Over at Chicago Boyz, a round-robin of a Clausewitz Roundtable.
The continuation of blogging by other means
Posted by Ron Coleman on January 12, 2009
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How it’s done
Posted by Ron Coleman on January 12, 2009
This you have to like — remarks to reporters from an an Israeli battalion commander in Gaza:
“A couple of days ago, an armed squad popped up from a tunnel that was concealed by a nearby building. We took them out with tank fire and a bulldozer,” he said.
In another incident, the commander said, his men spotted a suicide bomber on a bicycle.
“He ran off to take cover in a building, presumably to draw us in,” Yehuda said. “We demolished the building on top of him with a bulldozer.”
Sounds like a plan.
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We’re from the press and we’re here to help
Posted by Ron Coleman on January 11, 2009
The International Herald Tribune promises us it’s only telling us the top-secret stuff about Israeli – U.S. exchanges about Iran’s nuclear program that it thinks it’s okay to reveal:
Several details of the covert effort have been omitted from this account, at the request of senior United States intelligence and administration officials, to avoid harming continuing operations.
Good to know.
I suppose it’s better than some possible alternatives — at least they acknowledge there could be a defensible interest in not undermining the good guys. And that there still could be such a thing as good guys.
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Out of the closet, and still invisible
Posted by Ron Coleman on January 11, 2009
Rank antisemitism, of the “back into the ovens” variety, is now officially unremarkable in the streets of liberal Western democracies.
Give Glenn Reynolds credit: Believe it or not, his running links to each publication of a column or blog item pointing out the gross Sturmer-ization of the world media about Israel — “It was the Zionists’ fault” and “The Oldest Hatred Lives” — make him almost unique among leading gentile commentators (UPDATE: aha!!!) on this ugly reality. Even then, Glenn links mainly to articles by people who either are obviously Jewish or have, well, Jewish names at least.
Well? Well?
Where on earth are all our non-Jewish friends from the Ivy League? Where are those fellows we golf with so serenely in Westchester and Orange counties? How about a word from that nice chap we have coffee with in the faculty lounge and has that gig on NPR?
I don’t mean evangelical Christians. They’re good as gold on Israel, and on anti-semitism too. Most politically conservative Christians are. Jews can count on them for support at moments such as these. Only Jews who are religiously insecure bristle at this friendship.
But right now, as thousands of anti-semites take to the streets — our streets — and so many among them express, without fear of any political or social consequence, the most virulent genocidal fantasies, where are those non-Jews who will show us why Israel is not right to curl up into a ball and say to itself and the world: It’s true, no one else does care, there is no “Never Again,” there is only moral blackness and hate regarding the Jews, and for once and for all damn world opinion and let loose the real hell we still keep at bay?
It’s not a matter of agreeing with Israel’s policy.
It’s a matter of saying some ways of expressing disagreement are not acceptable here.
And that utilizing “those ways” — by invoking genocide favorably — tells us that opposition is not a matter of disagrement but of deep, vicious hatred?
Where are the fashionable non-Jewish voices who can always be counted on to condemn injustice, racism and genocide?
Where is the cream of the Democratic Party establishment, so gorged on Jewish liberal gelt, at this moment that so demands multicultural, multiracial condemnation?
Where is Obama?
UPDATE: It’s official: We’re there. Or, rather, we’re back. (Hat tip to Craig Karpel.)
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The doctor’s daughter
Posted by Ron Coleman on January 8, 2009
Her father was not just a saint, but a doctor. Not just a doctor, but a surgeon.
A heart surgeon.
And yes, a saint. A humble heart surgeon. We talked about him here, remember?
No son in law can match that. And yet she said this, did Jane, a graduate of a better law school herself, a Jewish daughter of a Jewish heart surgeon saint, and it’s what I keep in my locket, or engraved on the inside of my pocket watch, or what have you — here’s what it was she said:
No matter what anyone says, at the end of the day you litigators are the surgeons. Whatever everyone else is doing as a lawyer, getting up there and trying a case — that’s life-and-death surgery.
It is. And I’m scrubbing.
Next week… the gas.
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Starvation for fun and profit
Posted by Ron Coleman on January 8, 2009
There’s so much so wrong here:
U.S. District Judge U.W. Clemon had court security arrest Morgan County [Alabama] Sheriff Greg Bartlett after dramatic testimony from skinny prisoners about paper-thin bologna and cold grits. The hearing offered a rare look into Alabama’s unusual practice of letting sheriffs pocket money left over from feeding inmates.
The sheriff, who showed no emotion when his arrest was ordered, had testified that he legally kept as personal income about $212,000 over three years with surplus meal money but denied that inmates were improperly fed. . . .
Clemon said the Alabama law allowing sheriffs to take home surplus meal money is “probably unconstitutional” in certain cases, but his ruling was limited to the finding that the court order was violated. It didn’t address whether the law should be overturned.
“He makes money by failing to spend the allocated funds for food for inmates,” Clemon said. . . .
Sheriffs in 55 of Alabama’s 67 counties operate under the system allowing them to make money operating their jail kitchens. The law pays sheriffs $1.75 a day for each prisoner they house and lets the elected officers pocket any profit they can generate.
Come on. What country was this really in? Hey, do they mean Soviet Alabama?
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Pwned!
Posted by Ron Coleman on January 7, 2009
“Harry Reid Gets Pwned” over at the Sundries Shack (which is flogging for well-deserved blog popularity contest votes!) As Jimmie says, “Now that I’ve used the word ‘pwned’ more than should be legal of a guy my age, on with the stories.”
Heh. Good one.
What’s “pwned”?
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Ron Paul: Every bit as bad as we thought
Posted by Ron Coleman on January 6, 2009
Ron Paul’s wickedness is not a big surprise — it was out there, as I told you, for anyone who wanted to know. But Cold Fury lays out Paul’s latest display of true, Jew-hating colors just so:
“Israel’s preemptive war.” “A few small missiles.” Palestinians “living in concentration camps.” America “rightfully to blame.” It’s all here in this rich, rich vein of vapid isolationism, utter stupidity, and contempt for the only functioning democracy in the Middle East . . . The line between Left and Right isn’t straight; it’s circular, and the ends meet right smack between this moron’s ears.
No, it’s not “merely anti-Israel” — you can’t be that morally blind about Israel’s moral position in this situation and not be an antisemite; and given the track record, this is not exactly a new insight. As blogger Rougman comments at the post, “I guess he doesn’t want to leave that Nazi vote on the table come 2012.” They never do.
So what’s scarier — that this wretched gnome is member of Congress? Or that so many people, otherwise capable of being taken seriously, were so seriously taken with Ron Paul?
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Worst of the worst, part II
Posted by Ron Coleman on January 6, 2009
Now that's how a conservative should dress!
Right Wing News blog’s John Hawkins went through a year of Huffington Post swill to distill “The 10 Worst Quotes From The Huffington Post For 2008” — so we don’t have to.
UPDATE: It gets even worser! A lot worser!!
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That unpleasant petard
Posted by Ron Coleman on January 6, 2009
It’s pathetic all ’round to see a fellow like Roland Burris, who by indications appears to be a gentleman at the very least (or perhaps at most), reduced to this:
Democrats and Obama have said that the corruption charges against Blagojevich would strip credibility from anyone he appoints to the seat. Burris and many of his supporters have suggested that the real reason for the rejection involved race.
Blagojevich denies federal accusations that he tried to sell Obama’s seat. Democrats, for their part, deny that race has anything to do with Burris’ rejection and say that it’s a reflection on Blagojevich.
Did Burris really make such a stupid — outrageous, really — “suggestion”? That characterization doesn’t seem consistent with this quote later in the article:
Burris himself downplayed the issue of race, telling reporters: “I cannot control my supporters. I have never in my life, in all my years of being elected to office, thought anything about race.”
Well, that makes one of him. His claim of color-free thinking through a long lifetime in Chicago politics is hard to credit. As I edit this I see Glenn Reynolds thnking the same thing: “He lies well enough to be a member of the Senate, anyway!” Burris is what he is.
Not having to say you're sorry
But more specifically, there’s no question that the cynical crook who appointed him (and, really, there does not seem to be any bona fide legal ground on which to challenge that appointment) thought that selecting a black politician would be the very least he could do to insulate the appointment from attack.
It didn’t work, and it’s a shame for Burris, though it seems likely that but for the scandal that he would not have been the appointee. But the multifaceted irony of the Senate’s Democratic majority being unfairly accused of racism when all it is really guilty of is crass political posturing… that may make it worth the price of admission. So to speak.
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