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Al Gore's Poison
Sadly, yesterday's gunman at the Discovery Channel was not the first incident of someone going berserk after taking in Gore's work.
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Obama's Evolving Image
An image, as any PR pro can tell you, has a life of its own. This is as true of presidents as anyone else.
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Beck's 'Obsession' with Black Liberation Theology Thoroughly Justified
LA Times columnist Tim Rutten has dug himself into a pit of theological quicksand with his harsh criticism of Glenn Beck.
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The Joe Miller Lesson Applied to the GOP Congressional Leadership
On the cusp of what is trending toward a significant Republican victory in November, the current GOP congressional leadership has yet to make a compelling case that they're ready to lead a majority party.
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Black Civil Rights Mafia Betrays Black America
Black civil rights dinosaurs and their liberal white guilt-ridden sycophants campaign to "Keep Hate Alive."
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Iraq: The Good War
After seven years of war, it is important to remember the good accomplished by these efforts.
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Mubarak the Peacemaker?
Today, Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian dictator, will arrive in Washington, D.C. for the purpose of participating in the Middle East Peace Summit.
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Los centros del triángulo: el punto de Lemoine
Nueva entrega de la serie sobre los centros del triángulo. En este artículo vamos a presentar el denominado punto de Lemoine (o punto de Grebe), descubierto por el matemático francés Émile Lemoine.
La construcción de este punto es tan sencilla como otras que ya hemos visto. Se comienza construyendo un triángulo en el que trazamos las tres bisectrices (las líneas de puntos del dibujo). Después marcamos los puntos medios de cada uno de los lados (en el dibujo, ) y trazamos las medianas, es decir, las rectas que unen cada vértice con el punto medio del lado opuesto (en el dibujo, las líneas discontinuas). Y a continuación trazamos las rectas que se obtienen al reflejar cada mediana respecto de la bisectriz correspondiente al ángulo de su vértice, obteniendo así las tres rectas que en el dibujo aparecen en línea continua. Estas tres rectas, curiosamente, se cortan en un punto, que es el denominado punto de Lemoine.
Y, como pasa en muchas ocasiones, hay un extra. Si dibujamos la tres rectas paralelas a los lados del triángulo que pasan por el punto de Lemoine, los seis puntos de intersección de estas tres rectas con los lados del triángulo pertenecen a la misma circunferencia, llamada por ello circunferencia de Lemoine.
En la siguiente construcción hecha con GeoGebra se puede jugar con el tamaño del triángulo y la colocación de sus vértices para comprobar que efectivamente esas rectas se cortan en este punto de Lemoine y marcando la casilla que aparece arriba a la derecha puede verse la circunferencia de Lemoine, donde tanto las rectas como dicha circunferencia aparecen en color gris:
El applet GeoGebra-Java no ha podido ejecutarse.
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Talking About Talking (1980)
Today's Golden Oldie is a Dry Bones cartoon done 30 years ago in September of 1980.Now, as then, talks about talks are going on.
Just for a sense of reference, when I did this cartoon Barack Obama was 19 years old and had just graduated from high school the year before. -Dry Bones- Israel's Political Comic Strip Since 1973
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The Day In Israel: Thurs Sept 2nd, 2010
Buoyed by the murder of 4 Israelis in Monday’s terror attack, palestinian terrorists have tried to end the lives of yet more innocents with another, similar one.
Photo by: Emil Salman
The attack on Wednesday occurred at Rimonim Junction, near the Israeli settlement of Kochav Hashachar and east of the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Around 11 p.m., there were reports of a shooting in the Rimonim Junction area, and a car was found overturned after police and emergency crews conducted sweeps of the area.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Palestinian gunmen ambushed the Israeli car, which was riddled with bullets, he said. Police are reported to have found 20 bullets, which were unloaded into the car which was attacked.
Preliminary reports said the attack was a drive-by shooting, executed in a similar fashion to Tuesday’s attack. IDF troops are continuing to scour the area for the assailants.
Hamas has claimed responsibility for both Tuesday and Wednesday’s attacks and have vowed that more attacks would come.
The group said in a short SMS message sent to reporters on Wednesday that its militants opened fire at an Israeli car and wounded two Israelis, one of them seriously.
“This attack is a message to those who promised that Hebron attack, which was carried out on Tuesday, won’t be repeated again,” said the group’s SMS message.
Abu Obeida, the spokesman for the Hamas armed wing in the Gaza Strip, said in a news briefing that the second attack in the West Bank comes “in the frame of the response to the crimes of the (Israeli) occupation.”
The victims are a couple, both in their 30s. One of the victims of the attack has been identified as Moshe Moreno, who is a rabbi for a pre-army program in the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Efrayim. He is listed as in serious condition. His wife, who was riding in the car with him, was also lightly injured in the attack.
An Israeli woman was killed near the same junction in 2002 when a terrorist shot at her car as she drove on a nearby road.
The attack on Wednesday was the second shooting in as many days against Israelis in the West Bank, and comes on the eve of the start of direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Washington on Thursday.
Updates (Israel time; most recent at top)
2:40PM: Senior Hamashole Mahmoud “Nipple-nose” al-Zahar has rejected any connection between his group’s terror attacks and the launch of peace talks.
Senior Hamas figure Mahmoud al-Zahar said there was no connection between this week’s terror attacks in the West Bank and the launching of direct peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
In an interview with London-based Arabic daily a-Sharq al-Awsat published Thursday, al-Zahar said the attempt to link the attacks to the peace talks is “fundamentally wrong,” adding that the decision to carry out the attacks was made by “people in the field.”
“There are those who are saying the timing of the attacks was deliberate, but this is not true. When people have an opportunity, as well as the capabilities and targets, they act.”
I believe him, although I think perhaps they intensify their efforts somewhat around the time of peace talks.
11:16AM: Here is audio of Professor of politics Beverley Milton-Edwards on BBC Radio 4′s “Today” claiming Hamas “is not anti-peace” nor “anti-negotiation,” and are not “anti-Israel” but rather “anti Israeli occupation” (see link to Hamas’ charter in my previous update).
9:48AM: Ha’aretz: MESS Report / Terror attack achieved its goal – embarrassing the PA
No, actually the goal is to kill Jews. Embarrassing the PA is a bonus at best.
9:04AM: Caroline Glick writes about a new initiative designed to convince Israelis that Fatah are our peace partners.
This week in the leadup to the talks, the openly subversive Geneva Initiative has launched a multimillion dollar public relations campaign targeting the public.
Its goal is to persuade Israelis that Fatah is a legitimate partner for peace. The campaign is funded by USAID.
ACCORDING TO Yediot Aharonot, the Geneva Initiative has hired Ron Asulin, one of the country’s top directors to stage and direct commercials featuring Fatah members telling Israelis they are credible partners in peace. The Geneva Initiative invited Yediot’s Alon Goldstein to watch the recording sessions in Ramallah.
His report, published Sunday, is a fascinating glimpse at the Left’s propaganda shop.
Goldstein describes how Asulin told Fatah’s Saeb Erekat to begin his greeting with the word “shalom.”
“It will be effective,” Asulin promised.
Meanwhile, here is one of the commercials starring Erekat, with subtitles displaying what he really means (hat tip: EoZ).
6:15AM: Outrageous headline of the day: Courtesy of China’s Xinhua:
6:05AM: Full statement from Hamas on their website:
Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades fullfill its series of promises by carrying out a new heroic operation against hatefull Zionist settlers in West Bank. On Wednesday, 1st of September ,Al Qassam members in the West Bank opened fire on a car driving near the illegal settlement of Kochav Hashachar and east of the West Bank city of Ramallah, at 11p.m.
In a statement distributed by the Brigades on its website confirmed that “This operation is part of the repelling operations against the occupation assaults on Gaza Strip and West Bank, and as a legal response for the ongoing aggression against Palestinian people.”
This second operation, comes one day after Al Khalil operation caused of killing of 4 Zionist settlers by Al Qassam members in West Bank , this reveals that they are able to hit anywhere and anytime, and also sends a message to Zionist settlers and soldiers that their crimes against Palestinian residents will never pass without punishment.
Moreover, it is a message to those cowards who are still fighting and torturing the brave Mujahedeen in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
To them we say, ” You will never stop our legal resistance which represented in targeting the Zionist soldiers and settlers who are still occupying our home land, Palestine”.
Today, our heroic operation represents a significant response to that voices who declared cowardly that Al Khalil operation will never take place once again.
It is a holy promise from Al Qassam Brigades to our people In Gaza and West Bank and to all our prisoners , martyrs and Islamic nation to continue tageting Zionist settlers in West Bank and occupied territories till the liberation of whole Palestine.
We promise that this operation will not be the last, to let Zionists in horrible fear and disability as a normal fate for their crimes against our people in Gaza and West Bank.
They have also published photos from the aftermath of the attack.
6:00AM: Speaking of Monday’s terror attack, here is how some palestinian children reacted to it.
Palestinian children, waving green Islamic flags and making a victory sign, participate a rally, to celebrate a militant attack in the southern West Bank, in the Jebaliya Refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010. A Palestinian gunman opened fire on an Israeli vehicle traveling in the West Bank on Tuesday, killing four passengers, authorities said, in a deadly attack that cast a long shadow over Mideast peace talks set to start this week. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
Yeah, settlements are the obstacle to peace.
5:56AM: Phyllis Chesler of Pajamas Media rips some of the mainstream media for its treatment of Monday’s terror attack.
Excerpt:
Allow me to first quote from the Bible of the intelligentsia, aka the New York Times, which presents this incident on page 4, not on page 1; the early pages are usually reserved for all incidents in which Israelis fight back so that Israeli “evil” is seen immediately and framed as among the most “important” world news of the day. The accompanying Times headline? Unbelievably, it is this: “Killing of 4 Israeli Settlers on the Eve of Peace Talks Rattles Leaders on Both Sides.” It’s really not clear who killed the “settlers.” What is clear is that “both sides” are “rattled.” The piece opens with a paragraph that made me see red, both literally and metaphorically. It reads as follows:
“The killing of four Israeli settlers, including a pregnant woman, in the West Bank on Tuesday evening rattled Israeli and Palestinian leaders on the eve of peace talks in Washington and underscored the disruptive role that the issue of Jewish settlements could play in the already fragile negotiations.”
Note: This opening paragraph literally blames the past and future peace failures on the Israeli settlements. The Times neither blames nor characterizes Hamas accurately. It does not say the Arab Muslim terrorist group, Hamas — the Palestinian version of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza, probably also backed by Iran and Hezbollah, and the group which is claiming responsibility for the attack — is also responsible for a deadly civil war with the not-so-moderate President Abbas; an Islamist war on Palestinian women, homosexuals, and dissidents; and a jihadic war against the Jews, which began a long time ago and which will never stop until either such terrorist leaders and their propaganda are utterly vanquished militarily or until the Jews have been driven out of the Holy Land once again.
On the contrary. The piece also positions President Mahmud Abbas as the “good” guy who, like his negotiating partner, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has “condemned” the attacks. Yes — even as Abbas is busy honoring the Palestinian terrorist who planned the Munich massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic games, Amin Al-Hindi, as well as the Palestinian terrorist Omar Muhammad Ziyada, who murdered an Israeli civilian in a human bomb homicide in 2002.
The Gray Lady does not even tell us the names of the Israeli civilian victims, nor are they in any way humanized. Their histories are not presented. They are only “particularly militant settlers”: faceless, shadowy figures. We are not supposed to care about them. We do learn what Hamas said about the attack, namely that it was a “natural response to the crimes of the Israeli occupation and its settlers.” We also learn that “hundreds” of Hamas supporters “took to the streets … to celebrate the news of the attack.”
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Beams Bulletin: 2nd Terror Attack in 24 hours
Two Jewish residents of the Binyamin region has just been seriously wounded when their car was attacked with automatic gunfire near the Rimonim junction north of Jerusalem. They have been hospitalized and are stable, may Hashem give them a full recovery.
This is just a day after Yitzchak and Tali (9 months pregnant and mother of 6) Ames, Kochava Even-Chaim and Avishai Shindler were brutally murdered south of Hevron, may Hashem avenge their martyred blood.
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Remembering America's Iraq War 'Patriotic Opposition'
Last night, President Obama cited the "patriots who opposed" the war. Well, given the president's tribute, I thought I'd pause to offer a summary of the loyal opposition.
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¿Sabía que…
…en muchos países se sigue llamando a constante Ludolphina?
La razón es bien sencilla. A finales del siglo XVI se descubrieron varias aproximaciones del número :
- V. Otho y A Anthonisz redescubrieron sobre el año 1573 de forma independiente la aproximación
a partir de las aproximaciones de Ptolomeo y de Arquimedes.
- Viète encontró una aproximación de con 10 decimales exactos.
Pero el matemático alemán Ludolph Van Ceulen llegó más allá. En 1596 publicó una aproximación de con 20 decimales exactos, obtenida a partir de un polígono de 15 lados y duplicando sucesivamente el número de lados 37 veces. Pero fue más adelante cuando Van Ceulen encontró la aproximación que impresionó a sus sucesores. Mediante un polígono regular de lados Van Ceulen obtuvo una aproximación de con 35 decimales exactos. Según parece, su viuda hizo grabar en la tumba de Van Ceulen dicha aproximación:
Fuente:
- Historia de la matemática, de Carl B. Boyer.
- Ludolph Van Ceulen en la Wikipedia española.
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The Innocent Lives Lost
Ynet reports:
Hundreds of people on Wednesday attended the funerals of the four residents of the West Bank settlement of Beit Hagai who were murdered in a terror attack the previous evening near Hebron.
Talya Imes, 45, and her husband Yitzhak Imes, 47, are to be buried at the Mount of Olives cemetery, while Avishai Shendler, 24, is to be buried in Petah Tikvah and Kochava Even-Haim, 37, will be buried in Ashdod.
Beit Hagai’s synagogue filled with family members during the morning hours, and as the bodies were brought in they could be heard weeping and tearing their clothes in mourning.
The Imes couple left six orphans behind, who took shelter in each others’ arms. Moriah, Avishai’s widow, was held by the women of her family.
The Imes’s son, Ariel, eulogized the couple. “Mother, father, something changed yesterday. You were a natural part of the family, and suddenly you’re not here. I can’t believe that a mother that took such good care of us is no longer here,” he said. “Come back to me, mother.”
Momi Even-Haim eulogized his wife. “How can I say goodbye to you? I only want you to stay. I don’t want you to be hurt like this. It’s cowardice to shoot a woman in a moving vehicle like that,” he said.
“I want to tell you about everyone who came, the place is full here. You probably would have hidden in the corner and said, ‘You shouldn’t have’.”
The families and friends of the victims gathered around the bodies at the synagogue in the settlement of Beit Hagai to pay their final respects. “I promise to raise my family and my siblings. I promise that we will all remain together. We’ll get through this. I’m sorry that I didn’t spend enough time with you,” said the Ames’ eldest son, one of their six children.
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Kochava’s husband, Momi Even Haim, lamented the loss of his wife, saying “My Kochava, my love, my partner, how will I say goodbye to you?”
“I’m afraid,” he continued. “I just want you to stay. Monsters, cowards, to shoot innocent civilians – only a coward would think that shooting an innocent woman was a legitimate form of warfare.”
“You and I are embarking on separate journeys. But you are not alone – you are with a group of righteous people with whom you shared a final ride,” Momi added, referring to the other victims of the attack. “I want you to know one important thing: thousands of angels are accompanying you, my righteous one. I remain behind with a giant hole in my heart.”
Avishai Schindler’s uncle, rabbi Zvi Shalva, said “during the month of Elul we get closer to God, but he wanted you closer than the rest of us. All your acquaintances, neighbors and students felt your grace and humility.”
Tali and Yitzhak Ames with five of their children
Kochava Even-Haim
Avishay Schindler
May G-d avenge their blood.
Update: And while the PA reportedly carried out arrests following the murder of these 4 innocent people, they have also honored the mother of 4 terrorists.
The Palestinian mother is a central partner in the struggle…
It is she who gave birth to the fighters, and she deserves
that we bow to her in salute and in honor.”
Those were the words of the Palestinian Authority’s Minister for Prisoners’ Affairs, Issa Karake, when he honored a Palestinian woman by awarding her “the Shield of Resoluteness and Giving.”
The Minister of Prisoners’ Affairs, Karake, honors mother of 4 terrorists with PA Shield. [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 28, 2010]
She received this honor because she is the mother of four sons who are serving a total of 18 life sentences in Israeli prisons. They all killed Israeli civilians in terror attacks.
The Minister also “praised the Abu Hamid family as a model of willpower and of the struggle for the independence of Palestine” when he visited the family with a ministry delegation, human rights organizations and released prisoners, the official PA daily newspaper reported.
The four sons are serving life sentences for the following crimes:
Nasser Abu Hamid – 7 life sentences + 50 years – commander in Fatah’s military wing the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades in Ramallah. Convicted of killing seven Israeli civilians and 12 attempted murders.
Nasr Abu Hamid – 5 life sentences – Member of terror faction of Fatah, Tanzim, and convicted of involvement in two terror attacks and arms dealing.
Sharif Abu Hamid- 4 life sentences – a member in one of the brothers’ units carrying out terror attacks against civilians and soldiers. Accompanied a suicide bomber to his attack in March 2002.
Muhammad Abu Hamid – 2 life sentences + 30 years – involvement in terror attacks.
Minister Karake also chose this week to visit the home of the suicide terrorist Ayyat Al-Akhras who in 2002 entered a Jerusalem supermarket and detonated a bomb murdering two Israelis and killing herself. The minister’s visit took place on the occasion of the Palestinian “National Day for Returning the Bodies of Palestinian and Arab Shahids and MIA’s.”
The mother who received the award for having four terrorist sons was described as “Khansa of Palestine,” which is a reference to Al-Khansa, a woman from the earliest period of Islam who sent her four sons to battle and rejoiced when they all died as Martyrs. Calling the Palestinian mother by this name reinforces the message that seeking death as a Martyr is a worthy and honorable goal and that parents should proudly sacrifice their children.
Update: Footage from one of the funerals.
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If Looks Could Kill..
..they’d both be dead.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu address reporters at his hotel suite in Washington August 31, 2010. Clinton met with Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Tuesday ahead of Thursday's direct peace talks. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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Live Updates From World Jewish Congress – Day Two
As I did yesterday, I will be posting updates from the World Jewish Congress via Twitter.
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What American President Would Do That?
Other presidents have been wrong. Other presidents have been misguided. Other presidents have been weak and pusillanimous and pathetic. Only one truly disdains America.
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