Is This a Great Country or What?

1. You know that the world is soon to come to an end when Dana Milbank of the Jerusalem Washington New York Times Post writes like Mantiq al-Tayr. Am I doing something wrong? Is he jealous of my fame and fortune? Or is he just another Israeli firster taking a pot shot at Israeli Vice President for American Affairs (IVPFAA) Barack Obama,  just this time from a different angle?

Good grief, look at these quotes from his article about the IVPFAA’s public humiliation this week when his boss, Bibi Bibi Netanyahu, took him out to the white phosphorus shed and laid it on thick.

“A blue-and-white Israeli flag hung from Blair House. Across Pennsylvania Avenue, the Stars and Stripes was in its usual place atop the White House. But to capture the real significance of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s visit with President Obama, White House officials might have instead flown the white flag of surrender.”

That’s pretty good, no?  But it gets better:

“So on Tuesday, Obama, routed and humiliated by his Israeli counterpart, invited Netanyahu back to the White House for what might be called the Oil of Olay Summit: It was all about saving face.”

And no doubt after the cum-shot in the woodshed, Obama had to really wipe his face clean, but I digress.  Back to DM.

Here’s my favorite quote:

“He performed the Full Monty of pro-Israel pandering: “The bond between the United States and Israel is unbreakable” . . . “I commended Prime Minister Netanyahu” . . . “Our two countries are working cooperatively” . . . “unwavering in our commitment” . . . “our relationship has broadened” . . . “continuing to improve” . . . “We are committed to that special bond, and we are going to do what’s required to back that up.”

“The Full Monty” – man that’s quite Mantiqiyyan. The kind of stuff that Mrs. Mantiq gives me shit for saying. And this is in the JEWNYTP of all places.

I think what is going on here is that Milbank, who basically denies the influence of the Israeli lobby and this should tell you everything you need to know about him, is using JEWNYPT to laugh out loud at Obama and all the complete idiots who supported this cowardly accomplishmentless cretin. Read between the lines folks – the Zionists are rubbing your noses in it. You are all just like Obama – kind of gives a new twist to “Black like me.”

2. I sure am glad that Octavia Nasr got fired from CNN and that Helen Thomas got booted out of the White House. I mean, look what Ms. Nasr said:

“You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway. So it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them. Actually, it’s a lot of fun to fight. You know, it’s a hell of a hoot. It’s fun to shoot some people. I’ll be right upfront with you, I like brawling.”

How could anyone hold a position of public trust with views like that?

Oh, wait. The tuyuur, always looking over my shoulder and fact checking everything I write, are now telling me that Ms. Nasr didn’t say that. What she really said was something about how the recently deceased Shi’ite cleric Fadlallah didn’t totally suck Netanyahu’s dick, or something like that. (Maybe Obama could take a cue from him?, but I digress.) Anyway, the tuyuur here are telling me that the quote here is from General James Mattis who was a three-star general when he said this. He was swiftly punished for what he said and soon was no longer a three-star general. Yup, they made him a four-star general. And he is now the head of CENTCOM replacing neo-con warrior and recent host of, and I am not making this up,  Elie Wiesel, General David Petraeus.  So the head of CENTCOM loves to kill people in general and Muslims in particular and the guy running the war in Afghanistan is a Zionist stooge who seems to have presidential aspirations.

Is this a great country or what?

3. Back to DM for a moment. Did I mention Helen Thomas? DM jumped all over her too. In fact, on June 8th, 2010, JEWNYPT wrote a huge piece commemorating Israeli’s premeditated attack on the USS Liberty and demanded a full inquiry into the event.  Oh shit, wait a second, the tuyuur are chirping like there’s no sabbath or something. Oh, I see, I’m sorry, they are correct yet again: I meant to write that on June 8th, 2010, JEWNYPT made no mention whatsoever of the 43rd anniversary of the murderous attack on the USS Liberty, but it did have THREE articles celebrating Helen Thomas’ getting the boot from Bibi’s vacation home, the White House. Yup, three articles.

One by Dana Milbank. One by Howard Kurtz. One by Richard Cohen.  I mean, is this a great country or what?

In Milbank’s piece he makes a revealing statement:

“A few months ago, White House reporters settled on a system for preserving the sanctity of Helen Thomas’s front-row-center seat in the briefing room. On those frequent occasions when the 89-year-old legend didn’t show up for a briefing — a pardonable event for somebody who has done the job for 50 years — reporters from other outlets would take turns occupying the seat to deny the prominent perch to less-reputable characters in the room.”

That is, to deny someone who may not be a complete suck up a chance to ask a real question like “President Obama, how many nuclear weapons does Israel have?” (As far as I know, Helen Thomas didn’t even go that far.)

Dana doesn’t like it when “less-reputable” people get a chance to speak.

4. One of those “less-reputable” people is, apparently, Nico Pitney of the quite boring and trite Huffington Post. Pitney actually got chosen to ask a question by Obama at a recent press conference and posed one that he says came from an Iranian in Iran. It was a perfectly neo-con question but Milbank went ballistic about it, claiming, not without some justification, that there had been some collusion between Pitney and the White House regarding Pitney’s getting called on to ask Obama a question. Let me digress for a second. Don’t these White House reporters sound like a bunch of self-centered egotistical children? Anyway – So,  Pitney, DM, and the utterly ridiculous Amanda Carpenter appeared on Howard Kurtz’s CNN show (Kurtz does get around, doesn’t  he?) to talk about it.  And unfortunately, they do talk about it.  Go here to watch this video of these clowns, and bring your barf bags, big ones. With these kinds of people representing us at the White House, it’s no wonder that Americans are so clueless and ignorant.

Oh, Pitney makes a rather interesting statement. He says that DM called him a name. Here’s what Pitney writes:

“The only thing that surprised me was when Dana turned to me after our initial sparring and called me a “dick” in a whispered tone (the specific phrase was, I believe, “You’re such a dick”).” I almost titled this piece with that quote. Mrs. Mantiq would have gone berserk.

5. Since CENTCOM’s Area of Responsibility (AOR) includes only Muslim- majority nations, and many that are Arab, maybe you all could help celebrate Mattis’ getting the new gig by sending him t-shirts like the ones that Israeli soldiers like to wear that talk about about how cool it is to kill Arabs.

At this link you can see a picture of a couple of the shirts and also see the wording that is put on many others. Some of the wording seems most appropriate, for example:

- “In 2006, soldiers from the “Carmon Team” course for elite-unit marksmen printed a shirt with a drawing of a knife-wielding Palestinian in the crosshairs of a gun sight, and the slogan, “You’ve got to run fast, run fast, run fast, before it’s all over.” Below is a drawing of Arab women weeping over a grave and the words: “And afterward they cry, and afterward they cry.” [The inscriptions are riffs on a popular song.]“

- “Let every Arab mother know that her son’s fate is in my hands!” had previously been banned for use on another infantry unit’s shirt. A Givati soldier said this week, however, that at the end of last year, his platoon printed up dozens of shirts, fleece jackets and pants bearing this slogan.”

And of course, there’s that great family favorite:

- “A sharpshooter’s T-shirt from the Givati Brigade’s Shaked battalion shows a pregnant Palestinian woman with a bull’s-eye superimposed on her belly, with the slogan, in English, “1 shot, 2 kills.”

6. Thanks to the Huffington Post (did I mention that it is trite and boring?), all of the tuyuur here at Mantiq al-Tayr are routing for the Netherlands to win the world cup. But  not me, Ms. Mantiq, not me.

7. Obama has gutted NASA’s funding.

Was this a great country or what?

8. Okay, it’s entertainment video time. Two videos.

The first one is the “You Sexy Thing” scene from “The Full Monty.” Worth watching – and for sure the Mantiqiyyaat will like it. Music starts at the half-point, or thereabouts.

And like so many mothers the world over, Sometimes We Cry.

9. Okay, okay. It’s been quite some time since we posted a stupid cat video. In honor of Amanda Carpenter: