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Shoulda seen this one coming.

Always happens right when you run out of lamb's blood.

Meryl Yourish is always a good read. She has that particular quality that would make her next to impossible to defeat in debate: An economy of words.

Yes, that's the difference between Israel and the [palestinians]. Israelis do not deliberately target civilians, and do their best to reduce collateral damage. The [palestinians] deliberately target civilians, and rejoice over their deaths.

There's absolutely no refuting the point. You can champion the cause of the Palestinians if you want, but be honest with yourself about who it is that you're defending.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

Indeed. As the man says, read the whole thing.

Super. Hugh Hewitt got defaced by a bunch of idiot script kiddies. I hate this kind of vandalism. It's just another form of grafitti, which is one of my pet peeves. The world is not your canvas, and nobody likes you just because you're a 23-year-old virgin who knows where to download rootkits from USENET.

Maybe they should take the Artist Formerly Known as Baby-Jumping Chickenman's grandfatherly advice for misguided sociopaths:

I'd like to suggest a new, more straight-forward area of interest, The Friends Club. As a member of The Friends Club, you determine whether or not another stranger is a member by uttering the code words, "Will you be my friend?" If they are another member of The Friends Club they will respond, "Sure, wanna go bowling or something?"

Hugh's not their first victim. They've apparently got way too much time on their hands.