Pancake Day!
Today is sort of idiot lefties’ Halloween. A day to eat pancakes and imagine how important it really was to protect the bushes which surrounded the houses in which the tunnels in which the arms were smuggled to the jihadis.
A good day for D-9’s and reality.
“She freely gave to charity, she had the common touch,
And they were grateful for her patronage and thanked her very much,
So my mind was filled with wonder when the evening headlines read:
“Rachel Corrie went home last night and put a bulldozer through her head.”
March 17th, 2009 at 3:26 am
And you seriously wonder why I have always sensed a connection between you folks and the rather more direct conservatives-in-a-hurry like the Northern Hammerskins and the Aryan Nations?
Every now and then you folks let the mask slip, as in this onanistic celebration of gratuitous violence against an unarmed demonstrator. It’s not as big a leap as you might want to make out between this sort of frankly fascistic sensibility and the creation of death camps for your ideological enemies.
Such posts are good to archive when you’re yammering about perceived threats to Western civilization.
March 17th, 2009 at 3:38 am
Everybody has to wear a little tonka toy bulldozer around their necks in her memory!
March 17th, 2009 at 4:10 am
oh you bad boy you :)
March 17th, 2009 at 4:48 am
When you lie down in the gutter, you get up covered with shit.
In a prior thread here, blogger “Sean” rhapsodized about Shaidle’s “courage”. He was referring to her attendance at the margins of a demonstration where people were, apparently, yelling. Then she went for a nice lunch.
So in the conservative playbook, that’s “courage” – and being crushed to death in a protest in a foreign country is subject for your cheapest mockery.
Very impressive, Jay.
March 17th, 2009 at 5:05 am
That’s disgusting.
March 17th, 2009 at 5:19 am
What an asshole you are!
March 17th, 2009 at 6:10 am
Jeezus, Jay. A dumb young kid was killed in a horrifically painful manner before she had a chance to grow up and become a productive adult. This is nothing to celebrate or make shitty jokes over. YOU’RE a parent. How would you feel if you lost one of your kids (no matter how) and had thousands of assholes around the world mocking the manner in which your child died?
Grow a frakkin’ brain.
March 17th, 2009 at 7:41 am
That’s funny using the pancake thing, Jay!
I suppose that may have had something to do with the 2006 Rachel Corrie Pancake Breakfast that went viral.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=19533_The_Rachel_Corrie_Pancake_Breakfast&only
The Rachel Corrie Memorial Committee of Victoria Invites you to a pancake breakfast at Denny’s Restaurant Sunday March 12 , 2006 10 am.
The Public is invited to a memorial pancake breakfast at Denny’s Restaurant on Douglas Street near Finlayson, 10 am, Sunday March 12, 2006 to celebrate the life and untimely death of Rachel Corrie, Peace Activist with the International Solidarity Movement.
There will be a reading of selections from Ms. Corrie’s letters and diary, followed by a ceremony at Topaz Park, where a stone cairn will be erected in her honour.
Attendees are encouraged to wear their keffiahs, and to dress in black.
No weapons, drugs, or alcohol please.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/
ISM offers many ways for you to get involved in the struggle for Palestinian freedom. Whether you’re thinking of traveling to Palestine to work with us, or you’d like to work to educate your community about the reality in Palestine, we welcome your involvement.
March 17th, 2009 at 8:42 am
Dawg, et al, lest we forget, Rachel Corrie was accidentally struck by a bulldozer as she attempted to block it from clearing bushes and earth away from a house which was a likely terminus point for an arms smuggling tunnel in a warzone. She was duped by the ISM - and NGO recognized as having an intimate relationship with Palestinian terrorists – into acting as a human shield. She was not simply a “demonstrator”; rather she was operating – or being used as – and unarmed combatant.
Sean, yes Corrie’s death was tragic but she died trying to protect the means by which Palestinian terrorists could bring in the munitions to kill Israelis. While I might, God forbid, be the parent of a hateful dimwit like Rachel, I am more likely to be the parent of an innocent kid walking along a street or going to a nightclub in Israel and at risk of being blown to pieces.
balbulican, there is nothing courageous about enabling terrorists in a foreign, or for that matter, your own country. Corrie was an idiot and has, of course, been sainted by the loony left for her idiocy. I will happily mock her and, more importantly, mock the sorts of people who can be so cheaply used by terrorists.
March 17th, 2009 at 8:50 am
‘I will happily mock her and, more importantly, mock the sorts of people who can be so cheaply used by terrorists.”
Yes, that’s quite clear. I just thought you set your bar a bit higher than some of the scum on your side of the fence. I was mistaken.
March 17th, 2009 at 9:08 am
Jay,
Her act WAS brave even if her motivations were horribly wrong and she was badly misinformed. There was a time when we honored the bravery of our foes, but apparently that time has passed. Read your Macbeth and recall the execution of the Thane of Cawdor:
“As one that had been studied in his death
To throw away the dearest thing he ow’d,
As ‘twere a careless trifle”
Now we make pancake jokes. Nice.
The more important point is that YOU, as a parent, should know better than this. If you truly can’t see the problem here, then kindly remove the link from your blog to my site and don’t ever contact me again. B’s right on this one. It’s your choice whether you want to splash around in the gutter, but I don’t have to be with you when you do it. Some lines just shouldn’t be crossed.
March 17th, 2009 at 9:16 am
She was a kid, Jay, a stupid kid.
To argue that she was wilfully being used by terrorists and their apologists is fair, as is pointing out that she was not a “demonstrator”, and that she died under avoidable circumstances in which she consciously involved herself.
But celebrating a dumb teenager’s horrible death in this vile fashion is just putrid, and serves no purpose. I would expect this sort of swill from Kinsella or BCL or some other deranged leftist.
March 17th, 2009 at 10:06 am
> Everybody has to wear a little tonka toy bulldozer
> around their necks in her memory!
This sort of thing makes me feel a lot less like defending you.
March 17th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Despicable fuckwad.
March 17th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
I want to amend my earlier comment, Jay. You’re not an asshole. You’re a prick. An asshole could claim ignorance of the circumstances surrounding Corrie’s death. You can’t. Kill accidentally? I presume you’ve seen the documentary evidence Jay? How the f—k do you accidentally run over a woman, wearing bright clothing, standing in front of you, twice?
Listen, if you’re committed to these notions, then why not publish, today, the evidence that corroborates your contentions about Corrie’s motivation? Or are you just a mouthpiece?
In any case, you are other arseholes like Shaidle are so clearly in love with any attention that you’ve lost any sense of shame at all. Where the fuck is a bulldozer when we really need one?
March 17th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
“Some lines just shouldn’t be crossed.”
Thanks, Sean. You couldn’t have said it more succinctly.
Jay, in this blogging game, we sometimes put ourselves in rhetorical positions that are hard to back down from. I am new to your blog, but you seem like a smart and basically decent guy. This stance is just plain wrong. I sincerely hope you come to see that.
March 17th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
“And you seriously wonder why I have always sensed a connection between you folks and the rather more direct conservatives-in-a-hurry like the Northern Hammerskins and the Aryan Nations?”
The Northern Hammerskins? I think I saw them play at a bar in Hamilton back in the day. Wicked guitar riffs, as I recall.
March 17th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
“A dumb young kid was killed in a horrifically painful manner before she had a chance to grow up and become a productive adult.”
Says it all
“Her act WAS brave even if her motivations were horribly wrong and she was badly misinformed.”
It was not bravery. Bravery would have been her clambering onto the dozer blade and throwing a flower (or Molotov) at the operator.
It was stupidity to put herself between 107,550 lbs of machinery and anything.
“She was a kid, Jay, a stupid kid”
An absolutely unnecessary and manipulated death. Both before and after the fact.
So who is doing the memoralizing? Her parents, in their own quiet way, with friends and family or the organization that manouvered this “badly misinformed”, “stupid kid”, “A dumb young kid” into a life threatening position?
“and had thousands of assholes around the world mocking the manner in which your child died?”
No, we are not mocking the manner in which she died.
We are mocking the enablers who did not protect her, wilfully sacrificed her for their cause and now have the gall to use her memory to further the same cause.
To wit:
“ISM offers many ways for you to get involved in the struggle for Palestinian freedom. Whether you’re thinking of traveling to Palestine to work with us, or you’d like to work to educate your community about the reality in Palestine, we welcome your involvement.”
March 17th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
I’ll defend Jay. No qualms about it. I remember the idiot kindred spirits who showed up in Iraq on the eve of the war with the intent of being human shields, so convinced they were that the Americans were going to bomb civilian targets. Poor useful idiots got told by Saddam Hussein that he wanted them to guard militarily strategic installations instead. Rachael Corey was a fool. She put herself in the middle of a conflict that has been going on for over sixty years thinking somehow she could stop it by acting as a human shield. History is littered with useful idiots, but these types take the cake.
March 17th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Oh Jay, Jay, Jay
You should know by now that mocking and joking about the dear sainted Rachel and her national day of mourning is going to be perceived by her enablers as… well…...
FLAT
Not to worry though, the irony is so delicous that you just have to request syrup and bacon with that….
PANCAKE
The Dawg can ease his pain with eggs sunny side up!
March 17th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
I do enjoy…..her death. —-Cameron
Worth remembering and publicizing.
March 17th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
What happened to Rachael Corrie was a true crime and she suffered a horrible death.
If you want to defend Israel, that is one thing, but this stuff about Rachael Corrie and pancake breakfasts is “disturbing” (to borrow a quote from the Human Rights Tribunal about Richard Warman’s postings)
But considering your twisted attitudes and support of lethal violence against an unarmed protester, no wonder some of you types are getting paid trips to Israel. You’ll fit right in over there.
March 18th, 2009 at 4:44 am
Right you are: Rachael’s death was a tragedy. We all would hate to see our children growing up to be manipulated dimwits like her. Though Jay’s point about having one’s child blown up by the people she was defending is valid, too.
What all you who are lambasting Jay are missing is that Rachael has been made a symbol, and that symbol is more than worth mocking.
March 18th, 2009 at 9:23 am
Here’s an invitation to my breakfast to honour Corrie and others in her category.
Menu: Free range eggs and fried bush meat.
March 18th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Johnny, you can start here. (And sorry about the half day delay, I was away.)
March 18th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
A symbol of an indoctornated leftarded radical, if she is what the anti-semites opps so sorry the “Pro-Hamas” crowd rally behind no wonder they’ve been exposed as hatefilled bigots. The self same people who are on a witch hunt for the MP for science taking the highroad whilst crawling around in ditches.
The left’s hypocrisy is limitless. Whilst they iron their white hoods to persecute a christian MP they call Jay names. Jesus wept stuck on stupid doens’t begin to describe you people.
While I’m venting where are the self same voices that are condemning Jay when Hamas butchers the people of Palestine? Yea that’s right the only dead Muslim worth lamenting on is one that is killed by the JOOS.
March 18th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Teenager? Are my facts wrong? I’d read that she was 23. If thats the case, no sympathy. By that age I was married,gotten my degree,bought a house, and was pregnant with my second child. 23 is too old to be considered a child.
March 18th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
JustAnotherWesterner:
> It was not bravery. Bravery would have been
> her clambering onto the dozer blade and throwing
> a flower (or Molotov) at the operator.
I’d argue that placing yourself in a position where you can be hurt or even die while upholding your beliefs, no matter how wrong, counts as bravery. So I’d say that Kathy Shaidle was brave to attend the tiny pro-Israel rally in TO. I’d say that Tank Man was brave for facing down the tanks in Tiananmen Square in China, even if he didn’t throw any flowers or Molotov cocktails. And I’d call Rachel Corrie brave, too.
I don’t see a conflict between honoring her bravery while heaping scorn on her views, her politics, and her anti-Semitism.
Marc Lemire:
> But considering your twisted attitudes
> and support of lethal violence against
> an unarmed protester, no wonder some of
> you types are getting paid trips to
> Israel. You’ll fit right in over there.
Oh, gross. It figures you would be attracted to a conversation like this. Now I’m going to have to dunk my laptop in bleach to get rid of the cooties. While I hope you win your constitutional challenge as a matter of principle, yours is not a hand I would shake. Ever.
Jay, please de-link me. I’m deadly serious when I say I’m highly offended by your comments and that I don’t wish to be associated with you if you stand by them. Shooting the enemy dead in the course of battle is acceptable, but a moral person doesn’t countenance the desecration of a corpse.
March 19th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
I stand by them…
The campaign to sanctify Rachel Corrie needs to be mocked, ridiculed and targeted as the obscene exploitation of an obviously weak minded individual that it is.
Sean, by your logic Bill Maher’s disgusting comment that “Say what you like about the 9/11 terrorists, they weren’t cowards.” makes perfect sense. Bravery in pursuit of the indefensible is contemptible not admirable. That unthinking, romantic bravery was precisely the sort of pig stupidity that the ISM exists to exploit. The death of Rachel Corrie needs to be remembered for what it was – the slaughter of an idiot for propaganda purposes.
Had Rachel Corrie taken a few minutes to find out what was being smuggled through the tunnels she was told to protect she would have know that arms formed part of the cargo. If she had continued to stand in front of the D9 with that knowledge she would have been a combatant and thus a legitimate target.
Did she know? I cannot say. But the ISM certainly knew.
The ISM has, for years, worked to turn Rachel Corrie into a martyr. They wave the bloody shirt as a commentor at Kate’s puts it. It is a time honoured tactic of the left and one which I am not prepared to allow to go unchallenged.
Was Rachel Corrie brave or so feckless she did not know the D9 had a massive blindspot? Was she witting as to the arms tunnels or did some cynical bastard tell her these were the houses of simple oppressed Palestinians targeted by the ZionNazis?
Should the ISM profit from her death? Never. And to that end I will continue to celebrate Pancake Day until the ISM stops promoting this poor, stupid, woman’s death as martyrdom.
You’re delinked.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
I would put the blame for this young ladies death squarely on the left-wing radical professors her parents exposed her to at Indoctrination U.
Her radical end began here.
March 19th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Sean;
bravery
noun
1. a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear [syn: courage] [ant: cowardice]
2. feeling no fear [syn: fearlessness] [ant: fear]
As her co-idiot proclaimed to the world “We expected him to stop. They had always stopped before.”
Whether the cat operator saw her or not, nobody knows for sure except him.
She fully expected to divert the machine. This was not a woman bravely facing a machine, this was a woman knowing the machine operator could not go through her. She thought she was safe. No bravery required.
It was either intentional murder on the operator’s part or an accident. Either way Rachel Corrie is no Tiannamen hero. She was not brave, she knew IDF had orders and all you had to do was stand in front of them.
As a person who has worked around heavy equipment, overhead cranes, mobile cranes, cons’t cranes, forklifts, etc, I do not even approach until I have made eye contact with the operator or the guy controlling him ( via radio).
If I was so stupid as to pull up beside the crane without contact and the crane swung around and dropped 5 tons on my truck I would be dead but not brave.
And I’ll wager dollars to doughnuts, if somebody had asked Ms Corrie, as she lay ther gasping and bleeding, whether she was prepared to give her life for the “cause”, well what do you think her answer would have been?
She was not brave. It was either a fatal accident or it was intentional. Do you think she stood there with her arms outstretched yelling “Come and get me ya bastards”
Not from the reports I’ve read. She slipped and lost her footing.
End of story, really
March 19th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Damn! Jay!
I meant to ask you, who’s the bright one who thought up Pancake Day?
Uh, like, is that the best people can come up with for a girl who supposedly got run over by a D9 Cat? I mean, like , uh, flat iron pancake day? Is this the left’s twisted sense of humour? I mean, uh, look , like, uh, she’s flat as a pancake!
Pancake Day!
March 19th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
JAW, oddly enough, the Pancake meme was, indeed, albeit inadvertently, started by the left in my very own city: Hugh above has the details http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/pancake-day/#comment-79591
March 20th, 2009 at 7:02 am
Yeah, Iknow. Do you think they have figured out the irony yet? Like most leftard ideas, not very well thought out.
June 28th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Hey, nice work! Hamas + Fatah are very grateful for wingnuts like you. More please – cheaper than rockets, more damage than a sniper.
July 14th, 2009 at 7:53 am
“A kid” she wasn’t. She was a 23 y.o. woman who was smothered, overprotected, and never WAS going to grow up. She had no skills, no direction and couldn’t even finish a lame BA program at a non-grading college. She was a drifter, stuck in an upscale liberal and very anti Israel and anti Semite home town where everything came easy and now she had to face the real world. But because she was rich, blonde and spouted her radical professors notions she was considered a journalist for flying to a war zone, sitting up all night, smoking and writing from the internet cafe. She was in fact a cultural tourist and a very stupid person. In her “diaries” (as edited by her mother who has a lot invested in recasting her depressive suicidal kid as the world savior out of her own sacred Boomer womb) she admits she knew nothing about Gaza, nothing about its history. She was full of rich white american self-loathing. She got a Jew to do the dirty work of her suicide.
August 10th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
She was another one for a Darwin award, no doubt. What a dumbass. What happened to her was criminal and those responsible should be brought to justice. She was deliberately set up to be sacrificed by the people she represented. I hope the bulldozer driver was compensated for his pain and suffering for having been made a pawn in this grotesque PR maneuver orchestrated by the palestinian terrorists.