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Oh, Those All-Powerful Jooos. They're the Reason There's a Holocaust Museum But No Nakba Museum in D.C.

Or so claims the author of this bit of Judenass/Zionhass/lunacy posted on the Canadian Islamic Congress site:

The United States Nakba Memorial Museum – it sounds a bit strange to Jewish ears. 

Non-Jewish Americans would be surprised to hear of such a museum, too. Their first question might well be: “Nakba? What in the world does that mean?” 

That’s our first clue to the disparity of Jewish and Palestinian presence in the American imagination. Another clue is talking to Americans about Israel. Then try Palestine. 

Does that disparity have something to do with who has a museum and who doesn’t? You bet it does. Museums are supposed to be about history. But they’re really about power. 

Financing a Nakba museum shouldn’t be difficult, however. As with the Holocaust museum, the Nakba museum would have to raise its own funds to construct the building. 

The government pays the museum’s operating costs from then on. Since there’s plenty of money in the Palestinian community, I doubt that funding the museum construction would be a problem. 

There’s also plenty of Arab money floating around. There might be a few wealthy Jewish donors willing to lend a hand. Jews of Conscience would want to pitch in. Churches that have taken divestment actions could be approached. But would the Palestinian community want outsiders funding the museum?...

Dern tootin' it would. And I'm sure there are plenty of Khomeinists, Wahhabists and Ikwaners and virtue junkies on the left who'd be more than willing to lend a hand.

No Way, Jose

Will b-baller Canseco replace Rob Ford as Toronto mayor?

You Can Call Us Al!

With apologies to rhymin' Simon:

A man struts down the street
He says, Why'd I sell out to Qatar now?
Why'd I sell out to Qatar?
It's so's I'd make a sh-tload of dough!
I've had my photo-opportunities,
I've had my shots at redemption!
Even up and won a Nobel
In a global gesture made by
Bone-headed, bone-headed,
Norwegian alarmists.
Climbed aboard my crazy train.
Mr. Flimflammer, Flimflammer,
Got my moolah close to me!
You know, I still find this stuff so lucrative, you see!

If you call me hypocrite
You won't bring down my morale.
You can call me slimy, and, blimey,
We're a twosome--
You can call us Al!...

Blazing Cat Fur Needs Our Help

Mark Steyn writes:

Thank you for your kind donations to our legal defense fund against a nuisance suit from self-endowed Nobel laureate Michael Mann. We can always use a little more — we’re in court in D.C. later this month, and the framed copy of my online legal diploma (valid most jurisdictions except the Northern Mariana Islands and Abkhazia) from a website in Tajikistan has apparently been delayed in the Christmas mail. 

But here’s the thing. South of the border, National Review is being sued for defamation for publishing a piece by me. North of the border, they’ve gone to the next stage: one of Canada’s top bloggers is being sued for defamation merely for linking to me – or, as the plaintiff puts it, to “far-right website SteynOnline“. He’s seeking half-a-million bucks in damages, which even in Canada seems a high price for an Internet link to lil’ ol’ me. 

This is what you might call a bit of mopping-up after my free-speech battles in Canada. We won, and we got the law in question, Section 13, repealed last summer. But along the way we pointed out that the plaintiff on all but one of those Section 13 “hate speech” cases since the turn of the century had been the same man — a civil servant called Richard Warman, who appointed himself Canada’s Hatefinder-General and brought highly lucrative “hate” complaints against anyone who crossed him. Since the repeal of his own personal revenge law, he can’t file “hate” complaints anymore, so instead he’s filing nuisance law suits against the bloggers who exposed him. 

Arnie Lemaire of the Blazing Cat Fur website is one of those bloggers, a man who breaks a lot of news the cowed politically correct ninnies at the big dailies won’t go anywhere near until he’s made them too big to ignore — like the Toronto middle-school “Mosqueteria” story, in which he exposed a Canadian public school that converts its cafeteria into a mosque every Friday and segregates its girls according to whether they’re menstruating or not. 

I’ve been involved in cases like these from Copenhagen to Melbourne, and I’m mighty sick of people who find it easier to sue you into silence than argue their case on the merits. Free speech is beleaguered in Britain, Australia, Europe — and also the United States, where, to his discredit, the president recently lent credence to the notion hitherto unknown to American law that it’s possible to “slander” a bloke who died in the 7th century. So I’d like to keep Blazing Cat Fur in business. Instapundit and other American bloggers agree. He’s having a big fundraiser in Toronto on Monday. If you don’t fancy the scenic drive from Buffalo up the Queen Elizabeth Way, I hope you’ll consider helping out in other ways.

Look Out For the "Mass Atrocities Zone" Made Out of Gum Drops

Now, that's the kind of "human rights" edifice I can fully support:

Thomas L. Friedman's "Good Advice"

Sayeth the NYT sage:

I think Hamas is dedicated to Israel’s destruction and has been a disaster for the Palestinians. But it is a deeply rooted organization. It controls Gaza. It is not going away. I don’t think America or Israel have anything to lose by engaging Hamas to see if a different future is possible.

Calling upon Israel to "engage" hateful fanatics intent on its destruction? Now, that's just plain dumb. A wiser person might have observed that a different future is possible only if the Palestinians are willing to disengage from Hamas.

Gerard Depardieudovitch?

Vladimir Putin grants Russian citizenship to the portly French actor.

Today in Sharia Silliness/the Islamist War on Women: For Chicks in Indonesia's Aceh, "Straddling" Motorbikes Is Now Forbidden

Riding a bike sidesaddle may be inconvenient, not to mention downright dangerous, not to mention all but impossible, but it's the only option that's sharia compliant, apparently:

In Aceh, a woman can't straddle;
She can only ride sidesaddle.
It's a feat that won't worq
If she's wearing a burqa.
(If I were her, I'd skedaddle.)

With 60,000 Said to Have Been Slaughtered in Syria, the UN Hews to Its Ongoing Obsession--"Decolonialized" Palestinian "Refugees"

Tell me again why we continue to fund this cretinous entity:

The past, present and future pepper debate in the General Assembly’s Fourth Committee, which deals with special political and decolonization issues over a timeline that arguably makes it the most versatile of the six Main Committees of the UN General Assembly. 

Yet the Committee’s thematic name – Special Political and Decolonization – offers just a hint of its many responsibilities. 

Initially mandated to address decolonization in the post-World War II era, the Fourth Committee has taken on ‘Special Political’ duties in 1990 after the independence of most colonies and all UN trust territories. However, the Committee continues to address a mix of political issues and the contentious issues of decolonization which still raises tempers and inspires heated debate.  

If the ‘decolonization’ tag clearly indicates the Committee’s commitment to seeing the world’s remaining colonial territories liberated, the ‘special political’ designation is distinctly more wide-ranging.

 

Under the latter can be massed a group of issues related to Palestinian refugees and human rights, peacekeeping, mine action, outer space, public information, atomic radiation and the so-called University for Peace. But it is precisely this eclectic spectrum that has led to the committee’s temporal elasticity...

"Eclectic spectrum"? "Temporal elasticity"?

Preternatural amorality and egregious Zionhass, more like.

Patti Page, the All-But-Forgotten All-Time Best-Selling Female Vocalist, Has Died

R.I.P. Ms. Page, who back in the day was dubbed "the singing rage."