Starter Castles

Many Americans, and I would venture to guess all prominent Republicans, live in houses like this. Yet:

Report reveals global slum crisis

Slum-dwellers who make up a third of the world's urban population often live no better - if not worse - than rural people, a United Nations report says.

Anna Tibaijuka, head of the UN Habitat agency, urged governments and donors to take more seriously the problems of at least a billion people.

That is, one out of seven citizens of the World (a meaningless phrase if there ever was one) live like this:


or like this:


Children who live like this grow up to be physcially, intellectually and emotionally stunted, like this:



But increasingly, they will wind up like this:



Terrorists were once children. Terrorism is not a conscious decision; it is a learned response.

Houston, we have a problem.