In one of those articles whose headlines give me a big scare, AP says that Kobe just had knee surgery and will miss playing for USA basketball for this year.
Importantly, though, he will not miss any action with the Lakers. That’s all that counts by me, so I’m completely relieved.
I support Israel in the War on Terror in Lebanon and Gaza.
A play which may or may not have current political meaning.
The scene: a juice stand outside a courthouse. PATRON approaches the stand, which is attended by the VENDOR.
PATRON: I’d like some juice. What do you have for me?
VENDOR: I have apple juice, cranberry juice, grape juice, and orange juice.
PATRON: Very well, give me some grape-flavored orange juice.
VENDOR: Grape juice coming right up.
PATRON: No, I said I wanted orange juice.
VENDOR: Alright, orange juice coming right up.
PATRON: But I don’t like orange juice! I like the taste of grape!
VENDOR is puzzled.
VENDOR: Then why did you stop me from getting the grape?
PATRON: Because I don’t want you discriminating against me.
VENDOR: Come again?
PATRON is demonstrative.
PATRON: You heard me. You sit here with your grape juice and your orange juice, and every day discriminate against those of us who want orange juice but hate the taste! Why don’t you meet my needs? Isn’t that what freedom of enterprise is all about?
VENDOR is exasperated.
VENDOR: I’m sorry, sir, but orange juice is what it is. Oranges grow in
nature, and when squeezed produce orange juice. You can’t get grape juice from
an orange. That’s just the way the world works.
PATRON: I’ll have none of your bigotry. This is America! I’ll go to the
courts and FORCE you to cater to the orange juice haters of America by serving
us orange juice! Save your nature lectures for your science classes, where
they belong!
PATRON storms up the courthouse steps. VENDOR is alone, and opens a bottle of orange juice to take a sip for himself.
VENDOR: Wait until he finds out he hasn’t got a womb and can’t have babies.
Someone broke into Debian’s CVS machine. Now sure, Debian’s the one OS most likely actually to tell the world when its servers get attacked, but also Debian’s is the one whose project servers are the most exposed to the world to begin with.
I’m not sure what this says about the OS, but I think it’s likely to be bad.
Got SCUDs? No problem! THAAD has you covered! Says the Las Cruces Sun-News via Robert A. Hahn:
The pre-dawn art show was the result of the third of five tests planned at White Sands Missile Range to determine the effectiveness of THAAD — Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile. And military officials said the test went better than they could have hoped.
“This was phenomenal,” said U.S. Army Col. Charles Driessnack, the project manager for the Missile Defense Agency’s THAAD program. “It performed as expected.”
The test demonstrated the THAAD’s ability to “completely destroy that warhead so that no chemical or nuclear residue would contaminate areas” below the explosion, Driessnack said.
I don’t think it’s 1991 anymore, Toto.
The Mets are being predicted to run away with with the NL, but Sporting News picked the Dodgers to be the team the loses to them in the NLCS. Of course, that was printed before Gagné was out for the season…
Still, the Dodgers could go out and acquire a reliever, I hope, assuming that they don’t put all their eggs in Takashi Saito’s basket. They’d better hurry though; it looks like the NL West is starting to separate. The Dodgers are alone in second, two games behind San Diego, a game and a half out of third.
Shooting war between the two nuclear powers of the Middle-east? There are those who are hoping that all this will get resolved, and I understand that, but I’m hoping this is just a rumor.
Apparently the US has now vetoed a resolution calling for Israel to pull out of Gaza. The EU, of course, is worthless on this matter according to Fox:
“The European Union is greatly concerned about the disproportionate use of force by Israel in Lebanon in response to attacks by Hezbollah on Israel,” according to a statement issued by Finland, which holds the EU’s rotating presidency. “The presidency deplores the loss of civilian lives and the destruction of civilian infrastructure. The imposition of an air and sea blockade on Lebanon cannot be justified.”
As I read this, the EU would only allow Israel to respond ‘proportionately’ which would mean what, kidnapping two terrorists? What a joke.
According to MSNBC via California Yankee, Ambassador Bolton is much more sensible:
Nonetheless, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said it was still unacceptable because it had been overtaken by events in the region – including the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah militants on Wednesday – and was “unbalanced.”
“It placed demands on one side in the Middle East conflict but not the other,” Bolton said. “This draft resolution would have exacerbated tensions in the region.”
And of course, he can only speak for President Bush, so good for both of them!
Hezbollah may move the Israeli hostages to Iran and thus make this a very big war, very fast.
Because I think there’s no doubt that if Iran flies over Iraq, then we’ll be involved, this will get VERY big if the rumor is true.
Jonathan Frakes is older than I thought. Here he is now on Quincy as the evil murderer who’s attempting another murder to cover up the original crime.