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Excellent column from Julia Gorin:
It’s a peculiar thing that as the threat of global terrorism reaches a crescendo, so apparently does the threat of global warming - at least that’s what some would have us believe.
Tough language is borrowed from the war on terror and applied to the war on weather. “I really consider this a national security issue,” says celebrity activist and “An Inconvenient Truth” producer Laurie David. “Truth” star Al Gore calls global warming a “planetary emergency.” Bill Clinton’s first worry is climate change: “It’s the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization as we know it.”
Freud called it displacement. People fixate on the environment when they can’t deal with real threats.
Read on.
If Laurie David is so worried about global warming, why isn’t she plane-pooling with Tom Brokaw in her private Gulfstream IV?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 13 at 11:13 PM • permalinkPeople fixate on the environment when they can’t deal with real threats.
Yup - that would be the Dems, all right.
Loons, the lot of ‘em.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2006 07 13 at 11:35 PM • permalinkThat was great.
While the hawks among us worry about preventing the Armageddon that’s coming, our modern-day hippies just want to make sure the planet is pristine when it does. In fact, the more menacing terrorism becomes, the more some people seem to worry about the weather. Scared and unsure how to fight terrorists, they confront “climate change,” which only requires spending trillions of other people’s dollars on something that may not need fixing or may not be fixable. No wonder some of these people chain themselves to trees - they think money grows on them.
LOL That may be a comic tagline, but she’s right. In this as in all things, follow the money. Love the “modern-day hippies”.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 07 13 at 11:59 PM • permalink#6 casanova “and lets face it, bravely talking out against big bad Bush and fretting over furry polar bears isn’t gonna earn you a beheading, like confronting the real threat of the islamo-crackpots just might….”
That could change with a quickness if the “Anglo-sphere” gets pushed hard enough to recall their more atavistic nature.
So Bill Clinton’s first worry is climate change: “It’s the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization as we know it.”
Bill is fundamentally wrong to place this ‘fundamental’ threat ahead of the Islamic Fundamentalist threat.
They alone have given us sufficient evidence already to decide the issue…Rhodes Scholar Bill is also incoherent in saying ‘end the march of civilisation as we know it.’ ‘Reverse’ is worse.
Well, he always preferred to sound portentously impressive, rather than say anything really smart.Anyone know any Original Sayings of Bill?
I thought not.hmmm sort of O/T, i see there is gonna be some big earth shindig/talkfest in brissie in the near future, “Earth Dialogues”, but the organisers to their chagrin can’t attract either the PM or Bomber Beazley to rock up to it…
its billed as a “top international security, energy and environment summit headed by former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev” and yet the line up of big name speakers apart from Gorby, includes:
“Other Nobel laureates coming to Brisbane include Irish peace activist Betty Williams, Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi and Argentinian activist Aldolfo Perez Esquivel. Aboriginal activist Noel Pearson is one of the keynote Australian speakers.
now i don’t know what the argie bargies field of expertise is, but what the crap do any of this lot know about security, energy or any significant knowledge about environmental issues???
no wonder they are struggling to attract any high level attention to what will more than likely be some clapped out lefty, love-in…. even on an issue where pollies (at least certain former american types) usually can’t get their mugs in the media fast enough professing their deep concern and anguish…
Earth Dialogues Qld Government
it’s also under Brisbane Festival 2006.Apologies for the OT, but the Age is frantically begging anyone in Lebanon with so much as a camera phone to send piccies of the attacks. Don’t they have news agencies or foreign journalists there? I don’t recall the Age frantically soliciting camera phone pictures of Israeli settlements being Katusha-rocketed.
O/T, but how long before the first plastic porker story starts to circulate?
We could kick it off here, and save the NYT the trouble of inventing the tale.
Climate change is real. Everyone I know older than me, had to walk to school through driven snow. Not once in my lifetime has it even snowed.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 07 14 at 01:58 AM • permalink“I really consider this a national security issue,” says celebrity activist and “An Inconvenient Truth” producer Laurie David. “Truth” star Al Gore calls global warming a “planetary emergency.” Bill Clinton’s first worry is climate change: “It’s the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization as we know it.”
For Ms. David to utter this, shows a complete ignorance, as to what the difference between “global warming” and “clitoridectomy” IS.
(the) IS, IS (God what a segway or segue, as it leads straight to….Bill Clinton and his NOT so loyal friend
TontoAl Gore. (Sorry Tonto, aka Jay Silverheels, aka Harry Smith).In these two Bozo’s instance what “Freud called” “displacement”, can and should be called C-O-W-A-R-I-D-I-C-E, which in actuality displacement is, only in a vulgar, unmedical like term.
Bombing a factory in Sudan, (which the Clinton administration claimed, at the time) was making chemical components for the Saddam Hussein regime, later to be denied by both Clinton and Gore and waiting to make sure no “innocents” were killed in Afghanistan, THEN shooting tomahawks (sorry Tonto) up Camels asses in empty tents, trying to ‘kill’ Osama bin Laden, after turning down the chance at being handed Osama bin Laden, on a Sudan platter of gold (prior to the factory bombing).
“Innocents”? Who the fuck do you think was being killed at the time Bill and Al? Who the fuck is being killed to this day? (and I speak not of the terrorists nor their extended families)
Ahhh yes, Freud’s “displacement”, is truly another mans cowardice, Bill and Al. That is exactly what you are, cowards.
You boys and your ilk, keep on worrying about “global warming”, you’ll look great in beards and long robes, that is if you have something to grow the beard on, as in a physical presence, of a head.
Speaking of “head”, Bill. How’s Monica? While all this worldly shit, like TERROR, was going on during your tenure?
“Freud called it displacement”. Yes, He sure did.The LINK for the Sudan offer. As spoken by and for, at the same time denied and against, by….Bill Clinton.
Whom it seems was for, the capture or killing of Osama bin Laden, BEFORE it seems he was against. the capture or killing of, Osama bin Laden.
Gee, where have I heard that one, before?
For Freud, the unconscious was a depository for socially unacceptable ideas, wishes or desires, traumatic memories, and painful emotions put out of mind by the mechanism of psychological repression.
So what is the world or the group collective repressing or projecting?
mm… Blame it on the rain. Hi Whale !!
OT. Channel 7 news. War in the ME is leading. Hezbollah and its Syrian and Iranian sponsors are actually named as being responsible for Israel’s “defensive” action.
I never thought I’d see this on the news.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 07 14 at 04:05 AM • permalink#24 - There were a couple of good pro-Israel interviews on Hinch this PM.
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 07 14 at 04:22 AM • permalink#19 I had to walk to school through the snow—AND it was uphill both ways!
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 07 14 at 05:14 AM • permalinkThere are currently 25000 ‘Australians’ residing in Lebanon.
I hope the evil IDF Zionist oppressors dont harm these poor innocent Aussies.Posted by Islam/cancer-Chuck Norris/answer on 2006 07 14 at 05:56 AM • permalinkThat’s right, daza, Israel bombed Haifa as an excuse to open another front to fight on.
Anybody got change for a clue?
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 07 14 at 07:12 AM • permalinkWhat a load of crap. The height of global warming alarmism was years before the (governmental) fixation with terrorism took hold. Remember those docos about the greenhouse effect and the ozone hole? Back when the grim reaper was on telly to edumucate us about AIDS. Years ago. Gorin is drawing a long bow for the benefit of the chorus - and you lot are the chorus.
#22, 24 - Hi 1.6180339.. No rain in Brisbane to speak of for over 250 days but thanks for your feedback.
My mother always caught, killed and cooked the rabbits after they copulated. It wouldn’t have been right to do otherwise.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2006 07 14 at 08:27 AM • permalink#34 I had the grim reaper around for dinner the other night. He’s still fuming about losing his aids t.v. gig. Just can’t understand how he got written out of the story - reckons eddie had a hand in it (eddie don’t go for bowling). Anyway, he’s very optimistic about reprising his role with the global climate uppitydowns - got himself a new sickle and everything. still working on his new routine though - he’s not sure whether he should appear through hail and sleet hurling bolts of lightening or just stand there, kinda menacing like
What a load of crap. The height of global warming alarmism was years before the (governmental) fixation with terrorism took hold.
No, YOU’RE full of crap if you think any time before now was the “height” of global warming alarmism.
Remember those docos about the greenhouse effect and the ozone hole?
Yeah. Those were on, like, 24/7. And they were in movie theatres nationwide. And presidential candidates were always the point men. Not like today, when a Google search on “global warming” will only give you fouteen results from the past three years.
Back when the grim reaper was on telly to edumucate us about AIDS.
WTF? You need to dial back the Snarky Non-Sequitur subroutine in your Lefty Random Nonsense Generator.
If you’re gunning for Addamo’s crown as Dumbest Lefty Troll, you’re coming strong out of the gate.
37 paco….ROFLMAO
Julia Gorin is always a good read; her columns can be accessed here . She’s a professional comedian who happens to have a first rate mind and a keen interest in politics, making for articles that are both funny and instructive.
Oh yeah, that’s right forgot she uses her pen name when writing at JWR. Caroline B. Glick.
Of course I could look again, to see if I may have in fact, overlooked her REAL name.
Correct me if I err, but I thought her picture was the second one down, dressed in black, holding a sign.
38 Dave S.
If you’re gunning for Addamo’s crown as Dumbest Lefty Troll, you’re coming strong out of the gate.
OR the one named Disgustove_deleft.
Oh since you are a Buffalo kid, as myself, in my early morning rant at #20, I indicated Tonto, Jay Silverheels (stage name) AND Harry Smith. Well turns out that in Little Sicily/Italy where I grew up, there happened to be a family living right next door, by the name of Smith. One of the children of that Smith family was Harry Smith.
Tonto, visited quite often, as his folks (his father was Harry also) were elderly then. Tonto…geez, OK Harry, would usually drive in to the West side, in a fully decked out with real a cowhide (blots of white color and all) interior and a small pair of steer horns as a hood ornament, on his 1957 De Soto station wagon.
#34 -“The height of global warming alarmism was years before the (governmental) fixation with terrorism took hold”.
No it wasn’t. Before “the fixation with terrorism” we were pressed by very learned people to concentrate our fixation on:1. Global cooling
2. Universal starvation and
3. Death by asphyxiation by urban pollutantsSo brainstrust and knowledgeable historian, give us your views on where a concern about terrorism (and a need to fight it) rates against the predictions of 1 - 3 above. I presume you still believe they will happen.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2006 07 14 at 09:18 AM • permalink“Using an enviro-doomsday computerized weather model, I calculated that our catastrophe-to-be should befall us soon after the caliphate has completed its takeover. Just in time to put the planet out of its misery.”
What a marvelous insight! Now we know why the Left has allied itself with Islamofascism: to save the planet!
After all, if human industry is the source of the “pollution” that is threatening the health of Gaia, what better way to halt it than to hand the world over the Islam? Islam would quickly reduced the world to the hardscrabble peasantry of Palestine and Afghanistan; no more nasty CO2 giving Mother Gaia indigestion! The world would be more natural! Mother Gaia will be pleased!
Such is the politics of our day: wooly-headed pantheists making common cause with throat-slitting monotheists to shut human progress down in its tracks.
Posted by Urbs in Horto on 2006 07 14 at 09:26 AM • permalink#49 - There’s nothing wrong with being a Pantheist. When the be-suited Creationists, Jehovahs, Mormans, Seventh Day Adventists and other loons lob up at my door and I tell them such, they look at me blankly and fuck off down the road. Even though I’m willing to talk about entropy and the arrow of time.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2006 07 14 at 09:36 AM • permalinkMaybe we can bring the AlGores back into the game by Ahmedinajad start pumping oil into the Gulf the way Saddam did?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 14 at 09:50 AM • permalink“Yeah. Those were on, like, 24/7. And they were in movie theatres nationwide. And presidential candidates were always the point men.”
Actually, a PRESIDENT (remember, Jimmy “The Dhimmi” Carter?) was the point man on CFCs and the ozone hole, throughout the Reagan years. Carter really managed to screw up not just the environment, but the economy with his policies. Remember $10 a *liter* gasoline during the energy crisis?
I actually bought in to the hysteria back then. Spent my entire high school life believing everyone in the world would be dead by 1995 if we didn’t check the population somehow. Not only didn’t we check it, but population growth has actually surpassed what the most hysterical “population bombers” predicted with their “exponential” charts. 200 million people in the US alone? Try 285 million.
Guess what? Not only is civilization still here, it’s working better than ever, throwing the “earth-friendly” third world’s failures into such stark relief that the people subjected to “sustainable” policies are doing everything they can, even killing themselves, to escape the “natual environments” they live in.
Posted by Tatterdemalian on 2006 07 14 at 10:42 AM • permalink#30 daza
This current zionist aggression is just to draw Iran into a war, to give the zionists a pretext to attack Iranian nuclear facilities.daza, examine your mindset. You fit the Leftoid stereotype so snuggly. Hamas terrorists wearing Israeli DF uniforms dig a tunnel into Israel and attack Israeli soldiers, kill a number of them and take one hostage, then Hezbollah attacks Israel, kills soldiers and takes two hostage—and you call it “Zionist aggression”.
What other country has to continually justify its right to defend itself—even when attacked?
Jew hatred is centuries old and you daza, nurture it. You are a fuckwit.
darrinh sure is letting it all hang out since he got banned, isn’t he.
I guess our lefty trolls were right that you should have been gone much earlier, darrin, but alas, you managed to keep yourself in check for longer than they usually manage. Glad to see you’re feeling liberated enough now to do your part in furthering Blair’s Law.
There’s an expression in American newspaper journalism called “phoning it in.” It refers to a reporter doing the least amount of work to get a story into the paper.
You’re been phoning it, Tim, and I think that you’re smart enough to know that. I used to look forward to going to your blog but you’ve becoming drearily predictable. Another day and more red meat thrown to the right-wing jackels who clog up your comment sections with the same drool cup responses.
Nothing cogent about the Middle East crisis, just another opportunity to ridicule the many folks who take global warning seriously.
Not a peep about the Mahmudiyah rape-murders but no opportunity to bash the pathetic Cindy Sheehan left untaken.
And so on and so forth.
T’was fine when you showed real interest in the world beyond your beer and barbie. There surely is a worthy heir to your throne. May I respectfully submit that you start looking for one?
Another day and more red meat thrown to the right-wing jackels who clog up your comment sections with the same drool cup responses.
Tim must be mailing the red meat in, too, because I sure haven’t seen any. And will the rest of you please keep that yipping down? The phone’s ringing, and it’s probably Tim. And Wronwright, put that scepter and orb back in the closet.
“Nothing cogent about the Mideast crisis” Try reading some of the posts. Several people have been commenting on the fact that a sovereign nation is being attacked by two groups and is reacting. This is red meat? How about condemming the jerk that referred to “Zionist aggression”? Or are “drool cup” quality responses only possible from the Right Wing Death Beasts?
As for alledged offenses by American troops, they have been commented upon. It’s been repeatedly noted that such crimes are indeed crimes, should be investigated and prosecuted, and the offenders punished. That stems from belonging to societies that value the rule of law. Unfortunately for you, most of us do not think that incidental crimes invalidate the use of force. Neither do you, since the prevalence of child rape cases in UN peacekeeping missions has not moved you to call for the disbanding of the UN, or at least to the immediate halt of all UN peacekeeping efforts.
As for finding an heir, I suggest that you start your own blog, visit others that you deem worthy, or encourage others to start their own. Asking for heirs is so anti-democratic.
Pardon me whilst I drool.
Cogent thought on the ‘Middle East’.
I’m all for Israel defending itself and to whatever extent it takes. Awfully bad though that there are millions, in many Nations that don’t think that way.
The Islamic world has been taking advantage of people and making fools of people like Rachel Corrie, Noam Chomsky, Goerge Soros, for far to long.
Let’s see, now: (1) the terrorist attack in India; (2) the Cambodian genocide (with a cameo appearance by Noam Chomsky, “the geniusest intellectual in the history of the whole gol dang universe!”); (3)turf war within the Liberal Party; (4)airport security in the U.S.; (4) North Korea’s missile launches and the Japanese response; (5) cultural clashes (Muslims, Christians, theme parks and weddings); and, oh yes, (5) global warming paranoia as a tool for expanding the power of the state, and as a leimotif for the whole panoply of leftist bugaboos. Sounds like an interesting assortment, to me. But kiko’s got a point: Tim didn’t actually clear any of this stuff with her (or with - surely not with a name like kiko - him?). Ahhhhh, but I’m forgetting; the name of the blog is “Tim Blair”, not “kiko”.
Blue Hen answered elegantly on ‘alleged’ crimes of Americans and and crimes of the U.N. to which proof exists, out the ying yang.
If Amercian troops have in fact commited those crimes, they will be punished, just like those that are convicted of those same crimes here, in the States, if we can catch and convict. Difference being, with American troops, we know where they are.
Cogent thought on Cindy Sheehan, there is none!
#61: Oh, I say! kiko is a feller. Apologies, old son.
Incidentally, I read through the blog a little ways, and I believe he’s - whaddayoucallit? - “calling it in”. The usual Bush bashing, lots of links, and a good deal of opining (not all of it completely unsound, but absolutely at sea on, for example, the Wilson/Plame business). Didn’t have a chance to visit the comments, because the site’s not loading completely on my computer.
#55—“just another opportunity to ridicule the many folks who take global warming seriously.”
Well, why not? Folks that take, above all else, global warming seriously, should be ridiculed. And they deserve to be ridiculed, mercilessly.
Why? The dishonesty exhibited by the “global warming” folks would embarass, or at least humble, most sentient people.
Insead, the hysterical and alarmist rhetoric reaches new heights of absurdity—yes, absurdity, e.g. see Gore, et.al.
Examples:
Continued acceptance of the Michael Mann “hockey stick” temperature record after its thorough debunking by McKitrick and McIntyre; noting that these two men are statisticians, while Mann is not. Their citique of Mann’s methodology demonstrated that a random set of trendless numbers would generate a hockey stick outcome.
Failure to accept as a given that current average temperatures fall with in a range that includes the medieval warm period and the little age age—a temperature record the US National Academy of Sciences has recently sustained—despite the fraudulent reporting in the MSM as otherwise.
Finally, acceptance of meritless economic assumptions and methodology in the IPCC report—as critiqued by Castles and Henderson—for comparing economic output of different countries for the 1990 base year, and the growth rate assumptions used to determine the year 2100 terminus. The dishonesty is especially displayed by the economic growth rate assumptions used, as based not on argument and evidence, but on an arbitrary view of what would make a better world. The year 2100 outcome, therefore, is a self-fulfilling prophesy as it purports high developing world growth rates means high “greenhouse gas” emissions, resulting in ever higher global temperatures.
So what we have are so-called climate scientists making 100 year economic forecasts upon which they proclaim certainty about future global temperatures.
This is called: garbage in, garbage out, by anyone in possession of an ounce of humility.
The global warming folks that kiko refers to takes this garbage seriously. It’s nice to see there is a “consensus” on fraud—for that is what they’re promoting.
I’d say, the more ridicule, the better.
Oh and if Dave S., is still around, OR he reads this at a later time….I lived on 27 Bremen Street, Buffalo, NY…next to Harry Smith’s parents…and proudly so I might add, they were warm, wonderful folks and use to laugh hysterically at my jaw dropping, mouth wide open, drooling as a child AND my eyes as big around as half dollars, every time Jay Silverheels came to see them.
Yes, I’m from Delaware.
Your site isn’t loading completely. (Nice to see that you’re holding to the ‘Iraq’s in a slow motion civil war and the US troops are a destabilizing influence!’ schtick.)
Quick: define the term civil war. Cite examples from the last 160 years to compare and contrast.
Quicker still: If US troops in Iraq are a “destabilizing influence”, is this the case in Kosovo, South Korea and the FRG? If so, why? If not, why not? Again, please provide examples to support your assertions, ensuring that you address the legitimacy of the US supporting any future applications of force, within or without UN involvement.
I will now resume drooling.
Not a peep about the Mahmudiyah rape-murders
Whereas your record of condemning Uday’s rape/murders is extensive, yes?
OK, kiko, how about this - rape and murder are bad, ‘mmkay? People who do it are bad and should be executed, ‘mmkay? Are you happy now that the fucking obvious has been stated?
Now, your turn - let’s hear how you feel about Uday’s record. Cuz so far, you know, I haven’t heard a peep from you.
Oh, and another thing, kiko - this is Tim Blair’s blog. The criterion for what gets posted here is what interests Tim. I’m sure his regular readers rate a close second. What interests you is irrelevant. I’m sure your overweening narcissism demands that anything dull to you must objectively be “phoning it in”, but we non-solipsists tend to make allowances for other people’s interests.
Personally, I think Tim provides an invaluable antidote to the groupthink of your allies in the MSM (witness your credulousness about global warming.)
Oh, and reports of atrocities by US forces have, so far, proven to be false. Perhaps this one is true. But you really should have learned a lesson by now about jumping to condemnation (of course, that brings us back to that credulousness.)
WOW, hurry folks there is still time to “phone” “in”, cogent thoughts and questions, time is running out BUT if you “phone” within the next 30 minutes, you will receive this handy dandy set of Ginsu knives, so sharp, it can slice a head off and still be razor sharp for your ripest tomato…..AND should you “phone” and mention this phrase…Tim Blair, WE will double everything you see before your eyes.
Don’t wait, “phone” “in” NOW!.
Dave S.
Well the folks did come from the 6 Nations Indian Reserve in Canada, why they picked Bremen Street, in Buffalo, have no idea…except for some nice Sicilian folks living next to them.
Link I’m sure there are a few more links, beside this one.
Pictures of Jay that were taken, seemed to have been glommed onto by my sweet relatives still up there…LOL. Wish I had them…BUT oh nooooooo.
Did we just experience a little troll bump ‘n run? I could swear there were some classically whinish and swinish remarks made about us drooling Timites and a sad “people who care” deposit then whoosh, off. gson, daza, kiko. Are you all the same retarded leftist using three different screen names, or did you gather over at Kos and plan your little skirmish behind ideological enemy lines??? Oh, Miranda Divide is around, too. Just hasn’t got to this thread yet. It’s usually the high point of my online day when you come by, so please, come back and say some more funny stuff so we can all have a larf, willya?
I believe kiko did a little drive-by just to attract readers to his blog. It worked, as some of us went over to have a look, but it’s a wasted effort. The thing won’t load properly, and what did show is just more of the same Israel-bashing, oh-the-poor-Pals crap you find on any run-of-the-mill lefty site. If you wanted an illustration of “phoning it in”, that’s one.
Gorrammit, doesn’t ANYbody understand what a “crescendo” is?!
Posted by Brian Tiemann on 2006 07 14 at 03:04 PM • permalinkKiko, if I may offer a hint?
Assume that you have the moral high ground in an argument when, in fact, you actually occupy the moral high ground.
If you wonder why I bring this up, well, look here, here, and here.
And asserting that you have the high ground (as you did here) is the same thing as assuming here.
Have a nice weekend!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 07 14 at 03:06 PM • permalinkPS: I won’t be visiting your site. Link whoring doesn’t work for. I prefer seduction.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 07 14 at 03:07 PM • permalink#32 You said “wouldn’t surprise me, Haifa is outside the range of katie.”
You are an idiot. Read this:
Iran supplied Hezbollah with solid-fuel, Zelzal-2 missiles with a 200-km range, but these are not very accurate, since they do not have a self-guidance system.
The Zelzal-2 missiles, intended to strike broad targets such as communities and cities, are equipped with explosive warheads weighing up to 600 kilograms. The missiles are a later version of the Zelzal-1 missiles, which Iran first displayed in September 2005 at a military parade in Tehran, together with six Shihab-3 missiles.
Hezbollah’s original Katyusha rockets had a range of 12 kilometers to 22 kilometers. At a later stage, it obtained Iranian Fajar-3 and Fajar-5 rockets, with a range of 45 kilometers and 75 kilometers, respectively. Hezbollah did not use these rockets until the current conflict.
The organization also has Syrian-made 22-millimeter rockets with a range of several dozen kilometers.
The rocket that hit Haifa on Thursday did not come as a complete surprise: the Israel Defense Forces knew Hezbollah had rockets with a range that would reach Haifa, but were surprised that the organization opted to use them.
Israel first learned that Hezbollah had rockets capable of reaching the outskirts of Haifa three months before the IDF pullout from Lebanon in May 2000.
The head of Military Intelligence reported two years ago that Hezbollah has 13,000 rockets, most with a 25-kilometer range, about 500 with a range of 45 kilometers to 75 kilometers, and a few dozen with a 115-kilometer range. The rockets were stored in several strategic places in the Beka’a Valley, and some were deployed along the Israeli border.
[From Ha’Aretz 17:03 14/07/2006]
They can now reach Beersheba (thats in the Negev, you ignorant twat).
What would America do if 100’s of missles began raining down on the Southwest from a militant group in Mexico? If some crazy Quebec splinter group started banging on Bangor, Maine?
What would Australia do if Jemaah Islamiya from Indonesian soil sank an Aussie Frigate, or lobbed a few missiles into Darwin?
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 07 14 at 03:27 PM • permalinkThe situation is far more severe than one attack on a city or ship. Supposedly the number of Israelis sheltering from the rocket attacks constitues a considerable percentage of their population. The last reported figure was over 200,000 in the areas under assault. I heard that israel’s total population is about 3 million, so that means almost 10% of their people are under direct attack.
An equivalent example would be almost 30 million Americans being bombarded. And yet, the mildest criticsms are that Israel’s response had been “disporportionate”.
Hezbollah: We’re Ready for ‘Open War’ With Israel
When haven’t you been you filthy cultist scum, sons and daughters of running dogs and pigs. HERE
You will NOT survive, and when Israel needs or wants our firepower….what they don’t take out, we will. Bet your sweet dead ass on that Bedouin.
paco,
I have no idea how you did that. But the font type setting machine just threw a spaceley sprocket. I know have to take the Tardis to the 22nd century and get one.
My pizza-and-Frostie-root-beer night just went phooey thankyouverymuch.
(I would just bet Andrea says jack shit to paco about this)
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So, daza, no bullshit response at the ready for info on the new and improved Hezbollah rocket arsenal, eh?
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Ironically and embarrassingly, I’m actually thinking of calling the 1-800 number.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 07 14 at 08:48 PM • permalink#50. I tell them I’m catholic and get the same reaction lol.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 07 14 at 09:08 PM • permalinkG’day, Cid. What is up with this dull-aza putz?
This from Ahmadinejad:
“If the Zionist regime commits another stupid move and attacks Syria, this will be considered like attacking the whole Islamic world and this regime will receive a very fierce response…[it is] a must for the Organisation of the Islamic Conference to become more active regarding the new crisis created by the Zionist regime…”
[Iran state television]
The house of Saud, on the other hand:
“A distinction must be made between legitimate resistance and uncalculated adventures undertaken by elements inside (Lebanon) and those behind them without recourse to the legal authorities and consulting and coordinating with Arab nations”
“These elements should bear the responsibility for their irresponsible actions and they alone should end the crisis they have created. They (the elements) are exposing Arab nations and their gains to grave dangers without these nations having a say in the matter…”
[Saudi official news agency SPA]
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 07 14 at 09:12 PM • permalinkSorry I missed the debate.
I agree with the authour. There’s no point worrying about the imaginary threat of global warming, when there’s the very real threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
Actually, there is one country who continually makes threats of nuking various neighbours, including Japan and South Korea - A country that actually has nuclear weapons, yet the combined right of the blogsohere speaks little of this threat. Why is that do you think? Serious question.
Posted by gustov_deleft on 2006 07 14 at 09:28 PM • permalinkNo, Tatterdemalion, I don’t remember $10/l gas during the energy crisis, and I was there.
The CFC problem was a real one.
But don’t let your politics get in the way of analyzing evidence.
Posted by Harry Eagar on 2006 07 14 at 09:30 PM • permalinkFloss
What is up with this dull-aza putz?
As P.T. Barnum supposedly stated..“there’s one born every minute”
The house of Saud, on the other hand.... is getting the shit frightened out of them by the crazy midget Persian rug merchant.
109 No, I’m not an adherent of the Religion of Peace™.
Are you an Apostate?, If you are, we’ll turn you in.
110 Indonesians need to do if they want to invade Australia is join hands and walk across the ocean.
and float back, bloated.
While you working on your snappy comeback, daza, have a look at this:
Mirsad—Iranian-built UAV damages Israeli gunboat, 4 sailors MIA
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 07 14 at 09:35 PM • permalinkEl Campeador at #117, can’t agree for reasons stated against this little Nazi daza-shit here.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 07 14 at 10:00 PM • permalinkActually, there is one country who continually makes threats of nuking various neighbours, including Japan and South Korea - A country that actually has nuclear weapons, yet the combined right of the blogsohere speaks little of this threat. Why is that do you think? Serious question.
OK, so if you say “serious question”, it means you’re not being ironic. So what the f*** are you talking about? Don’t be cryptic. Obviously you’re not talking about North Korea.
gutless at #111:
Maybe because the Chinese regime—while implacable, cruel, oppressive, etc.—are not insane.
The same applies to the Russians.
Add to that the fact that there are an unknown number of heavily armed US Nuclear Submarines poised to respond to any such activity by either of the above and you might (eventually) arrive at an answer to your “serious question.”
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 07 14 at 10:15 PM • permalinkFloss
Owe 10 or 20, Floss.
can’t agree for reasons stated against this little Nazi daza-shit here.
Awww now NaziDazi…you went and fucked up all my good little thoughts on you…so you’re skinhead….and a
motherMutter Fucking skinhead, too…how was she, NaziDazi?If you really want to talk dirt, let’s start with her…
No worries, El Cid…took me a post or two to see he cast no shadow.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 07 14 at 10:32 PM • permalinkWell, I’m done (for the moment anyway). Got to get back to a certain translation project…
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 07 14 at 10:37 PM • permalinkWow, so Hezbollah has no sophisticated arms? Then where’d they get a drone?
Hezbollah rammed an Israeli warship with an unmanned aircraft rigged with explosives Friday, setting it ablaze after Israeli warplanes smashed Lebanon’s links to the world one by one and destroyed the headquarters of the Islamic guerrilla group’s leader.
Clearly they are buying more and more sophisticated weapons (from China? North Korea?) and testing them out while also seeing what Israel’s reactions will be. Anyone who is not worried about what Iran will do once they get nuclear weapons really isn’t paying attention. These attacks by Hebollah, killing 7 Israeli soldiers and kidnapping 3 altogether now, are being done for a reason: to see how well they do against Israel. Israel’s supposed “overreaction” is anything but. Israel would like to put an end to Hezbollah’s attacks once and for all because if they now have unmanned drones it’s clear that there is no peace planned on that side of the table. What can Israel do but stomp the sh*t out of them?
At least the Christians in Lebanon get it:
There was some resentment that Hezbollah had dragged the Lebanese into another bloody fight with Israel. “As long as Hezbollah has its weapons and acts according to its leader’s whims, there is pretext for Israel to keep on destroying Lebanon,” said Ibrahim al-Hajj, a Christian shop owner in the southern village of Qleia.
#12 Barrie,
An original saying by The Boy Wonder? Here is one he came up with all by his own self: “Better put some ice on that.”#90
Israel’s population is nearer seven million, five million of them Jews, about one million Arabs, and the rest foreigners who came to Israel to find work. Israel used to employ Palestinians for much work inside Israel but as the terrorism heated up after 2000 they had to stop. Most of the Arabs came to Israel during the 90s when Israelis thought they had a peace agreement with the PLO. A curious fact is that 80 percent of Palestinian Christians live in Israel, while only 20 percent live in the PA’s territory. This is because the Muslims have been persecuting them and driving them out (despite the fact that they have been just as anti-Jewish as the Muslims). The only country in the Middle East where Christians can live peacefully and not fear persecution by a resurgent Islam feeling its oats is the one ruled by Jews.Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 07 14 at 11:20 PM • permalinkDaza — The only way you’re “folliclely challenged” is in spelling it.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 15 at 12:52 AM • permalink#119, Dave, daza could be accepting NoKo’s statements (backed up by a semi-hysterical MSM) concerning nuclear weapons at face value. This would require either a significant degree of either naivety or paranoia—your choice.
But I see that daza changed topics to the much more important matter of follicles in #130, and then sneered at the evidence that Iran is directly supporting Hezbollah in #132.
So I’d guess that daza isn’t being serious, just another lefty troll. I assume that daza doesn’t like the concept of displacement as applied to lefties: ignore genuine threats for something they might have a little tiny bit of control over.
Poor daza. Must be the hair loss.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 07 15 at 10:35 AM • permalinkI am not happy that I must pay more for water and rely increasingly on rainwater.
I am not happy I my kids can’t play under a hose.
I guess this so called “climate-change” thingy is having some effect on me.
Yeah. Right.
You want some of my water? We had a rainy-as-hell spring here. Broke all kinds of records. A few years before, it was droughty. Funny thing - weather changes.
#142—Some 25 years ago (living in Denver), discretionary water usuage (washing cars, lawn sprinklers, etc.) was limited to an odd-even alternate day scheme, which, to the best of my knowledge, is no longer a critical situation.
Fifteen plus years ago in New York City (low resevoirs due to lack of rainfall), restaurants wouldn’t serve water, except by request. Furthermore, attention to leaky faucets and water conservation was treated like today’s anti-smoking campaigns—in your face all the time.
That situation is no longer the case, while this year’s dilemma is flooding due excessive rainfall and saturated terra firma.
Weather—climate—is a funny thing. Wait a day, a week, a month, a year, it’ll be different, and not like you “expected” or remembered. Some notice the common—hurricanes, tornados, blizzards, draught, even war—and find them unusual.
Go figure.
You never have to worry about global warming in Australia.
There is the Northern Territory where the heat does funny things to people anyway.
Take this exchange recently:
Len Kiely, Labor MP to a female security guard at a pub:
“I have a very long tongue and I could use it on you and make you a very happy woman.”
To which the female security guard replied:
“I haven’t had a bath for 6 months. Actually I could do with someone to scrape the consolidated crap off my bum.”
Only in the Northern Territory. Shades of what is to come if global warming starts to affect the lower States.
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