Report from the tattered fringe; time to seize the West Bank?!

Ok, I'm about to go have Easter dinner with the fam, but here are a couple updates.
Empire Notes reports the damage in Fallujah.

I am extremely alarmed about this report in Haaretz that states Bush is going to make a declaration in favor of annexing West Bank settlements this week. This is what you might call a harbinger of a new sort of holy war, or just another day at the ranch.