let's go hunting WABBITS!

I'm rather surprised I had to go to source for this: gung-ho talk about Syria (search for "Syria") specifically the same charges that are being trotted out all over, viz. WMD programs and sheltering terrorists. Whoopee. All I can say is I'm looking forward to seeing yet another pointless war that leaves the US sufficiently overstretched that, heck, Jim Bob's Two-Bit Terrorist Agency can waltz into 1600 Penn. and have tea with Barb.

The other choice news item this morning is the US' veto of a draft UNSC resolution forbidding Israel from removing Yasser Arafat. You will note it starts out by referencing no less than 7 resolutions which Israel is already disregarding. There are four items on the resolution: stop the violence (undirected, or, directed at both sides of the argument), don't touch Arafat (directed at Israel), and two more-or-less pointless statements that the UNSC supports the ongoing peace efforts and remains "seized of the matter" which I take to mean that they're maintaining an interest. The US' stated reason for vetoing this resolution is that it doesn't condemn terror. What the hell has that got to do with forbidding one nation from attempting to remove the head of another nation?

more reasons to like The Bar

So I've gone to The Bar with zadcat three times since she arrived. Last night, the third occasion, Colin The Barman saw me standing at the counter from the other side of the bar and indicated I should sit down and he'd look after me. Shortly thereafter he arrived over with the required pint + glass of Guinness. That's paying attention to your customers, that is.