Jumping ship, saving face, or is it all part of the plan...British PM Tony Blair announced that Britain will reduce its military force currently located in southern Iraq . The troop reduction will begin this year and continue throughout 2008. Denmark and Lithuania will also withdraw their troops from Southern Iraq over the next few months. The troop withdraw comes on the eve of a US troop increase in Baghdad and the north. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the withdraw fits within the overall US plan to pass on more authority to the Iraqis. We shall see...
What’s a word among thousands...Children’s book author, Susan Patron lands in hot water after using the word “scrotum” in children’s lit book The Higher Power of Lucky. Numerous schools and libraries across the country have banned the book due to the word and the paragraph describing the main characters reaction to hearing it. The book is aimed at 9 to 12 year olds and would have gone unnoticed if Patron hadn’t received the prestigious Newbery award (like an Oscar for children’s lit) for this book. Instead of banning an entire book due to one word, maybe parents should actually try being responsible for once and take an interest in what their children are reading. What a novel idea!
And this is why we will not win...PM Al-Maliki has fired a top Sunni government leader after Sunni government officials continued to call for an investigation into rape claims by a Sunni woman. As reported yesterday, the woman claims that she was raped by three Iraqi security officials after being taken into custody for allegedly helping insurgents. The woman was taken to a US medical center. The US refuses to comment on the details of the case saying that it was up to the Iraqi government, but did allow the woman to leave with her medical records. Why is it when a woman is raped (albeit allegedly) the US government backs off all of a sudden and says it’s up the Iraqi government? For shame...
When is too much...Television networks, the music industry, and movie studios just don’t know when to quit. ABC, in a grab for more advertising revenue, has decided to create a spin off of Grey’s Anatomy staring Dr. Addison Sheppard. Now, she is my favorite person on Grey’s Anatomy (behind McDreamy of course) but I don’t think I can emotionally tolerate two hours of Grey’s. The new drama will debut in May. No title and no other details have been released.
Oh please, like that’s going to stop them...the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has sent thousands of complaints to colleges and Universities all over the US demanding that they put a stop to illegal music file sharing. The complaints list the names of individual students who have been caught on various websites. Punishment for downloading includes everything from email warnings to suspension for a semester, to lawsuits for the biggest offenders (those who offer up thousands of songs). The motion picture industry is reeling again after about a million computer nerds unlocked the latest anti piracy codes on the latest DVDs... It’s only a matter of time before the next Bill Gates figures out how to download information off the internet without leaving an IP address.
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