You work hard in a dangerous job. You risk you life for the big payoff. And the big pay day arrives. You get you big share and then you die. Killed while going home with your big payoff. Sucks to be a Somali pirate… 5 Somali pirates drown with ransom share By MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN, Associated Press Writer Sat Jan 10, 2:47 pm ET MOGADISHU, Somalia – Five of the pirates who hijacked a Saudi supertanker drowned with their share of a $3 million ransom, a relative said Saturday, the day after the bundle of cash was apparently dropped by parachute onto the deck of the ship. The Sirius Star...

An African woman from Cameroon I work with once told me this about her home country a few months ago: Africa is a pedophile’s paradise. You can defile the children with nary a thought to your punishment. Sickening and horrible, it seems that some of those providing aid and education are the pedophiles… Peacekeepers, teachers prey on Liberia girls: report By Alphonso Toweh MONROVIA (Reuters) - UN peacekeepers, aid workers and teachers are having sex with Liberian girls as young as 8 in return for money, food or favors, threatening efforts to rebuild a nation wrecked by war, a report...

I was thinking about the whole concept of world peace today when I surfed over to Dean’s World and read an entry by Scott Kirwin entitled What I Want For Christmas. His opening words got me thinking: World Peace? Nope. There won’t be peace until the last jihadi has gone to “paradise”. While the Armed Forces are doing their best to make each and every Jihadi’s “dream” come true, it will take some time before peace is possible - even through wishes. It’s quite amazing how Christianity and Islam (now Judaism) still are at odds. Over a thousand years...

Mel at c h a n d r a s u t r a (love the name and concept behind it) has a post about CBCunplugged. As you may or may not know the CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corporation) has locked out 5000 workers over contract disputes. So those workers formed a blog called CBCunplugged (complete with podcasts) to give their side of the story and even broadcast underground versions of their CBC shows. I love it. Regardless if you agree or disagree with the strike, the fact that the strikers have used alternative media so fast and so fully is downright cool. Go to CBCunplugged and check it out yourself. Did...