Category: The World

In <a href="http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20050710123619850C495299">news</a> out of South Africa; <br />n<br />n<blockquote>One out of every three children is having sex at the age of 10, and 17 out of 100 will deliberately spread the virus if they know they are HIV-positive.</blockquote><br />n<br />nI can't fathom this, 33% of the children are having sex at the age of…

<img width='142' height='71' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/union_jack.jpeg' alt='' />I was totally shocked when I heard about the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/07/07/build/world/15-londonbombs_v.inc">bombings in London</a>. My sympathy goes out to all in this tragedy.<br />n<br />nTony Blair's comments before he left the G8 conference.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>I am just going to make a short statement to you on the terrible…

<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/ethiopia_guarded_by_lions">Lions Rescue, Guard Beaten Ethiopian Girl</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A 12-year-old girl who was abducted and beaten by men trying to force her into a marriage was found being guarded by three lions who apparently had chased off her captors, a policeman said Tuesday.<br />n<br />n"They stood guard until we found her and then they just…

I will start up front by saying this is kind of tragic since someone was killed but the way it is reported makes it funny.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4080010.stm">'Killer cow' arrested in Nigeria</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The stray animal attacked the man from behind as he was urinating on a motorway near the country's commercial city of Lagos,…

I got a little behind on reading the paper and blogs due to my Internet connection being down. I have satellite Internet but it wasn't working quite right so they sent a guy out to fix it. He worked on it for 5 hours Friday night and when he was done it didn't work at…

I have been talking about the drought here in Montana and the west. There is also other parts of the world having the same problem and the one I keep picking up on is Australia. I now find an interesting story about <a href="http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=555432005">Goulburn running very low on water</a> and how Sydney is even starting…

There are some members of the human race that are monsters and this <a href="http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/09/nslave09.xml" target="_new">sex slave story</a> highlights some of them. The story is about a girl, Elana, who was sold as a sex slave in Britain.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Elena is just one of thousands of eastern European girls smuggled into the West every year…

Maybe I am missing something <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050509/od_uk_nm/oukoe_australia_prison_siege" target="_new">here</a>, but if you're shooting for the moon, why would you settle for just looking at the rocket?<br />n<br />n<b>The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. Thomas Merton</b>

Doesn't this just give you that warm, fuzzy feeling?<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/04/27/build/world/98-opium-crop.inc" target="_new">Harvest of opium crop begins in Afghanistan</a><br />n<br />nIn more news from Afghanistan I find this.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AFGHAN_HONOR_KILLING?SITE=APWEB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&reload=true" target="_new">Afghan Woman Killed for Alleged Adultery</a><br />n<br />nOur Army went in and did a great job of kicking the bad guys out. I would…