5 million people lack food water or power

Moore.One thing I need to get off my chest, is anyone else rooting against the Saints and Colts going undefeated Please, tell me I am not the only one in America rooting against this. I mean please,Peyton Manning is overhyped as it is, now everywhere I turn I see him and Drew Brees. Aren't we all sick of hearing about it every....single....freaking...day of our lives! I mean since like week two we have been talking about it! Does anyone else tire of the annual Mercury Morrisembarrassment Who cares what Morris thinks about anything Why do people still continue to call on him I mean once a team gets to 6-0 there he pops up telling Scott Van Pelt that the 1972 Dolphins are the best team ever and this current team is not in his "neighborhood" or whatever.Newsflash Mercury, the Saints, Colts, and any number of teams in the NFL could probably take your precious '72 Dolphins to the woodshed. It's so easy for him to sit here 37 years later and brag about his team but the truth is they are not the best team of all time. I would take any of those Steelers teams from the 1970s, the 49ers teams in the 80s, or even the Cowboy teams in the 90s over that 72 team. Truth be told the 2007 New England Patriots are way better than the 1972 Dolphins. It's not their fault it's just the game is faster, stronger and overall better than it was almost 40 years ago. The offenses are smarter and so are the defenses.But I digress back to the point. ESPN, please stop talking about the Saints and the Colts. I have grown to hate these teams with the fiery passion of 10,000 suns. It'd be one thing if this hysteria just started, but it's been going on for over two months now! So please, for the sake of all us, Cowboys, please beat the Saints. I mean I think I can handle one undefeated team, I went through 2007, but two is just ridiculous.Also I think it would make me smile if the Steelers could beat the Packers. They are getting a little too full of themselves over there in Green Bay, Wisconsin. I agree (for once) with Colin Cowherd when he said the Packers felt like "fools gold." The highlight of my week was watching him throw a Packer helmet in a trash can.So right now what I want for Christmas is a Vikings win in primetime, a Packers loss, and a Saints loss. With that I'd be pretty happy.So I leave you with this thought, if the Vikings win on Sunday it will mark our most wins in a season since 1998. It is also our first season with at least 11 wins since 2000. Vikings fans now those seasons well. Hopefully this year can turn out different than those two.Iwill be back around Tuesday-ish to recap the Vikings game. I will give out my Offensive and Defensive Players of the Game, my Gunslinger, and Randy Moss awards. Until then, be easy and as always:Skol Vikings. Palestinian witnesses said Israeli forces moved into Khan Younis in southern Gaza as the army widened the ground assault it launched four days ago against Hamas militants after a week of air strikes failed to stamp out cross-border rocket fire. There was intense fighting overnight on the outskirts of the city of Gaza, where residents huddled indoors in fear Deaths recorded by Palestinian medics reached 564. Most of several dozen deaths reported by hospitals in recent days have been civilians, apparently because dead militants remain on the battlefield. The Israeli military said it had killed 130 militants since Saturday an indication that the total Palestinian death toll since Dec 27 may be close to 700. Israel's military said three soldiers were killed and 24 were wounded on Monday when an Israeli tank fired at a building in northern Gaza that they had occupied in fighting against the Islamist Hamas group, which seized control of Gaza in 2007.

The "friendly fire" incident caused the military's highest casualty toll since Israel launched its offensive. Eight Israelis, including four civilians hit in Palestinian rocket attacks, have been killed in the conflict. Palestinian medics said 18 Palestinian civilians were killed on Tuesday, including 10 people who were hit by naval shells along the beach in the central Gaza Strip. Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said the assault could get harder for troops.

Hamas, vowing to fight on in every street and alley, threatened to fire more rockets across into Israel. Bush, in his final weeks in the White House, both appealed for a ceasefire. But disagreement on who should stop shooting first and on what terms made the chances of a quick truce seem remote Israel, whose leaders fight a parliamentary poll on Feb. 10, made clear its priority was securing the safety of its citizens Hamas demanded a lifting of Israel's blockade of Gaza. Many of the enclave's 1.5 million people lack food, water or power. The Jewish state launched the offensive after Hamas called off a six-month truce last month and stepped up cross-border rocket attacks in response to Israeli raids and the blockade.

SUICIDE BOMBERS Israeli media reported that Hamas gunmen were manoeuvering within a well-fortified tunnel system and that Israeli troops had encountered Palestinian suicide bombers. Militants had been trying to lure Israeli soldiers into built-up areas, witnesses said. An overnight Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza town of Rafah killed a Palestinian woman, medical officials said. Barak told Israeli legislators on Monday Hamas had been dealt a heavy blow: "But we cannot say that its fighting capabilities have been harmed ... Hamas would increase its rocket strikes on Israel if the Jewish state kept on attacking Gaza, said Ubaida. Hamas, which wants to reverse the events of 1948 that created the Jewish state and turned Palestinians into refugees, won a parliamentary election in 2006.