Airplane in the Ukraine

• Not a good year to be Malaysian Airlines.  Yesterday, its flight MH17 was apparently shot down by Russian separatists with a  surface to air missile.  What were they thinking flying over a war zone, anyway?  Was it targeted or randomly selected?  The saddest part:  over 100 leading AIDS/HIV researchers onboard, part of the 298 overall, needlessly perished.  And even worse, the wreckage was looted.  That's how messed up things are in the Ukraine.
• Even more messed up:  the Gaza Strip.  Hamas terrorists hide in schools and churches, using it's people as human shields.  And then cry outrage to the world when civilians get killed.  They even refused a ceasefire.  Bill Maher said, "Dealing with Hamas is like dealing w/ a crazy woman who's trying to kill u - u can only hold her wrists so long before you have to slap her."  Israel, not messing around, launched it's ground invasion, with the primary goal of destroying Hamas' tunnel system, which it uses to launch it's endless barrage of rockets into Israel.  Israel's technological superiority has managed to turn these rocket infringements into a mere fireworks show.  Just when I was over the lame, randomness of Under the Dome, Israel brings us a better show:  the Iron Dome.  (Malaysian Airlines could use a dome around it's planes, or at least some aluminum foil, per the new Weird Al video).
• And speaking of foil:  Jilly's camp season was foiled, cut short in it's prime due to a lack of a uv ray protecting dome around the beach.  Just when she wasn't afraid to get back into the water, the little paleface got severely sunburned, with some scary blisters on her shoulders.  She's under Dr. Dad's order of R & R and confined to her cavelike bedroom.