A lighthearted look at news of the day:
North Korea announced last week it had detonated a hydrogen bomb. It was scary news, and word is Kim Jong-Un is threatening to do even more unless the University of Utah agrees to play BYU again in basketball.
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Washington wasn’t impressed by North Korea’s bomb; saying it technically doesn’t qualify as a hydrogen bomb if it only makes some noise, then pokes up a little flag that says, “boom!”
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Thank goodness civilized nations take a more intelligent approach to national security, such as by putting suspicious-looking 6-year-old boys on the no-fly list.
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Syed Adam Ahmed, age 6, had a hard time flying with his folks from Toronto to Boston recently because the Canadian government and Air Canada had him on a no-fly list as a suspected terrorist. Granted, kids that age can be little terrors, but that’s not really the spirit of the list.
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A story in the New York Daily News said Air Canada told Ahmed’s family they may want to change their son’s name to avoid future flying troubles. Great suggestion. Here’s another one: Canada could change its name, so the list no longer would apply.
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You can change your name and be removed from the no-fly list? Good thing real terrorists never would think of such a thing.
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When it comes to global economics, they used to say that when the U.S. sneezed, the rest of the world caught a cold. Apparently, things have changed. Last week, Wall Street came down with a bad case of the China flu.
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That’s what happens when your No. 1 creditor begins to feel ill and you still want to borrow money.
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The federal government has issued new dietary guidelines. Here’s the short version: Whatever you’re eating is wrong.
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The government once had a food pyramid until, in the spirit of “you are what you eat,” most Americans started looking like pyramids.
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President Obama last week called ISIS members, “Killers with good social media.” This was not good news for the person in charge of the Twitter account for Brandon Flowers and the rest of The Killers.
North Korea announced last week it had detonated a hydrogen bomb. It was scary news, and word is Kim Jong-Un is threatening to do even more unless the University of Utah agrees to play BYU again in basketball.
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Washington wasn’t impressed by North Korea’s bomb; saying it technically doesn’t qualify as a hydrogen bomb if it only makes some noise, then pokes up a little flag that says, “boom!”
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Thank goodness civilized nations take a more intelligent approach to national security, such as by putting suspicious-looking 6-year-old boys on the no-fly list.
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Syed Adam Ahmed, age 6, had a hard time flying with his folks from Toronto to Boston recently because the Canadian government and Air Canada had him on a no-fly list as a suspected terrorist. Granted, kids that age can be little terrors, but that’s not really the spirit of the list.
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A story in the New York Daily News said Air Canada told Ahmed’s family they may want to change their son’s name to avoid future flying troubles. Great suggestion. Here’s another one: Canada could change its name, so the list no longer would apply.
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You can change your name and be removed from the no-fly list? Good thing real terrorists never would think of such a thing.
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When it comes to global economics, they used to say that when the U.S. sneezed, the rest of the world caught a cold. Apparently, things have changed. Last week, Wall Street came down with a bad case of the China flu.
---
That’s what happens when your No. 1 creditor begins to feel ill and you still want to borrow money.
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The federal government has issued new dietary guidelines. Here’s the short version: Whatever you’re eating is wrong.
---
The government once had a food pyramid until, in the spirit of “you are what you eat,” most Americans started looking like pyramids.
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President Obama last week called ISIS members, “Killers with good social media.” This was not good news for the person in charge of the Twitter account for Brandon Flowers and the rest of The Killers.
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