What in the World?

In this, my weekly 'World news round up', I will give a snippet of my favourite news stories to hit the headlines this week.

Firstly, I think we definitely need to give Brant a hand clap for his little gem of a find- 'Inauguration attack from Mars'- or as the 2010 movie is to be entitled 'Close encounter on his first day in office'. Conspiracy theories rock! Especially those involving little green men. Why no-one mentioned the threat from outer space before the celebrations on Tuesday, is beyond me. And they call themselves Secret Service! 

Anywhoo moving on to another Obamamania story which caught my eye this week. 

As is to be expected, the new President's image is now splashed on everything under the sun, from toilet tissue to classy running shoes, his image is available emblazoned on anything. I pose the question, should there be a limit? Take then the news that a toy company has released two cute little dolls named Sasha and Malia. (above) How silly I am in thinking the names and the dolls bear a resemblance to the President's children.. Silly me, as the company making the dolls has denied there is any Obama connection. So rest assured they aren't trying to simply profit off the First Children-hmm what do you think? I have my opinions firmly set, but I'll let Michelle Obama have the last word on this, "It is inappropriate to use young, private citizens for marketing purposes". (Do give your opinions on the matter. Are they fair game?)

Moving on. Of all the public service jobs one can think of, being a postman/mailman, surely requires a certain level of trust, right? Amusingly, this isn't something I have ever really considered until I read a news story this week. When you actually do think about it, imagine the amount of private documents and bits and bobs we rely on our trusty postman to deliver safely. 

Shouldn't we be doing high level security/trust testing on these people? Why I hear you ask? Simply check out the picture above. The mail pictured, went undelivered and undiscovered for six years. Unbelievably none of the recipients raised any issue. Were they living in a bubble? Perhaps not, perhaps this sort of thing is easily done, perhaps we are subject to a world wide siphoning campaign by postmen with terrorist links. Perhaps they have been infiltrated. 

Ok getting way off track here. But it is very conceivable that in this age of identity theft mania, we need to be mindful of every avenue of possible wrong doing. Also, consider how easy it would be not to miss a few letter's here and there. 

The moral of the story has to be, question what isn't delivered by daring to step outside your bubble.