In what passes for news today, Casey Kasem, whos both distinctly unfriendly to Jews and not big on even Israels right to existence, has been found. Personally, I wouldnt have looked terribly hard for him. And despite all those tweets, those girls in Nigeria remain unreturned. In fact, in coverage of their plight, one has to look very hard for any acknowledgement that their abductors are ji hadists of the women-should-not-be-educated variety. They often seem but half-dismissed as merely violent pimp types. Interestingly, too, there seems to be very little interest in discovering, as the hearties of Boko Haram claim, if there is even in that region of Africa a modern equivalent to the slave market at which the girls could be sold. (Suggestion: sometime look up the old Michael Caine movie Ashanti, which is about Caine searching for his kidnapped-by-Arab-slavetrader Peter-Ustinov spouse , who is meant for sale and use by a supremely decadent sheik played by Omar Sharif; its a bit silly but also instructional despite its 30+ years age and clearly fact-based. Torn from todays headlines, you could say.) In better news, President Obama was apparently truly moved by yesterdays rites at the WTC museum. And not even his adoring staff suggested yesterday that if wed only tweeted in earnest in 2001, wed have forestalled those al Qaeda nasties. Still, theres never any suggestion that we utilize drones on those butchers hiding in the Nigerian bush, either. (Or upon their slavemarket if there truly exists such a horrid place.) Despite that we seem to have such success wielding them on, say, often innocent Yemeni villagers.
Posted on: Fri, 16 May 2014 13:57:56 +0000