I knew that Duane Wade should have been voted the MVP.  If not him, then at least Dirk Nowitzki or Lebron James or Kobe Bryant even.  Anyone but Steve Nash.  Steve Nash is all offense, no defense, no heart, no legs, no ZIPPO!  Honestly, Dirk could win it every year with the things that he does.  Be good all!

Extra! Extra! Chickens are attacking the world.

Okay, they may not be attacking the world, but we have about 30 chickens and they are just insane.  I never grew up on a farm, so I didn't know how fun, crazy, and insane chickens are.  The hens have only one agenda - to eat.  The roosters have two agendas -  eat and procreate.  And when the procreation happens, it is TERRIBLE.  It should be a crime if you ask me.  Anyway, take it easy.

The Rwandan Genocide was the slaughter of an estimated 800,000 to 1,071,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus, mostly carried out by two extremist Hutu militia groups, the Interahamwe and the Impuzamugambi, during a period of 100 days from April 6th through mid-July 1994.

For many, the Rwandan Genocide stands out as historically significant, not only because of the sheer number of people that were murdered in such a short period of time, but also because of the way that many Western countries responded to the atrocities. Despite intelligence provided before the killing began, and international news media coverage reflecting the true scale of violence as the genocide unfolded, virtually all first-world countries declined to intervene.

The United Nations did not authorize UNAMIR, a relief mission intended to aid in the implementation of the Arusha Accords, to act in bringing the killing to a halt. Despite numerous pre- and present-conflict warnings by Canadian Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire, the UN peacekeepers on the ground were forbidden from engaging the militias or discharging their weapons, except in self-defense. In the weeks prior to the attacks, the UN did not respond to reports of Hutu militias amassing weapons and rejected plans for a pre-emptive interdiction. This failure to act became the focus of bitter recriminations toward the United Nations, Western countries such as France and the United States, and individual policymakers, including Jacques-Roger Booh-Booh and President Clinton, who described US inaction as "the biggest regret of my administration."

The genocide was brought to an end only when the Tutsi-dominated expatriate rebel movement known as the Rwandese Patriotic Front, led by Paul Kagame, overthrew the Hutu government and seized power. Fearing reprisals, hundreds of thousands of Hutu genocidaires and other refugees fled into eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). The violence and its memory have continued to affect the country and the region. Both the First and Second Congo Wars trace their origins to the genocide, and it continues to be a reference point for the Burundian Civil War.

The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (also refered to as: Bosnian International Conflict, Aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina and Bosnian Civil War) was an armed conflict which took place between March 1992 and November 1995. The war involved several ethnically defined factions within Bosnia and Herzegovina, each of which claimed to represent one of the country's constitutive peoples: Republika Srpska (Serbs), Herzeg-Bosnia (Croats) and Western Bosnia (Muslims by nationality) and the remnants of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina (predominantelly Bosniaks). These factions changed their objectives and allegiances several times at various stages of the war. The war also included significant involvement of international armed forces namely UNPROFOR and NATO which was also the first military action of NATO troops in its history.

Since the war in Bosnia is a consequence of events in the wider region of former Yugoslavia, and due to the involvement of neighboring countries Croatia and Serbia and Montenegro, there is an ongoing debate about whether the conflict was a civil war or an aggression. Bosniaks typically claim that the war was an aggression from Serbia, while Serbs hold the view that it was a civil war involving only Bosnia's constituent nations. The involvement of NATO, during the 1995 Operation Deliberate Force against the positions of the Army of Republika Srpska make this war an internationalized conflict.

A trial is ongoing before the International Court of Justice, following a suit by Bosnia and Herzegovina against Serbia for genocide (see Bosnian genocide case at the International Court of Justice).

The war was brought to an end after the signing of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina in Paris on 1995-12-14. The peace negotiations were held in Dayton, Ohio, and were finalized on November 21, 2005. The accords are known as the Dayton Agreement.

The most recent research places the number of victims at around around 100,000-110,000 killed (civilians and military), and 1.8 million displaced.