New Orleans faces a spike in killings. Nine people have been slain in New Orleans, in the first eight days of the new year, deepening the sense of despair over the slow pace of the city's recovery, and leaving police and civic leaders grasping for ways to stop the bloodshed.
U.S. targeted al Qaeda suspects in Somalia. A U.S. gunship has conducted a strike against two suspected al Qaeda operatives in southern Somalia, but it was not known whether the mission was successful, U.S. news networks reported on Monday. What the F... is the U.S. doing in Somalia to start with.
And finally: Stephen Hawking hopes to go in space in 2009. Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says he wants to undertake a zero-gravity flight aboard an airplane this year, as a precursor to a journey into space, a newspaper reported Monday. That will be interesting to see: a wheelchair floating in zero gravity.
Those were the headlines for today. According to an article I read either at the end of last year, or early this year, murders are up in most U.S. cities, except in New Orleans, where murders were on an all time low. The main reason given was: Huricane Katrina. Half of the population was gone somewhere else, and you can't kill someone in New Orleans if he/she isn't there right? But those signs of good fortune for the city are gone. Now they want to install a curfew, forbiding people to go out at night. For a city that is famous for it's night life, that has to be it's worse nightmare. The army and the reserve can't spare extra troops for the city, as everyone is needed in Iraq of course, so what to do? My personal advice would be: don't do anything. It will sort it self out sooner or later. And this creates a buyers market for real estate, and I'm still looking for a nice house in the States.
And, I do admire Stephen Hawking very much. But even he must realize that his fysical handicaps are so big, that going into space, would not something his doctors would recomment. We all have our dreams, and sometimes they should just stay that: dreams. I'm sure that it will be technically possible by 2009 to send him up, but could the amount of energy and money spent on this project not be used in a more humane manner, for example feeding poor and hungry people in Africa?
But, as usual, I don't care whatever you do, for whatever reason, as long as you don't forget: love a soldier. Love, Jenifer Bloom. bloomjenifer@yahoo.co.uk
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