Friday, December 15, 2006

Headlines

Gunmen seize schoolchildren....in Haiti. UN peacekeepers are fighting the gunmen. The article mentions the Brazilians but there are Pinoys there also.

Ralph Peters says screw the Saudis who have been funding Sunni terrorists for the last three years in Iraq, and let the Shiites take over Iraq...but make sure they are OUR Shiites, not Irans'. HMMMM.

And the UK has decided to ignore bribes payed to the Saudi Royal Family because they were told if they investigate, the Saudi's won't buy planes form the UK. Hey, what's the big deal about giving "gifts" to friends?


Mugabe, not satisfied with wrecking Zimbabwe and stealing elections by threatening to stop food to famine victims, now wants to be president for life.


We ban transfat and warn against smoking, but why do we allow/encourage promiscuity, asks a doc in the WSJ. No kidding. I used to joke with my smokers that the only "sin" left was smoking. But smokers don't destroy families like drugs, and promiscuity...

Mbeki warns that if Africa exchanges raw materials for cheap Chinese goods, they will never develop their own industries. Well, cheap chinese goods is discouraging Philippine industry, and the bad news is that the undervalued yen is part of the reason. The latest problem here is cheap chinese carrots destroying the local carrot farmers. Globalization, anyone?

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