en-us http://www.intensedebate.com/users/519830 Comments by elixelx http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/02/03/syria-intervention-assad/#IDComment283818804 No can do! George W. did! Iraq! Boots on ground, impossible! Iraq!! Quagmire!! Body bags! Blood for Oil!! Sorry, no intervention in Syria because that would serve to legitimise ex post facto, what the hated GWB did in Iraq! Off-Topic, Max, but a POV would help on this: The first action of the Talib in Afghanistan when they attained power was to deliberately and wantonly destroy the Bamiyan Buddhas. So what will happen to all the figurines in The Egyptian Antiquities Museums, the monolithic Kings and Queens, the Sphinx itself, when the idol-destroying Muslim Brotherhood brings in Sha'aria in Egypt, and Libya and Yemen and etc.? They can't sell them! They can't hide them! They cannot bear to see them! Yes, sirree. Bob. The iconoclast-boys are about to have a "smashing" time! Tra-la-la-BOOM-te-yay! Yay! Sat, 4 Feb 2012 16:53:00 +0000 http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/02/03/syria-intervention-assad/#IDComment283818804 http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/12/30/jewish-dissent-canard/#IDComment251561854 There is a story in the Talmud about a student who, with faith in his own calculations, decided that Yom Kippur was a day earlier than scheduled. He told his Rabbi, who ORDERED him to take his staff in his hand, put his sandals on his feet and walk to the Rabbi's house on the day he considered was Yom Kippur...which he did...on the day he had sworn was Yom Kippur... The moral? Dissent all you want but be prepared to LIVE your dissent, to be schooled by those who know better; to be so publicly committed to your beliefs that you are prepared to defy the observances of your community... Those Jews who dissent nowadays are not like this disciple who was ready to give up his own logic and reason because he had more faith in his Rabbi than he had in himself. Dissent only begins when the cowards among us scream that they know better than the 3000 years of wisdom that is available to us! Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:31:36 +0000 http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/12/30/jewish-dissent-canard/#IDComment251561854 http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/11/29/ad-campaign-israeli-expats/#IDComment230799828 Dennis, we are not here talking about American "Jews", who are indeed among the lowest of the low (not all, but a mighty big proportion! Mostly they vote Democrat!) We are talking about Israeli Jews who went to America as Israelis, high-minded, committed-to-a-better-world Jews, supported by the Israeli taxpayer Jews, brightest of the bright Jews, who have been seduced by the lure of the bright lights and big cities (we have them in Israel too!) How do you feel about Americans who become Muslims? Do you want them back? What about Americans who become terrorists? Do you want THEM back? What about the 150.000 draft dodgers who went to Canada in the 60's and 70's. Did you want THEM back? Well, as Jews it is our obligation to want back those who have left the fold, even those who have hurt the Jewish People while outside the fold. It is a moral and an economic imperative. What would America feel like if she lost 10% of her doctors? 10% of her engineers? THAT is what has happened with us? We pay for their education in the USA and lo and behold they REFUSE to come back to repay their loans, do their National Service, serve the country which has made them what they are. Let me insist: We don't necessarily want American Jews; they can come to Israel anytime they choose, they will be welcomed, they can make lives and have families here; what do they owe America? What if they owed America $50,000 in student loans? Would you want THEM back? We want back the Israeli Jews who still owe Israel labour, if not love. Come back, fulfil your contracts and promises, and then you can go live in Timbuctoo or Timbucthree for all we care! Thu, 1 Dec 2011 05:43:20 +0000 http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/11/29/ad-campaign-israeli-expats/#IDComment230799828 http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/11/29/ad-campaign-israeli-expats/#IDComment229927696 (Contd.) No, it's the lethal seduction of the Whore of Hollywood, the deadly calls of the Sirens of Manhattan. The word "Yordim" means "those who go down, who descend, who kowtow to unknown temptations" The Talmud itself reminds us that such people have descended from the pinnacle of spiritual and mental life, living in the Holy Land, seduced away by vain and false promises of a better life in the Sodoms and Gomorrahs of the USA. Of course we want them back; we want them to live up to the promises they made, the contracts they signed, the spirits they have torn away from the body; We must let them know that although they may be free to choose where they wish to live, they are leaving a high place for a low place, a nourishing life for the desert of pecuniary gain, a reality for a fata morgana... Come back they will, sooner or later. Most with their children when they experience the true depths to which they and their children will sink as "Yordim"...and many many others in plain winding sheets to be buried in the land of their fathers. But return they will...we're just reminding them to choose Israel while still with life and breath! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:18:08 +0000 http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/11/29/ad-campaign-israeli-expats/#IDComment229927696 http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/11/29/ad-campaign-israeli-expats/#IDComment229927578 You are labouring under a misapprehension; you seem to think that a country such as Israel can afford to lose 10%, yes a full 10%, of its best and brightest, whose education was paid for mostly by the State, who agreed to pay back those costs to the State, that we can afford to lose those people to the lure of greed and easy money that America affords. They went abroad as Israelis, often to study subsidised by the Israeli Govt, and then they stayed abroad? Why? Is Israel so bad, America so good that these people can wantonly break their promises? Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:17:43 +0000 http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/11/29/ad-campaign-israeli-expats/#IDComment229927578 http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/11/28/obama-politics-two-faced/#IDComment229167487 If it happens once it's a miracle; if repeated it's medicine; if it happens every time it's Taqqiya! Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:30:09 +0000 http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/11/28/obama-politics-two-faced/#IDComment229167487 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/10/24/union-lobbyists-teach-for-a-day-qualify-for-million-dollar-state-pension/#IDComment211668728 When Moses stood before the Burning Bush and was told that he had to go back to Egypt he demurred: I killed an Egyptian, I ran away; if I go back they will kill me..." You have to go back, Moses: Everyone who wanted you dead are themselves dead... What? ALL of them??? The Rabbis duly explained "The erstwhile Moses-killers HAD LOST THEIR MONEY, THEIR POWER, THEIR INFLUENCE...to all intents and purposes THEY WERE DEAD MEN... So, if you really want to kill these miscreants and yet leave them alive to despair and weep and mourn...TAKE AWAY THEIT ILL-GOTTEN GAINS.... Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:51:04 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/10/24/union-lobbyists-teach-for-a-day-qualify-for-million-dollar-state-pension/#IDComment211668728 http://bigjournalism.com/pjsalvatore/2011/10/22/mother-jones-calls-for-ows-vandalism/#IDComment210926654 Archibald McLeish wrote, pace POETRY, "A poem should not mean, but be..." I write, pace OWS, "Vandalism, graffiti, hooliganism, rioting, mobs, anarchy, Liberalism, mayhem, car-keying, rape and anti-semitism do not mean, but are!" Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:19:34 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/pjsalvatore/2011/10/22/mother-jones-calls-for-ows-vandalism/#IDComment210926654 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/09/11/september-11th-my-thanks-to-joel-surnow-and-his-fellow-hollywood-subversives/#IDComment192314993 Whores will be whores; traitors traitors; cowards cowards; They did it because they thought anti-war was a way to make a buck! Vietnam had been a blockbuster, why not Iraq? So, not only are the Redfords and the Moores and the Sarandons and the Damons whores, traitors and cowards; they are dumb-ass capitalists too... Of course, in the end, they don't make movies with their own money..they have investors! Those are the real traitors, whores and cowards! Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:25:00 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/09/11/september-11th-my-thanks-to-joel-surnow-and-his-fellow-hollywood-subversives/#IDComment192314993 http://bigjournalism.com/pjsalvatore/2011/09/09/soros-911-memorials-are-nothing-but-muslim-hate/#IDComment191906057 Yep, and MLK day is hatred of whites day; and Pearl Harbour Day is ditto for the Nippos. X'mas is hatred of babies day, Easter of Jews, Lincoln of tall Illinoyers, and finally Independence day is hatred of Britain and France Day. May Ist targets International Workers and Unions... Ah! What the heck! I hate Soros. Let's create a Soros Day! Sat, 10 Sep 2011 12:59:00 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/pjsalvatore/2011/09/09/soros-911-memorials-are-nothing-but-muslim-hate/#IDComment191906057 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmoriarty/2011/09/09/christopher-hitchens-an-atheists-gift-to-sarah-palin/#IDComment191901231 PS Hitchens will die of heart failure the day after Sarah is elected; that way the Atheist Left will have someone to blame immediatly for the loss of their avatar. Sat, 10 Sep 2011 12:38:55 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmoriarty/2011/09/09/christopher-hitchens-an-atheists-gift-to-sarah-palin/#IDComment191901231 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmoriarty/2011/09/09/christopher-hitchens-an-atheists-gift-to-sarah-palin/#IDComment191897170 To all those who think that Sarah lacks experience, and compare that to Barry's lack of experience, a question: If Barry had indeed served out his tenures in all those places he left in the lurch; If he had indeed run a business at ANY POINT in his life; If he were more than a not-very-good community organizer--In what way would his agenda have changed? No Obamacare? No EPA fiats? No Tsars? No Van Jones/Liz Warren/Sotomayor/Kagan? Barry-boy has made a royal screw-up of his regime NOT because he lacked experience, but because his agenda is not acceptable to the American populace. So quit saying that lack of experience is a minus for Sarah. There is only one kind of person who has the experience to be POTUS--and that would be the man or woman who is re-elected for a second term! So, Sarah will have all the experience in the world in 2016! Sat, 10 Sep 2011 12:21:33 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmoriarty/2011/09/09/christopher-hitchens-an-atheists-gift-to-sarah-palin/#IDComment191897170 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lcurzon/2011/06/24/the-undefeated-review-the-story-of-true-grit/#IDComment166144046 Geez, Barbie. First you were sure there was a pony hidden in the dung you wallowed through: now you're sure there's a pony where there isn't any dung! Will your arrant vindictiveness never cease? Will you and yours ever vomit up the bile that is your daily bread? Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:09:45 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lcurzon/2011/06/24/the-undefeated-review-the-story-of-true-grit/#IDComment166144046 http://bigpeace.com/dfriedman/2011/06/16/money-talks-allah-and-the-arab-lobby-at-yale/#IDComment163466983 Well, if the Yale board has decided to serve Mammon rather than Logos, I've got a spare $100,000,000 floating around that I can give them. All I ask in return is that they admit that they cancelled the program because they are anti-semites who think Arab money flows faster than Jewish money! That, and give us the donor names and amounts! Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:34:18 +0000 http://bigpeace.com/dfriedman/2011/06/16/money-talks-allah-and-the-arab-lobby-at-yale/#IDComment163466983 http://bigpeace.com/dfriedman/2011/06/16/money-talks-allah-and-the-arab-lobby-at-yale/#IDComment163464846 Influence, my dear chap, is not a pejorative term, unless of course you WANT it to be! Stupidity, of the kind you possess, however, is! Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:25:23 +0000 http://bigpeace.com/dfriedman/2011/06/16/money-talks-allah-and-the-arab-lobby-at-yale/#IDComment163464846 http://bigpeace.com/cdevore/2011/06/16/why-the-us-consistently-fails-to-predict-threats/#IDComment163462243 Sam Farber; what's a perverted Yiddishe kopf like yours doing in a nice virtual neighbourhood like this? Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:13:40 +0000 http://bigpeace.com/cdevore/2011/06/16/why-the-us-consistently-fails-to-predict-threats/#IDComment163462243 http://bigjournalism.com/taylorking/2011/01/22/washington-post-organizes-news-boycott-of-sarah-palin-starts-twitter-campaign-against-gop-star/#IDComment122977822 Beautiful: one whole month of ONLY POSITIVE Sarah stories. Watch the bounce she gets from this, and especially the steam coming out the ears of the LSM as they try, and fail, to keep their yapping quiet! Oh! Please please sign on for this NYT, Politico, Slate, MSNBC, Maddow.... Nah! Not a chance. What good does it do urging the scorpion not to sting? That's its nature, made worse by the fact that every sting is money in the bank! So, Dana, I suspect that you will be frustrated (verbigracia)in this, and will end up, as you usually do when having sex--silent and alone! Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:48:13 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/taylorking/2011/01/22/washington-post-organizes-news-boycott-of-sarah-palin-starts-twitter-campaign-against-gop-star/#IDComment122977822 http://biggovernment.com/jhoft/2010/07/15/naacp-president-tries-to-weasel-his-way-out-of-controversial-attack-on-tea-party-patriots/#IDComment86839264 "Asked if he thought members of the tea party are racially insensitive, Jealous responded: “No, not at all.” How very very white of him to say so! Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:23:31 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/jhoft/2010/07/15/naacp-president-tries-to-weasel-his-way-out-of-controversial-attack-on-tea-party-patriots/#IDComment86839264 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/03/05/who-carried-out-the-dubai-assassination/#IDComment59944681 Is there any...ANY...possibility that the Inspectorate in Dubai is run by a near and dear relative...son, perhaps? nephew, maybe?...of that paragon of sleuthing skills, that most private of public eyes, that pride and joy of the International police---Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau? Fri, 5 Mar 2010 22:00:57 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/03/05/who-carried-out-the-dubai-assassination/#IDComment59944681 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.9773a6028cbfd3f93a04aa1f37c2801f.551#IDComment35273710 ...and before some nutter starts calling her a hypocrite for saying one thing in "private" and another in "public", let's just remember that she would have to lower the IQ of her speech 15-20 points for Olbermann or Matthews...so good on yer, Sarah, Baby! "Wear your knowledge as you would an expensive watch--covered up or hidden--and do not consult it merely to prove that you have it" Anon. Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:02:09 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.9773a6028cbfd3f93a04aa1f37c2801f.551#IDComment35273710