Soccer Dad

Happy 7th

Who wrote this about George Soros?

The brainwashing took on this man. He's a relic from an earlier age, a classic example of the Jew that is taught to hate what he is and what he stands for.

Meryl Yourish. As they say in the blogosphere, read the whole thing

How did I find this ancient bit of blog wisdom?

Well I was trying to find something appropriate (not this or this) so I scrolled through Instapundit links to Meryl. Actually Meryl's two year blogging post (again courtesy of Instapundit) gives a sense of what the blogging world was like 5 years and what it evolved from.

(Going through these posts it appears that there was a friendliness and an informality among bloggers that's somewhat missing nowadays.)

My first memory of Meryl was her takedown of Andrew Sullivan on the booing of Paul Wolfowitz at the Israeli solidarity rally 5 years ago. She was right, of course, when she wrote:

But the rally was the Israel Solidarity Rally--not the Israeli and Innocent Palestinian Civilians Solidarity Rally. We went to Washington to make our points--not listen to theirs. We went to hear speakers talk of the innocent Israeli civilians who are dying--murdered by Palestinian "martyrs"--whose comrades hide in the midst of innocent Palestinian civilians.

And of course I'd credit Meryl not only for being a model, but someone who actually encouraged me to blog (whether she realized it or not.)

And now of course, along with Snoopy the Goon, I am now a co-blogger of Meryl's. So what can I say except for Happy Blogoversary and may you go from strength to strength! And may I say your blog doesn't look a day over 5.

Here are some flowers for the occasion. (The nice thing about pictures of flowers is that they don't fade or die. They're also cheaper.)