Israel, Yassin, and the UN.

The UN is comprised primarily of nations that attained their size and power primarily through tools like assassination, torture and conquest over hundreds of years. Then they all get together and come up with the Geneva convention that says the tools they used to get big and powerful are no longer in play.

Handing Israel the Marquis of Queensbury rules when they've been getting their nuts kicked in a barfight for decades is completely unacceptable. It stinks of the rankest anti-semitism for them to say that its OK for the palestinians to blow up your civilians, but we're going to condemn you everytime you do something about it.

And that is precisely what the UN resolution does by not bothering to mention the fact that this wheelchair bound quadruplegic with the beatific smile engineered the death and injuries of thousands of Israelis and Arabs. Even the blood of the suicide bombers he radicalized is on his hands.

The same is also true of Rantisi, whose definition of the "occupied territories" just happens to include everything inside the Green Line, and has had a long standing agenda to eradicate every Jew in the region.

If the UN is going to condemn Israel every time it goes after the killers of its people, I am left wondering: were they giving the Jewish People a state, or a Jumbo-Sized Concentration Camp when they created it?

New Newshounds Fan Art

Basically a piece of Zodiac fan art.

( There's art behind this cut )

His name always intrigued me, so I've placed him in the center of a wheel bearing the glyphs for the signs of the Zodiac, because it seemed a fun visual pun to make. I decided to present this wheel as the Wheel of Fortune from the Rider-Waite tarot. Anubis has been replaced with Randy, because it felt right. Alistair is in the place of the Sphinx because, well, he's a cat. The sphinx's sword has been replaced with a flag topped by a cup, because Alistair seems more likely to belong to the suit of cups than swords. The flag itself is a horrible, horrible pun that morgan1 makes whenever we listen to the Carmina Burana or when she wants Sushi. The Evangelists have all been replaced by Newshounds cast members who have met Zodiac. Like the evangelists, each is recording the scene. Della illuminates it with a Radio Shack flashlight so that Kevin can film it. Above, Renata writes copy while Rochelle reports.

What Waite might say it means
Upright:
Chance favors the querant. You will break a major story, and possibly mediate peace between warring factions. At the very least, you can look forward to tuna sashimi.

Reversed:
Chance is aligned against the querant. You will be manacled by your followers, alpha-rolled by someone's pet, and banished to the wilderness where you will be intimidated by squirrels. At the very least, the tuna salad at your favorite sandwich shop has been sitting out too long; if you order it you will get botulism.

NOTE: I made that stuff up. Newshounds Fan Art should not be used for divination. In fact divination is a bad idea generally: just look at US Foreign Policy!

The line art is Technical Pen on Bristol. This was scanned and printed on to Copic Marker Paper and then colored with Copic markers.