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I'm the same age as my gums and a bit older than my teeth. I actually hope not to comment too much, I think most people here are better at posting opinions than I am.

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  • Israeli joke: On Memorial Day we mourn our Jewish dead, on Independence Day we give thanks for theirs
    • Karl Dubhe April 17, 2013 at 9:11 am

      While the joke is tasteless, I have heard it before.

      Except it was about a Dutchman and a German. The German asks about the memorial, the Dutchman says today we remember the dead of WWII. The German then says something about how many of their countrymen were killed during the war, and the Dutchman responds, 'that, we celebrate tomorrow.'

      I wonder how old the joke really is, and if there was a version that had the Egyptians and the Hittites in it. :)

  • 'Emergency Committee for Israel' can dish it out, but it can't--
  • Israel responds to UN vote by approving 3,000 new settlement units and plans to build in strategic West Bank corridor
    • Karl Dubhe November 30, 2012 at 11:06 am

      This kind of story reminds me of people who like to troll online and then blame the people who react violently. Except, of course, that most internet violence involves blowing up electrons in silly games.

      I thought it wasn't lawful for the government of any nation to incite a riot in their own nations. Or am I thinking of ethical?

  • Earlham College drops Sabra hummus over involvement in Israeli human rights violations
    • Karl Dubhe September 13, 2012 at 6:40 pm with 5 replies

      good to hear.

      Please allow me to encourage everyone to look into making your own hummus. Peas (any bean really) olive oil, tahini paste, lemon juice and a blender. add anything else you want or really like and you have your own very good food. cheaper too, sez the scot.

  • Sarah Schulman takes on pinkwashing at OUT Magazine
    • Karl Dubhe September 10, 2012 at 5:28 pm with 1 replies

      As a gay man I'm proud to say that I've never bought a copy of 'Out'. I've seen it a few places, and although it's well marketed, it's not a magazine that ever appealed to me. I'm not at all surprised at the story that you've reported here. The magazine would be loath to take any stand that would threaten the revenue that they receive from their advertisers.

      I did take a quick peek at their website, and found a very short article that describes the appeal of a trip to Jordan. It's not a completely terrible article, which is surprising, but even there the story brushes aside concern for the official homophobia (and ignores the stories of being gay on the 'down low' that is acceptable there and in other Muslim nations) .

      Out is a single issue sort of magazine, if it's queer human rights they're for it. If you're concerned with other issues, or the issue can be ignored from the gay male pov than it will likely be ignored.

  • Dems buckle, will add language to party platform referring to Jerusalem as Israel's capital
    • Karl Dubhe September 5, 2012 at 11:17 pm

      So, both parties have a plank in their platform that recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. I seem to recall that idea as having been there for a while, no?

      If the two of them have had that plank, and yet neither of them have ever given recognition to that plank when in power, then what is the point of their 'platform'?

      Is it the nice fluffy thing that's said in order to be ignored? Or the mean and nasty thing that is also said in order to be ignored.

  • GOP platform plank on sharia called 'smokescreen for anti-Islam sentiment'
    • Karl Dubhe August 27, 2012 at 3:39 pm

      That is the story I've heard for the last few years. I do wonder though, what is the guarantee that Iran would indeed directly counter-attack US assets/interests if such an attack was indeed mounted by Israel?

      What would happen, as a thought experiment, if the Iranians chose not to respond directly to the attack? Is it not possible that the Iranians might think it better to place themselves as the wounded martyrs who are the victims of an unjustified attack? I'm not sure that would have much impact on the views of the anti-Muslim crowd, but it would have an effect on those who are not so polarized.

  • Muni calls Geller's Savage ad 'repulsive', runs its own counter ad
    • Karl Dubhe August 20, 2012 at 6:02 pm

      Ummm, not really. It does mean that the loser of the court case pays all the legal bills. So if you have a lame reason to go to court, you'll end up paying more than someone who actually has a wrong. (that's the theory, it seems to work more often than not.)

    • Karl Dubhe August 20, 2012 at 2:25 pm

      I'm thinking I'd rather deal with that than the same thing in summer. I can burn the furniture and bundle up. The food won't rot if it's frozen.

      But goddamn, turn the freaking heat off! I've had enough of summer, and it's barely hit 99 degrees up here. :)

    • Karl Dubhe August 20, 2012 at 2:23 pm with 2 replies

      You guys down south really need to make the loser pay when their civil suits fail. It would cut down on a lot of that sort of thing. :)

      I think in avoiding this litigation, they've ended up setting many lures for more forms of this ad. How ugly will it get before someone decides to use the available firearm to deal with the advertized 'Threat'?

    • Karl Dubhe August 20, 2012 at 2:20 pm with 1 replies

      Ummm, from my pov. A government run corporation is not that different from a privately owned one. They're still responsible to their owners, they need to generate a profit (or be subsidized). The gov't run corp should be run in the public interest. I don't think it's in the government's interest to generate hate towards people, it leads to bad things.

    • Karl Dubhe August 20, 2012 at 9:45 am with 8 replies

      I still don't grok how a company can be forced to run an ad it finds offensive. The fact that you have money, and the right to say what you want, doesn't obligate me to run an ad on my property. I know that Geller wouldn't be able to run that ad in my nation; she'd be had up on charges of spreading hate towards others.

      As much as I don't like laws that restrict free speech, I do not want ads like this one on my busses.

  • Stopped by apartheid on the way to Madonna's 'peace concert'
    • Karl Dubhe June 3, 2012 at 8:50 pm

      I'll be bad, maybe get banned.

      Can't help but pass on the bad joke tho...

      Buddy mentions that Madonna is playing in Israel, (in the chat of an online game)
      Someone else says so what? There's plenty of ancient relics over there.

  • Day after pogroms, Likud MK calls for internment camp for African refugees
    • Karl Dubhe May 24, 2012 at 12:45 pm

      Thanks. The story left me mostly speechless, which isn't that common even if I rarely post here. :)

    • Karl Dubhe May 24, 2012 at 12:05 pm with 7 replies

      That's an awful lot of broken glass. I've not noticed any coverage of this event in our local paper, and don't watch television anymore, so I thank you for posting this.

      Tell me that it's just the fundamentalists who are doing this. Lie to me if you have to.

  • Why I'm presenting at Harvard's one-state conference
    • Karl Dubhe March 1, 2012 at 1:25 am

      "Many of the conference’s critics have pointed out that secular multi-ethnic states simply do not work"

      Quite right, after all, nations such as Canada are seething with hatred and violence because they try to keep the French Catholics and the English Protestants from killing each other.

      Or, maybe not.

  • Pro-Israel blogger's call for killing Palestinians earns rebuke from Wash Post ombudsman, clap on back from editorial editor
    • Karl Dubhe November 9, 2011 at 6:44 pm

      To be 'unmanned' is to have your penis removed, usually done with an axe, sword or - these days - an explosive projectile. The removal of the balls are optional, if you only lose those you're just a eunuch or a castrate.

      Hmm, what a thing to comment on as my second comment on this board... :)

  • Muslim and Christian cemeteries desecrated in Jaffa on eve of Yom Kippur
    • Karl Dubhe October 9, 2011 at 10:40 am

      I would go for the Revolting Reverends, Feckless Fathers, or Pompous Padres. I'm sure there's many more. :)

  • Independent: How Israel takes its revenge on boys who throw stones
    • Karl Dubhe August 27, 2011 at 12:17 am

      k, well, I might also be ex-navy and trying my best not to swear as much anymore...

      I do swear as well, and this story made me post here for the first time after lurking for a while. Using curse words should be an art, and the raw rants do tend to get a bit repetitive. So, from that pov I can see why the site seems not to allow that.

      I don't think the usual curse words are sufficient to express how evil state sanctioned torture is. If you can swear in a manner that allows you to do that, then by all means do so. I've not seen someone swear in that manner since I left CFRS Cornwallis...

    • Karl Dubhe August 26, 2011 at 8:41 pm with 3 replies

      I think we all have the ability to use 'nice' words to denounce things that are abhorrent. I know it's a bit cathartic to let the nasty words out, but really, don't you think the standard nasty words are a bit overused these days? Worse than being overused, they're not as creative as they could be.

      Personally the issue of torture is one of the issues that I try to censor myself quite a bit on. I find the use of state sanctioned torture to be beyond the usual words used to criticize something. Even the nasty words don't give me the ability to convey my contempt of those who would use, or justify, state sanctioned torture.

    • Karl Dubhe August 26, 2011 at 8:32 pm

      Do you think that ordinary people are not calling for the prosecution of those in the USA who ordered the use of torture against children, and adults?

      I do know that some people in the former administration of the USA are being advised not to travel outside of the country as a result of their advocacy of torture. I, for one, hope that R. Cheney decides that a trip to the Hague is too tempting to pass up though.

  • 'Moral dilemma'-- or how a woman rationalizes rejecting a graduate student as a babysitter on racial basis
    • Karl Dubhe August 26, 2011 at 9:44 pm

      Oh, good. I'm glad to hear the economy of Israel is doing so well. They should be able to pay for their own weapons then, eh? Ready to give up all that lovely US Aid that gets transfered every year?

      No, what a surprise...

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