Caroline Glick has created this satirical video about the violence in Gaza. Caroline was able to get the help of the Israeli government to promote her video. Before the end of the day this video will be seen by millions of Americans. The Israeli government apologized for “accidentally” spreading the video around, and even though it shed an entire people in a negative light nobody will get overly upset. I mean sure there are a couple of people who think that the Irish and Turkish ships carrying humanitarian supplies should have been allowed to squeeze through that blockade.
At any rate nobody in the US will say anything negative about the video since to do so would be antisemitic. Somebody who says something against Israel is considered antisemitic, if you disagree I suggest you Google Helen Thomas, she is a prime example of what happens if you disagree with anything Israel does. For those of you too lazy to Google her name or click on the lmgtfy link, here is a brief explanation of Helen’s mistake.
Helen Thomas has been serving as a reporter to the white house for 57 of her 89 years. Helen Thomas made some less than polite comments at a Jewish Heritage convention. I will admit that her timing could have been better, but the woman was asked a question and she answered. She was asked to comment on the state of Israel, and her response was rough. She said they need to “get the hell out of Israel” when asked to elaborate she explained how in her opinion the Jewish people “occupying” Israel should go home to Poland, Germany, America, wherever they are from. She apologized later on her website saying
“I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.”
This apology was nowhere near enough. She was asked to resign, and the president of the United States when referring to Helen used words like “shame” and “out of line”, saying that it was unfortunate her career needed to end on such a sour note. The moral of this story is that if you watch this video, don’t dare speak out against it. To do so would be political death.
There comes a time
When we need to make a show
For the world, the Web and CNN
There’s no people dying,
so the best that we can do
Is create the greatest bluff of all
We must go on pretending day by day
That in Gaza, there’s crisis, hunger and plague
Coz the billion bucks in aid won’t buy their basic needs
Like some cheese and missiles for the kids
We’ll make the world
Abandon reason
We’ll make them all believe that the Hamas
Is Momma Theresa
We are peaceful travelers
With guns and our own knives
The truth will never find its way to your TV
Ooohh, we’ll stab them at heart
They are soldiers, no one cares
We are small, and we took some pictures with doves
As Allah showed us, for facts there’s no demand
So we will always gain the upper hand
We’ll make the world
Abandon reason
We’ll make them all believe that the Hamas
Is Momma Theresa
We are peaceful travelers
we’re waving our own knives
The truth will never find its way to your TV
If Islam and terror brighten up your mood
But you worry that it may not look so good
Well well well well don’t you realize
You just gotta call yourself
An activist for peace and human aid
We’ll make the world
Abandon reason
We’ll make them all believe that the Hamas
Is Momma Theresa
We are peaceful travelers
We’re waving our own knives
The truth will never find its way to your TV
We con the world
We con the people
We’ll make them all believe the IDF is Jack the Ripper
We are peaceful travelers
We’re waving our own knives
The truth will never find its way to your TV
We con the world (We con the world…)
We con the people (We con the people…)
We’ll make them all believe the IDF is Jack the Ripper
We are peaceful travelers
We’re waving our own knives
The truth will never find its way to your TV
The truth will never find its way to your TV
Posted
on May 4, 2010, 7:45 am,
by David Appelman,
under Day to Day Rubbish.
According to Dan Zarrella Facebook users are extremely fascinated by sex. During a psychological study of his he noticed that Facebook users were 90% more likely to share a link that had to do with sex. That statistic is staggering. Unfortunately once all of the big marketing agencies see this stat we are going to be inundated with sex and boobs. Now this does not mean that 90% of Facebook users are obsessed with sex; it only means that 90% of the LINKS shared were about sex. I have not seen too many links in my feed about sex, but maybe I am just not looking hard enough.
Posted
on April 26, 2010, 3:45 pm,
by David Appelman,
under Uncategorized.
Hot linking is a bit of a touchy issue. When you hotlink from somebody’s website you steal from them. Each time somebody views your website with a hot linked image it steals a bit of their bandwidth. While this does not make a huge difference to somebody with a large social network, it definitely matters to a small time blogger paying out of pocket to try and become web famous.
Hot linking can also have terrible results. The owener of the website can replace any hotlinked image with essentially any image he wants. I have seen large flashing signs saying “I steal copyrighted content” or “I wear a black hat while I write”. I have even seen a site go so far as to place a picture of two large hairy men in speedos hugging as an image. These signs are usually pretty funny to me the consumer, but when I see a site that has one of these on it I generally leave after having a good laugh. I have pulled an image from DavidAirey.com to prove my point. Yes I am stealing bandwidth and yes he may be upset, but within the next 24 hours I will take the picture down and replace it with something I will host myself. This is simply to make a point. Look how polite his sign is, and imagine what he could have place on my blog at any point. Please do not hotlink images. Click and look at the original image to make sure you know that I am not pulling a fast one one you.
Posted
on April 16, 2010, 10:36 am,
by David Appelman,
under Day to Day Rubbish.
There is a very real movement going on in our cities today. Across the nation like weeds community gardens are popping up and people are filling these little plots of land with all sorts of food. In residential areas I see people growing cabbage, composting, and even raising chickens. Now I am not talking about people who rely on their mini farms in the way that somebody in the Great Depression relied on their victory garden to survive, I am talking about people doing it so that they know how. These minature farms that I see on a regular basis are in the backyards of nice homes that are here at the beaches. People are empowering themselves by teaching themselves how to provide for themselves even if on a small scale.
This morning as I stood on my small back patio at my apartment my neighbor came out and we started making idle chit chat. Somewhere in the conversation she gathered that I was trying to start producing some food, she went inside and showed me her little avacado plant that she is growing in her home. She says that she sprouts them and helps people plant them. She has limited room to grow food, so her way of being part of this new movement is to help other people produce. We spoke about what it would take to grow some food in our little tiny plot of land, and I am going to get started as soon as I get a soil sample. How To Take A Soil Sample
I am going to create a small garden at work today, when I do I will post some pictures Yovia’s victory garden!
Posted
on April 16, 2010, 8:50 am,
by David Appelman,
under Day to Day Rubbish.
Oh Nic Nic Nic, you bought a pyramid? What the hell for? Oh…I see so you crawl in it after you die. How does the IRS feel about you spending money to make sure you get buried like a pharaoh? For those of you who do not know, Nicolas Cage is some 14 million dollars in debt to the IRS. Those people do not mess around, which may be why he has such a sudden interest in how he gets buried. People are in shock that he would spend the money on a glorified concrete triangle.
Most people are saying that he bought the pyramid, but I am pretty sure it was built for him. I found this picture that looks a lot like the one TMZ has, and found it while searching for Nicolas Cage. Also look at the size of the pyramid, I mean I am sure that it was expensive, but not so expensive that it should be such a big deal. I think the big deal is that he has a freaking pyramid, I mean come on who out there does not want a pyramid. There is no word yet as to how his organs will be stored, or what sort of curses they are getting to protect his tomb.
Thanks http://lettersinbottles.blogspot.com/2010/03/nicholas-cages-new-family-tomb.html for the picture!
Posted
on April 15, 2010, 4:19 pm,
by David Appelman,
under LOLZ PICS.
In my search for a crying lumberjack google told me a fairy tale about crying lumberjacks. Check it out, Google Crying lumberjack and you will see that no such picture exists it is all a fairy tale.
Ginger kid is extremely butthurt to say the least. He has threatened to commit suicide and alienated his friends in the process. According to Ginger Kid or “CopperCab” his troubles all started when South Park made an episode saying that people with ginger hair do not have a soul. Evidently South Park was so influential that nobody wants to talk to him anymore. People were calling him a fat ginger. Now I am 18 years old I LARP, watch Star Trek, and even play Dungeons and Dragons. I have been called a number of unpleasent things in my time, but most of them have been in good nature. South Park has made fun of people playing Dungeons and Dragons but you do not hear me freaking out about them having done that.
He has not made a video in a number of weeks now. Maybe he has finally figured out that the way he is going about this is all wrong, somebody make a video telling him you know that he has a soul. He feels like the whole world hates him because he has red hair. Well Ginger Kid people are yelling at you not because you happen to have red hair but because you are making a big deal about a South Park episode….dude they make fun of everybody. You watched the show for a long time before you said that it was hateful, and the only reason you care is because now they are making fun of people with red hair. Well your yelling got you noticed, they are going to make an episode special for you buddy. You put yourself out there on the internet for everybody to see, and now you are going to get poked fun at. If it were me I would think it was hilarious to see myself on the Television. Ginger people I know that we are equal, and CopperCab please calm down take a deep breath and consider dying your hair if it is that much of an issue. What do you guys think about the Ginger Kid am I being callous? Leave a comment let me know.
Some Quotes
“IF THAT EPISODE AIRS I WILL NEVER WATCH THAT SHOW AGAIN!”
Hot linking is a bit of a touchy issue. When you hotlink from somebody’s website you steal from them. Each time somebody views your website with a hot linked image it steals a bit of their bandwidth. While this does not make a huge difference to somebody with a large social network, it definitely matters to a small time blogger paying out of pocket to try and become web famous.
