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Corrections Department #5: Two Cop Shows and One Missing Producer
September 22, 2010
The pilot of Hawk produced itself. At least, that's what you'd think if you read the screen credits closely, and believed what you read. They list an executive producer (Hubbell Robinson), a production consultant (Renee Valente), and a production supervisor (Hal Schaffel). But no producer. Maybe that's all you need to create a pilot; if the show sells, then you can find someone to put the show together every week. That's what I thought, when I first transcribed those credits. But I was wrong.
Recently, I pulled the string on that missing producer credit. What unraveled was a story, in microcosm, of the corporatization of the television industry during the mid-sixties. Of how the last holdouts of the rough-and-tumble, just-do-it veterans of New York live television succumbed to the studio politics that emanated from the West Coast.
Let's back up a minute. Maybe you've never heard of Hawk. If you weren't around during the last seventeen weeks of 1966, or if you haven't spend any of the years since surfing local New York-area reruns during the late-night hours, that's understandable.
Hawk was a cop show that debuted on ABC on September 8, 1966. It had a simple premise. John Hawk (Burt Reynolds) was a tough young plainclothes detective who caught killers, thieves, and other felons. There were two gimmicks. One, Hawk was a full-blooded Native American. Two, he worked the night shift. Hawk never saw daylight, and neither did the viewer.
Let's look again at the credits of the Hawk pilot, which was titled "Do Not Spindle or Mutilate." Hubbell Robinson was one of television's most respected independent producers, a former CBS executive whose championing of Playhouse 90 (which he created) and other quality television had damned him as, perhaps, too cerebral for the mainstream. The writer was Allan Sloane, a recent Emmy nominee for an episode of Breaking Point. Sam Wanamaker, who had spent his years on the blacklist as a distinguished Shakespearean actor in England, directed. Kenyon Hopkins, composer of East Side / West Side's brilliant, Emmy-nominated jazz score, wrote the music, and The Monkees impresario Don Kirshner is in there as a "music consultant," whatever that means. Oh, and the guest villain, the guy who bundles up a bomb in a brown paper wrapper before the opening titles? Gene Hackman.
And what about that missing name? He had some Emmys on his shelf, too. The producer of "Do Not Spindle or Mutilate," the one who's not mentioned in any reference books or internet sites, was Bob Markell, fresh off a stint producing all four seasons of The Defenders. The Defenders won multiple Emmy Awards every year it was on the air, including the statue for Best Drama (which Markell took home) during the first two seasons. Hawk was only Markell's second job following The Defenders. So why was his name expunged?
"There are a lot of well-kept secrets about me," said Markell in an interview last month.
It was Hubbell Robinson who hired Markell for Hawk (which may have originally been titled The Hawk). Markell had just produced a terrific one-off John D. MacDonald adaptation called "The Trap of Solid Gold" for Robinson. Ironically, "The Trap of Solid Gold" did not air on ABC Stage 67 until seven days after Hawk left the network's schedule for good.
"Do Not Spindle or Mutilate" was already written by the time Markell came on, but the new producer liked Allan Sloane and his script. Markell hired Sam Wanamaker, who had guest starred on The Defenders every year and directed one of the final episodes. Markell wanted David Carradine to play John Hawk, but Carradine was already committed to Shane, a TV adaptation of the famous western that would, also ironically, depart from ABC's schedule two days after the final broadcast of Hawk. It was a tough time for the old New York guard: the producers of Shane were Herbert Brodkin and David Shaw, respectively Markell's old boss and story editor on The Defenders. Burt Reynolds was the second choice for the starring role. He came to the show via Renee Valente, a close friend who would work with Reynolds as a producer, on and off, for the next thirty years.
For the production crew, Markell reteamed almost the entire below-the-line staff from his old show. J. Burgi Contner, the director of photography; Arline Garson, the editor; Ben Kasazkow, the art director; future director Nick Sgarro, the script supervisor; Al Gramaglia, the sound editor: all came over from The Defenders. Markell and Alixe Gordin, the casting director, had used Gene Hackman more than once on The Defenders, and elevated him to a leading role for "Do Not Spindle."
The physical production was difficult. Nighttime exteriors were extensive. "We didn't have the budget to even get any lights to put up at night, and I still had to do the show," said Markell.
Then came the real problems.
"We finished it and I thought we had done a super pilot. I really did," said Markell,
and I delivered it to Hubbell. I got this call, and Hubbell said, "You've got to get on a plane. We're taking the movie to Los Angeles."
I said, "Why?"
"I can't tell you," he said. It was a big secret.
Allan Sloane asked, "Why are you going out there?"
I said, "Because they asked me to."
When we landed, we were all going to the Beverly Hills Hotel, and Hubbell turned to me and he said, "Where's the film?"
I said, "I gave it to Renee."
He said, "You shouldn't have given it to her. She's now going to bring it to Jackie Cooper." And then the politics began, you know.
At the time, Jackie Cooper – the former child actor and adult TV star – was the head of Screen Gems, the television unit of Columbia Pictures. It was Columbia that backed the Hawk pilot. Up to this point, Robinson had shielded Markell from studio interference. That was about to change.
On his second day in Los Angeles, Markell learned the reason for his secret visit:
They brought me to this black building with no name on it or anything. I said, "Why are we here?" I discovered it was for testing purposes. That was one of the first shows that were tested before an audience. This was highly secret. Nobody knew about these things.
They'd invite people from the street. The audience had these little buttons: yes, no, yes, no. Then they'd subsequently invite maybe eight or nine people to sit around a table. We'd be at a two-way mirror, and we'd listen to them discuss what they liked or didn't like about the movie.
I sat with the guys with the dials, and I thought they might have a sense of humor, and I said, "You know, why don't you take their pulse, and maybe their perspiration rate and things like that also to find out how they're reacting?"
And they said to me, "We're working on it."
Joking aside, Markell felt that violence was being done to his work:
I was furious. I mean, I was really indignant. I was under the impression that the artist – and we considered ourselves artists – showed the public a new way to look at things, a new way to see things, a new way to hear things. We didn't want their opinion, we wanted our own. We were the creative people. And I still believe that, by the way.
Markell called New York and reported this latest development to Allan Sloane. Sloane had been a worrier during production, calling Markell all the time to ask whether his intentions were being realized on the set. As Markell described it:
Allan and I would sit, and I would agree with [him], because I loved writers: "Yeah, don't worry about it, they're doing it the way you would like them to do it." I was kind of consoling him. Actually, often I didn't tell him the truth, but that was all right.
With Screen Gems now threatening to tamper with the pilot, Markell had to calm his writer down all over again:
Allan Sloane was hysterical. He was in New York, and he said, "I'm going to blow it. I'm going to blow this story. I'm going to tell Jack Gould [the powerful New York Times television columnist]."
I said, "Allan, wait, see what happens."
We came back the next morning. Jackie Cooper – I swear to you this is a true story – rolled out what was the equivalent of a cardiogram of the show. Horizontal line, up, down, up, down, up, down. He said, "Now, look at it. If we can get rid of those downs, we're going to have a great show!"
I said to him, "If you get rid of the downs, you don't have any ups. You're going to have just a straight line. You're not going to have ups without downs."
And as another joke, I said, "How did the credits do?"
"Oh, no, don't touch those. Those were great."
Markell had had enough:
We had booked a flight for that afternoon. I turned to Hubbell and I said, "I've got to make that plane, Hubbell. My wife, the kids, I've got young children. I've got to leave. I'm sorry to leave this meeting, but I'm going." And I left the meeting.
Renee ran after me and says, "You're killing your career."
I said, "Renee, I can't handle this. I cannot be a part of this."
I mean, if I'm going to have to sit and listen to what some guy off the street thinks, and then have to defend myself . . . . So I went home.
Allan Sloane could not contain himself. "Allan called Jack Gould, and Jack Gould had a huge thing about how we were secretly testing all of these shows, and it's no longer the artist's creative thing," said Markell. "Everybody was furious because Allan blew the story."
Back in New York, Markell realized that he had no one in his corner. Renee Valente sided with power. Allan Sloane, like all writers, had no power. (He retained a "created by" credit on Hawk, although after his tip to the press he was not invited back to write other scripts for the series). On The Defenders Markell had both broken the blacklist for Sam Wanamaker, and given him his first shot at directing American television. "But I suddenly found I didn't have a friend in Sam," Markell revealed. "I have no reason why, but he was not about to do a show with me producing it. I was a fan of his, but there was a certain hostility."
And at the top there was Hubbell Robinson. "Hubbell was getting older, and not as tough as he used to be," Markell said. He wasn't really surprised by what happened next:
I came back to New York and discovered that the show was picked up. And I was walking down 57th Street one day and Paul Bogart passed me. Paul said to me, "I'm producing the show."
I said, "Oh. Obviously, I'm not."
Paul said, "You know, I really had nothing to do with it." Because we were also very close friends. There was a good spirit among the New York people. Paul said, "Is there anything I can do?"
I said, "How about you hiring me to direct them, then?" I didn't really mean it, because I never really wanted to direct. And so the show started.
When "Do Not Spindle or Mutilate" was broadcast on September 19 as the debut episode of Hawk, Screen Gems had removed Markell's name from it. Markell was not aware of that fact until I told him of it last month. "It's too late to get angry," he mused.
Bogart was a surprising choice to produce Hawk. At the time he was one of television's most sought-after directors, another Emmy winner for The Defenders, but he had produced next to nothing. It's possible Bogart was a political pawn, set up to fail. Renee Valente brought him in; still just a "production consultant," she was technically hiring her boss.
Immediately, Bogart found himself right in the middle of the power struggle between Cooper and Robinson:
The producer was Jackie Cooper, and the top producer was Hubbell Robinson. Hubbell was a very distinguished old-timer. I met Jackie for lunch one day at the Oak Room at the Plaza. We were going to talk about the show, and he sat down and he said to me, "We don't need Hubbell, do we?"
I didn't know what to say to that. He got rid of Hubbell Robinson, just got rid of him. There was something really nasty going on there. I never knew all the facts.
Bogart enjoyed his new job at first. "It was fun, because it was a nighttime shoot," he recalled. "I had an office on Fifth Avenue, at Columbia Studios, right across the street from some jewelry place that was wonderful to look at." But he clashed with Burt Reynolds, and with his bosses at Screen Gems. Bogart initiated a story idea he liked, a "Maltese Falcon script" that pitted Hawk against a femme fatale character modeled on Brigid O'Shaughnessy (Mary Astor in the film). The executives didn't like it. Then he approved a scene containing a strong implication that Hawk and the villainess (Ann Williams) had slept together. The executives really didn't like that. Bogart wasn't surprised that his head was the next to roll.
"They fired me eventually," Bogart said. "I knew it was going to happen, but I didn't want to just leave because I thought I would have some money coming if I just sat there until they made me go. I don't think I got anything from them, but eventually I left."
Bogart received a producer credit on exactly half of the Hawk segments made after the pilot. The remaining eight, like "Do Not Spindle or Mutilate," do not list a producer on-screen. It is possible that Cooper and Valente produced the final episodes themselves. By then Hawk had acquired a story editor (Earl Booth), an associate producer (Kenneth Utt), and a "production executive" (a Screen Gems man named Stan Schwimmer), so maybe at that point it really could produce itself.
(Although his name does not appear in the credits of any episode, some internet sources list William Sackheim as a producer of Hawk. This contention is within the realm of possibility, since Sackheim was producing sitcoms for Screen Gems at the time, but I can find no evidence to support it. According to Markell, Sackheim had nothing to do with the pilot for Hawk up to the point of Markell's departure.)
At the same time Paul Bogart was falling out with the top brass at Screen Gems, Bob Markell landed his next gig:
Now come along David Susskind and Danny Melnick. They say, "We're doing a show called N.Y.P.D., and we'd like you to produce it." I said, "Okay." This was simultaneously while the other show was shooting.
This time, Markell was the replacement. ABC had sent back the original hour-long pilot for N.Y.P.D., written by Arnold Perl and directed by Bernard L. Kowalski, for retooling. Everyone was out except for a few of the original cast. Kowalski told me that Robert Hooks and Frank Converse were the holdovers, with Jack Warden (as their lieutenant) coming in to replace a third young detective, played by Robert Viharo. Markell remembered it differently:
Danny said to me, "I want you to do a trailer for the new series, and we'll probably get on the air." I went to look at the pilot, and discovered that most of the people in the pilot weren't in the show. Bobby Hooks wasn't in the show, Frank Converse wasn't in the show. I had to make a trailer around Jack Warden and do whatever I could.
Markell's highlight reel sold the stripped-down N.Y.P.D. pilot to the network. Superficially, the new show was similar to Hawk. Both spilled out into the streets of Manhattan, updating the grimy, teeming urban imagery of Naked City and East Side / West Side with a burst of color. But Hawk courted a film noir sensibility – John Hawk was the lone wolf, hunting at night – and N.Y.P.D. was about the institution, the process. It followed three detectives of varying seniority as they plowed methodically through the drudgery of police work: legwork, surveillance, interrogation.
Markell was working for another tough boss, but loved his new cop show as much as the old one:
I loved doing N.Y.P.D. I was allowed to do all kinds of experimentation. We shot it in sixteen-millimeter, which nobody else ever did. When I went to ABC to ask permission to shoot it in sixteen, it was like James Bond going to the CIA. They said, "If you get caught, we don't know you. But go ahead."
David Susskind would sometimes, rightly, say, "This is a terrible [episode]. You guys, you Emmy winners, you Defenders guys, this is an awful show." And he was right, most – some – of the time. He was a tough judge of the shows, and he kind of whipped us into shape, because we all sometimes had a tendency to get a little lazy. You know: "let's get the shot."
Every three days, or three and a half days, we shot a new show. The scripts would keep coming in. Did Eddie Adler ever tell you the story of how he stood in the middle of the road here on Long Island, and I went by and got his half of the script while Al Ruben wrote the other half of the script? It was like a spy drop. Eddie was standing in the road with an envelope. I would pick it up and I would go into the city.
But anyway, to finish the story about N.Y.P.D. N.Y.P.D. was picked up, and Hawk was dropped. And I was put into that timeslot. Which is my revenge.
That's not quite accurate: Hawk ran on Thursdays at 10PM, N.Y.P.D. on Tuesdays at 9:30. But it seems likely that ABC had only one "slot" for a stylish Manhattan police drama on its schedule, and that N.Y.P.D.'s pickup had been contingent upon Hawk's cancellation. And the network probably told Markell as much.
Sometime during the production of N.Y.P.D., Markell added,
I went to the theatre one night to see another version of The Front Page. I was sitting at one end of the aisle, and there was Burt Reynolds at the other end of the aisle. Now, I hadn't worked with Burt except for the pilot, and we got along really great. Somebody passed his program along to me. I have it upstairs someplace. Written on the program was, "If you ever need to do a show about an Indian at night, please call me. I'm available." That was really very sweet. I felt good about that. But we did replace Hawk, and lasted two years.
And this time, Markell got his credit.
Thanks to Bob Markell (interviewed in July 2010), Paul Bogart (interviewed in February 2009), and the late Bernard L. Kowalski (interviewed in January 2006).
7 Responses to "Corrections Department #5: Two Cop Shows and One Missing Producer"
September 22, 2010 at 4:32 pm
Boy, Jackie Cooper doesn't come off well here at all. I guess when you threaten to shoot someone's dog it has a tendency to turn the guy into a prick.
September 25, 2010 at 10:45 am
Stephen, Thanks for the info from Mr. Markell. He produced two of my favorites: The Defenders and N.Y.P.D.. Perhaps you'll share some more of Mr. Markell's anecdotes about both shows in the future? Re: Mr. Cooper, his autobiography was quite an interesting read. No dispassionate remembrance, for sure.
September 25, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Not sure if this is relevant to this post, but I believe Cooper was the only Hollywood director to testify against John Landis in his TWILIGHT ZONE trial.
September 27, 2010 at 4:48 pm
At least Cooper ended up a lot better than most of his Our Gang comrades in that he was able to find work in front of and behind the camera.
October 9, 2010 at 2:29 am
Don Kirshner got screen credit as "Music Consultant" on various Screen Gems series during 1966-'67 because he sold his music publishing firm, Aldon Music (his partner was Al Nevins, one of the original "Three Suns") to Screen Gems/Columbia in early '66. Then, he produced the music tracks for Screen Gems' "THE MONKEES", also released on {what else?} Colgems records. So he had VERY little to do with "HAWK".
August 14, 2019 at 4:08 am
At least Cooper ended up a lot better


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NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is already bracing for an unprecedented one-year mission aboard the International Space Station. He figures it will be as grueling as climbing Mount Everest.
"It's fun when you're done with it, not while you're doing it," Kelly said Wednesday, barely a week after being named to the marathon flight along with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko.
The mission, set to begin in 2015, is intended as a medical test bed for even longer Mars expeditions in the decades ahead.
Space station life can be routine, Kelly noted during a news conference.
"In the morning, you wake up, you're at work. When you go to sleep, you're also at work. So imagine being in your office for a whole year and you never get to leave," he said. "That is a challenge and it presents its own set of issues, but I think I'm up for it."
As for being off the planet for that long, Kelly said he already knows how he reacts to horrific news while in orbit.
During his five-month space station mission that spanned 2010 and 2011, his sister-in-law, former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, was shot in an assassination attempt in Tucson, Ariz. She is married to Kelly's identical twin, Mark, who retired as a NASA astronaut last year.
"Certainly, nothing good comes out of anything like this. But as a result, I do know how I respond to something along those lines," he said.
Kelly, 48, a Navy captain, has two daughters from a previous marriage, ages 9 and 18. The youngest, Charlotte, screamed "awesome" when she learned her father was selected for the one-year mission.
Brother Mark was all for it. So was Giffords. When Mark told his wife, she said, "a year in space, that's great," Scott Kelly said in a phone interview with The Associated Press.
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Meanwhile, in Russia, Kornienko's wife wept at the news. The 52-year-old cosmonaut, a rocket engineer with one daughter, said he initially had some doubts about taking on such a challenge. He previously spent six months in space.
"A year is a serious time," Kornienko said in Russian. But he said his doubts did not last long, "and actually it was my initiative."
Kelly was among four astronauts on NASA's short list for the assignment. Each had served as a commander aboard the space station, and was able to perform spacewalks and robot arm operations. Medical information also went into the selection: A crew member could not have exceeded his limit for exposure to cosmic radiation, for instance.
Kelly said he has no idea how or why he ended up being chosen. He will set a U.S. space endurance record with this mission. No American has spent more than seven months in space at a time.
Russia, on the other hand, already has experience with yearlong space travel. But it's limited to the old Mir space station, and more than a decade has passed since then.
Four Russian cosmonauts have spent at least one uninterrupted year in space. Another two came close.
The world record — 14 months in a single mission — is held by Russia's Valery Polyakov.
"They all are alive and well today. Their health status is quite good for their age," said Igor Ushakov, director of the Institute for Biological Problems in Moscow. Ushakov warned that the medical risks will be at least double what they are on the more typical six-month mission.
Considering the concerns
NASA space station program scientist Julie Robinson expects the two men to come back just fine. They will watch an assortment of multinational crews come and go during their tenure; up to six people live on the orbiting outpost at any one time.
The loss of bone mass is not nearly the problem it used to be in weightlessness because of improved exercise equipment and procedures, she said. The newest concern is impaired vision related to pressure on the brain and spinal cord; in some cases, astronauts suffer vision problems long after their flight.
In a chart held up by the director of Russia's piloted space program, Alexey Krasnov, nearly half the slots were red, indicating medical risks to eventual trips to the moon, asteroids and Mars.
"There are many things we don't know," Krasnov said. "We should take some risks upon ourselves" now before embarking on such ambitious endeavors beyond Earth's orbit.

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By that I mean awesome cars with boring names, and boring cars with awesome names. Cars don't always get the names they deserve, right?
Here's a great example: the Pontiac G8. Dear God, that was a boring name. Considering the other G-cars in the Pontiac lineup like the G3 and G6, the name did little to inspire confidence. That was a shame because the G8 was awesome! It was rear-wheel drive and had a V8! It deserved a better name than that.
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Cory Monteith, star of hit show 'Glee,' found dead
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Cory Monteith, the handsome young actor who shot to fame in the hit TV series "Glee" but was beset by addiction struggles so fierce that he once said he was lucky to be alive, was found dead in a hotel room, police said. He was 31.
The Canadian-born Monteith, who played star quarterback-turned-singer Finn Hudson on the Fox TV series about a high school glee club, was found dead in his room on the 21st floor of the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel on Vancouver's waterfront at about noon Saturday, according to police.
Acting Vancouver Police Chief Doug LePard said there was no indication of foul play.
Vancouver police said Sunday that an autopsy is expected to take place on Monday to determine the cause of death.
Monteith's body was found by hotel staff who entered his room after he missed his check-out time, LePard said. Monteith had checked into the hotel on July 6.
"We do not have a great deal of information as to cause of death," said British Columbia Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe. She said further tests would be needed to determine how Monteith died.
"The exact nature of those examinations will depend on investigative findings within the next day or two as information is gathered from medical records and discussions with family take place," she said.
LePard said Monteith had been out with people earlier and that those people are being interviewed.
Video and electronic records from the hotel indicate Monteith returned to his room by himself early Saturday morning, and he was believed to be alone when he died, LePard said.
Lapointe said he had been dead for several hours by the time his body was found.
Lea Michele, Monteith's "Glee" co-star and real-life girlfriend, was asking for privacy after receiving news of his death, said her representative, Molly Kawachi of ID-PR .
"We ask that everyone kindly respect Lea's privacy during this devastating time," Kawachi said in in an email to The Associated Press.
Other "Glee" cast members and fellow celebrities took to Twitter to express their feelings after news of Monteith's death broke.
"I have no words! My heart is broken," Dot-Marie Jones, who plays football coach Shannon Beiste on "Glee," said in a post on her Twitter account Saturday night. She called Monteith a "hell of a friend" and an "amazing" man.
Lauren Potter, who plays Becky Jackson, the cheerleader with Down Syndrome on "Glee," tweeted that she feels "totally heartbroken right now."
"I love Cory so much this hurts my heart," she wrote. "I hope my Glee family is OK right now. I love them all. Cory was always so nice to me. I have so many good memories."
"What an absolutely tragic loss of a very talented young man," tweeted Zooey Deschanel, star of another Fox show, "New Girl."
Fox and the producers of "Glee," including 20th Century Fox Television, called him an exceptional performer "and an even more exceptional person. He was a true joy to work with and we will all miss him tremendously."
"We are in shock and mourning this tragic loss," his representatives at Viewpoint Public Relations in Los Angeles said in a statement.
In April, Monteith admitted himself to a treatment facility for "substance addiction" and asked for privacy as he took steps toward recovery, a representative said at the time.
Michele told People magazine at the time that she loved and supported him and was proud he was seeking help.
It was not Monteith's first time in rehab. He received treatment when he was 19 and had previously talked about his addiction struggles, saying he had a serious problem and took just "anything and everything."
He told Parade magazine in 2011 that he was "lucky to be alive."
Monteith, who turned 31 on May 11, starred in "Glee" as a high school football player who puts his status and popularity at risk to join the glee club and its outcast members.
The show, with its pop music-based song-and-dance numbers and high-profile guest stars including Gwyneth Paltrow, became an immediate hit and made stars of its relatively unknown cast.
The series, which debuted in 2009, is in its fourth season.
On his Twitter account, Monteith described himself as "tall, awkward, canadian, actor, drummer, person."
In a 2010 interview with The Associated Press, Monteith was upbeat about life. He said that if "Glee" were to be canceled he would be OK.
"I've never been afraid of working," he said. "I've never been afraid of auditioning for jobs. Obviously, I've never been afraid of anonymity. I was happy (before 'Glee'). I'm happy now. I guess I'm well adjusted."
Monteith was among the "Glee" actors who remained series regulars as their characters graduated high school and moved on to other adventures.
According to his biography on Fox's website, Monteith was born in Calgary, Alberta, and moved to Vancouver Island as a child. Before turning to acting, he held a variety of jobs including Wal-Mart greeter, school bus driver, roofer and cab driver.
"Thanks for always being kind Cory. You came a long way from hanging on the beaches in Vancouver with the gang pre-Glee," tweeted Gerard Funk, an actor from Vancouver who joined the "Glee" cast last year.
Monteith's TV credits included roles on the series "Kaya" and "Kyle XY" and guest appearances on "Smallville," ''Supernatural," ''Stargate," ''Flash Gordon" and "Interns." His film credits included "Final Destination 3," ''The Invisible," ''Deck the Halls" and "Whisper."


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LOS ANGELES — From the White House, First Lady Michelle Obama joined Jack Nicholson to help present the final prize.
"There are eight great films that have every right, as much a right to be up here as we do," Affleck said of the other best-picture nominees.
In share-the-wealth mode, Oscar voters spread Sunday's honors among a range of films, with "Argo" winning three trophies but "Life of Pi" leading with four.
Daniel Day-Lewis joined a select group of recipients with his third Oscar, taking the best-actor trophy for his monumental performance as Abraham Lincoln in the Civil War saga "Lincoln."
Anne Hathaway went from propping up leaden sidekick James Franco at the Academy Awards to hefting a golden statue of her own with a supporting-actress Oscar win as a doomed mother-turned-prostitute in the musical "Les Miserables."
Christoph Waltz won his second supporting-actor Oscar for a Tarantino film, this time as a genteel bounty hunter in the slave-revenge saga "Django Unchained." Tarantino also won his second Oscar, for original screenplay for "Django."
Ang Lee pulled off a major upset, won best director for the shipwreck story "Life of Pi," taking the prize over Steven Spielberg, who had been favored for "Lincoln."
Lawrence took a fall on her way to the stage, tripping on the steps.
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Hathaway, whose perkiness helped carry her and the listless Franco through an ill-starred stint as Oscar hosts two years ago, is the third performer in a musical to win supporting actress during the genre's resurgence in the last decade.
"It came true," said Hathaway, who joins 2002 supporting-actress winner Catherine Zeta-Jones for "Chicago" and 2006 recipient Jennifer Hudson for "Dreamgirls." Hathaway had warm thanks for "Les Miz" co-star Hugh Jackman, with whom she once sang a duet at the Oscars when he was the show's host.
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"I really want to thank you for believing this story and sharing this incredible journey with me," Lee said to all who worked on the film, a surprise blockbuster about a youth trapped on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.
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List of the 85th annual Academy Award winners announced Sunday in Los Angeles:
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3. Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook."
4. Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, "Django Unchained."
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9. Original Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino, "Django Unchained."
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11. Production Design: "Lincoln."
12. Cinematography: "Life of Pi."
13. Sound Mixing: "Les Miserables."
14. Sound Editing (tie): "Skyfall," ''Zero Dark Thirty."
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24. Visual Effects: "Life of Pi."
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Color Options from American Patchwork & Quilting April 2011
Posey Patch
Pieced blocks surround an Irish Chain embellished with rings of flowers. Learn the secret to flawless appliqué by machine.
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Stars and Chain Wall Hanging
Quilt tester Laura Boehnke re-created Posey Patch sans appliqués so the navy and red stars would shine. By using the same tan tone-on-tone for the block backgrounds, she made the Irish Chain pop. Fabrics are from the Artisan collection for Timeless Treasures.
Follow the Leader
Framed with Flying Geese, a scrappy vertical-row quilt is joined with skinny sashing strips for a uniform finish.
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Avian Table Topper
A new look takes flight on quilt tester Laura Boehnke's tabletop version. Inspired by the Flying Geese borders of the original quilt, Laura took the feathered theme on step further by using fabrics from the Skylark collection for Red Rooster Fabrics. She fussy-cut bird designs to showcase in the centers of three blocks, which she arranged horizontally and separated with short sashing strips.
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Around the Town
Encircle a one-of-a-kind village with stunning hand appliqué.
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Row Houses Wall Quilt
For a welcoming wall hanging, quilt tester Laura Boehnke pieced and appliquéd a row of seven houses. A variety of small-scale prints from the Bread & Butter collection by Kaye England for Wilmington Prints gives each house personality.
Shining Light
In the reversal of nature's color palette, dark stars twinkle across a light background on a scrappy throw.
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Twinkling Stars Table Runner
Quilt tester Laura Boehnke reversed the placement of lights and darks to give Shining Light a more traditional star quality. She turned the center star block so it's no longer on point and flanked it with floating star blocks for a balanced look. To unify the design, she added a pieced border to all sides. Fabrics are from the Etchings collection by Studio E Fabrics.
Caramel & Cocoa
Two fabrics set apart by strip sets meet in the middle in a contemporary twist on a classic bargello design.
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Rectangle Bargello Quilt
Blue meets blue on quilt tester Laura Boehnke's under-the-sea interpretation of Caramel & Cocoa. She chose two blue tone-on-tones from P&B Textiles-a large-scale dot from the Gems of the Sea collection by Janet Broxon and a small-scale dot from the Fizz collection. She interspersed strip sets containing colorful novelty prints to set the two blues apart.
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Hand-stitch the first blooms of spring from easy-to-work-with wool.
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Fussy-Cut Flowers Pillow
Quilt tester Laura Boehnke swapped fabric for wool and machine-stitching for hand-stitching to craft the appliquéd circles on her round pillow. She fussy-cut delicate floral designs from the Abigail collection by Sara Morgan for Blue Hill Fabrics to showcase in the circles. Flat piping cut from the same fabric as the pattern A circles mimics the layered circle look on a larger scale.


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Gator commits ready for All-America games
Florida had a total of 11 verbal commitments named All-Americans this fall.
After a week of practices, it's time for the big stage.
The Under Armour All-America Game kicks off today at 5 p.m. on ESPN at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg. The U.S. Army All-American Bowl takes place Saturday at 1 p.m. on NBC at the Alamodome in San Antonio.
There are seven future Gators on the Under Armour rosters, five of whom are on the same team.
The Black team (Highlight) has running back Kelvin Taylor, receiver Alvin Bailey, cornerback Vernon Hargreaves III and safeties Marcell Harris and Keanu Neal. The White team (Nitro) includes offensive lineman Roderick Johnson and linebacker Matt Rolin. Harris and Rolin are out with knee injuries.
Six UF commits were on the winning team in last year's game, which was a 49-16 blowout. Neal hopes Highlight can have similar success.
"We have five commits on my team, so it's pretty much the same as last year and hopefully we have the same outcome," Neal said.
"Maybe we can get Matt and Rod to switch jerseys before the game."
Former UF defensive tackle commit Caleb Brantley and defensive ends Elijah Daniel and DeMarcus Walker (Alabama commit) are the targets to watch on Highlight.
Five-star defensive tackle Montravius Adams, who won't suit up for Nitro with an ankle injury, visits UF this weekend along with Walker.
The U.S. Army All-American Bowl will feature four members of Florida's 2013 class on the East team — receiver Ahmad Fulwood, linebacker Daniel McMillian, defensive end Jordan Sherit and safety Nick Washington. Fulwood (shoulder) and Sherit (knee) will not play.
Former Gator receiver commit Demarcus Robinson will choose between Florida and Clemson during the game and enroll early next week.
Some other targets to look out for are cornerback Mackensie Alexander and Southern Cal commits Jason Hatcher and Jalen Ramsey. All four are on the East team as well.
Under Armour All-America Game Black Team (Highlight) Commits: No. 3 Alvin Bailey, WR, Seffner Armwood, 5-11, 175 No. 21 Kelvin Taylor, RB, Belle Glade Glades Day, 5-11, 216 No. 24 Vernon Hargreaves III, DB, Tampa Wharton, 5-11, 185 *No. 26 Marcell Harris, DB, Orlando Dr. Phillips, 6-1, 209 No. 42 Keanu Neal, DB, Bushnell South Sumter, 6-1, 203 Targets: No. 44 DeMarcus Walker, DE, Jacksonville Sandalwood, 6-4, 265 No. 57 Caleb Brantley, DT, Crescent City, 6-3, 295 No. 90 Elijah Daniel, DE, Avon (Ind.), 6-3, 249 White Team (Nitro) Commits: *No. 10 Matt Rolin, LB, Ashburn (Va.) Briar Woods, 6-4, 209 No. 54 Roderick Johnson, OL, Delray Beach American Heritage, 6-6, 315 U.S. Army All-American Bowl East Team Commits: No. 13 Daniel McMillian, LB, Jacksonville First Coast, 6-3, 220 *No. 15 Ahmad Fulwood, WR, Jacksonville Bishop Kenny, 6-4, 189 No. 19 Nick Washington, DB, Jacksonville Trinity Christian, 6-0, 183 *No. 22 Jordan Sherit, DE, Tampa Hillsborough, 6-5, 234 Targets: No. 7 Jalen Ramsey, CB, Brentwood (Tenn.) Academy, 6-0, 190 No. 24 Mackensie Alexander, CB, Immokalee, 5-11, 175 No. 45 Jason Hatcher, DE, Louisville (Ky.) Trinity, 6-2, 240 No. 88 Demarcus Robinson, WR, Fort Valley (Ga.) Peach County, 6-2, 200 * — out with injury


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The Deadly Israeli House
Sudan may have built a small mountain of African corpses, but it can't expect to command the full and undivided attention of the world until it does something truly outrageous like building a house and filling it with Jews. Since the Sudanese Jews are as gone as the Jews of Egypt, Iraq, Syria and good old Afghanistan, the chances of Bashir the Butcher pulling off that trick are rather slim.
Due to the Muslim world's shortsightedness in driving out its Jews from Cairo, Aleppo and Baghdad to Jerusalem, the ultimate weapon in international affairs is entirely controlled by the Jewish State. The Jewish State's stockpile of Jews should worry the international community far more than its hypothetical stockpiles of nuclear weapons. No one besides Israel, and possibly Saudi Arabia, cares much about the Iranian bomb. But when Israel builds a house, then the international community tears its clothes, wails, threatens to recall its ambassadors and boycott Israeli peaches.
You can spit on the White House carpets and steal all the gold in Greece. You can blow up anything you like and threaten anyone you will, but you had better not lift a drill near Gilgal, where Joshua and a few million escaped Hebrew slaves pitched their camp.
Some may think that genocide or nuclear weapons are the ultimate weapons, but as we see, time and time again, the ultimate weapon is a hammer and a fistful of nails in a Jewish hand. How can even the most talented Iranian nuclear scientist hope to compete with the humble tools of a Jewish carpenter?
Obama has yet to respond to the Muslim Brotherhood coup in Egypt. The gangs of paid rapists assaulting women in Tahrir Square on behalf of the Sharia state are nothing for the White House to worry about. Tunisian protesters against Islamist rule are losing their eyes, but Tunisian eyes come and go, Jewish houses are forever.
Everyone has their standards and he and the international community have theirs. There are things that we all cannot abide. And for all the Miss America answers about ending war, hunger and people who wear plaid in public, the one thing that everyone will stand up against or sit down in opposition to is the Israeli house.
White House officials are already insisting that Netanyahu "humiliated" Obama by authorizing the building of houses. This is the worst Israeli crime since two years ago when the city of Jerusalem passed some houses through one stage of a multi-stage approval process while Biden was visiting the country.
Hillary called it an insult and spent two hours yelling at Netanyahu over the phone. Axelrod declared it an affront. Biden was so furious that he refused to come down for dinner until an hour later. For weeks the media howled that Netanyahu had humiliated Obama through the dastardly act of allowing one of the country's mayors to approve housing while the sacred presence of Joseph Robinette Biden Jr was intersecting with Israeli airspace.
While Russia may threaten war against the United States, China may mock the United States at a ceremonial banquet in the White House, Iran and North Korea may play Obama for a fool, but only Israel has managed to achieve official recognition for "insulting and humiliating" Obama, without even trying, proving once again that the Jewish race is so talented that it often achieves things that other people may only dream of, without even realizing that they are doing it.
Now that Netanyahu has gone to the mattresses, literally, by authorizing new housing, the media has begun braying that Israel has humiliated Obama all over again. They say that every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings. But every time an Israeli jackhammer roars, Obama stands, like that famous trash-mourning fake Indian, off Highway 1 between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, with a tear slowly making its way down one glistening cheek at the sight of another humiliating Israeli house.
Hamas shoots thousands of rockets and Israel builds thousands of houses. But Israeli houses generally stay where they're built, while Hamas rockets are as likely to kill Gazans as they are to put holes in the roofs of those dastardly houses. And in the arms race between houses and rockets, the Israelis appear to be winning. And that's not good for peace. If Israelis get the dangerous idea that they can just keep building houses and outlast all the talented rocketeers who spend their time with the Koran in front of one eye and the Anarchist's Cookbook in front of the other, then what hope is there for peace?
That is why no one cares much about Hamas rockets, which only kill Israelis, who most reasonable people in London, Paris and Brussels think have it coming anyway, but get into a foaming lather about an Israeli house. Killing Israelis has never been any obstacle to peace. Twenty years of killing Israelis has not dissuaded a single Israeli government from sitting down at the table to dicker with the terrorists. But an Israeli family living in a house is holding down territory that it will be harder to then cede to terrorists when the angels have blown their horns, the seas have all gone dry and peace is carried in on a golden platter by 72 virgins accompanied by their flying suicide bomber mates.
The problem is an old one. Pharaoh struggled with it. So did Hitler. And so does Hamas. What do you do when there are too many Jews living. The answer is usually obvious.
Israel's Peace Partners tried to go back to the time-honored Egyptian tradition of throwing all the Jews into the sea. But despite an entire officer corps temporarily "on leave" from the armed forces of the United Kingdom, they only got as far as half of Jerusalem, where they blew up every synagogue, and took the West Bank of Israel, or as the non-indigenous Zionist invaders with no roots in the region call it, Judea and Samaria.
Nineteen years later, Israel's Peace Partners had traded in their British officer corps for a Soviet officer corps, and lost Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, proving that when it came to killing Jews, the Communists were better at it when the Jews weren't shooting back. Ever since then the world, or those portions of it populated entirely by diplomats and the better class of journalists, has been urging Israel to give back the land to an imaginary country to be populated entirely by terrorists.
This peace plan, which has worked as well as fighting fire with gasoline, has not in any way been endangered by two decades of terror, but trembles down to its toes every time an Israeli hammer falls on an Israeli nail in the vicinity of Jerusalem. Because that land must go back so that rockets can be shot from it into Israel, so that Israel can invade it and reclaim it, and then sit down for another peace process to return the land from which the rockets will be fired, which will be invaded, which will be given back... for peace.
And Israeli houses endanger this cycle of peace and violence. They endanger it by creating "facts on the ground", a piquant phrase that only seems to apply to houses with Jews. Muslim houses in no way create facts on the ground, even though they are built out of the same material and filled with people. Or perhaps they create the good kind of facts on the ground. The kind of preemption of negotiations that the professional peacemakers approve of.
But it's hard to know what exactly the peacemakers approve of, because their arguments and their definitions keep changing all the time. All that we know is that they disapprove of Israeli houses.
The United States repeatedly assured Israel that Jerusalem would in no way be endangered by the peace process. No less a personality than Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. co-sponsored three Senate resolutions urging that Jerusalem should remain Israel's undivided capital. Then like all good politicians, he was horribly offended when the Israelis actually took him at his word.
Obama gave an election speech four years ago where he declared that Jerusalem should be undivided. A day later he explained that he meant "undivided" in some spiritual sense that did not preclude it from actually being divided.
UN Chief Ban Ki-moon has declared Israeli houses to be an "almost fatal blow" to the peace process. It is, of course, only an "almost fatal blow" because the peace process, like Dracula, cannot be killed. Israeli houses, fearsome as they may be with their balconies and poor heating in winter, are never quite enough to kill it.
The army of lethal Israeli houses, which may not be built for another five years, if ever, seem formidable in the black newsprint of the New York Times, in the fulminations of Guardian columnists and the shrill talkingpointation of CNN talking heads, but its actual potency is limited to housing Jewish families and infuriating international diplomats and their media coathangers.
Europe is furious, Obama is seething, the UN is energized, and somewhere in Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wipes the grease out of his mustache and wonders what he could do to get this much attention. He briefly scribbles down some thoughts on a napkin but then dismisses it as being too implausible. As much as it might get the world's attention, there is just no way Iran can put up apartment buildings in Jerusalem.
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Dangerous Jewish homes! Yes, sad but, there it is.ReplyDelete
Outstanding, once again, Daniel. Another periscope into reality.ReplyDelete
The reason I know we're going to prevail is b/c I can laugh while reading a post on this topic. Thank you!ReplyDelete
Elohim Adirim. You have never written a better article in your life.ReplyDelete
The terrifying thing is that none of this is sarcastic. There really isn't anything more dangerous we can do than to create healthy loving large families with homes and gardens and life.
Daniel, you have done it again.ReplyDelete
Honestly, sometimes your writing just takes my breath away in its simple but brilliant logic.
Daniel Greenfield wasn't pithy enough today:ReplyDelete
"The Jewish home is mightier than the sword and says a good deal more than the pen."
That you should make me laugh out loud while dealing with such a matter is , I have to say, an indication of how well you write. Keep it up.ReplyDelete
Dave S
One can't help but wonder, what would be if ... you wake up one beautiful morning, and "peace process" nightmare is a history, Moshe Feiglin is Prime Minister, Temple Mount is back to its rightful owners, Israel just said goodbye to the U.N., Oslo is back to being only a capital of Norway, long overdue annexation of Judea and Samaria and return to Gaza underway, unconditional deportation of illegal invaders, decent loyal citizens are protected and left in peace, and disloyal ones are encouraged to leave ... and then you actually wake up into this eerie branch of reality.ReplyDelete
Retired say's.ReplyDelete
In a poetic sort of way Daniel has gotten to the core of the issue.Europe drives the anti-Jewish movement.The Moslems are their troops!Soon Europe (EU) will financially go down the toilet & the Moslem will go with them.It should be noted that the elite working out of Brussels are not Socialists,sort of Communists lite,they are Statists from the old school.European Democracy is a sham.They are culturally locked into fairly ridgid class systems.Systems that are hundreds of years old.The peons have been given sports jackets & called "voters" or simply "the public".In reality it is mob rule with the mob carefully controlled & manipulated by the elite Statists.The Statists are not Marxists,believers in Soviet style Communism.Rather they are the heirs of Otto Von Bismarck,Germany's Iron Canchellor.The European elites are merely the aristocrats & rulers of yesteryear morphed into Central Bankers,financiers & billionaire industrialists.These Statists rule through their political puppets in Brussels.
You may ask "what has this to do with Israel & Jews",everything!Israel & the Jewish way are a viable alternative to the European class structure & if copied might very well mean the end for the Elite European Statists
Terry BakerReplyDelete
"How can even the most talented Iranian nuclear scientist hope to compete with the humble tools of a Jewish carpenter?"
Or Rome?
Mr. Greenfield, you are a brilliant man. I thank you for another inspired article on the greatest story ever told.
It took me, spoiled baby boomer, about 55 years to get around to reading the Bible and begin to understand it. I'm convinced that it is essential reading to understand the history we are living through. Daniel, you are a part of this history, a role I don't think was willed by you.
Anonymous, I agree; the Jewish people are the most naturally egalitarian in the world. They are historically the foundation for American freedom - the successful alternative to feudalism.ReplyDelete
The American Revolution was a fight to eliminate the old monarchical vestiges of feudalism in the colonies. Their success aroused the same antipathy in the feudal order of Europe then as Israel does today.
- Márcia5/12/12
Yeah, dem Joos are not a cooperative people. You just can't trick them. After all those centuries, Dem Joos still know they are forever, da_nit.ReplyDelete
- occupant 95/12/12
Daniel, a brilliant article. And Some Guy is correct in that should this only be satire.ReplyDelete
What the Jewish house represents is a family of living Jews. Living Jews are in direct opposition to the goals of Israel's peace partners, so therein lies the eternal problem. The message from the int'l community to Israel is that Israel's commitment to the peace process is evaluated on her positive commitment to be slain.
Here's the link, as well as a very moving Israel music video that brought me to tears it was that good! http://vineoflife.net/2012/12/05/the-deadly-israeli-house/ReplyDelete
Thank you LynReplyDelete
- Rafi5/12/12
It will not be Joseph Robinnette Biden's fault if Jerusalem is divided. It will be Israel's own fault just as the destruction of Jerusalem was Israels own fault in Roman times , time of Babylone destruction so God placed that at Israel own door.ReplyDelete
No body like to consider this but in the end it sadly comes to the truth.
Rafi, the sad truth is you are 100% correct. It has been and always will be Israel's own responsibility to protect herself and the Jewish people. No amount of whining and crying will change that.ReplyDelete
Just as the United States and her electorate have decided to go in a different direction due to her own self interests, so Israel should go. there are those who continually cry " Oh, Israel cannot do anything without the United States!" To this, I say Bull manure. Every nation in this world will stick the shiv in Israel's back. That has been true throughour man's history.
If Israel is not allowed to exist as a Jewish state, her leaders should use her nuclear stockpile as a bludgeon on other Jew hating "friendly" democracies as well as Jew hating Muslim nations. Has anyone seen North Korea invaded lately?
Bandy about the Sampson option. (of course, this will never happen. because Jews have to be victims...in fact they are the best!)
My dream is for Israel to tell the world to F off. No more land for peace, and no more turning the other cheek. In no uncertain terms, The Jewish state proclaims "we want to be left alone and live in Peace." And when those Brave EU Jewhaters, Obamasemites and Iranian death lovers bully and threaten The Jewish homeland, the government simply states "if it gets ugly for us-it will get ugly for you." Perhaps many suitcases of uranium placed in various world capitals would be a great incentive for the world wide scum to desist and move on to less fortunate-non nuclear nations.
Hahahahahaha. Are people really mad about this? I mean I understand the move is political in that they are making sure the territory in question is always under their command... but in my opinion it seems like maybe pakistan is just mad.ReplyDelete
The only housing crisis we have to fear is the Jewish housing crisis itself! ;)ReplyDelete
Click your shoes twice, Dorothy, and repeat after me, "There's no place [for a Jewish] home."
Homeless consciences and politicians of the world, unite! Vorwaarts!
Bill K.
- moshe5/12/12
The "peace process" can indeed be killed. It will only take a House. Just one. For Hashem. May Prime Minister Feiglin build it speedily, in our day. Amen!ReplyDelete
Thank you for this excellent piece Sultan.ReplyDelete
Just one minor correction in the 6th paragraph......unfortunately we haven't had Jewish carpenters building our homes since 1967.
We'll know we're on the right track when that is rectified.
Daniel, you really had my attention with the way you began your column. I thought at first you were a fanatical antiSemitic. Then, as I continued to read(I couldn't help myself!),I realized you were engaging in some really sharp sarcasm. It is really good. Well written and certainly worth sharing. God bless!ReplyDelete
Western countries' ruling elites have LONG OPPOSED HUMAN RIGHTS FOR JEWS.ReplyDelete
What other people on earth do the haters seek to deny INDIGENOUS
PEOPLE the right to live, breath and build on their own WORLD-FAMOUS
BIBLICAL Jewish homeland - the eternal capital of Israel-Jerusalem-the
site of the GOD designated Jewish Temple, and Judea and Samaria.
Israel ignore the rabid Jew-haters - build three million homes! Do it for GOD! Do it for EVERY non-Muslim on earth!
All Muslims have to do is move to another country and then declare the land is Islamic and belongs to Muslims. Muslims have done this in Israel.ReplyDelete
Islam's War Against Jews is part of global jihad against ALL non-Muslims.
Not one inch of Free World Jewish land to the enemies of humanity!
In Islam, peace is achieved when a hated infidel nation is attacked, conquered and destroyed. The dirty, MURDEROUS peace that is sought for little Israel. No Muslim terror state implant in TINY Israel!
I know this is a very serious thing, but I laughed all the way through! Daniel, you state things brilliantly! It's a gift from God! Thank you!ReplyDelete
What is the biggest impediment to peace that the world has ever known? PEACEFUL Jews living, BREATHING, and building on their own Jewish land!!! LOL!
- Anonymous6/12/12
I love your Jewish cop, I cried and laughed the same time.ReplyDelete
May Hashem watch over your brilliant mind.
Thank you.
Wonderful! One of the best! I posted it to my FB account and it looks like it might go viral---lots of shares!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6/12/12
Bernard - great piece. It seems that three bedroomed semi-detached homes are the new weapons of mass destruction. The ones with a dog in the back garden are particularly dangerous. Beware.ReplyDelete
My husband keeps telling me to read Sultan Knish. Now I know why. Thank you for describing the power of my home.ReplyDelete
Thank you! Brave, clearsighted and fabolously intelligent sarcasm. Keep it coming.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7/12/12
And American "Jews" voted for Obama....thank you NOT traitors to your own people.ReplyDelete
Obama saying Jerusalem is to be undivided was a misreading of his TelePrompTer which said, "Jerusalem must remain U.N. Divided!"ReplyDelete
- Dave7/12/12
Zecharia the prophet says that Jerusalem will be divided in the last days.ReplyDelete
"For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle."
So Obama or not, it is going to occur through someone's dealings
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Enjoy good health with a long life, remain vigilant and strong.
Weunger for your well written thoughts.
Hashem blessed us, by giving us YOU!
What a GREAT article.ReplyDelete
and can you imagine if Israel should ever install central heating in these dangerous and ""anti-peace-process"" houses.
This would be at least a Galaxy- shattering event. Steve, in Jerusalem
Yes these house are dangerous to WORLD PEACE. We must --immediately --assemble the League of Nations, in Tehran to address this milliant and world shattering issue. How is it possible that on the PEACE-FULL PLANET EARTH, those milliant and dangerous Jews dare build houses in their Sovereign country. (and I bet --soon--that they will even put furniture in these house.---what an affront to world peace.).
Steve in Jerusalem
Spot on. A powerful and poignant pen you have, Daniel!ReplyDelete
I've posted this on my blog:
- Anonymous10/12/12
One has to wonder what Orwell may have said to this account of current day reality...ReplyDelete
About as damn ear perfect a piece as I've ever read. I was almost tempted to ring up an estate agent and book my own little slice of Heaven and to hell with the lousy aim of the rocketeers.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous2/1/13
Satire at the very best level - pity those who should read it will never do so.ReplyDelete
Rob - Perth, Western Australia
- Anonymous11/1/13
The basis for this argument is the belief that the lands of Israel (and its neighbors) was given by God to the Jews. What I don't understand is if I was a Jew and thought that God gave me the land of Israel, I would feel obligated to go and live on that land. Strangely few American Jews have any intention of moving to Israel. Why is that?ReplyDelete
A Goy
- 1127/2/13
Daniel Greenfield might be the literary genius of our days. That he should be a journalist writing about politics is one of the most ironic things I've ever seen. G-d bless you Mr. Greenfield, from your lips to G-d's ears, and hopefully also, to Stephen Harper's, the ex-"greatest friend" Israel has.ReplyDelete


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Grilled Shrimp and Scallions on Barley with Cucumbers, Tomatoes and Feta
Serves 4
Note: This recipe comes from Bay Branch Farm in Lakewood, Ohio.
3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
1 clove garlic, minced
Few dashes of hot sauce
Kosher salt, black pepper
1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for grilling
1 cup barley
2 cups water or stock
1 pound large shrimp, peeled, deveined
2 bunches scallions, white and light green parts only
1 large or 2 small cucumbers, peeled, seeded, cut into small chunks
2 large ripe tomatoes, cut into chunks
1/2 cup crumbled feta
1/2 cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley, mint, cilantro or a mix
1. Whisk together the lime juice, garlic, hot sauce, 1/2 teaspoon salt, a few twists of black pepper and the olive oil.
2. In a medium saucepan, bring the barley, water and 1 teaspoon salt to a boil. Cover; adjust heat to a gentle simmer. Cook barley until tender, about 45 minutes. Drain well. Toss barley with half the dressing. Set aside to cool.
3. Heat grill to medium. Toss shrimp with a little oil; season generously with salt and pepper. Do the same with the scallions. Grill shrimp until no longer translucent in the center, about 2 minutes per side. Transfer to a platter and keep warm. Grill scallions, turning frequently, until they are limp, tender and just starting to char, about 10 minutes. Chop into 1-inch pieces.
4. Toss the barley with the scallions, cucumbers and tomatoes. Add a bit more dressing, toss again and taste. Adjust seasoning. Pile a mound of barley salad on each plate, top with grilled shrimp and sprinkle with feta and herbs. Serve slightly warm.
— Martha Holmberg, "Fresh Food Nation" (Taunton Press, $22.95, 256 pages)


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The United States seems to devote less energy to developing a constructive solution to what's been called the Iran nuclear standoff than it does to convincing Israel it will attack Iran if push (however imagined) comes to shove. At the New York Times, David Sanger and Eric Schmitt wrote on Monday (Sept. 3):
"One other proposal circulating in Washington, advocated by some former senior national security officials, is a 'clandestine' military strike, akin to the one Israel launched against Syria's nuclear reactor in 2007. It took weeks for it to become clear that site had been hit by Israeli jets, and perhaps because the strike was never officially acknowledged by Israel, and because its success was so embarrassing to Syria, there was no retaliation."
Yeah, as if Iran, unlike Syria, won't officially acknowledge an attack by Israel and be too embarrassed to retaliate. That's wishful thinking a la the Neocon mind. More important, it's sad day when a major power such as the United States is reduced to appeasing — yes, appeasing — a smaller state such as Israel. Especially when Israel is not only dependent on it for defense aid, but for assistance in the event it attacks Iran. Of course, Israeli supporters' disproportionate influence on American elected officials precludes the United States informing Israel it will be left to hang out and dry if it attacks Iran. Or, in a sane world, should that come to pass, that the United States will sharply reduce its defense aid to Israel.
The United States though continues to overlook the sophistry of not only Israel's, but its own policy, toward Iran. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors are present in Iran every day of the years and sometimes show up for inspections with only two-hours notice. Israel, on the other hand, has never publicly acknowledged its nuclear-weapons program. In other words, it never signed the nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, as Iran did, and thus isn't subject to inspections.
The unstated assumption on the West's part is that Israel doesn't pose a nuclear threat because it's "rational." But what demonstrates irrationality more than threatening to attack Iran, a state with an accredited nuclear-energy program replete with invasive inspections?
I'm usually loath to praise the Washington Post, which has drifted rightward since the Woodward and Bernstein years when conservatives famously called it "Pravda on the Potomac." But on August 31, its ombudsman, Patrick Pexton, actually dared to invoke the specter of Israel's nuclear-weapons program in a piece titled What about Israel's nuclear weapons?
Readers periodically ask me some variation on this question: "Why does the press follow every jot and tittle of Iran's nuclear program, but we never see any stories about Israel's nuclear weapons capability?"
It's a fair question. Going back 10 years into Post archives, I could not find any in-depth reporting on Israeli nuclear capabilities, although national security writer Walter Pincus has touched on it many times in his articles and columns.
He reminds us of Israel's preposterous
… official position, as reiterated by Aaron Sagui, spokesman for the Israeli Embassy here, is that "Israel will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East. Israel supports a Middle East free of all weapons of mass destruction following the attainment of peace."
After reviewing reasons why Israel's nuclear-weapons program isn't reported, Pexton writes (emphasis added):
I don't think many people fault Israel for having nuclear weapons. If I were a child of the Holocaust, I, too, would want such a deterrent to annihilation. But that doesn't mean the media shouldn't write about how Israel's doomsday weapons affect the Middle East equation. Just because a story is hard to do doesn't mean The Post, and the U.S. press more generally, shouldn't do it.
Despite the presumptuousness of what's italicized, Pexton acquitted himself admirably. The second time in a week, in fact, on the subject of Iran and Israel that the Washington Post did so. Nuclear activist Alice Slater wrote about the 2012 session of The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), which is now under the chairmanship of Iran.
Significantly, an Associated Press story in the Washington Post headlined, "Iran opens nonaligned summit with calls for nuclear arms ban", reported that "Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi opened the gathering by noting commitment to a previous goal from the nonaligned group. … 'We believe that the timetable for ultimate removal of nuclear weapons by 2025, which was proposed by NAM, will only be realized if we follow it up decisively,' he told delegates."
By contrast (emphasis added)
… the New York Times, which has been beating the drums for war with Iran, just as it played a disgraceful role in the deceptive reporting during the lead-up to the Iraq War, never mentioned Iran's proposal for nuclear abolition. The Times carried the bland headline on its front page, "At Summit Meeting, Iran Has a Message for the World", and then went on to state, "the message is clear. As Iran plays host to the biggest international conference …it wants to tell its side of the long standoff with the Western powers which are increasingly convinced that Tehran is pursuing nuclear weapons", without ever reporting Iran's offer to support the NAM proposal for the abolition of nuclear weapons by 2025.
Note the condescending tone of what's italicized. This is consistent with Times reporting on Iran's nuclear-energy program in general — as if anybody with any sense knows that Iran seeks to develop nuclear weapons, that Israel's desire to attack Iran is justified if a little overzealous, and that, again, Israel, unlike Iran, is too rational to ever use its nuclear weapons for anything more than deterrence. (Though, of course, in February, New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane wrote about a Times article that stated: "the IAEA moved much closer with this report toward stating absolutely that Iran is pursuing a nuclear bomb. Yet the fact that the agency has stopped short of such a finding remains significant. Readers complaining about the Jan. 5 article believe The Times should avoid closing the gap with a shorthand phrase that says the IAEA thinks Iran's program 'has a military objective.' I think the readers are correct on this." Pexton, too, expressed similar sentiments in the Washington Post in December of 2011.)
Maybe — facetiousness alert! — the United States should call Israel's bluff: we'll bomb Iran for you if you make your nuclear-weapons program public, sign the NPT, and open your program to IAEA inspections.


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If your car is frequently slipping when it shifts gears, it probably means the transmission is about to go.
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Your used car may have failed you on a road trip and left you stranded on the side of the road, but this does not necessarily mean it is time to take it down to the junk yard.
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If your car overheats, it is usually something related to the engine cooling system. It could be something as simple as a leaky hose. But just be sure to resist the urge to drive your overheating car, or it could be the last trip you ever take in it, Larsen said.
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