Hmm What Happened There?

I didn't think I had hit the submit button for the last entry, but I must have? At least it published OK, I would have hated to think of all that stuff getting lost in cyberspace (although, hmm my readers the few of them out there may hope that would happen LOL, I do talk a lot of rubbish sometimes - but it is truly how I see the world blah blah, and everyone is entitled to an opinion, I will respect others and hope the same about me).



Where were we, hmm Hurricane Jeanne, Florida and Haiti eh. Was going to try and find a link for those food riots in Haiti, but have found the next interesting topic, yes indeed, back to Iraq, but a British story here, a court case in the offing about a friendly fire episode that isn't the usual screw up - the soldier was killed because he didn't have body armour, which he had handed out to other troops. The other troops being in the dock, after soldier A got shot by an Iraqi mob, that he could have survived if he did have the armour. Or may well have died as well, but the whole thing of we didn't have enough supplies of armour etc, blame the Defence Department. Oh, reading further down it was a true friendly fire thing yeppers.



Back to Jeanne, and it could cut the power for millions of Floridians for up to three weeks. And the ground is already saturated by the other three hurricanes so there could be serious flooding - four hurricanes in six weeks, weirdness. What was that about climate change Dubya LOL, let's keep drilling in Alaska blah blah :)



Good article here about the history of British hostages - in 18th Century North Africa, North America and India, and in 19th Century Afghanistan. Not a new invention from Lebanon, Iran or Iraq, and tens of thousands were taken, soldiers as well as everyday settlers.



Oh, and while other stories hog the headlines, oil has hit another record high - $US 48.88 a barrel, what with Ivan battering the Gulf of Mexico fields and stuff. Dare I mention the federal and current account deficits LOL? $50 a barrel before the US election is my guess - lol and yes, I am as reliable as the CIA :)



Mmm, space the final frontier story of the day - the biggest collision in the universe thus far discovered has been made public today. One huge galaxy cluster is eating another galaxy cluster - this is a cluster of GALAXIES dudes, approximately 1300 of them - mindblowingly awesome in scale. Now let's find some piccies LOL. 800 million light years away, so that's approximately three times the age that dinosaurs STARTED walking around. Mindblowing can be the only word. And here is a piccie, or at least a computer generated thingy, courtesy of CNN - and a wider ranging article than the LA Times, sorry LAT - love your election coverage though LOL. Hmm on the comparison with Hurricane Ivan though, LOL reminds me too much of Billy Bob Thornton in Armageddon saying the rock was as big as Texas LOL.



OMG Schuhey is last on the grid at the Chinese Grand Prix! Spun out on the first corner of qualifying, hmm, but, really, he could crash in all the rest of the races and STILL win the championship.



Hmm, interesting article here, about the realities of living with AIDS - wouldn't usually read the Arizona Republic, so thanks Google News for bringing it up - and my link is just one more to push it up the importance list LOL. Scary stuff though, in the actual article. Oh goodness, the story doing the rounds among Indian truckers is that they get hot in the trucks, if they don't have sex they will g0 blind - interesting play on the usual blindness thing. Very good article indeed. And now let's trawl around Phoenix AZ a bit more LOL. It's always lovely to travel through GOOD websites that you haven't even seen before, or see the local pride that says these nightclubs and restaurants are good, or the local viewpoint of big international stories - well, thinking more the US elections, the papers usually get all the same feeds on Iraq etc.



LOL, I like this, Politics for Dummies, about a third of the way down the page. What the Heck Were The Primaries Anyway? Short, Painless Profiles of the Candidates YAY. Having elections without Fallujah type anarchy woohoo, and that the electoral college is made up of blowhards who are hyperactive in local politics - who is the writer, omg this is good!