איתי - Up, up and away

I keep promising myself that I am no longer going to check the news. Oh, maybe I should be responsible and stay informed ~ but I don't want to hear about wars and rumors of Iranian nuclear holocausts to come. I don't want to hear about our former rapist president, or, from across the pond, a peanut farmer promising to take off his ex-president hat (how does one temporarily stop being an ex-President of the United States of America?!) in order to fly to Syria to hang with the leader of a certain terrorist organization. Did I need to know about yesterday's attack in which four Gazan terrorists crossed into Israel, killed two civilian workers at the border crossing station which supplies most of Gaza's fuel and then, tried to flee back to Gaza? Now, I am half expecting to read a headline like "Israel Tightens Siege on Gaza: Humanitarian Crisis Feared." Good grief.

The Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Danny Gillerman summed it up like this: "In the past 24 hours alone, more than 127 trucks, carrying medical equipment, diapers and basic food products were transferred from Israel to the Palestinian population in Gaza, via these crossing points, while at the same time, more than 50 rockets and mortars were fired at Israel, in addition to the murder of two Israelis at the fuel terminal."

Nope! No more news for me, thank you. I'm going to be an ostrich from now on. Yes, sir! Except then I would miss fun stuff like this story (I love the now only slightly futuristic renderings at the beginning of the clip):

"It's a shock no one thought of it before, but a new development to provide green electricity could change the way the world powers itself. An engineering team from the Technion in Haifa put together a cutting edge project that places solar panels on helium balloons. The balloons are then placed on a cable, and can be stacked one of top of the other. Prototypes are rough now, but the design should be easy to streamline. Designers think the first models could be available in the next year - with each balloon providing the same amount of electricity as 25 square meters of solar panels. That's enough to power a washer and dryer for an entire year!"

If you'll hold my hand
We'll chase your dream across the sky
For we can fly!
We can fly!

Tags: solar power
Current Mood: flying high as an ostrich seldom can
Current Music: Fifth Dimension: Up, Up and Away

	From: nomadmatan	Date: April 10th, 2008 07:16 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I fully leave it to Israelis to solve global warming, the impending oil crisis, and a few other things...actually, I leave everything to them except anti-smoking measures.

	From: mahakala78	Date: April 11th, 2008 05:28 am (UTC)		(Link)

I know what you mean about not checking the news. I put something like 15 different newspapers from around the world on my google homepage. I look at all of them. But then I started to get depressed. I didn't even notice until I didn't have the time to check for a few days and noticed that I was cheerier. Oh, ignorance.

	From: theryk	Date: April 14th, 2008 04:07 am (UTC)		(Link)

I have to say that at least he's trying to communicate in the name of peace, even with those who do not. It's a damn sight better than our current President's approach of "Shoot first and why stop to ask questions?"

All Bush's Crusade (his word, so not mine) has done is worsen the problem and empower the terrorists. Even when I disagree with Carter's statements:

"I personally, in my Sunday-school lessons, don't favor the religious endorsement of a gay marriage. But I do favor equal treatment under the law for people who differ from me in sexual orientation."

I believe he is acting from compassion and the best part of his beliefs. I might point out to him that people of different sexual orientation will never be treated the same under the law UNTIL their God-given right to marry and enjoy the privileges- like be able to visit their lover's hospital deathbeds- is carved in Commandment Stone,

but sometimes you gotta go with the good that is there to work with and hope for progress on their part with the rest .

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