The end of Rick Sanchez

Everyone has seen Top Gun, right?

" ... and if you screw up just this much, you'll be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dogshit out of Hong Kong!"

Well ... Good old Rick Sanchez - from that network nobody watches (CNN) - has called Jon Stewart a "bigot" and said that CNN is "run by Jews."

Yup. That should be the end for old Sanchez ... and looking at CNN ratings lately, he wont be missed. I hope he likes flying.

Update: MJ Rosenberg has a great piece on this subject. He writes:

"Nonetheless, I feel bad for Sanchez because his attack on Stewart and Jews was not the adult Sanchez talking but the hurt Latino immigrant child who has always felt (rightly or wrongly) that white America looked down on him."

Update II: Rick has been FIRED! Boy, that didn't take long.

Obama's Israel tool: UN apathy

So that's a provocative headline, but the bottom line is that that US administrations has sheltered Israel from a lot of heat at the UN in the past ... and I'm sure Obama could have blocked this UN Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Flotilla, part I. Am I wrong?

The Huntington Post summarizes:

The report of the fact-finding mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla released last week shows conclusively, for the first time, that US citizen Furkan Dogan and five Turkish citizens were murdered execution-style by Israeli commandos.

The report reveals that Dogan, the 19-year-old US citizen of Turkish descent, was filming with a small video camera on the top deck of the Mavi Marmara when he was shot twice in the head, once in the back and in the left leg and foot and that he was shot in the face at point blank range while lying on the ground.

Clearly ... this is not good PR for Israel - but is it a sort of clandestine result for Netanyahu having NOT extending the Settlement Freeze on the West Bank? Is turning a blind eye at the UN Obama's loan guarantees (as the H. W. Bush Administration dropped as a measure of pressure on Israel)?

It's starting to look like it. And so is my next question: If Obama is re-elected for a second term, what else might he be willing to do to "get tough" with the Israelis? Might he feel the security of not having to run for re-election and take off the gloves ... say, with military aid?

Only time shall tell.

Update: A researcher tied with pro-Israeli American adviser, Dennis Ross, has published a paper saying that Obama would have "given Israel cover" at the UN in exchange for a 2-month extension on settlements. Oops. Too bad for Bibi & his coalition ... sounds like a really good deal for Israel, and all who believe in Zionism finding peace with the Arabs.

Way, way cool

One of the cooler things I've seen on surfing

Thank you Kasey for sending along this cool video. Man, Irish English sounds almost like a different language... hard to understand. But this video is epic. And I would think ya'll in the Readership would agree.

DARK SIDE OF THE LENS from Astray Films on Vimeo.

Update: From Goldberg:

Via James Taranto:

"Two Polish neo-Nazis who were childhood sweethearts and later became skinheads have discovered what for them is a shocking family secret: They're actually Jewish."

Is this offensive?

A Palestinian friend just posted this on Facebook ... and for the goddamn life of me, I can't figure out what it means. Really, no joke - the English translation is below. Anyone care to explain this to me?

The man in white (The Arab Negotiater): "No, NO, The American will call us Terrorist, now."
The Man in Green (The Arab Fighter): "Man, forget it, we already stuck with that."

Update: A friend has called in a frenzied craze, trying to explain; I now get it.