Osama Bin Laden offers Truce to the U.S.

[Biggles]

J2 have you had the Operation Breakfast (etc.,) therapy yet?

Not sure if this deserves a separate thread but the election of Hammas has thrown an interesting spanner into the works of ME politics.

If things were not complicated enough already.

I did, however, see an interesting thing on Hammas before the election, based in one of the towns they had already won at a local level. They apparently have proved very organised at the prosaic ... like putting road repairs out to competitive tender rather than giving to the brother of the Fatah mayor as used to be the case. It would appear that the vote of confidence by the Palestinians is largely based on a desire for good governance rather than some holy war.

It will be interesting to see what comes of it ...

balanced budget or bloodshed (or both? as was said of Mussolini - he made the trains run on time)

[JPaul]

(or both? as was said of Mussolini - he made the trains run on time)

Actually he made a train run on time. The one he used on the day he took power as I recall. The rest is a myth, but you knew that already.

[Biggles]

(or both? as was said of Mussolini - he made the trains run on time)

Actually he made a train run on time. The one he used on the day he took power as I recall. The rest is a myth, but you knew that already.

Hey! Getting one train in Italy to run on time is no mean achievement. They are late on point of principle there.

[JPaul]

Actually he made a train run on time. The one he used on the day he took power as I recall. The rest is a myth, but you knew that already.

Hey! Getting one train in Italy to run on time is no mean achievement. They are late on point of principle there.

I think it's an empirical law of trainage.

It's the leaves dontcha' know.

[Busyman]

Actually he made a train run on time. The one he used on the day he took power as I recall. The rest is a myth, but you knew that already.

Hey! Getting one train in Italy to run on time is no mean achievement. They are late on point of principle there.

I had an Italian instructor that told me the same thing.