Thirty-some odd years ago, as I was walking up to my new buddy’s door, he casually mentioned that a Norwegian goddess was staying with him and his wife. And since I’d always wanted to meet one of those, I tucked my shirt in and told myself not to say something stupid.
So I walked in, and she was there, and I swear it was like we were both hearing the first 1:25 of Etta James singing “At Last.” (Stop reading for a minute and pull up that song and listen to it…. Yeah, it was just like that.)
And then I probably said something stupid. But neither of us remember what, because of that Etta James, love-at-first-sight thing.
Then a few years went by, and we got married, and we had our first baby. (For those of you gender studies majors out there, I can explain how that happened later. But the process begins with, “When a hilarious genius and a blue-eyed blonde smoke-show love each other very much, and they both identify as the gender that they obviously are…”)
That baby girl was born 26 years ago today, and we couldn’t be prouder of her. We saw her last week, she’s coming back to visit with her husband at Thanksgiving, and we’re going out to see them in Denver at Christmas.
Happy birthday, Katie!
I start today with that story because I didn’t want to write three columns in a row about nothing but bloodthirsty terrorists killing babies that make me think of both of my girls when they were that age.
Having said that, I’ve got to cover the news of the day, and that news is terrorist-heavy. So here goes:
On the bright side, I’m loving the amount of push-back that many pro-Hamas moral idiots have been receiving on some campuses. The Harvard story got better when a Jewish donor encouraged other supporters to send $1 checks to Harvard; since that guy gave $50 million in the past, I think the Harvard-Hamas bureaucrats will notice the difference.
I also love the guys from Accuracy in Media, who drove a panel truck around the Harvard campus with a sign reading, “Harvard’s Leading Anti-Semites,” and a digital screen that cycled through the pictures and names of 34 of the student gauleiters – er, “leaders” – who jumped on the pro-genocide bandwagon on October 7th.
The students at NYU’s law school had chosen a piece of work named Ryna Workman as the president of their Student Bar Association. She’s a black female who identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns – so already, cuckoo for cocoa puffs – but she apparently also moonlights as a vicious anti-Semite. Because as soon as Hamas started slaughtering unarmed civilians, she put out a notice supporting “Palestinians” and blaming Israelis for everything.
And then, mirabile dictu, she got a face-full of instant karma. Before you could say, “Arbeit macht frei,” the SBA started the process of removing her from her presidency, and the elite law firm that had given her a job offer rescinded it.
Great! More please!
Meanwhile, in Dearborn-istan, MI, a low-IQ BLM speaker (but I repeat myself) said this actual quote that I am not making up: “This is not complicated. When you go to a BLM rally you see Palestinian flags; when you go to a white supremacy rally, you see Israeli flags.”
Let’s not dwell on the fact that this idiot thinks the first part – seeing “Palestinian” flags at your rallies – is a good thing. (The call-and-response chants write themselves: “Who wants to murder babies?” “We do!” “When do we want to murder babies?” “All the freaking time!” or “Hey, hey, ho, ho. Not murdering old people has got to go!”)
He somehow raises the stupidity bar with the second half of his imbecilic statement. Because I can’t remember the last white supremacy rally I’ve seen. (Unless you count all of the ones on campuses arguing for affirmative action, which implicitly requires believing that whites are a superior race, due to its premise that no dark-skinned people could ever gain admission to college unless they are given an unearned advantage.)
But you know what NO white supremacist rally in the history of the world has EVER featured? A Jewish flag!! The last serious and influential white supremacy group was the Nazis (if you don’t count the Democrats who enforced their Jim Crow laws until the mid 1960s), and unless the History Channel has misled me, they weren’t exactly philo-Semitic.
Speaking of Nazis, I think that comparing Hamas to them might be an insult to the Nazis.
I know, but hear me out.
Though all German military units were fighting for an evil cause and deserved all of the violence that the Allied toxic males rained down upon them, some of them were especially terrible. The SS, for example, were worse than the average Wehrmacht soldiers.
And even among the SS, the einsatzgruppen – paramilitary death squads formed to do nothing but find and slaughter Jews as the Nazis pushed into eastern Europe – stood out as the worst of the worst of the SS.
But with their behavior last week, Hamas showed none of the military discipline and adherence to the rules of war that at least some German soldiers did. Their actions against women, children and the elderly on October 7th demonstrated the core character of Hamas: they’re ALL einsatzgruppen!
I was also surprised – though maybe I shouldn’t have been – by the amount of complaining about Israel cutting off water and power to the Gaza strip.
I didn’t realize that Israel has been facilitating the provision of water and power there, although that makes sense in light of two facts: Israel’s much greater humanitarian concern for Gazans than Hamas’, and the Hamas government’s spending the lion’s share of incoming funds on murdering Jews, rather than such peripheral projects such as – oh I don’t know – life-enhancing infrastructure for their own people!
(It turns out that many countries have been sending Hamas water pipes to facilitate their accessing the aquifer under Gaza to provide water for their people. Instead, Hamas re-tooled those pipes into missiles to use to kill Jews. Because einsatzgruppen gotta einsatzgrupp, I guess.)
And now, in the wake of Hamas’ murderous attack, people expect Israel to continue allowing water and electricity into Gaza? Did we do that for the Germans in Berlin in 1945? Did our Republican president Lincoln make sure that the Democrat slavery fans in Atlanta or Vicksburg had clean drinking water in the mid-1860s?
(For you non-history buffs, the answer – to paraphrase Dr. Evil – is,“How about NO!”)
Anyway, apparently raping and baby-killing is thirsty work. So cue the sad klezmer music, I guess. Oh wait: no klezmer music is sad. So we’ll just stick with the sad trombone for our brave but thirsty Hamas civilian-slaughterers.
To paraphrase Clint Eastwood’s character in Unforgiven, “You should have provided for your own water and electricity before you murdered our friends.”
That reminds me of another movie reference, to the 1983 film version of Stephen King’s novel The Dead Zone. The movie is worth watching, if you haven’t seen it. Christopher Walken is the protagonist, and Martin Sheen plays the villain, a politician with serious mental and moral deficiencies. (Like Biden, only alive.)
In the climactic scene (spoiler alert, if you might watch it), Walken attempts to assassinate Sheen with a rifle, but the wiley pol sees him, and grabs a nearby baby, holding the child up in front of him. Walken hesitates – because shooting a baby is bad – and a bodyguard shoots him dead. But in a premonition of the future, we see that Sheen kills himself because his political career is over, since a magazine cover showed a picture of him hiding behind the baby.
I thought of that scene this week, and wondered if that movie has ever played in Gaza. If so, I’ll bet the Hamas audience is totally confused by the ending. “What gives? The politician hides behind baby so the enemy doesn’t kill him. (tapping his forehead) This is smart. And HE’s the bad guy?”
Okay, let me end with two quick good news items.
First, DeSantis continues to be a principled conservative boss! His answers to Hamas questions were pitch perfect. When asked if we should import Gazans to the US as refugees, he said no, in the most anti-RINO of terms. “If you look at how they behave, not all of them are Hamas, but they are all anti-Semitic, none of them believe in Israel’s right to exist. None of the Arab states are willing to take any of them. The Arab states should be taking them…” Fact check true!
He also chartered a flight that brought Floridians in Israel home, and welcomed them at the airport. Earlier in the week he also rightly called out Trump’s foolish and petty criticism of Netanyahu at this crucial time. (I’m going to write more about that later, because that was the worst of Trump, and we really need him to be better.)
Finally, I loved CO’s posting of the story about Israel’s heroic K-9 unit that helped rescue some Jews and kill some terrorists. I hadn’t seen that story, but it doesn’t surprise me.
Knowing that Islam teaches that dogs are filthy animals – and as I said in reply to CO’s post, it takes one to know one, you Hamas creeps! – makes it especially satisfying to think of those dogs tearing up some brave Hamas baby-killers before the IDF finished them off.
This story is more proof of something I wrote a few columns back: there is no such thing as a bad dog, only bad owners. The Nazis misused German shepherds to patrol the death camps. Joe Biden’s horrible parenting allowed Major and Commander to turn into secret-service-attacking bad boys.
But in the hands of the IDF, German shepherds are the best of very Good Boys!
One more sweet irony: 80 years ago, Nazis were using German shepherds to torment Jews. But this week, Jews were using German shepherds to bring some canine justice to the modern einsatzgruppen.
More please!
Hamas delenda est!
Martin Simpson 