Post archive for ‘World News’
Vote today!
Today is election day in the united states. I ask all eligible voters to go out and make their voices heard! Find your polling place And don’t forget to watch the Daily Show live tonight at 10pm (that’s one hour earlier than normal) on comedy central! Around other people around the web are encouraging voting [...]
Lunar Eclipse
I hope you all saw the lunar eclipse the other night. Taken with my Canon Powershot S400 More photos (not taken by me) avaliable at SpaceWeather.com.
Halloween offensive to real witches.
This certanly could be the most ridiculus thing i’ve seen, uh, well this month. School District Bans Halloween PUYALLUP – A local school district is banning Halloween parties because children dressed up as witches might be offensive to real witches. Apparently our concept of “witches” comes from a religion called “Wiccan“. The Wiccans are upset [...]
Debate & Volcano!
In case you missed the debate last night, someone stuck a cupple torrents up on suprnova. I thought that both candidates sounded very confident with what they were saying, and find it hard to believe that either one was able to convince undecided voters (although many people say Kerry came out on top). The only [...]
New Section: World News, Draft Press, Volcano?
I’ve decided to create a new section on here for World News, where I can rant about the mess Bush has left the country in, as well as anything else going on in the world. One note, I’ve updated my post regarding the possiblity of a draft with some new information reflecting recent press, so [...]
Could we see a military draft in 2005?
I was just informed by a neighbor of S.89, a bill proposing to reinstate the draft. A bill to provide for the common defense by requiring that all young persons in the United States, including women, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and [...]