Today's News

Country store becomes shootout site
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- When two men walked into a popular country store outside Atlanta, announced a holdup and fired a shot, owners Bobby and Gloria Doster never hesitated. The pair pulled out their own pistols and opened fire. The armed suspect and his partner were killed. The Dosters won't be charged, according to local officials, because they were acting in self-defense.
"I just started shooting," said Gloria Doster, 56. "I was trying to blow his brains out is what I was trying to do."

*Bravo!!! Good job Mr. and Mrs. Doster. I hope this is a lesson to all those a-holes out there who are thinking of robbing a store.

Deadliest day for U.S. in Iraq war
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Thirty-one Marines were killed in a helicopter crash near Iraq's border with Jordan, bringing the number of U.S. troops killed Wednesday to 36 -- the deadliest day for U.S. forces since the start of the war in Iraq.

*Very, very sad. I'm so sick of this crap. When is it going to be over?

Boys arrested for stick figure drawings
OCALA, Florida (AP) -- Two boys were arrested for making pencil-and-crayon stick figure drawings depicting a 10-year-old classmate being stabbed and hung, police said. The children, charged with a felony, were taken from school in handcuffs.

*What the hell? What's wrong with these kids? Who's raising them? When I was 10 years old I was playing Chinese jump rope and carrying a lunchbox (sadly with my name on the front of it. My mom's brilliant idea). Kids have got to be raised right and society has to change its priorities. Which brings me to the next headline.


Money, is it overrated?
Economic research focuses on what makes people happy
By Martin Wolk

One study by Blanchflower and an associate, based on interviews of 100,000 people over three decades, concludes that despite sharp improvements in living standards “the USA has, in aggregate, apparently become more miserable over the last quarter of a century.”

* No shit Sherlock! The more you have to do and the more responsibility = the more stress. Even technology has ruined everything. Oh, so we don't have to do dishes now, we have the dishwasher...we have computers, cell phones, e-mail, blah blah... So we should have a lot of extra free time, right? I mean, all these gadgets are doing things for us and cutting our work time. WRONG! Now we have more free time to do more work because now we have higher expectations. Now we have e-mail and cell phones so there's no escape from employers or annoying people. Now we have to take less vacation time because we need to get more, more, more, more work done. A lot of European countries and Australia get 6 weeks paid vacation MINIMUM! Can you even fathom the concept? I can't. Sure, you can argue that they're not as wealthy as us or have as many opportunities, but they're more laid back and maybe...happier?! Maybe marriages are in disarray (divorce rate skyrocketing) and kids are going insane and commiting crimes, because we're all too busy trying to make enough money to survive. Our parents' generation only needed one bread winner to keep up the lifestyle that two people today can barely keep up. Anyways, gimme a hut on a tropical island where I sell coconut juice all day to tourists and I'll be...

H-A-P-P-Y!!!