Israel's abandonment of the path of defeatism

"JUST HITTING ANOTHER
BRICK WALL"

Before my Daddy posts his regular

Sunday blog, here are the answers

to yesterdays’ TV Quiz:

A.) The Life of Riley

Actor’s Real Name Show Name

1. William Bendix Chester A. Riley

2. Majorie Reynolds Peggy Riley

3. Lugene Sanders Babs Riley

4. Wesley Morgan Chester Riley, Jr.

B.) Dennis the Menace

Actor’s Real Name Show Name

1. Jay North Dennis Mitchel

2. Herbert Anderson Henry Mitchel

3. Gloria Henry Alice Mitchel

4. Joseph Kearns George Wilson

C.) Make Room for Daddy

Actor’s Real Name Show Name

1. Danny Thomas Danny Williams

2. Jean Hagen Margaret Williams

3. Marjorie Lord Kathy “Clancy” O’Hare Williams

4. Rusty Hamer Rusty Williams

5. Angela Cartwright Linda Williams

D.) Lassie

Actor’s Real Name Show Name

1. Jon Provost Timmy Martin

2. June Lockhart Ruth Martin

3. Hugh Reilly Paul Martin

4. Lassie Lassie

E.) Real McCoy’s

Actor’s Real Name Show Name

1. Walter Brennan Grandpa Amos McCoy

2. Richard Crenna Luke McCoy

3. Lydia Reed Hassie McCoy

F.) The Many Loves of Dobbie Gillis

Actor’s Real Name Show Name

1. Dwayne Hickman Dobbie Gillis

2. Bob Denver Maynard G. Krebs

3. Sheila James Zelda Gilroy

G.) The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet

Actor’s Real Name Show Name

1. Ozzie Nelson Ozzie Nelson

2. Harriet Nelson Harriet Nelson

3. David Nelson David Nelson

4. Ricky Nelson Ricky Nelson

H.) Father Knows Best

Actor’s Real Name Show Name

1. Robert Young Jim Anderson

2. Jane Wyatt Margaret Anderson

3. Elinor Donahue Betty Anderson

4. Bill Gray Bud Anderson

5. Lauren Chapin Kathy Anderson

I.) The Lone Ranger

Actor’s Real Name Show Name

1. Clayton Moore Lone Ranger

2. Jay Silverheels Tonto

3. Silver Lone Ranger’s Horse

J.) Hopalong Cassidy

Actor’s Real Name Show Name

1. William Boyd Hopalong Cassidy

2. Topper Cassidy’s Horse

K.) Oh Susanna

Actor’s Real Name Show Name

1. Gale Storm Susanna Pomroy

2. S.S. Ocean Queen Name of Ship

3. Zasu Pitts Esmerelda “Nugey” Nugent

4. Roy Roberts Capt. Huxtly

L.) Dr. Kildare

Actor’s Real Name Show Name

1. Richard Chamberlin Dr. Kildare

2. Raymond Massey Dr. Leonard Gillespie

How many did you get right?

“Munchkin"

Important move forward

in Israel's abandonment
of the path of defeatism

and surrender:

The return of thousands of Israelis to the ruins of Homesh village in northern Samaria this week was a bolt from the blue. A rare combination of wisdom, morality and great timing, the demonstration forced the local media to acknowledge the strategic folly and moral bankruptcy of the expulsion and withdrawal policy that transformed some ten thousand Israeli Jews into internal refugees a year and a half ago.

Homesh was one of the 21 communities razed by Ariel Sharon's government in August 2005. Monday thousands marched to its ruins and pledged to rebuild it. Although by Tuesday radio and television newscasters were predictably agitating for the IDF to violently remove the demonstrators, their anti-settler prattle came off flat. The thrill was gone.

After the war in Lebanon last summer, and Gaza's post-withdrawal transformation into a mini-Taliban state, it is no longer possible to sound intelligent while advocating Israeli withdrawals and expulsions. Since few people are willing to sound like fools, most of the broadcasters acknowledged the withdrawal's strategic failure.

Without its strategic fig leaf, all that remains to defend the policy of ethnically cleansing areas of Jewish presence is the hatred card upheld by the Arabs and the Left. Both claim that Jews must be removed from their homes because their mere presence in their communities is responsible for the genocidal hatred than has taken control of the Palestinian and the Arab world's collective psyche.

The protesters at Homesh ably dispensed with this anti-Semitic nonsense by pointing to the fact that the IDF remains in the areas in spite of the removal of its Jewish residents. The IDF has remained in place because contrary to the promises of the plan's proponents, the expulsion of the Jews of northern Samaria and Gaza did nothing to mitigate the Palestinians' commitment to Israel's destruction. To the contrary, it simply whetted their appetite for war. Indeed, what the aftermath of the expulsions proved was that far from burdening the army, before they were destroyed, the communities in northern Samaria and Gaza protected the IDF by providing secure bases for operations.

As luck would have it, the demonstrators exposed the moral bankruptcy and strategic idiocy at the heart of the withdrawal and expulsion policy just as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Israel. Rice came to pressure the Olmert-Livni-Peretz government to conduct negotiations with the Palestinian Authority's Hamas-Fatah terror government. The ultimate object of Rice's proposed talks is the expulsion of hundreds of thousands more Israelis from their homes in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem just because they are Jews. There can be little doubt that their protest took the wind out of Rice's sails.

“Abouna” Gregori

MUNCHKIN'S SATURDAY CORNER: #5

The idea for my Saturday Posting came from
Laurie Provost, the wife of one of the actors
Below.

Hey Folks,

Boy do I have a surprise for you!
Today I am going to take you on a trip Down memory lane. We are going to Visit some tv shows from yesteryear, And you are going to take part.

After each picture below, you will
Find some questions. Click on the comments And enter your
answers there. Good luck.
"Munchkin”

A.) The Life of Riley

ACTOR’S REAL NAME -- NAME USED IN SHOW

1.________________ - Chester A. Riley

2. Majorie Reynolds - ________________

3. Lugene Sanders - ________________

4. Chester Riley, Jr.

B.) Dennis the Menace

ACTOR’S REAL NAME -- NAME USED IN SHOW

1._________________ - Dennis Mitchell

2. Herbert Anderson - _______________

3. ________________ - Alice Mitchell

4. Joseph Kearns - ________________

C.) Make Room for Daddy

ACTOR’S REAL NAME -- NAME USED IN SHOW

1. Danny Thomas - _________________

2. Jean Hagen - __________________

3. Marjorie Lord - ____________________

4. _____________ - Rusty Williams

5. _______________ - Linda Williams

D.) Lassie

ACTOR’S REAL NAME -- NAME USED IN SHOW

1. ______________ - Timmy Martin

2. ______________ - Ruth Martin

3. Hugh Reilly - ____________________

4. Lassie - _______________________

E.) Real McCoys

ACTOR’S REAL NAME -- NAME USED IN SHOW

1. ______________ Grandpa Amos

2. ______________ - Luke McCoy

3. Lydia Reed - ____________________

F.) The Many Loves of Dobbie Gillis

ACTOR’S REAL NAME -- NAME USED IN SHOW

1. ______________ Dobbie Gillis

2. Bob Denver - ___________________

3. ______________ - Zelda Gilroy

G.) The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet

ACTOR’S REAL NAME -- NAME USED IN SHOW

1. ________________ - Father

2. ________________ - Mother

3. David Nelson - ______________

4. ______________ - Youngest son

H.) Father Knows Best

ACTOR’S REAL NAME -- NAME USED IN SHOW

1. ________________ - Jim Anderson

2. ________________ - Margaret Anderson

3. Elinor Donahue - ______________

4. ______________ - Bud (son)

5. ______________ - Kathy (youngest daughter)

I.) The Lone Ranger

ACTOR’S REAL NAME -- NAME USED IN SHOW

1. ________________ - Lone Ranger

2. ________________ - Tonto

3. Silver - ______________

J.) Hopalong Cassidy

ACTOR’S REAL NAME -- NAME USED IN SHOW

1. ________________ - Hopalong Cassidy

2. ________________ - Hopalong’s Horse

K.) Oh Susanna

ACTOR’S REAL NAME -- NAME USED IN SHOW

1. ________________ - Susanna Pomroy

2. Zasu Pitts - _____________________

3. Roy Roberts - ____________________





L.) Dr. Kildare

ACTOR’S REAL NAME -- NAME USED IN SHOW

1. ________________ - Dr. Kildare

2. Raymond Massey - _____________________

How many can you guess?

Good Luck to All

“See you all soon, Lord willing and the creek
don’t rise.”

BOB BARR THE TURN COAT

"JUST HITTING ANOTHER
BRICK WALL"

That Means it is Time For Me to Open My

Files!




Bob Barr Joins the Push
for Legalized Medical
Marijuana Use:

As a Republican congressman from Georgia, Bob Barr sponsored an amendment that blocked the District of Columbia from allowing medical marijuana use. Now he’s flip-flopped on pot and become a lobbyist for the Marijuana Policy Project.

"I, over the years, have taken a very strong stand on drug issues, but in light of the tremendous growth of government power since 9/11, it has forced me and other conservatives to go back and take a renewed look at how big and powerful we want the government to be in people’s lives,” said Barr, who left the House in 2003 after four terms (I hardly think that Barr is speaking for conservatives, as I find it extremely hard to believe that conservatives would support this medical marijuana ruse. The claim that those with cancer and other diseases need to smoke marijuana to counter act nausea and pain is a farce as there are plenty of medications for those purposes. This was the claim made in California, and once it was legalized there, every body and their mother were able to get a letter from doctors allowing them to purchase a smoke weed. All they had to do was go to a doctor, claim that they had headaches, anxiety, or whatever and they could purchase pot, and this includes kids).

Aaron Houston, the project’s government relations director, told The Politico that Barr "certainly would not have been the first person I would have expected to sign off to us, but I’m very pleased that he has. I’m very pleased that he has come around, and I hope he serves as an example to his former colleagues.” (Sure, he is probably getting a pretty pay off to lobby for the pot smokers).

Barr will lobby for the right of states to set their own marijuana policy without federal interference, according to The Politico.

According to Aaron Houston, the most frightening thing with marijuana use is prison. (No it is not, it is its easy access to kids)

Did you know that even rats

Believe in angels?

NEW KILLER VIRUS DISCOVERED!

“Abouna” Gregori

“Just Hitting Another

Brick Wall”

The Island receives Nika as the best

fiction 2006:

Some time ago the film's makers received another Russian national movie prize, the Golden Eagle Award;

Click here for the rest of the story.

The following is from an email I received yesterday. I thought I would just pass it on:

Don't Break The Elastic!!

Maya Angelou was interviewed by Oprah on her 70+ birthday. Oprah asked her what she thought of growing older. She is such a simple and honest woman, with so much wisdom in her words!

And, there on television, she said it was "exciting." Regarding body changes, she said there were many, occurring every day...like her breasts. They seem to be in a race to see which will reach her waist, first.

Maya Angelou went on to say:

"I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow."

"I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights."

"I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life."

"I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'."

"I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance."

"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back."

"I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision."

"I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one."

"I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone.”

“People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back."

"I've learned that I still have a lot to learn."

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

Please pass these on to at least five other people today.

If you do, you just may boost another person’s self-esteem.

If you don't...the elastic will break and your underpants will fall down around your ankles!

“Abouna” Gregori