Eyefilled In Gaza

The IDF shock and awe display in Gaza in retaliation for the Hamas missile attacks. "We recommend Hamas leaders to keep their heads down the next couple of days." These words from an IDF spokesman was a red flag to Hamas. But the business of the military is war. Never peace.

Calm Down People

In GIMME SHELTER, the epic 1969 film about the mayhem at Altamont, Grace Slick of the Jefferson Airplane beseeched the unruly crowd and the pool cue-wielding Hells Angels from the stage, "Calm down, people."

There was no calming down that crowd.

Nor do the parties of Israelestine seem interested in peace.

Yesterday the Israeli Defense Forces missiled a car of transporting Ahmed Jabari, the Head of the Hamas Military, who is credited with the 2006 capture of an Israeli soldier in a complex cross-border raid that killed two other soldiers according to Huffington Post. In October 2011, Israel traded 1000 Palestinians for Gilad Schalit ending his five years as a hostage at the hands of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the Popular Resistance Committees (which includes members of Fatah, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas), and a previously unknown group calling itself the Army of Islam as reported by Wikipedia.

Hamas vowed to avenge his assassination and their military wing launched a fusillade of STS missiles into the Occupied Territories, reaping a deadly harvest in Kiryat Malachi, 20 miles from Gaza. The IDF responded with ATS missiles and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted that Hamas had been defanged by the counterattack.

Sirens sounded in Tel Aviv for the first time since the 1991 SCUD crisis during the Iraq I, warning Tel Aviv residents of incoming Hamas' rockets. Three struck the coastal city without causing any casualties. Shin Bet and the IDF are at high alert for a possible land invasion of Gaza to counter their intelligence laps on October 6.

The Independent reported that Paz Azaran, a 17-year-old Ashkelon schoolgirl welcomed the Israeli military operation. “We’re standing behind our army and we are very proud.”

More to come, but people, what about a little calm or is it too late in the season for peace.

To view the IDF Pinpoint Strike on Ahmed Jabari, Head of Hamas Military Wing, please go to the following URL; there are people on the street.

You Bet I Would Natalia Vodianova

Of course it'd have to be a wicked half-hour in a midtown hotel, since she's married with the heir of the LV fortune and I'm in no shape to be wicked with a beauty like Natalia Vodianova. So you're safe. Curses.

7:03 AM

Last month I started waking at 7:03am. I am not a light sleeper, but something was disturbing my slumber cycle. I opened the window of the Fort Greene Observatory to the morning air and heard a machine rumble. I immediately identified the source as the transformer powering the construction of a condo tower several blocks to the north. No one else in the house heard the noise, since they live on the lower floors, plus I'm very sympathetic to noise complaints, whereas some people are insensate to any foreign stimuli. The building looks about six months from completion, so welcome to early mornings. At least I don't live across the street.

The Searchers - Ending Scene

Without a doubt one of the best closing scenes in a western movie or any movies. John Wayne bringing his niece home. To view this scene, please go to the following URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woahas_W35A

Honest To Goodness Patriot

I didn't vote for him but he's my president, and I hope he does a good job. John Wayne - On John F. Kennedy's election Disgruntled GOP voters should learn from that as well as Democrats. We are one.

A Little Racist

After the Obamaslide a GOP friend complained about the electoral college system, saying, "Romney won nearly half the states and still lose the election." "Obama won 26 states and Mitt only had 24. That's less than half and he lost the popular vote too. The math adds up the same way. My guy got more votes than your guy." "Not via the electoral college. Obama won the most populous states with the excpetion of Texas." Mitt's constituency was the Deep South and square states in the West with the least population density in the nation. "Well, it's wrong." "You didn't feel that way in 2000." Even with Florida stolen from the Gore camp, the VP had more popular votes than his opponent, the ill-fated GW Bush. "So suck it up and act like an American for once. E pluribus unum." "Out of one many." My Republican friend was better educated than most voters. Former GOP vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan agreed with my friend in a recent interview, "President Barack Obama got turnout. The president should get credit for achieving record-breaking turnout numbers from urban areas for the most part, and that did win the election for him, but it was close." It wasn't close and I propose a Pax Obama to heal the chasm created by the right-wing pundits fearmongering race war to their aging audience, however hundreds of thousands of these listeners have mailed requests for their states to secede from the Union. Over 100,000 letters have deluged the Texas State Capitol in Austin. Troughout my adult life I have fled the USA whenever the GOP have been in power. Europe in the 80s. Asia in the 90s. Thailand during the GW Bush years. So to those dissenters I say, "If you don't love this America, leave it." Not that they could survive in Mexico or socialist Canada.