 2012 Patti Abbott, The Elizabeth Stories, Is...

Tunisia leader says Arab world inevitably going Islamist

From Reuters: The leader of the Tunisian Islamist party that rose to power after the first Arab Spring uprising last year said this week th...

Friday linkdump

From Ian: LATMA: Morsi's letter from Obama and the man who fled too much Michael Oren: Falling for Hamas’s media manipulation "Med...

Abbas' speech at the UN, condensed version (ElderToon)

If you want to read the long version, it's here . But this is not much of an exaggeration.

Internal Iranian report says country is in bad shape

Al Arabiya reports on an Arab network that obtained a copy of an internal Iranian report that is very pessimistic about the situation there...

Egyptian official calls for jihad to "liberate Jerusalem"

Al Mesryoon reports that The Grand Sheikh Mustafa Atfy an undersecretary of the Ministry of [Islamic] Endowments in Egypt, has called for a...

Christian hackers hit Palestine Broadcast Corp webpage

At the time of this writing, this is what the English and Arabic homepages of the Palestine Broadcast Corporation looks like: Radical evang...

Friday's Forgotten Books, November 30, 2012

Six today and his world is all about Teenage Mutant N inja Tur tles, A ngry Birds, Superheroes. Where did his love of animals go? I am sure ...

Ron Prosor's speech at the UN, plus Canada

Palestinian Arab TV refused to show Israel's UN ambassador Ron Prosor's excellent response to Mahmoud Abbas' hate-filled speech ...

Work accident! (Blamed, of course, on Israel)

From Ma'an: Hamas' military wing said one of its fighters was killed early Friday when remnants of Israeli weaponry from the latest...

#Nov30 in Tahrir square

And Egyptians are back again to protest in Tahrir square in another day of protest against not only the constitutional declaration but also ...

My Life in the Theater: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF

We have probably all seen the movie version of this with Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor where the book's subtext of Brick's homose...

A reminder that Robert Serry and Richard Falk are idiots

During the past week I noted that both Robert Serry , the UN's envoy to the Middle East, and Richard Falk , United Nations Special Rapp...

Crazy/Not Crazy

As my father aged, he began to give donations to anyone who asked. Not big amounts, mostly five dollars. Today I made a donation to Wikipedi...

An Unconventional Christmas Tree

I know, I already posted today...but there's just so many great Christmas submissions and Christmas is coming up fast, so I'll be sq...

Thursday links

From Ian: The EU should not be complicit in Abbas's mistake The Palestinians are about to compound their 1947 UN blunder with yet anothe...