Read it.

The Jewish National Fund (JNF) was established with the hope to help the birth of the State of Israel. JNF plants trees for forest development in Israel, creates parks, battles forest fires, is responsible for soil conservation, pioneers innovative solutions to help Israel’s water supply, among other notable work.

The “Stop the JNF Campaign” alleges that the Jewish National Fund “was instrumental in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the 1948 Nakba, and continues to play a central role in maintaining Israel’s regime of apartheid.” It calls for the revocation of JNF’s charity and to isolate the group by breaking all ties with it.

Despite its shrill and nonsensical premise, the “Stop the JNF Campaign” has garnered support from organizations across the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries around the world. It also has spread to American and Canadian college campuses.

Read it.

The head of the South African Medical Association has called for the return of the death penalty after one of the country’s senior dermatologists was gunned down by carjackers in the capital Pretoria.

South Africans are lucky they no longer suffer under the boot of the racist white former regime.

Thank God for the U.N. and the international community, or who knows what kind of hell they would be living in now.

An Informative Chart.

Read it.

Not that you care, you swine.

Read it.

Perhaps they’ll be beheaded by Islamophobes.  Oh, wait….

Read it.

Back home, Z and N saw their siblings dragged outside, shot in broad daylight, and buried at night without a funeral—so that their family could continue to live with ‘honour’ in the village and amid the clan.

Now in Karachi, the couple hides in a one-room house in a wholly unfamiliar neighbourhood. They fear a similar fate.

“My family declared us karo kari just because I married of my own choice,” said 23-year-old Z, bursting into tears. “We have come to Karachi for protection.”

Reminder for the dimwitted: Islam is an oppressive totalitarian ideology under the guise of a religion, with which no co-existence is possible.

Read it.

Spirit Airlines is so annoyed at a costly new Department of Transportation regulation that it has slapped a $2 fee on passengers and called it the DOTUC fee, for “Department of Transportation Unintended Consequences.” A Reuters dispatch and a Spirit airlines press release have details.

Read it.

Foolish mortal.

Read it.

The 9am to 3.30pm day, with six-week summer holidays, is not only no longer relevant to our lives, but also puts significant and unnecessary strain on teachers, parents and children.

Read it.

And when they execute him,  these defective genes will be expunged from the pool.

Think of it as evolution in action.

Read it.

Unsurprisingly, protectionism would raise the cost of solar in the U.S., causing job losses. According to a new report by the Brattle Group, tariffs could eliminate upwards of 50,000 jobs. Depending on the size of the tariff (the Brattle Group examined the effects of 50 and 100 percent tariffs), costs for solar consumers would increase anywhere from $621 million to $2.6 billion over the next three years. In addition, if China retaliates by imposing its own tariffs on American solar products, another 11,000 net jobs could be lost.

So to recap: Green jobs destroy other jobs. And now the Obama administration may destroy green jobs.

Hey, we’re from the government, and we’re here to help. Really.

Read it.

Imagine that.

Read it.

Well, what else would you use a crab robot for? Seriously?

Read it.

1. Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
2. Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. Probably in San Francisco.

Read it.

With only about 50m left to drill, time is running out for the Russian scientists hoping to drill into Vostok – the world’s most enigmatic lake.

Read it.

“Our results suggest a potential association between daily diet soft drink consumption and vascular outcomes,” says Hannah Gardener of the Miami Uni medical school.

The peril associated with daily downing of mock-pop was revealed in a study encompassing some 2,564 subjects selected from a “multi-ethnic urban population” in Manhattan.

Hah! I knew it all along.

Read it.

Almost 1000 costumed ”guizers”, wearing winged helmets, sheepskins and carrying axes and shields, march through the streets of the town to recreate its ancient past.

Read it.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Repeat this three times: India is our friend, Pakistan is our enemy.

Read it.

It’s good to know that in this age of immediate and easy customer feedback that there are still companies that steadfastly refuse to listen to the people who have to use their products. Case in point: Microsoft.

Microsoft is a poster child for the programming approach ‘what programmers want is what ordinary customers want’.

If you haven’t been following this saga, Microsoft revealed a while back that the Ribbon found in Micosoft Office and other MS programs like WordPad and Paint is now coming to Windows Explorer as well. Did you need those extra pixels at the top of the screen? Too bad for you.

Buy a bigger monitor, you hoser. Get with the new millennium.

“Our view is that we do need to move the user interface forward and accept that a vocal set of customers are just not happy with the direction we’re going.”

I have never wanted to switch to Mac so badly in my life.

Buwah-hah-hah! Come to the appliance side, young Skywalker.

“We remind folks that there are third-party tools available… that provide a number of different interface paradigms. We do embrace the notion that third-party tools play an important part in the Windows experience.”

Yes, they do, because you keep making stupid decisions.

Sort of the way disinfectant plays a part in the medical experience.

Read it.

Muslim teenager Shamima Akhtar was kidnapped, imprisoned and had her hair cut off after her family saw her kiss a white man on her 18th birthday, a court has heard.

Will the Islamophobia never cease?

The car was driven back to the family home in Basingstoke, Hants, where it’s alleged she was dragged onto the sofa, called a whore and a prostitute and then had her waist-length hair cut to her neck by her two older sisters.

The jury heard how Shamima was punched by her sister Nadiya and overheard her brother on the phone, saying “Get the gun, I need the boys tonight.”

Read it.

The Pentagon doesn’t know what happened to more than $100 million in cash held at Saddam Hussein’s palace in Baghdad during the Iraq war, according to a new report by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.

What’s more, the Pentagon can’t find documents to explain what it spent as much as $1.7 billion on from funds held on behalf of the Iraqi government by the New York Federal Reserve, the report says.

Yeah, I really want the government in charge of our health care. Think of the efficiency! Think of the savings! Think of how much better everything will be!

Read it.

There are reports that CIT will again stop giving loans to suppliers of Sears and if true, it could deliver a death blow to the retailer.

God, I hope so. They went from being America’s store to crap decades ago.