Thursday, August 30, 2007

Thursday - August 30- 2007 - NEWS inDIGESTion


* RICHMOND-VA - A panel convened to study the deadly Virginia Tech shootings last spring has come to a conclusion.
Their conclusion?
Had university officials acted faster in notifying the campus of the 2 earlier shooting victims in a dorm that fateful morning- the toll from the classroom shootings later that morning may have been less.
Other news from Hindsight 20-20: "Were "ifs" and "buts" candy and nuts- we'd all have a Merry Christmas...."

* WASHINGTON D.C. - A government agency both feared and respected by other government agencies- the General Accounting Office or GAO- has come out with their OWN Report on Iraq and it's much what those of us who read in-depth on these things have also concluded: Nothing much is going right in Iraq.
We now return you to America's Nap- starring J. Fred Muggs- already in progress....

* ATLANTA-GA - Richard Jewell- the security guard wrongly accused of the 1996 bombing at an Olympic venue in Atlanta- has died at the age of 44.
The man was wrongly tried and convicted by many in the American news media- nobody ran just as big of headlines saying he was NOT the one who did it- and Jewell spent the rest of his life that's now over trying to recover his good name.

* PHOENIX-AZ - America's Queen City of Caliente has set a new annual record for days of 110-degrees Fahrenheit or greater at 29 days. The previous record was 28 days at 100 or higher set in 1970 and tied in 2002.

* VARVASAINA-GREECE - One of life's most terrifying moments is to have a firestorm raging around you. Read an AP writer's experience with such a horror in one of Greece's wildfires.

* BAGHDAD-IRAQ - According to the latest count by the Associated Press- as of Wednesday- 3732 Americans have died in Iraq.
Both Osama bin Laden and general sanity regarding any logical foriegn policy remains elusive....

* KANSAS CITY-MO - The city's Parks Board of Commissioners has already caused political-newcomer Mayor Mark Funkhouser grief by the activities of one of the Mayor's appointees.
Now the Board has further embarrassed Funkhouser and itself by it's antics in it's last meeting by disregarding a group of citizens who appeared to promote another "dog park" in the city.

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