Why Aren't You Boycotting Arab States?

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SEAL Team 6 members among 38 killed in Afghanistan

No member of the Bin Laden raid team was among the dead, said a Pentagon official briefed on the casualties who was not authorized to speak publicly while families still were being notified. But he said 22 of the 30 were Navy SEALs, and a significant number were members of SEAL Team 6, the unit that conducted the Bin Laden raid and is made up of just a few hundred of some of the best-trained fighters in the U.S. military. via latimes.com

Redford’s Weather Underground Whitewash

I had a run in with the Weather Underground when I was a child. My mother (a leftist) and I were a witness to the police beating the crap out of their women in broad daylight. This happened on 96th street and Broadway. My mother went to court believing she had witnessed abuse. When the W.U. realized my mother was a Jew they didn't want the help of a "Zionist". That is the truth about the Weather Underground and no one should glorify them. My mother is hardly part of the military industrial complex. To this day my parent's friends are Gays and Lesbians or empathetic to their cause and I assure you she doesn't approve of my blog... though she did come to my help when I was incarcerated wrongly in Seattle. The W.U. were horrible horrible people... and just because they are "LEFTISTS" they are getting a public relations band-aid from Hollywood. This is pathetic. I understand revolutions. The W.U. were not revolutionaries. The W.U. were haters.

In addition to producing, Redford will be doing double duty on The Company You Keep, directing the screenplay adapted from a 2004 novel by Neil Gordon, and also starring as the novel’s protagonist, an ex-Weatherman whose former identity is in danger of being exposed. Still wanted for a deadly bank robbery in his militant past, he goes on the run and reaches out to old comrades. Along the way we are treated, at least in the book version, to the political pontifications and nostalgia of a ’60s radical-turned-academic. Redford’s co-producer on the project, Nicolas Chartier of Voltage Pictures, describes The Company You Keep this way:

This is an edge-of-your-seat thriller about real Americans who stood for their beliefs, thinking they were patriots and defending their country’s ideals against their government.

via frontpagemag.com

...to give you an idea of my mother's opinions... she loves Robert Redford's movies. Both of my parents do. It isn't going to be shocking for me to see another Hollywood asshole try to further his fascist cronies... but for my parents I suppose it might be shocking.

Russian Real Pin-ups

Russian Pinups. They are photos, but quite stylized, may be processed a bit.
"Because of the devastation of World War II, Russian "girls" in the '40s and '50s were taught to be tough and work hard. Russia never had the chance to enjoy the happy pin-up times of America's postwar period. In fact, cheerful American pin-up art was considered in Soviet Russia to be politically incorrect, decadent and flat-out immoral, the product of a culture that could never understand the true nature of the human condition." via E.O.Lake

...they are making up for that now... NARF!

Daphni Leef: How a woman in a tent became Israel's top story

what did Leef do to bring her such national attention? She got chucked out of her flat. And then wrote on Facebook. Just over a month ago she was told that she needed to leave her Tel Aviv apartment because the building was slated for redevelopment. She started looking for a new home, and was shocked to find how expensive rents had become.
"I called up a friend and said, 'I'm setting up a tent'," she recalls. "He said I should calm down." But she did not calm down - instead she opened a Facebook "event", inviting people to erect tents in central Tel Aviv to protest against high housing prices.

More than 350 people are now living in Tel Aviv's tented city after Daphni Leef invited fellow Israelis to join her protest on Facebook

It quickly gained momentum, and, a month later, there are 350 tents in Tel Aviv's "tent city" where she lives, and more than 500 tents in spin-off demonstrations elsewhere in the country. The campaign is dominating the news. A poll by Haaretz suggests that some 87 per cent of Israelis are behind it. A fortnight ago 30,000 people marched in Tel Aviv in support. via thejc.com

Who is she? Does she support a two state solution? Does she think Islam is a religion of "Piece"? The fact that the media won't tell me frightens me. If Israelis want to build homes, I'm all for it... but there is plenty of concrete in Tel Aviv. Judea and Samaria is where natural growth should occur. What is her take on that? I'm not optimistic.