Grab a coffee and some needles. Sometimes the news have a common thread.
By liza
Created 12 Dec 2006 - 1:56pm
Student shoots self at Philadelphia high school | Top News | Reuters.com [1] or why can't people understand that, to some kids, school = death.
Sixty killed in Baghdad suicide truck bombing - CNN.com [2], or why there is more reason to listen up when Muhammed Yunus says that poverty is a threat to world peace [3].
Award augurs well for United 93's Oscar hopes | News | Guardian Unlimited Film [4], or, OK, now I am going to have to see this movie.
A dangerously nice man | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited [5], or how Kofi Annan cautiously takes no shit from no WASP hill-billy wannabe [6], but in the process effed up the United Nations reputation as the leader in world politics.
Bush courts Democrats -- but may be 6 years too late [7] or how Bush is learning the meaning of the word, "democracy".
MiamiHerald.com | 12/12/2006 | A hunt for Oscar or White House? [8] or how Al Gore really wants to be a rock star; panties and Oscars always welcomed.
Saudi Ambassador Abruptly Resigns, Leaves Washington - washingtonpost.com [9] or, is this a sign the Saudis cannot avert a regional war?
To Stem Iraqi Violence, U.S. Aims to Create Jobs - washingtonpost.com [10] or, what jobs? Carting the dead?
$20bn gas project seized by Russia | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited [11] or a big, DUH!, if people are fearful of Russia's willingness to use the country's growing strength in natural resources as a political weapon. That's what autonomous countries are supposed to do.
Eyewitness News - Christian group says Pentagon approved filming of officers [12], or how people are still reluctant to believe there's crazies out there who think the US Army is "g-d's Army" [13].
HeraldNet: It's not a war; release those Christmas trees! [14], or the war is in effing Iraq, you idiots!