| Even if Republicans hold the House (which they very well still could), will there be sufficient moral courage and resolve in Washington to do more than bluster? |
Likely not.
The end has to come somehow, after all.
Full UNspeed Ahead
Underscoring the value of urgent resolutions:
| And it urges North Korea to speedily implement a September 2005 agreement in which it pledged to give up its nuclear program in exchange for aid and security guarantees. |
A year later and they are still urging the North Koreans to speedily implement something?
Don’t they realize how silly it sounds?
Yet so many folks still take UN resolutions seriously.
Of course I don’t do so hot at living by my own New Year’s resolutions.
But at least I don’t pretend to try to foist them on someone else.
Oh well.
Money for Killer’s Family
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In what’s being called a stunning example of “the imitation of Christ,” the Amish community devastated by the cold-blooded murder of five of its schoolgirls is raising money for the killer’s family.
Amish residents of rural Lancaster County, Pa., have started a charity fund to help not only the victims’ families – but also the mass-murderer’s widow and children, reports the New York Times today. The killer, Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, committed suicide at the end of Monday’s attack, in which he shot 10 girls. Five of them, aged 7 to 13, died. |
Pity Singapore
| Singapore is trying hard to dispel its conservative and strict social image |
To what advantage?
And how?
And what comes next?
Like I say, pity Singapore.
The Widow
| “Our hearts are broken, our lives are shattered and we grieve for the lives of the innocent children lost today.” |
Here We Go Again?
Israel on higher alert status.
Syria threat over Golan puts Israel on war alert
Israel has gone on heightened alert over a possible war with Syria amid reports that President Bashar Assad may be considering military strikes to regain the Golan Heights.
For years Israeli military intelligence has down-played Syria’s capacity to launch a meaningful attack against Israel, and the threat level has been kept “low”.
But Israeli reports have revealed that the threat level had been raised after intelligence assessments that Damascus is “seriously examining” military action.
The raised threat level comes as Israel prepares for Monday’s Day of Atonement, known as Yom Kippur, a solemn Jewish holiday when the entire country effectively shuts down as residents fast and seek forgiveness for sins.
Set It Up!
| This is also a geopolitically divided beach, purposefully hidden, a DMZ in miniature where the men and women of the U.S. Border Patrol would prefer no distractions as they monitor the fence of metal pylons that draws a 20-foot-tall line in the sand all the way into the sea.
It is the perfect beach, in other words, for the world’s first game of international border volleyball. |