Jury Finds Tamie Adaya "Guilty" in Civil Case

Mike L.

Jury Throws Book at Muslim Hotel Owner for Throwing Jewish Guests Out of her Pool

After five days of deliberation, a Santa Monica jury announced on Wednesday that Shangri-La Hotel owner Tamie Adaya committed anti-Semitic discrimination when she uttered her now-famous cry, “Get the [expletive] Jews out of my pool!”

The jury found for the plaintiffs on multiple acts of intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, malice, fraud and oppression, and violations of the California Civil Rights Act.

The 18 individual plaintiffs and one corporate plaintiff were awarded $1.2 million in compensatory damages, but the final amount Adaya and her company will owe is expected to go much higher, because the individual plaintiffs are entitled to punitive damages on many of the counts.

Oh for fuck's sake!

I am trying desperately to get out of Dodge and now this shows up.

I blame Doodad.

I was just noodling around, looking at some of the comments when I saw this:

Doodad

August 16, 2012 6:49 PM

I suspect Mike will write about it more. The Shangri-la hotel case is settled. 

She's guilty.

First Melky and now this!

I am outa here!

We are going to Mount Shasta and we are going to fish for trout in the Upper Sacramento River and, I swear to G-d, if Laurie so much as even consults her I-Pad, or whatever that damn thing is, I am going to stomp the holy hell out of it and fling it into the river.

{Shit.}

Tarek Fatah, founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress:

Doodad

Speaks out against crazy, Jew hating Canadian Muslims:

Did you know there are Canadians among us who are inspired by a mass-murderer?

Canadians who take their cue not from our constitution or the values we have developed over the past 400 years of western civilization, but from the words of a hate-monger whose sinister image to this day instils fear and casts a shadow of misery wherever his tentacles reach.

Indeed, there are such Canadians, and on Aug. 18 they'll defile the lawns of the Ontario Legislature to rally to the call of Ayatollah Khomeini for the destruction of the State of Israel -- the observance of "Al-Quds Day."

Khomeini first introduced Al Quds Day rallies in Iran in 1979, ostensibly to show solidarity with the rights of Palestinians.

However, the real agenda was to undermine and sabotage the Camp David Accords signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on Sept. 17, 1978.

Khomeini's message was not one of peace and reconciliation. He was not fighting for the right of the Palestinians for a state of their own, at peace with Israel. In fact, he declared:

"We must all rise, destroy Israel and replace it with the heroic Palestinian nation."

Palestine merely became the fig leaf behind which Khomeini and his fellow Islamists -- ranging from Shia Hezbollah to the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood -- camouflaged their deep-seated Jewish hatred.

This is why most of the people who attend these rallies are not Palestinian or Iranians, but Shia Pakistanis, radical backers of the Muslim Brotherhood, pro- Hezbollah Lebanese and a scattering of left-wing useful idiots.

Last year when this motley crew of Khomeini cheerleaders descended on Queen's Park, they were led by a lifetime backer of the Iranian Islamic regime and a fan of Osama bin Laden, Zafar Bangash.

Mocking U.S. President Barack Obama as "that black man in the White House" and Israel as a "parasitical state," Bangash declared amid cheers of Allah O Akbar:

"Insha'Allah I see the day when we the Muslims will march on Palestine and liberate Palestine for all the people of the world ... Under Islamic Law they will all be living as equal citizens."

Equal citizens? Tell that to the Christians of Egypt and Hindus of Pakistan; the Kurds of Turkey and the Baloch of Iran.

Another speaker belched out this conspiracy of the Jews:

"Wherever you see injustice happening, understand that there is a 1%, 2% or 100% involvement of the 'Zionist Regime'. The same Zionist regime that sucks the resources, the blood that belong to the people all across the world.

" These words are vintage hatred with barely concealed threats to eradicate the state of Israel from the map of the world. Seeped in anti-Semitism, such language had not accorded respect in the West after the 1940s, until now.

Good for him.

10 Years and the Beautiful Upper Sacramento

Mike L.

Tomorrow is our ten year wedding anniversary.

Laurie and I are having friends stay at the house this weekend as we head up to the village of Dunsmuir in beautiful Northern California along the Upper Sacramento River near Mount Shasta. We are not exactly rugged outdoorsmen, but we like to get out there when we can. We will be in pursuit, fly rod in hand, of the hard-fighting native rainbow trout in the Upper Sacramento and the McCloud rivers.

I truly feel blessed.

I mean, really, how many men can claim that their wives want to go trout fishing for their 10th anniversary?

I love her with all my heart.

And I will not be around much this weekend.

Dr. Barry Rubin to Undergo Chemotherapy

Mike L.

One of the more insightful analysts around the Arab-Israel conflict is Dr. Barry Rubin, of Rubin Reports.

Dr. Rubin has recently announced that he has been diagnosed with lung cancer. Today we find this note on his blog:

medical bulletin

i'm about to undergo an operation to attempt to drain the fluid from my lungs by inserting a tube. this will take 3-5 days and i will be in hospital. it is possible i will not be able to communicate during this time. they will then try to seal the lungs which if it succeeds will help me. we will then begin chemo and other therapies. the operation is said not be dangerous. please expect no correspondence or articles from me during this period. it is hoped that by next week i will be pretty normal and undergoing care. i have wonderful doctors. i hope and believe we will be together again in future. with all my gratitude for your beiing good readers and interested in my thoughts. \i hope i have been helpful toyou.

I know that I speak for many thousands of people when I say that we wish the good professor a complete and full recovery.

I do not often pray, but I will pray for this man.

I hope that you will, as well.

To the valley from the hill top ...

geoffff

photo geoffff

Daphne Anson with more gold from London about how green was my valley.

I know Byron Bay. Visiting that light house is among my earliest memories. 

Many things have changed.. Back then  few people with hyphenated names actually admitted it especially around here and especially if they were men. Not unless they were the State Governor and even then really had to be on the Queensland side of the border about fifty minutes north. . 

I suppose that's a good thing.  

Look at this

Duncan On A Fair Dinkum Hate Fest

Gold! 

What can I say

Duncan Dough Nuts Grass On Byron BDS Greens 

Update!!

When the

 Dump That Duncan Double Barrel Done

swept old London town

hometown for SS Duncan sure 

Duncan Diddanudda one

Just to show 'em waddaman

  

This now echoes up my valley

from the other shore

thanks to Echonetdaily  

so now let the echo roar

all the way to 'Frisco Bay !!! 

Sorry guys but I've got to get my amusement some way

That is Echonetdaily  which counts for mainstream media around here that rebroadcast the dump fresh from the site of the Byron Traders Friends of Boycotting Jews For Peace And Palestine Association.

under the by line  

Ros Elliot, Duncan Shipley-Smith and Harsha Prabhu

They are probably all grateful for the extra traffic. Don't mention it guys. I'd do the same for you. 

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A retiring Green Party councillor on Byron Council and a ring in from Marrickville*    show up at the No Jew Left Alive And No Life Worth Living  New Dark Age Peace Festival in Byron Bay to lend their support.

So what?

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*who will be well known to Shirl in Oz  a gutsy veteran of the BDS outrage in Marrickville and a great and treasured friend of this blog and allied blogs and activists.. Hope you're well Shirl

And now another interlude.

Dedicated to our friends at Israel Thrives Chill it. There are hard times coming We need you. 

cross posted

 Geoffff's Joint 

Reuven Has Some Words*

Mike L.

I'll make it very simple for you: The problem with Iran is Iran. It refuses to accept the presence of a Jewish state in our ancestral homeland. It has nothing to do with who lives on what side of the Green Line.

For liberal Zionists such as myself, the primary concern in the maintenance of Israel as a Jewish and Democratic state. That right-wingers such as yourself fail to understand this is your problem, not mine. As for me, I much prefer a Jewish state without the West Bank to a Palestinian state with Tel Aviv.

I very much want to thank Reuven for making "it" simple for me.

I always very much appreciate it when people are so inclined. That being the case, let us take this simple bit by simple bit.

The problem with Iran is Iran. It refuses to accept the presence of a Jewish state in our ancestral homeland. It has nothing to do with who lives on what side of the Green Line.

I find myself in agreement that the problem with Iran is, in fact, Iran.

I also agree that Iran refuses to accept the presence of a Jewish state in our ancestral homeland and that it has nothing whatsoever to do with who lives on what side of the green line.

That being the case I have to assume that Reuven does not mind if Jewish people move into and live in and build housing for themselves in that part of the world, a part of the world that has been known as Judea and Samaria for millenia.

So far, we seem to be entirely in agreement.

For liberal Zionists such as myself, the primary concern in the maintenance of Israel as a Jewish and Democratic state.

I agree with this, as well.

Israel is a Jewish and democratic state (although not a Democratic one) and will continue to be so on into the future. I agree with Reuven 100 percent.

That right-wingers such as yourself fail to understand this is your problem, not mine.

It is unusual that since we agree entirely that Reuven suggests that we disagree.  Just where is our disagreement, I wonder?  What makes him "left-wing" and what makes me "right-wing" on this issue?  And, more importantly, what makes one good and the other bad?

As for me, I much prefer a Jewish state without the West Bank to a Palestinian state with Tel Aviv.

What I would say is that I much prefer a Jewish state without the West Bank to a Palestinian state with Tel Aviv.

And, yet, somehow, Reuven considers himself a liberal Jew, of the progressive persuasion, yet he considers me a right-wing knuckle-dragger.

We agree entirely, yet he considers me the enemy.

How odd... and how sad, really.

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*The image is the one that I used on my last diary at Daily Kos entitled Breaking: Jew Builds Second Bathroom in East Jerusalem

I wanted to use some image and could not think of anything so I landed on this.

I think that Reuven is a decent guy, and a smart guy, and I am sad that he has such a low opinion of myself.

The truth is, whether he likes it or not, we're brothers.