First, I have discovered a cute animated series on the financial markets/news called Hoofy and Boo. I should warn you that Hoofy is pretty bullish and Boo is bearish on the markets. See http://www.minyanville.com/mvtv. Its a pretty funny series.
Second, thinking of funny .... what would politics be without some humor? On the left side I recommend http://www.amuniversal.com/ups/features/doonesbury/index.htm and http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/benson. On the right side I suggest seeing http://townhall.com/funnies and http://www.conservativecartoons.com/archives.php. If you're more in the middle then I suggest http://alexdegaston.blogger.com ;) I'm one of the 99.8% of all people who views themselves as being somewhere in the middle.
Third, this is less humorous but its about an old boss making history. Well actually she's a boss I never personally met. I was only on the contract for a month because I got offered a gig very close to home in Microsoft .NET and they were going to do Java. Well anyway General Dunwood was a 2* general in the Army and commander of the Military Traffic Management Command (MTMC) in the US Army at the Hoffman Building in Alexandria. I was working for Pragmatics Corp. and we were doing a lot of business for MTMC and I was on a contract there before I left to go work for SI International for 5 years. And since then she's now moving up in the world as she's now the first female 4* general in American history. See http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/nov/14/dunwoody-becomes-first-female-4-star-general/
On a more serious note I share the following picture of a Russian dictator meeting with a man who wants to wipe Israel off the map.
I personally think that its inhumane how the Jews in Israel are treating the Palestinians. However I don't think the solution is to wipe out Israel and its not to send children in as suicide bombers to kill Israelis. IMHO the best solution will be to help foster moderate behaviors in both societies. How about the G20 spending money on youth camps for Palestinian/Israeli children to mix for several weeks each summer? They could hold these camps in the mountains of Europe and spend about $500M per year bringing together 100,000 youth of both sides for plenty of opportunities to network. Spend another $50M per year on cellphones and give them unlimited text messaging capability in the local areas of Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. I wonder how much money Vladimir Putin and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spend on helping build bridges of understanding in the world? Anyone got the numbers?
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