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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
PM vows to do nothing 'show restraint' in face of Kassams
2006-12-08
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Thursday that Israel will "continue to show restraint" in Gaza, despite continuing rocket fire. Olmert also rejected suggestions that Israel's recent cease-fire with the Palestinians in Gaza would simply allow the armed groups to rearm and regroup for another round of fighting, saying that Israel would not allow that to happen.
Posted by:Fred

#5  "What is the cause of the current lunacy prevalent in the world today ?"

Socialism.

Posted by: Dave D.   2006-12-08 17:47  

#4  show restraint
Will anyone in the diplosphere show Israel some love now? I mean: Olmert is doing the thing they've always demanded in the face of aggression.
Posted by: eLarson   2006-12-08 14:39  

#3  wXJames: What is the cause of the current lunacy prevalent in the world today ?

Demons.

No really. According to the New Testament, Demons never really began to cause insanity until Jesus' day. No record of them before then: Saul's problems were caused by a spirit sent from the Lord. The bad demons probably learned how to do it by watching that one do his thing.

Anyway, the demons in Jesus' day were really new at it and very incompetent, so what looks today like cases of mental illness was REALLY demon possession, so casting them out really worked.

Fast forward 1900+ years. They've had a lot of time to practice, so they're more subtle and experienced: I'd say the least experienced demon who's effective, but still a bit wobbly in delivery, is the one plaguing Al Gore.

While I have no doubt that some forms of mental illness have a chemical basis, some seem not to, and those could be due to "damage" caused by a demon who's either still in residence, or who vacated the premises. I believe the current ROE requires that no evidence be given of spiritual entities that would contradict the current belief in Materialism. There is, for sure, the occasional slip-up that reveals that reality is deeper than appearances indicate, but the insistence that Demons be proven by Scientific means that such slip-ups can be managed out of existence. They will always be anecdotal, never sustainable, because a Demon has no reason to let itself be stuck in a test-tube or confined in a Laboratory to be poked and prodded by a hairless ape in a lab-coat with delusions of being in control, only to have some OTHER hairless ape in a lab-coat demand the same for purposes of "reproducing the experiment".
Posted by: Ptah   2006-12-08 13:34  

#2  What is the cause of the current lunacy prevalent in the world today ?
Is it planetary alignment ?
Is it sun spots ?
Is it global warming ?
Swamp gas ?
Sociopathic gambling ?
Boredom ?
Global acute self loathing ?
Behavior control micro waves ?
Crop circles ?
Skim milk ?
El nino ?
Whatever it is, logic has gone out the window.
If an enemy makes war on you, and you can fight back, you fight back, killing the enemy until the enemy stops making war on you, or until the enemy surrenders. There is no magic number of enemy killed or bullets fired, just keep up the fighting until you win. There is no restrictions on what ground you fight on, you may attack, or you may hunker down and fight a defensive war. In either case, you must kill them in order to win a lasting peaceful future. The other option is surrender, Mr. Olmert.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-12-08 11:16  

#1  In other late breaking news, Olmert disclosed he's started banging his head upside a brick wall five times each day in preparation for dhimmitude acclimation.
Posted by: SpecOp35   2006-12-08 00:15  

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