Proposal is that hamas would agree to the release of 33 hostages from the socalled humanitarian category. So that is women, it is children, it is the elderly, people with serious medical conditions. And in return, israel would agree to a 40day ceasefire and the release of potentially thousands of Palestinian Prisoners. We should stress at this point all we have is this statement from the political wing of hamas. We do not have the detail of what exactly it is that they have agreed to, and there has been pretty frenetic diplomacy over the weekend involving cia director bill burns who started in egypt, flying to qatar, coming here to israel. It is possible that the framework of that deal has changed over the weekend. It is also worth saying that these deals are often structured in terms of first an agreement on a broad framework and then hammering out of the details. As you know, chris, the devil is often in the detail, but there is positive indication for the First Time Since that last
okay, fair warning. i am obsessed with this story. this is the uss guardian stuck off the coast of the philippines. a giant ship being stuck on something is never a good thing. but this one happened to get stuck specifically on a unesco world heritage site, embedding its rudders in the middle of a national park in the philippines. early on once we got stuck on it, the plan was to tow the reef off at high tide. that did not work. in fact, the mine sweeper only got more stuck. ultimately the navy had to give up the ship. navy agreed for the first time in 40 years to scrap the ship. this $277 million mine sweeper.
sign this brief in yesterday s case urging the court to strike down california s prop 8. it sort of scrambles my circuits. you know what i thought when i read this, was if the supreme court doesn t strike down doma, i wonder if this very, very issue would lead to a congressional repeal of doma, because this is such an urgent matter, and this is to me, i went straight to the logistics of this. if you were on a base and you re married and you have kids, are they denied access? because everything is provided by the federal government. so if you live on a base with your spouse and children, are you denied access to child care? you re denied on-base privileges. so do you even live on base i mean, this is shocking, if heaven forbid your spouse is injured, are you not flown?
okay, fair warning. i am obsessed with this story. this is the uss guardian stuck off the coast of the philippines. a giant ship being stuck on something is never a good thing. but this one happened to get stuck specifically on a unesco world heritage site, embedding its rudders in the middle of a national park in the philippines. early on once we got stuck on it, the plan was to tow the reef off at high tide. that did not work. in fact, the mine sweeper only got more stuck. ultimately the navy had to give up the ship. navy agreed for the first time in 40 years to scrap the ship. this $277 million mine sweeper.
unconstitutional and they are not defending it. so who s defending it then? somebody else had to be brought onboard to defend it, and in this case it was the house republicans. hi, john boehner, who decided that they would defend it with your taxpayer money. they argued laura paul clement to argue to uphold the law. and paul clement s argument today was that this isn t discrimination at all. it s just that the federal government likes to keep things simple. listen. i think what that shows and that when the federal government gets involved in the issue of marriage, it has a particularly acute interest in uniform treatment of people across state lines. so miss windsor wants to point to treating couples differently. for the purposes of federal law, it s much more rational for