Future handbag designer and friend
-He's finally snapped-
George W. Bush at a press conference yesterday; "I thought an interesting comment was made -- somebody said to me, I heard somebody say, "Now, where's Mandela?" Well, Mandela's dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas."
Saddam Hussein killed Mandela? That's got to be news to Nelson Mandela... (Think Progress)
-Lead isn't part of the food pyramid-
In an effort to get kids to eat healthier, the State of California supplied students with some 56,000 lunchboxes. The problem -- they wanted to do it on the cheap, so they bought the lunchboxes from China.
Yeah, you know where this is going. Why the hell didn't California see it coming? China+cheap=lead freakin' paint. The state has issued a recall of the lunchboxes. Here's hoping the kids don't wind up dumber than the people who thought this would be a good idea. (US Recall News)
-Headline of the day-
"Blackwater working again in Iraq." What was that, a week? Less? I guess Iraq's a self-governing nation until they want to do something we don't like -- like kick out our corrupt, violent mercenaries. Huzzah for the purple fingers of freedom! (BBC)
-Made exclusively for the Eva Braun Collection-
Spanish Fashion house Zara is pulling a handbag from it's stores after a british customer noticed it was embroidered with swastikas. Shopper Rachel Hutton noticed the nazi emblem hidden within other hindu symbols on the bags. Apparently, no one had noticed them before.
"The shop assistants were quite shocked as well to find out this symbol was on there," she told the BBC. In a case of total "freak the fuck out!" overreaction, "a British anti-fascism group said the bags were an attempt to legitimize fascism," the report tells us. Yeah, because nothing says high fashion like goosestepping idiots, right?
In reality, the ancient religious symbol represents "the sun, strength and good luck." Unfortunately, newer associations overshadow the older meaning. (Reuters)
