Kaka de Luxe es bien caro comprar en eBay

Why does this cost forty euros? I want it "real bad!", to use a Napoleon Dynamite-ism. I'd even buy it if it cost forty DOLLARS, but 40 euros is a lot of goddamn money for a 7-track album. Sigh.

iggy pop + peanut butter = cincinnati

cada vez que el sol cruza el cielo

Paul Coelho happens to be quite quotable. Here's an especially good one which Proverbia.net sent to me today:

Cuando todos los días resultan iguales es porque el hombre ha dejado de percibir las cosas buenas que surgen en su vida cada vez que el sol cruza el cielo.
- Paulo Coelho

"Every day comes to seem the same when a person has stopped recognizing the good things which come up in her life every time the sun crosses the sky."

fragile, mortal, beautiful

I wanna read me this book. Sounds like my kind of thing.

Another example of why English is confusing

"A cat has claws at the end of its paws. A comma is a pause at the end of a clause."

Palestinian man killed in Bil'in by Israeli Forces

from http://www.imemc.org

One killed, dozens injured at the Bil'in weekly protest

A Palestinian man was killed and dozens more injured on Friday during the weekly nonviolent protest in Bil'in village, near the central west Bank city of Ramallah.

Local sources told IMEMC that Bassem Ibrahim Abu Rahmah, 30, died when soldiers shot him in the chest with a tear gas bomb.

The residents of Bil'in village marched towards the wall today after Friday prayers. The protest was joined by Israeli and international activists.

Protesters' held banners condemning Israel's ongoing policies and violence against civilians and demanding the release of the Palestinian political prisoners held by the Israeli army. The protest began in the center of the village then headed towards the Apartheid Wall which is being built on Bil'in land.

An Israeli army unit stationed behind the wall prevented the crowd from going through the gate and fired tear gas canisters and rubber-coated steel bullets to break up the crowd. In addition to the fatal wounding of Bassem, an international supporter was hit in the head and sustained moderate wounds from Israeli fire. Dozens were treated for gas inhalation.

Abdullah Abu Rahmah, from the local committee against the Wall and Settlements told IMEMC that the soldiers shot Bassem with a new type of gas bomb as he was imploring the soldiers to stop shooting as the protest a peaceful one and there were children present.

Abdullah Abu Rahmah added that Bassem will be buried on Saturday after the midday prayers.

B.S.

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Donkey Xote

This is hilarious! I need to find it and watch it, post-haste.

Israeli Forces Arrested and Beat 2 Youths yesterday in Bil'in

from Friends of Freedom and Justice Bil'in:

Four injured and Dozens Suffered Teargas Inhalation during International Children’s Day Demonstration in Bil’in

Following Friday prayers in Bil’in today, residents held a protest against the wall and settlement building. A group of children from the village were at the front of the protest holding Palestinian flags and banners remarking International Children’s Day. Some banners said “It’s our right to live safely”, “The wall kills our hopes and dreams”, “Settlements and the wall leave us with no future”. There were also pictures of children with the caption “wanted by the Israeli occupation, for resisting the wall”.

The protest began in the center of the village and was joined by international and Israeli activists. The demonstration headed towards the Apartheid Wall, which is built on Bil'in's land. An Israeli army unit had been stationed behind the wall since early morning and prevented the crowd from going through the gate. The army fired tear gas canisters to disturb the crowd, causing dozens to suffer gas inhalation, and they injured four young’s, one of them journalist his name Mohammed Muhesen working in AP ,and Kubi from Israel, Abdullah Aburahma, and Adeeb Aburahma.

On the other hand, the Israeli army, which is at the wall,they arrested two children from Bil’in Wajdy Ali Shehada Abu Rahma (16 years) and Hamouda Emad Hahmouda Yassin (16 years), they have beat them and then leave them near the village of Qatana after midnight, where they have access to the city Ramallah, and then arrived in the village on foot early in the morning, and this is came within the suffering of the Palestinian children by the Israelian solder , which coincides with the Children's Day, for this the Popular Committee for wall resistance in the village they intervention of human rights organizations in general and children's rights in particular, to stop the violence from the solder that they injured or arrest, or beat them and intimidate them and leave them in areas far from their homes after midnight.

the best word i've heard lately

fike, n.2
(from the OED SECOND EDITION 1989)

Sc.
(fak) Also 7-9 fyke. [f. FIKE v.1]

1. Something that causes one to fidget; esp. the itch. Also, the fikes = the fidgets. Obs.
In first quot. possibly a different word; ? the piles. Cf. FICUS.

a1605 MONTGOMERIE Flyting 313 The frencie, the fluxes, the fyke and the felt. 1736 RAMSAY Sc. Prov. (1750) xliii. 87 Ye have gotten the fikes in your arse or a waft clew. a1758 RAMSAY Address of Thanks xxii, A Briton..as his fancy takes the fykes, May preach or print his notions. 17.. LADY DALRYMPLE in Lives of Lindsays (1849) II. 322 Your mother's cold was another of my fykes.
b. A restless movement.

1790 MACAULAY To Cheerfulness Poems 129 No ane gies e'er a fidge or fyke Or yet a moan.
2. Anxiety about what is trifling, fuss, trouble.

1719 HAMILTON 2nd Epist. to Ramsay i, O sic a fike and sic a fistle I had about it! 1790 BURNS Tam o'Shanter 193 As bees bizz out wi' angry fyke. 1808 E. HAMILTON Cottagers of Glenburnie 169, I dinna fash wi' sae mony fykes. 1827 SCOTT Surg. Dau. ii, Have I been taking a' this fyke about a Jew.
3. Dalliance, flirtation.

1808-80 JAMIESON, ‘He held a great fike wi' her.’ 1810 J. COCK Simple Strains 144 (Jam.) They had a fyk thegither.

Keep it real

"Sólo si me siento valioso por ser como soy, puedo aceptarme, puedo ser auténtico, puedo ser verdadero." - Jorge Bucay

Translation: "Only if value myself for being as I am, can I accept myself, can I be authentic, can I be real."

These sentiments seem especially salient to me of late. One has to accept oneself as being worthy, taking into account deficits, proficiencies, and geniuses, so that one can be an effective human being leading a meaningful life. If one follows the maxim, "To thine own self be true," the result, says Bucay, is good. The result is acceptance, authenticity, and a firm rooting in reality, where one can subsequently effect changes. The opposite implication, then, is that refusal to accept one's worth--i.e., lack of self-esteem, or self-esteem based on fantasy and not reality--can only lead to falsehood, fakery, and impotence in the world.

Tangible worthiness

You have to take care of yourself before you can take care of other people. And it's okay to be proud of yourself, as long as you're proud of actual accomplishments and not dreams!

You have a lot to offer, Clare. Everyone really does appreciate who you are and what you have to contribute. Yet you have been unable to give yourself credit for all that you've accomplished. It would be worthwhile for you to take some time contemplating why this is so. You have a strong need to be loved, but you must first love yourself. Yes, we know it's a cliche to say; nevertheless you know it is true. Your family and friends will support you, but first you must support yourself.

Miedo

El miedo es natural en el prudente, y el saberlo vencer es ser valiente.
- Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga

My dad's famous (part 2)

Green Tree Gazette article