This is not good news for Lebanon.  If you haven't been paying attention to Lebanon recently it has been in crisis mode for several weeks now.  This Assasination is a sign the ongoing fighting between the factions has just been "upped" a notch.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/...

Lebanese industry minister and Maronite Christian leader Pierre Gemayel has been assassinated in the capital, Beirut, reports say.
Mr Gemayel, a leading anti-Syrian politican, was shot in a street in a Christian suburb of the city and rushed to hospital, Lebanese media reported.

It comes at a time of crisis in Lebanese politics, following the recent resignation of six cabinet ministers.

Mr Gemayel was a member of the Phalange Party and son of former president Amin.

Just gotta get this off my chest.

I think Iran should be allowed to have nuclear weapons.  We let Israel have them, we have them, france has them, india, pakistan, etc...

When is the last time Iran invaded another country?
Launched an umprovoked war?

Why are we harping on them about the NPT when the USa has not obeyed the NPT?

Lastly Iran should be the least of our worries in the middle east, they have already had their Islamic revolution..

This is what's been forwarded to me by several people.  I've replied back with Hunters Diary from the other day but This shit pisses me off.  Consider this an FYI of sorts.

"On Friday night before the storm hit Max Mayfield of the National Hurricane Center took the unprecedented action of calling Nagin and Blanco personally to plead with them to begin MANDATORY evacuation of NO (New Orleans) and they said they'd take it under consideration."

I don't know how to do fancy blockquotes and the like.  But below is the e-mail in its entirety.

More Importantly I think this is why DKos is so important and why the Right is so good at what it does.  Somehow this email has been spread to thousands and thousands of people.  Many who (like the first person to send it to me) have little to no web experience.  

Okay I'm 24 years old, engaged, and have a child on the way.

I'm also of Arab decent, and raltivly politically active.

I don't know how bad things have to get before i say "F*ck it"