WallStreetJackass

terrorist fist bump!

h/t jas

he has big plans for UK

A Muslim fundamentalist leader today told of his vision of Britain under Sharia law. Anjem Choudary said he wanted the “flag of Allah” flying over Downing Street, all women wearing burkas and caning for drunkenness. Evening Standard

I hope you pommie birds enjoy your beekeeping suits.

Obama. so far, so good.

“Now, my job is to communicate the fact that the United States has a stake in the well-being of the Muslim world, that the language we use has to be a language of respect. […] The language we use matters. We cannot paint with a broad brush a faith as a consequence of the violence that is done in that faith’s name.” President Obama. Guardian. [video]

What brought down the plane in the Hudson River?

"History always emphasizes terminal events"

I'm ambivalent about the wisdom of the war in Gaza, but that's very clever. [h/t JPK]

Gaza

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it" Marcus Aurelius

"When goods are not allowed to cross borders, soldiers will." Frederic Bastiat

chosen land logic

The last time that I visited the Israeli occupied territories, I got chatting to a Palestinian. He was a secular, educated man who had worked in the US, so I was astonished when he told me that he would vote for Hamas. Why, I asked.

“Because every day, the Israelis find a different way to say ‘fuck you’,” he told me. “By voting for Hamas, I’m saying ‘fuck you back’.” I laughed at the time. But – stripped of all the diplomatic and strategic rationales – that seems like a good summary of the tragic and self-defeating logic that lies behind the fighting in Gaza. FT

Hamas morons.

Gaza must be the most wretched part of the planet, in no small part because of Israeli policy. But it's truly being run by a bunch of fucking idiots now.

Waves of Israeli airstrikes hit Hamas security facilities in Gaza on Saturday in a crushing response to the group’s rocket fire, killing more than 200 — the highest one-day toll in an Israeli military operation against Palestinians in decades. [...] On Wednesday, some 70 rockets hit Israel over 24 hours, in a distinct upsurge of intensity.

what did they think was going to happen to them? idiots.

Bush attacked by terrorists

[h/t MikeP]

notes for Jr

[h/t MikeP]