If this is a moderate, who are the extremists?

[All emphasized passages in the following quotes are my own emphasis.]

"Some Palestinians had considered Yassin a relative moderate inside Hamas[...]"

-Reuters, 3/23/2004


"We condemn this violation of international law as an act of state terrorism by Ariel Sharon's out-of-control government. Israel's extra-judicial killing of an Islamic religious leader can only serve to perpetuate the cycle of violence throughout the region. The international community must now take concrete steps to help protect the Palestinian people against such wanton Israeli violence. "

-CAIR, 3/22/2004 press release


"Arafat condemned the assassination, saying Israel had 'crossed all red lines,' and declared a three-day mourning period. Flags at his headquarters in Ramallah were lowered to half-staff. "

-Guardian, 3/22/2004


"The Secretary-General strongly condemns Israel?s assassination of Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, which resulted in the deaths of eight others. He is concerned that such an action would lead to further bloodshed and death and acts of revenge and retaliation. He reiterates that extrajudicial killings are against international law and calls on the Government of Israel to immediately end this practice. The only way to halt an escalation in the violence is for the parties to work towards a viable negotiating process aimed at a just, lasting and comprehensive settlement."

-Statement of Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, 3/22/2004


"NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than a hundred people carrying Palestinian flags and protest signs marched outside the Israeli consulate in New York on Tuesday to condemn Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and President Bush after the assassination of Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin.

'I'm here to demonstrate as an American that I'm so tired of Israel and their crimes and I'm disgusted in our government,' said Rajee Mustafa, a 51-year-old electrical engineer from Jersey City, New Jersey.

[...]

'We stand alone in the globe in not condemning this act,' said Palestinian-American Mustafa. 'This is a terrorist act and I'm ashamed of the double standard. This double standard is bringing us hate from all the Arab world, the Muslim world.'

A memorial rally was scheduled later in the evening in the New York borough of Brooklyn to protest the killing of Yassin, founder and spiritual leader of Hamas.

At the evening rush-hour protest across from the consulate, demonstrators carried signs such as Sharon and Bush - War Criminals,' and raised chants including, 'Sheikh Yassin, rest in peace, Israel will never sleep.'

[...]

Samia Halaby, 67, an abstract painter and former college art professor, said she was sickened by the attack on Yassin.

'It was a murder, an assassination. It was illegal, it's immoral and typical of a fascist government. U.S. approval of such an action is disgusting.'"

-Reuters, 3/23/2004


"Sheikh Yassin's Mass-Murder Record
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, leader of the Moslem Hamas terrorist organization who was killed yesterday in a daring Israeli missile attack, oversaw a total of 425 attacks - including the Park Hotel Seder massacre - that killed 377 Israelis and wounded 2,076.

Among the worst Hamas attacks in the past 3.5 years of the Palestinian Authority-initiated Oslo War were the following ten, which ended the lives of a total of 186 people:

June 1, 2001 - Dolphinarium in Tel Aviv, 21 killed - mostly new-immigrant teenagers from the former Soviet Union
Aug. 9, 2001 - Sbarro's Pizzeria in Jerusalem, 15 killed, including the parents and three children of the Schijveschuurder family
Dec. 2, 2001 - Haifa bus, 15 killed
March 27, 2002 - Park Hotel in the midst of the Passover Seder, 30 killed, including six husband-and-wife couples
March 31, 2002 - Matza Restaurant in Haifa, 15 killed, including two sets of a father and two children
May 7, 2002 - Rishon Letzion hall, 16 killed
June 18, 2002 - #32 bus from Gilo, Jerusalem, 19 killed
March 5, 2003 - #37 bus in Haifa, 15 killed
June 11, 2003 - #14 bus, Jerusalem, 17 killed
Aug. 19, 2003 - #2 bus from Western Wall, 23 killed, including a mother and baby; father and son; and four other children"

-Israel National News, 3/23/2004


"I remember my first interview with him. It was winter 1988, during the initial intifadeh. With the help of an Arab journalist, I had tracked down his secret home in one of the countless alleys and warrens of Gaza. It was a cold, wet day, and the quadriplegic sheik, surrounded by a handful of his faithful, was huddled in his metal bed, all but buried beneath an enormous pile of blankets and comforters. Only his head stuck out.

Maybe that's why his speech was so particularly fiery that day and the message so chilling.

I remember asking him what Hamas' conditions were for peace and whether Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza would be the first step toward a settlement.

At first, I heard what was almost a giggle. Then his squeaky voice grew sharper and louder: 'Make no mistake, there will be no peace as long as there is a Zionist-Jewish state. Our holy goal is to liberate all of Palestine, and if the Jews do not go, they will die. All of Palestine is Islamic land - every inch.'

There it was - Yassin's spiritual philosophy in a nutshell.

It was the same the next time we met: No peace with Israel. That position never changed. It is still the core of Hamas policy, as well as of other terror groups like Islamic Jihad. They will never rest until Israel is destroyed."

-Column in New York Daily News and IsraelInsider.com, by Richard Chesnoff, two-time winner of the Overseas Press Club Award and a recipient of the National Press Club Award, former executive editor of Newsweek International and senior correspondent at US News & World Report.


Article Twelve: Hamas in Palestine, Its Views on Homeland and Nationalism
Hamas regards Nationalism (Wataniyya) as part and parcel of the religious faith. Nothing is loftier or deeper in Nationalism than waging Jihad against the enemy and confronting him when he sets foot on the land of the Muslims. And this becomes an individual duty binding on every Muslim man and woman; a woman must go out and fight the enemy even without her husband’s authorization, and a slave without his masters’ permission. This [principle] does not exist under any other regime, and it is a truth not to be questioned[...]

Article Thirteen: Peaceful Solutions, [Peace] Initiatives and International Conferences
[Peace] initiatives, the so-called peaceful solutions, and the international conferences to resolve the Palestinian problem, are all contrary to the beliefs of the Islamic Resistance Movement. For renouncing any part of Palestine means renouncing part of the religion; the nationalism of the Islamic Resistance Movement is part of its faith, the movement educates its members to adhere to its principles and to raise the banner of Allah over their homeland as they fight their Jihad[...] There is no solution to the Palestinian problem except by Jihad. The initiatives, proposals and International Conferences are but a waste of time, an exercise in futility[...]

-Hamas Charter, written in 1988, via Palestine Center, a pro-Palestinian organization.

Two Words

"Yippie-ki-yay motherfucker."

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Sheik Ahmed Yassin finally does some good, as his death takes me to 12th place on the Amish Tech Support Dead Pool. An example of how sick the PLO is: they are calling for three days of mourning for this psychopath's death. The IDF should take out another prominent Palestinian terrorist to give them reason for three months of mourning followed by one day of the Palestinian leaders killing each other en masse.

And last but not least: "[Arafat] feels his turn is next and he is sad and worried."

More on the hooligan takeover:

Well, by now everyone knows that a party of favorites took over Bill’s blog yesterday in a clandestine attack.

I received this email from Wind Rider shortly before the attack:

ROE readback correct, positive h-hour confirmation. Weapons tight until h-hour.
The container will be weapons-free at 1500. Targeting and release at individual discretion. Fire for maximum effect.

When you see something like that come across your email, you know you’re going to have some fun. I thought at best we might get one post in before Bill pulled the plug, but it was not to be. At first he couldn’t figure out what was going on. Then he couldn’t figure out how to stop it. Then he decided it was better than writing something himself. The posts at the beginning are good. Eventually, people started posting any file they could find on their hard drive.

As Glenn Reynolds would say, heh.

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Passover's coming up. Maybe their can be a flash mob of Jewish bloggers to some blog. Maybe I could get invited...

Hooligans take over Bloviating Inanities.

Let Freedom Ring

This is a great idea:

The classics of American thought and literature have been little translated into Arabic. Worse, even when they have been translated, they have appeared in small editions (typically no more than 500 copies printed). Worse still, the distribution system for Arabic books is poor, and there are few public libraries, so that many books that have been published in the past are no longer available to most readers.

I have therefore decided to begin a project to translate important books by great Americans and about America into Arabic, and to subsidize their publication so that they can be bought inexpensively. I hope also to subsidize their distribution.

Soon-to-be-unemployed AG seeking LE support

Lockyer, a Democrat, has not only refused thus far to act against Newsom, but he's also used the opportunity to publicly dis the governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who demanded last Friday that he "take immediate steps to obtain a definitive judicial resolution of this controversy."

Lockyer's response? "The governor can direct the Highway Patrol. He can direct the next Terminator 4 movie if he chooses. But he can't direct the attorney general in the way he's attempted to do," he told the San Francisco Chronicle. Already his conservative critics are threatening to take action against Lockyer for "not doing his job."

I think that California elects attorney-generals (in my opinion, a stupid thing. Electing state supreme court justices is a bad thing.) but as part of the state government Lockyer has an obligation, unwritten or otherwise, to serve the interests of the governor, or failing that, the state, which has passed a defense of marriage act. In another Slate article, Professor Richard Thompson Ford makes the case that the scraps of paper declaring gay couples married are just, well, scraps of paper declaring gay couples married. The city dispenses, the state sanctions. Lockyer should stop being insubordinate and tell San Francisco that the state will not recognize any gay marriages, and a feint and trojan horse if he feels inclined, refuse to recognize any San Fran marriages if the mayor persists (See paragraph eleven of the Ford article.)

If Lockyer continues as is it is 99% likely he will lose his position one way or another, and I'm one social liberal who won't give a damn. If you want to advocate and legalize gay marriage, run for legislature, or better yet, resign and start preparing to campaign against Schwarzenegger in 2006. Just don't take up space not doing your job.

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If anyone was confused, LE stands for Liberal Establishment. And yes, I am for legalizing same-sex marriage, as most of the best arguments against it rely on godless biological philosophy or anti-homosexualism. However, the right way to do so is through the legislature, as marriage is recognized in a legal sense by the state, therefore it is a created privilege, not a right, and all have access to the same privilege from it, marriage to someone of the opposite sex, so it narrowly stands as not discriminatory by the 14th on the same grounds that homosexual sodomy bans are constitutional. However, the sodomy laws are government restrictions where the government lacks the power to restrict. On marriage it can do whatever the heck it wants as far as the Constitution is concerned. Same-sex mariage will only really be accepted when a majority of citizens want it to be legalized, and I think that efforts to legalize same-sex marriage would be better spent raising the public awareness and talking to legislators than using the courts and taking empty symbolic actions.

This has to be the longest footnote I have ever written.

Predictions

If no one intervenes, at least 20,000 people will be killed by the Haiti uprisings or in response to it.

The Passion is denounced further by Jewish organization, and also by the left, who will continue to ignore the vast anti-semitism in Arab media.

The International Court of Justice rules that the Fence interferes with the Palestinians' "right of resistance" and therefore is banned by international law.

Kerry wins only half the delegates on March 2nd, and the primary appears to have a good chance of continuing to the convention.

Bush's approval poll numbers rise slightly while the approval rating of the Democratic candidate sink like a stone in a lake after a forceful and convincing acceptance speech at the Republican convention.

The PA collapses by November. Iraq sucessfully holds elections this year, and begin democratic government, despite constitutional isssues that continue for several years. The insurgency is crushed by the joint efforts of the Coalition and Iraqi forces several months after the government is elected.

Meryl Yourish' and Amish Tech Support's traffic increases by the end of the year.

That is all.

"In the Nasa!..."

OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Extended Tour - sol 18, Feb 12, 2004

Opportunity had a couple of little hiccups on sol 18, February 11, which ends at 7:01 p.m. Wednesday, PST. The wrist on the real rover arm would not point as far vertically as the engineering rover's wrist did on Earth during a model test the night before. Because of this, the arm on Mars did not stow, and the rover did not move on to waypoint Charlie. The rover also automatically stopped use of the mast due to the fact that it believed a requested pointing position was in an area beyond its limits. Engineers solved both problems on sol 18. All systems are go for Opportunity to complete the tour of the outcrop by heading to outpost Charlie on sol 19, Thursday, February 12.

"Roger that Command, we are go for tour to outpost Charlie at time Sol 1
9. Let's move!"

"Hooyah!"

Yourish: "I think the Democrats are in trouble"

I have almost exactly the same opinion about the November election. (However, no phone calls from Edwards.)

Lieberman was the only Democratic candidate I trusted to do what had to be done in foreign policy, and he went nowhere. The Democratic Party seems to fail to realize that while national debt can be repaid, laws can be repealed, and Supreme Court judges can retire, if we don't make tough stands on our foreign policy in a world where nuclear weapons are one coup or one sale away from ending up in the hands of terrorists, where major regions are entrenched in dictatorial rule in which violence against outsiders is encouraged, and where wars against a nation are fought by terrorist proxies until the opportunity arises to throw away every deception and eradicate the enemy, September 11th could become merely the first massacre in an increasingly assymetrical war against an enemy that does not value the lives of its own people and sees murder as a righteous act.

The stakes are this high, and what has happened in Israel from 1978 to the present is not a unique situation but a snapshot of what will happen on a larger scale. The single biggest issue facing the nation and the world today is the conjunction of terrorism and Arab/Islamic anti-Westism, and if the Democratic candidate does not recognize this, he is not fit to be the Commander-in-Chief of America.

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I'd like to announce that I am a state delegate for Edwards to the Maine State Democratic Convention.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I present you the greatest interplanetary brushing of all time!"

The Spirit is back in business!

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More images from the Spirit here. See Opportunity images here. A 360-degree Opportunity panorama is here. Lots of close photos of the martian bedrock are also available.

Lieberman Leaves the Democratic Primary

This is really too bad, as Lieberman is one of the most vocal and consistent hawks in the Democratic Party at a time when the world needs hawks. The Perhaps Liebermandoes not have a clear vision to his hawkishness, but none of the remaining candidates are even admitting that US military force can improve the world if it is used justly.

I think that Lieberman's campaign was badly run at the end, but after Iowa it was really running on fumes, and I think the Kerry resurgence caused Lieberman to lose voters that would have likely voted for him if forced to choose between Clark, Dean, and Lieberman. Once the poll numbers in New Hampshire started to go down from their peak at third-place shortly before Iowa, it was clear that there was no cance that Lieberman could slowly rise too the top to win New Hampshire, where Lieberman, counted on a strong showing. After getting less than 10% in New Hampshire, the plan for South Carolina, which was likely to ride momentum from New Hampshire to dominate the more conservative south, completely fell apart. Lieberman basically retreated to his strongest state, Delaware, and made a last-ditch effort to pull off a single win while neglecting the rest of the states. One thing Lieberman did do well during the campaign was get endorsements by newspapers. The biggest New Hampshire newspapers all endorsed him, and he was getting endorsements from major newspapers even as it was becoming increasingly clear he was not going to win. I think this shows that while he was able to get large support from moderate political commentariat, that opinion is solidly out of step with the Democratic Party today. And no, Lieberman's failure is not explainable solely by poor campaigning, as Kerry's campaign has been far worse and consists mainly of getting lots of other people to help prop up Kerry's image. Most telling is that no other candidate has emerged with a similar message to Joe, despite that Edwards' basic platform in large part resembles Kerry's, and Clark's imitation of the Dean campaign's spirit is noteworthy. Lieberman has not at any point had such a doppelganger. Try to think of any other notable hawkish Democrats. See my point?

Here's Lieberman's statement to his supporters on his withdrawal. Also, get the Joe campaign theme song, "Go Joe," while it's still available. Trust me, you won't regret it.:)

Also, there is Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf for Joe. Just go read it. And finally, a Slate article with so many plays on "Joementum" that it hurts to read it this soon after Lieberman dropped out. Maybe later.

Okay, maybe just the end.

Somewhere conservative Democrats are laughing, and somewhere McCain independents shout. But there is no Joe in Mudville. Joe Lieberman has struck out.

Good news from NASA.

Fuck the UN.

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A sentiment that Orwell would have agreed with: "When the meting out of justice for the most evil crimes is regarded as vengeance, then those who should be punished have taken control."

Connect the Dots

From a Slate journal entry of a person studying Jordanian culture:

One young Egyptian journalist told me how he'd thought about coming to the States to study but felt that now it wasn't safe. Wrong, I said. Who told you that? A well-known Stanford professor, not an Arab, in Middle East studies had discouraged him from coming since it was a bad time for Arabs in the United States. Well, maybe it's not a good time in Palo Alto, Calif., and the rest of the academy for certain ideas about the Middle East, but it's a bad time for Arabs only insofar as they're not coming. [my emphasis]

Hmmm, a well-known non-Arab Stanford professor of Middle East Studies, I wonder who that could be?

Of course, Google it.

And our mystery prof is: Joel Beinin, him of "Sabra and Shatila...was partly facilitated by the fact that US Marines who had been dispatched to protect Palestinian civilians in Lebanon left precipitously, leaving the Palestinians to the mercies of their Lebanese and Israeli enemies" belief. If he is stupid enopugh to not know why the US left, he should never have graduated college. (And for those who aren't history buffs, its because that grat bastion of Lebanon and Israel, Iranian- and Syrian-backed Hezbollah, bombed the Marines barracks. So you see, it was planned by Syria and Iran that the US would abandon the Palestinians in Lebanon so that a deeply-partisan Stanford prof could make points off of it.)

But isn't it bad publicity that a professor of Middle Eastern Studies discouraged a foreign Arab student from going to Stanford? Charles, take it away!

More Mars Photos

I wonder if this is the de facto insignia for the Rover missions. Hmmmm... (Lego Men on Mars would be a very bad movie title)

Joysticks on Mars. And here too.

"Look, they left a return address for the Martians!"

The memorial to the crew of the Columbia.

"I'm a reasonable man, so I know that this isn't a sand dune."

Pseudo-update: Apparently Lego Man is an official logo. (Scroll down) Also in the same link, the joystick is actually a sundial.

Darn.

Very Cool Mars Photos

A photo and computer generated perspective view of the Martian Grand Canyon...at 12-meters per pixel! (From Mars Express Orbiter)

Color photos of Martian bedrock. (Opportunity Rover)

Photos from the Spirit Rover, taken before it malfunctioned. Scroll down to slideshow link. The article is an update on Spirit's condition.

Another slideshow of Spirit pictures from an article about the strange consistency of the Gusev Crater soil.

A zoomable color panorama of the Opportunity landing site, including that bedrock. There is another panorama here.

A cool view of the crater rim from Opportunity. (And just think, it hasn't even left the pad yet!)

The Spirit landing platform.

A panoramic of the Spirit landing site. In the distance are the Apollo 1 hills.

A whole bunch of Mars photos, including more perspective computer images from Mars Express.

And finally, the Mars Exploration Rover Mission website. Enjoy.

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Yes, I think Mars exploration is very cool.

Mars Rover Missions Bring People Together

On the left is Governor "Ah-Nold" Schwarzenegger, on the right is former Vice-President Al Gore. (From Space.com)

Humor

Hamlet (and other literature) Powerpoint -From Radosh (See also "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

Also, this oldie but goodie from Amish Tech Support:

When people ask me what denomination the chocolate gelt is, I say that they are the real currency of the modern State of Israel.

Yes, it's true. The NIS is a chocolate coin with a gold wrapper. This is why in the summertime, when it gets hot out, the economy melts down.

My response:

"What...is the denomination of chocolate gelt?"

"Religious or monetary?"

"I don't know...Ahhhhh!"

All those who have not seen Monte Python and the Holy Grail can go to the back of the room.

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Merry New Hampshire Primary!

Fun With Iowa

Dean Loses It

The problem is not passion. The problem is not immaturity. The problem is that Dean is a manic egotist bent on...national domination!

(Scroll down to "Click here to view Dean's speech")

Gephardt Loses



"...You've lost that lovin' feeling..." (Hat tip: Outside the Beltway)

A Gephardt biograph from the Weekly Standard I've been meaning to link to.

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Check out Lileks' Dean remix. Also, see Kausfiles on why Iowa is badly counted and undemocratic (The Fraud of Iowa, 2004 Edition).

The Mother of all Posts
Where are/were Saddam WMD programs? And what the bigger issue is.

Kenneth Pollack thinks he knows the answer. Interesting conclusion:

The war was not all bad. I do not believe that it was a strategic mistake, although the appalling handling of postwar planning was. There is no question that Saddam Hussein was a force for real instability in the Persian Gulf, and that his removal from power was a tremendous improvement. There is also no question that he was pure evil, and that he headed one of the most despicable regimes of the past fifty years. I am grateful that the United States no longer has to contend with the malign influence of Saddam's Iraq in this economically irreplaceable and increasingly fragile part of the world; nor can I begrudge the Iraqi people one day of their freedom. What's more, we should not forget that containment was failing. The shameful performance of the United Nations Security Council members (particularly France and Germany) in 2002-2003 was final proof that containment would not have lasted much longer; Saddam would eventually have reconstituted his WMD programs, although further in the future than we had thought. That said, the case for war—and for war sooner rather than later—was certainly less compelling than it appeared at the time...[my emphasis]

The point still stands that the world was dangerously ignoring Saddam Hussein. One thing that was ridiculously overblown by some people was the comparison of Saddam to Hitler. Yes, both were mass-murdering dictators, but Saddam doesn't even approach the persistence and scope of the Holocaust. Saddam is also in a very poor position to threaten any sort of world war given that the list of powers with stronger militaries than his army at his peak include India, China, the United States, Russia if it remobilized, and, of course, the combined forces of NATO. The only real comparison, and the most alarming one, is that most of the world has not shown any resolve in policing Saddam. He was pretty much ignored in his use of chemical weapons on his own people in the '80s. When we invaded in Desert Storm the world was surprised to find that he was close to manufacturing nuclear weapons, which should have surprised no one given the Osirak program that was made with assistance of France, and destroyedby Israel after the international community refused to take action, for which it was widely condemned. Fast-forward to 1998, and Operation Desert Fox.

I think that Clinton should have gone further than he did in Desert Fox, But I think it was a case of running into the same problem that Bush did. Most of the same countries opposed the war, and no one supported taking major action against Saddam, including the Republicans who were too busy criticizing him for distracting the U.S. from...the Lewinsky scandal. The reason the war was launched was that Saddam had shuttered the UN inspections, and his cooperation had reached record lows, to such an extent that the UN withdrew its inspectors to let the United States and Britain bomb Iraq into compliance, briefly returning on a bluff by Saddam that resulted in more stonewalling, and the second removal of inspectors, concluding with a formal report by the UN that the situation on the ground was unacceptable. After the report was released Desert Fox began.

It lasted three days, and created the spectacle of the world criticizing the US and Britain for forcing Iraq to cooperate with the UN in accordance with resolutions passed unanimously by the UN Security Council. Saddam crossed a red line then just as much as Hitler crossed a red line when he began rearming the German military, and in both cases the world marched on by. In hindsight, the only extreme response that should have been on the table in 1998 should have been a decapitation nuclear strike on Baghdad, anything to send the message that there are punishments for flouting international law and military-backed international resolutions. The ultimate disgrace is that Desert Fox ended on what was likely a compromise of future military action as necessary and constant vigilance from the forces in the Gulf region. The result of this compromise was international foot-dragging, repeated complaints about the presence of US troops in the Gulf, and the failure of the UN to take any sort of action on Iraq until Bush went to the UN with the offer of not going to war if inspections were effectively reinstated. When they turned out to not be effective, there was more foot-dragging and a general refusal from certain members of the Security Council to finish the job.

People wonder why tragedies like the Holocaust, Rwanda, Kosovo, 9/11, Bosnia, and the gassing of the Kurds happen. They happen because the world-at-large doesn't have the morals or the initiative to raise a finger against any scum on the planet with a government title before his name. They happen because so many "responsible" nations would rather irresponsibly ignore a clear threat to humanity and international peace and security than make any serious effort to prevent future conflict and massacre. And they happen because time and again no one has meted out consequences for the crimes and violations of the worst of the world in the highest of places. Only when everyone around the world agrees that the end of the Gulf War should have been to kill Saddam will we really have anything approaching world peace.

Best Use of an Adjective as an Adverb to Confuse Everyone West of the Atlantic:

From the Times of India:

General Musharraf is under enormous pressure - as much from the jehadis as from Washington - and a single wrong step could mean things going pear-shaped. [my emphasis]

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Watch as I incorporate "pear-shaped" into as many future posts as possible. Bwa-hahahaha!

Search Requests to Meanderings

search #rank (search engine)

Teams Left in the NF #1 (Yahoo"!")

I think they meant NFL, but I'm number one because of my use of the byline NF. And yes, the "!" drives me bugshit.

david brooks on antisemitism #5 (Google)

My weblog does not talk about this, but it's obviously about this.

"howard dean" antisemite #3 (Google)

Probably not. Stupid, yes. Antisemite, no.

"propaganda" in the "present day" #1 (MSN Search)

I'd like to iterate that my position is to influence readers, not propagandize.

present day anti-semitism #1 (iWon Search)

Anything searching for "present day" or antisemitism ppoints to my blog fairly frequently.

post modern jews #1 (Google)

Try post-post-modern jew (I don't show up).

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There are probably more searches that pick up my archives, but those aren't site-metered.