Just letting off some fart mist, that's all:
"Mass. residents prepare for impending storm" by Haven Orecchio-Egresitz and Alyssa Creamer | Globe Correspondents, December 13, 2013
Residents throughout the state bundled up and flocked to the stores Friday evening to stock up on winter essentials in preparation for the first major snowstorm of the season, which was expected to blanket some areas north of Boston with up to 10 inches of snow.
The National Weather Service issued a winter storm watch for late Saturday into early Sunday, with heavy snow and freezing rain possible statewide.
Except it is not winter yet, but I'm going to let that pass and not get angry. I'm sure I'll be busy enough later.
The storm was expected to begin with light snowfall just after 3 p.m on Saturday and intensify through the night into Sunday morning, the Weather Service bureau in Taunton said....
And in another sure sign of winter, residents in South Boston on Friday were putting out parking space-savers before any flakes had even fallen....
Except.... never mind.
Residents are being advised by the city to use public transportation during the storm....
And hope to hell the antiquated system does not break down.
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Related:
"Kerry’s return was complicated by a rare blizzard across the Middle East that dumped almost 2 feet of snow on Jerusalem and Ramallah."
I suppose I am a little steamed about that, and it is not the snow or his travel. It is the optimism about a full agreement and a refusal regarding a partial one after I was told a day earlier he was fine with a partial agreement and extension -- as rare, heavy snow fell on Israel and the Palestinian territories.
This after he "publicly endorsed Israel’s focus on security using the same terminology Netanyahu employs" as he offers(?) a security plan to Israel that must be ironclad with preconditions all over the place (and even drawing Iran into to the discussion). With all due respect, I'm tired of settling for lip service. I can only imagine how Palestinians must feel. Or is it all getting lost in the tran$lation?
"Allen’s proposals include permitting a limited number of Israeli troops to remain for some years in the sensitive Jordan Valley and for Israel to keep its early warning systems and other technology in place to monitor the border from inside a future Palestinian state."
I can't see how that would be acceptable to Palestinians, even if they could cobble together a state from those patches of Palestinian enclaves that are surrounded by Jewish settlements.
"The fate of Palestinian prisoners stirs strong emotions on both sides, highlighting the competing narratives of the conflict. The vote followed an Israel announcement that it will soon advance new West Bank settlement construction plans — highlighting an apparent settlements-for-prisoners trade-off that got both sides back to peace talks after a five-year freeze."
Related: Release of Palestinians sparks uproar
So Israel fired a couple of missiles into Gaza because "Israel has a long history of lopsided prisoner exchanges with its Arab adversaries."
I'm sour on that narrative, folks -- no tran$lation needed -- and on so many coming from the Boston Globe these days. Sorry, readers.
