You know this Israel-Hamas War is newsworthy because I've been gazing at MSNBC all morning, and there has yet to be even one commercial.  On nostalgic Tuesday today, I focus on the Hamas and the Gaza Strip.   My posting 15 years ago said :   End to the Gaza Strip War : “Why don’t those #&%#@* Hamas idiots just stop lobbing rockets into Israel,” courtesy of a golf buddy pundit expressed at the Ala Wai Golf Course Clubhouse. He wanted me to repeat this in my daily blog, but I thought we should protect both of us from any possible fatwa by not specifically identifying the source.  Two years later in 2010 , I reported that the 128th country to visit this blog site, was the  Gaza Strip , with, then, a population of 1.5 million.   I might add  that I am now up to 221 entities and 2,731,530 pageviews.  That 875,512 pageviews in the graphic is because, I stopped paying Google many years ago to carry my blog. While there are only 195 countrie...

Nothing much to write about the pandemic, mid-term election next week or the weather, but looks like another tainted politician might be poised to again regain leadership in his country.    Voting is now over in Israel , but Benjamin Netanyahu, who is embroiled in legal problems, could well again become Prime Minister.  A few steps remain, and there are hurdles yet to clear, but don't be shocked to soon seem him at the top. About that Trump-like  Jair Bolsonaro presidential defeat in Brazil , it took him two days, and he has NOT YET CONCEDED, but he had his chief of staff say that the transition process has been authorized.  This was his first loss in a 34-year career.  When it comes to the electoral process, he is a clone of Donald Trump. I've long been an outlier regarding the role geoengineering can play in remediating global climate warming.  An issue of  Scientific American  this year provided  a look at this field .  I propose...

So what's happening today?   Benjamin Netanyahu could well have been ousted by the time you read this.  Next, a court date for corruption.  Sounds like another Donald Trump. Joe Biden is still in Europe, and will meet with Vladimir Putin in Geneva on Wednesday.  They will not hold a joint press conference to deny Putin an international stage. Otherwise, the big event of the day is the Westminster Dog Show.  It is currently showing on FS1.  The winner last year was Siba, a Standard Poodle. Magawa, whose official job title is HeroRAT, is retiring this month after a five-year career detecting land mines in Cambodia.  Trained in Belgium, this African giant pouched rat detected 71 land mines and 38 other items of unexploded ordnance to clear 2.4 million square feet of land.  Other rats do things like detect tuberculosis .  Apparently many in Florida got them as pets, but some escaped, and this is now considered to be an invasive species , sai...