JABbering Stooge

I’ve made comments to this effect a couple of times over at JJ’s place, but between this video and all the unhinged bullshit coming from the right lately, I’m just about ready to look for employment north of the 49th parallel.

In light of the previous post, if you’re an Israeli Arab, I would highly suggest that you not leave the country anytime soon (assuming that you’re actually allowed to leave the ghettos you’ve been relegated to). Bibi’s just the kind of nutty racist who would borrow ideas from the Stephen Harper administration on the (mis)treatment of ethnic minorities whose only crime is following the wrong religion.

So, a memo with embarrassing revelations about the Israeli government’s reaction to the election of B. Hussein Osama X The Usurper™ authored by Nadav Tamir, the Israeli consul-general in Boston, was leaked to the press last week:

During a visit to Israel, I became more aware that we have a damaging misunderstanding regarding the intentions and policies of the American administration. I must note that even if I am wrong in my assessment of the American administration, the way in which we manage our relations nowadays is causing strategic damage to two very important aspects that make up our special relationship and they are the level of intimacy in coordinating policies, and the support of US public opinion towards Israel.

In many American circles, there is a feeling these days, that while the Obama administration tries to resolve global conflicts, it must deal with the refusal to cooperate by governments in Iran, North Korea, and Israel. Aaron Miller’s words, spoken after the Obama-Netanyahu meeting, clearly show this feeling. He said it was a meeting between Obama yes we can and Netanyahu no you won’t.

There are, of course, players in American and Israeli politics who oppose Obama ideologically and are willing to sacrifice the special relationship between the countries to further their own political agenda, but we cannot let these players damage the bipartisan attitude that rightly characterized the conduct of Israeli governments toward the US.

Naturally, since no good deed goes unpunished, Tamir suddenly found himself recalled to Israel for the thoughtcrime of not being sufficiently supportive of Israel’s Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem. Or as Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman put it:

If someone is not happy and can’t live with government policy, the way is not to criticize and leak but to resign. With all due respect to the consul… it is not his job to express political positions.

Yes, quite. How dare he speak truth to power about how Bibi’s paranoid delusions are threatening Israel’s security?

(h/t, ThinkProgress)

Via MSRNC:

Khamenei warns “Iran’s elite” to back down
Opposition rebuked after top figure calls for a referendum on government

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s supreme leader told politicians Monday not to disturb the country’s security in a strong warning to the opposition to back down after one of its top figures called for a referendum on the government.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addressed “Iran’s elite” and warned them to be cautious in the positions they take on the turmoil that has shaken the country since the disputed presidential election on June 12.

He said that hurting Iran’s security was “the biggest vice,” adding that “anybody who drives the society toward insecurity and disorder is a hated person in the view of the Iranian nation, whoever he is.”

Hope you were looking in a mirror when you said that, asswipe.

In response to this:

Canada is developing an all-Party enquiry into antisemitism. Watch here for further updates http://www.cpcca.ca/home.htm

I wrote this:

@BMFCJC Will this be like those HRCs you far right loons always whine about, or just good old-fashioned McCarthyism?

Note that it goes to his main Twitter status page, not the tweet in question.

It gets better. Realizing my error, I then tweeted this:

First Tweet: Epic FAIL… I was responding to this:http://twitter.com/BMFCJC/status/2690089508

It would appear that I have much to learn about the ways of tweeting…

“Gay” blog post was just not fair

YOOOOUUUU have meddled with the primal forces of NA-TURE, Ms. Zerbisias, AND I WON’T HAVE IT!

“Shorter” concept created by Daniel Davies, perfected by Elton Beard and given a beneficial mutation by the fine folks at Sadly, No!
I am aware of all Internet tradtions.™

SHE is shrieeeking again. Why? This:

In a recent debate with principals from two religious schools I was accused of being driven by emotions masquerading as reason. But if we hypothesise for a moment that they are right, then surely the same is true of them. And if that’s the case, who should we listen to?

It is precisely to avoid such conflicts that schools should provide a safe haven from all ideologies, with the obvious codicil that children should learn as much about as many of them as possible from an objective point of view.

[…]

And that’s fine. But does this not make it all the more important for schools to be free of religious influence? Children need to be able to meet and get to know their peers on neutral ground. Religions by their nature always run the risk of creating an “us against them” scenario. However tolerant we believe ourselves to be, there is always a reason people consider their own religion superior to all others.

One of the school system’s most important functions is to create a feeling of community, where all are treated on equal terms regardless of race, class or creed. Society’s way of treating children with the respect they deserve is to combat by all available means any sense of an “us against them” divide.

[…]

Nobody should have to form an opinion on matters of such weight before they are ready to size up the arguments. Above all, children should be kept away from anything that bears even the slightest whiff of indoctrination. In fact, freedom from indoctrination ought to be a basic human right for all children.

You can hear the SHRIEEEEKING all the way from Ottawa…

Indoctrination for me and not for thee. That’s what it amounts to.

[…]

But Humanists are a special breed of people who think more clearly than the rest of us. Since their opinions are the fruit of reason, not faith, their derision and marginalization of religion is enlightening and liberating, not divisive. If only the poor benighted fundamentalists could overcome their indoctrination and their silly fairytale beliefs, they could see the error of their ways and we could all be as one and they could finally stop fomenting that “us against them” mentality. Religion is a plague on society. Humanism unites people under all one creed — that of reason.

There is no sense of superiority in humanism whatsoever.

My, you can see the sarcasm dripping off of that last sentence.

Naturally, I had to respond.

In case it doesn’t make it past HER new reality-distortion field, the full response is below the fold.

Alberta MLA (the Canadian equivalent of a state-level legislator) Doug Elinski is apparently perfectly fine with the fucked-up, extremely rude practice of running up to random women and screaming “SMILE, DAMMIT!” in their faces.

(h/t, Canadian Cynic)

Is Khamenei nuts?

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s supreme leader said Friday that Iran’s disputed presidential vote had not been rigged, sternly warning protesters to halt massive demonstrations or be held responsible for creating chaos.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sided with hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and offered no concessions to the opposition. He effectively closed any chance for a new vote by calling the June 12 election a “definitive victory.”

The speech created a stark choice for opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi and his supporters: drop their demands for a new vote or take to the streets again in blatant defiance of the man endowed with virtually limitless powers under Iran’s constitution.

Play him off, Keyboard Cat!

Canadian IDiot Denyse O’Loony blames evolution for James von Brunn’s rampage at the Holocaust Museum. Figures. Denyse would blame evolution for a bad hair day.

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