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The latter point strikes me as equally ignoring the fundamental issue above. Israel couldn't ignore the rockets and press on with peace talks, because the rockets represented a clear message that peace talks had been rejected in favour of military force. It seems to me that a weeks foray into Gaza would do very little long term to curb the rocket problem, getting at the core would probably mean an occupation and policing the population. Israel doesn't want a mess like that. It's easier to give Gaza a quick shake every once in a while, regardless of whether doing so costs 1000 Palestinian casualties to the, what, 10 Israeli lost to Hamas rockets in the same period.

All they can achieve are symbolic victories, continuing the bombardment despite a heavy Israeli presence could be considered one, reminiscent of Hezbollah.

A bus jumping over motorcycles, shouldn't that be the other way around.

Animal rights is a laudable enterprise, too bad these PETA nincompoops ridicule it so.

I guess I'm musing that the people who blame computer games think they have found one.

It's hard being a parent, now if only there was some easy fix solution that would ensure impressionable young people do not turn to the dark side...

Whoever is in power is always fair game, other than that comic strips always fail when they take obvious sides. I wonder who would think any of those were funny.

I don't know if jealousy is egotism, it certainly is an emotion powerful enough to provoke murder in those capable of it though. The man sounds like a pathetic case too, I'd wager his problem is self loathing more than it is self absorption.

It's like the perfect excuse to be a rotten bastard.

I love the way his views are portrayed here as being the product of a 'funny sense of humour', rather than rabid egomaniacal loathing. It's never a healthy thing to start believing in your own myth, all the great 'mystics' did. As a complete aside, my mother broke it off with my father at the time he was writing a book on Crowley, she says writing it was turning him satanic.

ahh, no just a famous lunatic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley

Didn't he name himself after some famous Satanist. The name rings a bell.

One man or woman one vote. Anything other than proportional representation means one man 1.3 votes in one area, and one man 0.82 votes in another.

Seems like Satanism is entirely incidental, some kind of jealous obsession more likely.

I never subscribed to the notion that if you haven't got anything constructive to say you shouldn't say anything either. It's gotten me into trouble on more than one occasion.

More likely they just don't care as much as they perhaps ought to.

There must have been Hamas hiding in it, and that makes everything alright.

140 sounds a little chewy. Anyway humans are sentimental like that. There is a difference between eating a 200 year old turtle and a, what, 6 month old chicken. For some reason it is also worse to eat a dog or whale than a pig. It the only conclusion is that it's racism, or in this case ageism.

To be fair it's easy to be distracted by buxom chicks in Khakis.

Don't you think that if you have more money than anyone could spend in a lifetime you have a responsibility to do something worthwhile with it rather than have your parasitic children grow weak and lose their ambition with the prospect of gaining it.

No, they usually make onboard sound chips.

There will always be a couple of trolls who think it easier to ridicule than to be constructive. Maybe they lack imagination themselves? Can you really start a sentence with "But..." in English? Yes. People who think differently are usually advocates of dogmatic linguistic prescription and no one ever got anywhere by listening to those people. Well, if you don't realise what effect it has and use it because you can't figure out where to stick the dependent clause it just looks silly. But... (hahaha) theres no final verdict on style.

I don't get it, I mean being physically strong is an advantage I suppose, if everyone happens to run out of bullets at the same time, other than that it comes down to marksmanship, training, endurance. Soldiers are usually required to haul around a ludicrous amount of gear.

There is a common sense of the country, Israel, always being a hair's breath away from destruction, no doubt as a result of the 6 day war. I am always weary of patriotism, it rarely brings out the best in people. I mean, it can sure, but most times it makes you blind to your own failings.

I heard about a archeologist finding a possible evolutionary link about the first peoples in north america, he excavated it and tried to study it to figure it out, but was blocked when the Indian tribe that used to dwell in the spot where the skeleton was found, filed a lawsuit claiming that the guy was part of their tribe and thus they were going to rebury him in a traditional manner. Yes, there was some suggestion of an explanation of the American Indian heritage as regards the evolution of the human species. On the other hand I can appreciate that the Indians think the bones of their forefathers belong in the ground. Maybe I'm just sentimental. In any case the researchers got a good chunk of the data they were looking for before they had to return the bones.