Bob Rae's Priorities--Ensuring We Contintue to Pony Up the Shekels for "Palestine" AND, Even More Crucially, Halting Israeli Construction

The interim Liberal leader is pleased by government assurances that we won't summarily stop the money flow, but is far more concerned about Jews building stuff:

Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae said he was reassured by the decision, but he criticized [Foreign Affairs Minister John] Baird for not speaking out against the new Israeli settlement plan.

“I’m not sure we needed to go to all the trouble of recalling all the four ambassadors to come to that very simple conclusion,” said Rae.

“I think the issue of the day now is what is the position of Mr. Baird with respect to the decision of the government of Israel to go ahead with the construction of 3,000 new homes on the West Bank,” he added.

“This clearly represents a problem. It is not within the policy framework that Canada has had since 1967 under Mr. Mulroney, under every Liberal and Conservative government since that time.”

High time for a change, then, no? (Funny how those on the Left are so gung ho for "change"--provided it's the sort of "change" they want to see. Otherwise, they're as gung ho for the status quo as it gets.)

Hashemite Horror Story

The Muslim Brotherhood has put Jordan on its hit list, and Ryan Mauro says it'll be no surprise if Jerry-Mathers-as-the-Beaver lookalike King Abdullah caves.



The king? Fooled ya--it's the Beave

"Why Do Smart People Still Choose Keynes Over Hayek"?

Is it because they're wholehearted—and wholly clueless—lefties?

Just a hunch, mind you.

Jingle Bell Hell

Dashing to the end
At a frantic, futile pace.
O'er the cliff they go
Kvetching as they race.
China holds the deed.
See them as they speed.
The point of it is pointless since
It's big spending cuts they need.

Oh, fiscal cliff, fiscal cliff,
Fiscal cliff's a go.
Oh, what fun it is to spew b.s.
And shovel snow.
Oh, fiscal cliff, fiscal cliff,
Fiscal cliff's no joke.
Voted for Obama
Now the country is flat broke.

The Upside of Tahrir Square Protest for Horny Men--They Get to Rape Chicks With Impunity

Those Egyptian protesters sure know how to par-tay!

"To Be Frank, You Can't Be Sure of What Hamas Wants," Says Tony Blair

It's easy-peasy, Mr. Blair (who's sounding more Neville than Frank): it wants nothing less than Israel dead and gone and Islam calling the shots everywhere, forever.

Golda Meir's Chicken Soup Recipe

Here it is.

How's That for a "Rite of Passage"--a Lap Dance From Hugh Jackman?

The NatPo's Rebecca Tucker describes a "charming" showbiz custom:

Amanda Seyfried may have starred alongside Hollywood heavyweights Julianne Moore and Liam Neeson in Chloe and held her own against Meryl Streep in Mama Mia!, but everyone knows you only really come of age in Hollywood once Hugh Jackman has given you a lap dance — which, finally, is exactly what happened to the Les Miserables star on the occasion of her 27th birthday.

Jackman, who plays the father of Seyfried’s Cosette in Les Mis — “It’s one of those father daughter relationships,” he apparently joked while gyrating atop the 27-year-old actress — did the deed onstage at Porter House, in New York City, where the cast of the upcoming film were celebrating an early screening. “Tonight is a special night, and I am going to sing one song,” Jackman said before calling Seyfried onstage, commanding her to sit down, then getting all up on her...

M'kay. From where I sit, though, it appears that Hugh's the kind of cheapskate who would sooner flap his goods in his co-stars' faces than to buy 'em an actual present.

What say you to that, Mrs. Hugh Jackman?

UN Palestine Vote Exemplifies How the "International Community" Puts the Diss in Dysfunctional

Smart cookie Jennifer Rubin writes:

Last week's vote to extend non-member observer status to the Palestinians at the United Nations was a virtual primer on what is wrong with the U.N., the European Union, the Palestinian Authority and the United States when it comes to the Middle East.

One hardly needs to note that the U.N.'s Israel obsession, which takes up more of its time and elicits more Human Rights council resolutions than any issue or country on the planet, comes at a time the body can't bring itself to move against Bashar al-Assad in Syria, religious oppression of Christians in the Middle East or, goodness gracious, anything regarding the authoritarian revanchism in Georgia. Nothing to see there. Keep moving on. (This, by the way, is the "international community" in all its glory that President Obama so diligently courts.)...

And soon enough, Abbas's complaints about Israel will likely be considered the International Court in the Hague (something that could only occur as the result of the UN upgrade).

Talks 'Tween Israel and the Palestinians Fated to Fail Due to Irreconcilable Differences

Wesley Pruden, the anti/non-Buruma, articulates them pithily here:

The Palestinians won't settle for anything less than all Israelis dead, or shipped off to somewhere far away. The Israelis, unreasonable as they may seem in the salons of the West, are determined not to settle for anything less than survival.

Who Are You?

Pete Townsend 'fesses that he's "a bit of a Neocon," an admission that's as shocking in our time as the line "Hope I die before I get old" was back in its day.