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Oct. 22nd, 2012 03:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* As I wrote this reports were just coming out of Lebanon of fighting in Beirut and Tripoli. This is response to yet another car bombing by the Syrian government. People are demanding the government step down and for an end to Assad's interference in Lebanese affairs.
* South Korean Human Rights Activists, many of the North Korean defectors, had planned a balloon protest for today, but North Korea threatened to fire on the protesters and moved artillery into position, so the protesters backed down.
* Remember that cholera outbreak that UN peacekeepers brought to Haiti? It's now killed more than 7000 people.
* Mitt Romney insists that despite any lack of correlation between single parenting and gun homicide, marriage will magically solve our gun proble, not sane and sensible gun control laws, which he opposes.
* Why we need to get real about gun policy:
* "Ancient tomb found at 'Sweden's Stonehenge':" http://www.thelocal.se/43820/20121015/
* Possible Viking Outpost Found in Canada: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/10/121019-viking-outpost-second-new-canada-science-sutherland/
* Archaeologists find twelve burials thought to be 1000 years old in the State of Nayarit: http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58371#.UIUhqIa0KSo
* "Top ten archaeological finds in Ireland:" http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/Top-ten-archaeological-finds-in-Ireland---PHOTOS-174391661.html
* "Witness to Lincoln Shooting: Gotta-See Video:" http://news.discovery.com/history/witness-to-lincoln-shooting-gotta-see-video-121018.html
* As if that Jack in the Box commercial wasn't annoying enough, I just realized that they are supposed to be from Philly despite the New York accents. That's going to drive me up the wall.
* Fall Wedding Cakes: http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2012/10/21/sunday-sweets-fall-weddings.html
* South Korean Human Rights Activists, many of the North Korean defectors, had planned a balloon protest for today, but North Korea threatened to fire on the protesters and moved artillery into position, so the protesters backed down.
* Remember that cholera outbreak that UN peacekeepers brought to Haiti? It's now killed more than 7000 people.
* Mitt Romney insists that despite any lack of correlation between single parenting and gun homicide, marriage will magically solve our gun proble, not sane and sensible gun control laws, which he opposes.
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* Why we need to get real about gun policy:
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
* "Ancient tomb found at 'Sweden's Stonehenge':" http://www.thelocal.se/43820/20121015/
* Possible Viking Outpost Found in Canada: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/10/121019-viking-outpost-second-new-canada-science-sutherland/
* Archaeologists find twelve burials thought to be 1000 years old in the State of Nayarit: http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58371#.UIUhqIa0KSo
* "Top ten archaeological finds in Ireland:" http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/Top-ten-archaeological-finds-in-Ireland---PHOTOS-174391661.html
* "Witness to Lincoln Shooting: Gotta-See Video:" http://news.discovery.com/history/witness-to-lincoln-shooting-gotta-see-video-121018.html
* As if that Jack in the Box commercial wasn't annoying enough, I just realized that they are supposed to be from Philly despite the New York accents. That's going to drive me up the wall.
* Fall Wedding Cakes: http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2012/10/21/sunday-sweets-fall-weddings.html