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OZBOLLAH HEARTS MEL
What a revolting piece of work Mel Gibson turns out to be:
According to police records, Gibson, a strict Catholic, then launched into an anti-semitic tirade, referring to “f****** Jews” and stating that “the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world”.
Gibson’s vile rant impressed the Ozbollah, protesting today in Melbourne:
Blair’s Law, my friends. Image courtesy of Andrew Landeryou, who’s been warned not to attend future events:
You’re very brave for showing your face at a peace rally, Landeryou. You won’t be so lucky next time.
Scary! Andrew might be brought down by the awesome power fist of pale limey justice:
That’s the scene in Birmingham; check out other protest action in Switzerland and outside Downing Street.
This could be Mel’s “Career Limiting Moment” or maybe a jumping-the-shark moment.
Stand by for an expose at The Smoking Gun.
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 07 30 at 07:12 AM • permalinkDid anyone else notice in that sign that the Ozbollah equates war machine with democracy?
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 07 30 at 07:25 AM • permalinkThat line ‘Let Melbourne make portable gas ovens’ gives me the creeps. Whoever wrote that should be arrested, cos that is worse than the most explicit, violent pornography.
Where the hell did this whole anti-semite stuff come from? I was raised a Roman Catholic, went to a RC girls school, got the whole the Jews killed Christ thing. But I didn’t actually manage to relate the Jews of 2 1/2 thousand years ago to the Jews of today. Did I miss school that day?
Is it just because they were the first to know God, and everyone else is jealous?
Quentin.
Tsk tsk. Its all very straight forward, surely.
“No DBL SIDS” = “No Dumb Bloody Lefties - Support Israel’s Democratic Solution”
Note also: Oz taxes—> UK Arms manufacture—> UN/UK/USA criminals
Great to see they name ALL the bad guys, ROFL.
Can you imagine the thought processes that went into making that sign? An amoeba could slime itself across a paint spill and make more rational comment.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 07 30 at 07:36 AM • permalinkIsrael has been putting up with this shite for a long time.how eerie is it that this ancient manuscript is found turned to Psalm 83.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/07/25/ireland.psalms.ap/index.html
“Come they say, Let us destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel be remembered no more”. With one mind they plot together, they form an alliance against you. psalm 83:4-5Hope the brunette in that second picture never has to live under the Islamists. Head uncovered; bared arms; she’d be stoned almost immediately…
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 07 30 at 08:54 AM • permalink...Many will have come half way around the world to find a better life and make one through their own hard work. We can only celebrate the fact they did. Australia has been built this way.
But to celebrate terror, to hero-worship its murderous practitioners, to denigrate the Jewish people and to pass those corrupt values down to the next generation is simply, plainly, clearly unAustralian.
Quote from Andrew Landeryou’s site. I agree with what he has said. (Though I think that unAustralian is incorrect. Antisocial is probably a better word.)
Why come here and make Australia into a pit of filth?
Another http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVcupfjW81ggreat Israeli music video, featuring guest DJ “Hassan”
No translation available, but with words like “Inshallah” and “Allah” etc, you all get the gist.
well i think “no dbl sids” (the I is a T i think) means no double standards…
but yes, how did we let so much scum in here, apart from all the home grown crud thats floats to the top anytime these sorts of demonstrations occur…
and we get agro (rightly) over a few pissy marches and yet the jews have been putting up with this crap for centuries, along with regular pogroms and institutionalised discrimination…. sorry to all the catholics here, but the catholic church has a lot to be sorry for down the centuries, pope JP2 didn’t even scratch the surface when he apologised….
“In vino veritas” I think is the latin. The booze never makes you say or do things it just merely removes the inhibitions. He has my sympathy for his problems with the booze but he does not have my sympathy for his poisonous mind.
Posted by Lefty Wobbling Right on 2006 07 30 at 09:21 AM • permalinkI think that the sooner the Left moves on from thinking that ‘my enemy’s enemy is my friend’ and both sides recognise Islam as their common foe, the better. It is completely beyond my comprehension why these people say that President Bush is Satan or equate the Liberals/US Republicans to evil fascists.
I rewatched a movie called the Pianist (imdb) this morning and was reminded of the suffering of Jews during the War. Why doesn’t the Left recognise that Islam’s treatment of women is far more comparable to Nazi Germany then the ‘tyrannies’ of the reelected Mr Howard or Mr Bush?
#16
If you liked that, you’ll love this video (with English subtitles).
Chorus:
Yalla ya Nasralla
We will screw you (Insh’Allah)
We’ll send you back to Allah
With all of the HizbollahIt rhymes in both languages! Ululululul…
Mel has long been seen as a barking mad catholic fundy. He is part of a sect that has Mass in Latin and thinks that Vatican 2 was the Devil’s work.
His father is quite well-known in anti-semitic circles, so Mel has been drinking the kool-aid for years. Looks like the thin veneer has been ripped away.
Mel is, after all, the bloke who loves his wife even though he knows she will burn in hell because she doesn’t practise in quite the same way as he does.
No links available at the moment, sorry - about to go to bed.
And, before I sign off, he also financed a church in LA for his sect while he was filming The Passion of the Christ.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 07 30 at 10:08 AM • permalinkI wouldn’t get my hopes up for “sugar tits”. He was seeing her in alcovision.
Posted by Jim Geones on 2006 07 30 at 10:14 AM • permalinkUS
OZBOLLAH HEARTS MEL.Have no doubt, Mel, Mel Hearts of every F****** Jew HATER in this country, as well.
This includes all Madrasah (formerly known as American Universities and Colleges that have Islamists, in their midst and thanks to people like Juan Cole, Noam Chomsky), ALL Leftists (formerly known as Liberals [only decent “Liberal” remaining, I know of is Joe Lieberman] AND of course all Democrats that suffer BDS (except for elections, when they try to persuade Jews, that George Bush is really behind the Islamist attacks on Israel).
Mel, you screwed the pooch, as words once spoken, can never be taken back, ask Natalie Maines.
Well hold on Mel, Hillary Clinton supposedly uttered the same phrase and many times, from what has been published, she seems to be doing well*.
But shit Mel, you have plenty of money, what the F***, huh?
*refer back to the election time statement.
Well hold on Mel, Hillary Clinton supposedly uttered the same phrase and many times, from what has been published, she seems to be doing well*.
As with Cynthia “The J-E-W-S” McKinney, Hillary is an elected Democrat, so she’s got the Media helping her bury the verbal corpses.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 07 30 at 10:22 AM • permalinkAndrew might be brought down by the awesome power fist of pale limey justice:
Awesome power fist.
LMAO! I’m impress.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 07 30 at 10:26 AM • permalinkNilknarf:
There are, to be sure, quite a few RC congregations who celebrate the Tridentine (Latin) Mass - I’m a member of one of them - and there are quite a few Catholics unimpressed with the long-term effects of much of Vatican 2 liturgical reform. The last and current Popes, for instance, have been more than tolerant of traditionalist Catholic groups who embraced Latin liturgy and rejected some of the more frivolous “reforms”, and have issued “indults” authorizing congregations to celebrate the Latin mass.
Gibson’s group isn’t a “sect” - there are no “sects” in Roman Catholicism. His father, on the other hand, has embraced Sedevacantism, which holds that the Holy See has been vacant since the death of Pius XII in 1958, and since there is no Pope, feel free to elect their own bishops and even their own “antipopes”. There’s no theological consistency to Sedevacantists, however, which means that some, but not all, of them have splintered off from the Church. Not sects - splinter groups, no longer within the body of the Church. The Church is what they call a pretty big tent, and contrary to popular belief, it sometimes takes quite a bit of theological transgression to get your membership revoked.
Hutton Gibson is also an infamous anti-Semite, which does go against all contemporary Church teaching.
Mel Gibson has been known to hold some pretty nutty positions, without any apparent consistency - he’s one of the richest men in Los Angeles, and the richest living actor, so money has provided quite a bit of insulation. Now that he’s apparently off the wagon, however, he might give voice to quite a few more of his beliefs. One thing that has to be remembered is that he might hold to quite a few conservative convictions, he’s not a Republican by any means.
Posted by rick mcginnis on 2006 07 30 at 10:35 AM • permalinkThe first thing that sign should tell us is that anyone who can’t work Word or Photoshop probably shouldn’t think about running the world.
The second thing is— Mel Gibson?! What the hell? We sent you Ozzies a nice boy from Brooklyn and we get this back? What did you do to him? I blame John Howard!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 30 at 11:05 AM • permalinkI am seriously spooked by the pale faced Cretan (in joke for Blairites) in the green T shirt worn outside his pyjama shirt waving his aggressive fist at the camera.
Scary stuff.
*wanders off to load the 12 ga, just in case*
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2006 07 30 at 11:30 AM • permalinkThere’s only one thing that has me cutting Mel a little (very little) slack on this, and that is that our leftie MSM (at least from what little I saw yesterday) had buried the anti-Semitic stuff but was attacking Mel as another Christian hypocrite caught sinning. “Aha, f*ck with us and make a popular, Christian movie, will you? Well we’ve got you now, Jesus-boy!” was its tone. So piss on them both, although there is the chance that Mel may reform. [BTW in my R.C. grade school in the later years, Jesus’s Jewishness was stressed and Passover being linked to the Last Supper and Easter was made clear. We even held a Seder that we had to learn the Hebrew responses to.]
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 07 30 at 12:23 PM • permalinkMel Gibson has apologized.
A lot of people seem to be under the impression that being drunk reveals Who We Really Are. I’m not so sure. I do know that none of us are perfect, that every one of us has bad thoughts and bad impulses that most of us manage to tamp down and disavow with the help of the discipline we learned as members of civilization. I also know that alcohol releases inhibitions. Perhaps this release of inhibitions does not so much reveal our “true selves” as it does allow all those bad or wrong impulses to bubble up from the dark places we’d locked them away in. Everyone has heard the story of a good girl, one who had been a model of perfect behavior, who never would even dream of sleeping around, going wild after she had a couple more drinks than she was used to (because she thought, since she had been so good for so long, that she could “handle it”). This doesn’t mean that deep down all along she had wanted to be nymphomaniac. It just means that being drunk had released her controls over her more primitive impulses. The fact that such girls usually end up ashamed, not exalted, by their behavior, bears this theory out.
Mel Gibson apparently has an affectionate relationship with his father, who is by all reports overtly anti-Semitic. He must have had such ideas dinned into his head from childhood, yet no one who lives in America can escape the knowledge that anti-Semitism is considered deeply shameful. This, coupled with the fact that actors are notably unstable, probably explains his outburst more than anything.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 07 30 at 12:41 PM • permalink“We will screw you Inshallah” - Comic Gold…
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 07 30 at 12:47 PM • permalinkI forgot to add—Gibson also lived on the West Coast, deep in the moonbat, it’s-all-Israel’s fault milieu. Also a lot of Hollywood business is still controlled by men from Jewish families (though they may not be religious and in fact I wonder how many Hollywood Jews are Democrat, Israel-disapproving Jews). Resentment of “those rich Jews who control this town” is said to be rife in the business. In sober daylight Gibson may or may not believe the things he said in his drunken rant, but I’ll bet you lots of other people there do.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 07 30 at 01:05 PM • permalinkThank you Andrea.
I know I’ve said some ugly things when I was drunk, some things I believed were true but never should have said and some things I knew weren’t true but said them anyway. If liquor was a window into our mind and soul, psychologists would practice their profession at the tavern.
As a Christian who lives his life in the crosshairs of public opinion I’m sure it will take Mel the rest of his life to live this incident down. Good luck to him. I hope he rebounds and continues to make great, inspiring movies (although I wouldn’t hold my breath for a sequel to The Passion).
Another thing: alocohol has different effects on personality. Some people become chuckleheaded lives-of-the-party. Other people become maudlin depressive cryers. Some are mean drunks who bitch and start fights. My father was in the first category. My mother was in the last. One of my friends was in the middle category. I tend towards the first category, which is why I avoid getting drunk; I don’t want to like more people, I don’t want to be the life of the party.
I’m guessing Mel is in the “mean drunk” category.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 07 30 at 01:51 PM • permalinkNo one I know who actually saw the movie came away with the impression that Jews Were Bad, or anything much about Jews at all. The statements of most people who have actually seen the movie can be boiled down to “it made me realize what He went through for us.”
Most people don’t look for Deeper Meaning in movies, are instead pretty willing to accept what the movie is on the surface. Only a small subset of people take apart movies to find out about the Symbolism, or What the Director Really Meant to Say, and so on. But most ordinary people don’t bother. So if there is any anti-Semitism other than the bad light the story puts on some of the Jewish characters (if we are to label that “anti-Semitism”) then it is buried too deeply for the ordinary moviegoer to notice and therefore be effected by.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 07 30 at 03:02 PM • permalinkIncidentally, Romans come off looking much worse than Jews do in the traditional story. After all, Jesus was a Jew, Mary was a Jew, Peter and Mark and the rest were Jewish… what do the Romans have, Pilate’s wife?
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 07 30 at 03:04 PM • permalinkReality IDF video , showing the real ‘Bollah in action.
As someone said, firing rockets into civilian areas, is an act of war. Drawing FIRE into a civilian area, is evil.
Wonder what the OtherBollah’s will say and while we are at it, how ‘bout it Mel?
Andrea, if I got drunk and let my bad impulses all out, one of them would not be about the effing Jews.
I might say something unpleasant about Muslims, but I do that sober.
I bet next week’s pay, Gibson says unpleasant things about Jews when he’s sober, too, but is more careful about the audience than when he’s drunk.
Posted by Harry Eagar on 2006 07 30 at 04:28 PM • permalinkOh great, another well-liked performer bites the dust. Jumps the shark. Whatever. I suppose you can rehabilitate yourself, Mel; let’s see how you do (you can start by getting a copy of that Ozbollah sign and making yourself look at it first thing every morning).
I have known those who reveal their true selves under the influence and others who just talk trash and, once sober, can’t believe the things they’ve said or done (and are suitably contrite). One has to know the person to judge in which category he fits.
I never have understood Jew hatred based on “they killed Christ” (the KKK were big exploiters of this line—“we reject the Jews because they killed Christ”). After all, Christ’s crucifixion and death (and subsequent Resurrection, if you’re so inclined) is the whole point. John 3:16, the essences of the New Testament, tells us: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. The death of Christ gives mankind hope. A Jesus who does not suffer and die so that he can be reborn is but an itinerant preacher who, despite his wisdom and loving demeanor, is quite meaningless.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 07 30 at 04:36 PM • permalinkI’m not making excuses for him, Harry. I’m merely speculating as to the circumstances of his outburst, the same as other people here. Not all of us have Jew-hatred as one of our bad impulses that we try to suppress, at least in public. Mr. Gibson does. Does that mean we are better than he is? Not necessarily.
Gibson’s fall should be a warning to us all, not an occasion to point fingers from on high.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 07 30 at 05:55 PM • permalink#33,#34 Thanks, guys, I knew someone out there would know more than me and correct any misapprehensions I might have.
That’s one of the things I love about this place.
For the record, I didn’t mean to imply that Latin masses are Extreme Catholicism. It was just one of the things I remembered reading about Gibson.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 07 30 at 07:23 PM • permalinkAs someone said, firing rockets into civilian areas, is an act of war. Drawing FIRE into a civilian area, is evil.
It’s a war crime. Not that you’ll hear that term used to describe it; those words are reserved for Americans, Israelis, Australians, and Brits.
(I’d expect them to be applied to Indians, too, when they’re fighting Muslims.)
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 07 30 at 07:40 PM • permalink“Drawing FIRE into a civilian area, is evil”
Yes El Cid, it is. it is also a war crime.
civilian shields
Civilians must not be used to protect military installations or operations against attacks. (Protocol I, Art. 51, Sec. 7)
Posted by Harry Buttle on 2006 07 30 at 07:49 PM • permalinkI suppose, given Danny Glover’s support of Hugo Chavez, et al, this means any future Lethal Weapon movies will be box office disasters?
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 07 30 at 07:50 PM • permalinkI’ve got to agree with Andrea. In Gibson’s defense, he was brought up by a raving bigot, and that shaped his baser instincts. To his credit, Mel himself doesn’t normally do or say racist things (which he called despicable in his apology). Now, it’s possible that’s just an act. But it’s also possible that, intellectually, he’s learned differently. His head knows that Jews aren’t whatever horrible stereotype he was brought up to see them as, but your head’s not in charge when you’re drunk. If I weren’t the sort who just sits there and stares at the wall until she passes out, I’d probably have much to be ashamed of after a bender, too. (I am an extremely boring drunk, I’m told).
I give him the benefit of the doubt. Unlike McKinney (or the odious Mo’nique), he made a very public and humble apology. He didn’t try to justify his behavior or play any moral equivalence games, he flat out said it was wrong and he was sorry. Absent some actual evidence that he’s lying or being insincere, it’s simply mean-spirited and ungracious not to accept what is apparently a heart-felt apology.
#21 anagallis
You post:
“I think that the sooner the Left moves on from thinking that ‘my enemy’s enemy is my friend’ and both sides recognise Islam as their common foe, the better. It is completely beyond my comprehension why these people say that President Bush is Satan or equate the Liberals/US Republicans to evil fascists.”You’ve got it backwards. The left sees Islam as its ally against its true enemy, which is the US, Western Civ, liberty, and capitalism. They would rather see Western Civ die in conflict with a Universal Caliphate than live in a civilization shaped by the US and capitalism. The Jews are highly Westernized and successful in capitalistic economies and in the cultural world of Western Civilization. Naturally those who despise the West and all its works will hate those who examplify it so well, and who have prospered in its environment of freedom. The left, as a whole, and with rare exceptions, hates freedom, and fights against it. That makes the fascistic form of Islam rising today and the left natural allies. Since the hatred of the West extends deep into the intellectual and chattering classes of the West itself, we have lots of influential fifth-columnists among us.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 07 30 at 07:55 PM • permalink#41 I have the same view, Andrea. Mel being an A List actor is probably typical of the A List - stupid politically.
He just might be anti those ultra-liberal Jews in Hollywood who are envious of him and who praised Spielberg for his deceitful Munich film.How many A Listers are sane politically anyway? Reagan was a B Lister, and had time to think a bit..
The Passion of Christ was anti-Hollywood and not antisemitic.
Much of this has been said before, but for Mel, and those who think like him…
The French Ambassador in England said, “Israel is nothing but a shitty little country”.
What have any of the other countries in the Mid-East contributed to the world other than hatred, intolerance and oppression of their own people, especially women?
Example:
The Middle East has been growing date palms for centuries. The average tree is about 18-20 feet tall and yields about 38 pounds of dates a year. Israeli date trees are now yielding 400 pounds/year and are short enough to be harvested from the ground or a short ladder (naturally, one would expect Jewish trees to be short).
Let’s go on, shall we?
Israel, the 100th smallest country, with less than 1/1000th of the world’s population, can lay claim to the following:
1)The cell phone was developed in Israel by Israelis working in the Israeli branch of Motorola, which has its largest development center in Israel
2)Most of the Windows NT and XP operating systems were developed by Microsoft-Israel.
3)The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel.
Both the Pentium-4 microprocessor and the Centrino processor were entirely designed, developed and produced in Israel.
4)The Pentium microprocessor in your computer was most likely made in Israel.
5)Voice mail technology was developed in Israel.
6)Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US in Israel.
7)The technology for the AOL Instant Messenger ICQ was developed in 1996 by four young Israelis.
8)Israel has the fourth largest air force in the world (after the U.S,Russia and China). In addition to a large variety of other aircraft, Israel’s air force has an aerial arsenal of over 250 F-16’s. This is the largest fleet of F-16 aircraft outside of the U.S.
9)Israel’s $100 billion economy is larger than all of its immediate neighbors combined.
10)Israel has the highest percentage in the world of home computers per capita.
11) According to industry officials, Israel designed the airline industry’s most impenetrable flight security. US officials now look (finally) to Israel for advice on how to handle airborne security threats.
12) Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population in the world.
13) Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation by a large margin––109 per 10,000 people––as well as one of the highest per capita rates of patents filed.
14) In proportion to its population, Israel has the largest number of startup companies in the world. In absolute terms, Israel has the largest number of startup companies than any other country in the world, except the U.S. (3,500 companies, mostly in hi-tech).
15)With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and startups, Israel has the highest concentration of hi-tech companies in the world—apart from the Silicon Valley, U.S.
16)Israel is ranked #2 in the world for venture capital funds, right behind the U.S.
17)Outside the United States and Canada, Israel has the largest number of NASDAQ listed companies.cont…
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 07 30 at 09:07 PM • permalink18)Israel has the highest average living standards in the Middle East.
19)The per capita income in 2000 was over $17,500, exceeding that of the UK.
20)On a per capita basis, Israel has the largest number of biotech startups.
21)Twenty-four per cent of Israel’s workforce holds university degrees, ranking third in the industrialized world, after the United States and Holland, and 12 per cent hold advanced degrees.
22)Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East.
23)In 1984 and 1991, Israel airlifted a total of 22,000 Ethiopian Jews (Operation Solomon) at Risk in Ethiopia, to safety in Israel.
24)When Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1969, she became the world’s second elected female leader in modern times.
25)When the U. S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya was bombed in 1998, Israeli rescue teams were on the scene within a day—and saved three victims from the rubble.
26)Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship—and the highest rate among women and among people over 55 - in the world.
27)Relative to its population, Israel is the largest immigrant-absorbing nation on earth. Immigrants come in search of democracy, religious freedom, and economic opportunity. (Hundreds of thousands from the former Soviet Union)
28)Israel was the first nation in the world to adopt the Kimberly process, an international standard that certifies diamonds as “conflict free.”
29)Israel has the world’s second highest per capita of new books.
30)Israel is the only country in the world that entered the 21st century with a net gain in its number of trees, made more remarkable because this was achieved in an area considered mainly desert.
31)Israel has more museums per capita than any other country.
32)Israeli scientists developed the first fully computerized, no-radiation, diagnostic instrumentation for breast cancer.
33)An Israeli company developed a computerized system for ensuring proper administration of medications, thus removing human error from medical treatment. Every year in U. S. hospitals, 7,000 patients die from treatment mistakes.
34)Israel’s Given Imaging developed the first ingestible video camera, so small it fits inside a pill. Used to view the small intestine from the inside, cancer and digestive disorders.
35)Researchers in Israel developed a new device that directly helps the heart pump blood, an innovation with the potential to save lives among those with heart failure. The new device is synchronized with the camera, helping doctors diagnose the heart¹s mechanical operations through a sophisticated system of sensors.
36)Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the workforce, with 145 per 10,000, as opposed to 85 in the U. S., over 70 in Japan, and less than 60 in Germany. With over 25% of its work force employed in technical professions. Israel places first in this category as well.
37)A new acne treatment developed in Israel, the Clear Light device, produces a high-intensity, ultraviolet-light-free, narrow-band blue light that causes acne bacteria to self-destruct—all without damaging surrounding skin or tissue.
38)An Israeli company was the first to develop and install a large-scale, solar-powered and fully functional electricity generating plant, in southern California’s Mojave desert.
All the above while engaged in regular wars with an implacable enemy that seeks its destruction, and an economy continuously under strain by having to spend more per capita on its own protection than any other country on earth.....and THIS is a little, shitty country?
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 07 30 at 09:08 PM • permalinkThe Synagogue at Parramatta was attacked last night by fifteen men described of being of Middle Eastern appearance.As they couldn’t possibly be followers of the Religion of Peace,they were probably Christian Lebanese.Five of these warriors decamped in a white Lexus,the rest left on foot.Radio news reports in Sydney have varied interpretations of the event but none that I have heard so far have described it as a “rascist attack”,the strongest condemnation has been to describe the vermin as “vandals”.The ABC(702)no doubt to avoid offending didn’t bother to report the attack.
Please, Dan, no details on Ant’s past paramours. He’s already nauseating enough…...
Excellent post, MentalFloss!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 07 30 at 09:49 PM • permalinkThe announcer corrected him and said “actually, it’s only Israeli roads, not a religious issue”.
Loewenstein sucked in his breath so sharply…
The reporter than left it at that. Amazing!
Is the ABC capable of anything except fawning?
Loewenstein is convinced the Jews think everybody is Hitler. Doesn’t seem to explain the number of swastikas and xxx=Hitler at anti-Israel rallies, and wholly absent at pro-Israeli rallies.
He says he “used to work at Fairfax for a number of years but doesn’t work there anymore”.
His story never changes…
Sorry for liveblogging this, but it’s just so bad…
Reporter: “You say you have been silenced. You are getting a lot of press and exposure at the moment. Is that really the case that you have been censored?”
Loewenstein: “[inhales deeply] Yes, it does seem contradictory I will admit”. But they are censoring me… Buy my book. Visit my blog.
Bonmot — Well, okay, but we’re sending you Jesse Macbeth in exchange.
And in typical Aussie-speak, “Good on ya, Terry.”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 30 at 10:24 PM • permalink#65 Mentalfloss
“2)Most of the Windows NT and XP operating systems were developed by Microsoft-Israel.”OHMIGOD! Now will all the Microsoft/Bill Gates haters turn on the Jews too?
More seriously, very interesting pair of posts. I knew there was high-tech capability in Israel, but not that it was so extensive and varied. No wonder everybody who hates the modern world hates Israel. Think what they could do with not having to maintain a huge, cutting edge military and if they had less socialism.
Think what their relatives killed by the Nazis, and the children of the dead who might have been, could have contributed to their countries and to the world. We must prevent another genocide.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 07 30 at 11:22 PM • permalinkMichael Lonie, I debated whether to put the Windows factoid in or not. Wouldn’t want to incite violence and all.
I grew up in the Silicon Valley—watched the orchards fall and the Industrial Parks rise.
But seriously, I was in Israel in ‘77 and again a couple years ago. What a difference a few decades make!
The Coast Road leading into Tel Aviv looks amazingly like HWY 101 around Mountain View/Sunnyvale.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 07 31 at 12:10 AM • permalinkNice work Mentalfloss, where did you find all that?.
Posted by Daniel San on 2006 07 31 at 12:26 AM • permalinki was watching CNN yesterday and they had a story about threats to Isreal from the sea, they made the point that not only are they surrounded on all sides on land, but had pictures of the Israeli navy shooting some nut case on a jet ski racing towards the beach after continually refusing to stop, pictures of some sailors leaning over from what looked like a patrol boat to two guys in some sort of speed boat when they detonated their explosives (thankfully the israeli sailors were only injured and not killed) and then pics of israeli ships shooting at a bit of floating plastic debri that then exploded…
you forget all about the threats from the sea they face, it listed a whole bunch of planned atacks in the last few years that they had defeated, and yet mentioned the threat of boats being used to launch rockets into israel from the sea, outside their 12 mile limit or whatever in international waters…
looking at it from that perspective of their enemies only being 12 miles out at sea, there is almost no where in israel that couldn’t be targeted by medium range rockets from a determined enemy, so no wonder israelis have grown up with a mentality (apart from the suicide bombers) that they are really safe no where in israel and they just get on with their lives…
it must have some effect on the psychie knowing your always a potential target for 50 years and your not really safe anywhere…
Last week, an Israeli S/W company “Mercury Interactive” was purchased by HP for $4.5b (yes billion).
That prompted me to look around a bit more into the Tech side. Most of it I was already aware of, but I just kept running into statistics that surprised even me, so I kept digging.
Some from the CIA World Factbook, some from The Israel Project (.org), some of it I encountered when trying to decipher a certain email from a certain Mad Mullah for a friend (who shall remain nameless).
Actually, y’all might find this site interesting. I pretty much had everything I wanted, then came across this Iranian gal—Shirin Tabibzadeh, from Cupertino.
The site is well worth a read (well, the English bit, anyway).
Here’s a selected gem she links to from her page.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 07 31 at 01:14 AM • permalink(FYI, Mercury Interactive produces the leading software quality management, testing and version control software in the world—most tenders for large software projects require it from prospective bidders)
(and yes, I see the apparent cog_dis in using software to test software—but I’ve used their stuff and it is a hell of a lot better than the “zip & ship” method used by many)
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 07 31 at 01:25 AM • permalinkMy call is that Mel has finally worn out any doubt that he may have been entitled to the benefit of.
The issue of doubt does not even arise at Antony’s place.
In “discussing” an article by John Podhoretz, Adamo_01 had this to say:
With a name like Podhoretz, it’s no surprise someone would like such bullshit.
Now there’s a sign of an erudite mind. As far as I know he doesn’t even have the excuse of being drunk.
It gets worse, geoff. Adammo cites a moonbat blog about human shields:
“When someone uses another human being as a “shield,” under the plain meaning of the word, it is understood to be a method to deter aggression by adversaries. In order for that objective to be achieved, crucial premises must first exist.
The party who employs the human shield MUST assume that their adversary will hesitate to fire against those shields for fear of harming them.
But in order for that to happen, the adversary must first CARE about the welfare of the so-called “human shields.”
If the opposing party DOES NOT CARE about their welfare, then the alleged objective of deterring aggression falls apart.
For example, in the United States, a bank robber might take a hostage to deter the use of overwhelming force by police. In every case, the police DO NOT fire for fear that they might jeopardize the life of the hostage.”
What a maroon! I doubt the post will take, but I left this in reply:
“Adammo_n, There is no police force in the world that would hesitate to shoot the bank-robber/hostage-taker if he continued to kill other innocents from behind his “human shield”—even if it means the loss of the hostage’s life.
Your argument (and its source) is specious and non-cupatory.”
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 07 31 at 02:02 AM • permalinkMetalFloss, Thanks for those two great posts regarding Israels achievments, they are just additional reasons for the arab to hate the jew, if the muslims had 1% of the intelligence and common sense of the Israelis, they would be so much better off, but they prefer war, poverty and death.
Thanks for the info.
I would tend to agree with Andrea about The Passion of the Christ. I have watched it, I am a Catholic by the way, and thought it was an important spiritual movie. If I thought that it was anti-semitic in any way I would have condemned it. I don’t know why some people think the Romans were shown nicer than the Jews; after watching the flogging scene that just doesn’t fit.
Mel Gibson has shown himself as an idiot for his drunken behaviour and outburst. But at least he has come out straight away and apologised. As for those who are using what he said while drunk they need to look at his apology at bit closer:
“I acted like a person completely out of control when I was arrested and said things that I do not believe to be true and which are despicable.
As for the other part to his apology when was the last time you heard this from someone in Hollywood after being arrested:
“The arresting officer was just doing his job and I feel fortunate that I was apprehended before I caused injury to any other person.”
Overlong url removed. Learn to make a link. The Management.By the way he isn’t a very good anti-semitic as he is producing a miniseries on the Holocaust:
Meanwhile, the Holocaust project, to be adapted from a little-known 1998 memoir called “Flory: Survival in the Valley of Death,” which recounts the experiences of a young Dutch Jew during World War II...
Overlong url removed. Again, learn to make a link. The Management.I agree now that you mention it Smith, if your an old alcoholic 0.12 probably isn’t gonna make u lose control and say things u don’t mean… unless he hasn’t touch much for a very long time??
and why was he in such a foul mood threatening the police and crapping on against the joooz anyway??? he thinks he’s above the law does he like plenty of rich people??? the stresses of life just getting toooooo much for him are they, with all those hudnreds of millions he has, driving back to his multi-million dollar beachfront mansion eh???
i have liked him in some of his movies too, pity it turns out he’s pretty much just a overpaid prima donna pr!ck like most hollywood types????
and as for the peaceniks crapping on about human shields, u can imagine the response if the US troops in Iraq surrounded their convoys with cars with iraqi civvies in them, or made them walk around US and Brit foot patrols eh??? who would get crucified… no need to even speculate if the head hackers would hesitate for a milli second to detonate their IEDs…..
usual leftie horsesh!te double standards and manipulating the arguments to favour their side regardless of the situation…
Mel Gibson was drunk. I’ll give the guy the benefit of the doubt.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 07 31 at 05:14 AM • permalink#41 Andrea:
That was very well-thought-out and well-written.
To any leftist who wants to bash Gibson over this the rest of his life, I say: Why do you tolerate Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton?
Posted by Rittenhouse on 2006 07 31 at 09:35 AM • permalinkRittenhouse — Nobody here does; why don’t you ask those who do?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 31 at 09:50 AM • permalinkYoungy — I dunno, producing a miniseries on the Holocaust seems like a pretty good way to get to watch Jews being abused for weeks on end for an anti-Semite. “Get’em, Wolfgang, ooh, yeh! Oh, you naughty Nazi! Go! Go! Go!”
Me, I’m still designing my ‘Mel Gibson For President’ sign to go with my ‘No Blood for Jews’ sign (for when I seek common ground with the MoveOnBots) until I see or hear something REALLY different from Gibson.
But I’ll never spend another dime on one of his efforts again in any case.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 31 at 09:58 AM • permalinkRich drunks like Gibson get the easy treatment from police. Throw the book at him, a huge really heavy religious book with nails and spikes on it.
Mel continues to claim he fell off the wagon but Malibu police are leaking that he has been caught driving intoxicated on two other occasions in the last two years and was let go scot-free.
Mel hasn’t apologised. He didn’t have the balls to stand in front of a camera and explain what happened. Even with a hangover if that was necessary.
He “issued a statement” through his agent. Even then it was mainly about poor Mel. I wonder who wrote it. The agent or somebody contracted by the agent?
Alcohol can make otherwise decent people do and say some pretty horrible things. The real test of character is what they do in the cold light of the next day. Instinctively.
Can someone please photoshop that second picture to add what the bald guy is thinking
“Look, I don’t really believe any of this idiocy but I am ugly as sin and my only chance of banging this broad is to stand here and fight the power…c’mon lads, I really really need to get laid!”
Posted by Pogue Mahone on 2006 07 31 at 11:19 AM • permalinkWord is, when Mel was working in the video store before he hit it big, he kept filing “Sophie’s Choice” under “Comedy.”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 31 at 09:31 PM • permalinkWe can’t do anything about the mad Islamic bombers, who don’t at all care that Jew-hatred makes us uncomfortable. Gibson, however, is our bitch. And so our self-esteem, which suffers whenever a Muslim thug decides he’s going to kill some unarmed Jewish women and the press puts out absurd articles expressing bewilderment as to his motives, is given a boost by a nice roundhouse kicking of a drunken actor/director whose income and career we control. Feel the power!
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 07 31 at 11:41 PM • permalinkAndrea - I think we should use a proportionate response. If someone like Mel runs his gums about an issue, he should be taken down with words.
If a terrorist organisation blows things up, respond in kind.
Wait a second - isn’t that eye for eye, tooth for a tooth another Jewish conspiracy. Naughty me.
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#105 I have found that many, many folks in many places wrongly interpret “an eye for an eye…etc.” as “revenge in equal measure”.
The biblical concept of “an eye for an eye” is well known. The way it is frequently understood is that one is punished with exactly what one inflicts on another. Therefore, someone who damages another’s eye will have his eye damaged. Someone who knocks out another’s tooth will have his tooth knocked out. However, rabbinic literature has never understood it this way. The Mechilta on Exodus 21:24 and the Talmud in Ketuvot 32b and Bava Kamma 83b understand “an eye for an eye” as meaning that someone who damage’s an eye must pay the value of that eye. An eye’s worth for an eye.
The rabbis are not overriding the Bible, nor the sages distorting the Torah because they found it objectionable.
The answer is that understanding the Bible requires more than reading one verse. You have to read that verse in its context and compare its language with similar language throughout the Bible. Our contention is that “an eye for an eye” in its most literal and simple meaning is “an eye’s worth for an eye”.
If you haven’t scrolled away already, let’s look at the passage in the Torah that have the phrase “an eye for an eye” and analyze it carefully.
When individuals quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or fist so that the injured party, though not dead, is confined to bed, but recovers and walks around outside with the help of a staff, then the assailant shall be free of liability, except to give for the loss of time, and to arrange for full recovery.
When people who are fighting injure a pregnant woman so that there is a miscarriage, and yet no further harm follows, the one responsible shall be fined… If any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. (Exodus 21:18-19, 22-25)
So, in modern Sharia Law, just as in Babylonian law (Code of Hammurabi), it is generally lex talionis all the way—usually a sort of symbolic retaliation as the punishment of the offending member, seen in the cutting off the hand that struck a father or stole a trust; in cutting off the breast of a wet nurse who substituted a changeling for the child entrusted to her; in the loss of the tongue that denied father or mother (in the Elamite contracts, the same penalty was inflicted for perjury); in the loss of the eye that pried into forbidden secrets. The loss of the surgeon’s hand that caused loss of life or limb, and so on.
But not in the Judaeo-Christian tradition.
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I can’t even understand most of the rantings on that sign.
“No DBL Sids”
?
“Let Melbourne make portable gas ovens.”
WTF?
Can someone who speaks moonbat enlighten me?