Weather It Is (Snowballs?)

Good Evening:

The weather is certainly winter-like.  In fact, the warmup following today's storm won't last long and then we'll be impacted by a series of storms during the 6-8 days.  The details are not well know, yet, but the cold weather should last for a while.  There is some indication that temperatures will warm up sharply days 8-10, but there are still ensemble members that refuse to follow-suit.

The cold winter weather is courtesy of cold, high pressure situated to our north.  The air rotates counter clockwise around this area. At the same time, the jet stream is quite active and storms are moving down a trough of lower pressure over western Europe, southeastward into our area.  These storms draw their energy from the contrast in temperatures between the warm Mediterranean sea and the cold air to the north.

It's really too bad that it won't be cold enough for snow because a good snow ball fight between Palestinian rioters and our soldiers defending us from stone throwing, brick throwing, attempted suicide bombings, and shootings, would be preferable to their rock throwing.

Nevertheless, I'd like to suggest a possible solution to the rock throwing.  Here's why: 

“It’s our obligation to act with proportionality, and to fire our weapons only as a last resort,” the officer said. “We don’t want to hit innocent people.”  Okay, I accept that.  One should also keep in mind that the world power and sayers never condemn rock throwing.  In response, we should equip our soldiers with standard pitching machines, but instead of throwing baseballs these can throw rocks (back) at the rock-throwers.  Since these machines are quite powerful and can be fed a rock every few seconds this should discourage additional rock throwing -- hopefully in time to throw snowballs. 

It's a real problem when this type of behaviour is deemed acceptable -- it doesn't build confidence that we can ever live peacefully together or even apart.

Barry Lynn