Expelling Christians who do not adhere to the gay agenda.

This is not rocket science. You don't need a Nobel Prize in economics to figure it out.

The American people will rise to the challenge of overcoming what this administration, Congress, and the left-wing establishment have done to this country.

jsoffer: ¿Habrá un lugar en el espacio-tiempo curvo donde pi (perímetro/diámetro) sea exactamente 3?

According to Israel's Haaretz:

Mubarak signals Egypt succession by taking son to Washington

Gamal Mubarak, long presumed heir to the ageing president, will meet Israeli delegates to peace summit - and maybe even Netanyahu himself.

"Gamal Mubarak, son of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, will accompany his father to this week's Washington peace summit in what may be the clearest sign yet that he is being groomed for the succession.

Gamal has long been the center of speculation that he will replace his ageing father - but until now the 82-year-old president has kept his presumed heir at arm's length during high-profile international engagements." -more

And this from the Irish Times:

Campaign under way in Egypt for son to succeed Mubarak

"The effort to ensure that Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s president for nearly 29 years, is succeeded by his younger son is being conducted by no fewer than three well-organised groups seeking to pre-empt the decision of the ruling party on a candidate for next year’s presidential poll.

Posters showing Gamal Mubarak against the background of the national flag have appeared on the streets of Cairo and other Egyptian cities.

Some posters call the businessman connected to Egypt’s wealthiest citizens the “dream of the poor”, while others bear the Arabic inscription, “No God but God”, with the aim of attracting the devout.

Leaders of the “Yes to Gamal” campaign are also circulating a petition urging the ruling National Democratic Party to choose him as its presidential candidate.

The effort is apparently designed to cultivate popular backing for the younger Mubarak, who has not yet committed himself to run. Recent polls showed his approval rating is low." -more And the TIMESonline of South Africa adds: Brotherhood not ready to rule Egypt, says official

Egypt's largest opposition group is not yet ready to take power in the country, a prominent supporter of the banned Muslim Brotherhood said in a newspaper interview ahead of parliamentary elections in October.

"I think it's not time yet for Islamists to be in power," Muntasser al-Zayat, a Muslim Brotherhood activist and lawyer, told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper.

"Of course, the Brotherhood is the most experienced Islamist group to play a role in Egypt's political life, but I think it is a blessing from God that no Islamist faction reached power in Egypt," he added, referring to previous election efforts by the group.

He told the paper that opponents of the Brotherhood were seeking to watch it fail and the Islamists needed to be in a better position before seeking power.

The Brotherhood is technically banned in the country, but has members in parliament who ran as independents. -more -Dry Bones- Israel's Political Comic Strip Since 1973

This week's emuna talk prepares us for both Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. Enjoy 180 for the Best, and watch your turn around for the best. Bring a cup of tea and a bowl of nuts or fruit, for today's talk is 70 minutes long.

Rosh Hashana is the King's coronation, when we crown Hashem as our King. People ask me why we leave our holy Land of Israel to go to the Ukraine on Rosh Hashana. The reason is simple: Rebbe Nachman himself told us before he left this world, Ish bal ye'ader - No one shall be missing, in other words, we Breslevers have a directive from our holy Rebbe of blessed memory to spend Rosh Hashana in Uman. This tradition was continued by Rebbe Natan zatza'l and by all subsequent generations of Rebbe Nachman's disciples.

Intrinsically, the main coronation of The King takes place in the Kloiz, the cental prayer hall near Rebbe Nachman's holy gravesite in Uman, which was the site of one of the greatest sanctifications of Hashem's name in history. During the Cossack pogroms of 1728, 33,000 Jews were brutally slaughtered after they refused to give up their ancient faith. Uman is the biggest teshuva and emuna factory in the world. Amazingly enough, last year there were 33,000 Jews praying together in Uman. This year, many more are expected.

Sadly, yesterday's gunman at the Discovery Channel was not the first incident of someone going berserk after taking in Gore's work.

An image, as any PR pro can tell you, has a life of its own. This is as true of presidents as anyone else.

LA Times columnist Tim Rutten has dug himself into a pit of theological quicksand with his harsh criticism of Glenn Beck.

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.

Black civil rights dinosaurs and their liberal white guilt-ridden sycophants campaign to "Keep Hate Alive."

Though never a fan, I used to feel sorry for Hillary Clinton.

After seven years of war, it is important to remember the good accomplished by these efforts.

Today, Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian dictator, will arrive in Washington, D.C. for the purpose of participating in the Middle East Peace Summit.

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.

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

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)

3:24PM: Fox News with the celebratory reaction of palestinians to Monday’s terrorist attack, as well as the response of some Israelis.

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com

2:58PM: Photo of the day:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks at Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after his remarks on the Middle East peace negotiations in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

But notice the caption. It speaks of Netanyahu looking at Abbas, as if staring ominously at him. But I suspect this photo was taken while Netanyahu was speaking with Abbas, since their heads are tilted towards each other like in this photo.

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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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.