A special message for any white American readers out there who are planning to vote Obama: you're evil racist scum. Have a nice day.
How much am I paying this man to spout this insulting claptrap?
PS I'm afraid it looks very much as if they're on Trev's wavelength at Barack's church ('We are a congregation which is Unashamedly Black' - anyone know of any Unashamedly White churches that I could attend in the Curmudge area?). Disappointing.
Showing posts with label moonbats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label moonbats. Show all posts
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Monday, November 12, 2007
¿Por qué no te callas?
Don't be lost for words next time you bump into a ranting demagogue and befriender of Holocaust deniers and pogromists who does his ranting in Spanish.
Worried about the pronunciation? Watch the video here and listen along with a monarch who has just acquired hero status at Grumpy's place.
Worried about the pronunciation? Watch the video here and listen along with a monarch who has just acquired hero status at Grumpy's place.
Friday, May 04, 2007
NUJ fightback
I'm not managing a lot of posting just lately, but I certainly can't ignore the wonderfully heartening fightback by National Union of Journalists members against the motion to boycott Israeli goods which was narrowly carried by their national conference. ITN, the Observer and a big chunk of the BBC have all come out against. Say what you like about the British media (and, yes, I quite often do like) there plainly still is such a thing as professionalism at its upper levels, and professional journalists understand that their job is to report the news that then enables the rest of us to make decisions about who, if anyone, we want to boycott.
As for singling Israel out for a boycott - a country that's open and democratic enough for this kind of thing to happen - here's a fascinating insight into the kind of company which the kind of people to whom this makes sense (specifically, the by now grossly misnamed Socialist Workers Party) are happy to keep. Based on my past experience of Trot politics I should have known better than to imagine that, just because a handful of these creeps can swing a conference vote, they are remotely representative of the membership.
Talking of Trots, I see that a fulsome endorsement from the Gorgeous One was not sufficient to save Tommy Sheridan's seat in the Scottish Parliament. Never mind, now he'll be able to spend more time with his Scrabble set.
Returning to serious politics, all the links come directly or indirectly from Engage, who are clearly doing sterling work in the fight against the boycott. Much more power to their elbows.
As for singling Israel out for a boycott - a country that's open and democratic enough for this kind of thing to happen - here's a fascinating insight into the kind of company which the kind of people to whom this makes sense (specifically, the by now grossly misnamed Socialist Workers Party) are happy to keep. Based on my past experience of Trot politics I should have known better than to imagine that, just because a handful of these creeps can swing a conference vote, they are remotely representative of the membership.
Talking of Trots, I see that a fulsome endorsement from the Gorgeous One was not sufficient to save Tommy Sheridan's seat in the Scottish Parliament. Never mind, now he'll be able to spend more time with his Scrabble set.
Returning to serious politics, all the links come directly or indirectly from Engage, who are clearly doing sterling work in the fight against the boycott. Much more power to their elbows.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Old Tankies never die...
Whilst still in a more than usually curmudgeonly phase:-
I like to feel that this site takes a balanced view, so please allow me to present someone who is incidentally Jewish (I think my assumption is a fair one) making a complete twat of himself.
88-year-old Hyman Frankel proudly records that he joined the Young Communist League in 1936 and only left the CPGB when it folded up around him in 1991.
Says Mr Frankel:-
'Yes, we made a terrible mistake over Stalin, and we have paid for it.'
Paid for it, comrade? Funny, I thought that was some other fellows. Several million of them, in fact.
I like to feel that this site takes a balanced view, so please allow me to present someone who is incidentally Jewish (I think my assumption is a fair one) making a complete twat of himself.
88-year-old Hyman Frankel proudly records that he joined the Young Communist League in 1936 and only left the CPGB when it folded up around him in 1991.
Says Mr Frankel:-
'Yes, we made a terrible mistake over Stalin, and we have paid for it.'
Paid for it, comrade? Funny, I thought that was some other fellows. Several million of them, in fact.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
On circumspection
To amplify my last post a little, I think it's a fair bet that the reasons why Ashkenazi Jews are 'over-represented' in Israeli universities have more than a little in common with the reasons why they were 'over-represented' in German universities.
Dear reader, I don't need to tell you who thought that was a very bad thing and made it his business to do something about it, do I? And perhaps, rather than being overly critical of him (or indeed of the Ivy League universities which had already pioneered solutions to the problem of excessive numbers of Jewish students), we should after all see the Jews as having been the authors of their own misfortune. For, then as now, was not being too clever by half one of the most infuriating ways in which they failed to live circumspectly?
I think we ought to have that quote again in full. You might like to cut it out and frame it. This is what we learnt yesterday courtesy of the Guardian, Max Hastings and one of his best friends:-
'The experience ... of learning to live circumspectly among more numerous and powerful neighbours is a surer guarantee of survival than the triumphalist illusions of a mere 50-odd years of statehood.'
Dear reader, I don't need to tell you who thought that was a very bad thing and made it his business to do something about it, do I? And perhaps, rather than being overly critical of him (or indeed of the Ivy League universities which had already pioneered solutions to the problem of excessive numbers of Jewish students), we should after all see the Jews as having been the authors of their own misfortune. For, then as now, was not being too clever by half one of the most infuriating ways in which they failed to live circumspectly?
I think we ought to have that quote again in full. You might like to cut it out and frame it. This is what we learnt yesterday courtesy of the Guardian, Max Hastings and one of his best friends:-
'The experience ... of learning to live circumspectly among more numerous and powerful neighbours is a surer guarantee of survival than the triumphalist illusions of a mere 50-odd years of statehood.'
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Battle of Hastings
Although today's weather in Berlin makes me disinclined to engage in any muscular activity that is not strictly necessary, Max Hastings' Guardian article has done the trick of persuading me to sign up for Comment is Free. Here is my maiden contribution:-
So Amos Oz said 30 years ago that Israel would end up like any other Middle Eastern state, and, behold, it has come to pass! It's one of those Life of Brian moments: OK, APART from free elections, a free press, an independent judiciary, equal rights for women, gay rights, religious tolerance and a vibrant economy, what has Israel got that the rest of the Middle East hasn't?
'The experience ... of learning to live circumspectly among more numerous and powerful neighbours is a surer guarantee of survival than the triumphalist illusions of a mere 50-odd years of statehood.' Oh, I SEE. That was where German Jewry went wrong. Just not circumspect enough.
Please, Mr Hastings, a list of all the other peoples for whom the wish to have and defend their own state is a triumphalist illusion.
Further reactions...
1. No angle is being spared in the campaign to delegitimize Israel. From Mearsheimer and Walt we've had an attempt to put the case in the language of conservative Realpolitik: it's not in America's true interests to support Israel. Now from the Guardian via Hastings we get kindly concern for Jews: you know, you really ought to give up this Israel business for your own sakes.
2. Note the standard 'it's not me saying this, it's a Jew, so how can there be anything anti-Semitic about it?' defence. If Hastings wants to bash Israel, wouldn't it better become the intrepid former war correspondent to take responsibility for his own opinions, rather than hiding behind his friend who used to be a rabbi?
3. Remember how Ken Livingstone thinks the Daily Mail group is so far beyond the pale of human decency that if someone works for the Evening Standard it's OK to indulge in a bit of anti-Semitic abuse at his expense? Can we now expect Mayor Ken to protest against the Guardian's giving a platform to the former editor of the ES?
So Amos Oz said 30 years ago that Israel would end up like any other Middle Eastern state, and, behold, it has come to pass! It's one of those Life of Brian moments: OK, APART from free elections, a free press, an independent judiciary, equal rights for women, gay rights, religious tolerance and a vibrant economy, what has Israel got that the rest of the Middle East hasn't?
'The experience ... of learning to live circumspectly among more numerous and powerful neighbours is a surer guarantee of survival than the triumphalist illusions of a mere 50-odd years of statehood.' Oh, I SEE. That was where German Jewry went wrong. Just not circumspect enough.
Please, Mr Hastings, a list of all the other peoples for whom the wish to have and defend their own state is a triumphalist illusion.
Further reactions...
1. No angle is being spared in the campaign to delegitimize Israel. From Mearsheimer and Walt we've had an attempt to put the case in the language of conservative Realpolitik: it's not in America's true interests to support Israel. Now from the Guardian via Hastings we get kindly concern for Jews: you know, you really ought to give up this Israel business for your own sakes.
2. Note the standard 'it's not me saying this, it's a Jew, so how can there be anything anti-Semitic about it?' defence. If Hastings wants to bash Israel, wouldn't it better become the intrepid former war correspondent to take responsibility for his own opinions, rather than hiding behind his friend who used to be a rabbi?
3. Remember how Ken Livingstone thinks the Daily Mail group is so far beyond the pale of human decency that if someone works for the Evening Standard it's OK to indulge in a bit of anti-Semitic abuse at his expense? Can we now expect Mayor Ken to protest against the Guardian's giving a platform to the former editor of the ES?
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
A mixed bag
... from the Indie's letters page.
1. A Palestinian so deep in denial that he thinks it worth while to try to defend Baroness Tonge:-
'Even if the barrier could be proved to have temporarily reduced the number of Palestinian reprisal attacks, it is hardly a basis for lasting peace between the two peoples.'
Well, lasting peace would be a fine thing, and maybe one day Hamas will decide they want some of it. But meanwhile, Israel must do its bit. Lay out the welcome mat for those bombers!
2. More evidence of Israeli dastardliness: they deal with their moonbat problem by exporting them to Britain...
'As an Israeli born and bred I was brought up to believe that the Palestinians/Arabs are our sworn enemies who have to be defeated on the battlefield.'
How on earth could anyone, circa 1947, have come up with such a bizarre idea?
3. A wise and level-headed British Muslim:-
'Muslim communities have a right to ask questions, but they must stay calm and engage in real dialogue with the police to understand the rationale behind the raids.'
- on a day when the paper is working flat out to milk the last drop of victimhood from the Forest Gate raid. 'I just thought: one by one they're going to kill us' says Mohammed Abdulkahar. An unpleasant thought in a very unpleasant situation, but of course he was actually wrong. They didn't do that because it was not what they intended to do. If it had been, that would of course mean that the British police are as bad as the terrorists they are trying to fight. As Dr Mohammed Ali understands, they are not. Can he and others like him communicate that to those whom Mr Abdulkahar typefies?
1. A Palestinian so deep in denial that he thinks it worth while to try to defend Baroness Tonge:-
'Even if the barrier could be proved to have temporarily reduced the number of Palestinian reprisal attacks, it is hardly a basis for lasting peace between the two peoples.'
Well, lasting peace would be a fine thing, and maybe one day Hamas will decide they want some of it. But meanwhile, Israel must do its bit. Lay out the welcome mat for those bombers!
2. More evidence of Israeli dastardliness: they deal with their moonbat problem by exporting them to Britain...
'As an Israeli born and bred I was brought up to believe that the Palestinians/Arabs are our sworn enemies who have to be defeated on the battlefield.'
How on earth could anyone, circa 1947, have come up with such a bizarre idea?
3. A wise and level-headed British Muslim:-
'Muslim communities have a right to ask questions, but they must stay calm and engage in real dialogue with the police to understand the rationale behind the raids.'
- on a day when the paper is working flat out to milk the last drop of victimhood from the Forest Gate raid. 'I just thought: one by one they're going to kill us' says Mohammed Abdulkahar. An unpleasant thought in a very unpleasant situation, but of course he was actually wrong. They didn't do that because it was not what they intended to do. If it had been, that would of course mean that the British police are as bad as the terrorists they are trying to fight. As Dr Mohammed Ali understands, they are not. Can he and others like him communicate that to those whom Mr Abdulkahar typefies?
Thursday, June 08, 2006
They have no choice
'It should come as no surprise to anyone that suicide bombers in Iraq are Palestinians ("Iraq: the face of the enemy", 7 June). Israel's security wall is forcing them to export themselves to another arena to fight in this ridiculous "war" against terrorism being waged by the donkeys who lead us in the West.'
The Islamist hate sheet from which I have extracted this pearl of great price is not al-Grauniad, so of course it can only be the Daily Fisk. The writer is Jenny Tonge, member of the House of Lords, sometime member of the Liberal Democrat front bench, sometime guest of Christian Aid in Gaza, and by now clearly several votes short of an overall majority.
UPDATE 12 June
This letter hits the nail squarely on the head, and suggests there is hope for the Lib Dems even after they sacked the leader who sacked Tonge:-
Sir: The chief responsibility of a sovereign nation is the defence of its own citizens. If, as Lady Tonge asserts (letter, 8 June), the security wall being erected by the Israelis has forced suicide bombers to "export themselves" to Iraq, then clearly, for the Israelis, the wall is working. I can think of worse ways in which the Israelis could have protected their people.
Nowhere in her letter could I find a condemnation of the atrocities committed by suicide bombers in Iraq, even though their victims are mainly Muslim, and include those Iraqis trying courageously to build a liberal democracy as opposed to an oppressive, bigoted theocracy.
Menzies Campbell may have confirmed the place of the Liberal Democrats in the progressive, liberal centre of British politics through a rethink of the party's economic policies. But as long as he tolerates the hijacking of foreign policy by the likes of Lady Tonge then the Lib Dems will never be trusted to play a part in the government of this country.
CLLR WAYNE CASEY
DEPUTY LEADER, LIBERAL DEMOCRAT GROUP, LONDON BOROUGH OF BARNET, LONDON NW7
For the record, this was my effort, but I'm glad it was Cllr Casey's that got published:-
Sir: Critics of Israel's security barrier have often seemed indifferent to its effectiveness in preventing suicide bombings. Now Baroness Tonge (letter, 8 June) breaks new ground by making it plain that she objects to it precisely because it is effective in excluding the bombers, thereby 'forcing' them to murder Iraqis as surrogates for Jews. If nothing else, she has reinforced the case for the abolition of the House of Lords.
The Islamist hate sheet from which I have extracted this pearl of great price is not al-Grauniad, so of course it can only be the Daily Fisk. The writer is Jenny Tonge, member of the House of Lords, sometime member of the Liberal Democrat front bench, sometime guest of Christian Aid in Gaza, and by now clearly several votes short of an overall majority.
UPDATE 12 June
This letter hits the nail squarely on the head, and suggests there is hope for the Lib Dems even after they sacked the leader who sacked Tonge:-
Sir: The chief responsibility of a sovereign nation is the defence of its own citizens. If, as Lady Tonge asserts (letter, 8 June), the security wall being erected by the Israelis has forced suicide bombers to "export themselves" to Iraq, then clearly, for the Israelis, the wall is working. I can think of worse ways in which the Israelis could have protected their people.
Nowhere in her letter could I find a condemnation of the atrocities committed by suicide bombers in Iraq, even though their victims are mainly Muslim, and include those Iraqis trying courageously to build a liberal democracy as opposed to an oppressive, bigoted theocracy.
Menzies Campbell may have confirmed the place of the Liberal Democrats in the progressive, liberal centre of British politics through a rethink of the party's economic policies. But as long as he tolerates the hijacking of foreign policy by the likes of Lady Tonge then the Lib Dems will never be trusted to play a part in the government of this country.
CLLR WAYNE CASEY
DEPUTY LEADER, LIBERAL DEMOCRAT GROUP, LONDON BOROUGH OF BARNET, LONDON NW7
For the record, this was my effort, but I'm glad it was Cllr Casey's that got published:-
Sir: Critics of Israel's security barrier have often seemed indifferent to its effectiveness in preventing suicide bombings. Now Baroness Tonge (letter, 8 June) breaks new ground by making it plain that she objects to it precisely because it is effective in excluding the bombers, thereby 'forcing' them to murder Iraqis as surrogates for Jews. If nothing else, she has reinforced the case for the abolition of the House of Lords.
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Exposed at last
It's almost always nice to get comments. But now somebody's blown my cover...
u absolute twat. the New York Times and every other pro-Israeli paper give coverage to the terrorist activities of Israel on a daily basis. Someone needs to address the humanitarian crisis facing the Palestinians-it's not about hating Israel but about helping Palestinians. Israel need to stop their terrorism against the Palestinians first. what's all this crap about financially trying to strangle the DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED Hamas government? what we only like Democracy when it returns right wings dickheads like George Bush? and what exactly is Islamism? why are you making up ur own words to further negatively stereotype Islam? I believe you are actually an Israeli and not Christian at all. Why are you so ashamed of being Israeli u have to pretend to be Christian? You think we wont take you seriously otherwise? well we dont anyway u ignorant fool.
Oy, oy, oy! At least I don't look like one since I had the nose job, already...
u absolute twat. the New York Times and every other pro-Israeli paper give coverage to the terrorist activities of Israel on a daily basis. Someone needs to address the humanitarian crisis facing the Palestinians-it's not about hating Israel but about helping Palestinians. Israel need to stop their terrorism against the Palestinians first. what's all this crap about financially trying to strangle the DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED Hamas government? what we only like Democracy when it returns right wings dickheads like George Bush? and what exactly is Islamism? why are you making up ur own words to further negatively stereotype Islam? I believe you are actually an Israeli and not Christian at all. Why are you so ashamed of being Israeli u have to pretend to be Christian? You think we wont take you seriously otherwise? well we dont anyway u ignorant fool.
Oy, oy, oy! At least I don't look like one since I had the nose job, already...
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Imperial Denmark
I really can't be bothered to do a full fisk of this absurd piece of 'moderate' Muslim whining from al-Grauniad, but since the author invokes 'the histories of Islamic fundamentalism and European imperialism, aspects of which are horribly interlinked', can somebody remind me which Muslim countries are former Danish colonies?
Incidentally, I bought a pack of Arla cheese today. Readers please do likewise.
Incidentally, I bought a pack of Arla cheese today. Readers please do likewise.
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Rib-tickler
Happened to look at the Steve Bell cartoon in today's Guardian. Was he always this bad? Is it just me that's changed?
Is he trying to tell us:-
A. the people of Afghanistan are sick and tired of having an elected government and just want the Taliban back?
B. the Afghans should get the Taliban back whether they like it or not?
or
C. he doesn't give two hoots what happens in Afghanistan so long as it's something that makes Bush and Blair very unhappy?
Is he trying to tell us:-
A. the people of Afghanistan are sick and tired of having an elected government and just want the Taliban back?
B. the Afghans should get the Taliban back whether they like it or not?
or
C. he doesn't give two hoots what happens in Afghanistan so long as it's something that makes Bush and Blair very unhappy?
Friday, January 06, 2006
Tonge on Kennedy: payback time
I genuinely don't know whether Charles Kennedy should stay on as leader of Britain's Liberal Democrats. However, today's news has reminded me of one occasion when he did exactly the right thing...
Or rather, one version of the news reminds me. Full marks to the Independent for this:-
'Lady Tonge - who was sacked by Mr Kennedy after voicing understanding of Palestinian suicide bombers - warned that he risked "destroying" the Liberal Democrats if he stayed on as leader. '
No marks to the Beeb...
'ex-frontbencher Lady Tonge accused Mr Kennedy of using an "underhand" strategy'
... or the Grauniad...
'Baroness Tonge - who served in Mr Kennedy's frontbench team in the last parliament as MP Jenny Tonge - said the leader was "in denial" about the extent of his difficulties and said she was "disgusted" by his behaviour'
...or the Times...
'Jenny Tonge, a Lib Dem peer, bluntly suggested he was now as useful as a "one-legged Tarzan"'
... for quoting her Ladyship without mentioning the circumstances in which she left the front bench.
Or rather, one version of the news reminds me. Full marks to the Independent for this:-
'Lady Tonge - who was sacked by Mr Kennedy after voicing understanding of Palestinian suicide bombers - warned that he risked "destroying" the Liberal Democrats if he stayed on as leader. '
No marks to the Beeb...
'ex-frontbencher Lady Tonge accused Mr Kennedy of using an "underhand" strategy'
... or the Grauniad...
'Baroness Tonge - who served in Mr Kennedy's frontbench team in the last parliament as MP Jenny Tonge - said the leader was "in denial" about the extent of his difficulties and said she was "disgusted" by his behaviour'
...or the Times...
'Jenny Tonge, a Lib Dem peer, bluntly suggested he was now as useful as a "one-legged Tarzan"'
... for quoting her Ladyship without mentioning the circumstances in which she left the front bench.
Friday, July 15, 2005
Without Comment
It had to happen... This is a comment that has just been posted. I thought it deserved maximum publicity.
For pities sake - ISRAEL DID NOT EXIST UNTIL THE BRITISH CREATED IT AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR!
JEWS DO NOT HAVE A "HOMELAND" OTHER THAN THAT THEY DEMANDED WAS CREATED AFTER THE WAR (CITING THE HOLOCAUST).
PALESTINIANS HAVE HAD THEIR LAND TAKEN FROM THEM - NO COMPENSATION, NOT EXPLANATION.
ISRAEL IS SO WORRIED IT WILL DISAPPEAR IT PAYS PEOPLE TO MOVE THERE.
IT'S TIME TO GIVE PALESTINE BACK TO THE PALESTINIANS - IF JEWS WANT TO STAY, FINE - IF THEY DON'T WELL THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF OTHER COUNTRIES THEY CAN LIVE IN.
JUDAISM IS A RELIGION - NOT A RACE.
GET A GRIP AND STOP BEING SO FACIST IN YOUR UNBLINKING SUPPORT OF ZIONIST NEO CONSERVATIVE SENTIMENT
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