Last year I did my first year in review.  I think its now about time to recap the year...and WHAT a year it was!

The year started with Chris and I planning our trip to Israel.  That seemed to be the running theme for most of the year!  That was absolutely the running thread.   Israel Israel ISRAEL!!!!

Anyway, the year seemed to drag on...so slow up until September.  The girls did less clips...and now no more new clips.  There was the stresses of personal lives...that seemed to start the beginning of the year...but also the highlight of increasing phone contact with Lital...from my first call on Christmas Day 2007 up until the trip.  

Then FINALLY September came..and being all giddy with excitement at my first international travel.   Shawn adding himself to our plans at nearly the last minute...and trying to find a way to get the most out of the trip. With the little time we had.

The bittersweetness of landing in Lod....knowing that a lifetime of expectation and over a year of planning was going to be over in little over two weeks...   Meeting Lital, Yair, Adi and making new friends there.was BEYOND amazing!!!  Not to mention the euphoric 8th day...LOL When we had our tour of the Galilee, Golan, dinner and drinks with Adi and May...and later even more drinks with Lital.....That was it...man...that truly was it.  That was the highlight of the trip.

Then coming back and getting back into the daily grind...LOL yeah that was a let down...but the desire to go back and to live there permanently has NOT diminished one ounce...since I have been back.  And, that seems to be my goal....to get back to Israel.   

So now...the year winds down...far differently than last year...no more new clips from the girls....the trip complete....Israel in a war.....Obama President....LOL  Honestly I have no idea where the next year will go.  But, hopefully the highs will be just as enjoyable as they were this year and the lows not so bad and easily overcome. 

I just hope everyone is safe, secure and has a prosperous new year!

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That's a very cool capture of the year and who knows what will be the next. i'm sure we'll have many suprises. dishka and me are planning to do a clip for quite some time. and now we got some time (too bad that it's war that made it) to work on it. so start of next week we'll be filming and editing and hopfully we'll have the clip in about a month? hehe that's the goal anyway. no less than a month. have an awesome year everybody! and expect change cause it will always show up the door, except it and yourselves happy new year!

love and hugs

Posted by: tasha at January 01, 2009 02:56 AM (xrWdN)

2 Hi Tasha!!!

Glad your safe and that you stopped by.   I hope you are having about as good of a time as you can!

Posted by: Robert Woolwine at January 01, 2009 11:01 AM (fwQ5b)

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Wow the year is finally ending!!!!

I hope you all have a safe, wonderful and liquored up New Year!!!!!

Stay safe and do not drive!!!

Next year in Israel!!!!

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YEAH BABY YEAH!!!!

This = more dead terrorists!!!

Thank G-d Israel is starting to finally grow a pair...I hope!

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I got this from the Muqata!

IDF now has a youtube channel!

Click here to view!

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Haartz is reporting a possible 48 hour truce on Israel's side.

If this happens - and my G-d I hope it doesn't - but if it does...Israel deserves to lose. 

There is no fucking way Israel should do something so civilized as to reward these barbarians with a lull in fighting.  FUCK!!! It's bad enough that Israel has allowed over 100 trucks of supplies to be sent into Gaza! 

Can you imagine this - WWII....US troops are fighting in the Ardennes forest in the Battle of the Bulge....but instead of us supplying our troops...we send 100 trucks with supplies to GERMANY?  WTF logic is this!  Fucking idiots!

You win wars by making the enemy scream UNCLE...and beg to stop..not by giving supplies to your enemies!

Now this shit about a truce?  Fuck does anyone in Israel know how to win a war anymore?  All this does is put more Israeli lives in danger because we all know Hamas wont stop firing those rockets!  Shit they haven't stopped firing them now!  Nor did they during the ceasefire!  No - what Israel needs to do is to invade with ground forces and beat Hamas so badly...so utterly...so convincingly that Hamas begs for peace.  BEAT THE WAR OUT OF THEM.  It is the only thing those fucking terrorists there understand. 

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About the war is our old favorite!

Mererhetoric.com

You know the old Tasha and Dishka friday site!  He is completely obliterating Hamas's and the UN's complete and bogus lies about what is going on there. 

Add Omri to your reading list about the latest goings on in the Chanukkah war!

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There are a wide variety of organizations to donate money too that will help those soldiers in the front lines.

My favorite is pizza for the IDF.  They directly give food and drinks to those front line units and can make a huge difference in morale.

You can help individual soldiers - if you can only donate a few dollars or you can give assistance to an entire company of troops!!

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1 Hey, could you show me where your post is on supporting US troops and what your favorite one for that is?

Get to work boogerhead.

Posted by: The Girl Across the Hall at December 29, 2008 10:38 AM (V+ylD)

2 Hey shouldn't you be watching your daughter...since you brought her to work today! LOL  

Posted by: Robert Woolwine at December 29, 2008 11:24 AM (V+ylD)

3 Since she's like, two feet away from me..yeah, try again. Now where was that post showing your fave place to support Us Troops again?

Posted by: The Girl Across the Hall at December 29, 2008 12:03 PM (V+ylD)

4 http://www.soldiersangels.com/

There you go...they have connections where you could adopt a soldier to donating blankets to gifts and letters that go to random troops.

Honestly there are TONS of organizations like Packages from home as well..just need to use google.

Posted by: Robert Woolwine at December 29, 2008 02:23 PM (V+ylD)

5 I am just primarily focusing on Israel since well they are in knee deep in shit....and since I am going to move there.

Posted by: Robert Woolwine at December 29, 2008 02:24 PM (V+ylD)

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Now that you guys have been to Israel...

Has your perspective changed in regards to what goes on there?  The war(s)?   Have your feelings changed?  Why?

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Various Jewish Bloggers are hearing rumors that the ground assault has begun.  May G-d keep those brave soldiers safe and victorious!

If you want to hear the latest here are some bloggers that are basically live blogging the war:

Israellycool
Israel Matzav
The Muqata
Jewlicious

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Is up.

Let's face it...alot of it is going to be about the war going on. 

Enjoy the reading!

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Very good flick!!

This is the Brad Pitt movie where he ages in reverse.  It was very interesting and for a near 3 hour movie did not seem very long.  It had a Meet Joe Black sort of feel to it. 

And his character sort of reminded me in a way like Forrest Gump, interestingly enough - I think it was because of his accent (from New Orleans) but if you see the flick you will know what I mean.

This is definitely on the DVD buy list.

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Lindsay Buckingham - Trouble


Naked Eyes - Promises Promises


Santana - Winning

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Has started!

Israel has sort of re-entered Gaza!  FUCKING FINALLY! 

Drudge has it that this is the worst day for the Paleoanimals in 20 years...I wish it was so!  Now Hamas states that they are about to unleash hell!  So be it.  Israel should start dropping MOABS all over Gaza and we will see what happens then! 

Honestly, I don't want this to escalate but it fucking needs to.  Israel needs to fight with both arms fully free to deal with this continual crap.  Israel has a right to defend itself and Gaza deserves to reap what it has continually sown!

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It seems Youtube has re-evaluated some of their rankings!

The Hey clip is back up to a few more honors now!

Honors for this video (4)

#3 - Top Favorited (All Time) - Israel

#1 - Top Favorited (All Time) - People & Blogs - Israel

#34 - Top Favorited (All Time) - People & Blogs

#15 - Top Rated (All Time) - People & Blogs - Israel

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1 haha no I sent Lital a message on facebook on how to get rankings up again Basically you just set your location in account and the rankings show up.

Posted by: stEVEN at December 27, 2008 01:17 PM (QG3Qp)

2 Very cool man.  I am kinda surprised that she even made those changes.   But that's cool that she did.  Far better this way now.

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hehe yep i did, thought it was weird our ranking dissappeared. so some did came back ah! now i'm hearing about it cause i didn't check. too bad the most viewed didn't show up oh well...

 

Posted by: tasha at January 01, 2009 02:50 AM (xrWdN)

4 Youtube isn't what it used to be.  It sucked that the rankings have disappeared (some of them at least) and there SHOULD be something to have like the highest rankings that some clips reached....like the Hey Clip...and others that were once on the pinnacle but have just gotten older and been surpassed by newer clips.

Posted by: Robert Woolwine at January 01, 2009 07:02 PM (fwQ5b)

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Well ladies and gentlemen....

Christmas is over!  The next holiday is New Years! 

And with New Years comes those inevitable resolutions...so what are your resolutions?

Mine are the following:

Move to Israel. 

Anything else well...it will work out in time.

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frrom Mushiloon:

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Here is the link - it's cute.

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Paul McCartney - Christmas


Band Aid

I think this is the first year I have not heard this song on the radio!

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WHOOO it is Xmas Eve!

Fun times..fun times....let the wine flow!   Listen to those corny Xmas songs....

I hope you'll will have a wonderful joyous and enjoyable holiday!

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My refinance is DONE!!!

Even better than the estimate.  My new payment is alot lower than it was before.  HOooorahhh!!

Now no payment til February! 

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