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I spend part of my days looking for good news for my mother, who is 92, and confined to one chair the entire time she's awake. The good news there is that the chair is at our house, not in a nursing home, so it's easier for all of us to try to keep her entertained. We have, by the way, this year, discovered the books of Greg Mortenson, Maeve Binchy, and John Grisham. Mortenson is a sustained dose of good news all by himself. Mortenson shows how you can build schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan funded only by donations from strapped Americans, including pennies from school children. These schools are educating a significant percentage of little girls from small villages who had not a hope of learning to read before Mortenson turned up with his Afghan and Pakistani henchmen. Also, the U.S. Army is trying to learn from Mortenson how to be half as successful as he has been at winning the hearts and minds of Afghans. His most recent suggestion is to remove 247 American soldiers from Afghanistan, at $1M per year, and give the money to the Afghan Minister for education. A beautiful mind, there.
So, although I have not located today's good news story yet, I will lay on you some good news that is generic, is happening all the time, and that nobody will report on because it contains neither blood, nor gore, nor excessively well paid people insulting each other.
The American people are alive, and well, and trying to improve the country and the system on which it runs despite some serious frustrations in communicating their needs and desires. Specifically, there have been several eloquent statements on American freedom of religion in the wake of some idiot saying we should move the mosque.
The American people are using the internet and the web not just to entertain themselves blind, but to educate and inform themselves about the world and the deficiencies of the mainstream media, which are many and severe. Education is always good--it's catching.
In many homes and hospitals across the land today, babies are being born, thus gladdening the hearts of their parents, grandparents, and extended families. Cunning little clothes and tiny footballs are being purchased, and great plans are being made for these kids. A few of these kids may cure cancer, or out Mozart Mozart. You just never know. If you think your child is musical, try to station a piano in your living room. This worked for Paul McCartney's father.
Well, that is a hasty and idiosyncratic list of ongoing good things. If you could be more specific about your definition of good news, I'll be glad to try to supply some better focused news.
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