Israeli conduct

Israel makes significant efforts to avoid or minimize civilian casualties, by ensuring that its attacks are directed against legitimate military targets, and that in conducting its operations incidental injury to civilians is kept to a minimum. Every potential military operation is considered on an individual basis in order to ensure that it meets the test of proportionality.

In practice this means many proposed military operations are rejected when it appears that the likelihood of collateral damage to civilians and their property is too high. As Israel's High Court of Justice has held, in reviewing Israeli security actions:

"This is the destiny of democracy, as not all means are acceptable to it and not all practices employed by its enemies are open before it. Although a democracy must often fight with one hand tied behind its back, it nonetheless has the upper hand". (HCJ 5100/94)

As of today, Steel companies are lining up for a bailout as I predicted. What I did not predict is that Broadway wants a bailout too. The head of the Kennedy Center used the.....you guessed it - JOBS argument that all arts need a Federal bailout.

Banking - check, Insurance - check, Mortgages - check, Car companies - check, Airlines - check, Steel - check, Broadway - check.

Next up all homebuilders and..........Oil companies. With the price of oil so low you KNOW the oil companies are going to make a rush at the Federal coffers.

Shouldn't distract you. Did he prolong it? No. Did all of his first term initiatives fail including many that were deemed unconstitutional by his own Supreme Court? Yes. Mr Sirota would be well served actually reading or knowing the written facts and history of this.

But I digress. Sirota and Salon aren't about 'facts', they are about punditry and what other bloggers say about blogs that blog against some other bloggers who blog punditry that Sirota agrees with.

I'm sorry, sir but the Media Revisionist History slot here is already filled by Che Greenwald.

Sorry Mr. Leonard but 'no' regulation is really only a piece of the puzzle. The fact is that a great deal of this was caused by criminality - e.g. ignoring the rules and regs and audits we're already supposed to nominally follow. The fact is, you could enact a raft of new regs that would make EU ex Marxist Bureaucrats proud - if you're not going to check or do any enforcement or compliance then you'll wind up in much the same place you are now. You're espousing a slavish adherence to ideology not a practical view of results.

Cubans now earn about $20 month. Would that there was no embargo and they could flourish like Jamaica, Hati and other such paradises.

.....since liberals believe FDR secretly engineered our entrance into WW2 by willfully hiding information about Pearl Harbor. See there's enough crazy hate to around for all of you. Have a cookie.

Thousands of clerics, men and women both were executed or tortured. Would that we could do the same in the name of peace, tolerance and multicultural diversity.

As all those local companies get in line for Federal money to rebuild a bridge for the next eleventy million years replete with 500 guys leaning on shovels and 20,000 road cones and all the state troopers raking in millions in speeding fines through a work zone, this whole infrastructure thing is going to be the biggest cycle of fraud in US history.

Of course all the Saloniks who demanding we simply drop bales of cash from helicopters before having any accountability in place beforehand will be the first in line screaming about 'The fat white rich Republican bankers etc etc who sucked all this money out of the system with no checks and balances......".

It's not so bad if you join the party, have the right connections and such. Everybody else? Screw them. As always.

When you're to the left of NPR, Salon/Greenwald has made itself as irrelevant as ANSWER. My suggestion to you would be to boil out into the streets and riot, club Jews in the head, grab a bullhorn scream and scream and scream like you always do.

The economy hasn't devolved into Stalinism. Israel isn't being banned from the planet for defending herself. The NY Gov isn't choosing Andrea Dworkin II for the Senate.