"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." --Jesus
"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious" --George Orwell
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." --F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sunday, August 13, 2006
"Maybe Olmert has decided, barely not too late, not to go wobbly. Maybe. But I've said that about him before. All this is speculation, highly dependent on Olmert having developed a stiff backbone since last Friday, a problematic claim in itself. Time will tell. How long? I'm tempted to say not very long, but Olmert has proven to be a champion temporizer. Let us hope someone has advised him of Gen. George S. Patton's favorite saying, "L'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace!""