Needs some work, at least in my screen cap of this Haaretz article.
Or maybe Google has a more finely tuned sense of the ironic than I anticipated.
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Targeted MarketingBy lex, on January 6th, 2010
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Targets of Opportunityblog advertising is good for you Credo"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones "Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra" "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche "A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke “You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier "Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas "Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex Amazon AssociateFor the Effort!Winnar! Subscribe CategoriesPagesTagsacademy
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Sheesh, Cap’n. What’s a guy like you doing reading a leftist cyber-fishwrapper like Haaretz? :/
Likely the same thing Patton was doing when he was reading Rommel. Or intelligence does when it reads the oppositions works – trying to find out what they are up to now.
You recommending Haaretz as a great source of Arab intelligence, Joe? Or is Lex just trying to get connected?
If I were 24 again I’d say that if they want ME as a friend they’d better portray better lookin’ softlegs; but these days…lets see,,,,not ‘zackly bein’ a spring chicken, how’s that old nautical saying go?….any old port? (But, but, no, dear, I was just reading it for the printed matter
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If they really are Arab, I would think you would buying, as was said in the south lands, a “pig in a poke.” Even at the ripe age of 65, I don’t think you would want to take that chance, even if you are an LSU grad.
Your wife, however, would view the results with amusement.
For clarification’s sake, I was just a wee bit amused about Rahm Emmanuel’s report that he was sick of both the Israeli’s and the Pals reported on an Israeli news site with a picture of two Arab women asking if folks wanted to be friends.
I reckon that if those folks wanted to be friends, Emmanuel wouldn’t have to be sick of ‘em. Is all.
Jus’ having fun, Lex. No ‘splainin needed. No harem, no fowl.
Yeah, I like the juxtaposition of the story and the advertisement, too.
However, I would like to say: I’ve been sick and tired of the wrangling over there between Israel and the Pals for decades, so what took our government so damned long? Heck, just let them get it on, winner takes all, end of that problem (so Israel can just say, “Next”!).
“Just give war a chance.”
H/T Edward Luttvak
Also an excellent book by P.J. O’Rourke, and one I highly recommend to everybody. It is best enjoyed alone, such as Sunday mornings when the kids are asleep or when one is sitting alone in the smallest room in the house. It is not to be read at bed-time under any circumstances, as it is difficult to sleep when your ribs hurt.
– Max
If I might be so bold:
“We’ve been trying to figure out what Saudi Arabian sex toys would be. . . edible veils? Inflatable plastic airline tickets to Europe? But in a country where a man may have as many as four wives, the most popular marital aid is probably ear plugs.”
“If a journalist shows a facility for praise he’s liable to be offered a job in public relations or advertising and the next thing you know he’s got a big office, a huge salary and is living in a fine home with a lovely wife and swell kids – another career blown to hell.”
“One more thing about this generation of soldiers – they grew up in video arcades. It’s no coincidence that watching the Gulf War’s high-tech weapons on our TV screens is so much like watching computer games. This war is the daddy of all Mario Brothers, the Gog and Magog of hacker networks, the devil’s own personal core dump. And our soldiers have an absolutely intuitive, Donkey Kong-honed, gut-level understanding of the technology behind it. Thank God they do. It’s why we’re winning. So here’s what you folks back home can do to help with the war effort. If you happen to have any kids and they’re outdoors exercising in the healthy fresh air and sunshine, give them hell: “YOU GET IN HERE RIGHT NOW AND PLAY NINTENDO!” The future of our nation may depend on it.”
– Max
Reminds me of what a friend once said about his wife, “30,000 words a day… with gusts up to 60!” And he had only one.
Holidays in Hell would get my vote for best P.J. O’Rourke book. Followed quickly by Eat the Rich and All the Problems in the World.