https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB-7734p-EI

Israel’s Ministry of Immigrant Absorption — which by wacky coincidence is the title of our next horror movie — is running ads and billboards in five American cities, targeting Israeli expat communities at risk of going native. We’d translate, but why spoil the fun?

Netanyahu Government Suggests Israelis Avoid Marrying American Jews [Atlantic, via Sully]

“Bachmann tells Waverly IA crowd that were she president, ‘we wouldn’t have an American embassy in Iran.’ The US broke ties w Iran in 1980.” [@JamieNBCNews]

WaPo columnist Ruth Marcus has stern words for Kansas hero Emma Sullivan:

Emma Sullivan, you’re lucky you’re not my daughter. (Dangerous sentence, I know: My daughters might agree.)

If you were my daughter, you’d be writing that letter apologizing to Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback for the smart­alecky, potty-mouthed tweet you wrote after meeting with him on a school field trip.

We would have told Brownback to eat penguin shit, you ass spelunker, but that’s just us.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqm_vNS-HX0

Like the rest of the country I’ve been glued to the TV for the Republican debates. And as debators go I’d have to give them all high marks. Full disclosure: I’m a bit of a masterdebator myself but I can’t hold a jar of lube to these people.

There can only be one true masterdebator, however. One who towers above the others. One who will say anything, do anything, to score. We’re not in the business of picking number two. And so that we don’t have to think, Media Training has done it for us.

Our guest columnist is Conservatives4Palin, which raised $6,500 to broadcast this ad in Iowa today. (The production cost was presumably a pizza for an organizer’s nephew.) If we were cruel, we would point out that while the Iowa caucuses welcome walk-ins, filing deadlines have already passed for New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida, and Missouri. But we’re above that sort of thing.

Your contributions have made it possible for us to run the Palin reconsider television ad next week in the Sioux City, Iowa market. Thanks to everyone who chipped in to make it possible.

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Proving yet again the truth of the comment often attributed to Molly Ivins that “Perry is Shrub without the gravitas or intelligence,” and/or that there’s no age limit on stupidity, at a town hall meeting Tuesday at a New Hampshire college, Gov. Good Hair asked all the college students who will turn 21 by 11/12/12 to vote for him.

In his defense, it’s only been 40 years since the 26th Amendment was adopted.  Oh shit, more numbers!

[WaPo]

With the rise of mean temperature world-wide some areas will be warmer than others. Texas, say. Or Florida. Where it will soon not only be boring to play football but downright dangerous.

I’m told that the person on the right is a pro footballer. I’m wondering if he escorts.

A reason to care about climate change.