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**** UPDATE: Time changed to 8:35 a.m. Eastern. ****
Tomorrow (Friday) Morning, I am scheduled to be on the “The Michael Smerconish Show,” on WPHT-AM 1210, Philadelphia, at 8:35 a.m. Eastern. Listen live.
I’ll be discussing . We’ll talk movies that come out in theaters, this weekend, including “Resurrecting the Champ” and “The Nanny Diaries“.

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I’ve written many times about Muslims who’ve defrauded Medicaid. That includes by the Dearbornistan-based ), pursuant to which you, the taxpayer, pay for the delivery of babies to pregnant Muslim foreign aliens who lie to Customs and Border Protection inspectors to get into the country to have their kids here. Their kids become anchor babies with U.S. citizenship.

(a Bush Federal Appeals Court nominee) and (who wants to be Michigan Governor) refuse to prosecute the agency and are letting the fraud continue.

But there’s also the Medicaid and Medicare fraud that’s just meant to get rich of the infidels.  [Ad:  This one doesn’t affect the workers graduated from medical billing and coding schools. It doesn’t affect hospital workers so much either.] That’s generally referred to by Muslims as “halal (permitted) money.”

Here’s the latest such scam:

A Southfield company that manages skilled nursing centers, its owner and two of its top officials have agreed to pay $1.25 million to settle allegations that they improperly billed Medicaid and Medicare for inadequate care of, and services to, residents at four metro Detroit nursing homes.

Ciena Healthcare Management Inc., its owner Mohammad Qazi, Chief Financial Officer Anis Khan and Chief Operating Officer Denise Mahnke-Pugh agreed to the settlement Monday.

The settlement — $707,888 to be paid to the federal government and $542,111 to the State of Michigan — covers the submission of claims to Medicaid and Medicare for nursing and other services provided at St. James Nursing Center, the Americare Convalescent Center and the Qualicare Nursing Home, all in Detroit, and at Northfield Place Nursing Home in Whitmore Lake, between January 2000 and December 2006.

The facilities allegedly failed to meet the needs of residents in several care areas, including medication management and nutrition and hydration, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit said Monday.

Ciena and its officers have entered into a 5-year integrity agreement in which they agree to undertake measures to comply with federal health care programs.

“Integrity”? When pigs fly. And that goes for the U.S. Attorney, too.

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Earlier this week, I told you about the CNN trilogy of prime-time special reports by pan-Islamist water-carrier Christiane Amanpour. Tuesday Night was “Vilify Jews” night. And tonight is “Vilify Christians” night. (Last night was “Understand Peaceful Islam” night.)
I predicted Amanpour’s report on the Jews would play like Al-Jazeera fare. And apparently, I was right. My friend, Robert J. Avrech–a rare Hollywood screenwriter with common sense (he does movies I like, such as “A Stranger Among Us” and “Body Double“)–writes as much. On his site, Seraphic Secret, he has a great, humorous piece on the Amanpour propaganda output (and a piece on her soft on Islam coverage), and you can expect the hit-piece on Christians, tonight, will be as bad.

I’m beginning to like Avrech’s new nickname for Amanpour, “Al Jazeera Lady.” As I wrote previously, she’d fit in well there. Some of his report on her phony report:

So Karen and I sit down, flip channels, and what do you know, suddenly Al Jazeera pops up.
“Since when do we get Al Jazeera?” I ask.
“We don’t,” Karen assures me.
Oh man, gotta call the cable company and make sure we’re not paying for this Jew-hatred.
There’s all this slow mo footage overlaid with sinister musical stings of grim looking Jooz carrying M16s; this is intercut with Bedouin children herding sheep, looking all innocent and peaceful.
And the narrator/host/entertainer, a woman with shoulders like a fullback, and an absolutely tragic mullet style hair-do from the 80’s, keeps talking about “G-d’s Jewish warriors,” and she repeats these three words–I’m counting, mind you–and by the time she hits number 107, I give up.
I now know what it’s like to get brainwashed in some North Korean reeducation gulag.
Anyway, this Al Jazeera lady with the hoo-ha Oxford accent–big shock–states . . . [Read the rest].

Like I said, watch for this same imagery and propaganda against Christians, tonight. And don’t forget, when it came to “God’s Muslim Warriors,” Amanpour was very kind-hearted.
Don’t forget this: When they take over, they’ll kill the likes of her, too. Al-Jazeera Lady will be the first to go.
More on the Crescent News Network’s anti-Judeo-Christian agitprop from Carl in Jerusalem, Pam of Atlas Shrugs, and Richard Baehr in American Thinker.

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Earlier today, I wrote about Wall Street Journal columnist Jeff Zaslow’s column on . I’ve also decried that portrayal in Hollywood films and TV productions.
But, lately (this week, at least), I’ve noticed a trend in upcoming movie releases. And it’s a good one. Dedicated, loving, honorable fathers are back in Hollywood.

This week alone, I screened three upcoming releases in which that’s the case: “Resurrecting the Champ” (in theaters–and my review–tomorrow), “In the Valley of Elah,” and remake “3:10 to Yuma.” While I can’t post reviews here until the release dates, I can tell you that in all three, the main characters–the protagonists–are fathers who love their sons, their wives, and their families, and are men of honor and integrity. While not perfect (none of us are), they are men who recognize their faults and try to do the best for their sons and families.
It’s a breath of fresh air from an industry that regularly pumps out losers, bums, and absentee dads in a constant parade of negative father figures. While I can’t recommend “Elah” (because it defames American soldiers as wanton torturers in Iraq–more on that in another post), I loved the other two and can recommend the main characters in all three movies as role models and positive portrayals of what so many American dads are really like.
Let’s hope this new trend sticks around.

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If you’re male and hope to become a veterinarian, good luck.
In an outrageous turn of events as a result of affirmative action in favor of female applicants, today 79% of slots in America’s veterinary schools go to women. That’s about 4 out of 5 spots going to women, only 1 to men.
The Boston Globe reports on this disturbing trend of men being turned away from yet another whole profession. Now, at least, they are employing affirmative action the other way, but why have preferences in the first place?:

Recruiters from Tufts University’s Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine recently fanned out to Massachusetts schools, looking for future vets. They hunted for top students and those with an aptitude for working with animals. They paid particular attention to boys.
But when 25 high school students arrived this month for a two-week stay at Tufts’s Adventures in Veterinary Medicine camp, all but four were girls. . . .
The program’s radical gender imbalance reflects a broad trend in the veterinary profession. While just 5 percent of veterinary students were women in the 1960s, today 79 percent of the seats at the nation’s 28 veterinary schools are occupied by females. The ratio is more dramatic at some schools, such as Tufts, where last year 89 percent of its first-year class were women; at Michigan State and University of California-Davis, 88 percent and 81 percent, respectively, of the incoming classes are women.
This year, for the first time, the number of practicing women veterinarians nationwide is equal to the number of practicing males.
There is little research to provide an explanation of the trend, but theories abound. The practice of veterinary medicine is considered more flexible and less time-intensive than some other professional fields, making it attractive to women who hope to have families. It pays, typically, less than fields such as human medicine, law, and dentistry — a factor that some say makes it unattractive to men who generally expect to be a home’s sole breadwinner.
Another theory is that women have been drawn to the field, and men have left it as it has transformed from one focused on large farm animals, valued for their practical use, to one that predominantly cares for pets. Many veterinarians now are expected to care not only for animals but for feelings of pets’ owners.
“It’s hard for guys to be so openly compassionate to fuzzy animals,” said K.C. Horigan, 25, of Scituate, a woman in her second year at Tufts veterinary school. [Gee, she’s not biased against men. Is she?] . . .
The predominance of women entering veterinary medicine is a remarkable reversal from just four decades ago when women struggled to gain admission to veterinary schools. It is also a departure from some other science fields — like engineering, computer science, and human medicine — where men continue to outnumber women in most degree programs.
The change is so dramatic that some veterinary medicine schools worry that the pendulum has swung too far and are taking steps to move it back. At the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine, administrators encourage their alumni to take boys into their practices to serve as interns, and at the newly founded College of Veterinary Medicine at Western University of Health Sciences, in Pomona, Calif., the admissions process takes gender into consideration, along with other factors.
“Every school in the country kills themselves trying to get men,” said Shirley Johnston, who became the nation’s first female veterinary school dean in 2003 at Western University. Today there are three female deans of veterinary schools in the United States.
Some educators worry that having so many women in the field will eventually divert talented men who might view veterinary medicine as exclusively “women’s work.” There are also concerns that the small numbers of men will leave holes in the profession, since women tend to steer clear of large animal medicine, despite the fact that technology enables women to handle large animals as well as men can.
Others say that after years of underrepresentation of women in veterinary medicine, their prominence in the field has no downside. Some say it could even serve as a reminder of women’s abilities at a time when controversies over women’s aptitudes in science are still sometimes questioned. . . .
“The students who are attending are getting brighter every year,” said Corinne Sweeney, associate dean at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. “Having a majority gender is fine, so long as all feel welcome.”
Indeed, for some in the field, women’s over-representation is a point of pride.
“It’s great to have a field that is women dominated,” said Stefanie Kreiger, a Tufts graduate who co-owns a practice in Connecticut with another female veterinarian. “It’s not that I want to squeeze men out, but having so many women does feel important.”
Women began entering veterinary medicine in significant numbers in the 1970s, after the enactment of Title IX and other legislation mandating equal access. The balance began to tip in the 1980s, and the proportion of female applications and enrollment has increased since then, while male applications and enrollment have dropped off.
Educators and practitioners say the imbalance could correct itself with time. The field is changing, with an increasing focus on the prevention of animal borne diseases and biodefense — hard-edged science that some say men will find appealing.
But in the meantime, there are veterinarians-to-be out there like Colleen Ottomano, 17, of Hopkinton, who attended Tufts’s preveterinary program this summer.
“I think girls make great veterinarians. We are more patient than boys,” she said. “And you need to be because you can’t talk to an animal.”

Just wait until this happens in other fields, where you will notice it more. When someone needs to drag me out of a burning building, I think I’ll trust a man–on average–to do the job far better than a woman.

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Readers of this site have long read my laments on society’s attacks on men and fathers. The onslaughts have lasting effects that are harmful to us all and certainly to our future, America’s children. A strong male role model is key to so many important things, including a safe America and a tough front against Islamists and their terrorist tactics.
Today, my friend, Detroit-based Wall Street Journal columnist and reporter Jeff Zaslow, has a magnificent column, echoing some of these thoughts and providing more examples of how our society has gone way too far in its negative campaign against men. And that includes a famous perpetrator of this anti-male mythology–“America’s Most Wanted” host John Walsh.

Photo by Trevor Romain of Trevor’s Blog
(Read Trevor’s Touching Letter to His Father)
The future of Western civilization does not lie in a matriarchy, and although Jeff doesn’t go that far in his column, I think we know where we’re headed, and so does he:

Are We Teaching Our Kids To Be Fearful of Men?
By Jeff Zaslow
When children get lost in a mall, they’re supposed to find a “low-risk adult” to help them. Guidelines issued by police departments and child-safety groups often encourage them to look for “a pregnant woman,” “a mother pushing a stroller” or “a grandmother.”
The implied message: Men, even dads pushing strollers, are “high-risk.”
Are we teaching children that men are out to hurt them? The answer, on many fronts, is yes. Child advocate John Walsh advises parents to never hire a male babysitter. Airlines are placing unaccompanied minors with female passengers rather than male passengers. Soccer leagues are telling male coaches not to touch players.
Child-welfare groups say these are necessary precautions, given that most predators are male. But fathers’ rights activists and educators now argue that an inflated predator panic is damaging men’s relationships with kids. Some men are opting not to get involved with children at all, which partly explains why many youth groups can’t find male leaders, and why just 9% of elementary-school teachers are male, down from 18% in 1981.
People assume that all men “have the potential for violence and sexual aggressiveness,” says Peter Stearns, a George Mason University professor who studies fear and anxiety. Kids end up viewing every male stranger “as a potential evildoer,” he says, and as a byproduct, “there’s an overconfidence in female virtues.” . . .
TV shows, including the Dateline NBC series “To Catch a Predator,” hype stories about male abusers. Now social-service agencies are also using controversial tactics to spread the word about abuse. This summer, Virginia’s Department of Health mounted an ad campaign for its sex-abuse hotline. Billboards featured photos of a man holding a child’s hand. The caption: “It doesn’t feel right when I see them together.”
More than 200 men emailed complaints about the campaign to the health department. “The implication is that if you see a man holding a girl’s hand, he’s probably a predator,” says Marc Rudov, who runs the fathers’ rights site TheNoNonsenseMan.com. “In other words, if you see a father out with his daughter, call the police.” . . .
Mr. Walsh, host of Fox’s “America’s Most Wanted,” began advocating for missing children in 1981, after his son was killed by a stranger. He knows some men are offended by his advice to never hire a male babysitter. But as he sees it, if a teenage boy wants to experiment with sex, you don’t want him using your kids.

Um, hasn’t Mr. Walsh seen the many stories (even just here in the Detroit area) of adult women preying on teen-age boys for sex? Come on. Wake up. Women are becoming just as predatory as we’re taught to believe men are.

“It’s not a witch hunt,” he says. “It’s all about minimizing risks. What dog is more likely to bite and hurt you? A Doberman, not a poodle. Who’s more likely to molest a child? A male.”

John Walsh says men are now Dobermans?! (Except him, of course.) Sounds like he’s been watching too much Oprah and “The View.”

Airlines use similar reasoning when they seat unaccompanied minors only with women. They are trying to decrease the odds of a problem. Certainly, many men would be safe seatmates for kids, but sometimes, especially on overnight flights in darkened cabins, “you have to make generalizations for the safety of a child,” says Diana Fairechild, an expert witness in aviation disputes. Airlines have had decades of experience monitoring the gender of abusive seatmates, she adds, quoting a line repeated in airline circles: “No regulation in aviation takes effect without somebody’s blood on it.”

I think I smell a perfectly justified class-action gender-discrimination lawsuit against airlines.

Most men understand the need to be cautious, so they’re willing to take a step back from children, or to change seats on a plane. One abused child is one too many. Still, it’s important to maintain perspective. “The number of men who will hurt a child is tiny compared to the population,” says Benjamin Radford, who researches statistics on predators and is managing editor of the science magazine Skeptical Inquirer. “Virtually all of the time, if a child is lost or in trouble, he will be safe going to the nearest male stranger.”

Right on, Jeff Zaslow. If only America’s conventional wisdom was actually infused with this kind of common sense.

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Like most sane people with a life, I hate reality TV shows. Why should I care about loser nobody wannabes and what eight of them do together in a house or on an island or in an Australian desert?

But, based on my viewing of the first two episodes of “Anchorwoman” on FOX, last night, I think this show is an exception. Anchorwoman is Lauren Jones, a completely ditzy excessively-siliconed, peroxided former model (she was a “Barker Beauty” on “The Price is Right”) and WWE wrestler who wants to become a local news anchor. They’d never hire this idiot, but since FOX owns the small-town Texas TV station and wanted to make this TV series, the network gave the local news operation an offer “they couldn’t refuse.”

News Anchor-Bim Lauren Jones

Jones is so completely annoying and dumb that it’s comical. She has no edit button, coupled with the persona and emotional development of a disobedient 3-year-old. Her less glamorous, real-news colleagues are extremely irked (and jealous) that they work so hard and yet have to put up with this bimbo getting a free ride in without paying dues.

But, hey, that’s what local and national news has become these days. It’s not about brains. It’s about looks and showbiz. Jones would fit right in at FOX News (or MSNBC or CNN Headline News–where a one-time model and NYPD Blues star once got an instant anchor seat–for that matter). It’s hilarious when she comes to work in stripper shoes and a shirt so low-cut you can see almost her entire basketball-sized, incongruous “enhancements.” (She was sent home to change.) Gives newswhore, er . . . newshound, a more definitive meaning.

And Jones seems to have this odd obsession with “the Jews” in her air-headedly funny comments. Here are a couple that made me both wince and laugh at her:

* When she can’t stand walking on a road to gather information for a news story, she remarks:

Holy cannoli. We eat those in New York. They’re Jewish.

Right. Like Knishes and Rugalach are Italian.

* When a superior tells her, “You’re way too WASP to get away with that,” Jones responds:

WASP? I’m not Jewish.

Man, whoever passed this woman on the high school equivalency test is ripe for a malpractice lawsuit.

I’m sure it will get old. Gawking at train wrecks and auto accidents quickly does. But for now, it’s jaw-droppingly entertaining in a jarring way to watch this woman’s breathtaking ignorance.

She says she’s “half-Katie Couric.” That actually might be accurate.

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If you don’t want your money to go to Islamofascists and boycotters of Israel, don’t gamble at the MGM Mirage. And don’t stay at the hotel, either.
Dubai’s Dubai World just bought 20% of the hotel/casino/resort owned by billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, the Financial Times reports.

MGM Mirage Now Islamofascist Occupied Territory
That’s right. Despite the Islamic prohibition against gambling and owning gambling investments and enterprises, Dubai now owns 1/5th of the casino enterprise. Well, no-one ever said they were as pious as they want us to think they are. They just want to impose sharia on us, while they violate it all the time. And while some might say that Islam allows its adherents to take infidel suckers’ money that they lose while playing the slots and piker, that’s incorrect. Islam prohibits taking part in gambling period. That would include Dubai’s MGM Mirage.
Regardless of their hypocrisy, don’t be a hypocrite and fund them. Stay at the Venetian, instead. Its owner, Sheldon Adelson (who contributed to one of my runs for the Michigan House), is a patriot and on the right side in the War on Terror.
More on Dubai’s new haram [prohibited] investment:

Dubai World has an option to take a 20 per cent stake in MGM Mirage after agreeing a $5bn deal on Wednesday with the world’s second-biggest casino operator.
The group – the Dubai government’s holding company – will pay the company $1.2bn to buy 14m shares in MGM at $84 a share, a 13 per cent premium on its New York closing share price on Tuesday.
It will add another 14m shares in a public tender offer at the same share price, which will take its holding to 9.5 per cent for an outlay of $2.4bn. MGM on Wednesday rose 9 per cent to $81.26. Twelve months ago, it was trading at $37. . . .
Terry Lanni, MGM’s chairman and chief executive, said on Wednesday that Dubai World had agreed not to take more than a 20 per cent stake to ensure MGM retained its listing with a sufficient float of public shares.
DW is also paying $2.7bn for a 50 per cent stake in MGM’s CityCenter resort, hotels and condominiums complex on the Strip. Although gambling is banned in Dubai, Dubai World will become a worldwide gambling operator, holding licences in several US states as well as MGM’s international gambling locations.
Mr Lanni said the approach had come from DW, smoothed by an introduction from Sol Kerzner, the South African resorts operator. Kerzner International, 27 per cent owned by a DW subsidiary, signed a deal with MGM in June to develop a resort on the Strip. . . .
Sultan Bin Sulayem, chairman of Dubai World, said in a statement that the company was attracted to MGM’s assets, locations and brands, and that DW’s vision was to create a global portfolio of signature properties. “The announcement brings together two companies known for creating landmark developments that have the ability to change the face of luxury living and destination tourism,” he said.
Mr Lanni said the deal was transformational for MGM, creating a better leveraged balance sheet, fostering growth in markets such as the Middle East and more joint ventures. “This is a sea-change for this company,” he said.

Yes, you’ll be hearing statements like that a lot as the Islamofascist Gulf states continue to buy up America, until they control so much that our government and politicians are all beholden to them.

MGM earlier this month reported record second quarter revenues of $1.9bn.

Thanks to reader D for the tip.
Oh, and by the way, it should be no surprise that Islamists violate Islam for their own aggrandizement, while preaching something quite different to you and me, who are not Muslims. As reader Ari points out, some of the biggest customers of Israeli porn are–you guessed it–those from the repressed Islamist nations.
They’re hypocrites, plain and simple. Do as sharia says, NOT as we do. I mean, who can forget the ?
Again, do as the “Religion of Hypocrisy” says, NOT as we do.

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Earlier this week, the FBI released photos of two men who appear to be Middle Eastern and were traveling Seattle ferries, behaving strangely, and asking very suspicious detailed questions about the ferries. It sounded like they were planning for some sort of terrorist attack. And the Bureau asked for tips on the two men. Some mainstream media outlets–The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, for instance–refused to cooperate and won’t post the photos. Yet, the release of the photos has led to lots of tips.

Did They Plant Suspicious Package Behind Ferry Toilet?
But, now, it appears that FBI suspicions were correct. This morning, a Seattle-area ferry was evacuated, after a suspicious package was found behind a toilet in the ferry’s bathroom stall for the disabled (where it would be less likely to have been found, since those stalls are used less than regular stalls):

A “suspicious package” was found at the height of the Wednesday morning commute on one of the largest ferries in the Washington state fleet, idling the vessel for about an hour.
The 460-foot Puyallup had just been emptied of cars and passengers after arriving at Colman Dock from Bainbridge Island about 8 a.m. when the package was found behind the toilet in the disabled passenger stall in the men’s restroom, said Marta Coursey, a spokeswoman for the ferry system. . . .
Patrol Sgt. Craig H. Johnson would not disclose any details on the object, describing it only as a “suspicious package,” but said investigators determined it did not pose any immediate threat and carried it off the vessel for further examination.
No arrests were made and no identified individuals were being sought, but “we’d like to find the person who left it there,” Johnson said.

But, hey, I’m sure the two men acting suspiciously and very likely Muslims from the Mid-East, had nothing to do with it. Right?
As the French would say, “Quelle Coincidence.” What a coincidence.
Too bad I don’t believe in coincidences. Do you?
Thanks to Reader Duane for the tip. He doesn’t believe in coincidences either.
Oh, and by the way, Muslims are angry with the release of the photos. They’re sure the men in the photos are Arab Muslims. Since they insist on it, I guess I’ll have to believe them. Now, why would they think that, when there’s no evidence from the photos that the men are Muslim? Well, maybe because most Muslims know that the only men planning terrorist attacks on American ferries are Muslims. Thanks, Muslim community, for confirming what you continue to deny, but that which everyone else (and you, too) knows for certain:

The release of the photo has angered many in the Muslim community.
“These men look like Arabs,” said Aziz Junejo. “What most people would personify as a so-called terrorist and the fear that our government is putting into people right now.”
The FBI insists that it’s not trying to scare anyone and that they just want to talk to the two men and move on, and Aziz and Bureau officials agree that federal agents have developed an excellent relationship with the Muslim community.
But, as far as we know, agents never took the photos directly to anyone in the Muslim community to ask for help.

Gee, I wonder why.

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Remember the gazillions in your tax money that President Bush sent to our “preferred” terrorists in Fatah, last month and before?
Well, guess where your money is now going?
Associated Press reports that Fatah is paying Palestinians in Gaza not to work. How dumb is that? If I’m a HAMAS operative who wants to hurt Fatah. I’ll pretend I’m an impartial, poor Palestinian and take Fatah’s money. So will many others. Yup, your tax money is going straight into HAMAS’ hands. Thanks, President Bush. LOOOOVE your “peaceful” terrorists and your wasteful aid to them. Guh-reat job. Ditto for your magical “democracy” plan for barbarians. It’s working so well.

Fatah & HAMAS Terrorists: Your Tax Dollars Propping Up Both
More:

Gaza’s public employees are getting paid on one condition: Stay home.
Such is the irony of life in the Gaza Strip now that Hamas militants are firmly in charge. A rival pro-Western [DS: “pro-western”?! PUH-LEEEEEEEZE] government in the West Bank is delivering salaries to most of Gaza’s civil servants as long as they don’t work.
The moderate [DS: “moderate”?! like pizza is “moderately” fattening] Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas doesn’t want its money propping up Hamas, which violently seized control of Gaza in June. But neither does it want to punish Gaza’s mostly pro-Fatah 90,000 civil servants whose salaries form the backbone of the already badly bruised economy.
The result is a lot of inactivity. And many fearful for their safety in a Hamas-dominated land aren’t pleased about their holiday from work.
Abu Samer, a former security official in the prime minister’s office, spends his days channel surfing and Internet browsing in search of news that might offer hope that Hamas’ rule could be short-lived. [DS: Wow. American money paying for a fun internet-browsing vacation for terrorists. Excellent.]
Mustafa, a senior police detective until Hamas’ takeover, plays cards and watches TV much of the day and says he’s “very bored.” [DS: Your tax dollars at work. Just terrif.]
Abu Osama, a Fatah-allied out-of-work border official, says that since Hamas’ takeover he’s gone from smoking half a pack of cigarettes a day to two. . . .
Gaza’s beaches are packed these days, especially at night. Many out-of-work civil servants have taken to hanging out at the beach until the wee hours of the morning then sleeping until late in the afternoon to avoid daytime boredom. [DS: American tax-funded beach vacation in Gaza. Absurd.] . . .
The money has provided a lifeline for the impoverished strip, however. And some observers wonder whether it might prolong Hamas’ hold on power, by letting some of the steam out of the Gaza pressure cooker.

Like I said, our tax money is propping up HAMAS, ultimately. Ridiculous.