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... to the desired end state. Not greatest record in the history of the civil rights movement, but not the worst. By itself, I can see him going either way.<br><br>But then there's the massive contradiction in his embrace of medical marijuana. Either he's totally naive as to which direction this is going, or he's totally naive as to the damage this is going to do between now and full legalization ...

... played on until 11:30 p.m. With the boys asleep on our laps, it felt like the last night of summer camp. There was a coolness in the air, we were all tired from so many late nights and harpadkot (adventures) and, sitting at the back of the stands, the event &#8211; and our final days of the trip - seemed to be fading off in the almost surreal distance. We could feel reality creeping back into our lives, with our return to Vancouver a mere 2 days off. F<br><br><br><br><br><br>

... the cross to his crucifixion, which marks the nine stations of his journey. <br><br>After to much religion we thought we might take a break the next day and just relax, so we made our way to the dead sea (2hrs 30NIS each, one way). The dead sea is the lowest place on earth, some 400m below sea level. It is fed by the Jordon river but is evaporating at a higher rate than the water can be replaced. <br>It is quite funny to just walk into the ...

... experience.<br><br>We got back to Kubbutz Ein Gedi before breakfast opened at 8am. We had an extremely fantastic breakfast of everything imaginable&#8230;except for meat. They had a great self-serve expresso, cappuccino machine too. On our way back Sarah and I wandered across the street to the zoo where we found an array of interesting animals in a rustic zoo. The animals included a crocodile, baboons, some ...

... began to gather and the fire department was called. This fire was a large rosemary bush next to a huge hillside of rosemary bushes. The fire smelled wonderful (rosemary) and continued on for about 5 minutes. Sarah tried to put it out with her water bottle and was claiming that the fire not spread. A group of American young people came and watched like they were at a party. Finally after 10 minutes the fire department arrived and put out ...

... Not now. I&#8217;ll write about Christ in a bit. <br><br>This is about Shabbat. <br><br>The strangest thing about the Western Wall is that it has a power, even if you don&#8217;t believe. Even if you&#8217;re not from the Jewish tradition. Even if the temple it once held in means nothing to you &#8211; religiously speaking. Even if you&#8217;re downright skeptical. It is, after all, only a wall. This may seem like and obvious point, but after getting lost ...

... once more this felt extra special due to what we had just experienced. <br><br>Visiting the Western Wall later on my last day in Israel, I could not help but think back to this moment and remember it as something truly amazing. I will not forget it. In fact, on this same visit to the plaza, about six different IDF platoons were about to hold their ceremonies where new soldiers would receive their guns. I knew this, not only because of the platoon flags I recognized draped over the ...

... settlers. <br> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>I know it may be hard to really understand what I'm talking about, but I'm pretty sure Hebron is as close as it gets to hell on Earth ... if you need any further proof of how terrible the place is, take a look at this graffiti ...<br> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br ><br><br>Settlements in the news TODAY<br>______________________________ _______________________________________ ...

Day 7: Yom Ha'atzmaut. Day 23 4/28/09 Jerusalem, Israel Its Independence Day today so NOTHING Is open we hang at the apartment for the whole day and eat food and watch TV!!!!!! Then we go to Ben Yahuda to see Independence day in J'Lem we get to the road leading down to it and see MILLIONS of people there screaming kids, old people, dogs, cats, music. All ...

... as they are going to a hotel by the old city of Jerusalem and that is where we want to be. The country looks the same as in Jordan, maybe not quite so high mountains, still rocks and sand, more gardens and veggies being grown under plastic or plastic green houses. Soon we are in the busy city and make our way to the walled old city. Being Saturday the streets are busy with a market set up on the sides and people walking all over the ...