Life is Good.

I haven't been on top of my 80% watch lately. Obviously, I'm just too happy and contented here in Israel. Everything is perfect, and it's not the Paxil talking. You see we have a new government, and they're marvelous. Not only do we have more Ministers costing more money than ever before, we have "Honest Bibi" running the show.

Yesterday while driving back from my archeology class (I realized many of the other participants are so old, they saw the destruction of the first temple live), I heard an interesting show on the radio, where they went over Bibi's campaign promises. You know what! He Lied! I can't believe it! He promised not to raise taxes, yet our VAT will be going up 1%. He promised to cut government spending, but guess what, there is a 3% increase (last week this was 1.7%).

The pope is in town. I thought he came to see Depeche Mode - that they're still performing is some sort of miracle. He went to visit the "Wall", and not just the one in Jerusalem. No, he went to visit the security barrier where he told us "it's tragic" seeing walls being erected. It is. But Dude! Don't you think that the whole anti abortion, anti gay marriage, anti birth control, anti ordination of women thing is like a wall between you and the real world? When are you going to tear that down? And those guys are not even trying to blow you up on buses.

But, on the positive side of things, Bar Refaeli, Israel's excellent physical specimen, was ranked the third "hottest" woman in the world by Maxim magazine. She came in right behind Megan Fox ad Olivia Wilde in the top 100. Hey that's 98 percentile. So there is one thing about Israel better than the 80%.