Little Israeli girls drawing Israeli flags on bombs meant for Lebanon.

Notice how suddenly there's no talk of "context" or "root causes" (i.e., you keep killing us) when we're discussing something like this.

Thanks to yls.

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The commercial is so annoying I don't know if a parody is any more tolerable.

Click at the risk to your own sanity.

Thanks to the Ugly American.

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Sorry. This has gotten so absurd I have to post this. I'll hide it in the jump, though. more...

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Israel will likely hold the land to set up "deep buffer zone."

And then, of course, the Arab/Muslim whining about occupation for twenty years.

Update: Two men arrested for terrorism in Tel Aviv.

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Two words: Christie Lane.

Yes, they don't air that commercial anymore.

Now they've got something worse.

Head On! Apply directly to the forehead!
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Head On! Apply directly to the forehead!
Head On! Apply directly to the forehead!

Freedom from Hemmorhoids? Freedom Hemmorhoid Cream.
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I have a whole new appreciation for "One Day At A Time, Sweet Jesus..."

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Unless, of course, something big happens.

Thanks to George, the guy who drew up my skull logo. (With backwards sword handles.)

Wizbang has been on this horse about an "email from Glenn originating in America" which disproves the Sock Puppet charges. Well, it turns out the email did not originate in America; it came from Brazil, where Glenn has admitted he's been.

Kevin, if Glenn was in America for these sock puppet posts, why didn't he just say so in his own defense? I'm afraid I still don't get the rationality of offering defenses on Glenn's behalf that not even he suggests.

While Wizbang's evidence seems to have been demolished, his theory -- Greenwald is innocent; it's all an overprotective, blog-obsessed Brazillian boyfriend who writes in perfect idiomatic English often during working hours from Glenn's home, because, you know, Glenn said so -- remains in full effect.

There's fairness, there's not wanting to jump to conclusions, and then there's, well, credulity and wanting to jump to conclusions, just the opposite ones.

Hot Air has put together a timeline, but the timeline it seems Not Ready For Prime Time, as it has times wrong, and includes Sam Mathews. Sam Mathews may or may not be a sock puppet (Patterico says I was too quick to conclusively clear him), but he cannot be proven to be sock puppet, or to have anything, really, to do with Greenwald, so no timeline should include him. It's here, but it's not reliable at the moment, and no conclusions can be drawn from it. Emperor of Icecream gets props for actually testing time-stamps at the different blogs.

So Hot Air jumped way too soon without being thorough enough about the facts.

I'm not sure that there will be proof one way or another. Greenwald claims what I figured he would, that his Number One Fan and boyfriend was exhibiting the exact same blog-obsessiveness and dedication to expanding the Cult of Greenwald that Greenwald himself did. Some, like Greenwald's rabid, cultish readers, think that sounds likely, as do some, like Kevin from Wizbang, for reasons I can't quite fathom.

I'll just say again that in my experience, a lover may be aware of a blog, and may read it, and may even occasionally click on the Truth Laid Bear ecosystem, but a lover does not tend to obsessively click on every trackback and defend one in the comments of other blogs.

Again, I think that sort of Blog Obssession Disorder is fairly rare, anyhow. Some people have it; most don't. If Kevin from Wizbang and Glenn Greenwald's rabid readers think it's likely that Glenn Greenwald really hit the romance jackpot and found a lover just as obsessed about Greenwald's standing in the blogosphere as Greenwald himself, I doubt there's much I can say about that.

Maybe this depends on how much Blog Obsession Disorder one has. I don't care about what people say about me on other blogs, and neither have girlfriends cared about what people said about me on other blogs, so to me, this all seems absurd. I think it's strange enough that Greenwald himself has Blog Obsession Disorder; to me, it seems many times less likely he also is living with somone else with the condition.

But maybe people suffering some of the symptoms of BOD, who have significant others who share this condition, see it as more likely.

Heck, maybe Blog Obsession Disorder isn't as rare as I believe it to be. Not to be mean -- I swear, really! -- but yeah, Bill from INDC seems to have a bit of it. The proof of that is that he'll be in the comments to argue about this in, like, three minutes.

And Jeff... well, Jeff... Jeff Goldstein seems to have it too.

Sorry, guys. Not that it's a bad thing.

Maybe it's more common that I believe. Maybe most bloggers have it, and I'm just one of the lucky ones, or one of the ones too lazy to post on other people's blogs.

I don't know, I guess I'm saying.

Oh-- when I said just one post on Greenwald? Probably a lie. If Hot Air gets a better timeline together, I'll probably link it. But not in a long post.

Unless it's really damning, compelling, and rich.

An Open Question For Kevin From Wizbang!:
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The open thread. The junk drawer.

What's going on?

Dead slow at the shop today. Have a sneaking suspicion that most other people are out having fun and ice cream.

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Normally I'm all for gridlock, but there are exceptions:

WASHINGTON -- Convicted child molesters would face the death penalty for killing their victims and a felony charge for failing to update their whereabouts with authorities under a bill the Senate approved Thursday.

Child advocates have called the bill the most sweeping sex offender legislation to target pedophiles in years. It would:

Establish a comprehensive federal DNA database of material collected from convicted molesters, and procedures for the routine DNA collection and comparison to the database when someone has been convicted of such an offense.
Provide federal funding for states to track pedophiles using global positioning devices.
Allow victims of child abuse to sue their molesters.
Impose a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 years for raping a child.
Impose a mandatory 10-year penalty for sex trafficking offenses involving children and for coercing child prostitution.
Increase minimum sentences for molesters who travel between states.

UPDATE: There seems to be a consensus forming that the law is unconstitutional (usurps State power) and should be struck. Totally blew it, in my relief that something was being done to constrain lenient judges.
No such luck.
Back to the drawing board.

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Not by me, of course. That takes work and organization and weird acronyms like XLS and stuff.

I don't know if the timeline will exactly hang our boy, but it might be harder for him to claim Protective Boyfriends were just stealing the computer between his postings to make quick defensive comments as "Ellison."

Or even... "Wilson."

Sniff.

Glenn... I've been meaning to talk to you about this. You might want to lay low in a safe house or with a nearby relative for a while, because you might be wanted for Sock Puppetry.

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Play as a sock puppet. Boost your credentials. Link your blog. Insult your enemies. Try to pick up Bbeck.

As if we don't know which three or four guys that will be.

Not Very Related: CheChe has to explain to his goddamn whiny bitch of a daughter what sock-puppetry is.

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