“A Baghdad plea: U.S. should stay and fight”
Original Post on Digg:
Mohammed Fadhil of Iraq-The Model sends an urgent message in today’s NYDaily News.
From the Original Article:
In the midst of such a fierce war, sending more wrong messages could only further complicate an already complicated situation. It would only create more of a mess inside Iraq - a mess that would then be exploited by Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia for their own purposes: more iron-fisted control of the peoples and treasures of the region, more pushing the Middle East to crises and confrontations, and more spreading of their dark, backward ideologies.
My Comments:
So if we stay in we will less a few more people and work towards freedom? If we pull out then we loose the war plunge a country into total chaos, loose face in the world, and place us in a position were own safety will be put into peril. Is there really a choice?
Napoleon Dynamite Announced for DS and PSP!
Original Post Digg:
Crave Entertainment announced today that it will publish the first video game based on Napoleon Dynamite the movie. The game will be available on both the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP systems
My Comments:
A very bad idea. The only way this might be good is if the pull off a Goonies on the NES type of game.
Swedish Study: Young Girls More Likely to Be Fat
Most of their figures are based on results from 1982 to today. What has happened since 1982?
- Cable/Satellite TV has grown exponentially
- Playground equipment has been dumbed down for safety, to point that most kids are bored with it and will not play on it.
- Green space is shrinking giving children less area to explore
- The internet has become popular - Making the parents less likely to leave their computers and by proxy making the kids more sedimentary
- Video games has become more story based and multi-player, unlike Pong and PacMan that you could pick and put down when ever you wanted - Again, making the parents less likely to leave their consoles and by proxy making the kids more sedimentary
- VTech like educational devices are simply making kids sit down more
- Attitudes about being fat has become more universally acceptable
Original Post on Digg:
As every Western nation struggles with child obesity, the Swedes are puzzled by an unusual blip in the data: Why are little girls more likely to be fat than little boys? A recent study by researchers at Sweden’s Uppsala University showed that today’s 4-year-old girls were six times as likely to be obese compared to 20 years ago - a bigger jump than