This Ynet headline is worth keeping for posterity. The change in the health ministry domain of responsibilities is nothing short of revolutionary.
I shudder trying to imagine what kind of tasks are now under the umbrella of Hamas tourism ministry…
Cross-posted on SimplyJews.
The Telegraph commissioned a poll, and gee, Europeans don’t like America (via Glenn). I know, readers. You’re all shocked to hear this news. But Europeans don’t get us, haven’t gotten us in well over 200 years, and don’t seem about to get us yet—not even those that are relatively positive about America. For instance, the Telegraph editorial opines:
Nor is the poll particularly good news for John McCain, showing as it does overwhelming European and Russian support for his Democrat rival Mr Obama.
It is to laugh. Americans have never given a damn what Europeans think about our presidential choices. Wait, that’s not true. We get very contrary when Europe tries to mess with us. Does anyone remember the Guardian’s attempt to defeat George W. Bush in the last election? The backlash was so high, it may actually have helped Bush win in the Guardian’s chosen battleground. The Brits still haven’t gotten it: We’re not their colony any longer.
Even the director of Clark County’s board of elections got into the debate. She was widely quoted as saying: “The American Revolution was fought for a reason.”
The Telegraph goes on:
Regardless of who wins, there will be a need to project a more positive light of the United States in Europe, but without ditching America’s vital global role.
Well, in order to do that, the European media would have to stop slanting so many stories anti-American. Sorry, boys and girls, but we have no control over what Europeans think. Nor do we want to have that kind of control. This isn’t a matter of Americans cozying up to Europeans. It doesn’t matter if our president is Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton or George W. Bush. Europeans have never really cared for Americans, overall. Well, the ones that stay in Europe, anyway. The ones that come here like us just fine, and so do their children, and grandchildren, and great-grandchildren….
What I find most strange about that fact is that so many Americans have European ancestry. It’s like Europe hates its own descendants.
There’s a longer essay in there. I think I’ll work on it for July 4th.
Some twenty years ago a Palestinian soda company started hiring students from the nearby Yeshiva in Beit El to certify that the soda was Kosher for sale in Israel. It seemed like a good idea at the time but then reality intervened. The first intidfada started and, as far as I know, that sunk the project.
I don’t know if the project in this article – Israelis and Palestinians Launch Web Start-Up – will last any longer. Maybe it will:
Nibbling doughnuts and wrestling with computer code, the workers at G.ho.st, an Internet start-up here, are holding their weekly staff meeting — with colleagues on the other side of the Israeli-Palestinian divide.They trade ideas through a video hookup that connects the West Bank office with one in Israel in the first joint technology venture of its kind between Israelis and Palestinians.
“Start with the optimistic parts, Mustafa,†Gilad Parann-Nissany, an Israeli who is vice president for research and development, jokes with a Palestinian colleague who is giving a progress report. Both conference rooms break into laughter.
If some sort of co-existence is possible it will have to come from the ground up, where practical concerns weigh more heavily on the parties than politics.
I have no doubt that cooperative efforts such as this will be more productive than international conferences pledging billions to the Palestinian Authority. Such conferences have only fed the corrupt, irredentist government in the past, and I have little hope than those in charge have the authority to change the culture of corruption.
A better indication of whether (or when) there will be peace will not be by the dollars pledged but by the proliferation of joint business ventures or other private (non government and non NGO) cooperative enterprises.
Crossposted on Soccer Dad.
If anyone can figure out why I’ve had Brahms’ Hungarian Dances running through my head all morning, I’d appreciate it. Because it took me a while to figure out that no, it isn’t Slovanic Dances, and no, Sorena’s orchestra did not play it at the Kennedy Center on Tuesday, and, well, I haven’t heard it in an age, so I have no idea why this music refuses to exit my brain.
Four and a half years ago three Americans were killed as they crossed into Gaza:
From the wreckage, it appeared that the explosion had occurred directly beneath the driver’s seat of the second of three American vehicles, ripping off the engine, as well as the front axle and wheels. The blast, which left a crater about 15 feet wide and 5 feet deep, threw the vehicle into the air and cast it to the ground upside down, in a tangle of crumpled steel. Debris, blood and human tissue were spread over a wide area, with the bodies of one of the Americans thrown nearly 40 feet away, according to witnesses at the scene.The Americans who were killed were identified by the State Department as John Branchizio, 37, from Texas; Mark Parson, 31, from New York State; and John Martin Linde, 30, from Missouri. The three men were employees of DynCorp, a Virginia-based defense contracting company, who were assigned to the American Embassy in Tel Aviv. The men were traveling in the same car as the wounded diplomat, who was not identified. The diplomat was taken to the Soproka University Medical Center in Beer Sheva, where hospital officials said he was in stable condition after surgery.
But these Americans were traveling in Gaza to help Palestinians:
He said the Palestinian Authority should give its prime minister control over all of its security forces to suppress further violence, but noted that a change in control was being blocked by Mr. Arafat. Ahmed Qurei, the new prime minister, threatened to resign last week over a dispute with Mr. Arafat over who would be interior minister and control the security forces.”The failure to create effective Palestinian security forces dedicated to fighting terror continues to cost lives,” Mr. Bush said. ”The failure to undertake these reforms and dismantle the terrorist organizations constitutes the greatest obstacle to achieving the Palestinian people’s dream of statehood.”
He noted that the Americans who were attacked were not on a military mission. American Embassy officials were visiting Gaza to interview young Palestinian candidates for Fulbright scholarships to study in America.
”This is another example of how the terrorists are enemies of progress and opportunity for the Palestinian people,” he said.
In the next year the Palestinians had failed to take any decisive action in the case.
The attack occurred near a manned Palestinian checkpoint. Immediately after the attack, journalists photographed Palestinian police officers standing by as onlookers cheered and roamed the crime scene, destroying critical evidence.Adding insult to injury, Musa Arafat, the head of Palestinian military intelligence in Gaza and a cousin of Mr. Arafat, announced last month that Palestinian authorities know the killers — “some Palestinian factions,” in his words — but would not arrest them because “clashing with any Palestinian party under the presence of occupation is an issue that will present many problems for us.” According to him, “the Americans have started recently to understand our position.”
A State Department spokesman called Musa Arafat’s comments “totally unacceptable and outrageous,” adding, “If it’s true that the PA knows the identities of the murderers, we expect immediate action to be taken to arrest, prosecute and convict them.”
Beyond such protestations, the United States has done little to press the PA to cooperate with the FBI in the investigation. In addition to the $5 million reward offer, the State Department banned travel to Gaza by U.S. officials and suspended funding for two water development projects there. Unfortunately, these meager actions incurred little cost for the PA — certainly not enough to compel Palestinians into action on an issue they appear keen to avoid.
To the best of my knowledge the investigation is proceeding at the same pace as OJ’s to find his wife’s killers.
Flash forward another three and a half years and the news story is: U.S. Withdraws Fulbright Grants to Gaza (via memeorandum)
The article doesn’t mention anything about the events of 2003.
The American State Department has withdrawn all Fulbright grants to Palestinian students in Gaza hoping to pursue advanced degrees at American institutions this fall because Israel has not granted them permission to leave.
And lest anyone be lulled into thinking that this isn’t Israel’s fault.
A letter was sent by e-mail to the students on Thursday telling them of the cancellation. Abdulrahman Abdullah, 30, who had been hoping to study for an M.B.A. at one of several American universities on his Fulbright, was in shock when he read it.“If we are talking about peace and mutual understanding, it means investing in people who will later contribute to Palestinian society,†he said. “I am against Hamas. Their acts and policies are wrong. Israel talks about a Palestinian state. But who will build that state if we can get no training?â€
Some Israeli lawmakers, who held a hearing on the issue of student movement out of Gaza on Wednesday, expressed anger that their government was failing to promote educational and civil development in a future Palestine given the hundreds of students who had been offered grants by the United States and other Western governments.
“This could be interpreted as collective punishment,†complained Rabbi Michael Melchior, chairman of the Parliament’s education committee, during the hearing. “This policy is not in keeping with international standards or with the moral standards of Jews, who have been subjected to the deprivation of higher education in the past. Even in war, there are rules.†Rabbi Melchior is from the Meimad Party, allied with Labor.
Yes, there are rules in war. One is that a country isn’t obligated to allow its enemies free passage. Then there’s this:
But when a query about the canceled Fulbrights was made to the prime minister’s office on Thursday, senior officials expressed surprise. They said they did, in fact, consider study abroad to be a humanitarian necessity and that when cases were appealed to them, they would facilitate them.
It’s interesting that the State Department made its decision before consulting with the Israeli government. But then you wouldn’t necessarily have a conflict or an excuse for claiming that Israel was preventing the flourishing of the best and brightest from Gaza.
The article is seasoned with plenty of criticisms of how Israel is handling the situation. I’m skeptical that this was an intentional Israeli effort to stifle promising young men and women. It also appears that had the State Department bothered to consult with the Israeli government, Israel might well have allowed the Fulbright scholars safe passage. Instead it handled the issue in a way to embarrass Israel.
Crossposted on Soccer Dad.
How many anti-Israel stories can one news service publish in a week?
Depends. How many stories on Israel or the Palestinians did the AP publish that week?
Here’s a new one: Mean, horrible Israel is causing eight Gazan students to lose their Fulbright scholarships because they can’t get vias from Israel to leave Gaza.
Hadeel Abu Kawik was supposed to spend next year in the United States on the prestigious Fulbright scholarship program, but now it appears she will remain trapped in the Gaza Strip by an Israeli blockade.
Word that the U.S. State Department was canceling her scholarship came after Abu Kawik, 23 and a computer engineering student, went through a lengthy process for the scholarship that included interviews, exams and an English test.
“I was building my hope on this scholarship,” she said Friday.
There you go, the three grafs that usually wind up in your local newspaper’s “world” section. In the next two paragraphs, you find out why Israel is refusing to grant visas to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Seven other Gaza students also lost their grants. The decision was made because they would not be able to get exit visas from Israel, according to State Department spokesman Tom Casey.
The teeming coastal territory and its 1.5 million inhabitants have been controlled by the Islamic militant group Hamas for nearly a year. Israel has kept its border crossings closed to everything but humanitarian aid in an attempt to weaken the group and end frequent rocket barrages aimed at Israeli towns.
Oh, yeah. Those crude, homemade rockets that rarely do any damage. The ones that killed two Israelis in the last few weeks. The ones that are still falling on Israel every day. The ones that Hamas refuses to stop firing, or allowing others to fire. Gee. Why is it that Israel refuses to give anyone visas out of Gaza? Could it be because when they do, Hamas takes advantage of it and tries to get terrorists into Israel using medical excuses and the like?
Meanwhile, a Hamas publicity stunt turned violent (I know, shocking to hear that). Hamas has been threatening to force the crossings into Israel for quite a while now. Also from the AP:
Seven Palestinian protesters were wounded Friday when they were shot by IDF troops during a demonstration at Sufa border crossing, Palestinian doctors reported.
More than 10,000 Palestinians waving Hamas flags approached the crossing calling for an end to the blockade imposed on Gaza. The demonstrators burned tires and chanted anti-Israeli slogans.
How much you want to bet those “anti-Israel slogans” included “Death to Israel”? The AP never seems to elaborate on those anti-Israel slogans the Hamas uses to get its crowds into a frenzy, but they all include calling for the end of the Jewish state. (Which is why, of course, the AP will never quote them directly. Can’t change the narrative and make the Palestinians out to be the villains.)
Hamas had called the protest march, which began following Friday prayers, and several protesters got within yards of the border fence.
The IDF confirmed troops were on the scene at the demo but did not immediately comment on whether they fired.
The army had issued a directive to soldiers to prevent Palestinian penetration of the Sufa terminal at any cost, even the cost of using live ammunition.
Of course there’s no confirmation. Most AP stories publish Palestinian eyewitness accounts, or quote Palestinian “medics,” while never truly confirming the accusations. And they have been caught more than once lying about what happened. For instance, when a kassam rocket falls in Gaza and hurts or kills Palestinians, the “medics” immediately blame Israeli shelling, and the AP dutifully reports it. Witness:
Meanwhile, a 65-year-old woman died of her wounds a day after she was shot along the Gaza-Israel border, a Palestinian health official said.
Dr. Moaiya Hassanain said the woman was near her home around 300 yards from the border fence when she was shot on Thursday evening.
Hassanain said the gunfire came from an IDF border position, but the army said it had no record of any shooting in the area at the time.
Uh-huh.
Whoa.
I was about to give up on Lost at the end of last year. It really came back strong in the third season. I’m looking forward to the fourth.
Maybe I’ll get to do an episode summary this weekend. That was a lot of episode to summarize, some good, some bad, some “I knew it!” moments, some “Huh?” moments. And one big giant “Awwwwwwww.” So yay for that, at least.
I didn’t know LBJ rescued Jews from the Holocaust.
Unwilling to stand by idly while Nazi henchmen murdered the “People of the Book,” Johnson met with Jewish leaders and said simply, “We [must] do something to get Jews out of Europe.”16
Straightaway, the congressman enlarged the scope of “Operation Texas.” Using methods sometimes legal, sometimes illegal, and cash supplied by men like Jim Novy, Johnson smuggled hundreds of Jews into Texas, using Galveston as the entry port. Enough money could buy false passports and fake visas in Cuba, Mexico, and other Latin American countries. After getting to such places, Jews would then make Galveston Island their only port of call.
Johnson smuggled boatloads and planeloads of Jews into Texas. He hid them in the Texas National Youth Administration [NYA], a task made easier because LBJ’s longtime friend Jesse Kellum was the Texas State Director of the NYA. Although it was illegal to harbor and train noncitizens in the NYA programs, the refugees were nevertheless temporarily housed in various sites scattered around the Lone Star State.
Novy bankrolled the effort, reimbursing the NYA for all expenses, including room and board. He also covered the cost of classes for those who did not speak English and classes to retrain the Jews so that they could meld into American life. Johnson funneled many men into NYA welding schools because welders were in high demand both during the war-preparedness campaign of 1940-1941 and during the war itself. Johnson saved at least four or five hundred Jews, possibly more.17
Worth reading in full, and kol hakavod to Lyndon Baines Johnson, and his family that taught him so well. Via Lenny Ben-David.
My contempt for Larry Derfner goes back a ways. In the 90’s he was one of the Israel correspondents for every Jewish American weekly. As an extreme leftist, he used that platform to present Israel in the worst possible light.
But with is critique of the al-Dura case he’s hit a new low (h/t LGF linkviewer).
Yet while it’s pure Jewish paranoia to claim that Enderlin and his co-conspirators knew all along that the Palestinians killed al-Dura, and it’s way beyond paranoia to think the Palestinians killed the boy deliberately or that he never died at all, there is an apparent element of truth in the outcry. Aside from the paranoids and the politically self-interested, there are credible, impartial investigators who have also concluded that the IDF did not kill that poor, terrified boy.THE MOST authoritative is James Fallows, one of America’s most prominent journalists. After coming here and talking to a lot of Israelis and Palestinians and seeing a lot of evidence, he wrote in the June 2003 Atlantic Monthly that Mohammed al-Dura and his father, Jamal, could not have been shot by IDF soldiers at Netzarim junction – as Enderlin and many others reported – because they were completely shielded from IDF fire by a big, impenetrable concrete block. The al-Duras had to have been shot from another direction, or directions, Fallows writes, and while he doesn’t suggest who did shoot them, the people doing the shooting from those other directions were Palestinians.
But as for the conspiracy theories, he [Fallows] writes: “The reasons to doubt that the al-Duras, the cameramen, and hundreds of onlookers were part of a coordinated fraud are obvious.” Referring to Nahum Shahaf, one of Yom Tov Samia’s investigators and the fountainhead of al-Dura conspiracy mania, Fallows continues: “Shahaf’s evidence for this conclusion, based on his videos, is essentially an accumulation of oddities and unanswered questions about the chaotic events of the day.”
As I’ve pointed out before, shortly after the supposed killing of Mohammed al-Dura, Israel’s Foreign Ministry put out an annotated view of the scene. Not a single news organization looked at that picture and concluded that the IDF could not have seen the al-Duras and could not have hit them. They took France 2’s report at face value. (The Guardian published a diagram of the intersection too, but it is so out of proportion that it looks like that al-Duras were only a few feet from the IDF.)
There was a conspiracy and it was one of silence. It goes to the use of stringers by every single news organization. The stringers are inherently unreliable. Any news organization that would question its own reporting of the al-Dura case would have to review its news gathering procedures. None has an interest in seeking or publicizing the truth because it would open up its credibility to too many questions.
In a subsequent blog post, Fallows wrote:
My general experience in life makes me skeptical that large-scale conspiracies can be pulled off — and kept secret for seven years, which is how long it has been since the original event. So based on what I have personally seen (not having devoted myself to the story for the last few years), I am not ready to say: Yes, for sure, this was a huge, big-lie, blood-libel, conspiratorial hoax. But Landes et al seem more fervent about turning up all available evidence and getting to the bottom of things than their antagonists do, which tells me something.
Yes, he does express skepticism of the conspiracy, but he also notes that France 2 and its allies were very keen on keeping all the information from getting out. From a commenter at the Augean Stables, (h/t In Context) the translation of the verdict is a lot more damning than Derfner claimed. (I also expressed some doubts initially based on less than comprehensive summaries of the verdict.)
So while Derfner may mock, there is no news organization in the world that wants any level of scrutiny into the way they gather and present news in Israel. Their credibility would be shot. So instead of looking to apportion the blame appropriately, Derfner chose to shoot the messengers (metaphorically). He is incapable of escaping his leftist cage.
Crossposted on Soccer Dad.
Desmond Tutu, having bypassed Israel by sneaking into Gaza via Egypt like the rest of the weapons used by Hamas, has finished his “investigation” into the deaths of Palestinians in Beit Hanoun. Of course, it was the usual by-the-book investigation, the book being, of course, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and the blame being put onto the Jews.
UN envoy Archbishop Desmond Tutu, concluding a fact-finding mission to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Thursday, condemned as a “massacre” the killing of 18 members of a Palestinian family by Israeli shelling in 2006.
At a news conference, Tutu said Israel’s contention that a technical fault caused the shells to hit two homes in the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, a border area where militants fire rockets at southern Israel, “fell short of accountability”.
And here’s what the crackerjack investigator used as evidence: The famed Palestinian eyewitness testimony.
“We are at the stage of shock… by what we subsequently heard from the survivors of the November (2006) Beit Hanoun massacre,” Tutu said.
Since Israel refused to cooperate in the investigation, Tutu has investigated only one side of the story and now declared the subject closed.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate planned to present a report about the incident to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva at a session in September.
[…] The South African cleric said a main aim of the visit was to “make recommendations to protect Palestinian civilians from further Israeli assaults”.
Funny, I thought his job was to determine what happened and make recommendations to make sure it doesn’t happen again. The phrase “to protect Palestinians from further Israeli assaults” makes it sound like Tutu thinks that Israelis deliberately shelled Palestinian civilians.
Shyeah. I know. He does. But screw him, and the UN Human Wrongs Council. Which, I’m sure, will condemn Israel once Tutu makes his report.
And oh, while he was there, just to prove he’s not a total dick, Tutu scolded Ismail Haniyeh. I understand he frowned mightily.
“We told Mr (Ismail) Haniyeh that firing rockets was a gross violation of human rights,” Tutu said, referring to the Gaza-based Hamas leader.
And it really worked.
Three Qassam rockets and three mortar shells were fired from northern Gaza towards Israel on Thursday. No injuries or damage were reported.
Thanks, Tutu! Give my regards to your friend Doudou!
Say, kids, what time is it? That’s right. It’s Israeli Double Standard Time, the time when the UNHRC sends an investigator to determine why Palestinian civilians were killed by shells that went off course, but does not send an investigator to do anything about Israeli civilians deliberately targeted by Palestinian terrorists. But no worries. IDST only happens on days that end with a Y.
In order to show the progress that the Palestinian police are making, news services often provide pictures of them in amusing physical poses and give a caption that they’re undergoing training.
There were a couple of pictures yesterday, that defied categorization. The recently trained (in Jordan) Palestinian police just returned to Jericho and were demonstrating their “martial arts skills.”
First we have this guy. I’ll call him the perfectly parallel Palestinian policeman. (Or in relation to his sparring partner perfectly perpendicular Palestinian policeman.) I’m no expert in martial arts, but I’ve never seen a move like this.
And then there’s this guy. The spreadeagled guy in front, specifically. What happened? Did he spreadeagle too far? I see Paris, I see France …
(see also Elder of Ziyon.)
Speaking of ripping and the Palestinian police, one Steven Smith who was involved in the training really ripped into them in the pages of the IHT.
Many of the Jordanian instructors were pressed into service and simply didn’t have the expertise, equipment, or the time to provide good instruction. A first-aid instructor teaching CPR had never taken CPR himself and taught his students to give chest compressions on the abdomen of a retail store mannequin instead of a CPR dummy.The firearms training failed to include failure drills, discretionary shooting, the use of cover and concealment and weapons cleaning. Only a few students demonstrated skill at assembling and disassembling their firearms. Students firing just 60 rounds of ammunition at close range who could hit the target were pronounced qualified.
The congressional investigators and journalists I saw were steered clear of any training that was substandard as well-rehearsed students put on demonstrations of police skills designed to impress laymen.
(h/t My Right Word)
Well I hope that you laymen were impressed.
I’ll remind you that Gen. Kenneth Dayton was in charge of the training. The Muqata provides a sobering reminder of past accomplishments of the Palestinian police.
Crossposted on Soccer Dad.
This week’s Shire Network News features the return of Tom Paine. If you’ve never heard him present SNN, well, go listen.
The feature interview? Tom scored an interview with Philippe Karsenty, who just won the appeal of his libel case by France 2 over the Mohammed Al-Dura hoax.
My contribution this week does not make fun of Doudou Diene’s name, but only because I couldn’t think of a way to sneak it into my essay on the Eurovision contest.
You don’t need an mp3 player to hear it. Just a media player on your computer.
See this? It’s one of the first pictures of Tig3 and Gracie together.
And Gracie isn’t very happy about it. Tig just wants to be near the big cat, but he’s had a very, very tough day. See, this weekend I put the two of them together by allowing Tig to come downstairs at will during the daytime. He drove Gracie nuts. At first, she kept to the high ground—the sofa, the kitchen chair next to mine, or the shelf in between the living room and kitchen. And Gracie growled. A lot. Pawed at Tig when he got too close, and let him know he was not very welcome. But I figured they had to learn to live together, so I mostly let them be. I was waiting for Gracie to smack him around once or twice and settle things.
Be careful what you wish for. Because shortly before noon today, there was a hiss and a growl and suddenly Tig was running towards me, with his right eye closed—and dripping blood. I grabbed him, brought him upstairs, put him in the cat carrier, threw on a pair of jeans and my sneakers, called the vet and moved my four o’clock appointment with them to five minutes from the phone call, and rushed over. Poor Tig suffered one further indignity—I was so worried and driving a bit faster than usual, and didn’t pay attention to the carrier. It fell off the seat and wedged in between the dash and the seat. By the time we got to the vet, Tig was a bit terrified.
The good news is that by the time we got to the vet, I was pretty sure Gracie hadn’t hit his eye. The vet checked him out and confirmed my suspicion. Gracie’s claw caught Tig’s inner eyelid. He’s going to be just fine. But boy, did he have a tough day, because after that, he got two shots, as today he was scheduled for his next series of vaccinations.
So we went home, and I locked him in my office. He fell asleep fairly quickly, and slept all afternoon. I let him come downstairs after he woke, but he was very, very cautious around Miss Gracie. Who didn’t growl at him, satisifed that she showed him who was boss.
Well, he decided that he’d stake out his spot on the sofa. She tried to bully him out of it. I told her who was the REAL boss in this house, and she shut up and settled down. Which is good, because he has every right to his spot on the sofa.
Yeah, rough day for Tig. For me, too. But we’re better now.
I found a new blog today, the Bookworm Room. It is blogrolled. Check it out: Israel, politics, books, and dogs. I think Harrison would like this blog a lot.
Come to think of it, use the comments here to recommend blogs that I may not have read yet. Time to add some to the blogroll.
Via Glenn, Mars is adding a scientific division.
All the talk about chocolate being good for your health is starting to get serious. Mars Inc., of chocolate bar fame, has established a scientific division.
And a group of researchers, some in Germany, others with the new Mars division known as Symbioscience, has just published a report showing that an enriched hot cocoa beverage can improve blood flow in people with type 2 diabetes.
“The study is the first of its kind in terms of its rigor, as well as the population studied,” said Harold Schmitz, chief science officer of Mars. “Diabetics treated as well as they could be treated with pharmaceutical intervention did see, on average, a 30 percent improvement in vascular function.”
Out of the goodness of my heart—and purely in the interests of advancing science—I am hereby offering myself to join any and all of Mars scientific testing. Particularly the ones involving Milky Way bars.
Please, Glenn. Let Mars know that I’m with them, 100%.
