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Palestinian Rocket Fired 10 Miles into Israel on Eve of Bush Visit
The Mideast News Service
Palestinian terrorists fired a GRAD-122 rocket, which hit the northern side of Ashqelon in Israel. The rocket, which was launched from north of Beit Lahiyya in the northern Gaza Strip, reached further into Israel than any previous rocket from Gaza – 10.5 miles, approximately 2.5 miles less than its full range. No casualties were reported. Three organizations took responsibility: the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) and the Islamic Jihad.
So far, the Palestinians have managed to reach the southern outskirts of Ashqelon, approximately 6 miles north of the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad group announced in December 2007 that it has dozens of 13.5 mile rockets.
Hamas has announced that it launched 50 rockets onto Israel on Wednesday, in retaliation against the “ongoing Zionist crimes against the Palestinian people.”
A range of 13.5-miles from the northern Gaza Strip places over 150,000 Israeli citizens in range of Palestinian rockets.
The Israeli army held an operation on Wednesday night in the southern Gaza city Khan Yunis. In one incident, the IDF fired on a house killing four Palestinians. IDF soldiers reported that armed men fired on them from inside the house. The IDF attack claimed the life of Sami Hamdan, 28, a senior member of Islamic Jihad. Hamdan’s mother and sister were also killed in the attack according to Palestinian reports.
In another incident in the southern Gaza Strip, the IDF killed a Hamas member and wounded 10 other Palestinians.
United States President George W. Bush is scheduled to visit Israel and the Palestinian Authority on January 8. Bush, who will be accompanied by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Adviser Steven Hadley, plans to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud ‘Abbas.
‘Abbas is currently visiting Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia to coordinate positions and formulate a united Arab message to be conveyed to Bush.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Bush better ask Condi how to handle this, after her telling the world she understood how the PLO felt comparing them to her childhood.

“For Dr. Rice, the struggle of the Palestinians is analogous to that of the African-Americans for civil rights and she identifies with the Palestinians. She recalled what it Juxtaposition of the African-American campaign for civil rights and the Palestinian (armed) struggle seems strange.meant to travel in segregated buses as a little girl in Alabama. She also compared the head of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, to Reverend Martin Luther King, because, in her mind, both were committed to peace. According to reporter Aluf Benn, Rice views Abbas as committed to the struggle for Palestinian independence and, like Martin Luther King, opposed to terror and violence (Haaretz, October 16, 2007). “

LAST UPDATE Jan-03-200809:26 PM Central Standard Time
Precincts Reporting: 1393 Of 1784 78%
Republican Caucus
Mike Huckabee 31508 33%
Mitt Romney 23682 25%
John McCain 12520 13%
Fred Thompson 12484 13%.Third place is not bad. Keep praying!!!
Ron Paul 9132 10%
Rudy Giuliani 3321 4%
Duncan Hunter 395 1%
Tom Tancredo 3 1%
Or from Fox News
Source: Fox News on Television…..22:29 EST
Republicans % Precincts Reporting 78 %
Huckabee 34
Romney 25
Thompson 13
McCain 13
Democrats: Precincts Reporting 96 %
Obama 38
Edwards 30
Clinton 29
Richardson 2
Latest update at 12:49 a.m. 1-4-08
1546 of 1781 Precincts Reporting – 87%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Huckabee, Mike GOP 35,621 34%
Romney, Mitt GOP 26,524 25%
Thompson, Fred GOP 13,932 13%
McCain, John GOP 13,693 13%
Paul, Ron GOP 10,184 10%
Giuliani, Rudy GOP 3,613 3%
Hunter, Duncan GOP 458 0%
Tancredo, Tom GOP 3 0%

Bill Clinton’s wife
The Queen is not amused.
Bill will try to calm her down by reminding her that he only got 3% of the vote in Iowa in ’92 and still ended up being a two term President. She’ll probably throw an iron from the hotel closet at him.
PS: No ashtrays, the Clinton camp is a strictly non smoking environment as per the fuhrer. No cigars for Bill.
Huckabee
What the heck is it with the idiots in Iowa anyway voting for Huckabee like they did. .
Did Huckabee tell Iowa’s televangalist zombies to touch their TV screens????
Ron Paul
Will Ron Paul finally shut up? I doubt it with all that money.
Obama
President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama…IF that happens I will throw up!!
Not a good day of Iowans showing themselves as Conservatives.
Fox News
Hey Fox do you think you could stop pushing rino’s at us and just go back to reporting the news? Fox WAS fair—I always thought so—but NOW they are clearly slanting campaign coverage in a biased way when it comes to Thompson.

Wild Thing’s comment…….
Hey! What happened to global warming? Or, wait, I guess this is “climate change.” It’s so hard to keep up with all the faux science from the Church of Algore.

Taken from a transcript at Rush Limbugh’s website

Here is the complete audio…………..
Audio of transcript

Below is just small part of all that was said, so I am putting the highlights here……………

Let me ask the question again I just asked about Senator McCain. If somebody told you that a conservative was someone who supported amnesty for illegal aliens, who supported limiting free political speech (McCain-Feingold) who embraced the ACLU’s brief for terrorist detainees getting US constitutional rights. If someone told you that a conservative is someone who opposed tax cuts during the Bush administration, and has recently confirmed he would do it again, what would you say? Most likely you would say, “Hell no! That’s not a conservative.” Yet I just described to you several of Senator McCain’s positions over the years. Now, the idea that he’s a great conservative in this race is an affront to conservatives.
So it doesn’t matter to the Drive-Bys, anyway. It would mean that in November, there is no conservative — quote, “real thoroughbred conservative” — running, and if we don’t have anybody on the ballot on the Republican side who is a conservative and who is willing to say he’s a conservative and espouse those principles, we are going to lose.
The Northeast liberal Republican elites are going to be loving the whole campaign because they think that their ideas have regained prominence and power in the Republican Party all before it goes down to defeat in a massive landslide. So the question that you ask is: “What do we want?” Now, this notion — getting back to the question asked by the guy from Grand Rapids, Michigan — who else has conservative bona fides? Ladies and gentlemen (sigh), Governor Huckabee — who might be a fine man, and is a great Christian — is not a conservative. He’s just not. If you look at his record, as governor, he’s got some conservative tendencies on things, but he’s certainly not the most conservative of the candidates running on the Republican side. There are other aspects, too, which, if I wanted to, I could spend time getting into. But I didn’t start this program today on Huckabee because I didn’t want people to think that the whole point here was to focus on Huckabee, and I’m going to keep some of the powder dry here because I don’t want to be accused of piling on. But if people are going to ask me questions, I’m not going to shirk from them and try to hem-haw around. So there you have it.
~~~~BREAK TRANSCRIPT~~~~
Now, my friends, I’m sorry here. I haven’t spent a lifetime, and particularly the last 23 years on radio, advocating conservative principles only to throw them away to embrace some candidate. I don’t support open borders and amnesty, as does Governor Huckabee. I don’t support the release of hundreds of criminals. I don’t support repeated increases in taxes. I don’t support national health care. I don’t care what you call it, whether it’s in the name of the children or not. I don’t support anti-war rhetoric that sounds as if it was written by Nancy Pelosi. And yet I’m being asked to put all that aside in the midst of a Republican primary. As I’ve tried to point out countless times, a primary is a time to sort these things out. Now, I, speaking for myself, am not going to put aside my principles to accommodate a single politician or campaign operative, period. Too much is at stake here. And being asked to do this, to put all this aside for any single issue is not the point.
Now, I don’t want somebody in the White House who has no problem with abortion. I don’t want anybody in the White House who thinks that it’s okay and that we ought not do anything about it. Don’t misunderstand. But I also don’t want anybody to misunderstand what a president can actually do about it and how far a president can actually take the issue. It’s about judges, if your concern is overturning Roe vs. Wade. If it’s not, if you realize that’s going to be a ways down the line and yet we want to do something about abortion prior to that then it’s about changing minds and hearts. There are several ways of going about doing that, and one of the ways is not wagging your finger in people’s faces and telling them they’re sinning or telling them they’re wrong, you’re just going to seal their resolve against you. I think we’re in the process of changing minds and hearts. I think abortion figures are falling. I think as generations grow and change, there’s a greater repugnance attached to the whole practice. It is not an 80% majority issue, pro-choice isn’t. It’s not even 50% now. Progress is being made on this. But I’m not going to sit here and put aside all of these things that I believe in and have worked for and that I know work.
One of the most frustrating things to me about this entire Republican primary is sitting out there right in front of us for all of us to see. I don’t care how far you want to go back, if you want to go back to Buckley and Russell Kirk, if you want to go back to Edmund Burke, if you want to go back to Goldwater, you can do that and you can find how conservatism has positively influenced change in this country. But all you have to do, if you don’t want to go that far back, all you gotta do is go back to 1980. Now, I realize a lot of people get sick and tired of hearing about Ronald Reagan because there isn’t another Reagan out there, Reagan was a unique individual and so forth. I’m not pining away for somebody to be Ronald Reagan. What I am asking some Republican to see is that Ronald Reagan won two landslides coming off of a Jimmy Carter four years of malaise. Following Ronald Reagan, in 1994 we took back the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years, and we did this with conservative principles. What frustrates me is why the latest current crop of Republicans wants to ignore that and think that there’s a better way, when the evidence that shows progress, both economic, social, you name it, national security, defeating the Soviets in the Cold War, it’s all there. And why it is eschewed, why it is ignored, is something I’ve long told you this, in different ways, starting in the early days of this primary campaign. I’ve warned you that one of the things that concerns me most about all this is how conservatism is going to be redefined so as to fit whatever the current crop of candidates said it is. There’s a bunch of these guys running around saying they’re Reagan. None of them are. There’s not one Reagan conservative — well, I can’t say there’s not one, there may be one.
But the bottom line, the point is that the lessons are clear on whatever issue you want to raise: national security, taxes, economics, individual prosperity, domestic security. It’s all there: How to beat liberals; how to beat Democrats; how to take power from them. It’s all there. The frustrating thing to me is it’s being ignored. Or, some people are trying to redefine it. And I think I understand why, given some of the candidates here, based on the geography of their lives and where they live, it’s embarrassing to admit they’re a conservative because it causes them to be identified with a bunch of people they don’t want to be identified with when they go to parties or engage in their social life or what have you, all of which is profoundly frustrating to me, which is when I’m called an elite, I have to just chuckle. So that’s what’s frustrating to me. But I’ll tell you something else that’s frustrating to me. I’ve been behind this microphone 19-and-a-half years, behind a microphone during this type of show for 23 years, going back to 1984. And yet, identity politics, which is that politics practiced by the left, still is not seen through. Single-issue can cause people to end up choosing or supporting somebody, something, some candidate that is truly anathema to the rest of the lives that they lead. But we keep plugging away. But just don’t ask me to compromise my principles. You want to compromise yours, fine, but don’t ask me to make you feel better by joining you.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Sorry it is so long, but I wanted you all to see this. Rush is right on with what he has said. We have all said similar things on here as well. I am so fed up with selling out to rino’s.
Add to all of this the lies that have been made by so called conservatives like Huckabee and what he said about John Bolton. This totally has me outraged!!!!!!!!!
Look at this……..
Boston.com

“Huckabee told reporters in Iowa recently that he was being advised by John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations. But Bolton has said he never talked with Huckabee. Huckabee then said he had sent an e-mail to Bolton.”

John Bolton IS a conservtive and I trust HIM NOT Huckabee. John Bolton has consistently shown to be a man of honor!!

Israel, the 100th smallest country, with less than 1/1000th of the world’s population, can lay claim to the following:
The cell phone was developed in Israel by Israelis working in the Israeli branch of Motorola, which has its largest development center in Israel.
Most of the Windows NT and XP operating systems were developed by Microsoft-Israel.
The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel. Both the Pentium-4 microprocessor and the Centrino processor were entirely designed, developed and produced in Israel.
The Pentium microprocessor in your computer was most likely made in Israel.
Voice mail technology was developed in Israel.
Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US in Israel.
The technology for the AOL Instant Messenger ICQ was developed in 1996 by four young Israelis.
According to industry officials, Israel designed the airline industry’s most impenetrable flight security. U.S. officials now look to Israel for advice on how to handle airborne security threats.
Israel’s $100 billion economy is larger than all of its immediate neighbors combined. Israel has the highest percentage in the world of home computers per capita.
Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population in the world.
Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation by a large margin – 109 per 10,000 people – and one of the highest per capita rates of patents filed.
Per capita, Israel has the largest number of startup companies in the world. In absolute terms, Israel has the largest number of startup companies than any other country in the world, except the U.S.
With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and startups, Israel has the highest concentration of hi-tech companies in the world.
Israel is ranked #2 in the world for venture capital funds right behind the U.S.
Outside the US and Canada, Israel has the largest number of NASDAQ listed companies.
Israel has the highest average living standards in the Middle East.
On a per capita basis, Israel has the largest number of biotech startups in the world.
24% of Israel’s workforce holds university degrees – ranking third in the industrialized world, after the United States and Holland – and 12% hold advanced degrees.
Israel is the only Democracy in the Middle East.
In 1984 and 1991, Israel airlifted a total of 22,000 Ethiopian Jews at risk in Ethiopia, to safety in Israel.
When Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1969, she became the world’s second elected female leader in modern times.
When the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya was bombed in 1998, Israeli rescue teams were on the scene within a day – and saved three victims from the rubble.
Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship – and the highest rate among women and among people over 55 – in the world.
Relative to its population, Israel is the largest immigrant-absorbing nation on earth. Immigrants come in search of democracy, religious freedom, and economic opportunity.
Israel was the first nation in the world to adopt the Kimberly process, an international standard that certifies diamonds as “conflict free.”
Israel has the world’s second highest per capita of new books.
Israel is the only country in the world that entered the 21st century with a net gain in its number of trees, made more remarkable because this was achieved in an area considered mainly desert.
Israel has more museums per capita than any other country.
Israeli scientists developed the first fully computerized, no-radiation, diagnostic instrumentation for breast cancer.
An Israeli company developed a computerized system for ensuring proper administration of medications, thus removing human error from medical treatment.
Israel’s Givun Imaging developed the first ingestible video camera, so small it fits inside a pill. Used to view the small intestine from the inside, the camera helps doctors diagnose cancer and digestive disorders.
Researchers in Israel developed a new device that directly helps the heart pump blood, an innovation with the potential to save lives among those with heart failure.
Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the workforce, with 145 per 10,000. With over 25% of its work force employed in technical professions, Israel places first in this category as well.
An Israeli company was the first to develop and install a large-scale solar-powered and fully functional electricity generating plant, in California’s Mojave desert.

Wild Thing’s comment….
I realize that to stand up against Islam can be dangerous to a person. To leave the death cult of Islam is not easy, but when I think of how our troops risk their lives, how our Veterans put their lives on the line for my freedom. I could care less how dangerous it is for a Muslim to leave Islam or speak out against the terrorists.
As Steve said in his email to me, what a difference between what Israel has given to the world and what Muslims have done.

….Thank you Steve for sending me this video.

Before Patriot Guard Riders was formed it was hard to get people to meet a moron named Phelps who likes to protest the funerals of our fallen warriors and block him visually so the family would not have to endure. Then PGR was formed the rest is hsitory.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Thank you PGR for all you do. I sure do appreciate PGR! The end of the clip says it all, “Thanks from those of us who can’t be there!” Way cool.

Wild Thing’s comment……….
God bless the IDF and I pray our country will stand side by side with Israel to fight the enemy. In this next election it is important to also have someone that will honor our friendship with Israel.

…..Thank you Steve for this video.

If not me, then Obama, Kucinich tells Iowans
The Columbus Dispatch
DES MOINES, Iowa
U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Cleveland, whose presidential campaign is barely noticeable here, today urged his supporters to make Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois their second choice in the Iowa caucuses.
The move could aid Obama, who is in a tight race in Iowa with New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards.
Under Democratic rules, a candidate who does not get support from at least 15 percent of participants at a precinct caucus is ruled “nonviable.” That candidate’s participants then can back a “viable” candidate.
In 2004, Kucinich wasn’t viable in many precincts but helped Edwards place a surprising second by urging his backers to support him as a second choice.

“This is obviously an ‘Iowa-only’ recommendation, as Sen. Obama and I are competing in the New Hampshire primary next Tuesday,” Kucinich said, adding that “Sen. Obama and I have one thing in common: Change.”

Wild Thing’s comment……..
I would not want to be in closed room with Hillary if she does not win in Iowa. hahaha I would imagine she has a very loud, scary scream at those around her.

Hmmmmm wonder why our MSN missed all these things going on. There is such great news to report about our troops and how the war is going. And the Media is working overtime NOT to tell us about it. — Wild Thing

US Army Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System fires a 227 mm rocket at a building
that terrorists were using to store explosives in the open desert near the northern Iraqi city of Bayji.

American heroes clear out al-Qaeda Terrorists West of Baquba, today, Tuesday, 01 January 2008
Company B Soldiers found two suicide vests that were completely ready, with grid coordinates of Iraqi police stations in the area, grid coordinates of Coalition force bases and combat outposts in the area.
Also taken were 18 large-caliber mortar shells filled with explosives and three fire extinguishers filled with explosives.
Other heroes found five potential car bombs in the town of Hadid and took in a total of 13 terrorists.

Iraqi children, freed by America, under the guidance of Coalition forces, make sit-upon pillows during the day of fun sponsored by the Green Zone Committee.

Iraqis Liberated by America fight back against the Axis of Evil.
Concerned Local Citizens Deliver Weapons Cache to Battery Commander 10th Field Artillery Regiment with members of the Concerned Local Citizens group in front of a portion of the large weapons cache the group delivered to Forward Operating Base Hammer.
The cache consisted of 23 rocket motors, two 82 mm mortars, four 81 mm illumination shells, one rocket-propelled grenade, one 115 mm high-explosive tank round, one 106 mm high-explosive anti-tank round, and several other explosive items, including an artillery fuse.

Soldiers’ Best Friend on the Battlefield – Monday, 31 December 2007….Udi, a United States military working dog stationed at Forward Operating Base Kalsu.

In Diwaniya, south of Baghdad, Iraqi soldiers display assorted arms, munitions and roadside bombs. 126 terrorists were arrested by the end of the three-week operation.

In Kut, 170 km (105 miles) southeast of Baghdad, a raid December 27, 2007
killed 11 terrorists.
The terrorists are Islamic Mehdi (Mahdi) murders who receive weapons, and funding from Iran.

In Basra, Iraq, displayed are weapons taken from five terrorists on Monday.
Note they have UAV drones

From ‘Iran with love’, on the search for Iranian-made weapons.
Some of the Iranian-made rockets which have murdered Iraqis,
Americans, and others, since at least April 2007, when these were shown publicly in Iraq.

All the above has been taken from DOD, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Yahoo, AP, AFP, Reuters.

No massacre in Haditha: new charges refute Murtha, media allegations
Defend Our Marines …..for entire article ( it is long so I am just putting some of it on here)
The Marine Corps has now acknowledged that none of the Marines charged with criminal offenses for their actions at Haditha, Iraq committed murder.
Lieutenant General Samuel Helland’s decision to dismiss charges of unpremeditated murder against Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich lay to rest specious allegations by Time Magazine reporter Tim McGirk and Congressman John Murtha that a My Lai-style massacre occurred in Haditha on November 19, 2005.
A Marine Corps spokesman said Monday that Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich will face trial on charges of voluntary manslaughter, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, dereliction of duty and obstruction of justice for his role in the debacle that followed an Al Qaeda led attack on a squad of 12 Marines.

Lt Gen Helland, the final arbiter in the matter, dismissed twelve charges of unpremeditated murder, and separate charges of soliciting another to commit an offense and making a false official statement. His decision removes the onus that war crimes were committed by any of the American Marines who fought in the day-long battle for the strategic city.
Attorneys Neil Puckett and Mark Zaid, in Washington, D.C., co-counsels for SSgt Wuterich, responded:

“The good news is that SSgt Wuterich (and all of the Marines, for that matter), have been forever cleared of murder charges. That means that there is (and never was) any evidence to support Congressman Murtha’s and Time magazine’s allegations of these Marines killing Iraqis ‘in cold blood.’
“The bad news is that the extensive pretrial investigation and legal analysis conducted by an experienced military judge was essentially ignored. It is always disappointing when professional military prosecutors profess to want to do the right thing by setting up the system to work, and then ignore its results because they refuse to give Marines under attack in combat the benefit of the doubt that they were responding according to their training. We are confident that a military jury will acquit SSgt Wuterich of all remaining charges, because he is, in fact, not guilty.”

UPDATE: As of January 1st
Marine to stand trial for voluntary manslaughter in Haditha killings
CAMP PENDLETON
San Diego.com …for complete article
One Marine will stand trial forvoluntary manslaughter and another for obstruction of justice in connection with an alleged war crime that left 24 civilians dead more than two years ago in Haditha, Iraq, Camp Pendleton officials announced Monday. Lt. Gen. Samuel Helland has ordered Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich to be tried on charges of voluntary manslaughter, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, dereliction of duty and obstruction of justice.

Helland dismissed the charges of unpremeditated murder, soliciting another person to commit an offense and making a false official statement. As commander of U.S. Marine Corps Forces Central Command and the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Pendleton, Helland is the convening authority for the Haditha case.
If convicted, Wuterich could be sentenced to 160.5 years in the brig, a bad-conduct discharge and forfeiture of all pay and allowances.
Wuterich led some members of a Marine platoon in using rifles and grenades to kill men, women and children Nov. 19, 2005. The unit took such actions shortly after a roadside bomb struck their convoy, killing a Marine and wounding two others.

Helland also ordered a court-martial for 1st Lt. Andrew Grayson, who is charged with making false official statements, obstruction of justice and attempting to fraudulently leave the Marine Corps.
Grayson was a commander overseeing Wuterich’s platoon at the time. He is accused of trying to cover up the Haditha killings.
A conviction could force him to spend more than 10 years in prison and be dismissed from the service.
Wuterich and Grayson were among eight Marines from the Camp Pendleton-based 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment to face charges in the Haditha case.
The government has dropped all charges against five of the defendants, either outright or in exchange for future testimony. Besides Wuterich and Grayson and Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani will undergo court-martial, while the last defendant is awaiting word on whether he’ll face trial.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Pray that these Marine’s will be exhonerated like the others.
…”CAMP PENDLETON – One Marine will stand trial for voluntary manslaughter and another for obstruction of justice in connection with an alleged war crime that left 24 civilians dead more than two years ago in Haditha, Iraq, Camp Pendleton officials announced Monday”…..
Insurgents can be male, female, old, young and every spread in between.
From what I’ve read on this incident, the dead folk were insurgents. They might not have been armed at that exact moment, but too bad.
There’s nothing that happened to the folk at Haditha that wasn’t earned.
That whole *&*ing “innocent civilian” thing just chaps my arse when applied to the persons in the house(s) of concern. By definition, ALL terrorists are civilians, as they are not members of an organized, uniformed force under the auspices of a duly-constituted government.
All I can say for these particular “civilians” is that – you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas.
The people in Murtha’s district need to come to their senses and give him the boot. The slut Murtha took the word of Time Magazine over his fellow Marines. Murtha the EX Marine! He does not deserve to be called a Marine!
specious allegations by Time Magazine reporter Tim McGirk
This is the lying traitorous bastard that started the ball of crap rolling on this farce.

…. Thank you Jack, Conservative Insurgent Blog, for the information.