After a week of hibernation, hello again folks. Hope everyone had a safe and restful 3eid..

Margaret Hassan has been murdered, killed, butchered, like so many others north of our border...and for what? Wars are dirty dirty things...so take heed and learn from the mistakes of those before you..wage peace people, not war. no matter how noble you think you are..it reduces you to murderers, whoever's side you are on.

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent." -- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows." -- Martin Luther King, Jr

Here are some headlines for those interested in what's happening in Fallujah : What did Falluja do to deserve this?' (Toronto Star)---Attack on Fallujah Can't Be Justified (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)---Fallujah: Video shows US soldier killing wounded insurgent in cold blood (London Independent)---U.N. rights chief concerned over civilians in Fallujah (Boston Globe)---Bodies litter streets in rubble of Falluja (The Herald,UK)---Dogs Eating Bodies in the Streets of Fallujah (Electronic Iraq)---Falluja refugees tell harrowing stories (Int. Herald Tribune)...

Fallujah population=300,000 souls...those currently in city= 25,000 souls.

"The British Prime Minister and his ally the U.S. President are mangling the language, destroying its meaning by avoiding the use of verbs, twisting nouns into verbs, and endlessly repeating phrases until they become "zombified." laments John Humphreys a writer in the UK who has just written a book about the problem..

feeling down? Take a look at the Daily Show..there's always a good laugh in there...the video Jon Stewart shows of Colin Powell dancing is enough to make you lose your sorrows for at least 15 minutes (or make you cry, you decide)---here is another source for that video.