Sick of it all already...
Jan. 17th, 2009 09:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsI am officially sick of the non-stop touchy-feely "Why are you going to the inauguration?" love-fest on NPR. Thank the Gods for RSS; if it weren't for having a diverse newsfeed, I'd think the only things going on in the world were the shelling in Gaza and the crowning as the Prince of Peace inauguration as President for Barack Obama.
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Date: 2009-01-17 09:25 pm (UTC)You also have an 18-month blockade, warplanes hitting U.N. schools (three) and a hospital and much of the local infrastructure of civilian life, rocket fire, and a ground force invasion. Oh, and the U.S. gov't attempting to send armaments to the Israeli side by boat (with European countries refusing passage through their ports) and various attempts to get supplies to Gaza halted by the Israeli navy. There are accusations of massacre and hundred of affected civilians (who are not becoming refugees because they're walled in; see blockade, above).
All in all, that's pretty big news, and there have been some new developments in the course of it which justify a great deal of reporting.
I don't understand the fascination with every last detail of the inauguration. Other than the fact of having him sworn in, the rest seems quite dull. What he'll do and how he'll do it - THAT will be interesting.