Like it or not, Hamas is the only hope now for Palestine. Anyone who thinks a Kerry victory over Bush (highly unlikely if recent polls are any indication) is going to change anything, they're dead wrong. One thing Bush has going for him is honesty. The fucking Democrats have long been fierce supporters of Israel (although they won't tell you this). Any way you look at it, the Palestinians are fucked. And the murder of Zionist pricks, however tragic, at least evens the score, which is the best that can possibly be hoped for, at least as long as the United States is a superpower.

Best Idea ever. Tomorrow, sunday, I'm going to Jasper to go skiing. the three following days I have finals. I'll repeat myself. Best Idea ever. EVER!!!! g'night

arrested development... roflmao

Jeremy's back? hmm... didn't really realize he was gone...

Naw j/k - Welcome home Jere, I'll be sure to avoid your presence until Thursday at around lunch, at which time you may meet me in CAB walk to the plant or RATT and get completely shit-faced before I have to go to work.

Later!

my eyes are crusty and pink...

I'm tired, my hand's sore... and my penis hurts.

I'm tired, my back hurts, my tummy hurts...

... whew... Good thing I didn't start to rant or anything...

Not really. They've hit their two targets, sure. But today, they killed two of Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi's bodyguards. Their previous (obviously failed) attempt killed two bystanders. They took two attacks before they killed the spiritual leader of Hamas, Sheik Ahmed Yassin. The time they succeeded, they killed 8 other people. The previous attempt, a dropping of a 1/4 tonne bomb, failed to kill him, or any of the other high ranking Hamas leaders in the vicinity. The Israelis definitely aren't very skilled at this (I'm somehow hoping they don't get more practice, though.) Not that I'm a fan of Hamas, but I definitely know that missile launches from Apache helicopters are not the principled response to young men and women blowing themselves up (some might call firing missiles into civilian centres to combat terrorism hypocrisy, but I choose not to bring that up.)

On another note, has anyone tried to use EdmontonJournal.com? If you want to attract people to your news site, maybe you should make it load in a reasonable amount of time. But no, we can afford to make it slow. Is it the beautifully detailed pictures that's slowing me down? Nope, not many of those. Maybe it's the multimedia. Nope, virtually none. How about the handy flash menubar? Nope, just text. No, the reason it's slow is the fucking advertisements. They can't get a decent server to load the bullshit that no one reads anyway. It is literally faster to load the "E-edition" (where they basically scan the paper and put it online) than it is to load the text file version. Why would I want to use this source? Who are the geniuses running the online part of the Edmonton Journal and, by extension Canada.com (who gave them that domain, anyway?)

Finally, for some great "unbiased" online resources, there's 1ClickLobbyist.ca, which apparently only lobbies for you if you are on the right of the spectrum, and FreeDominion.ca. The latter taught me that today was National Liberty Day. Both are great sources of information... if you think that Lorne Gunter is a level-headed advocate for a fair and balanced view of the world.

If that's what he meant... then damn... they're good.

taken from the Guardian, this is an excerp from i believe Wednesday's Dubya address.

"Israel also has a large stake in the success of a democratic Palestine. Permanent occupation threatens Israel's identity and democracy. A stable, peaceful Palestinian state is necessary to achieve the security that Israel longs for. So I challenge Israel to take concrete steps to support the emergence of a viable, credible Palestinian state. "

I wonder if what he meant by challenge was take muthafuckin' helicopters to blow the shit out of Hammas Leaders.