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February 15, 2006
What We're Up Against
Headline: "Hamas: We Drink Jews' Blood"
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/682921.html
I am continually amazed at the degree of evil in the world.
What is truly amazing to me, however, is that there are people; many prominent people; who sympathize with these beasts. What do we have to do to convince the world that these are not Diplomats and Politicians, not Fugitives and Refugees, but Butchers and Murderers?
How can anyone feel anything but disgust for someone who could say this?
"We will not leave you alone until we quench ourselves with your blood and we will quench the thirst of our children with your blood. We will not rest until you leave the lands of the Muslims."
or this?
"My message to the hated Jews: There is no God but Allah. We will hunt you everywhere, when you wake and when you sleep. We are a blood-drinking people and we know that there is no better blood than Jewish blood."
or this?
"By the life of Allah, we will destroy you. We will blow you up. We will take our revenge on you. We will purify our land of you, pigs, who have defiled our land. By the life of Allah, we will take our vengeance. We are carrying out this operation as harsh revenge against the sons of monkeys and pigs."
I understand that I may not be entirely neutral on the issue... but just look at the rhetoric:
Israel wants peace within it's borders, and a democratic, Jewish state in which all (Muslims included) are welcome (even if Jews are, perhaps, more welcome than others).
Hamas wants to kill every living Jew and drink their blood... I rest my case...
— The Shelanman
Posted by andrew at 12:57 PM | Comments (0)
February 14, 2006
A Heart-Warming Valentine's Day Story
Today I encountered this heart-warming tale from the The Liberty Belles". It travelled a goodly distance before arriving here on my blog, so... it's of questionable origin. But it is so wonderful that you simply must read it... so, here goes.
Little Thelma comes home from first grade and tells her father that they learned about the history of Valentine’s Day. And, “Since Valentine’s Day is for a Christian saint and we’re Jewish,” she asks, “will God get mad at me for giving someone a valentine?”
Thelma’s father thinks a bit, then replies, “No, I don’t think God would get mad. Who do you want to give a valentine to?”
“Osama Bin Laden,” she says.
“Why him?” asks father, shocked.
“Well,” says Thelma, “I thought that if a little American Jewish girl could have enough love to give Osama a valentine, he might start to think that maybe we’re not all bad, and maybe he’ll start loving people a little bit. And if other kids saw what I did and sent valentines to Osama, he’d love everyone a lot. And then! And then he’d start going all over the place tell everyone how much he loved them and how he didn’t hate anyone anymore.”
Her father’s heart swells and he looks at his daughter with newfound pride. “Thelma, that’s the most wonderful thing I’ve ever heard.”
“I know,” Thelma says, “and once that gets him out in the open, the Marines could blow the hell out of him.”
Hope you enjoyed that... I know I did!
— The Shelanman
Posted by andrew at 04:04 PM | Comments (0)
February 07, 2006
Nationalized Hiring Processes?
My daily slashdot news crawl came across this CNN article that outlines a federally-mandated universal hiring process for all companies employing 50 or more people.
What I'm trying to figure out is how this accomplishes anything for anybody besides creating extra work in the hiring process. We're under the 50-person mark, so it won't effect us, but I just don't see how this could possibly accomplish it's goal (ensuring "diversity" in the workplace).
The basic idea is that employers are supposed to look at "qualifications" only -- they're not supposed to (or, really, even allowed to) consider anything other than job requirements, and they're not allowed to hire people that don't already fulfill 100% of the requirements. If a job description asks for "three years of X", and you have two-and-a-half... they're apparently not legally allowed to even consider you for the position.
Since I've yet to see the job description that didn't ask for way more than any one person could possibly have, it sounds like large companies are going to be doing essentially 0 hiring until they rewrite all their job descriptions. (That's not going to happen, which means, more likely, that just about everybody will either ignore, or partially ignore, the law... and some examples will be made, and then we'll probably just get back to business...).
And all this is so that the federal government can supposedly protect all the minorities from unfair managers who won't hire them. Except that people aren't machines... most positions seem to require more than a robot-with-X-qualifications...
I just don't know what the government was thinking... or if they were at all... And why haven't I heard about this before?
America just keeps sounding more and more like the EU and less and less like the America we used to be...
— The Shelanman
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