Puppy Update

So we were thinking of getting one of these, but through sheer happenstance (or what we of the Jewish persuasion would call "beshayrt"--meant to be), we are getting another flat-coated retriever. Our puppy was born late last week and will be ready to go sometime in March. FYI, he will look a lot like this:

Taqiyyah Time

A deliciously hyperventilated article on Iran's Press TV site condemns the U.S. and Obama for supposedly fabricating a nuclear threat:

Part of the U.S. self-inflicted delusional mythology on Iran stems from the incessant reiteration of the phrase “Iran's nuclear weapons program” in the western media. This nonstop promulgation of propaganda predisposes the western mind to believe the Zionist regime’s calumnies of an “Iranian nuclear threat,” when in fact there is none.   Even those western pragmatists who concede the validity of Washington’s own intelligence assessments, which concluded that Iran does NOT have a nuclear weapons program, nevertheless trumpet noisily about the dangers of Iran developing nuclear “breakout capability.”  This is while Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has unequivocally stated that Islam forbids the “production, stockpiling and use” of nuclear weapons, starkly contrasting the U.S. track record of demonic aggression in pursuit of global hegemony, having caused the deaths of over 10 million of Planet Earth's citizens since 1945.

Well, if the Ayatollah says Islam expressly forbids it, it must be true. ;)

"Canada, And Other Countries That Support Israel Now...Gain Significantly From Their Actions"

Caroline Glick explains why and how supporting Israel makes moral and economic sense.

Via That Captain & Tennille 70s Shasheroo, Ummah-Boosters Look to an Old But Still Widly Effective Method--Communal Jew-Hatred--to Unify a Fractured Islamic World

Hate,
Hate will keep us together.
Think of the Joooos whenever
Life is crap, a zero sum game.
Need someone to blame,
Someone to demonize and to defame.
Just start,
Start thrashin' Zion.
Start,
With the Shoah denyin'.
Harden your heart and let's start
Hating together.

We'll be there to go ballistic.
Make 'em a statistic.
Pluck and shuck that thorn in our side.
No need to hide
As long as the ummah's along for the ride.
Just start,
Start with the seething.
Start,
It's as nat'rul as breathing.
Harden your heart and then start
Hating together.

Wicked and stiff-necked:
Jewry, it ain't circumspect.
When the Prophet lopped off their heads
It's 'cuz of their "disrespect"--
They balked, they balked, they balked.

And he,
He couldn't stand their japes then.
Made 'em pigs and apes then.
A fate that they can never elude.
And Bibi is rude.
And settlers are evil, illegal and crude.
Don't stop,
Don't stop with the hatin'.
Don't stop with the plot we're creatin'.
Harden your heart and then start
Hatin' together,
Forever...

"One Seat for Putin, the Other for Medvedev"?

What's the deal with those tandem Sochi toilets?

How Do You Say "Dismantle" In Farsi?

I'm not sure. And neither, apparently, are Obama and Kerry:

CNN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif insisted Wednesday that the Obama administration mischaracterizes concessions by his side in the six-month nuclear deal with Iran, telling CNN in an exclusive interview that “we did not agree to dismantle anything.” 

Zarif told CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto that terminology used by the White House to describe the agreement differed from the text agreed to by Iran and the other countries in the talks — the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany...

Shouldn't the, er, confusion have been hammered out before the sanctions were lifted?

If You Like Your Al Qaeda, You Can Keep Your Al Qaeda

It figures that that would be the one promise Obama came through on, even if he only made it implicitly:

Israeli security forces have shut down a massive al-Qaeda plot coordinated by terrorist mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri that involved attacking the Jerusalem Convention Center and the American embassy in the diplomatic center of Tel Aviv.

This is believed to be the first time that al-Qaeda chief al-Zawahiri has gotten personally involved in engineering strikes within Israel.

The foiled plot is a sobering reminder that al-Qaeda has been experiencing a comeback in the Obama era.

"Love Will Keep Us Together" Duo Captain & Tennille to Divorce

Ironically enough.

Abe's Nazi Problem

The Abe in question is Japan's prime minister, not a Jew named Abraham.

Can't Think of a More Fitting Tribute (Unless, Say, Obama Gets a Prize for Lying and/or the Grandiose Ayatollah Gets a Prize for Zionhass)

Warmist Who Got Ship Stuck in Ice Trying to Prove Ice was Melting Wins Global Warming Award

The Academic Jihad on Western Civ

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but an endless sleep induced by silly, soporific lessons in self-loathing:

In 2011, the University of California at Los Angeles decimated its English major. Such a development may seem insignificant, compared with, say, the federal takeover of health care. It is not. What happened at UCLA is part of a momentous shift in our culture that bears on our relationship to the past—and to civilization itself.  

Until 2011, students majoring in English at UCLA had to take one course in Chaucer, two in Shakespeare, and one in Milton—the cornerstones of English literature. Following a revolt of the junior faculty, however, during which it was announced that Shakespeare was part of the “Empire,” UCLA junked these individual author requirements and replaced them with a mandate that all English majors take a total of three courses in the following four areas: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Disability, and Sexuality Studies; Imperial, Transnational, and Postcolonial Studies; genre studies, interdisciplinary studies, and critical theory; or creative writing. In other words, the UCLA faculty was now officially indifferent as to whether an English major had ever read a word of Chaucer, Milton, or Shakespeare, but was determined to expose students, according to the course catalog, to “alternative rubrics of gender, sexuality, race, and class.”...

ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzz. Oh, sorry. Anytime I hear the word "rubric," my eyes immediately glaze over. (Same thing happens when I hear "nexus," "praxis," "imperial," "transnational" and "postcolonial," among other buzz words beloved in/by academe.)

Since yesterday was MLK day in the U.S., here are some of the man's words that relate to the above:

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.