Stand up America!

There will be a forced shift in direction.

We have weathered far worse and pray that we do not see those days again.

Stay positive and focused.

Hold yourself deeply in faith.

Hang on to your beliefs.

Count your blessings each day.

Gird your loins!  We are in for a rough ride if the following celebration is what we have to look forward to:

Hamas fired dozens of rockets at Israel on Wednesday after Israeli forces killed six Palestinian militants in an eruption of violence that disrupted a four-month-old truce along the Gaza frontier.

The rocket attacks, which included salvoes that landed in the coastal Israeli city of Ashkelon, caused no casualties. Sources in Hamas, an Islamist group that runs the Gaza Strip, said calm could return if Israel did not retaliate.