Sunshine

The hot and stale air is clearing away slowly. The windows are all open and the fans are going full blast this morning. The outside temperature is 76° and dropping slightly, while inside it’s a cool 79°. At this point, I would like to stay even with the cooler outside temp for a little while.

Last night, the Science channel had show featuring the Sun and I was amazed once more at all of the factoids. Such as it taking 8.5 minutes for the heat (the radiation) to reach us. And every second 700 million tons of hydrogen are converted into helium ashes. In the process 5 million tons of pure energy is released; therefore, as time goes on the Sun is becoming lighter.

This morning it’s the news that has my attention. And words (sometimes) fail me as I read the headlines…

U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery for the Israelis
By DAVID S. CLOUD and HELENE COOPER
The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which some military officers see as a sign of a longer campaign ahead. (If you don’t watch the movie, Why We Fight, you’re sticking your head in the sand.)

QUOTATIONS OF THE DAY
Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, on the fighting in Lebanon
"What I won’t do is go to some place and try to get a cease-fire that I know isn’t going to last."  

She refuses to look for a peaceful solution because she knows it won’t last? This is coming from the former Soviet Union expert for the Reagan administration who didn’t know that the Soviet Union was collapsing of its own weight. Exactly, what does she know? We already know she’s fallible.

Here’s what I know…I can tell you that citizens of Lebanon shouldn’t look to the USA for any leadership or help in this. It’s official; we’re not interested in peace. We have bombs to sell and business is business, you know.

And this one…simply sickens me.
“Human life is of supreme value, but this is a demanding operation, and we are at war,” Maj. Gen. Udi Adam, who commands the Israeli forces fighting on the Lebanese front, told Israeli television. “I suggest we don’t count the dead until it’s all over.”

Supreme value…but? What kind of sick logic is that? We love you dearly but we’re going to have to kill you anyway. Is that what he’s saying? And “don’t count the dead until it’s all over.”  And when would that be? Who decides? Maybe it’s The Decider.

All I really know from all of this is the fact that the world becomes a more dangerous place every single time an innocent is killed, whether it is by the indiscriminate weapons of Hezbollah or the “precision” bombs of the USA.