Leftists and Islamofascist apologists always suggest that Israel should simply absorb a certain number of civilian murders per day without reprisal, in the interest of peace. Sort of the cost of doing business -- and you know how Jews love their business.

I'm curious-- why is that no leftist nor Islamofascist apologist suggests the reverse? Why should it not be that Lebanon, or Gaza, or whomever should peacefully absorb a certain number of deaths per day in the interests of peace?

They always say that Israel retaliating "perpetuates the cycle of violence."

Well, Muslim retaliations seem to "perpetuate the cycle of violence," too -- and yet I never seem to hear calls for Muslims to just accept their casualties and turn the other cheek, as is constantly called for with regard to Jewish deaths.

Apparently only some deaths really matter. I guess when you get past six million-- who's really counting anymore? Couple hundred here or there hardly seems to matter, right?

Related... "Mr. Green Hat, seen so prominently carrying bodies out of the destroyed building, always seems available for Hezbollah propaganda pics.

Cool, huh?

Lots of blog chatter about this tireless conveyor of dead children over at Memeorandum.

Allah says we're almost in "Loose Change" territory with this, but no, we're not. There could be an innocent explanation, but terrorist organizations -- and Arab/Muslim thugs generally -- have a proven track record of over the top propaganda, with MSM connivance, of course.

I'd be willing to bet that upward of half of the local stringer reporters and photographers on MSM payrolls are getting more money from Hamas, Hezbollah, the Iraqi "insurgents," Al Qaeda, etc.

It's just a fact that, apart from embassy staffs, reporter corps tend to be the biggest haven of spies and paid operatives in the world.

LA Times' Anti-Israel Bias: Lots of headlines of Lebanese deaths on the front page; not so much about Israeli deaths, nor the hundred-plus rockets raining upon Israeli cities per day.

AIPAC-- can't you guys pay the LA Times like you pay me? If you can throw a couple hundred thousand shekles at me every year for writing this dreck, it seems just messugeneh to not buy off the LA Times, too.

Not that I would presume to give my Zionist Overlords advice. Just sayin'-- it's a smart business move.

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Confederate Yankee is skeptical of the "dead children" photos. He seems to believe that maybe corpses from local morgues have been shipped into to the Qana strike-site as propaganda.

I don't know. The evidence seems sketchy. But it's not like I can vouch for the impeccable reputation of Hizbollah.

But if the first report of the building's collapse did indeed come eight hours after the strike... Well, it does seem implausible that anyone would wait that long to evacuate a bombed building.

Michelle wants to know if Hezbollah has dropped leaflets warning civilians to clear out, as the IDF has.

And of course there's the quite predictable "Muslim fury."

I have this amazing plan to reduce Muslim fury:

Muslim extremists should stop starting wars they can't win and killing civilians indiscriminately.

Want to talk "root causes"? Call me crazy, but the "root cause" of Muslim anger seems to be other Muslims committing atrocities, war crimes, murder, mayhem, and terrorism, and then being stunned and surprised when people actually fight back.

Has This Been Posted Here Yet? I imagine everyone must have seen this. Like the Soviets endlessly parading the same tanks and missile launchers in a circle to suggest greater numbers of such weapons, Hezbollah's buddies seem to take a very long amount of time to move a dead child into an ambulance.

The Silence of the Geneva Conventions: Odd, isn't it, that we only hear about the Geneva Conventions when they can be used as a club to bash America and Israel?

Isn't there some obscure provision in there about armies wearing uniforms and such?

Isn't that, you know, sort of tucked in there for a reason?

I guess not. I suppose it's just a provision having only to do with battlefield fashion.

Comment Of The Day: "Bewildered in Ohio" finally figured it all out. Don't let his onscreen handle fool you.

Call me crazy

Okay, you're fucking nuts. Why are wingnuts so invested in proving that everything Israel does, including obvious human rights violations, are by definition right and lawful? Is Pajamas Media partly financed by AIPAC?

You nailed it, dude. I'm up to my eyeballs in filthy Jew-Money. I'm going to take some of it and buy me a filthy Jew-High-Definition-TV and maybe a filthy Jew-Shower-XM-Radio, because I needs me my satellite broadcasts from Tel Aviv telling me what to write while I'm washin' my junk.

Sandy Berger notes, meanwhile, that he's shilling for the Zionist Pig-Monkey Butchers for free!

Silly.

I'm tellin' ya, these Jews got all the money. "If you prick me, do I not bleed?" Oh, they bleed all right-- cash f'n' money. They may drink the blood of Palestinian babies, but trust me, they bleed US tender. How their metabolic processes manage this I don't know; I figure they're just very crafty or something.

Ka-Ching!
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OK, this is old, but if you haven't seen Animusic before it's pretty cool.

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Hi again. I'm back. Sort of. Really exhausted, and of course I still have a lot of important stuff to catch up on (i.e., watching television).

As they say, I need a vacation from my vacation.

I'd like to thank my esteemed guestbloggers, but I'd like not to thank them now, because frankly, I'd like them to keep doing my job for me so long as they're willing. They've done a great job so far.

PS, Deb Frisch is in a full Sol Rosenberg meltdown, claiming she's going to sue me, FoxNews, Brit Hume, and all the people I work with and handle.

I'll have to remember to bring my glasses and my shoes, so I have them.

Not sure why she posted that threat at Patterico's place instead of mine... Oh yeah, because I banned her crazy, child-threatening ass.

Apparently Dr. Debby thinks she can continue her three days of infamy by simply continuing to spam other people's sites with further posts designed to make the Goldstein's feel insecure about their child's safety.

Sorry, Deb. You're an idiot, you have nothing to contribute whatsoever except odd sexual remarks about infants, and if you think you can somehow parlay that into consistent traffic for your site, you're sadly mistaken.

That link leads to her traffic meter, by the way, which is safe to click on, because it doesn't get counted as blog traffic. Thanks to Tom the Pooklekufr for that. It provides a good window into Dr. Debby's continuing need to post sexually-suggestive spam about infant children. She's still got that high from those two days when anyone at all bothered to click on her site, and damnit, she wants that feeling back.

As I instructed you earlier, Dr. Debbie: That wasn't "fifteen minutes of fame," it was instant infamy, and it just shows what an emotionally imbalanced moron you are to confuse the two. It was sad and creepy that you made such remarks the first time; now that you seem determined to continue making them in order to get more (negative) attention, it's beneath pathetic. Building audience requires q little more than creepy threats to children and submoronic poetry about "war$ington, deecee."*

I would pity you, Doc Debby, if I bothered to care about you at all. But I don't.

You really should be working your psychoses out on a psychiatrist's couch, not in the public forum of cyberspace.

A Bit More... Apparently Doctor Debby left this response to a comment on her site:

"No, Bilgeman. I'm not gonna denton myself. But I'm thinking real hard about ramseying you."

Remember, this is the woman who's threatening to sue people for "threatening" her.

She is insane, and needs, desperately, the intervention of the state.

Unrelated: The World's Smallest Cat. Three pounds. Quite frankly, if you put a gun to my head, I would have guessed that's about average cat weight, but they say it's the smallest, so there you go.

The cat's name is "Mr. Peebles," and they say it's named after a ventriloquist doll on Seinfeld. Trouble is, that doll was named "Mr. Marbles."

More likely it's named after "Mr. Peepers," my neighbor's cat, whom I immortalized in my Whoreblogging diary.

Thanks to Ogre Gunner.

* Bulding an audience also requires very stupid posts about misheard lyrics. How about a repost of one of the dumbest posts I've ever written? (Moderate content warning.)

PS, I never really misheard those lyrics. That's what makes this post even stupider.

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Yup, that's got to be a lotta fun to get slapped with one of these puppies:

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Dad on probation for arson. Obstruction of justice charges pending for witness tampering.

Parent's Day Council looking into the dad's background now, something they "failed to do at the outset".

Shut up, really?

I don't know what kind of throw away award this is. I also don't know why I'm acting like this. This is all new to me. I don't do this for a living.

Hat tip: Craig, possibly CraigC. Developing hard.

UPDATE: It is in fact, CraigC. Indeed.

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It wasn't civil.

Updated: 2:40 p.m. ET July 31, 2006
LONDON - For more than 30 years, crowds have flocked to the small English fishing village of Lyme Regis to watch an annual tradition — two teams of fishermen standing on wooden platforms as human bowling pins, hurling a dead giant eel at each other.

But the ritual was abruptly abandoned after an animal rights activist threatened to draw negative publicity to the latest tournament, organizers said Saturday.

The practice, known as conger cuddling, is the annual highlight in the small coastal town about 155 miles southwest of London. The object of the game is to knock the opposing team off the platform by swinging a 25-pound eel at them.

Full story here.

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Folks, it's time to butch up. I know the gap has been widening between you and me for a while now, Ace, but seriously, if this weekend is any indication, it's you moving, sweetheart, not me.

What the eff? - Michael thanking Ace, Mel carping about people's mothers, and Jack's pleading for civility? Did civility pay the bills? Not so I'd notice. Moon Pictures? What is this, romancing the stone? And can we bury the Big Dig already? I've got one word for you DDG - liberal bureaucrats! Is it really that hard to understand? And Ace, all the talk of you quitting smacks of a George Lucas marketing campaign for the re-re-re-re-re-re-re-release of Star Wars.

And to think, just 24 hours ago, someone posted this ...

Wow. I just looked at this weekendÂ’s posts. You guest posters abused this blog like a rented AceÂ’s sister. Not that thereÂ’s anything wrong with that.

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I see that a great many of you doubt the power of civility. Indeed, many of you have left comments exhibiting, shall we say, a healthy skepticism about the practical applications of the practice.

So, I would like to provide you with an article in which the author, in discussing Al Franken's potential run for a U.S. Senate seat representing Minnesota, comes close to embracing the new attitude I have been advocating for well nigh unto 24 entire hours. As you can see. the employment of civility as a tool makes this a compelling piece for readers of all attitudes.

Sadly, the article also reveals how hard it is to completely rid yourself of the intoxicating nectar of snark. Often, the author chooses to denigrate Mr. Franken and his radio network, Air America. Still, as this article contains both lessons in the artful application of civility and a reminder of what should be avoided, it serves a useful purpose.

Meet Future Senator Al Franken from the North Star State

Think of it as a teachable moment. And know full well that I will be disappointed in you if you take any pleasure whatsoever in the vicious smears and innuendos cast upon Mr. Franken in this article. Now is not the time to revel in such vulgar pursuits. Now is the time to appeal to the higher angels in our character.

Some highlighted examples of civility in practice, as well as examples of opportunities for civility that were missed, are highlighted after the jump. more...

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I think I've seen these before, pretty cool. You hold the mouse button down and move it to get the panoramic view.

Funny seeing the shadow of the photographer in all of these.

66 years from Kitty Hawk to the moon folks. That still amazes me.

Hat tip: Brett Bullington

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