The Gvlshornbook

When it pokes Middle Eastern Oil in the eye:

From the Jerusalem Post:

Gulf states may boycott the Nissan Motor Company as a result of an Israeli TV commercial that it depicts Saudis angered by a fuel-efficient car, a Saudi official has said.

The new campaign by Renault-Nissan caused an uproar in the Gulf when it showed a group of Saudi oil barons screaming and attacking the Renault-Nissan vehicle.

The Saudis are shown leaving a hotel and encountering the new, fuel-efficient vehicle. One man pounds his fists on the car and is then held back by his companions as he shouts at it, “Hawks should peck at you day and night.”

At the end of the commercial, the voice-over says, “It’s clear the oil companies won’t like you.”

awwwww… poor poor nebishes… A fuel efficient car is “racist”? Jesus… you are thin skinned.

Kosher meats firm cited for child labor violations - Yahoo! News

DES MOINES, Iowa - Iowa labor officials said Tuesday that they had uncovered dozens of child labor violations at the nation’s biggest supplier of kosher meat.

Officials from the state’s Labor Commissioner’s Office said their investigation, which spanned several months, uncovered 57 cases of child labor law violations at the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, where nearly 400 workers were arrested this spring in the largest immigration enforcement operation in U.S. history.

The types of violations included minors working in prohibited occupations, exceeding allowable hours for youth to work, failure to obtain work permits, exposure to hazardous chemicals and working with prohibited tools.

I’m a Reformed Jew, and this deeply offends me. I call upon all the organizations that oversee Kosher businesses to strip Agriprocessors of the Kashrut Certification. This is one Sin that shall not be swept under the rug of the Bet Din. This harms us all.

we are enjoined by Sacred Obligation to treat all with respect. It’s right there in Leviticus. Oh, yes. I forget, that today, all one needs to be considered “Observant” is observing the Sabbath and the Fast and High Holy Days. All the other Mitzvot are ignored.

Prodigal son - Haaretz - Israel News

CALIFORNIA - A moment before beginning his dinner, Masab, son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, glances at the friend who has accompanied him to the restaurant where we met. They whisper a few words and then say grace, thanking God and Jesus for putting food on their plates.

It takes a few seconds to digest this sight: The son of a Hamas MP who is also the most popular figure in that extremist Islamic organization in the West Bank, a young man who assisted his father for years in his political activities, has become a rank-and-file Christian. A few seconds later, he is savoring his meal, explaining that he hasn’t been eating much recently because of financial problems. During the past week he has been living with the friend, a Christian, of course, whom he met at church. “Without him,” he says, “I would have become homeless.”

when he said he didn’t see the man he ran down in DC?  I’m not alone in wondering this. TMZ.com also raises the question.
From the AP report:

BOSTON (AP) — Conservative political commentator Robert Novak announced Monday he has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, less than a week after he struck a pedestrian with his Corvette and drove away.

Novak, 77, fell ill on Cape Cod this weekend while visiting his daughter and was rushed to Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he said he was diagnosed Sunday with the tumor.

“I will be suspending my journalistic work for an indefinite but, God willing, not too lengthy period,” Novak, editor of the Evans-Novak Political Report, said in the statement released by his publisher, Eagle Publishing.

In his statement, Novak said he “didn’t see” the pedestrian he hit,nor did he hear anything either.

ABC 7 News’ Suzanne Kennedy: Can you tell us what happened this morning?

Robert Novak: I don’t really know.

ABC 7 News: Did you hit a pedestrian?

RN: That’s what they said, yes. I didn’t know I hit him.

ABC 7 News: And what happened? Did you even see anything?

RN: No, I didn’t see anything.

ABC 7 News: Was it a male or female pedestrian?

RN: I don’t know.

ABC 7 News: Where were you heading to?

RN: I was going to work.

ABC 7 News: About what time was this?

RN: It was about 10 o’clock.

ABC 7 News: So, you say you were driving down K Street and didn’t even see someone?

RN: That’s correct…..

ABC 7 News: Are you feeling OK today?

RN: I’m not right now.

Politico: Are you OK, sir?

RN: No… What do you mean?

Politico: Physically?

RN: Yes, I’m physically alright.

I say, he was lying there. He was not “physically ok”. but to say otherwise would have been damaging. As for the victim of Novak’s callousness, may he be well.

Tags: RobertNovak, tumor, DC cops, jacktard

Redlasso halts blogger service amid lawsuit

NEW YORK (Reuters) - News video-sharing site Redlasso said on Friday it will suspend its video search and clipping service for bloggers as it defends against a copyright infringement lawsuit filed this week by NBC and Fox News Channel.

It will continue to run a business-targeted service that lets clients track and clip content for internal use and a service for radio stations that lets them upload their clips for online sharing.

“We are very disappointed in the actions of select networks,” said Redlasso Chief Executive Ken Hayward in a statement. “We believe we have always acted within the law and have been respectful of the networks’ rights.

So, now the news is copyrighted. or, is it that they feel threatened by teh blogs? They should embrace The New Broadside.

Airport stall may return to spotlight :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Elections

It’s a bathroom door the GOP would rather keep closed.

Thousands of members of the international media will have to walk past it when they land at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport for the Republican National Convention in St. Paul at the end of the summer.

Larry Craig pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after his arrest in this stall where gays meet for sex.

Many will feel obligated to stop and file a story.

For the party that bills itself as stronger on family values than the Democrats, it likely will prove an unwelcome distraction.

Could the irony be any more delicious? Will the male members of the delegations hold it till they got to the hotel?

So, what does Darth Cheney do?
Cheney wanted cuts in climate testimony

Vice President Dick Cheney’s office pushed for major deletions in congressional testimony on the public health consequences of climate change, fearing the presentation by a leading health official might make it harder to avoid regulating greenhouse gases, a former EPA officials maintains.

When six pages were cut from testimony on climate change and public health by the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last October, the White House insisted the changes were made because of reservations raised by White House advisers about the accuracy of the science.

But Jason K. Burnett, until last month the senior adviser on climate change to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson, says that Cheney’s office was deeply involved in getting nearly half of the CDC’s original draft testimony removed.

Sunday Bookchat « The Opinion Mill

≥If that offer sounds crazy now, it sounded even crazier in 1958 when physicist Edward Teller, who had practically trademarked “Father of the H-Bomb” for his own use, went to Alaska to promote “Project Chariot,” a plan that would have used Teller’s explosive children to create a deep-water harbor on the coast of northwestern Alaska. The locals didn’t want it, and despite government pressure, a well-orchestrated media blitz that had the Alaskan newspapers in Teller’s pocket, they developed into an organized group that managed to halt the project, though not before biologist Les Viereck lost his university position because he provided data supporting the opposition.

My father has never said what the cause of the falling out was. Knowing him, this didn’t sit too well with him

Print Story: Chertoff: ID must comply to fly on Yahoo! News

Homeland security officials on Friday hinted at a possible face-saving deal to end their standoff with a handful of states over new driver’s license rules — a dispute that, left unresolved, could cause big air travel headaches.

For weeks, the Homeland Security Department has been headed toward a showdown with some states over a law called Real ID, which would require new security measures for state-issued driver’s licenses. Yet a late Good Friday letter from a top DHS official suggested Washington may be backing away from a messy fight.

South Carolina, Maine and Montana are the only states that have not sought extensions to comply, or already started toward compliance with Real ID, which was passed after the 2001 terror attacks on New York and Washington.

On Friday, the federal agency granted Montana an extension, even though state officials didn’t ask for one and insist they will not adhere to the Real ID law.

Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer told The Associated Press that DHS “painted themselves in a corner.”

A fourth state, New Hampshire, has asked to be exempted, but Homeland Security officials have not found that letter legally acceptable, so the Granite State has not received an extension.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff had warned that if holdout states do not send a letter by the end of March seeking an extension, come May, residents of such states will no longer be able to use their driver’s licenses as valid ID to board airplanes or enter federal buildings.

Such travelers would instead have to present a passport or be subjected to secondary screening.

There is the operative phrase: Such travelers would instead have to present a passport or be subjected to secondary screening.

Obama Girl Didnt Vote - City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog
On Tuesday night, City Room ran into Ms. Ettinger at an election-watching party in Greenwich Village and asked how things went at the polls.

“I didn’t get a chance to vote today because I’m not registered to vote in New York,” she said.

So where is Obama Girl registered to vote?

“New Jersey.”

Um, but didn’t New Jersey also hold a primary?

True. The problem, she explained, was that she was sick in New York City and was unable to get back across the Hudson River to the polls in Jersey City.

Unbelievable….