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August 27, 2005

Saturday - catching up & fun reads

Rolled into sizzling So. Cal last evening. After a week of ocean breezes and windbreakers, I'm kinda glad husband and I are now "empty nesters" -- the house immediately became a clothing optional zone. Every little coastal town we went through on the drive down from Frisco I sighed "I could live here." My two faves are Pacific Grove and Cambria. Ocean, trees ... it doesn't get much better than that!

I've missed my sisters of The Cotillion, now slogging through tons of email and am going about reading things I've missed all week.
Stacy, who has been fending off totally clueless trolls (redundant phrase there, eh?) vis a vis non-Left women and sex, asks RTG to dig into her archives and comes up with this hilarious piece (snippet):

We, the Conservative Girls Who Love To Fuck, do hold these truths to be self-evident ...
Then I wander over to Cassandra's place and she thoughtfully condenses all those emails that await my perusal (I'm giving you yet another drink warning!).

Jeff Harrell takes his ever sharp Ginsu knives against International Herald Tribune and makes bait of the usual anti-Israel rhetoric that really is thinnly veiled anti-Semitism.

“This is a conflict largely waged by proxies,” Ray continues, “as Iran exhibits its ideological disdain for Israel by assisting militant groups.” See, it’s not murder. It’s not the cold, calculated murder of Jewish women and children. It’s “ideological disdain.”
Let's see...5..4..3..2..1.. cue the usual commenters "challenging" my assertion of anti-Israel = anti-Semitism. Here's a really big TIP ... if said "I'm only criticizing Israeli policies, some of my best friends are Jews, ya know" holds a completely different standard for the nation of Israel than it does for, say France or Germany, then I'm pretty safe in speaking truth to power that said "some of my best friends are Jews" person is minimally a nascent anti-Semite.

Jay Tea at Wizbang highlights yet another incident that reinforces my deep mistrust of the International Red Cross.

With the story that came out last week that the Italian chapter of the Red Cross treated wounded terrorists in Iraq, hid them from US forces, and then released them (presumably to terrorize anew), I think the time has come to give a long, hard look at the Red Cross.

So we have the Red Cross giving aid and support to terrorist in Iraq. But they were trading them for their own people -- was this an aberration, or part of a long-standing trend?

I think the evidence points to the latter. The Red Cross is quietly abandoning its long-touted neutrality, and actively supporting terrorism.

Whoops... time to change the laundry and fix a little lunch. More later.

Posted by Darleen at August 27, 2005 10:15 AM

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