Quick, quick, they're not happy yet, what must we sacrifice now to appease our god?

The emboldened eternal victims. Hope and Change!

When aren't they attacking Israel? Or plotting attacks?

Is there any good news today?

Hamas truce - oxymoronic

After all, they were busy attacking Israel yesterday, the day before yesterday, etc.

re: #5 DistantThunder

It's not a truce. It's a hudna.

There is no "test" or "testing" here. Unless I am radically mistaken, the Palestinians have never ... NEVER ... honored a truce.

How evil of Israel to keep the border crossings closed. They're so full of hate.

////sarc/////

Ceasefire!

/not

Peace is maintained by strength not idealism.

We have elected an idealist.

Good news: Mr DT is sailing off Catalina Island. He wrote:

We had a school of dolphins swimming along
side of us. Maybe twenty. They would swim along side of us, then pass us,
and do a leaping breach in front of us. IT WAS SOOOO cool. We are going 7
knots, and the are just knifing through the water. They were on all sides,
just there to say hello and entertain us. I cannot tell you how moving it
is to see them in their natural environment. I LOVE dolphins. That is a
life highlight.

Bad news: He dropped his phone in the surf.

Miller's Frank comment just made it onto aol's front page. heh.

How can a truce be "shaky?"

New rocket barrage tests shaky Israel-Hamas truce

Usually, it's the Israeli response that "tests the shaky truce." Change!

re: #12 DistantThunder

He will get a call from a dolphin ?

re: #16 Ojoe

He will get a call from a dolphin ?

Not even Obama can heal his phone I'm afraid.

Take one truck of food per missile/mortar etc fired and dump the flaming contents across the fence so they don't rot in the warehouse and all...

re: #16 Ojoe

He will get a call from a dolphin ?

That reminds me of a Far Side cartoon. A group of scientists are studying dolphins in a tank & trying to decipher their language. The one scientist says to the other "Johnson! I'm getting another of those strange 'ah-bla es-pan-yol' sounds."

What if one of their little missiles hit a UN food convoy? Bye Bye Food!

re: #19 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

LOL

BBL

Celebratory Fireworks... Nothing more.

re: #1 bosforus

Quick, quick, they're not happy yet, what must we sacrifice now to appease our god?

line up the virgins achmed

Surprise, surprise.
Let's give them some greenhouses and a state.

Palestinians Attacking Again

Must'a been something Obama's aide said....

re: #23 Eowyn2

line up the virgins achmed

But I don't want to be sacrificed, Abdul!

Israel needs to get some rockets that are identical to the Palestinian rockets and randomly shoot them over the border...No "disproportionate" response

At this point, to get over the sickness of the MSM (and the parties), you have to laugh at their use of language.

"shaken", "challenged" "Israeli border areas".

Even Ehud Barack stated earlier this week that the truce is in full force despite the Phakestinian attacks on civilians, and the Israeli response.

If fighting between the two parties isn't enough to break a truce.....what is?

I'm having some serious LGF problems lately

Note that it was the "barrage" which tested the shaky truce. In the headline, anyway. In the article they actually break their rule, that of using inanimate objects as the subject of the sentence. Usually they wouldn't mention that "militants" fired these rockets, only that they fell from the sky. Also note that they weren't firing rockets at people, but "areas". I'm just surprised that the author didn't throw in the word "restive". I guess that word is reserved for Thailand.

This is the dawning of the age of Obama

/wish it was sarcasm

re: #11 Ojoe

Peace is maintained by strength not idealism.

We have elected an idealist.

I agree with Dennis Prager. Idealism is a euphemism for a lack of experience.

It's just celebratory gunfire. Nothing to see here. Move along, folks.

In other news, the sun will set this evening...

re: #29 WrathofG-d

I'm having some serious LGF problems lately

Like . . .

re: #29 WrathofG-d

I'm having some serious LGF problems lately

Me too. (Whoops! I hate that.) Some days LGF just won't load. I've been blaming Comcast.

re: #34 tfc3rid

In other news, the sun will set this evening...

Gah - I misread this as ' the sun will seethe this evening' ....

re: #29 WrathofG-d

I'm having some serious LGF problems lately

I have been for weeks. LGF is the only site which I have to hit reload about 3-4 times on, to get rid of the firefox3 "Page not found" screen. My PC says "not found...not found...not found...oh THERE it is!" No other website I visit does this. I have tried blocking all scripts, allowing all scripts, allowing some and blocking some. Improvement? De nada.

Also when clicking the New Comments button, I can sometimes go out for a smoke, come back in 5+ minutes, and the wheel is still spinning. When I post a comment, same deal. Gotta refresh in these cases. This is why, for the last couple weeks, when I post a comment here, just before clicking Post Comment, I have to select and copy the message body of my post, just in case the Checking... wheel goes into Spin Forever mode, I can then refresh and ctrl-V and post...and then it usually posts instantly.

Like right now. ::copying all of above text, in case of 'Infinite Checking..."

Why is it still called a truce?

Nope, posted in about 8 seconds. Half the time it goes forever.

The Page Not Found error happens pretty much whenever I first click my LGF link on the links toolbar. I want to scream at firefox (and sometimes do, quietly) "It's RIGHT WHERE IT WAS THE LAST TIME!11!~)
-Taq

re: #39 Watcher

Why is it still called a truce?

So the MSM can wail about disproportionate response whenever Israel tries to protect herself.

re: #39 Watcher

Why is it still called a truce?

Good point. Let's call it a peace treaty.

re: #38 Taqiyyotomist

LGF load problems:

This is probably not it but I had issues years ago that turned out to be due to Norton antivirus. I switched to AVG and all's been well. Both Firefox and LGF have undergone many revs since but it's still a maybe.

...looks like even Gaza 'militants' should know you never blow-up the hands that feed you!

Now, only if Iran would just speed-up their nukey labs, think of all the little 'kabooms' that could now be better used elsewhere like against 'the great satan' when Israel is finally and utterly nuketified off the map...

Didn't taken the Jooos long to start those rocket attacks against themselves, did it?//////

Who the hell wrote this? You're not supposed to begin a sentence with "but."

re: #38 Taqiyyotomist

Something like that happens on my Girlfriend's computer, but only on her computer. I don't have the problem on mine at work or the one at my home. It's intermittant. LGF will work fine for a while, then I can't get the page to refresh (or load new comments) for a while, then it comes back again.

I had figured that it was something about the way her computer was set up.

re: #43 greenmamba

I would never use that bloated, non-uninstallable thing. I, too, use AVG.

Brain teaser.

If multiple rockets are fired from Gaza on Israel nearly every day.

If Israeli return fire is aimed at the rocket launchers.

If terrorists attempt to infiltrate Israel from Gaza.

If Israel shoots them dead.

When does the media stop calling the situation a cease fire?

Not so much a brain teaser and a reason to knock you head against a wall at the absurdity of it all.

re: #47 Iron Fist

"...it was something about the way her computer was set up."

I think you're probably right...but why just LGF? 'Sokay, I didn't bring it up earlier, because it's no big deal, I work around it just fine.

re: #3 lawhawk

During the TRUCES....sheesh.
/sarc

re: #29 WrathofG-d

WoG: Have you tried Valtrex...I pretty much prescribe that for everything.

Israel is clearly in the wrong here. How could they possibly withhold FOOD from these poor people, and fuel for their ONLY power plant?

/sarc

re: #50 Taqiyyotomist

I don't know why just LGF. It isn't (I don't think) a session timing out. I don't lose my login when it happens. I just can't connect to the site for 5-10 minutes. I wouldn't know how to produce this kind of behavior if I were trying to. It's not that big a deal, but it is annoying.

re: #38 Taqiyyotomist

I have been for weeks. LGF is the only site which I have to hit reload about 3-4 times on, to get rid of the firefox3 "Page not found" screen. My PC says "not found...not found...not found...oh THERE it is!" No other website I visit does this. I have tried blocking all scripts, allowing all scripts, allowing some and blocking some. Improvement? De nada.

Also when clicking the New Comments button, I can sometimes go out for a smoke, come back in 5+ minutes, and the wheel is still spinning. When I post a comment, same deal. Gotta refresh in these cases. This is why, for the last couple weeks, when I post a comment here, just before clicking Post Comment, I have to select and copy the message body of my post, just in case the Checking... wheel goes into Spin Forever mode, I can then refresh and ctrl-V and post...and then it usually posts instantly.

Like right now. ::copying all of above text, in case of 'Infinite Checking..."

One Word.....SAFARI

re: #46 astronmr20

Who the hell wrote this? You're not supposed to begin a sentence with "but."

So you are saying we shouldn't start a sentence with but.

Nor should we start a sentence with other conjunctions.

But we can and do.

Yet it is annoying.

And I'll bet it drives you crazy.

For to start a sentence this way violates a rule in English that is ...?

re: #4 zenren

Is there any good news today?

Certainly, of course... ummm, wait, lemme think...

re: #56 TaeJohnDo

So you are saying we shouldn't start a sentence with but.

Nor should we start a sentence with other conjunctions.

But we can and do.

Yet it is annoying.

And I'll bet it drives you crazy.

For to start a sentence this way violates a rule in English that is ...?

Just don't end your sentences with a preposition, or I am going to have to show you where the door's at.

The militants are merely looking out for the good of their oppressed people. We all know how those sneaky Zionists lace food with all types of nasties. It's reminiscent of a tool who once complained about ambulances not being allowed to reach certain areas, until it was brought to her attention that ambulances were often utilized as vehicles for bombings and that free, world class health care facilities were available for those "underprivileged" who do manage to find their way to the hospitals of those "imperialist occupiers." One can't help but envision a second major American civil strife on the horizon when the remnants of a saner era of pride and self respect in this nation and it's pioneering accomplishments, clash with the will of indoctrinated larvae, produced by the fifth column US education system, hellbent on imposing a revisionist mantra on any within earshot, for the common good of course.

re: #58 Red Cloud

Just don't end your sentences with a preposition, or I am going to have to show you where the door's at.

Its' a deal.

"we hate you and wish you dead. but you be nice to us and give us what we want anyway, ok"

re: #14 Ben Hur

...because it's on paper or in spoken word only...or, when one, both or all parties involved in the truce-ing agree to it followed by robust laughter or in poker-faced jest or in general, anytime trucer 'A' is dealing with trucer 'B' when 'B' happens to be one or a combination of the following members of the snake species: Hamas, Palestian, Middle-eastern 'militant', any old terrorist or group of terrorists, radically Islamic, a murdering zealot, etc., etc.

Try something novel--trcak the missles, and fire back.
It might work.
19-Beer...See--komo-no?

"The U.N. has been very clear that we should not hand the agenda over to those who fire rockets," Ging said. "They shouldn't dictate whether the crossings are open or not for the civilian population here."

Israel also continued to block diplomats and journalists from entering the territory, including a group of some 20 European diplomats. The military said crossings were closed to all but humanitarian operations.

Gaza has been sealed for eight days, the longest closure since Egyptian mediators hammered out a truce between Israel and Hamas in June.

Well, what's wrong with crossing into Gaza from Egypt? What European diplomats and UN have against making Egypt their base of operations in Gaza, methink? Is Egyptian crossing into Gaza sealed too? Why?

Shut her down. And turn off the lights.

Until Israel realizes that there part in the peace process is to die off and not fight back, the Palestinians have no choice but to keep fighting!

/ I'm being sarcastic, but someone is bound to think along those lines.

Relax, this is all part of the "peace" process. Those randomly targeted rockets and mortar rounds are "friendly" fire.

re: #17 DistantThunder

Not even Obama can heal his phone I'm afraid.

No, but Obama can help him find it, when the "seas begin to recede"...

Three words for the IDF:

Counter Battery Fire

or

Match the paleostines terrorism for terrorism, rock for rock, bullet for bullet, bomb for bomb, rocket for rocket. Remove guidance packages and let the rounds fall where they may.

Either way the Israelis will be vilified for defending themselves.

re: #64 norar

Well, what's wrong with crossing into Gaza from Egypt? What European diplomats and UN have against making Egypt their base of operations in Gaza, methink? Is Egyptian crossing into Gaza sealed too? Why?

The Egyptians don't like the palistinians stirring up trouble for the Egyptian government. Most arabic countries have problems with the palistinians.

re: #61 mojo9

"we hate you and wish you dead are actively trying to kill you. but you be nice to us and give us what we want anyway, ok"

Fixed it.

why let any food or fuel in ?

what the flock are the "palestinians" going to pay with anyway ?
they have no industry or agriculture

and why must it go via Israel
don't they have sea port access for food and fuel deliveries

I say blockade all land passages
let them deliver via anywhere but over Israeli land

Fortunately, Israel was protected by a shield of Obama Love upon which the Hamas rockets exploded harmlessly. Such is the power of Our Dear Leader Comrade Obama.

They must be peace missiles. Or truce missiles. Surface-to-peace missiles. Something like that.

The most shocking part is that the story pretty much admits it isn't Israel's fault.

That's what's a surprise. After January 20th peace will break out all over the globe, (except in front of Mormon churches).

I wonder who first started using "test" to mean "break". A genuine test of a truce would be an action that relies on the truce being upheld. For example, anyone who chooses to live along the border is "testing the truce": they are safe only as long as the truce were upheld. In contrast, anyone who fires rockets across the border is breaking the truce: their actions demonstrate that there is no truce at all.