Stories of the Year
January 15th, 2007Do you remember in September when I happened to dismember my left leg….er? I was officially medically cleared today to do whatever I want (not that I wasn’t doing just that already). After shaking hands goodbye, I requested copies of my MRI and X-Rays on a disc. If you’re interested, you can see the screens here. I think they’re beautiful, and no, that’s not because they’re stills of my inner leg (so hot). It’s because they’re beautiful and captivating graphics by shape and color.
A more serious but less sexy story broke today, and it’s one that I’d like to devote diligence and wit to: Al Gore won’t run for President: oh noes!
Really, I’m disappointed, but I understand, and am glad that he’s still fighting in some capacity.
Now, remember the Somali-Ethiopian War? Somalia’s Islamist government has fallen, and the World is calling for international peacekeepers (the US is calling for African peacekeepers). It’s a sad story. The World will fail to keep the peace, that country will still be torn apart by wars, factions and terrorists, and nobody will care.
I wonder if the President knows about this. Not this President, specifically, but I mean, any President. I’m sure it was in one of Bush’s Intelligence Briefs, but the article says that the US called for “the rapid deployment of an 8,000 member African peacekeeping mission” and I wonder if Bush personally signed off on that, and then I realize, No, of course he didn’t. Bush doesn’t do that type of thing. But how many Presidents do? And would the world be better off if they did pay more attention to everything?