It's Witchcraft--and Jihad

Mark Steyn takes a took at "Witchcraft," the sly and swinging Cy Coleman/Caroline Leigh tune that ranks #59 on Steyn's list of the top 100 Frank Sinatra songs.

I, too, like the song. So much so that it (along with the antics of the underpants jihadi) once inspired me to write this parody.

Barry Hussein's Bollocks Du Jour

The POTUS with the leastest promises to use--and I quote--"whatever means are necessary" to prevent the Grandiose Ayatollah from getting his nukes.

Too bad Barry's "whatever means are necessary" didn't include making a crappy nuke deal that gives His Grandiosity the go-ahead to keep enriching to his Grinch 'n' Hitler-like heart's content.



Update: Congress Can't Accept Vague Promises About Nuclear Inspections

Congress can't, but Barry, with his veto power, can.

That's So Beeb: Documentary "The Wonder of Islam" Gushes Over Beauty of Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock, Calls Jewish Temple "Inelegant"

You can watch the doc here or on TVO, Ontario's taxpayer-funded "educational" channel, tonight at 9 (h/t: MW).

NatPo Article: The NDP's Anti-Israel Grassroots

They're pro-Palestinian/pro-BDS nutroots, really.

Horny In Hogtown: What Gives With (Hacked) Infidelity Website Ashley Madison Being Hugely Popular in Toronto?

Supposedly, it's because the city is so "liberal."

Now I know what's to blame for both the infidelity and the crumbling infrastructure.

Update: The Married Kama Sutra

Update: What To Do If You've Been Caught on Ashley Madison

Update: The "hacked" fight back.

Gag Moi: Shinan Govani Calls Justin Trudeau Canada's 'JFK Jr.'

Govani, who used to troll the celebrity gossip beat for the National Post, tells Daily Beast readers that the Little Dauphin (sorry, Shinan, but to call him a "JFK Jr." is to insult JFK Jr., JFK Sr., and even Grandpa Joseph P.) has a shot at beating the right. First, though, he'll have to surmount a few hurdles:

The thing about all this, of course, is he needs to get through the hula-hoop of a national election first before he can razzle-dazzle internationally. 

The source of his appeal is also his Achilles’s heel. For every Canadian who’s wooed by Trudeau’s youth, and his relative charisma, there are those who remain unpersuaded, or find it unctuous.

Not only unctuous. Also jejune. Also about as likely to "razzle-dazzle" the world scene as Bambi is likely to "razzle-dazzle" Godzilla (see below):

Reason #739 To Not Vote for Justin Trudeau: In a Bid to Gain Power, He's Promising to Open the Floodgates to Arab/Muslim Immigration

Granted, it sounds a bit zestier in the original French (via BCF):

"Nous œuvrons pour un plan d'immigration plus ouvert aux communautés arabes et islamiques", disait Justin Trudeau, au journal Khomeiniste pro-Hezbollah Sada al-Mashrek. 

Muslims Claim "Discrimination," "Profiling" at Scotland's Airports

Get out your teeny-weeny bagpipes to blow some sad, sad music, because this one definitely merits it:

Muslim travellers believe they are being disproportionately targeted in Scottish airport security checks, according to a study conducted by Durham University. 

Research carried out in Edinburgh focussed on Asian immigrants and Scottish-born Asians who felt Scotland was a “tolerant, friendly and inclusive place”, but were concerned about being treated as a “suspect community” in airports. 

The study, titled Visible Muslimness in Scotland: Between Discrimination and Integration, also incorporated a survey of other studies focused on Glasgow and the rest of Scotland. 

It suggests that the disproportionate targeting of Asian and Muslim travellers — whether actual or perceived — is undermining the integration of Muslim immigrants into Scottish society. 

Dr Stefano Bonino of Durham University’s School of Applied Social Science writes in the report: “Contact with police and security officers at airports constitutes the main area of concern for Scottish Muslims.” 

He adds: “Most of Edinburgh’s Muslims had either themselves experienced, or had relatives and/or friends who were subjected to perceived disproportionate targeting or harsh treatment, when leaving from or arriving at Scottish airports...

I can't for the life of me imagine why that would be happening. Must have something to do with "racism" and "discrimination" arising from "visible Muslimness" (a phrase that only a P.C. infidel academic could have come up with and that, sorry, makes me giggle), and not, say, the fact of hundreds if not thousands of Muslims running off to hook up with ISIS in "Syraq."

Mossad's Spying Dolphin the Latest In an Endless Line of Kooky--and Often Deadly--Rumours About "the Jews"

Have you heard about Hamas arresting a dolphin they claim had been rigged out by Mossad to spy for the Jews?

Pretty kooky, eh?

Well, as it turns out, it's no more kooky than some of the other canards/dolphins lobbed re nefarious Jewry. For instance, here are a few from one of the books I'm reading, the biography of one of Brazil's most acclaimed authors, Clarice Lispector. You might not glean from her name that, who wrote enigmatic, Virginia Woolfe-like novels and short stories, was Jewish. Her parents, Russian Jews, lived in Jewish Pale of settlement during the Great War, when all sorts of kooky stories were making the rounds about "the Joooos." Her biographer, Benjamin Moser, recounts some of these stories--rumors, really--which sparked horrific pogroms in the region and beyond. Among the rumours:

that Jews were smuggling gold to the Germans in the bodies; that they had put the plans for an antitsarist mutiny into a bottle and thrown it into the sea, where it could float to Danzig; that they were flashing coded lights from windows to assist the Austrian advance; that they were distributing the telephones and fiddling with the telegraphs.

And, shades of the "all the Jews stayed home from work on 9/11" canard, it was also rumored that the Jews were signaling German aircraft re the most opportune moments to fly over and drop bombs, but that the "Jews have an ointment, which they smear on their bodies so the bombs won't hurt them."

The toll of these kooky rumours is staggering--and sobering:

Before long these absurdities devolved into slaughter. A wave of pogroms swept across the Pale. Though 650,000 Jews eventually served in the Russian army and 100,000 died in the war, their loyalties were suspect, especially in the lands that switched hands during the course of the war.

In Galicia, to the northwest of Podolia, as many as 450,000 Jews (more than half the Jewish population) were uprooted by the war. In one forty-eight-hour period in May 1915, the entire population of forty thousand Jews was evicted from Kaunas, in Lithuania. All told, about 600,000 Jews were deported. Up to 200,000 Jewish civilians were murdered.

Fortunately, these days the Jews have their own country, and even though kooky rumors, including the one about the snooping cetacean, continue to grip credulous Jew-haters, Israel affords the Jews protections that Jews of old could only dream of.

Until the Grandiose Ayatollah gets his nukes, of course, and, barring some effective action by Israel, Jews will once again be at the mercy of nutty rumour-mongers bent on revenge.

"Bad Lip Reading" of Repulican Debate Posted on WaPo Site

The WaPo (which, let us recall, is an august and revered American newspaper and not Comedy Central) insists it's high-larious.

CBC Anti-Israel Animus on Full Display in Derek Stoffel Report Slamming "Birthright"

In yet another of the Ceeb's seemingly endless attacks on Israel, Zion-deplorer/champion of "oppressed" Palestinians Derek Stoffel condemns the Birthright program. Stoffel doesn't like it A) because it is "free" and B) because it doesn't expose young Jews to the "truth" about the Palestinians. (If only the Ceeb devoted as much time and attention to other areas of interest in the world--say, like Saudi Arabia--instead of maintaining an obsessive and exclusive focus on Israel, an obsession which long ago veered into "anti-Judaism" territory.)



Update: Here are a few stories gawdawful Stoffel isn't covering (because he's far too busy capturing Israel's malfeasance).