Questions for the *whiny-butt ingrates the US has evacuated from Lebanon and the media outlets that flock to them:

1.  Why the heck would you travel to an unstable region which both your government AND travel agent warned would be dangerous -- without your own "safety net" in the event of problems?

Stupid is as stupid does .... In case you had forgotten -- there is no summer intern program, no graduate degree, no visit with grandma and definitely no business meeting more important than personal safety. 

Much less the well-being of your children. 

Stuck on stupid.

2.  Why are you complaining about the amount of time it has taken/took the US to "safely" remove you from the region?

Arrogant spoiled brat .....  Did poor widdle get-what-I-want-when-I-want-it not get what you wanted when you wanted it? 

And it was allll the fault of the US of A, right?  

And if you were sooooo concerned about your children -- why the hell would you drag them into harms way? 

Hey, whiny-butt, If you can afford multiple tickets to fly your family into harms way --- why couldn't you send the money to mom and dad or whoever and fly them to see YOU????   It would probably have been much, much cheaper and it would sure have been a heckova lot safer.

3.  Why are you so critical of the lack of US intervention and/or the right of Israel to defend its citizens? 

You're not just itching to turn YOUR poor decision-making into a political statement, are you?  

Need to voice a little anti-Israeli sentiment?  Eh? 

Just want to gig the US? 

Wanna blame Bush for this one as well? 

Give it your best shot, dufus.  And be certain to write an irate letter to an MSM editor.

4.  When you get home (assuming you are a US citizen), are you going to voluntarily reimburse the government for your safe return?

Why not?  Evacuated Americans have done this for years. 

OH? 

Your country owes you?  Yeah.  Right. 

<pause>

You're gonna cash in your return ticket and donate it to which political group? 

Nice.  Really nice. 

You ingrate.

5.  After your 15 minutes of fame, courtesy of the main stream media (CNN, MSNBC, NYT, etc.), are you now going to join an anti- US and/or Israeli protest?

Uh huh.   I'll be certain to watch for you on CNN highlights ....  Why not transfer the feed to YouTube?  When the Lebonese infrastructure is rebuilt, all your friends there can see you!  And remember to wave mightily to the US government with that third finger, OK? 

In all honesty, I can't say I'm not totally surprised, however. 

Although, I was hoping you might want to fall to your knees when you landed on American soil -- to thank God that your insolent, self-centered ass wasn't either still honkered in a bunker in downtown Beirut or sweating profusely in a broken down bus along some dusty Syrian back-road.

NOTE:  * This category does not include nor is it direct to the evacuees who have expressed their appreciation for the safe evacuation -- sans the anti-US and/or anti-Israeli comments.

 The scuzballs and C.H.I.T.-heads (Certifiable Hate-Mongering International Terrorists) are posting here again. 

Heck, don't know why they mess wif me.  I'm a small harmless insect in TB's eco-system with a readership consisting mostly of my family (they love me), my staff (required reading) and a few like-minded linkers!

Here's a fix for those spammers and trolls who post their jibber-muck when they "disagree" with a perspective -- such as the one we express, i.e.,  decimating the Huzzies and Hammies (CHIT-HEADS) who are attacking Israel.

-- Clean out your "notification" list.  Especially the "xyz123 at freebie email service dot com" names.  I just removed 5 of the creeps. 

-- Block their IP's. 

-- Keep on posting. 

By all means, keep on posting.  It's the least we can do.

 to Don Singleton for bringing this post to our attention. 

It is a MUST read:  A Silent Arab Speaks

For two days I've read various op-eds and blogs RE: the title above.  The most succinct response I've read to date is Don Singleton's one-word summation:  Sickening.

One of my life-long goals has been to return to the land of my heritage.

As a child, I would sit at my grandfather's knee for hours, listening to stories told to him by his grandfather .... about two brothers who were driven from (what is now) Israel to Germany, and subsequently traveled to America in the mid-1700's. 

From Pennsylvania, they migrated with a Moravian delegation to what would become Salem Colony in North Carolina .... 

My grandfather always believed that the brothers hid their Jewish heritage and claimed the Moravian (or Luthuran) faith to avoid continuous persecution.  It did not matter, he would say. 

What mattered, he espoused, was that many years later, the last surviving brother disowned his children and grandchildren because they refused to honor the language (Yiddish) and traditions of their heritage.  The family argued and split into two factions:  one remained in the southern mountains and the other moved to the higher mountains -- one claiming their ethnic background as German; the other as English -- both denying their Jewish heritage. 

(The surviving brother subsequently died a lonely man -- alienated from family and friends -- to have his land and wealth scattered among survivors ... his only legacy being his name on the road that still traverses his once-prosperous estate.)

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The young brothers were stone masons by trade (albeit womanizers by night) and earned their keep by laying the foundations and walls of buildings which still stand in historic Old Salem.

In the most socially acceptable of terms, my grandfather would explain how at least one female acquaintance became with-child, precipitating the brothers' expulsion (with two women) from Salem settlement -- highlighted by head-shavings and (for the brothers, at least) a ferried rail-ride across the (once) mighty Yadkin River. 

The disgraced four-some traveled westward toward the Blue Ridge Mountains, likely stopping in settlements developing in (once the Great State of) Wilkes ....

My grandfather always insisted (for the sake of propriety, I'm sure) that the brothers and their trail-mates were properly married (in the old Boone region) long before they settled in the northwest section of Surry County to raise their families.

As evidence of these stories (sans my grandfather's embellishments), I have letters written by my grandfather's grandfather to his cousins and brothers .... in Yiddish ... pleading with them to honor and cherish the traditions of their heritage.

Possibly I or my children will one day be able to honor the traditions of our heritage.  To deny anyone that right -- much less to denigrate that right --  bespeaks a disrespect more base, more despicable than sickening, however.

Godspeed, Israel.  May you find peace and security in the Land and Traditions you honor.

  ROFL ------------ love it.  Love it.  LOVE IT!

President Bush obviously took his cue (in using the C.H.I.T. reference, that is) from a recent Perish the Thought post.

Herd'em up, Cowboy!

OKOKOK .... to appease those who nevah NEVAHHH cuss or those who may be offended by a socially-unacceptable-but-appropriate word, substitute the word "dung" (after all, it is biblical) -- as in camel, donkey, lion, etc. .... or for the poetically inclined -- it rhymes with stung and hung.  As opposed to c.h.i.t. -- which rhymes with snit, fit, hit, bit and QUIT!!!

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ummmmm ... but Mr. President?  I ain't too keen on talking wif your mouth full o butter roll, though, yanno?  I bet Laura lectures you when you get home ....

From PajamasMedia:

Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt says Lebanon has become a proxy battleground for Iran in its resistance to US-led pressure on its nuclear program: "Iran is telling the United States: You want to fight me in the Gulf and destroy my nuclear program? I will hit you at home, in Israel," he told Arab news channel Al Arabiya.

Continuous updates at TruthlaidBear.

Unbelievable.  Truly treasonable.  Unforgivable.

That an American Newspaper, specifically The New York Times' photography staff would refer to the "incredible courage" of a photographer who stood by as a terrorist sniper took aim at American troops.

Beyond belief.

Exactly where are the guidelines that determine WHEN and HOW a response to terrorist aggression is "proportionate?"

Someone forgot to send Israel a copy.

Unperturbed by international criticism, the Government of Israel continued to pound Lebanon's civilian infrastructure, destroying roads, bridges, fuel dumps and mobile telephone installations as well as Hezbollah targets, including a Beirut radio station.

It believes that Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Shia group, badly overplayed his hand on Wednesday by kidnapping two Israeli soldiers in a daring cross-border raid and killing eight others.

Israeli generals and diplomats are now arguing that their attacks are simply a belated effort to achieve what the Lebanese Government and United Nations have consistently failed to do: implement UN Security Council Resolution 1559, which calls for all Lebanese militias to be dismantled.

"As long as Hezbollah is in the south of Lebanon this will lead to a destabilised region," Tzipi Livni, the Israeli Foreign Minister, told The Times.          - www.timesonline.co.uk

* Bold type added for emphasis.

The puppet-states who have allowed Syrian and Iranian terrorist groups to manipulate their policies and "proportion" the massacre of Israeli citizens may have finally awakened the sleeping giant. 

Ahhhhhhh ... here it is. 

Page 16, paragraph 34: when the sleeping giant says "Enough is enough" -- the guidelines state to cry, "Disproportionate!!!"

Suggestion for the G-8 Agenda:

1) Since some of our global neighbors' most profitable commodity is producing terrorists, why not tax exporters and importers? 

-- Hold nations that specialize in global terrorism accountable.
-- Let those who harbor them pay doubly.
-- Quadruple the fines if commodities enter another country illegally.  
-- Add a few excise taxes to get everyone's attention.  
-- Charge astronomical non-refundable fees for returning "goods that damage." 
-- Tax on the basis of potential threat, language(s) spoken and training. 
-- Brand (with butt iron) their foreheads with a special stamp to indicate "bearer has been specifically packaged as a Certified Hate-mongering International Terrorist."     

C.H.I.T. for short.   

And if nations refuse to pay taxes -- Reuters, MSM and the New York Times can post their names and write op-eds about them.

Walmart, Big Lots, Roses, General Dollar, Eckards, Best Buy, Dollar Tree, Pic n Pay, Target and other discount conglomerates will likewise agree to NOT import any more of their name-brand knock-offs.

The World Bank will foreclose on their land and auction it off to an info-mercial kingpin. 

That'll show those CHIT-heads somebody means business.

Cindy Sheehan's started a pick-a-time-slot fast to bring the troops home.  Slogan:  "Bring the troops home FAST" .... catchy, eh?  And a few Hollywoodites, Pink Cods (oops, I mean, Pink Codes) and bleeding heart libs are joining her. 

One or more days a week, mind you.  You just sign up.  Like, take turns.  And bring your own bottled water. 

Well, heck.  Why not? 

It's just the principle, yanno?  Like, who has the time to fast full-time anymore?  Good God -- folks could die fasting ALLLLLL the time!

Plus ... Gotta your hair done on Friday.  Gotta exercise at least once a week.  And there is the all-you-can-eat shrimp special at the bar on Tuesday's.  Book signings, blog writing and interviews on Monday.  You absolutely must play cards with the buds on Wednesday.  There's the Thursday girls-nite-out party.  Gotta get the nails done Friday afternoon .... Laundry?  Kids' soccer match? ... Church on Sunday ...  Cleaning the litter box.  Weekly staff meeting?  Don't forget the sauna ....  And political rallies -- can't miss a political rally. 

Fast????  As in go-without-food-for-a cause-until-you-die fast? 

ummmm .... Let me check my calendar....

OK, pencil me in for Saturday, 3 until 6 -- no, no, no -- make that 5.  I have a dinner party at 8.