Just Like a Settlement

You get a sexy one today:



Sly and the Family Stone - Just Like a Baby

A few interesting things today...The Daily Star is reporting (or at least, I think there's some reporting somewhere among all those advertisements, geez) that Israel has "won agreement" from the US to continue with 2,500 settlement projects in the West Bank. I haven't seen this anywhere else (even al-Jazeera, which is actually kind of suspicious), so I don't know what all that is about. If it is what I think it is, then I am not altogether surprised. Disappointed, but not surprised.

The high and mighty group of 8 industrial democracies (don't you wish you could be in their prestigious club?) known as the "G8" voiced their official concern over the post-election violence and clampdown in Iran. French president Nicolas Sarkozy continued with his recent stream of awesome sayings with this:

"We want to give negotiations every chance. If that works, then great. If that leads nowhere, then that won't be without consequences."

I guess we'll see what he's talking about when negotiations don't work, because they almost certainly won't. Wow, I promise I'm not normally this cynical. But seriously, I'm just going off history here.

Am I the only one who finds this whole "Biden-giving-Israel-the-green-light" thing very interesting? Now, NOT that I think a deterioration in US-Israel relations is a necessarily good or bad thing (I don't think frosty relations between any two countries in the world can be particularly beneficial to my vision of an ideal world; I do, however, think our often unconditional support of Israel throughout the years has definitely hurt us), but this seems like another step in that direction. The fact that we have now basically gone back on Biden's comment and said, "No, we did not give Israel any green light, they do not have our permission to attack Iran" means that everyone knows if Israel goes, they are going alone. I can't imagine even the most deluded Iranian officials would be able to successfully implicate us now in the event of an Israeli attack (please, please, please let there be no attack).

This is from Fox News; they are discussing a study which found that mental health is positively related to marriage in Finland and Sweden. Also, Fox News wants you to know that interethnic marriages are bad:



Note how he says we are marrying other "species and ethnics." Man, I just...don't even know what to say. How is this on TV?