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What is this all about anyway? It's time to party like it's 1234567890 – 'cause it is! On this Friday, Feb 13 at exactly 3:31:30 PM (PST), Unix time will equal '1234567890'. Thanks to dafydd for the link!

By way of dafydd and silkensteel , here's a New York Times op-ed column on what it's going to take to peacefully resolve the Palestinian situation ... from Muammar Qaddafi. THE shocking level of the last wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence, which ended with this weekend’s cease-fire, reminds us why a final resolution to the so-called Middle East crisis is so important. ...

Point them to this op-ed piece by Muammar Qaddafi of Libya . Yes, THAT Muammar Qadaffi: Jews and Muslims are cousins descended from Abraham. Throughout the centuries both faced cruel persecution and often found refuge with one another. Arabs sheltered Jews and protected them after maltreatment at the hands of the Romans and their expulsion from Spain in the Middle Ages. The history of Israel/Palestine...

...but the cookies don't make you pass out from nausea and wake up later with wrenching abdominal pain. dafydd made accounts from the feeds I mentioned yesterday: gf_books gf_groceries Also, i fixed a problem on the host this app runs on that was causing some web requests to stall for extended periods of time.

Jean Claude Van Damme is creepy . And smarmy, and icky. ~~~ Via filkertom , Message to the religious right - this isn't just about marriage, it's about history I keep hearing all of this nonsense about us lgbts attacking people, about us using intimidation and violence to oppress people, about us somehow being ugly aggressors. Newt Gingrich (who wrote the book on deceptive messaging during...