Author: Dave

I was over at one of my daily reads Little Green Footballs and came across this Penn and Teller episode of their program Bullshit on Recycling. Very interesting. Very Funny. And laced with profanity. Kind of like Amanda Marcotte only they make you laugh. So I started noodling around and found a bit they did…

Israel says it will break ties with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas if the quartet conditions – the renunciation of violence, recognition of Israel, and adhering to past peace agreements – are not met. If the new Palestinian unity government is based solely on the agreement reached in Mecca and does not include the three…

The Palestinians have formed a national unity government to avoid a civil war. However, that will not end the internal Palestinian disagreements. So how does a government wracked with internal disunity create a real national unity? Start a war with a neighbor. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Arabs in Gaza are holding a memorial service for Saddam. (IsraelNN.com) Arabs in Gaza on Saturday held a memorial service for Saddam Hussein, marking the 40th day since his hanging, reports in the Arab media said. “Saddam has won more dignity after his murder, far beyond what his enemies had expected. Poets and writers and…

The Palestinians will soon have the long awaited National Unity Government. It will not be renouncing violence, recognizing Israel, or accepting past signed peace agreements. The requirements for restarting aid to the Palestinian Arabs. Recognition of Israel is one of three conditions set by the “Quartet” of international Middle East negotiators for lifting sanctions on…

What was fascinating? An article I read in the Jerusalem Post about prostitution in Israel. The article is about a woman who ran a whorehouse as a police sting operation. Today, three years after her unpaid eight-month stint as a brothel proprietor, she still recalls not only the social stigma and neighborhood harassment but her…

Hemp is happening in North Dakota. The political landscape in North Dakota is interesting. One of North Dakota’s US Senators, Byron Dorgan is a Democrat. Their other US Senator Kent Conrad is also a Democrat. Their only Representative, Earl Pomeroy is also a Democrat. So who is this Republican spearheading hemp in what appears to…

A commenter to my post ACLU Gives Up has this to say: I think the footballers should demand a public apology from the faculty member who sent out the email and staged the private assembly of non-white students. She stated that the Palis were victims of a hate crime. As I understand it, she also…

The usually reliable Pipeline News thinks the accusers in the Guilford College case may be ready to give up due to deportation proceedings on some of the accusers. By Beila Rabinowitz and William A. Mayer February 8, 2007 – San Francisco, CA – PipeLineNews.org – With possible deportation looming over Osama Sabbah, Faris Khader and…

Confidence in the latest cease fire in Gaza is in short supply. So naturally people are stocking up on food. (IsraelNN.com) Gaza regional Arabs are stockpiling food and basic goods in anticipation of another outbreak of violence following talks in Mecca between Fatah and Hamas leaders on establishing a unity government. Street vendor Mazen Kheil…

In so many ways this is Sarajevo 1914 all over again, on a much smaller scale. Mistrust and misunderstanding lead to war. The wave of killings in Gaza on Thursday of last week was sparked by a suspicion: Hamas members feared that containers Israel allowed to enter Gaza held weapons for the Presidential Guard. They…

I had been thinking of doing a piece on the small arms trade in Gaza when commenter mdmhvonpa nudged me along with this comment to Vengeance: Hatfields and McCoys … swell. Perhaps we should just start dropping boxes of ammo and small arms into ‘Palestine’ to hurry this up. We have a better deal going…

The Palestinian Civil War is going to be going on for a while if this is any indication. GAZA, Feb 7 (KUNA) — Dagmash family, one of the biggest Palestinian families in Gaza, has claimed responsibility for the killing of two activists from the Izziddeen Al-Qassam Brigades, military arm of Hamas, last night. A family…

America could learn from Israel about how to integrate gays into the military. The US military needs to learn from the IDF and the tolerant Israeli model regarding homosexual soldiers and officers, concluded a research project on gay and lesbian service in the IDF, undertaken at the University of California, in Santa Barbara. According to…

How the environmental lobby works very hard to keep the poor impoverished. Video: about 3 minutes. Main site – Mine Your Own Business The blog – Mine Your Own Business H/T Instapundit Cross Posted at Power and Control

There is a discussion going on in the comments at Durham in Wonderland about the quality of our justice system and the acceptable error rate. The ever ubiquitous anon. at 9:12AM had this to say: As for rough justice? When most violent criminals are just that, violent criminals with long arrest and conviction records, records…

I suppose we should get the optimism out of the way first. The Mayor of Gaza thinks the fighting won’t last because it is brother fighting brother. The factor preventing an all-out civil war in Gaza is that the Palestinians fighting against each other come from the same families, the mayor of Gaza City said.…

Pipeline News seems to have a lot of good sources in the Guilford Case. Pipeline has gotten some more details about the thugs who visited The Guilford dorms. The leader of this group stated threateningly that they, “were going to take care of what didn’t get taken care of the other day.” He then opened…

It appears that the Palestinians involved in the civil war are using some pretty harsh language against each other. The recent fighting between Hamas and Fatah did not just play out in the streets of the Gaza Strip. The rival groups also pummeled each other over the airwaves, calling each other’s fighters “mercenary death squads,”…

The semi-reliable Pipeline News has posted a piece about the fellows Threatening The Guilford Players. …at North Carolina’s Guilford College the hue and cry over a gamed “hate crime” has reached such proportions that a hit-team composed of self-identified Muslims are actually out hunting the football players involved in the January 21 fracas. “City of…