De Direita
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Monday, November 22, 2004
Epilogo
There is one last thing I have to ask you to do. This is purely for my own enjoyment and I hope, for yours. Would you sing the Battle Hymn Of The Republic with me, please? intro on Battle Hymn Of The Republic, Joan Baez In Concert Part 2 Battle Hymn Of The Republic (Julia Ward Howe) Public Domain Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored, He has loosed the fateful lightening of His terrible swift sword His truth is marching on. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on. I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps His day is marching on. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnish`d rows of steel, "As ye deal with my contemners, So with you my grace shall deal;" Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel Since God is marching on. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on. He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet! Our God is marching on. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on. Sete meses se passaram desde o meu ultimo Post. E nunca pensei que o seguinte, este, fosse tambem ele o último. Nestas derradeiras linhas, não pretendo sumarizar o que a mente, em reacção, produziu. Antes, deixo as linhas da continuidade que a acção permitiu. O De Direita, na sua liberdade, tornou mais fortes as convicções de pessoas que premeiam a racionalidade e a cordialidade. Que combatem o discurso fácil, a demagogia gratuita e o facilitismo de todas as esquinas do poder que não se contornam mas que antes, se enfrentam. O De Direita, tornou mais objectivo o Futuro de muitos que estes nobres valores partilham.
Novos desafios se levantam. Pela força de uma pena jamais cansada.
Nao recordo o primeiro post que fiz aqui no De Direita. Nem sequer recordo o ultimo post que aqui fiz, o que traduz a realidade do nosso blog e de muitos outros. Recordo, no entanto, que apos a entrada dos politicos e dos jornalistas profissionais na blogsfera, ter dito ao Manuel que a blogsfera tinha entrado em fase terminal. Pelo menos a blogsfera que nos entusiasmou e que nos fez querer partilhar aquilo que exprimiamos em privado. O De Direita chega ao fim, e o De Esquerda tambem. E caso para dizer que o Flecha Vermelha chegou a estacao.
O meu Obrigado e Boa viagem! A blogsfera mudou e nos tambem nos adaptamos. Partimos para outros projectos, com os mesmos recursos limitados e a mesma vontade imensa de ajudar a mudar o mundo. This is the faith from which we start: Men shall know commonwealth again From bitter searching of the heart. We loved the easy and the smart, But now, with keener hand and brain, We rise to play a greater part. (as palavras de Frank Scott na voz de sempre de Leonard Cohen, em qualquer loja de discos perto de si)
Desde 19 de Março de 2003,
No DeDireita escreveu-se sobre política, economia, vinho, mulheres, praias, comida, livros, música, viagens, tecnologia, guerra ou paz. Lembro-me muito bem do primeiro post no DeDireita, assim como dos últimos. O que era originariamente um verdadeiro blogue colectivo transformou-se com o tempo num blogue quase individual. As razões foram várias, desde cansaço e desencanto, até à manifesta falta de tempo para continuar a escrever com um mínimo de cuidado e rigor. A bloguesfera foi e é um lugar interessante, lotado de pessoas que saem ninguém sabe muito bem de onde, mas repletas de qualidades que rasgaram o panorama opinativo em Portugal, oferecendo discussão em língua portuguesa sobre o nosso espaço e o mundo. Felizmente nada disso se altera com o desaparecimento do DeDireita, e é mais uma razão para não alastar ainda mais este sentimento de escrever para "cumprir" que já sentia há algum tempo. Resta-me deixar um sentido obrigado a todos aqueles que nos leram, e em particular aos que com quem livremente discutimos.
Desde sempre procurámos aproveitar a oportunidade que a blogoesfera permitiu na difusão de pontos de vista próprios e díspares. Desde o início da popularização da blogoesfera que debatemos temas muito diversos, variados e interessantes, discutimos com proficientes companheiros de viagem o panorama nacional e múltiplas questões internacionais. Quatro jovens e ocupadíssimos portugueses não souberam retrair-se no sofá da sala a ouvir e ler sem dizerem de si, das suas opiniões, interesses e preocupações pregando uma perspectiva de discussão e pensamento liberal preocupada e sincera com o presente e futuro dos portugueses e do Mundo. Quatro pessoas que se preocupam com o rumo da nossa economia, do nosso sistema político, com as escolhas dos nossos governos e com a alternância necessária a muitos valores da nossa sociedade, que viram neste blog e na blogoesfera a conjuntura pertinente para lançarem a debate temas importantes que consideraram pertinentes à nossa cidadania e desenvolvimento.
Este exercício de cidadania foi coadjuvado por muitos outros que aqui escreveram e por muitos blogs que connosco privaram e discutiram publicamente. Foi com enorme regozijo que nos soubemos lidos diariamente por centenas de leitores e que as nossas opiniões foram lidas tanto por pessoas no parlamento e comentadores políticos como por universitários, pais de família, mulheres trabalhadoras e jovens intelectuais. Pessoas de todas as formações, sectores profissionais e origens sociais. A blogoesfera é um espaço privilegiado de exercício do direito à opinião própria sem censura de qualquer espécie. Tanto o é que foi e é aproveitada de forma muito edificativa por pessoas que já tinham um espaço na imprensa escrita e televisiva nacional portuguesa. Foi com enorme prazer que chegámos ao contacto pessoal e directo com muitos bloguers, para além do contacto bloguístico com os mesmos, e que descobrimos o prazer da escrita de tantos ilustres desconhecidos. Nunca em Portugal se pôde ler tanto, na Internet, escrita em português tão actual, tão reflexiva e tão pessoal de tão boa qualidade. O blog é um espaço distinto de reflexão colectiva e individual que se exprime pela escrita e que garante ao seu autor a confiança de um eco, de um impacto, de uma consequência imediata na consciência dos seus leitores. É essa confiança que permite ao bloguer tornar-se num anfitrião de ideias e preceitos, num interface comunicativo de novas posturas e conhecimentos. É este público intransigente e inconformado, ávido por saber de opiniões, perspectivas e ideias diferentes das que circulam nos canais mainstream, que enriquece e dignifica o espaço democrático em que crescem os blogs. Saúdo todos os blogues de língua portuguesa e todos aqueles que os lêem. A todos os que nos leêm, o nossos muito cordiais agradecimentos. Friday, November 19, 2004
Este Projecto de Constituição foi referendado:
A pergunta era: "Aprova a Constituição da República Portuguesa?" Resposta: 1. "Sim" 2. "Não" Coordenado e redigido pelo Presidente do Conselho de Ministros, António de Oliveira Salazar, e coadjuvado, reza a história, por um pequeno grupo de colaborades. Nunca mais Portugal referendou uma Constituição. Nunca mais. Julgo que o Partido Popular Monárquico será o último reduto dos que pedem um referendo à actual Constituição. O Portugal de hoje vive com uma Constituição de base que ninguém referendou. Nem a sua base nem as sucessivas revisões. Nunca ninguém perguntou aos portugueses directamente se queriam "rumar para o Socialismo" nem ninguém lhes perguntou se queriam "deixar de rumar para ele". Aderimos à NATO e com um regime de serviço militar obrigatório. Ninguém perguntou nada. Portugal aderiu à CEE. Ninguém perguntou nada. Assinamos vários tratados, mandamos embora o escudo. Ninguém perguntou nada. Entretanto o país foi avançando e modernizando-se. A NATO e a Europa também. Por cá poucos questionam a legitimidade das escolhas, na questão europeia parece haver um problema. A lógica ultrapassa-me, mas acredito que eventualmente ela exista e o problema de entendimento será certamente meu. Apesar de ser um forte defensor da Democracia Representativa, não me choca especialmente que se realizassem referendos sobre os exemplos que acima citei. Sobre todos eles. Não considero nenhum deles mais importante que os restantes. Também não será por uma aparente incoerência argumentativa dos que defendem um problema de legitimidade na UE, mas não nos restantes temas, que vou deixar de ouvir o que têm para dizer. Acham que se deve referendar? Muito bem, vamos a votos. O meu voto é, pragmaticamente, e não obstante um bom conjunto de discordâncias,CONCORDO. Eu gostava de saber
O que é que a uma certa Esquerda diria se uma mulher negra na política fosse caracterizada pela Direita assim: 1. "Brown Sugar" 2. "Prissy" (personagem do "E tudo o vento levou") 3. "Parrot with enormous lips" (1. Doonesbury strip by Garry Trudeau, 2. Jeff Danziger cartoon , 3. Pat Oliphant political cartoon) Mas como os autores deste humor são de Esquerda, já está tudo bem. Há, no entanto, à direita, quem pense de forma distinta: «It is grotesque. It is insulting. It is vile. It is angry. It is childish, and it is typical I think of what the left has become. They claim to be holy [sic] than thou. They claim to be above all of us when it comes to understanding the downtrodden and minorities. They claim to be the only ones that have the ability to have the compassion and understanding, and yet they get away with racism. They get away with bigotry. They get away with sexism, and they get away with homophobia--and in the case of Condoleezza Rice, they get away with an attempted character destruction of a truly brilliant and accomplished woman who came from nothing to become the first black female secretary of state.» (Rush Limbaugh)
James Taranto, no Opinion Journal, cita um interessante episódio: «We got an insight into contemporary liberal attitudes toward race on a taxi ride not long ago. We were en route to Shea Stadium along with fellow conservative commentator Joel Mowbray, and our driver was a youngish Haitian woman who had her radio tuned to Air America. Mowbray started a political discussion with her, and she told him that she doesn't like Republicans because "they hate black people." "Does President Bush hate Condi Rice and Colin Powell?" Mowbray asked, to which she replied that Rice and Powell aren't "really black" because they "don't think like black people." The idea that black people are supposed to think in a certain way is, of course, a racist assumption in itself. But what's most interesting about this exchange is that our driver had in effect redefined race so that it has nothing to do with race. When she said, "They hate black people," she meant merely, "They disagree with liberal ideology."» Quem enche a boca de insultos acusando os outros de racismo não se pode desobrigar de exigir a si próprio (e camaradas) o que exige aos seus adversários políticos. E quando não o faz arrisca-se a receber textos como o de Rush Limbaugh. Thursday, November 18, 2004
Low Blogging
Informação útil: Relembro os mais ditraídos que, ao contrário do anterior, o renovado website da Spectator oferece desde há duas semanas as crónicas de Paul Johnson gratuitamente. Agora já não há o argumento de não querer gastar uns euros ou de não querer dar euros à "reacção". Wednesday, November 17, 2004
O blogue que todos os dias nos dizia adeus fê-lo pela última vez há duas semanas atrás.
Os poucos minutos que o João Noronha dedicava no meio da sua profissão ao Blogue traduziam-se em textos de opinião e indicações para opiniões distintas mas incrivelmente mais acertadas (opinião pessoal) do que as que ainda hoje encontramos nos media portugueses. O Valete Fratres foi um dos principais blogues que motivou a entrada do DeDireita na bloguesfera. Foi por gentil sugestão do Valete que entramos na UBL. Foi através do Valete que descobri os blogues americanos, o Instapundit, ChicagoBoyz, TheCorner, etc. Foi também com o Valete que tivemos uma série de discussões e temas debatidos e/ou rebatidos em comum. Não é agradável ver o Valete desaparecer, mas a bloguesfera já não é o que era, e devido ao João Noronha e a vários outros, o lugar do Valete tem uma importância relativa menor do que tinha aquando da sua fundação. E isso é uma vitória conjunta, de quem veio para escrever, e de quem já cá estava e incentivou mais pessoas a vir. Sem o Valete sinto que cai um pilar, mas o resto continua (vai continuando) por cá para suster a casa. Abraço Monday, November 15, 2004
Bring Back Boris
Pensava que em caso de adultério quem tinha de perguntar era a esposa, e só esta o poderia "despedir". Parece que o senhor Michael Howard perguntou a Boris Johnson se mantinha uma relação adúltera com Petronella Wyat, ao que Johnson terá respondido "A". O senhor Howard diz que respondeu "B". Os tablóides avançaram entretanto com factos que, segundo M. Howard, transformam a resposta "B" de Boris Johnson numa mentira. Boris Johnson diz que os tablóides não transformam a sua resposta "A" em coisíssima nenhuma. Deja vu. Seja como for a pergunta de M. Howard não se faz. E se Boris Johnson mentiu é um erro de dimensão idêntica ao de M. Howard. Em qualquer dos cenários subscrevo: Bring Back Boris Friday, November 12, 2004
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Pomerantz Mar 29, 2002 Roman Shliapstein Mar 29, 2002 Rachel Levy Mar 30, 2002 Haim Smadar Mar 30, 2002 Constantine Danilov Mar 30, 2002 Suheil Adawi Mar 31, 2002 Dov Chernobroda Mar 31, 2002 Shimon Koren Mar 31, 2002 Gal Koren Mar 31, 2002 Ran Koren Mar 31, 2002 Moshe Levin Mar 31, 2002 Danielle Manchell Mar 31, 2002 Orly Ofir Mar 31, 2002 Aviel Ron Mar 31, 2002 Anat Ron Mar 31, 2002 Ofer Ron Mar 31, 2002 Ya'akov Shani Mar 31, 2002 Adi Shiran Mar 31, 2002 Daniel Carlos Wegman Mar 31, 2002 Sgt.-Maj. (Res.) Ofir Roth Apr 1, 2002 Tomer Mordechai Apr 1, 2002 Carlos Yerushalmi Apr 2, 2002 Chanah Rogan Apr 2, 2002 Ze'ev Vider Apr 2, 2002 Alter Britvich Apr 2, 2002 Frieda Britvich Apr 3, 2002 Moshe Gerstner Apr 3, 2002 Rachel Charhi Apr 4, 2002 Patrick Pereg Apr 4, 2002 Nissim Ben-David Apr 4, 2002 Gad Ezra Apr 4, 2002 Einan Sharabi Apr 4, 2002 Merom Moshe Fisher Apr 5, 2002 Oded Kornfein Apr 5, 2002 Ro'i Tal Apr 5, 2002 Nisan Avraham Apr 6, 2002 Sarah Levy-Hoffman Apr 7, 2002 Matanya Robinson Apr 8, 2002 Shmuel Weiss Apr 8, 2002 Tiran Arazi Apr 9, 2002 Ronen Alshochat Apr 9, 2002 Ya'akov Azoulai Apr 9, 2002 Eyal Eliyahu Azouri Apr 9, 2002 Dror Bar Apr 9, 2002 Amit Busidan Apr 9, 2002 Oded Golomb Apr 9, 2002 Menashe Hava Apr 9, 2002 Yoram Levy Apr 9, 2002 Shmuel Dani Mayzlish Apr 9, 2002 Avner Yaskov Apr 9, 2002 Eyal Yoel Apr 9, 2002 Eyal Zimmerman Apr 9, 2002 Assaf Assoulin Apr 9, 2002 Gedalyahu Malik Apr 9, 2002 Avinoam Alfia Apr 10, 2002 Shlomi Ben Haim Apr 10, 2002 Nir Danieli Apr 10, 2002 Keren Franco Apr 10, 2002 Ze'ev Hanik Apr 10, 2002 Noa Shlomo Apr 10, 2002 Shimshon Stelkol Apr 10, 2002 Michael Weissman Apr 10, 2002 Anna Yakobovitch Apr 11, 2002 Dotan Nahtomi Apr 12, 2002 David Smirnoff Apr 12, 2002 Nissan Cohen Apr 12, 2002 Rivka Fink Apr 12, 2002 Suheila Hushi Apr 12, 2002 Yelena Konrab Apr 12, 2002 Ling Chang Mai Apr 12, 2002 Chai Siang Yang Apr 12, 2002 Uriel Bar-Maimon Apr 20, 2002 Nir Krichman Apr 22, 2002 Arik Becker Apr 27, 2002 Katrina (Katya) Greenberg Apr 27, 2002 Ya'acov Katz Apr 27, 2002 Danielle Shefi Apr 27, 2002 Avihu Ya'akov May 3, 2002 Eliezer Korman May 5, 2002 Esther Bablar May 7, 2002 Yitzhak Bablar May 7, 2002 Avi Bayaz May 7, 2002 Regina Malka Boslan May 7, 2002 Edna Cohen May 7, 2002 Rafael Haim May 7, 2002 Pnina Hikri May 7, 2002 Nawa Hinawi May 7, 2002 Rahamim Kimhi May 7, 2002 Nir Lovatin May 7, 2002 Shoshana Magmari May 7, 2002 Dalia Masa May 7, 2002 Rassan Sharouk May 7, 2002 Israel Shikar May 7, 2002 Anat Teremforush May 7, 2002 Nisan Dolinger May 12, 2002 Yosef Haviv May 19, 2002 Arkady Vieselman May 19, 2002 Victor Tatrinov May 19, 2002 Elmar Dezhabrielov May 22, 2002 Gary Tauzniaski May 22, 2002 Oren Tzelnik May 24, 2002 Ruth Peled May 27, 2002 Sinai Keinan May 27, 2002 Albert Maloul May 28, 2002 Netanel Riachi May 28, 2002 Gilad Stiglitz May 28, 2002 Avraham Siton May 28, 2002 Zion Agmon June 5, 2002 Liron Avitan June 5, 2002 Avraham Barzilai June 5, 2002 Dennis Blumin June 5, 2002 Eliran Buskila June 5, 2002 Adi Dahan June 5, 2002 Zvi Gelberd June 5, 2002 Violetta Hizgayev June 5, 2002 Ganadi Issakov June 5, 2002 Sariel Katz June 5, 2002 Vladimir Morari June 5, 2002 Yigal Nedipur June 5, 2002 Dotan Reisel June 5, 2002 David Stanislavksy June 5, 2002 Eliyahu Timsit June 5, 2002 Shimon Timsit June 5, 2002 Sivan Wiener June 5, 2002 Erez Rund June 6, 2002 Shalom Mordechai June 8, 2002 Eyal Sorek June 8, 2002 Yael Sorek June 8, 2002 Hadar Hershkowitz June 11, 2002 Alexei Gladkov June 15, 2002 Haim Yehezkel Gutman June 15, 2002 Boaz Aluf June 18, 2002 Shani Avi-Zedek June 18, 2002 Leah Baruch June 18, 2002 Mendel Bereson June 18, 2002 Rafael Berger June 18, 2002 Michal Biazi June 18, 2002 Tatiana Braslavsky June 18, 2002 Galila Bugala June 18, 2002 Raisa Dikstein June 18, 2002 Moshe Gottlieb June 18, 2002 Baruch Gruani June 18, 2002 Orit Hayla June 18, 2002 Helena Ivan June 18, 2002 Iman Kabha June 18, 2002 Shiri Negari June 18, 2002 Gila Nekev June 18, 2002 Yelena Plagov June 18, 2002 Liat Yagen June 18, 2002 Rahamim Zidkiyahu June 18, 2002 Noa Alon June 19, 2002 Gal Eisenman June 19, 2002 Michal Franklin June 19, 2002 Tatiana Igelski June 19, 2002 Hadassah Jungreis June 19, 2002 Gila Sara Kessler June 19, 2002 Shmuel Yerushalmi June 19, 2002 Shlomi Cohen June 19, 2002 Yosef Talbi June 19, 2002 Avraham Eliahu Nehmad June 20, 2002 Rachel Shabo June 20, 2002 Avishai Shabo June 20, 2002 Neria Shabo June 20, 2002 Zvika Shabo June 20, 2002 Yosef Twito June 20, 2002 Anatoly Krasik June 22, 2002 Victoria Hen* July 4, 2002 Yaakov Aminov* July 4, 2002 Hagai (Haim) Lev July 10, 2002 Galila Ades July 16, 2002 Yonatan Gamliel July 16, 2002 Keren Kashani July 16, 2002 Zilpa Kashi July 16, 2002 Gal Shilon July 16, 2002 Tiferet Sarah Shilon July 16, 2002 Ilana Siton July 16, 2002 Infant Weinberg July 16, 2002 Elad Grenadier July 17, 2002 Adrian Andres July 17, 2002 Boris Shamis July 17, 2002 Xu Hengyong July 17, 2002 Yocheved Ben-Hanan July 18, 2002 Li Bin July 24, 2002 Elimelech Shapira July 25, 2002 Dmitri Pundikov July 25, 2002 Hannah Dikstein July 26, 2002 Shuv'el Zion Dikstein July 26, 2002 Yosef Ya'akov Dikstein July 26, 2002 Elazar Lebovitch July 26, 2002 Mordechai Odesser July 30, 2002 Shlomo Odesser July 30, 2002 Marla Bennett July 31, 2002 Benjamin Blutstein July 31, 2002 Dina Carter July 31, 2002 Janis Ruth Coulter July 31, 2002 David Gritz July 31, 2002 David Diego Ladowski July 31, 2002 Levina Shapira July 31, 2002 Shani Ladani Aug 1, 2002 Mordechai Yehuda Friedman Aug 4, 2002 Yifat Gavrieli Aug 4, 2002 Roni Ghanem Aug 4, 2002 Omri Goldin Aug 4, 2002 Sari Goldstein Aug 4, 2002 Maysoun Amin Hassan Aug 4, 2002 Adelina Kononen Aug 4, 2002 Marlene Miriam Menahem Aug 4, 2002 Rebecca Roga Aug 4, 2002 Yekutiel Amitai Aug 4, 2002 Nizal Awassat Aug 4, 2002 Avi Wolanski Aug 5, 2002 Avital Wolanski Aug 5, 2002 Daphna Spruch Aug 10, 2002 Yafit Herenstein Aug 10, 2002 Revital Barashi Aug 13, 2002 Kevin Cohen Aug 20, 2002 Malik Grifat Sept 5, 2002 Aviad Dotan Sept 5, 2002 David Buhbut Sept 18, 2002 Yosef Ajami Sept 18, 2002 Moshe Hezkiyah Sept 18, 2002 Solomon Hoenig Sept 19, 2002 Yossi Mamistavlov Sept 19, 2002 Yaffa Shemtov Sept 19, 2002 Shoshana (Rosanna) Siso Sept 19, 2002 Ofer Zinger Sept 19, 2002 Jonathan (Yoni) Jesner Sept 20, 2002 Shlomo Yitzhak Shapira Sept 23, 2002 Harel Marmelstein Sept 26, 2002 Ari Yehoshua Weiss Sept 30, 2002 Oded Wolk Oct 9, 2002 Sa'ada Aharon Oct 10, 2002 Osnat Abramov Oct 21, 2002 Indelou Ashati Oct 21, 2002 Liat Ben-Ami Oct 21, 2002 Ofra Burger Oct 21, 2002 Ilona Hanukayev Oct 21, 2002 Suad Jaber Oct 21, 2002 Iris Lavi Oct 21, 2002 Eliezer Moskovitch Oct 21, 2002 Nir Nahum Oct 21, 2002 Esther Pesachov Oct 21, 2002 Aiman Sharuf Oct 21, 2002 Sergei Shavchuk Oct 21, 2002 Anat Shimshon Oct 21, 2002 Sharon Tubol Oct 21, 2002 Amihud Hasid Oct 27, 2002 Tamir Masad Oct 27, 2002 Matan Zagron Oct 27, 2002 Orna Eshel Oct 29, 2002 Linoy Saroussi Oct 29, 2002 Hadas Turgeman Oct 29, 2002 Julio Pedro Magram Nov 4, 2002 Gastón Perpiñal Nov 4, 2002 Amos Sa'ada Nov 6, 2002 Assaf Tzfira Nov 6, 2002 Madin Grifat Nov 9, 2002 Tirza Damari Nov 10, 2002 Yitzhak Dori Nov 10, 2002 Revital Ohayon Nov 10, 2002 Matan Ohayon Nov 10, 2002 Noam Ohayon Nov 10, 2002 Yitzhak Buanish Nov 15, 2002 Dan Cohen Nov 15, 2002 Yeshayahu Davidov Nov 15, 2002 Alexander Dohan Nov 15, 2002 Igor Drobitsky Nov 15, 2002 Netanel Machluf Nov 15, 2002 David Marcus Nov 15, 2002 Tomer Nov Nov 15, 2002 Gad Rahamim Nov 15, 2002 Samih Sweidan Nov 15, 2002 Dror Weinberg Nov 15, 2002 Alexander Zwitman Nov 15, 2002 Esther Galia Nov 18, 2002 Hodaya Asraf Nov 21, 2002 Marina Bazarski Nov 21, 2002 Hadassah (Yelena) Ben-David Nov 21, 2002 Sima Novak Nov 21, 2002 Kira Perlman Nov 21, 2002 Ilan Perlman Nov 21, 2002 Yafit Ravivo Nov 21, 2002 Ella Sharshevsky Nov 21, 2002 Michael Sharshevsky Nov 21, 2002 Mircea Varga Nov 21, 2002 Dikla Zino Nov 21, 2002 Shigdaf (Shai) Garmai Nov 22, 2002 Dvir Anter* Nov 28, 2002 Noy Anter* Nov 28, 2002 Albert (Avraham) de Havila* Nov 28, 2002 Haim Amar Nov 28, 2002 Ehud (Yehuda) Avitan Nov 28, 2002 Mordechai Avraham Nov 28, 2002 Ya'acov Lary Nov 28, 2002 David Peretz Nov 28, 2002 Shaul Zilberstein Nov 28, 2002 Maor Kalfon Dec 12, 2002 Keren Ya'akobi Dec 12, 2002 Yitzhak Arama Dec 20, 2002 Noam Apter Dec 27, 2002 Yehuda Bamberger Dec 27, 2002 Gavriel Hoter Dec 27, 2002 Zvi Zieman Dec 27, 2002 Massoud Makhluf Alon Jan 2, 2003 Moshe (Maurice) Aharfi Jan 5, 2003 Krassimir Angelov Jan 5, 2003 Steven Arthur Cromwell Jan 5, 2003 Mordechai Evioni Jan 5, 2003 Andrei Friedman Jan 5, 2003 Ivan Gaptoniak Jan 5, 2003 Guo Aiping Jan 5, 2003 Meir Haim Jan 5, 2003 Hannah Haimov Jan 5, 2003 Avi Kotzer Jan 5, 2003 Li Peizhong Jan 5, 2003 Ramin Nasibov Jan 5, 2003 Ion Nicolae Jan 5, 2003 Mazal Orkobi Jan 5, 2003 Ilanit Peled Jan 5, 2003 Mihai Sabau Jan 5, 2003 Viktor Shebayev Jan 5, 2003 Boris Tepalshvili Jan 5, 2003 Sapira Shoshana Yulzari-Yaffe Jan 5, 2003 Lilya Zibstein Jan 5, 2003 Amiram Zmora Jan 5, 2003 Igor Zobokov Jan 5, 2003 Eli Biton Jan 12, 2003 Mikhail Kazakov Jan 12, 2003 Zhang Minmin Jan 13, 2003 Netanel Ozeri Jan 17, 2003 Ronald Berer Jan 23, 2003 Assaf Bitan Jan 23, 2003 Ya'akov Naim Jan 23, 2003 Amir Ben-Aryeh Feb 6, 2003 Idan Suzin Feb 6, 2003 Shahar Shmul Feb 11, 2003 Noam Bahagon Feb 15, 2003 Tal Alexei Belitzky Feb 15, 2003 Doron Cohen Feb 15, 2003 Itay Mizrahi Feb 15, 2003 Doron Lev Feb 23, 2003 Maryam Atar Mar 5, 2003 Smadar Firstater Mar 5, 2003 Kamar Abu Hamed Mar 5, 2003 Daniel Haroush Mar 5, 2003 Mordechai Hershko Mar 5, 2003 Tom Hershko Mar 5, 2003 Meital Katav Mar 5, 2003 Elizabeth Katzman Mar 5, 2003 Tal Kehrmann Mar 5, 2003 Eliyahu Laham Mar 5, 2003 Abigail Litle Mar 5, 2003 Yuval Mendellevich Mar 5, 2003 Be'eri Oved Mar 5, 2003 Mark Takash Mar 5, 2003 Asaf Zur (Zollinger) Mar 5, 2003 Dina Horowitz Mar 7, 2003 Eli Horowitz Mar 7, 2003 Anatoly Biryakov Mar 8, 2003 Tomer Ron Mar 10, 2003 Moran Shushan Mar 11, 2003 Assaf Moshe Fuchs Mar 12, 2003 Ami Cohen Mar 18, 2003 Zion Boshirian Mar 19, 2003 Yigal Lifshitz Apr 10, 2003 Ofer Sharabi Apr 10, 2003 Daniel Mandel Apr 15, 2003 Zachar Rahamin Hanukayev Apr 15, 2003 Ahmed Salah Kara Apr 15, 2003 Lior Ziv Apr 20, 2003 Alexander Kostyuk Apr 24, 2003 Ran Baron Apr 30, 2003 Dominique Caroline Hass Apr 30, 2003 Yanai Weiss Apr 30, 2003 Tali Weinberg May 4, 2003 Gideon Lichterman May 5, 2003 Zion David May 11, 2003 Dina (Muriel) Levy May 17, 2003 Gadi Levy May 17, 2003 Olga Brenner May 18, 2003 Yitzhak Moyal May 18, 2003 Nelly Perov May 18, 2003 Ghalab Tawil May 18, 2003 Marina Tsahivershvili May 18, 2003 Shimon Ustinsky May 18, 2003 Roni Yisraeli May 18, 2003 Kiryl Shremko May 19, 2003 Hassan Ismail Tawatha May 19, 2003 Avi Zerihan May 19, 2003 Moran Menachem June 5, 2003 David Shambik June 5, 2003 Assaf Abergil June 8, 2003 Udi Eilat June 8, 2003 Boaz Emete June 8, 2003 Chen Engel June 8, 2003 Matan Gadri June 8, 2003 Tamar Ben-Eliahu June 11, 2003 Alan Beer June 11, 2003 Eugenia Berman June 11, 2003 Elsa Cohen June 11, 2003 Zvi Cohen June 11, 2003 Roi Eliraz June 11, 2003 Haile Abraha Hawki June 11, 2003 Alexander Kazaris June 11, 2003 Yaffa Mualem June 11, 2003 Yaniv Obayed June 11, 2003 Bat-El Ohana June 11, 2003 Anna Orgal June 11, 2003 Zippora Pesahovitch June 11, 2003 Bianca Rivka Shichrur June 11, 2003 Malka Sultan June 11, 2003 Bertin Tita June 11, 2003 Miriam Levy June 12, 2003 Avner Maimon June 12, 2003 Mordechai Sayada June 13, 2003 Noam Leibowitz June 17, 2003 Avner Mordechai June 19, 2003 Zvi Goldstein June 20, 2003 Clara Rosenberger June 25, 2003 Amos (Amit) Mantin June 26, 2003 Erez Ashkenazi June 27, 2003 Krastyu Radkov June 30, 2003 Mazal Afari July 7, 2003 Amir Simhon July 15, 2003 Oleg Shaichat July 21, 2003 Roi Oren Aug 8, 2003 Haviv Dadon Aug 10, 2003 Yehezkel Yekutieli Aug 12, 2003 Erez Hershkovitz Aug 12, 2003 Avraham Bar-Or Aug 19, 2003 Binyamin Bergman Aug 19, 2003 Yaakov Binder Aug 19, 2003 Feiga Dushinski Aug 19, 2003 Miriam Eisenstein Aug 19, 2003 Lilach Kardi Aug 19, 2003 Menachem Leibel Aug 19, 2003 Elisheva Meshulami Aug 19, 2003 Tehilla Nathanson Aug 19, 2003 Chava Rechnitzer Aug 19, 2003 Issachar Reinitz Aug 19, 2003 Mordechai Reinitz Aug 19, 2003 Maria Reslas Aug 19, 2003 Liba Schwartz Aug 19, 2003 Hanoch Segal Aug 19, 2003 Goldie Taubenfeld Aug 19, 2003 Shmuel Taubenfeld Aug 19, 2003 Eliezer Weisfish Aug 19, 2003 Shmuel Wilner Aug 19, 2003 Shmuel Zargari Aug 19, 2003 Fruma Weitz Aug 23, 2003 Amatzia Nisanevitch Aug 28, 2003 Shalom Har-Melekh Aug 29, 2003 Gabriel Uziel Sept 4, 2003 Mordechai Laufer Sept 5, 2003 Ra'anan Komemi Sept 5, 2003 Haim Alfasi Sept 9, 2003 Yaakov Ben-Shabbat Sept 9, 2003 Mazi Grego Sept 9, 2003 Yael Kfir Sept 9, 2003 Felix Nikolaichuk Sept 9, 2003 Yonatan Peleg Sept 9, 2003 Efrat Schwartzman Sept 9, 2003 Prosper Twito Sept 9, 2003 David Appelbaum Sept 9, 2003 Nava Appelbaum Sept 9, 2003 David Shimon Avizadris Sept 9, 2003 Shafik Kerem Sept 9, 2003 Alon Mizrahi Sept 9, 2003 Gila Moshe Sept 9, 2003 Yehiel (Emil) Tubol Sept 9, 2003 Tova Lev Sept 12, 2003 Avihu Keinan Sept 25, 2003 Shaked Avraham Sept 26, 2003 Eyal Yeberbaum Sept 26, 2003 Ze'ev Almog Oct 4, 2003 Ruth Almog Oct 4, 2003 Moshe Almog Oct 4, 2003 Tomer Almog Oct 4, 2003 Assaf Staier Oct 4, 2003 Zvi Bahat Oct 4, 2003 Mark Biano Oct 4, 2003 Naomi Biano Oct 4, 2003 Hana Francis Oct 4, 2003 Mutanus Karkabi Oct 4, 2003 Sharbal Matar Oct 4, 2003 Osama Najar Oct 4, 2003 Nir Regev Oct 4, 2003 Irena Sofrin Oct 4, 2003 Bruria Zer-Aviv Oct 4, 2003 Bezalel Zer-Aviv Oct 4, 2003 Keren Zer-Aviv Oct 4, 2003 Liran Zer-Aviv Oct 4, 2003 Noya Zer-Aviv Oct 4, 2003 Lydia Zilberstein Oct 9, 2003 George Matar Oct 15, 2003 John Eric Branchizio** Oct 15, 2003 John Martin Linde, Jr.** Oct 15, 2003 Mark T. Parson** Oct 15, 2003 Erez Idan Oct 19, 2003 Elad Pollack Oct 19, 2003 Roi Ya'acov Solomon Oct 19, 2003 Alon Avrahami Oct 24, 2003 Adi Osman Oct 24, 2003 Sarit Schneor-Senior Oct 24, 2003 Shlomi Belsky Nov 18, 2003 Shaul Lahav Nov 18, 2003 Liron Siboni Nov 19, 2003 Patricia Terán Navarrete Nov 19, 2003 Samer Fathi Afan Nov 22, 2003 Ilya Reiger Nov 22, 2003 Hagai Bibi Dec 22, 2003 Alex Leonardo Weissman Dec 22, 2003 Adva Fisher Dec 25, 2003 Noam Leibowitz Dec 25, 2003 Angelina Shcherov Dec 25, 2003 Rotem Weinberger Dec 25, 2003 Ro'i Arbel Jan 13, 2004 Andrei Kegeles Jan 14, 2004 Tzur Or Jan 14, 2004 Gal Shapira Jan 14, 2004 Vladimir Trostinsky Jan 14, 2004 Avraham (Albert) Balhasan Jan 29, 2004 Rose Boneh Jan 29, 2004 Hava Hannah (Anya) Bonder Jan 29, 2004 Anat Darom Jan 29, 2004 Viorel Octavian Florescu Jan 29, 2004 Natalia Gamril Jan 29, 2004 Yechezkel Isser Goldberg Jan 29, 2004 Baruch (Roman) Hondiashvili Jan 29, 2004 Dana Itach Jan 29, 2004 Mehbere Kifile Jan 29, 2004 Eli Zfira Jan 29, 2004 Israel Ilan Avisidris Feb 22, 2004 Lior Azulai Feb 22, 2004 Yaffa Ben-Shimol Feb 22, 2004 Rahamim Doga Feb 22, 2004 Yehuda Haim Feb 22, 2004 Netanel Havshush Feb 22, 2004 Yuval Ozana Feb 22, 2004 Benaya Zuckerman Feb 22, 2004 Amir Zimmerman Feb 26, 2004 Eitan Kukoi Feb 27, 2004 Rima Novikov Kukoi Feb 27, 2004 Gil Abutbul Mar 14, 2004 Daniel Assulin Mar 14, 2004 Avraham (Avi) Avraham Mar 14, 2004 Zion Dahan Mar 14, 2004 Ophir Damari Mar 14, 2004 Moshe Yaacov Hendler Mar 14, 2004 Mazal Marciano Mar 14, 2004 Avi Suissa Mar 14, 2004 Maurice Tubul Mar 14, 2004 Pinhas Avraham Zilberman Mar 14, 2004 George Khoury Mar 19, 2004 Yaakov (Kobi) Zagha Apr 3, 2004 Kfir Ohayon Apr 17, 2004 Yaniv Mashiah Apr 25, 2004 Tali Hatuel May 2, 2004 Hadar Hatuel May 2, 2004 Hila Hatuel May 2, 2004 Merav Hatuel May 2, 2004 Roni Hatuel May 2, 2004 Adaron Amar May 11, 2004 Aviad Deri May 11, 2004 Ofer Jerbi May 11, 2004 Ya'akov (Zelko) Marviza May 11, 2004 Kobi Mizrahi May 11, 2004 Eitan Newman May 11, 2004 Elad Cohen May 12, 2004 Aiman Ghadir May 12, 2004 Aviv Hakani May 12, 2004 Za'ur (Zohar) Smelev May 12, 2004 Lior Vishinsky May 12, 2004 Rotem Adam May 14, 2004 Alexei Hayat May 14, 2004 Shahar Ben-Yishai May 29, 2004 Weerachai Wongput June 21, 2004 Roi Nissim June 27, 2004 Mordechai Yosepov June 28, 2004 Afik Zahavi June 28, 2004 Moshe Yohai June 29, 2004 Victor Kreiderman July 4, 2004 Moran Vardi July 6, 2004 Ma'ayan Na'im July 11, 2004 Shlomo Miller Aug 13, 2004 Shoshana Amos Aug 31, 2004 Aviel Atash Aug 31, 2004 Vitaly Brodsky Aug 31, 2004 Tamara Dibrashvilli Aug 31, 2004 Raisa Forer Aug 31, 2004 Larisa Gomanenko Aug 31, 2004 Denise Hadad Aug 31, 2004 Tatiana Kortchenko Aug 31, 2004 Rosita Lehman Aug 31, 2004 Karine Malka Aug 31, 2004 Nargiz Ostrovsky Aug 31, 2004 Maria Sokolov Aug 31, 2004 Roman Sokolovsky Aug 31, 2004 Tekele Tiroyaient Aug 31, 2004 Eliyahu Uzan Aug 31, 2004 Emmanuel Yosef (Yosefov) Aug 31, 2004 Menashe Komemi Sept 22, 2004 Mamoya Tahio Sept 22, 2004 Tal Bargudo Sept 23, 2004 Israel Lutati Sept 23, 2004 Nir Sami Sept 23, 2004 Tiferet Tratner Sept 24, 2004 Yuval Abebeh Sept 29, 2004 Dorit Aniso Sept 29, 2004 Gilad Fisher Sept 30, 2004 Shulamit Batito Sept 30, 2004 Victor Ariel Sept 30, 2004 Pratheep Nanongkham Oct 6, 2004 Michal Alexander* Oct 7, 2004 Roy Avisaf* Oct 7, 2004 Hafez al-Hafi* Oct 7, 2004 Assaf Greenwald* Oct 7, 2004 Rotem Moriah* Oct 7, 2004 Einat Naor* Oct 7, 2004 Tzila Niv* Oct 7, 2004 Gilad Niv* Oct 7, 2004 Lior Niv* Oct 7, 2004 Ludmilla Paizakov* Oct 7, 2004 Oleg Paizakov* Oct 7, 2004 Khalil Zeitounia* Oct 7, 2004 Yair Nisim Turgemann Oct 19, 2004 Moshe Almaliach Oct 21, 2004 Michael Chizhik Oct 28, 2004 Tatiana Ackerman Nov 1, 2004 Leah Levine Nov 1, 2004 Shmuel Levy Nov 1, 2004 (Via No Pasarán)
Hardcore II - Continua a recomendar-se a não-leitura por Esquerdistas sensíveis.
«Finally Yasser Arafat is in stable condition after dying in a Paris hospital. A hospital spokesman "said there would be no details about the cause of death because of French privacy laws," reports the Associated Press--secrecy that is sure to fuel suspicions Arafat died of AIDS. (...) The Journalists Did Him In! "Palestinian Cabinet Minister Saeb Erekat and Tayeb Abdel Rahim, a top Arafat aide, confirmed that Arafat died in a conversation with reporters."--Associated Press, Nov. 11» (James Taranto, Opinion Journal) Thursday, November 11, 2004
Hardcore - Não deve ser lido por Esquerdistas sensíveis
No No Passarán He'll always have Paris Arafat snuffs it No Samizdata: All those broken hearts at the BBC Reports from Paris indicate that there has been a marked improvement in the condition of Yasser Arafat. He's dead.
Arafat, o camaleão
In Jordan in 1970, he cheated one political "death" after the disastrous "Black September" insurrection against King Hussein saw his organization driven out of the Hashemite kingdom and into Lebanon. There, too, he once again escaped the noose, fleeing into a new exile in far-off Tunis in 1982 after Ariel Sharon's army had vanquished his fighters. Arafat seemed irretrievably doomed in 1991 when his disastrous miscalculation of supporting Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait saw the PLO reduced to pariah status in almost every Arab capital. But within two years, he popped up on the White House lawn shaking hands with Yitzhak Rabin under the matrimonial smile of President Bill Clinton. It's not hard to see how his improbable political recoveries have made Arafat a talisman of resilience for a people perennially on the brink of national extinction. The U.S. and Israel were willing to overlook corruption, cronyism, autocracy and repression in Arafat's administration as long as he kept a tight rein on Hamas and other militants. And Arafat himself maintained the ambiguity, never quite facing up to the limits on the deal he'd signed with Israel, preferring to hold his movement together by saying different things among his own followers to the things he was saying in the White House and to the Israelis. All the while, he was reading the winds, ready to change tack if they shifted. And as the chasm of expectations between his own people and his negotiating partners widened, Arafat became more elusive to both sides. As coisas que uma pessoa faz para sobreviver.
Arafat
O Papa deseja-lhe votos de descanso eterno. Os fundamentalistas cobiçam as 70 virgens que o esperam no paraíso. Eu apenas desejo que deixem a alma do homem em paz. Também Desejava que nunca tivesse apoiado o Hamas, que nunca tivesse apelado à jihad e que nunca tivesse quebrado acordos de paz com Clinton. Mas enfim. O pecado é humano. A minha bênção não a tem. Mas que vá em paz pelo menos. Também não tem a minha benção o primeiro ministro isrealita. Mas pelo menos este foi eleito por sufrágio universal e os israelitas têm na mão o poder de o demitir ou não do cargo que ocupa. A neblina envolvendo o cargo que Arafat ocupou é tão espessa que a «eleição» do seu sucessor é tudo menos inquestionável. São esses os perigos que se avizinham. E maior ênfase poderão ter sabendo de antemão que Chirac e os seus copains poderão ter uma influência crassa nesse nebuloso processo de decisão.
O mesmo olhar, a mesma missão
Nov. 9: A member of Charlie Company of the U.S. Marines First Division, Eighth regiment, smokes a cigarette in Fallujah. 
World War II, U.S. Marine back to his landing boat after taking Eniwetok
Dia difícil
Para a TSF, já não bastava a queda de Saddam, agora morre-lhes mais um dos seus assassinos predilectos. Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Os franceses dialogam, os americanos atacam
Fallujah: descobertas várias casas onde foram decapitados reféns 
Discordo em grande parte, mas publico:
«Of God and Men Unlike America's, Europe's political establishment is hostile to Christianity. BY ROCCO BUTTIGLIONE Wednesday, November 10, 2004 12:01 a.m. EST ROME--George W. Bush concluded his election victory speech with "God bless America." It's likely that in the European Parliament, the U.S. president would be considered unfit for his job on account of his religious beliefs. Even worse, for Europe's legislators, would be that he's not ashamed to express those beliefs so clearly and so publicly. If you consider that Mr. Bush won re-election in part because of his firm stand on family values and other moral issues, it becomes apparent that Europe and United States are drifting apart not only on foreign policy but also on their vision of a democratic society and of the proper relationship between politics and ethics. One of America's founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton, was convinced that politics needed values it could not produce itself and had to rely on other agencies (mainly the churches) to nurture the virtues civil life needs. The state could therefore not privilege any church in particular but had to maintain a positive attitude to religion in general. Jean Jacques Rousseau thought, on the contrary, that the state needed a kind of civil religion of its own and the existing churches had to bow to this civil religion by incorporating its commandments in their theology. Many scholars see in this idea of Rousseau's the seminal principle of totalitarianism. The tradition of Rousseau and of the Jacobins has survived in Europe in less virulent forms than in the not too distant past, but it's still part of the European political and ideological landscape. These differing philosophical approaches to religion and politics do not give us, however, the whole truth. In the 1960s, both Europe and the United States lived through a cultural era that belittled traditional values and wanted to prepare the young generation for a world of tomorrow in which individual responsibility, self-sacrifice and other virtues of the past would be needed no more. In this world nobody would need moral convictions. It would be a world without the constraint of limitedness disposable resources. Nobody would need to toil for his bread. Unfortunately that tomorrow did not come. What came, on the contrary, was the collapse of communism. We still live in a world in which resources are limited, we have to work hard to have our share of them, we need the support of a family and we need the old traditional virtues that had been too easily dismissed. Americans have become aware of this state of affairs sooner than Europeans. This is another explanation of the difference between the two sides of the Atlantic. But we can expect also in Europe a change of attitudes within a comparatively short period of time. Our struggling economy and ageing society can survive and be modernized only if we recover at least some of the values of the past--among them the ethics of hardworking and caring fathers and mothers. This is difficult to accept in Europe because our intellectuals were always convinced that modernity brings with itself the extinction of religious faith. Now America, the most advanced country in the world, shows us that religion may be and indeed is a fundamental element of a free society and of a modern economy. Mr. Buttiglione , Italy's minister of European affairs, last month withdrew his candidacy to become European justice and home affairs commissioner. » (Opinion Journal) Tuesday, November 09, 2004
«Bush Voters: Ignorant or Stupid? A split is developing among the head-scratching elite over exactly what is wrong with the 51% of Americans who voted to re-elect President Bush. As we noted Friday, one Jane Smiley, "the author of many novels and essays," argued in Slate last week that Bush voters suffer from "unteachable ignorance"--which is to say, they're stupid. On top of which, they are "full of classic Republican feelings of superiority"!
(James Taranto, Opinion Journal)
Estratégias
«Oh No, What Are We Supposed to Do? "Mourn"--headline, Katha Pollitt column, The Nation, Nov. 5 "Don't Mourn, Organize"--headline, Molly Ivins column, Daily Camera (Boulder, Colo.), Nov. 5 "Mourn and Organize"--headline, Roni Krouzman column, CommonDreams.org, Nov. 5» (James Taranto, Opinion Journal)
Censura, atentado à liberdade de expressão e todos para Belém
Editor & Publisher's final tally found that 213 newspapers nationwide endorsed John Kerry, vs. just 205 for President Bush. This actually underestimates Kerry's support among newspaper editorialists. E&P calculated the combined circulation of the papers that endorsed each candidate, and "Kerry won that race handily, 20,882,889 to 15,743,799." What's more, "at least a dozen [newspapers] indicated that their editorial board wanted to endorse one candidate (Kerry) but the publisher or corporate owner insisted they endorse another (Bush)."» (James Taranto, Opinion Journal) Monday, November 08, 2004
Dúvida
Como é que os polícias do pensamento que
E esta como é que a Esquerda explica?
«Here is the breakdown for Beverly Hills: 2004 UNOFFICIAL BUSH 42.38% KERRY 56.98% OTHER .64% 2000 OFFICIAL BUSH 20.47% GORE 76.51% OTHER 3.02% Para os mais distraídos... Beverly Hills... Hollywood... does this ring a bell? E já agora mais esta: «My source is now engaged in checking other neighborhoods, including ultra liberal West Hollywood, the central gay neighborhood of Los Angeles, where Bush's support has gone up 8% on first count.» (Via Roger Simpson e Instapundit) Não explica, não é?
Believe it or not
"I can't believe I'm losing to this idiot."--John Kerry, mid-April 2004, quoted in Newsweek, Nov. 15, 2004 (James Taranto, Opinion Journal) Friday, November 05, 2004
No ID, No Bomb
«"An international human rights group has called on Palestinian militants to stop using children in suicide bombings and military attacks," reports the BBC: Human Rights Watch made the call after a 16-year-old bomber blew himself up in a Tel Aviv marketplace on Monday, killing three Israeli civilians. The New York-based group claimed at least 10 bombers aged under 18 have attacked Israel in the past four years. . . . "Any attack on civilians is prohibited by international law, but using children for suicide attacks is particularly egregious," said Jo Becker, advocacy director for children's rights at Human Rights Watch. "Palestinian armed groups must clearly and publicly condemn all use of children under the age of 18 for military activities, and make sure these policies are carried out." Only when Hamas, al Aqsa and the rest begin requiring Arabs to show ID before murdering Jewish children will the folks at Human Rights Watch be able to rest easy.» (James Taranto, Opinion Journal)
Democrophobia
«From a Washington Post online chat with Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker: Germantown, Md.: Do you believe the president will strive for unity? Or will he skew more hard right? Seymour Hersh: in my view, he's got his mandate and he's going to carry on with his mantra -bringing democracy to the middle east. pretty scary..» (James Taranto, Opinion Journal) Thursday, November 04, 2004
Sobre o número de baixas civis no Iraque
«Collected Links Re: The Lancet Article on Iraqi Civilian Casualties Shannon's excellent critique of the controversial study received so much interest that I am gathering the links to all of the relevant posts here, to make it easier to find and read them. I am also including a link to a relevant post by Ginny. Links are in chronological order, earliest posts on top: Bogus Lancet Study (Shannon Love) Scientific Malpractice (Shannon Love) The Lancet and the Iraqis (Ginny) Judging Methodology (Shannon Love) The Madness of Methods (Shannon Love)»
Biased? Nós?
(Via Tim Blair e ChicagoBoyz) (Update: A página já foi alterada, mas o screenshot já não foge) Os Blogues são uma coisa deliciosa :)
A "estupidez" revisitada
«Thus far, the reputed idiot Bush has graduated from Yale and Harvard, made a stack of cash in the oil industry, become the first consecutive-term governor of Texas, defeated a dual-term VP for the Presidency, and led his party to yesterday's extraordinary triumphs. Let his opponents keep calling him stupid; if they do, within five years Bush will be King of England, the Pope, and world Formula One motor racing champion.» Tim Blair
MoveOn Math: Kiss of Death
«The far-left MoveOn PAC endorsed 27 candidates for House or Senate in yesterday's election. By our count, five won: Melissa Bean beat Rep. Phil Crane for Illinois's Eighth District. Sen. Patty Murray of Washington won re-election against Rep. George Nethercutt. John Salazar beat Greg Walcher for Colorado's Third District, an open seat. Ken Salazar beat Pete Coors for Colorado's open Senate seat. Allyson Schwartz beat Melissa Brown for Pennsylvania's 13th District, an open seat. MoveOn-endrosed candidates are 5-22; to put it another way, only 18.5% of them won. Were we seeking public office, this is an endorsement we'd actively avoid.» (James Taranto, Opinion Journal)
Youth Math
«Maybe Democrats should start advertising for voters on the sides of milk cartons. Poor Josh Marshall spent last night wondering what happened to all those youngsters who were supposed to come out for Kerry: "One thing that does seem very clear tonight--at least if what I'm hearing from the exits is true--is that the much-ballyhooed youth vote simply did not show up. Simple as that. That is a remarkable turnabout from the expectations that had been growing over the last week. And Democrats weren't the only ones who bought into the idea. Public pollsters and even Republicans in the final days of the campaign were coming to believe it too. And that shaped expectations greatly. Whatever happens tonight a lot of thought and study will go into just what happened. Was it a mirage? Was it a problem with the GOTV operation? It can't simply be the later. Even the best ground operation can only amplify a demographic trend or spike that has some deeper socio-political basis." Gee, what might've happened to all the young voters? Well, consider this: You're not allowed to vote unless you've passed your 18th birthday. In order to have any birthdays at all, you have to have been born. And over the past 30 years or so, many Americans have ended up not being born. About.com lists the number of abortions in the U.S. each year starting in 1973, "based on assumptions by the Alan Guttmacher Institute." If we add up the numbers from 1975-86, we come up with approximately 17.5 million missing eligible voters between 18 and 29 years old. Exit polls found that voters this age who were born went for Kerry over Bush, 54% to 45%, while Bush had a majority in all other age groups. If it's true that women who have abortions tend to be more liberal than those who don't, then the unborn 18- to 29-year-olds likely would have favored the Democrat even more heavily. Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision mandating legal abortion nationwide, was written by Justice Harry Blackmun, a Nixon appointee. Perhaps somewhere old Tricky Dick is smiling at how his judicial legacy helped the Republicans.» (James Taranto, Opinion Journal)
Jews Math
The Jerusalem Post looks at a subset of this group: «The American Jewish Committee, in a tiny sampling of roughly 200 Jewish voters in five battleground states, found roughly 12 to 13 percent of Jews who voted for Al Gore in 2000 switched parties and cast their vote for President George W. Bush on Tuesday. . . . Bush won 19% and Gore 80% of the Jewish vote in 2000, according to exit polling. An AJC survey of American Jewish voters in September found 69% would support Kerry and 24% Bush. AJC's Tuesday results suggested slightly stronger gains for Bush in the community. Harris said that nearly all voters who switched from Gore to Bush "identified either Israel or terrorism (and) 9/11 as the first reason for their decision."» (James Taranto, Opinion Journal)
Ohio Math
«Last night, after considering a challenge in Ohio, Kerry apparently slept on it and woke up to the realization that it would be futile. The official Ohio returns give the president a lead of more than 136,000 votes, or 2.49% of the vote--but without provisional ballots, those cast by voters whose registration is in doubt. There were enough such ballots that they could theoretically have changed the outcome, but few enough that the likelihood of their having done so was minuscule. Blogger "Atilla" does the math and concludes that if there had been 250,000 valid provisional ballots, Kerry would have had to win 77.2% of them to take the lead; a more realistic (though probably still high) figure of 150,000 yields 95.3% as the requisite Kerry percentage. As Michael Barone noted in a 5 a.m. posting, when the president's lead was 10,000 votes fewer, "Provisional votes are not concentrated totally in central city Cleveland. They are cast, also, by Amish voters in Holmes and Coshocton Counties. They are not going to produce a 126,000-vote margin for Kerry, under any stretch of the imagination."» (James Taranto, Opinion Journal) Wednesday, November 03, 2004
4077 MASH, Coreia, 1950:
Klinger: Sir, I'd like to talk to you about something Henry: You wanna reenlist, right? Klinger: Sir, I have to confess. I'm a communist, an atheisitc, Marxist, card-carrying, uh Henry: Bolshevik Klinger: No, honest Henry: You are not Klinger: I am too, you imperialist dog Henry: Klinger, I've never hit a woman before Klinger: Sir, what do I have to do to get out? Henry: That's your problem, Klinger. I've got a desk full of my own. Out! Tal como o Tenente-Coronel Henry, também tenho uma secretária demasiado cheia para confortar os meus amigos à esquerda (e alguns à direita). Mas em poucos minutos, e aproveitando os sempre úteis (para discordar) posts do Causa Nossa, recomendo a seguinte audição: «(...) Temem a deriva imperial e uniteralista de Washington na política externa.» If the World Should End in Fire If the world should end in fire The oceans boiling into flame I will watch the last sunrise And think of all the sunny days When the mystery of the sky And the shifting clouds Was enough to make me sure That behind the gauzy haze Of life's listless dream There's a place where time is dead And all things stand still and always will And always will Ninguém sente um arrepio pela espinha abaixo? If the World Should end in Ice If the world should end in ice In days of endless night I'll let the snow stroms cover me In a blanket of white And remember the red, red robbins Hopping across the yard Hunting singing crickets As the first evening stars Open up their eyes And drop their golden tears On every window sill and always will And always will (The Handsome Family - Singing Bones) Tuesday, November 02, 2004
Durante algum tempo...
... votei na qualidade da instituição, nos horários das festas, na qualidade de vinhos, preços de livros ou cafés nos EUA. Passados alguns anos olho à minha volta e (quase) toda a gente quer eleger o Presidente dos EUA. Num (e no) so-so country, é sempre 50%-50%. Não faço ideia quem vai vencer. Como também não sei, a esta distância, em quem votaria. Certo certo é que se a questão é política externa o meu voto iria certinho e direitinho para, ah imperialista, Bush. Friday, October 29, 2004
Ainda o senhor Buttiglione
No meio de toda esta discussão sobre o caso Buttiglione, alguém verdadeiramente ouviu/leu as ideias do senhor para a área em causa? Alguém ouviu/leu as ideias da Comissão para a área em causa? As pessoas que argumentam que o problema do senhor Buttiglione foi ter falado não estão em teoria a argumentar contra a liberdade de expressão? E contra a transparência devida em Democracia? O senhor Buttiglione fez muito bem em ter dito o que disse e da forma como o disse. Acontece que, a confiar nas suas declarações, o senhor Buttiglione acredita tanto que a homosexualidade é um pecado como no facto de o Estado não se dever imiscuir nessas matérias. Aparentemente as pessoas ficam chocadas com a primeira parte do seu pensamento e ignoram a segunda, o que de facto mostra que para muita gente o senhor Buttiglione é culpado de "delito de opinião". Mas mesmo que se duvide da consistência, veracidade ou compatibilidade entre os dois argumentos do senhor Buttiglione, a verdade é que existe toda uma estrutura da UE que não pode depender de leviandades. Posso ter na minha casa uma lâmpada ou uma porta que não funcionam muito bem, mas se mexer nelas agora implica por em causa os alicerces... como diria a senhora eurodeputada socialista Ana Gomes... "Ó pá"... se calhar vamos ignorar a lâmpada e a porta.
OOOppsssss
Parece que a EMEL vai passar a denominar-se de Empresa Municipal de Esquecimento de Lisboa. Diga-se de passagem, nunca gostei muito dos verdinhos.
Privatização dos Notários já!
Conversa com o gestor de balcão (entre o Calhariz e o Bairro Alto): Eu: Gostaria de marcar a escritura o mais rapidamente possível. Vocês trabalham bem com os notários aqui da zona? Gestor: Os notários demoram sempre muito a agendar as escrituras. Mas quando o cliente tem urgência nós costumamos fazer-lhes um gosto e eles vêm ao nosso encontro. Eu: Gosto? Refere-se a uma taxa por debaixo da mesa? Gestor: (sorriso complacente) Sim, mas por conta do banco. Eu: São as maleficências da estatização. Tomara que os privatizem todos e não lhes dêem sequer exclusividade territorial, como têm as farmácias. Gestor: Concordo, se isso acontecer, serão eles que virão cá apresentar-se para ganhar clientes e ganharão os que melhores serviços prestarem. Acaba-se esta epopeia de andar atrás dos notários. Saio do banco a pensar que a função pública só emperra o país e enriquece os burocratas. |
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