BBC NEWS | Middle East | ‘25,000 civilians’ killed in Iraq The statistics are sobering. On average, 34 Iraqis die every single day. That’s a little less than 1 London bombing per diem. Makes yer fink, donnit? I can’t wait to see how we’ll justify this one. You can get webcounters for your blog here.
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BBC NEWS | Africa | Niger children starving to death Hey, remember that country where Joseph Wilson didn’t find a plot to sell yellowcake uranium to the Iraqis? Children are still starving there in droves. Drought and a plague of locusts are part of the cause, but one mother says, “As far as I’m concerned, God did not make us all equal – I mean, look at us all here. None of us has enough food.” It seems to me that Doctors Without Borders/Medicins Sans Frontieres is one worth charity worth supporting, as they’re running feeding centres.
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) What page are you on? David and I have been asking each other this question for a couple of days now. We picked up a copy of “Half Blood Prince” on a trip to Costco the other day, and have trading back and forth reading at leisure since then. Unfortunately, we’ve been losing each others’ places in the book. I was about halfway through it by yesterday, and when TiVo locked up on the latest TAR1 rerun (arrrrgh!) I gave up on televised fantasy and re-entered the familiar world of Hogwarts instead.…