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.

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.

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.”

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

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.

sign the petition.

oh, poor poor Karl.. So misunderstood. So, Karl, why not go to Congress and clear the misunderstandings. Maybe, you’ll be invited to the Prom.

PART ONE: GRENDEL
Grendel Attacks

One night, after a beer party,
the Danes settled in the hall
for sleep; they knew no sorrows.
The evil creature, grim and hungry,
grabbed thirty warriors
and went home laughing.

At dawn, when the Danes learned
of Grendel’s strength,
there was great weeping.
The old king sat sadly,
crying for his men. Bloody
footprints were found.

That was bad enough,
but the following night
Grendel killed more–
blinded by sin,
he felt no remorse.

So Grendel ruled,
fighting right,
one against many,
and the greatest hall
in all the earth
stood empty at night…

Poets sang sad songs
throughout the world,
how Grendel tormented Hrothgar;
how no warrior,
no matter how brave,
could kill Grendel.
How Grendel wasn’t
about to stop,
or pay damages.
Grendel kept ambushing from his lair,
the moors which lay in perpetual darkness.

Then, the cruelest of all injuries,
he moved into the hall–
stayed there every night
(though God would never allow
such an evil thing
to actually touch the throne).

“Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Utah) defended Rove, saying that he did have immunity from testifying and that the Democratic insistence on holding the hearing was a “partisan stunt.”

Cannon said Rove was out of the country on a “long-planned trip.”

I say “Good Riddance to ya, ya black-hearted traitor”

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?