Wow!
On August 20th, I posted on Facebook that the next week to ten
days (Aug 20 - 30) would be full of violence, warning that "I will
frankly be surprised if the news in the US isn't filled with more
stories of violence during these dates."
Since then, Russian
troops have openly invaded Ukraine, sparking likely NATO involvement in
the Ukrainian civil war, while the US has (1) intensified its
bombing in Iraq, (2) started flying spy planes over Syria, and (3) is
pushing to build an international military coalition against ISIS.
Meanwhile on the domestic front, the biggest earthquake in 25 years hit
California, a nine-year-old girl killed her shooting instructor with an
Uzi in Arizona, an F-15 Eagle crashed in Virginia, an ISIS video showed
U.S. journalist James Foley getting beheaded, a cast member of the TV
show COPS was accidentally killed by police during a live show in Omaha,
the US Coast Guard fired on an Iranian ship, three dead bodies were
found in a lake in Oregon, the bound bodies of two others were found in a
river in Philadelphia, a serial killer shot seven and killed four in
Los Angeles, a U.S. soldier killed herself at Fort Lee, Virginia,
sparking a lockdown of the Army base, a Chinese jet dangerously
intercepted a U.S. Navy patrol plane, a truck carrying hazardous
materials crashed in Tennessee, a semi crashed into a tanker in
Colorado, the entire school system in Pickerington Ohio was locked down
when a man phoned the high school and threatened to murder students with
an AK-47, and North Carolina and California were both hit by hurricanes
at the same time.
And we're not even through all the ten days yet.
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