+ Much of the cement used to build the “security fence” between Israel and Palestine is being supplied by a Palestinian company. According to Aljazeera:
The Egyptian cement affair began nearly a year ago when Egypt offered to sell the Palestinian Authority 420,000 tonnes of high-quality cement at symbolic prices ($12-15 a tonne) to prop up the Palestinian economy, badly battered by sustained Israeli invasions over the past four years.The cement was meant for rebuilding Palestinian homes. The cement was to be used to rebuild Palestinian homes and buildings destroyed by the Israeli occupation army, particularly in the Gaza Strip where entire neighbourhoods in Rafah in the south were bulldozed recently.
However, instead of dealing honourably with the goodwill gesture, a number of corrupt and well-connected businessmen, most likely in coordination with influential figures within the PA, were obtained a licence to import the cement from the PA Economy Ministry, headed by Mahir al-Masri.
The cement, which included several large consignments, was trucked through two border crossings between Sinai and the Gaza Strip. However, instead of going to the Gaza Strip, the cement ended up in the Israeli town of Ashkelon.
+ I was inspired to do my quarterly site make-over by Bienvenido Cruz’s site Copper.com. His site is quite refined and more techie looking than I would want giantkicks to look. None the less, seeing all that red reminded me of a header gif I made for giantkicks from a detail of a painting by Niko Stumpo. - I posted an image of her painting in January 2004. oops. Niko is a guy!
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August 4th, 2004 at 1:25 pm
wtf? all of a sudden it’s so different. it looks really dope.
August 4th, 2004 at 1:34 pm
thanks!! it’s my quarterly site make-over…i wish i could remember the name of the artist chick i copied a detail of her painting from. when i figure it out i’ll credit her.
August 5th, 2004 at 6:46 pm
happy birthday =)
August 6th, 2004 at 1:10 am
thanks Leah, missed you at my surprise party.
August 7th, 2004 at 6:37 pm
awww sweetie I’m sorry I didn’t make it, I had about $15 until I got paid yesterday.
August 13th, 2004 at 7:46 pm
tramadol However, on religious issures there can be little or no compromise.
There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious
beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than
Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being.
But like any powerful weapon, the use of God’s name on one’s behalf
should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing
throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom.
They are trying to force government leaders into following their position
100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a
particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of
money or votes or both. I’m frankly sick and tired of the political
preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be
a moral person, I must believe in “A,” “B,” “C,” and “D.” Just who do
they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the
right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as
a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who
thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll
call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every
step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all
Americans in the name of “conservatism.”
- Senator Barry Goldwater, from the Congressional Record, September 16, 1981
August 18th, 2004 at 8:00 pm
God, Jesus, The Holy Spirit. 3 is a Fibonacci #.
Fibonacci #’s follow a pattern of taking the last #
and adding it to the next 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,….. The
pattern is seen in all nature, like the dimensions
of sea shells, the # of tips on leaves, the dimensions
of a human body, or the movement of currency
markets. Everything was created in patterns like this.
It’s like mathematical fractals. The whole universe is
constantly spinnig inward and outward in this pattern,
right into the sub atomic, and sub sub atomic
particles.
And if the bible is truth, God would have to be conscious
of all of this information all at once, everywhere.
Every thought fiber every hair.
We know the bible is the greatest book of all time.
Thats a fact. Another fact is the ancient
accuracy. Cross refernced w/ all other
historical findings there are no mistakes.
And I’m scarred of this.
I want to say, “Don’t take my word,
read the bible.” Because answeres to so
many questions are in there.
Like the Isrealy-Muslim conflict and why,
where, and what is all going on.
Or the story of Sodom that was leveled:
God sent 2 angels to save the only rightous
family that lived in the city. When the
rightous father saw the 2 male angels he urged
them into his home because he knew what would
happen. By the time the angels
where in the house they were seen by other
citizens. And before the night fell all the
men of sodom where at the door of the rightous
family demanding that the angels by brought outside
so that all the men could have sex w/ them.
The next day SSSLLLAAAMMM.
But not what the men of sodom were thinking.
If I lived in Canada I would go to Jail for saying this.
Thats why I’m saying it, also because I don’t
hate anyone because I’m a Christian.
I try to be most like Christ not like
anyone esle, I’m free.
“Whats right is right.”
Lets do the right thing by at least
taking a good look at the bible the most
important book of history and the guiding
light of compassion.
Then make up our own mind.
The God of Heaven bless the Universe. Amen