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25,000 Iraqis Dead So Far

July 19th, 2005 · No Comments · Hot Off The Presses

BBC NEWS | Middle East | ‘25,000 civilians’ killed in Iraq
The statistics are sobering. On average, 34 Iraqis die every single day. That’s a little less than 1 London bombing per diem.
Makes yer fink, donnit? I can’t wait to see how we’ll justify this one.
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God Did Not Make Us All Equal

July 19th, 2005 · No Comments · Make Poverty History

BBC NEWS | Africa | Niger children starving to death
Hey, remember that country where Joseph Wilson didn’t find a plot to sell yellowcake uranium to the Iraqis? Children are still starving there in droves.
Drought and a plague of locusts are part of the cause, but one mother says, “As far as I’m concerned, God [...]

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What page are you on?

July 19th, 2005 · No Comments · Books

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)
What page are you on? David and I have been asking each other this question for a couple of days now. We picked up a copy of “Half Blood Prince” on a trip to Costco the other day, and have trading back and forth reading at leisure [...]

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