Stop the Killing!

Both sides in the conflict over Gaza have got to put down their arms and negotiate. Israel has overreacted grossly to a problem of a few off the mark rockets landing in Israeli space. They responded to wasting vast portions of densly inhabited Gaza including the bombing of a University and the deaths of over 360 Palistinians. I've heard the arguments from the right that Palistinians are nothing more than rogue Arabs who are "squatters" on Israeli soil. Of course the Palistinians have lived in the land for two thousand years and the Israelis have been there a little over sixty. To me that's a big "no contest". The argument has been raised if Israel didn't exist there would be a lot more youth unrest in Arab countries because the poor in Arab nations who got the shaft and aren't among the rich- - always have the Israeli to blame for everything. Some say that bombing of Gaza (and now they are massing tanks for a ground invasion) is actually a recruiting tool for Arabs to use in cultivating extremism. But the reality is that I don't believe the vast majority of the citizens of Gaza are members of Hammas. They just want to be left alone in peace. President elect Obama risks being pegged as just another tool of the Israeli lobby if he doesn't get off the dime and show a little compassion for the Palistinians. Jimmy Carter seems to be the only ex president who really understands what it's like to be a Palistinian in the mideast. The whole area including the west bank and Gaza is like a gigantic inturnment camp where the people have few rights, and need permission to pass from one region to another and where essentials like heat and water can be cut off at will. It's been noted that Isrial newspapers have shown more dissenting views than our own newspapers such as the New York Times, when it comes to opposing our own governments foray into a "War of choice". No newspaper or network outlet was the least inclined to attack Bush for the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. As Chris Matthews put it, "We are all hawks now". Basically the Arab nations don't care about the Palistinians because most of them such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia are in our back pocket anyhow. It sadens me to think that here is another area where President Obama is going to disappoint the Progressives, who are responsable for his winning the Election.

We have that guy dressed in a Santa Clause suit who came to a family gathering of his estranged wive's relatives and wasted the whole party, killing nine and leaving many grandchildren as orphans. You all know the story. He had cash with him and explosives in the car and was intending to escape to Canada except something went wrong and when he burned the house down he suffered burns himself so instead decided to comit suicide. He was 45 and a church goer who had a girlfriend in 2002 who said she left him because he refused to support his own disabeled son. Nobody who attended church with him suspected him of being a potential mass killer. If there is a Hell, then this man surely made a swift descent thence after his death.

Johnny Wendell doesn't mind that the Obama girls, Shasha amd Melique are now objects of the paperatzi. Apparently there are photos of the girls wearing bekinis in Hawaiiai. We never saw Chelsea in a bekini. She was well protected. I believe children should be protected from the paperatzi even if they are children of public figures. President Obama seems to be cultivating some of this photographic voyerism himself. Photographers would not be able to get that close to get shots of him unless he allowed it. As I have often said- - I hope that the Obama presidency will be noted something besides Berock Obama having rock star status. I would hope it would be known for reestablishing our historic progressive march forward in this country.

Apparently people who take the virginity pledge are no more likely to stay virgins than the general population. I have known many Christian couples that apparently were virgins on their wedding night, so I know (or at least "think") that it's possible. The whole idea of putting virginity on a pedistal is so "two centuries ago". This was back in the era when women were regarded as property and a woman losing her virginity meant her price went down. Dr. Laura may want to foster some idea of sexual purety. But many of Laura's ideas put women back into the dreaded role of being "sexual objects" and there for the sheer pleasure of a man and somehow not a real person. I'll tell you right now in the case of relational problem or divorce cases I have a natural bias to side in favor of the woman, because they are usually right. Let's face it- - men are jerks. We still have trouble seeing women as "people" - - you know- - like we value ourselves. Many of Dr. Laura's ideas perpetuate the idea of one dimensional view of women as nothing more than glorified whores, and house cleaners, and human incubators and nannies. Men actually deprive themselves by not fully appreciating their wives.

Delany of Delany and Bonnie, died the other day. His guardian angel visited me- - and this has happened several times where I was visited by a guardian angel after someone famous died. Delany is a pure Romulan and a citizen of Revelus V by right. John Lennon was apparently happy to see another musition from "that era" there on Sirius A. Apparently the reason why we don't get better "messages out" from John Lennon is that he suffers from depression. Some people even when they are in the same room it's hard to tell what is going on inside the recesses of their mind. The title "Stop the Killing" was my own idea although the phrase is used in the song "Freda People". John Lennon has not expressed an oppinion (that I know of) on the current mideast situation. The guardian angel of Delany told me quite a bit of other stuff and he suggested I make everything public because "If you found it interesting then your readers will probably find it interesting, too". I've known that Delany was a Romulan and destined to be among them when he died as far back as 1971 or so. Of course I'll be up front with you. I still have my doubts as to whether anyone of any stripe susvives death at all.