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• More violent crimes in metro Atlanta — this time in Roswell — even after Mayor Franklin announced yesterday that crime is down around these parts.
• Unemployment hits 16-year high. More than 11 million Americans are now unemployed.
• Hamas and Israel say no to the U.N. demand for a ceasefire.
• Sarah Palin wants Katie Couric to know that Couric “is not the center of everybody’s universe,” further proving how behind on media information Palin is. Literate people have known that for awhile.
• With no writers’ strike to worry about this year, the Golden Globes award ceremony is back on. Now the stars will have to party hard enough for two year’s worth.
• Obama’s planned stimulus package was met with derision from both parties. Not surprising since Democrats are frequently against tax cuts and Republicans are frequently against financial assistance.
• Russia and Ukraine manage to get along. Maybe they should clue other fighting nations into the finer points of nonviolent negotiation.

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Despite pressure from Moscow, and her apparent inability to correctly spell the name Julia, Yulia Tymoshenko was recently selected by Ukraine’s Parliament to become the country’s new prime minister.

It’s not the sort of thing I’d considered mentioning on this blog, until my colleague and cubicular neighbor Scott Henry forwarded me a link to Tymoshenko’s personal website, which includes glamour shots of the ostentatiously braided 47-year-old politician, sized for use as computer desktop wallpaper.

Here’s Tymoshenko wielding a sword:

Here she is spray-painting something:

And here’s my favorite, Tymoshenko on a motorcycle:

The entire strange collection can be viewed by clicking here.

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