There is no way I could complain or feel sorry myself today, not with stories like this in the news.

Gunman kills 32 in Virginia Tech rampage,

A gunman massacred 32 people at Virginia Tech in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history Monday, cutting down his victims in two attacks two hours apart before the university could grasp what was happening and warn students. The bloodbath ended with the gunman committing suicide, bringing the death toll to 33 and stamping the campus in the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains with unspeakable tragedy, perhaps forever.

- Yahoo

My heart goes out to all of the victims and their families.

An Alexandria court sentenced an Egyptian blogger to four years in prison on Thursday for insulting both Islam and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

Abdel Karim Suleiman, a 22-year-old former law student who has been in custody since November, was the first blogger to stand trial in Egypt for his Internet writings. He was convicted in connection with eight articles he wrote since 2004.

Rights groups and opposition bloggers have watched Suleiman’s case closely, and said they feared a conviction could set a legal precedent limiting Internet freedom in Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country.

- News.com

I am very pro choice, and proud to be so.
Being pro choice does NOT mean being pro abortion.
I would hate for that choice to be taken away from myself or my daughters.

Residents of a neighborhood next to the University of Arizona say small white rats have been swimming through sewer pipes and into their toilets.

In one sighting, Wastewater Management officials said a woman saw a rat in the toilet, left the toilet seat up and put down sticky trap paper in the bathroom. Then she closed the bathroom door so the rat couldn’t get into the rest of the house.
Once the rat got stuck on the paper, she threw it away.

The Pima County Health Department said it’s best not to handle or touch a toilet-surfing rat.

Handle it? As in touch it ? Are they kidding, oh my gawd!
I can tell you, if this happen to me, I would just die! Just reading it freaked me out.

You can read the rest on Yahoo

First, yesterday Hallary Rodham Clinton’s swearing in broke ground as the largest number of women we’ve ever had in the Congress.
Today, Rep. Nancy Pelosi became the first woman speaker of the House of Representatives.

What an inspiration these women are.
To be able to tell our daughters that with enough hard work, they to can grow up to be what ever they want to be and mean it.

Former Iraq tyrant, Saddam Hussein, was sentenced to death by hanging Sunday morning for the massacre of countless civilians.

In an outburst of emotion, Hussein began screaming at the judge as the verdict was delivered.

He shouted, “Allahu Akbar!” (God is Greatest) and “Long live the nation! Long live the people and death to their enemies. Long live the glorious nation, and death to its enemies!”

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