In our Daily Threat Assessment slideshow, we bring you striking, shocking, funny, sad or just plain weird news stories. Some are good news ("with us"); others, not so much ("against us"). In today's installment:

Against Us:

• Big Coal teaching school kids about the glories of … coal

• Those great oil dispersants made the Gulf oil spill worse

• Hookah lounges are under seige

With Us:

• Bumbling Al Qaeda plotters target the wrong U.S. company

• Bad-ass Nepali-British soldier fights of 30 Taliban attackers – by himself

• Massive medical marijuana superstore opens in Arizona

Click through the gallery for more.