There were only re-runs on that time of year.
"Why wasn't the lawn mowed?"
"I didn't think that I could do a good job."
He was not amused and I never tried to skirk a chore again.

The IDF shock and awe display in Gaza in retaliation for the Hamas missile attacks.
"We recommend Hamas leaders to keep their heads down the next couple of days."
These words from an IDF spokesman was a red flag to Hamas.
But the business of the military is war.
Never peace.

In GIMME SHELTER, the epic 1969 film about the mayhem at Altamont, Grace Slick of the Jefferson Airplane beseeched the unruly crowd and the pool cue-wielding Hells Angels from the stage, "Calm down, people."
There was no calming down that crowd.
Nor do the parties of Israelestine seem interested in peace.
Yesterdaythe Israeli Defense Forces missiled a car of transporting Ahmed Jabari, the Head of the Hamas Military, who is credited with the 2006 capture of an Israeli soldier in a complex cross-border raid that killed two other soldiers according to Huffington Post. In October 2011, Israel traded 1000 Palestinians for Gilad Schalit ending his five years as a hostage at the hands of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the Popular Resistance Committees (which includes members of Fatah, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas), and a previously unknown group calling itself the Army of Islam as reported by Wikipedia.
Hamas vowed to avenge his assassination and their military wing launched a fusillade of STS missiles into the Occupied Territories, reaping a deadly harvest in Kiryat Malachi, 20 miles from Gaza. The IDF