Devizes Melting Pot

“Protection. Conservation. Restriction. Deep ecology. Give me deep technology any day. They don't scare me. "I'm damned if I'll crawl, my children's children crawl on the earth in some kind a fuckin' harmony with the environment. Yeah, till the next ice age or the next asteroid impact." (Moh Kohn, The Star Fraction)/ "This is the fight between God and the Devil. If His Grace is with God, he must join me, if he is for the Devil he must fight me. There is no third way" King Gustavus Adolphus

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Monday, December 29, 2008

Monday Cat Blogging - Christmas Edition


Heidi on Christmas Day






George enjoying the return of peace and quiet

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Here We Go Again


Photo from the BBC

Gaza death toll tops 300 as Israel vows to fight to bitter end

• Warplanes target Hamas interior ministry and university
• Hospitals at breaking point, as Egypt ferries injured across border

Israel stepped up its bombing campaign in Gaza today, hitting an interior ministry building, a major university and a house next to the home of the former Hamas prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh.

Witnesses in Gaza City reported six separate air strikes overnight at the Islamic University, the leading university in the Gaza Strip which has links to the Islamist movement Hamas. Israeli jets hit a guest house used by the Hamas government. All Hamas leaders, including Haniyeh, have left their homes and gone into hiding.

The Israeli military said it struck dozens more targets including buildings used for storing and manufacturing weapons, and that naval vessels had also bombarded targets from the sea.
The current hardliners on both sides have no interest in peace

Israel could probably stop the rockets being supplied to Hamas but they don't, as this gives them an excuse to attack the Gaza Strip and for Hamas they can act the tough guy and shore up their power

its MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction, and those that really suffer are ordinary Palestinians and Israelis

Plus if Hamas did not have any rockets and Israel did not respond to said rockets they might gosh actually have to talk, but as we know, its easier to wage war than talk peace

If both sides talk they will have to compromise, talking means giving something up, which the fanatics on both sides just don't like.

From the blogosphere


The myth of Hamas rejectionism , The Qassam rockets myths

Israel: how to lose friends and alienate people

Shock, Awe and Lies: The Truth Behind the Israeli Attack on Gaza

Shot by both sides

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Friday, December 19, 2008

Friday Cat Blogging


A sedate Heidi


Heidi, the hard drinking rock cat


George in a box

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Friday, December 12, 2008

Friday Cat Blogging


Heidi




George

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Friday, December 05, 2008

Friday Cat Blogging


George in one of his favorite places


Heidi checking the property section of the local newspaper


George biffing Heidi


Heidi biffing George

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