Well, I knew this thread would eventually get to "The Jews." Convenient targets of persecution since...forever! About that--

How do any of you think any other country would deal with being surrounded by countries who have not even acknowledged that she exists, much less broken bread with her? And how have other countries dealt with threats that are nowhere near to being threats to their very existence, as it is with Israel??

Israel teaches her children to learn and to work for peace. Palestine teaches its children, starting before they learn to speak, to "kill the Jews." (Really, have you seen Palestinian textbooks??) Israel shoots at military targets and mourns the collateral deaths of non-combatants. Palestine aims at civilians and cheers louder the higher the number.

Anyway, it is "Burma," also known as "Myanmar," not the other way around. If you're a patriot, that is. And also,we can never possibly "repair" all the wrongs humans have done to each other. We can only start now to put peace at the core of our beings and cascade it out among our families, friends, neighbors, and elected officials.

And anyway anyway, I'm about to buy--at least I have put in an obscenely low bid--a guitar that I absolutely don't need, to keep the other 4 (or is it 7??) company. But it is so pretty. And the price, if it doesn't get bid up, is impossible to pass up. Somebody please help me, for I can not help meself. Yeesh!

OK, back to the thread drift, which I rudely interrupted...