In an effort to “prevent Palestinians from attacking towns in southern Israel” with rockets, Israel today undertook its third day of offensive military airstrikes in the Palestinian territory of Gaza, raising the death toll to more than 300. The Palestinian casualty numbers have been described as the highest over such a brief period since the 1967 Six-Day war. Scores of Israelis have been wounded — and at least one killed — by rocket attacks fired by Palestinians. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak called the situation “all out war.”

While Bush has been briefed on the situation by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley,

he has opted not to interrupt his final vacation as president to make a public statement on the crisis.

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Another Anon pointed me in this direction Lying Awake was my short way of describing Sleep Paralysis.

I hope those chicks didn’t take that virginity pledge thingy…wait, like that even matters.

This is the first installment of my 2008 Idiotic Commenters Year in Review. I have a few people I will be shining light on, but I want to start off with a person I consider a class A idiot. The fact that this person ran for Governor of De 2 times as a Republican literally astounds me . Everytime I see him make comments here I truly am in awe that several thousand people voted for him. Here are some of his best comments, but you can add more if you like.

Protack for Governor // Feb 6, 2008 at 12:36 pm

Here is the real reason:

Respondents who intend to vote in the 2008 election for Governor:

1. 28.94% of respondents, if their choice in the Republican race for Governor were Mike Protack, Eric Buckson, William Swain Lee, Dave Burris, or Terry Spence, would vote for Mike Protack. This represents 503 respondents who would vote for Mike Protack.
2. 4.03% of respondents would vote for Eric Buckson.
3. 30.32% of respondents would vote for William Swain Lee.
4. 6.62% of respondents would vote for Dave Burris.
5. 9.61% of respondents would vote for Terry Spence.
6. 20.48% of respondents are undecided or did not express candidate preference.
7. If you factor out the non responses of the 1,382 positive responses 36.3% of all respondents would vote for Mike Protack.

Food for thought.
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Suddenly he felt like he was awake. His eyes were not open. They would not open. He could not see the room. But he knew he was there. It felt as though he was awake. He lay their motionless. In a state of sleep where his brain was awakening faster than the rest of his body. He was not awake in fact. His body was some where in between. Trapped. Continue reading →

Tony Romo Sucks worse than I even thought possible

We are stuck with Andy Ried for 3 more seasons at least

The Jets deserved Brett Favre

The Miami Dolphins served justiced yesterday and it was poetic

Bill Belichick is an awesome coach

Big Ben is a class A pansy

Feel free to add more if you like

I will be hanging out with a bunch of Old People this weekend and the one thing I plan on asking them is if they trust their government.  It amazes me that even though these people lived through Nixon and watergate, Regan and Iran Contra, Bush and “Saddam threw babies out of incubators” and Bush II “In the Form of a Mushroom Cloud” that they can still trust their government and any elected officials for that matter.

Second amazing thought for the day, is how people go to Church on Sunday and are totally fine with going to war the rest of the week.

A bunch of matches are being shown at Rooney’s today for those of you wishing to crawl out of bed at 9am and start drinking I will be there!

Baby sqyuishy slept 7.5 hours!

Pick me! Pick me….oh, oh, oh Mr. Kahter! PICK ME!

We have had it out time and again but hopefully the italian tempers we both have will not clould the obvious similarities we share.

Several of the books from the reading list that Nemski gathered for me were/are out at the library and I started a few of my own to get a feel for how long it will take me to complete a book. I plan on reading as many as possible by the way.

At the end of the post Dominique suggested I read

‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’ by Jonathan Safran Foer

So perhaps join me in reading this book. I’m on page 80 after just an hour of reading and It is wonderful and wierdly appropriate.

I too had a daughter at 19 and I struggle with her daily I hope all will be ok with you and yours. Truly.

Who would have guessed…

Her sinking with the loss of almost 1,200 lives caused such outrage that it propelled the U.S. into the First World War.
But now divers have revealed a dark secret about the cargo carried by the Lusitania on its final journey in May 1915.
Munitions they found in the hold suggest that the Germans had been right all along in claiming the ship was carrying war materials and was a legitimate military target.

Gee, we were lied into WWI too.

Maintaining that the Lusitania was solely a passenger vessel, the British quickly accused the ‘Pirate Hun’ of
slaughtering civilians.

The disaster was used to whip up anti-German anger, especially in the U.S., where 128 of the 1,198 victims came from.

Every war needs it’s propaganda and this was the perfect one to exploit.

h/t blondesense

I opened my mail box,
My heart was a twitter,
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