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Today, I observed the two minutes silence for the victims of the London bombings on 7th July 2005 and I got to thinking.

Why do these people get two minutes?

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think that the victims shouldn’t get two minutes, I just don’t understand why, say, the vicitms of the 2nd World War only get one minute?

According to Wikipedia, 62 million people lost their lives during the 2nd World War, they were fighting for our freedom, being put through the most terrifying moments of their lives only to have it ended by a enemy bullet, and their bravery and courage marked, often, whith nothing more than a white wooden cross. Yet, these people only get one minute.

The First World War yielded a death-toll of 66 million (this includes deaths attributed to Spanish Flu) and these people are hardly even remembered!

This isn’t to mention the fact that millions of people were the victim of Genocide; the Peoples Republic of China, Rowanda, Cambodia. How about all the people who died in concentration camps?

How about people who died of natural disaster? Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Tornados and volcanoes?

All these people are, in some way, innocent and yet, do they all get two minutes silence to mark the day they died, while they were busy being innocent?

Let this video enlighten you on how ridiculous the American government is:

Best Kept Military Secrets.

This blows my mind. I sat watching this with my mouth open. They couldn’t find it, so they gave up the search? Thats is quite possibly the most outrageous thing I have ever heard.

Perhaps the bomb is corroded so much that it will never explode, but is that worth the risk? Suppose some terrorist group decided they would use todays technology to try and locate the bomb and actually see if it could explode?

Simply breathtaking stupidity.

So, Bush Plans to Seek $1.5 Bln to Bolster Levees in New Orleans?

Thats fantastic news - but, didn’t he spend all the original money that had already been set aside to reinforce the levees (before the hurricanes) on the Iraq War?

To date, more than $219 billion has been spent on the Iraq war. This folly has diverted billions from the Southeast Louisiana Flood Control Project, despite pre-Katrina warnings of impending disaster from former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Joe Allbaugh and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers chief Mike Parker.

2theadvocate.com

See that? Folly. Haha. I like that word. Folly, the Iraq war is a folly. I wonder whether Bush will receive a boost in the polls, now he’s left it long enough so people will forget it was his fault there was no money to strengthen the levees BEFORE the hurricane.

The man is a fucking moron.

“At the point of a 30mm cannon - no shots were fired - but at the point of this cannon, the Iraqi police gave away the location of where the two British soldiers had been taken,” said Brigadier John Lorimer.

Don’t fuck with this man, the commander of 12 Mechanised Brigade (which sounds like something out of a computer game.)

Thanks, BBC news website.