Russell and Carol - hayle and hearty

Things to make you ponder

I wonder who could help them with their inquiries?!

World news

Audit reveals billions of dollars of Iraqi oil funds gone missing

• guardian.co.uk, Tuesday July 27 2010
• Martin Chulov in Baghdad

The US department of defence has called in forensic accountants to help track $8.1bn (£5.2bn) of $9.1bn in Iraq's oil revenue entrusted to it after the fall of Baghdad, following an official audit that revealed the money was missing. The funds were to be used for spending on reconstruction during 2004-07, a period when Iraq was under weak transitional rule.

So the Pentagon doesn't do war, intelligence or accounting .... wonder what it is good at?

In a piece in the Guardian today

So, the items on the Gaza embargo list are there as a matter of Israel's national security?

Then, how come when Egypt opened its crossing:

Many had taken the opportunity to stock up on supplies in preparation for their return to a space where items such as coriander and A4 paper are blockaded by the Israelis.

The reason was revealed in Court documents:

I nearly choked on my old man's sherry recently when I read about a 'science' teacher in the USA (where else?) who liked to add christian commentary to his science lessons basically saying the science he was teaching was wrong and that his religious view was correct.  He had been sacked it seemed and there was a 'reinstate him' movement from the concerned kids who were praying for him because they now believed science was unreliable.