kill for an X-Box?

So apparently (the jury is still out, so it would be wrong of me to assume) these three guys in Florida killed another group of guys (6?) with a couple baseball bats because they thought that these guys stole their X-box. Wow. What a senseless waste that was! I mean if it had been an Atari.... kidding

Speaking of how messed up the world is - I've recently been listening to BBC Radio 4. I love it. Such a change from the trivial, oft biased scare tactics and rantings that local news spews forth. I was incredibly impressed when listening to an interview of a Radio 4 journalist with the Secretary of Defense of Israel. The journalist actually had the confidence and the guts to ask some pretty forthright questions to the defense secretary about the recent retaliation of the Israeli army to Hezbollah and Lebanon. He quoted several Lebanese civilian deaths and targets that have turned out to be schools and hospitals and asked the defense secretary to explain if he thought it was right or not. The defense secretary didn't back down at all, but asked the journalist to check his facts and let him know that, yes he believes that Israel is doing the right thing in this engagement.

The next piece was talking about the G8 summit that is happening in Moscow. The main discussion topic was going to be about the energy crisis and Russia's attempt in cornering more of an upper hand in the European oil supply. But then this whole Lebanon/Israel thing happened and of course that must be the main thing discussed. Because we (the US) as a nation support Israel, many of the world leaders were calling to President Bush to urge Israel not to launch an all out attack on Lebanon, but respond showing an equal aggression that Hezbollah took initially when capturing the Israeli army officers. Bush didn't say a thing, only that he still supports Israel, and didn't tell them to back down at all. I feel he should have taken a stand a this point, but apparently he had to wait until there were more bombings in Lebanon and Israel and the Israeli army began a ground invasion of Southern Lebanon to send Condoleeza Rice to try and talk some sense into the Lebanese and Israeli governments. As of today, she failed.

We'll see what happens, but as for me, I've got a good friend in Haifa, Israel which is continually getting rocketed by Hezbollah rockets, and another friend who was in Damascus, Syria just before this whole thing happened and was planning on getting back into Lebanon, and for her sake, I hope she just got the heck out of there.

The world is too messed up right now. I guess that's kind of a consequence of it getting smaller. I mean 10 years ago, what would I care what happened in Mumbai, India. Even a year ago, I don't think I'd ever heard of the city. But when you have a friend who was on the same train that just got bombed a couple weeks before it happened, it kind of hits home.

Not to depress you or anything, it's just things I feel we should think about.