IHNJ, IJLS . . .
Feb. 13th, 2004 10:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
doc_strange"The rabbi also said that if the police do not use pig fat in buses, tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews will arm themselves with spray guns filled with liquid lard, which they will spray on terrorists whenever the need arises."
Oh. Kay.
http://www.maarivintl.com/dev/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&xCache=%7Bts%20%272004%2D02%2D14%2005%3A59%3A22%27%7D&articleID=2833
NO, really.
I had not thought things were desperate enough that the ridiculous had become reasonable.
Either:
1) Maariv got owned/bamboozled/scammed, or
2) A fringe piece has been reported as mainstream, or
3) Papal[1] -- er, Rabbinical -- dispensation goes a loooong way.
Dang. It reminds me of the "Israeli army coats rubber bullets with pork" disinformaton campaign from a few years ago. But... it's reported in mainstream Israeli press. Desperation or farce?
[1] Papal, not Paypal, you geek, you.
Oh. Kay.
http://www.maarivintl.com/dev/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&xCache=%7Bts%20%272004%2D02%2D14%2005%3A59%3A22%27%7D&articleID=2833
NO, really.
I had not thought things were desperate enough that the ridiculous had become reasonable.
Either:
1) Maariv got owned/bamboozled/scammed, or
2) A fringe piece has been reported as mainstream, or
3) Papal[1] -- er, Rabbinical -- dispensation goes a loooong way.
Dang. It reminds me of the "Israeli army coats rubber bullets with pork" disinformaton campaign from a few years ago. But... it's reported in mainstream Israeli press. Desperation or farce?
[1] Papal, not Paypal, you geek, you.
