I think it's time for a bit of a rant!!!! I have a couple of things I just need to get out :)

The first is some serious anger towards the Israelis. If they know that the Hamas are using human shields (*we* know, the media keeps telling us) then why are they KNOWINGLY killing civilians by continually lobbing bombs willy nilly at Gaza? The numbers that we are getting in the media imply that the Israelis have killed more women and children than Hamas fighters. That doesn't sound good. Wouldn't it be far more intelligent (and humane) to find a better way to fight the Hamas and attack in a more granular way? Is it because they spent all that money on a bunch of bombs and they are damn well going to use them? Or perhaps because they are too dumb to find a better, more surgical, solution? (I can't believe that is true) Is it just too expensive? Aren't lives worth the cost? Or maybe it's because they really couldn't care less. Furthermore, if the Israelis don't want to appear like total idiots they should pass on the intel to the spokespeople (or get better intel) so that their comments are not all "we don't know anything about that" and "I don't think we hit that truck, you know the Hamas like to attack supply trucks, perhaps it was them....". The Israelis are not doing themselves any favors here.

The second is the cancer free baby: 'Cancer-free' baby born in London. What a load of crock. There are THOUSANDS of cancers and this baby is been checked for BRCA-1: breast cancer 1, early onset. On top of that, BRCA-1 doesn't *give* you cancer it just means that if you get breast cancer your body doesn't have a way to kill it (repair the damaged DNA) - you still have to get the cancer. And it's only one way to get breast cancer - it's not like if you don't have that gene you don't get breast cancer. These reporters don't have a clue about what they are talking about, they are only interested in amping people up. It's a good thing, but it's not the end of cancer.

end rant

Ah, I feel much better now :)

I'm off for a week of skiing and snowboarding in the Alps, my fish tanks are being cared for while I'm away by....a very caring person :)