THE WORLD IS A SHITSHOW...AND HERE'S THE MOST RECENT EVIDENCE OF WHY THIS IS SO

I've been reading the news a lot lately, mostly to be able to update this blog when I can. Sometimes, when you read too much bad news, it can get to you. But I always have to remind myself that bad things have always happened. The world has always been fucked up. And tragedies occur simultaneously all the time. But sometimes, it just gets to me:



1. North Korea, which announced last Monday that it had successfully detonated a nuclear device, has denounced the resolution, accused the Security Council of gangsterism and warned that any American pressure on the North Korean government would be regarded as an act of war.



2. Israel's president canceled his appearance at the opening session of parliament Monday, succumbing to intense pressure after police recommended indicting him on rape charges. [ISN'T IT ODD THAT MOST U.S. NEWSPAPERS FAILED TO INCLUDE THIS INFO IN THEIR TOP NEWS? OF COURSE NOT! CAUSE THAT WOULD JUST MAKE THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL LOOK BAD!]

3. Sunday morning brought chaos to the normally serene and lush Big Island of Hawaii as it shook with the state's biggest earthquake since 1983.



4. President Bush assured Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Monday that the United States had not set any deadline for the Iraqi government to bring the violence under control, the White House said.

5. A day after five members of a family were gunned down in their southeastern Iowa home, the family’s 22-year-old son was charged with murdering them.
6. A U.S. military pilot who flew a U.S. Air Force jet from New York to Germany to pick up 200,000 pills of Ecstasy was sentenced Friday to 17 1/2 years in prison. [GOOD TO KNOW THAT OUR TAX DOLLARS ARE GOING TOWARDS DRUG TRAFFICKING THAT'S BEING OPERATED BY THE U.S. AIRFORCE. AND WE TRY TO PIN IT ON COLOMBIA. SHEESH.]

7. Coast Guard officials want to mount machine guns on their boats around the Great Lakes as a counterterrorism measure. [GREAT, THAT'S ALL WE NEED. MORE HICKS WITH GUNS.]



8. In their first news interviews, three former Duke University students told the CBS News program “60 Minutes” that they were falsely accused of raping a woman hired to dance at a lacrosse team party last March. [CUT THE CRAP YOU FUCKIN' RICH LITTLE JOCKS, AND OWN UP TO YOUR CRIME. YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A BUNCH OF SLEEZY MAGGOTS WHO ARE JUST POUTING ABOUT GETTING ASS-RAPED IN JAIL. IF YOU'RE GOING TO RAPE A WOMAN, YOU SHOULD EXPECT THE SAME IN RETURN. AN EYE FOR AN EYE, BROTHERS.]



9. According to the New York Times, companies are not building power plants and power lines fast enough to meet growing demand, according to a group recently assigned by the federal government to assure proper operation of the power grid. The group, the North American Electric Reliability Council, in its annual report, to be released Monday, said the amount of power that could be generated or transmitted would drop below the target levels meant to ensure reliability on peak days in Texas, New England, the Mid-Atlantic area and the Midwest during the next two to three years.

10. A woman and her two young children will get a special Christmas dinner at one of Atlanta’s most expensive restaurants this year — courtesy of a Rockdale County judge who imposed that sentence on a man charged with family violence on Christmas Day.
“Basically you were hung over and didn’t want to be involved in some activities your wife planned,” Chief Superior Court Judge Sidney Nation told Wendell Jerome Herman Rogers II. “You acted up and ruined Christmas, so this year you’re going to make it up to them.” Authorities said the 33-year-old Rogers came home from a party on Christmas Eve and got into a confrontation with his wife in front of their two young children the next morning. He then tried to prevent his wife from calling for help.
He will have to submit a receipt to the court for the family dinner by Jan. 5. [ONLY IN CONYERS, GA, PEOPLE. ONLY IN CONYERS.]