Conjures up images of Isaiah 17: 1, doesn't it, John !!!

http://bible.cc/isaiah/17-1.htm

Isaiah 17 WEB

1 The burden of Damascus: "Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a
city, and it will be a ruinous heap.

2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which
shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

3 The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus,
and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of
Israel," says Yahweh of Armies.

4 "It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made
thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.

5 It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm
reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the
valley of Rephaim.

6 Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree,
two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in
the outermost branches of a fruitful tree," says Yahweh, the God of
Israel.

7 In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will
have respect for the Holy One of Israel.

8 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither
shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the
Asherim, or the incense altars.

9 In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in
the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the
children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.

10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not
remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant
plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

11 In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you
make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief
and of desperate sorrow.

12 Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the
seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty
waters!

13 The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will
rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the
chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust
before the storm.

14 At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more.
This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who
rob us.

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Oh well, better batter down thoses hatches & start dustin' off
those ol' fallout shelterz, peoplez -- coz it'z gonna be a long
bumby rollercoaster ride.....

PS, the fan iz already super-clogged, the FAT LADY has already
screamed her frickin' lungs out & pissed all over the orchestra pit
-- we're all up the proverbial frickin' Sh!t Creek without a proverbial
frickin' paddle !!!

HOOROO

UNCLE WALLY

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John Lemke wrote:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3275886,00.html

Report: Israel gives Syria ultimatum



London-based Arabic language newspaper Al-Hayat says Israel gave Syria 72
hours to stop Hizbullah's activity, bring about release of kidnapped IDF
troops. 'Israel will not end military activity until new situation
created
that will prevent Syria, Iran from using terror organizations to threaten
its security,' newspaper quotes Pentagon official as saying
Roee Nahmias



The London-based Arabic language newspaper Al-Hayat reported Saturday
that
"Washington has information according to which Israel gave Damascus 72
hours
to stop Hizbullah's activity along the Lebanon-Israel border and bring
about
the release the two kidnapped IDF soldiers or it would launch an
offensive
with disastrous consequences."



The report said "a senior Pentagon source warned that should the Arab
world
and international community fail in the efforts to convince
Syria to pressure Hizbullah into releasing the soldiers and halt the
current
escalation Israel may attack targets in the country."