Tag archive for ‘Earthquake!’
International News Round Up: Mugabe’s Diamond Fever
If diamonds are forever, so is the pain they cause. Though this strain of diamond fever—with its corresponding blood diamonds—doesn’t call Sierra Leone and Guinea home, it does bear a strong resemblance to the one(s) found there a decade ago. This time, however, it’s hit Zimbabwe, as Mugabe’s sickening government looks to one of the [...]
Daily News Roundup: A Quake and Possible Landslide?
Early Wednesday morning a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 170 people and leaving an estimated 15,000 people homeless. Rescuers are currently digging and searching for survivors in the a remote valley in Baluchistan, a province bordering Afghanistan. The worst hit was a British hilltop village of Ziarat and eight surrounding [...]
Morning Slop: Daily News Round Up
Lehmen Brothers looks like the latest victim in the mortgage crisis hit-and-run on Wall Street. The venerable firm announced this morning it would be selling pieces of what’s left after an 80 percent share price drop this year (cough *$6.5B* cough) has gutted its liquidity.
It’s mid-week Fashion Week, kids! And, as always, there is [...]
Daily News Roundup: The Cutest Lil’ Republican You Ever Did See!
Mom may have given the big speech, but little Piper stole the show. Is it just me, or does this six-year-old make the Republican party a little more tolerable?
Prosperity was the RNC’s official theme on Wednesday. And the unofficial theme? Better get down on those knees and start begging for forgiveness, you sick, sorry, good-for-nothing, [...]
Breaking News: OMG Earthquake!!!
CNN is reporting that Los Angeles just had a medium-sized earthquake at 5.8 on the Richter Scale. Located about 30 miles east of downtown L.A, it was about 7 miles deep, which means that the quake feels stronger and cause more damage. Over at the P+P home office in Santa Monica, our wooden one-story apartment [...]
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