Israel does a pretty good job of generating anti-Israel sentiment on its own, really... at least among anybody who's actually seen the numbers for the death toll in their war in Gaza...
That doesn't mean anti-semitism or anti-jew sentiment (there is a difference between the two), but it does mean that the state of Israel isn't exactly a good neighbour....
How does one be a good neighbor to someone who declares that their sole purpose is to wipe you out and persists in shooting rockets at you?
The toll in Gaza was high as it was on the Palestinian side for several reasons, not the least of which that they placed their munitions, rocket stores and batteries purposefully in densely civilian areas.
Despite the overwhelming imbalance in firepower, the toll on the Palestinian side was as low as it was because the Israelis actually dropped leaflets and made tens of thousands of phone calls to warm Palestinians to move away from those stores and batteries.
I encourage you to watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE-sDemDWWI , the testimony of a British Army colonel who was an observer for the UN who declared that the Israelis did more than any army in known times to safeguard civilians on the 'other' side. One penultimate fact - the typical ratio of civilian casualties to combatant casualties in wars is 10:1; that is ten civilians die for every combatant. In the Gaza combat, that ratio was 1:1; fair proof that the Israelis did all that they could to minimize civilian casualties.
And the last - in the year before the war, there were >3000 rockets shot from Gaza into Israel. How would any other country react to 3,000 rockets sent across the border from a territory they have left in hopes of peace?
Diverticulitis is caused when the gut shrinks, causing little pockets where infection can occur. The best solution to the condition is to increase fiber intake, thus stretching the gut and smoothing out the pockets. A couple of bran muffins a day, along with plenty of liquid, will solve the problem and prevent it in the first place.
I think this is sort of right but not exactly.
According to most sources (and my books) these pouches (diverticula) occur when the large intestine has to work hard to move the residue of a low-fiber diet along. This excess pressure strains the wall of the large intestine and causes the pouching.
The 'itis' part is inflammation when feces get trapped and bacteria proliferate.
An unpleasant end result could be peritonitis or perforation and peritonitis - so keep eating your fiber.
So the huge number of planes crashing around every airport is due to the 'mentality of brainlessness'
induced in the pilots by checklists?
Hospitals use checklists for many complex mechanical processes why not in medical procedures.
The music may have originated in the movie MASH where the camp dentist, 'Painless', despondent but notoriously well endowed is lured back from the brink of death (not really) by the tender ministrations of an impressed nurse who has peeked beneath the covers.
Thanks, well said.
As a 4 hour/day PS user I just don't have the time or incentive to spend learning Linux and then learning GIMP for a dubious (in my case) ROI.
Port over PS and I'll crank up the Linux servers I have and drop my Windows box.
Actually there are those of us that came from other places like Poland, Russia, Italy,China, SE Asia, Africa, the other Americas - and are quite satisfied with our origins.
A good proof for the christian anti-darwinists that it is not always the fittest that survive...
This kind of mindless slur really dimishes what seems to be a sensible posting. Grow up.
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Israel does a pretty good job of generating anti-Israel sentiment on its own, really... at least among anybody who's actually seen the numbers for the death toll in their war in Gaza...
That doesn't mean anti-semitism or anti-jew sentiment (there is a difference between the two), but it does mean that the state of Israel isn't exactly a good neighbour....
How does one be a good neighbor to someone who declares that their sole purpose is to wipe you out and persists in shooting rockets at you? The toll in Gaza was high as it was on the Palestinian side for several reasons, not the least of which that they placed their munitions, rocket stores and batteries purposefully in densely civilian areas. Despite the overwhelming imbalance in firepower, the toll on the Palestinian side was as low as it was because the Israelis actually dropped leaflets and made tens of thousands of phone calls to warm Palestinians to move away from those stores and batteries. I encourage you to watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE-sDemDWWI , the testimony of a British Army colonel who was an observer for the UN who declared that the Israelis did more than any army in known times to safeguard civilians on the 'other' side. One penultimate fact - the typical ratio of civilian casualties to combatant casualties in wars is 10:1; that is ten civilians die for every combatant. In the Gaza combat, that ratio was 1:1; fair proof that the Israelis did all that they could to minimize civilian casualties. And the last - in the year before the war, there were >3000 rockets shot from Gaza into Israel. How would any other country react to 3,000 rockets sent across the border from a territory they have left in hopes of peace?
Diverticulitis is caused when the gut shrinks, causing little pockets where infection can occur. The best solution to the condition is to increase fiber intake, thus stretching the gut and smoothing out the pockets. A couple of bran muffins a day, along with plenty of liquid, will solve the problem and prevent it in the first place.
I think this is sort of right but not exactly. According to most sources (and my books) these pouches (diverticula) occur when the large intestine has to work hard to move the residue of a low-fiber diet along. This excess pressure strains the wall of the large intestine and causes the pouching. The 'itis' part is inflammation when feces get trapped and bacteria proliferate. An unpleasant end result could be peritonitis or perforation and peritonitis - so keep eating your fiber.
When doctors report an STD, it is not done anonymously.
Just be careful of the staples.
So the huge number of planes crashing around every airport is due to the 'mentality of brainlessness' induced in the pilots by checklists? Hospitals use checklists for many complex mechanical processes why not in medical procedures.
The music may have originated in the movie MASH where the camp dentist, 'Painless', despondent but notoriously well endowed is lured back from the brink of death (not really) by the tender ministrations of an impressed nurse who has peeked beneath the covers.
Thanks, well said. As a 4 hour/day PS user I just don't have the time or incentive to spend learning Linux and then learning GIMP for a dubious (in my case) ROI. Port over PS and I'll crank up the Linux servers I have and drop my Windows box.