Iraqis Displaced from Homes Now Returning

MNF-Iraq – With security improving, local economies flourishing and community reconstruction underway, Iraqis who once fled their South Baghdad homes in fear are now returning to the villages they deserted. This is a good sign, said Maj. Mark Bailey, the officer in charge of the Multi-National Division – Center governance cell.

“Once people are convinced that security is good in their area, they come back,” said Bailey, who is with 401st Civil Affairs Battalion, attached to 3rd Infantry Division. “If they own a business, they re-open their business, which helps the economy.” Out of the approximate 18,700 Iraqis who left their homes, it is estimated that 10,450 have returned, according to MND-C records.

Somebody call a pollie!

SMH – Police have arrested a man suspected of shooting a Star City casino worker this afternoon, briefly holding up a visit to the area by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. The 25-year-old woman, who is understood to be a fitness instructor, was shot three times in the stomach and hip in the gym on level five of the Pyrmont complex in Sydney this afternoon. The man was carrying three guns, one an automatic pistol, said Inspector Lee.

Oh my godless, you mean there are bad people out there with mean, nasty guns, I thought everyone handed in their guns and was dealing with their violent urges by sitting in the lotus position and humming quietly. Somebody call a pollie, pen an angry letter to your local member, get them to pass tough new laws and call passionate press conferences condemning violence and weapons, that’ll do the trick and take all those nasties off the streets.

Time to reap the metrosexual seed you have sown

Daily Mail – And now, after all these years of our efforts to “retrain” men, up to and including ridiculing them, what have we really achieved? We have achieved a generation of women who still earn, as a national average, only 70 per cent of men’s wages, and who still do five hours of housework to every measly hour’s contribution from the man of the house. Yet we have also achieved a new generation of men who, worrying signs suggest, are turning into a bunch of sissies. So well done, ladies.

Take a look at your handiwork now. Appearance has become an obsession to men. What we started when we gave them their first style magazine is now a massively profitable publishing industry. Sales of male cosmetics are at an all-time high and women are being elbowed out of the queue for cosmetic surgery by lads desperate to have their chins tightened, their eye-bags removed or that vital breast reduction to get rid of their “man boobs”.