I was sad to hear about the school shooting in Tennesse earlier today. Too often do I hear news like this nowadays. Most of the time the shootings seem to be random shootings, but this time it seemed like a personal grudge between two specific students. Sadly the victim has died, but the perpetrator was arrested and has been charged with first degree murder. I just can’t understand school kids getting so wound up that they start shooting each other! What is wrong with this world? How can we ever expect to have world peace when we can’t even have peace in our own neighborhoods? Seems to me that the only “safe” school nowadays is to home-school your kids, which is really a shame.
Bigfoot discovery?
I was hearing on the news (and reading on the Internet) a story about how a couple of guys in Georgia have claimed to find a Bigfoot, and that they have the corpse in their freezer. Now I think that is just a hoax, Bigfoot has never been sighted that far south, and the so-called corpse looks like a cheap gorilla costume! I will be interested to see how this story pans out! I wonder if there will be any kind of prosecution if it IS determined to be a hoax? I hope so, these kinds of things need to be nipped in the bud!
Drilling for oil
I was reading an article on the Sierra Club’s website about offshore drilling. The article I was reading was discussing how on Monday President Bush lifted the moratorium on offshore oil drilling. This moratorium was imposed 18 years ago by his father when HE was President. Up until this point there were two moratoriums against offshore drilling, one by the President, and one by Congress.
Congress is expected to maintain its moratorium against the drilling, so offshore drilling is not expected to take place. Congress is expected to maintain its moratorium because they have been advised that offshore drilling will NOT bring the short term relief to the skyrocketing cost of gasoline. According to the article I was reading, oil companies already have a lot of unexplored resources that they can access and don’t need to drill for oil offshore. The article did not detail what those unexplored resources are, so I was a little disappointed in that; I’d like to know what those resources are!
Afghan villagers kill two Taliban
I was surprised to read on the Time website that some Afghan villagers actually stood up to the Taliban and killed a few of them. According to the story, the villagers had invited some aid workers to come to their village to dig a well. While the aid workers were in the process of digging the well, some Taliban militants came along and tried to abduct the aid workers. According to the culture of the people, you cannot invite guests to your village to help you with something and then allow the Taliban to come along and abduct and behead them, so the villagers defended the workers.
The skirmish resulted in two of the Taliban being killed and the rest of the militants ran off into the countryside. The government has sent additional security forces to the village to protect the village from retaliation from the Taliban. I wonder how long those security forces will be there. Seems to me that they’ll have to be there forever and a day because as soon as they leave, the Taliban will be right there slaughtering the entire village!