Category: The World

I just don't understand this. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/01/18/build/world/30-iraq-toll.inc">U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 500.</a> Why is the 500th casualty more signifigant than the 499th, or the 200th, or the 162nd for that matter. Every life lost in this conflict is signifigant and should be mourned, not just some magical benchmark death. There must be something signifigant…

Well it looks like the U.S. might be going to get itself into another trade war. <a href="http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2296891">This article in the Economist</a> magazine explains it real well. It seems that one of the little known provisions of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is the so-called &acirc;

I read <a href="http://johnrlott.tripod.com/op-eds/ArmedMarshalsWSJE.html">this article </a>and had to laugh to myself. This particular article is aimed at the European airlines but something my cousins told me is why I laughed. I have three cousins that are commercial airline pilots and they told me that while many of the pilots they knew are very good pilots…

I just can't believe it. Steve Irwin of the Crocodile Hunter thinks its appropriate to hold his son while <a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3859536/">feeding a crocodile</a>.<br />n<br />n<img src="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/pics/Irwin.jpg"><br />n<br />nNow I have worked with animals long enough to know that this is stupid. You can always trust your own skills, but you can never be 100% sure…

The <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20031227/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_earthquake">reports</a> of this Iranian earthquake are unbelievable to me. They have no idea how many have been killed but estimate it at 20,000 and believe that could as much as double. There aren't that many people in my hometown and if it gets to 40,000 dead that is half the population of the…