Or The Prisoner.

Pretty sure he's not seen Alias or The Prisoner.

Next up: Star Wars.

It's a good thing kids are so entertaining.

that was great to read, Val!

that was great to read, Val!

ditto

Israel has accepted the unilateral cease fire.

I have no words. I should have been glad, but I've seen how those ends before.

Good work, gov of mine. You killed and destroyed and planted a lot of seeds of fear, only to come back, pretty much, to square one.

I wonder how long this will last. Hours? Days? Months? And at what cost?

At least Nilly's brother will be back home.

Great job, Olmert.

Edit: Oh, schools will be closed tomorrow, and all as usual here (as far as it's been for the past three weeks): no gatherings of over 100 people, no work, nada. I fail to understand what have my country accomplished, but I'm sure the propaganda will explain that to me for the next few days/weeks.

Good work, gov of mine. You killed and destroyed and planted a lot of seeds of fear, only to come back, pretty much, to square one.

Oy.

I fail to understand what have my country accomplished, but I'm sure the propaganda will explain that to me for the next few days/weeks.

snerk.

Hopefully it means some "peace" for now. Hopefully they at least hit some targets that will reduce/stop the rocket firing for a little while. Which will hopefully mean that they will re-open humanitarian supplies. Which hopefully means folks will be happy & shiny again (yes, I am ever the optimist, and slightly delusional).

In terms of one sided. Actually Israel did get something, maybe even what the government intended. The Egyptians have agreed to stop tolerating the tunnels and to take U.S. help in finding them. If true that eliminates the main means by which Hamas smuggled in rocket making material. But it also eliminates the main means by which Gazans imported food. The agreement is also that Israel will let more food and medicine, though no requirement that they let in enough to provide basics of health. So if the Egyptians keep their agreement, the rockets will stop as soon as current rockets and suppplies for making them are used up. And the giant prison that is Gaza will be shut absolutely tight, with Gazan civilians subect to the non-existent mercy of the Israeli government. How realistic it is that Egypt will A) seriously make the effort to comply with that part of the agreement B) suceed om that effort I leave to Shir.

Generally the conventional wisdom is that Egypt tolerated the tunnels of Egyptian popular opinion, and could have shut them down any time if they wanted. Don't know how true that is. But since Egypt is a dictatorship, if public opinion is strong enough to have forced its hand on that issue, that certainly raises questions about whether it can defy it now. I guess one sign of the "success" of the truce is will be the Egyptian government cracking down on dissent and killing and arresting a lot of its people.

Coast Guard video released of US Air water landing: [link] The event starts about 2 minutes into the video. Amazing. With in 45 seconds, they are out on the wing. Within 2 minutes the first ferry arrives to help.

Is it wrong to hope that this accident stays just as it appears? No later revelations of wrongdoing on anyone's part, etc? Classy hero types are in short supply.

Apparently he couldn't have been more perfectly selected as the pilot of this event. He's not only an expert in flying everything from gliders to jumbo jets, but he's got a consultancy firm that deals with safety issues.

Cash, you have to see the Robot Chicken episode where they do a bit about the designer of the Raiders of the Lost Ark traps with the giant boulder. Emmett and I quote it at each other frequently.

"Oh my god! Is that our god out in the open, completely unprotected?"
"Seemingly! Seemingly!..."

I don't know if we've quoted anything more since the three-headed dog on The Venture Brothers and his "conundrum."

Spent all day with Scola. He took pictures of Matilda on the trapeze. Then he went with Emmett and I to play at the video arcade. He kicked my butt on the motorcycle race, but I ruled on the Pirates of the Caribbean pinball game.