The World Around You

Well, Governor Schwarzenegger has begun cutting into social programs as predicted. AP is reporting

To make up for $4 billion lost when he cut the unpopular car tax, the governor will make a $40 million payment to local governments to keep them from closing facilities and laying off police officers and fire fighters, aides said Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity…

There’s a song in the title of this post somewhere,

There has been a second outbreak of fighting this week in the Republic of Congo’s capital, Brazzaville.
Government spokesman Alain Akouala said gunfire and rockets were exchanged overnight between two Ninja rebel factions in the south of the city…

Alabama’s Governor wasted no time in choosing a man to take Bill Fuller’s place at the DHR,

Gov. Bob Riley named former Tennessee lawmaker and foster care chief Page Walley on Wednesday to be commissioner of Alabama’s Department of Human Resources…

Well, someone was going to have a Merry Christmas,

A custom-made $42,000 diamond ring intended as a Christmas present has disappeared from a Hoover jewelry store, according to a police report released Wednesday…