The leader of Al-Qaida in Iraq is reported to have been captured!
UPDATE: It now appears the Iraqis got it wrong. They captured someone that looked similar and with a similar name. Whoops.
In the finale of a weeklong homage to Mother’s Day, Code Pink has asked women to appear at an anti-military rally in Berkeley prepared to cast spells, do rituals, and impart wisdom in order to end war. Friday will be “Witches, clowns and sirens day.”
Reportedly, harpies, shrews and harridans are feeling left out. Phone calls to the National Organization for Women asking for a reaction to being left out of Code Pink’s Friday rally have been unreturned.
The African nation of Nigeria may be taking the lead in sustainable biofuels. A government body has approved funding to assist farmers in the planting and cultivation of the jatropha tree. The jatropha tree produces peanut sized seeds that can be refined into oil for use as a bio-fuel. Jatropha is not a food source, can be grown in arid or moist climates, does not compete with food crops for cultivatable land and may even help turn back some of the desertification plaguing much of Africa.
Should this tree produce as theorized, Nigeria and other African nations may finally have an industry that could pull them out of centuries of economic struggle. In addition to producing a sustainable and renewable fuel source, the plant could reduce food costs and kick-start an entire continent’s economic engine. Imagine an Africa where new industries spring up around newly created agricultural zones, where money and jobs pour into a once desolate and starving landscape. Where all nations can produce wealth through agri-business instead of tribal warfare.
Maybe I have become overtaken by the far-off possibility of a plant that cures fuel demand, eases poverty and ends starvation. But if it works and the world takes interest, Africa’s future could be dominated by prosperity instead of strife and that is worth some time and investment.
Mr. Eddy Arnold has passed away, he was 89. Eddy Arnold was a music phenomenon. In his hay-day he was bigger than Hank Williams, Johnny Cash and every other country music star. His contribution to music will never be lost or forgotten.
Rest in peace, Mr. Arnold.
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