What's important, news or life?

I usually start out talking about life, school, work etc and then go to the news. But shouldn't the news be first, after all, the stuff in the news is more likely to be important to you then what is happening in my life. But then I think with all the online news sources out there, you have probably gotten all the news you want so the stories I highlight you've already read or are just not interested. But since the blog will be here for a while, putting in these news stories here is a way to be able to come back to them at a later date.

Last night saw my niece in her middle school's production of Guys and Dolls. The production was very good and I was even more impressed when the teacher at the end made a few comments:
7 weeks ago the class had received an award in a competition and THEN started working on this musical. 6th, 7th and 8th graders putting a good production on in 7 weeks is amazing.
Next the teacher told us (for those of us who didn't already know) that the class was a CHOIR and not a DRAMA class. Ok, so Guys and Dolls is a musical, there is still acting and and dancing and set changes, which is different from traditional choir performances.
Bottom line I was very impressed. And yes, as is typical of these types of classes, it was made up of 90% girls so the girls played a lot of guys parts.

Lots of news today so will try to keep this part short and with links.

The NY Sun talks about a PBS documentary on the 1967 six day war, worth reading.

Palestinians are fed up with gunman. If true, then peace will have a chance.

Conservative professors face discrimination when applying for tenure, who would have thought.

Paris Hilton (I know this has been a Paris Hilton free zone until now and beg your indulgence) has been released from jail to home detention for "medical reasons". What a role model she is, be rich and you can do anything you want.

Turks are looking at a possible war with Iraq over the Kurdish area, this isn't good.

Finally, Lawmakers are looking to dock members who miss votes. Its nice that they sometimes remember they work for us and we expect them to be at work. If they can't be there they shouldn't get paid unless they take medical leave. Campaigning for a new job isn't a valid excuse in my book because they are reneging on the people who hired them in the last election.

Finally, euthanasia is becoming politically correct to mention again. There are too many humans so we need to "cull" the herd just like we do to kangaroos (this article was written in Australia). Once people start looking at which people groups are increasing the most (hint, it isn't folks of European decent) I hope these advocate are shamed to silence.

That's it and will see you tomorrow.