Individual Liberty — Individual Responsibility 

Monday

Well, it's back to work for me. I've had the last week off, and I've done a little work on the website. Stanford Matthews advised me to do some relaxing while I was off, and so I did. As a result I got about half of what I wanted to get done on the site done, but it was good advice.

Of the three main things I was planning to do, I accomplished two of them, and I'm about a third of the way complete with the other one. I didn't get anything done on the motorsports site, but there's no hurry there. I didn't even catalog the parts I want to sell, so having the e-commerce platform done wouldn't help much anyway.

I did get some blogging in, and I did do a few things I've been meaning to do for a while. I made a trip out to Tiger Mountain to watch the para-gliders. I've seen them in the distance as I drove home from work lots of times over the years, and I finally made the trip.

Another thing I managed to get done was to get the last of the slides I picked up from my mother in Tennessee transferred to CD. I burned copies of the first three CDs and sent them to her. I also posted every single picture, whether it was a good one or not in my photo galleries. There weren't nearly as many of them as I thought, and there's a lot more I'd like to have... now if I can only contrive some way to get them...

Probably the most important thing I did the entire week was to spend a healthy amount of time with my wife. She was home for the second half of the week, and she'll be home through Tuesday, then it's back to work for her too. We did a lot of relaxing, and watched the entire Lord of the Rings series, finishing with The Return of the King this afternoon...

All in all, not a bad week, but now it's back to work. At least until August that is. I've got a vacation planned in August and we're all going to Tennessee... well, except for Zach and Nikki. They'll be staying to watch the house.

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The capitol building, and the Lincoln memorial

I picked up the final CD from the sets that I had converted from slides today. There's some more interesting pictures in there, including one of my mother standing outside the Ankara Community Center in Turkey, and one of the J.C. Penny building in Anchorage after the big earthquake. At least I think that's what that one is. There's a long crack running horizontally across the building...

Anyway, the ones I found the most interesting are of course from our nation's capitol, Washington D.C. This one is of the capitol building itself.

This one is of the Lincoln memorial, taken from ground level at the Washington Monument. In the foreground you'll see not just one, but three of my favorite flags.

For such a small area, Washington D.C. sure has a lot of fabulous sights. It's been a long time since I was there. These pictures definitely make me want to go back for another visit.

Now that I have all of the slides my mother gave me digitized, you can view them all in one of my photo galleries. The last set will be up later tonight.

U.N. failing to enforce resolutions in Lebanon, as usual

Jay Tuch, the American Israeli Patriot points out that Hezbollah is re-arming in Lebanon while the U.N. watches and does nothing to enforce it's own security council resolutions, in particular UNSCR 1701.

The Times Online is carrying a story about the stockpiling of new weapons in southern Lebanon:

“Hezbollah will never leave southern Lebanon,” said Shaul Mofaz, the former defence minister, last week. “It’s now armed with rockets that could hit central and even southern Israel.”

Why is it that nobody ever believes the words of these people? When the former Israeli defense minister speaks, the U.N. ignores it. When Israel raises the alarm, the U.N. never listens. Never.

Israeli military intelligence sources say there is particular concern over long-range Fatah-110 rockets that have been supplied to Hezbollah.

This rocket, with a 125-mile range and a 500lb warhead, is an improved version of a Chinese assault rocket, said Uzi Rubin, an Israeli missile expert. These rockets could reach Tel Aviv if hostilities resume.

I've said it before, to a terrorist, the words "cease fire" simply mean stop shooting at me so that I have a chance to reload. To the U.N. the word "disarm" apparently means nothing other than "rearm in secret".

Security Council resolution 1701 calls for "Israel and Lebanon to support a permanent ceasefire and a longterm solution". You know what's missing there don't you?

Nowhere in that resolution is Hezbollah mentioned at all. Lebanon is called upon to secure its borders, and calls for the U.N. to support the securing of those borders. The resolution also calls for the blockade of the importation of weapons without the Lebanese government's consent.

Meanwhile, under the "watchful eye" of the United Nations Hezbollah rearms and nothing is done.

The U.N. is worthless. Their resolutions do nothing except buy time for terrorists to re-equip and resume hostilities.

Originally posted at Reject the U.N.

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