11:24 ET Market Averages hold near support : -Technical- The Nasdaq Comp has been weaker thus far and recently slipped back near support mentioned in The Technical Take at 1945 (session low 1944) but only minimal buy side interest has developed thus far. The Dow bounced off support at 10175/10165 (session low 10170) earlier in the day and retested ( Read more... )

(IsraelNN.com) A group of Republican senators has introduced a bill calling for the United States to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's undivided capital ( Read more... )

oy vey, enough already. gather your senses. we have seders to plan.

...that no crime should go unpunished ( Read more... )

i am cleaning up my friendslist from non-mutuals, so if you want back on, plead thy case.

nothing personal.

lol.

Syria says it is willing to withdraw its troops from neighbouring Lebanon, after fifteen years of effective military occupation.

Amr Mussa, the head of the Arab League, said that Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian President, had assured him this morning that Syria was prepared to fulfil its obligations in the Taef accords that ended Lebanon's civil war ( Read more... )

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to catch up non-wonky, non-san francisco residents on our current situation: elected idiots on our board of supervisors are attempting to circumvent both the california state constitution and the US constitution by banning guns within the city limits (unless you are a special person, of course).

this is the SAF's response ( Read more... )

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - Sudan's foreign minister said Monday a U.N. report concluded that no genocide was committed in his country's Darfur region, where tens of thousands of civilians have died in a nearly two-year crisis.The Darfur conflict began in February 2003 when the two rebel groups took up arms against what they considered years of state ( Read more... )