Blog-heap o' links from 2004-Oct

SAT 2004-OCT-30

History - still with usreuters.com/ ... 12:44:23Bruno Fabbiani, a lecturer at Turin Polytechnic, said Gutenberg used stamps rather than the individual, moveable letters he is said to have invented that accelerated printing and book production... has devised 30 experiments that show Gutenberg did not use moveable type to print the bible,"

Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 12:43:37A New York psychiatrist cautioned Boston Red Sox fans that the team's first World Series title in 86 years could have a deleterious effect on them.

Whoopsreuters.com/ ... 12:42:27 A British train conductor stamped and carefully returned the ticket of a slumbering passenger without realizing the man was dead.

US Election 2004news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:37:33President Bush said Americans would not be intimidated and that the US was chasing terrorists across the globe so it did not have to face them at home.
Senator John Kerry said that if he was elected president next week, the US would destroy Osama bin Laden.foxnews.com/ ... 03:28:57A U.S. Army officer came forward Friday to say a team from the 3rd Infantry Division took about 250 tons of munitions and other material from the Al-Qaqaa arms-storage facility soon after Saddam Hussein's regime fell in April 2003.nytimes.com/ ... 03:26:54videotape made by a television crew with American troops when they opened bunkers at a sprawling Iraqi munitions complex south of Baghdad shows a huge supply of explosives still there nine days after the fall of Saddam Hussein drudgereport.com/ ... 03:26:32Brokaw: "If you had been President, Saddam Hussein would be in power."
Kerry: "Not necessarily."
Brokaw: "You said you wouldn't go to war against him."
Kerry: "That's not true. Because under the inspection process, Saddam Hussein was required to destroy those kinds of materials and weapons."
Brokaw: "But he wasn't destroying them."
Kerry: "That's what you have inspectors for....

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 12:42:11

Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael Battles Sr. 38, of San Antonio, Texas, died Oct. 28 in Baghdad, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his checkpoint.defenselink.mil/ ... 12:41:55

Army Cpl. Billy Gomez, 25, of Perris, Calif., died Oct.27 at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany, from injuries sustained when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device on Oct. 20 in Naka, Afghanistan.defenselink.mil/ ... 12:41:36

Army Staff Sgt. Jerome Lemon, 42, of North Charleston, S.C., died Oct. 27 in Balad, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle. defenselink.mil/ ... 12:41:20

Marine Cpl. Brian Oliveira, 22, of Raynham, Mass., died Oct. 25 from injuries received from enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 12:41:04

Army Sgt. Dennis J. Boles, 46, of Homosassa, Fla., died Oct. 24 in Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, when he was participating in a 10-mile road march and collapsed.defenselink.mil/ ... 12:40:43

Marine Lance Cpl. Richard P. Slocum, 19, of Saugus, Calif., died Oct 24 due a non-combat related vehicle accident near Abu Gharib, Iraq. news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:37:00

Eight US marines have been killed and nine wounded in action around the militant stronghold of Falluja ... killed while carrying out what US military officials called "increased security operations..."

Yawnboston.com/ ... 03:31:38Osama bin Laden appealed directly to the American people in a new videotaped message aired yesterday, asserting that the "best way to avoid another" Sept. 11 is not to follow either President Bush or his challenger John F. Kerry but to change US foreign policy and stop threatening the world's Muslims.

US Election 2004cedarvalleydailytimes.com/ ... 03:30:03 Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin says John Kerry has been gaining in the polls every day since Oct. 21, and George Bush has been going down every day. "That's how God wants it to be,"wnbc.com/ ... 03:29:38Two men were taken into custody on Friday after illegally landing a hot-air in Central Park... balloon was emblazoned with a "Go Kerry" sign....

Reasons for Repealreuters.com/ ... 12:43:12 An Australian drug dealer who dug up hundreds of thousands of dollars from his backyard to buy heroin but had the money stolen in the deal can claim a tax deduction for his losses wftv.com/ ... 03:28:23A Montana woman is accused of letting her 18-month-old daughter smoke marijuana... friend of the defendant took photos of the toddler smoking a bong pipe... friend testified ...she let her daughter smoke marijuana because the girl wasn't eating or sleeping enough....

Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:38:16A car bomb explosion in the centre of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has killed at least seven people and injured 16... outside the offices of the al-Arabiya television station in the western Mansour district..... A little-known group is reported to have said it carried out the attack on the station.. described al-Arabiya as a "treacherous network"...

US Election 2004reuters.com/ ... 12:42:42 Indian astrologers say the planets have clearly made up their mind: John Kerry will win.reuters.myway.com/ ... 03:28:39 Osama bin Laden burst into the U.S. election campaign on Saturday, issuing his first video tape in more than a year to deride President Bush and warn of possible new Sept. 11-style attacks.washtimes.com/ ... 03:27:24U.S. intelligence agencies have obtained satellite photographs of truck convoys that were at several weapons sites in Iraq in the weeks before U.S. military operations were launched, defense officials said yesterday. The photographs indicate that Iraq was moving arms and equipment from its known weapons sites

THU 2004-OCT-28

Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 11:45:50More and more Chinese people are living life in the fast lane and challenging the traditional concept of a leisurely existence....

Currentreuters.com/ ... 11:44:11 Hungary plunged into a national culinary crisis on Thursday as its beloved paprika powder -- and any products containing the hot red spice -- vanished from shop shelves because of a contamination scare.

History - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:39:461962: World relief as Cuban missile crisis ends

Mechanical Disasternews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:39:31Thirteen miners have been killed in an explosion in a coal mine in Siberia... 90 miners working in the Listvyazhnaya mine in the Kuzbass coalfield had now been rescued, including 23 injured....

Whoopsreuters.com/ ... 11:45:32A conman persuaded an Ethiopian town's inhabitants to give him hundreds of dollars by promising to multiply the cash and make it "fall like rain" from the sky thisislondon.co.uk/ ... 11:34:36The pair were supposed to tell viewers what was coming up in the programme.
Instead Morgan was seen declaring that al Qaida planned a terrorist attack to disrupt the US presidential election. "I tell you what, I would brace yourselves for something in the next few days," he warned. Britton asked: "Why?" and Morgan replied: "I just think that al Qaida, with an election, I think they have been waiting for the election." At that point a producer informed them, via their earpieces, that they were live on air.

Extraterrestrialmsnbc.msn.com/ ... 01:42:16Puzzling star clump spotted near our galaxy -- Globular cluster? Dwarf galaxy? Experts don't know, but it could shed light on Milky Way mysteries

Digital Consequencesap.tbo.com/ ... 11:43:30 New federal regulations designed to speed up the processing of checks went into effect on Thursday, and consumer advocates advised Americans to be more vigilant about monitoring their accounts.cbsnews.com/ ... 01:41:49 Internet users at home are not nearly as safe online as they believe, according to a nationwide inspection by researchers. They found most consumers have no firewall protection, outdated antivirus software and dozens of spyware programs secretly running on their computers.cbsnews.com/ ... 01:41:32'Smart' Buildings Save Energy

US Election 2004georgewbush.com/ ... 11:38:12georgewbush.com news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:37:55The official re-election site of President George W Bush is blocking visits from overseas users for "security reasons". .. thought to have been adopted in response to an attack on the georgewbush.com website... began early on Monday... keen net users ..have found that the site can still be viewed by overseas browsers via several alternative net addresses.....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:35:56Some 60,000 absentee ballots were despatched by authorities in Broward County, north of Miami, this month. However, only 2,000 of them have been delivered.sun-sentinel.com/ ... 11:35:33WEST PALM BEACH - An 18-year-old Marine recruit remained in jail on Wednesday, charged with threatening to stab his girlfriend .. said she was leaving him -- and voting for John Kerry for president.washingtontimes.com/ ... 01:45:10Russian special forces troops moved many of Saddam Hussein's weapons and related goods out of Iraq and into Syria in the weeks before the March 2003 U.S. military operation, The Washington Times has learned.voanews.com/ ... 01:44:25The president broke his silence about the lost explosives on Wednesday, telling audiences in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan that Senator Kerry is denigrating American troops in Iraq. He said the disappearance may have occurred before the war began. "See, our military is now investigating a number of possible scenarios, including this one -- that explosives may have been moved before our troops even arrived, even arrived at the site. The investigation is important and ongoing. And a political candidate who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts is not the person you want as the Commander-in-Chief," he said.abcnews.go.com/ ... 01:42:34 Iraqi officials may be overstating the amount of explosives reported to have disappeared from a weapons depot, documents obtained by ABC News show.foxnews.com/ ... 01:37:40GREEN BAY, Wis. — John Kerry accused President Bush (search) on Tuesday of trying to cover up bad decisions and alluded to the possibility that there's still bad news yet to be uncovered. "Mr. President, what else are you being silent about? What else are you keeping from the American people?"nypost.com/ ... 01:33:50I WANT MY GI SON TO SERVE UNDER BUSH drudgereport.com/ ... 01:31:06News of missing explosives in Iraq -- first reported in April 2003 -- was being resurrected for a 60 MINUTES election eve broadcast designed to knock the Bush administration into a crisis mode.

Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 11:40:18 Iran has banned soccer players from sporting ponytails and sculpted beards as part of a campaign to prevent the spread of Western culture in the Islamic state

Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 11:45:06Star dust found deep beneath the Pacific Ocean has led German scientists to speculate that a supernova explosion 3 million years ago might possibly have helped bring about human evolution.cbsnews.com/ ... 01:40:56'Smart' Buildings Save Energy news.yahoo.com/ ... 01:34:27Scientists in Australia have found a new species of hobbit-sized humans who lived about 18,000 years ago on an Indonesian island in a discovery that adds another piece to the complex puzzle of human evolution.

Violencemypetjawa.mu.nu/ ... 11:46:09Al-Jazeera, the virulently anti-American Arabic satelite network, has broadcast a video of a previously unknown terrorist group holding a Polish woman hostage in Iraq.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:38:53The bodies of 14 fishermen have been found locked inside a hold on their trawler off the coast of Bangladesh. ...appears they were killed by pirates.....

Threatsdrudgereport.com/ ... 11:33:11The CIA and FBI late Wednesday authenticated a disturbing new al Qaeda videotape which warns the next terror attack will dwarf 9/11.cbsnews.com/ ... 01:37:53The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has shut down its online document library, pending a review to determine what potentially sensitive documents should be removed because they might be useful to terrorists, the agency said Tuesday.apnews.myway.com/ ... 01:37:02An ailing Yasser Arafat collapsed Wednesday night, was unconscious for about 10 minutes and remained in a serious condition. A team of Jordanian doctors was urgently summoned to treat the ailing Palestinian leader, whose wife headed to her husband's side from Paris.reuters.co.uk/ ... 01:36:41The official said the tape was "classic al Qaeda propaganda," but seems to have been "sliced and diced." The speaker refers to al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri as "our leaders" and praises the September 11 attacks. Sharing information like this with the government carries risks for a news organization, said media analyst Andrew Tyndall. "If...as a result of sending this tape to the government, the CIA tipped off the Pakistani internal intelligence service, and they rounded this guy up, (ABC's) news-gathering ability would be compromised because you'd be perceived by the people on the streets of Karachi as being a front organization for the CIA."washingtonpost.com/ ... 01:35:31A network producer obtained the tape over the weekend from an intermediary in Pakistan -- who charged a $500 transportation fee -- and ABC's New York headquarters got a feed of the video Monday, network executives said. They said they sent copies to the FBI and CIA, which have been unable to identify the speaker -- who says he is an American and is brandishing automatic weapons -- after comparing his voice to those of known terrorists.drudgereport.com/ ... 01:35:01In the last week before the election, ABCNEWS is holding a videotaped message from a purported al Qaeda terrorist warning of a new attack on America, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. The terrorist claims on tape the next attack will dwarf 9/11....

TUE 2004-OCT-26

Preternatural Patternsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:50:00Cuba says it is to ban commercial transactions in dollars from 8 November in response to tighter US sanctions. Dollars were made legal tender in 1993 following an economic crisis sparked by the collapse of the Soviet Union. But dollars will no longer be accepted in shops and other businesses, and tourists and Cubans exchanging dollars will have to pay a 10% commission.

Mechanical Disasternews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:46:34A fire at an Iraq chemical plant has caused the largest recorded man-made release of sulphur dioxide... The fire, which broke out on 24 June 2003, produced more of the polluting gas than most volcanic eruptions....

US Election 2004drudgereport.com/ ... 10:45:39**ABCNEWS Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 4 Times
**CBSNEWS Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 7 Times
**MSNBC Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 37 Times
**CNN Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 50 Times
But tonight, NBCNEWS reported: The 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives were already missing back in April 10, 2003 -- when U.S. troops arrived at the installation south of Baghdad!... A senior Bush official e-mailed DRUDGE late Monday: "Let me get this straight, are Mr. Kerry and Mr. Edwards now saying we did not go into Iraq soon enough? We should have invaded and liberated Iraq sooner?"... Why is the U.N. nuclear agency suddenly warning now that insurgents in Iraq may have obtained nearly 400 tons of missing explosives -- in early 2003? NBCNEWS Jim Miklaszewski quoted one official: "Recent disagreements between the administration and the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency makes this announcement appear highly political."

Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 10:53:30A U.S. airstrike in Fallujah on Tuesday killed an aide to Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi...
Iraq's interim prime minister blamed U.S.-led coalition forces for "great negligence" in the ambush that killed about 50 American-trained soldiers.reuters.com/ ... 10:52:01The cases of 19 patients sent to the emergency room by a dose of "mad" honey highlight the not-so-sweet side of the food, according to Turkish researchers. The honey, produced from the nectar of certain rhododendron species ...linked to food poisoning ..most.. cases ..in Turkey. ...Black Sea region... used as an alternative medicine for gastrointestinal problems and as a sexual stimulant. ... can contain substances called grayanotoxins, some of which may cause low blood pressure, slowed heart rate, vomiting, dizziness and other symptoms.....

Justice?news24.com/ ... 10:39:32A new legal opinion by the United States government bars some non-Iraqi prisoners captured in Iraq from the internationally accepted protections of the Geneva Conventions. The consensus reached since March 2004 by lawyers from the departments of state, justice and defence, the National Security Council and other US government agencies lets the Central Intelligence Agency treat some prisoners the same way as members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban captured in Afghanistan.

Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:47:11A Swiss man has died after a grenade was thrown at his home in the Batticaloa district of Sri Lanka. Police suspect Tamil Tigers carried out the attack, but truce monitors have found no evidence of their involvement. No group has claimed responsibility washingtonpost.com/ ... 10:39:48Iraq's interim prime minister blamed U.S.-led coalition forces for "great negligence" in the ambush that killed 49 American-trained soldiers.voanews.com/ ... 10:38:36Thai security forces have begun large-scale detentions in the predominately-Muslim south of the country following a clash with demonstrators Monday that left more than 80 protesters dead. Authorities said six protesters were shot to death, and the rest suffocated after being rounded up by police.

MON 2004-OCT-25

Preternatural Patternsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:46:47Children's TV favourite Scooby-Doo has been awarded a Guinness World Record for notching up the most episodes of a cartoon comedy series. ...350th episode, Scooby-Doo Halloween, is being screened on the Boomerang channel on Friday, beating a previous record held by The Simpsons....

Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 10:46:08 A British wedding guest who sparked a bidding frenzy when he offered for sale a pair of invitations to a wedding he did not want to attend admitted that the bride was a former girl friend.reuters.com/ ... 10:38:38Sony Corp launched its first MP3-compatible flash memory digital music players under the Walkman name on Monday... Promoting the players as sleek alternatives with superior battery life to the Apple iPod Mini...reuters.com/ ... 10:37:44Mobile phone users around the world will spend $1 billion a year on pornography sent to their handsets by 2008, which may boost the wireless services sector much as it fueled growth in the fixed-line Internet

US Election 2004apnews.myway.com/ ... 10:23:42President Bush, presenting himself as the best candidate to keep America safe, was accused by John Kerry on Monday of "unbelievable incompetence" in the disappearance of hundreds of tons of powerful explosives in Iraq.drudgereport.com/ ... 10:06:28The wife of Dem vice presidential hopeful John Edwards said on Sunday there will be no riots around the election -- if Kerry/Edwards wins!

Only Naturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:37:34Strong aftershocks have continued to hit Japan two days after 24 people died in the country's deadliest earthquake in almost a decade.

Justice?washingtontimes.com/ ... 10:13:38Six of seven Pitcairn men being tried on sexual assault charges on the south Pacific island were convicted by three judges... tried for a string of 55 sex attacks dating back as long as 40 years on women and girls on the island, which has a permanent population of 47... None of the victims still live on the island and all testified via a video link.... the men could remain free until an appeal is heard in London questioning England's jurisdiction over the island.

Threatsreuters.com/ ... 10:44:07A Buddhist monk's war on insects shut down Canada's mission in Sri Lanka on Monday, when powder he used to preserve his passport from moths triggered an anthrax scare,

Aftermathnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:24:31Five Egyptians have been arrested on charges of plotting a series of simultaneous bomb blasts in Red Sea resorts earlier this month. The Interior Ministry also identified the mastermind of the attacks as a Palestinian man, Ayad Said Salah. It says he died in the Taba blast along with a fellow plotter....

Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 10:43:05 Israeli troops raided a Gaza Strip refugee camp to halt Palestinian mortar fire, killing 13 Palestinians and wounding 66 Monday, as Israel's parliament set up for a historic debate on a withdrawal from the coastal strip.ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:41:40Iraqi officials suspect that about 50 U.S.-trained Iraqi soldiers slain by insurgents - many of them execution-style - may have been set up by rebel infiltrators in their ranks.nytimes.com/ ... 10:15:21The Iraqi interim government has warned the United States and international nuclear inspectors that nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives - used to demolish buildings, make missile warheads and detonate nuclear weapons - are missing from one of Iraq's most sensitive former military installations.cnn.com/ ... 10:12:35...Baghdad... a trio of nearly simultaneous explosions killed three Iraqi civilians and wounded nine others, including six civilians and three Australian soldiers... Mosul, two suicide car bombs detonated almost simultaneously, killing at least three Iraqis and wounding a number of government employees...

SUN 2004-OCT-24

Preternatural Patternsnydailynews.com/ ... 23:08:09Teen songbird Ashlee Simpson had a microphone malfunction on "Saturday Night Live" last night, scurrying off stage when a production glitch caught her lip-synching the wrong tune.news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 23:05:56HEADLINE OF THE WEEK:
Spitzer's iron wrist shits to music industry
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's office now shits their attention to the music industry....
chinaview.cn story.news.yahoo.com/ ... 23:04:11A teacher-parent brawl in front of 19 primary school pupils sent a mother to the emergency room and the teacher to jail.

US Election 2004apnews.myway.com/ ... 23:07:54Former Vice President Al Gore on Sunday told blacks embittered by his narrow loss in the 2000 presidential election that "it doesn't have to be this way" and urged them to turn anger into energy at the polls. "Don't turn it into angry acts or angry words," Gore said at one stop during a tour of mostly black churches. He also urged worshippers to take advantage of a state law that permits voting before Election Day, Nov. 2. "Early voting is a good idea," he said. "You want to give them plenty of time to count all the votes."...washingtonpost.com/ ... 23:07:13Decision Iraq Would Kerry Have Done Things Differently? by Bob Woodward denverpost.com/ ... 23:06:27Election tactics push envelope fortwayne.com/ ... 23:06:15A case of stage fright sent Democrat Maria Parra off a TV stage Thursday, abruptly ending what would have been her only debate with Rep. Mark Souder, R-3rd. “I’m not used to being in front of the camera. … I couldn’t get my words out. I was just overwhelmed,”azdailysun.com/ ... 23:04:48Political motivations turned criminal Thursday night or early Friday when vandals smashed a large glass door with a section of cinder block at the Republican Party headquarters in downtown Flagstaff.A pile of shattered glass joined egg shells filling the entryway to the GOP offices apnews.myway.com/ ... 23:03:54 President Bush said Saturday that Sen. John Kerry must be suffering from "election amnesia" because he has forgotten that he once viewed Saddam Hussein as a threat to America.

Only Naturalapnews.myway.com/ ... 23:05:03A series of powerful earthquakes and aftershocks rattled northern Japan on Saturday, killing at least 15 people and injuring more than 700 as buildings crumbled, a bullet train derailed and roadways were torn apart.

Violenceapnews.myway.com/ ... 23:06:52The bodies of about 50 unarmed Iraqi soldiers - many killed execution style with gunshots to the back of the head - were found on a remote road in eastern Iraq, victims of an ambush as they were heading home on leave after basic training

SAT 2004-OCT-23

Transportreuters.com/ ... 11:20:09 In a study that gives new meaning to the concept of a "killer commute," researchers have concluded that people caught in traffic are three times more likely to suffer a heart attack within the hour than those who aren't tied up on the road.

Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 11:22:30 A Sicilian entrepreneur has offered to donate parts of his body for organ transplants in an effort to keep his business alive.reuters.com/ ... 11:20:41Fashion-conscious north German police are to ditch the mustard-colored shirts, green ties and tight beige flannel trousers they have been wearing since 1973 -- dubbed the ugliest uniforms in Europe.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:16:50Scientists in Peru hope a new breed of guinea pig will convert the world to one of their favourite delicacies.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:16:37Helmut Simon, the German who discovered an intact Bronze Age mummy in an Alps glacier, has been found dead in the Austrian Alps.tuscaloosanews.com/ ... 11:15:01A group of parents has accused a teacher at Fairdale Elementary School of forcing their sons to go into the classroom bathroom and take deep breaths because there was urine on and around the toilet. "She wanted them to see how bad it smelled,"

US Election 2004defenselink.mil/ ... 11:27:39The Federal Voting Assistance Program has made available an official On-line Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot (OFWAB) ... to serve as an emergency ballot for those overseas citizens covered by the Uniformed and Overseas Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) who do not receive their requested state absentee ballot.washingtonpost.com/ ... 11:15:33As of Friday afternoon, more than 1.3 million people had voted in eight of the swing states, records indicate.news.yahoo.com/ ... 11:14:19 Democratic Sen. John Kerry said Friday that Osama bin Laden would be in captivity or dead if Kerry had been president during the war against Afghanistan sun-sentinel.com/ ... 11:13:58with early voting taking place in busy public places like City Halls and libraries, voters are voicing complaints of being blocked by political mobs, or being singled out for their political views. ...Republican Rep. Tom Feeney of Oviedo said the antagonizers are "Kerry thugs" out to harass Bush voters. ..Democratic Party officials in Tallahassee said they've had some complaints, too....enquirer.com/ ... 11:12:36Cincinnati's headquarters for the Bush/Cheney re-election campaign was broken into overnight... The office was also ransacked... Money and a sign were taken...apnews.myway.com/ ... 11:11:58In heavily symbolic television spots, President Bush's campaign uses prowling wolves to suggest that the country under Sen. John Kerry would be vulnerable to terrorists. The Democratic Party claims the Republican incumbent is a head-in-the-sand ostrich while his opponent is as strong as an eagle.

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 11:28:15

Air Force Airman 1st Class Jesse M. Samek, 21, of Rogers, Ark., died Oct. 21 from injuries he received when an Air Force HH-60 helicopter aircraft crashed during a medical evacuation mission in Afghanistan. defenselink.mil/ ... 11:25:57

Army Sgt. Douglas E. Bascom, 25, of Colorado Springs, Colo., died Oct. 20 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 11:25:42

Army Cpl. William M. Amundson Jr., 21, of The Woodlands, Texas, died Oct. 19 in Afghanistan when the vehicle in which he was riding rolled over. defenselink.mil/ ... 11:25:22

Army Spc. Andrew C. Ehrlich, 21, of Mesa, Ariz., died Oct. 18 in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, of non-combat related injuries.

Human Rightnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:18:10For years she longed to become the only female to power the elegant, slipper-shaped boats along the canals of the northern Italian city. But, once again, despite having successfully passed her theory test, she was failed on her practical test. After years of trying for a licence to guide a gondolier along the city's waterways and don the familiar striped shirt and straw cap of the city's 425 male gondoliers, she has admitted defeat. "It's useless," she told Italian news agency, Ansa, "The first female gondolier in Venice will be someone else."

Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 11:10:50An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 and several powerful aftershocks rocked northern Japan on Saturday, killing at least four people and injuring more than 400 while knocking out power and phone services

Threatsnews.com.au/ ... 11:22:09RUSSIAN security forces have seized two containers full of highly radioactive uranium-238 after a group of homeless people tried to sell them to a scrap dealer. The containers were found at a waste dump in the central Russian town of Saratov, which lies on the River Volga. Radiation levels at the dump were 358 times higher than normal,

Aftermathdefenselink.mil/ ... 11:24:39A Statement from The Chairman of The Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard B. Myers
I am very disappointed in the mischaracterizations that appeared in The Washington Post today regarding our Afghanistan war planning efforts, “Second-guessing actions in Afghanistan.” The assertion that I “raised doubts about the war plan,” is incorrect and unfounded. Numerous military leaders came together immediately following the events of September 11th and formulated plans we began executing a month later. We discussed every available course of action, which we take very seriously, and do every time we engage our military men and women in armed conflict. It is wrong to characterize these discussions and planning sessions as ‘second guessing’ or ‘doubting’ anyone.newsday.com/ ... 11:21:32Russia gave the Bush administration intelligence that suggested Saddam Hussein's regime was preparing attacks against the United States and its interests abroad before the Iraq war, President Vladimir Putin said Friday.

Rebuildingreuters.com/ ... 11:18:41Three U.S. Air Force cargo planes and 120 U.S. troops landed in Rwanda on Saturday to transport Rwandan soldiers and equipment to Darfur as part of an expanded African Union peacekeeping mission in the violent region.

Violencedefenselink.mil/ ... 11:24:58This week, the Army announced an increase in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization, while the Navy, Air Force, and Marines had a decrease.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 11:21:05Former Navy Secretary and 9-11 commissioner John Lehman says the U.S. knows where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is hiding but can't reach him because he is in a region of Pakistan controlled by Islamic extremists opposed to President Pervez Musharraf.reuters.com/ ... 11:18:54An Iraqi militant group said it beheaded an Iraqi man it accused of collaborating with U.S. forces and posted pictures of the killing on the Internet.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:16:21...Ten died and up to 50 others were wounded in a blast at a police training base 230km (140 miles) west of Baghdad. Soon after, a suicide bomber killed four Iraqi national guards and injured six in a blast at a checkpoint near Samarra, north of Baghdad.cnn.com/ ... 11:11:07 A suicide attack in the center of the Afghan capital of Kabul Saturday injured six people, including two international peacekeepers

THU 2004-OCT-21

Extraterrestrialreuters.com/ ... 12:58:29Days away from ending a six-month mission in space, U.S. astronaut Michael Fincke said on Wednesday he is looking forward to meeting his 4-month-old daughter.

Mechanical Disastervoanews.com/ ... 12:39:30Rescue crews in China are attempting to reach at least 92 workers trapped in a coal mine following an explosion Wednesday that killed at least 60 people.

Whoopswashingtontimes.com/ ... 12:42:16...The 78-year-old dictator had just made a speech in the central Cuban town of Santa Clara when he stumbled, creating an uproar in the crowd. As aides tended to him, Castro asked for the microphone to allay fears or rumors. ..."Just so that there won't be any speculation, it seems that I broke my knee," he said, adding an apology for creating concern. ...He then joked how he expected his accident would make international headlines....abcnews.go.com/ ... 00:29:19A pastor says he was "just kidding" when he told airport security he had a bomb, reached into his luggage and pulled out a Bible, declaring, "This is my bomb." Jose L. Gonzalez, a citizen of Spain living in Deltona, Fla., was arrested and charged Sunday with making a false statement.

US Election 2004washingtonpost.com/ ... 12:36:51For one thing, no one says "real job" anymore. The correct term these days, and for the past 20 years, is "a job outside the home." ... For another, everyone knows that Laura Bush was a librarian and a teacher. ... everyone loves Laura Bush: women, men, Democrats, children. Her approval rating is just about her husband's plus Dick Cheney's, the highest of anyone in the administration. ... Heinz-Kerry: "I had not remembered her important work in the past."...Republicans have gotten sophisticated about feminism. Laura Bush does not stand up at "W Stands for Women" rallies and hand out her cookie recipes.... She's not Jackie O, and she's not Hillary. She's just a reflection of you....jewishworldreview.com/ ... 00:17:13Edwards' loathsome display of demagoguery: I never expected a candidate for vice president to give paralysis sufferers false hope ... by Charles Krauthammer

Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 12:56:25 Dutch police fined the driver of small hatchback car after spotting a Shetland pony crammed in the back... "... had no room to move and his head was pressed against the window..."wboc.com/ ... 12:43:37The annual Living Planet Report by the World Wide Fund for Nature says people currently consume 20 percent more natural resources than the earth can produce.abcnews.go.com/ ... 00:29:34A federal appeals court decided Wednesday that marine mammals have no standing to sue to stop the U.S. Navy from using sonar.abcnews.go.com/ ... 00:28:22A man missed a mouse he was trying to shoot with a small-caliber handgun and wounded his girlfriend instead thedenverchannel.com/ ... 00:09:28DENVER -- A routine kidney transplant that was supposed to take place Monday was cancelled after the doctor who was going to perform the operation said he had "ethical concerns" about the procedure because the donor and recipient met on the Internet.

Digital Consequencesabcnews.go.com/ ... 00:27:39 A new keychain gadget that lets people turn off most TVs anywhere from airports to restaurants news.yahoo.com/ ... 00:11:42A German has smashed the national record for the rarely contested sport of cellphone throwing by hurling his phone 67.50 metres (nearly 223 feet), the organisers of the event announced.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 00:08:19downsides of having a transponder lodged under the skin.... adverse tissue reaction, migration of implanted transponder, … failure of implanted transponder, … electromagnetic interference, electrical hazards, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) incompatibility and needle stick,...

Human Rightusatoday.com/ ... 12:40:44The openly gay Episcopal bishop whose ordination threatens to fracture the worldwide Anglican Communion said Wednesday he "genuinely and deeply regrets" the pain this caused some believers, but he sees no need to repent because "the Holy Spirit led us."

Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 12:53:54...Huayna Picchu, the imposing mountain that rises behind Peru's famous Inca citadel Machu Picchu... It takes about an hour to climb the steep stone steps the Incas carved on Huayna Picchu, but the trek affords magnificent views of Machu Picchu's imposing gray stone ruins and the surrounding mountains, cloud forest and Inca stone terraces... Russian tourist.. Ahato Denis Pankiin, 35... on the summit... probably taking a photo... killed... [when] simultaneous bolts of lightning hit Huayna Picchu and Machu Picchu....reuters.com/ ... 12:46:45...commonly used supplements including chamomile, ginkgo biloba, licorice, vitamin A and echinacea can cause a myriad of eye problems. ... supplements become dangerous to the eyes when people take them in large doses... 30 instances in which canthaxanthine, a carotenoid that produces an artificial suntan when taken orally, caused changes to users' retinas... seven cases in which people rinsed their eyes with chamomile tea to treat styes and irritation, and instead developed severe conjunctivitis.... [etc]news.com.au/ ... 12:44:00Taking the hormonal contraceptive causes a loss in sexual desire in one in six women abcnews.go.com/ ... 00:28:56He wanted a bit of company, so he bought a pair of bunnies. He ended up with more company than he could handle.... In less than a year, the man... had 73 rabbits....nature.com/ ... 00:17:46The Solar System could be teeming with almost invisible comets, according to some astronomers' calculations. If they are right, such extra comets would significantly increase the risk of a catastrophic impact with Earth.news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 00:09:03waterbeds can make you infertile

Threatsmemri.org/ ... 00:10:34Iran Rejects the European Offer to Supply it With Nuclear Fuel wluctv6.com/ ... 00:08:41 The F-B-I is investigating some mysterious small holes that appeared in the bellies of two U-S Airways airliners.

Violencereuters.com/ ... 12:54:16An incensed Iranian motorist doused his car in petrol and set it ablaze with a match after picking up a parking ticket voanews.com/ ... 12:40:14The husband of abducted international aid worker Margaret Hassan... says he has not heard from the kidnappers who commandeered his wife's car two-days ago in Baghdad. ... Tahseen Ali Hassan made a pubic appeal for his wife's return. "Release my wife... She is Iraqi. She is working for a humanitarian organization. And, I ask you to release her."...heraldonline.com/ ... 12:38:46...Tasers override the central nervous system and cause involuntary muscle contractions that leave the person they're used on temporarily paralyzed. The five-second burst of nonlethal electricity acts as an alternative to lethal force during confrontations.... A York County Sheriff's deputy said Tasers are painful -- but that's what makes them effective.... defenselink.mil/ ... 00:06:52Army Sgt. Michael G. Owen, 31, of Phoenix, Ariz
Army Spc. Jonathan J. Santos, 22, of Whatcom, Wash
died October 15 in Karabilah, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near their vehicle.

WED 2004-OCT-20

Mechanical Disasterreuters.com/ ... 23:03:55An Australian man building a shed accidentally fired a nail into a major artery near his heart on Wednesday but survived after emergency surgery ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:01:57He remembers Hogg, 23, of Billings, Mont., who suffered a sprained foot and back, helped him get out of the plane - and helped him keep going. "I don't know if I could have done it by myself," he said. The pair hiked perhaps three to five miles; it took them 29 hours signonsandiego.com/ ... 22:48:22A gas explosion in a coal mine killed at least 56 miners and left 92 missing in China's deadliest mining accident this year usatoday.com/ ... 22:47:03KIRKSVILLE, Mo. — Investigators late Wednesday poured over the black box recorders from a small commuter plane, searching for clues about why it slammed into a wooded area and burst into flames while preparing to land here. The crash killed 11 passengers and the two pilots. ...wo passengers, a 44-year-old woman and a 68-year-old man, escaped the crash Tuesday night with relatively minor injuries. "It was remarkable," National Transportation Safety Board member Carol Carmody said of the survivors....

Preternatural Patternsdelawareonline.com/ ... 22:56:16"He is brain dead," Biden said of the president.apnews.myway.com/ ... 22:56:05ABC has dropped Miss America, leaving the famous beauty pageant without a network TV outlet for the first time in 50 years news.independent.co.uk/ ... 02:04:29A 15-year-old girl called Savitri been admitted to hospital suffering from tiny stones that emerge from the corners of her eyes. Doctors say they have never seen anything like it, and they cannot explain it.

Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 23:05:14Worldwide camera phone sales are rising fast and expected to total 150 million this year.ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:02:12BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - Authorities are trying to determine how a hacker gained access to a University of California computer that contained personal information for up to 600,000 state residents.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 22:59:18Phishing attacks that try to steal personal information could soon be a lot nastier warns a security expert. ... Sophisticated tricks that make fake messages look more plausible could mean many more people fall victim thescotsman.scotsman.com/ ... 22:47:39Household chores set to end at last with rise of the robot kirotv.com/ ... 02:04:07 A 13-year-old Lacey Oh. boy who posted pictures of himself on the Internet was charged with possessing and dealing in child pornography.news.yahoo.com/ ... 02:03:02 Chairman Michael Powell said Tuesday that he would seek broad regulatory authority for the federal government over Internet-based telephone services to avoid stifling the emerging market.

US Election 2004local6.com/ ... 22:57:13ODESSA, Mo. -- A 24-year-old man is facing accusations that he tried to sell his vote to the highest bidder on eBay.enquirer.com/ ... 22:56:40COLUMBUS - Thousands of cards mailed by county election boards to newly registered voters in Hamilton County and throughout the state are being returned because the people can't be found.news.yahoo.com/ ... 22:54:34Teresa Heinz Kerry says she doesn't know if first lady Laura Bush has ever had "a real job" and suggests their different experiences help make them different people.news.yahoo.com/ ... 22:54:01Teresa Heinz Kerry released the following statement today:
"I had forgotten that Mrs. Bush had worked as a school teacher and librarian, and there couldn't be a more important job than teaching our children. As someone who has been both a full time mom and full time in workforce, I know we all have valuable experiences that shape who we are. I appreciate and honor Mrs. Bush's service to the country as First Lady, and am sincerely sorry I had not remembered her important work in the past."apnews.myway.com/ ... 02:02:09Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday raised the possibility of terrorists bombing U.S. cities with nuclear weapons and questioned whether Sen. John Kerry could combat such an "ultimate threat ... you've got to get your mind around."

Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 23:05:47 A senior Spanish government official on Tuesday asked the organizers of the Madrid Masters tennis tournament to stop using models as ball-girls, saying it was sexist.cbc.ca/ ... 22:48:02At least 18 people were killed and 13 others were missing as a powerful storm blasted across Japan on Wednesday, causing deadly mudslides, flash floods and prompting thousands to flee their homes theglobeandmail.com/ ... 22:47:28The Anglican bishop of Vancouver and the head of the U.S. Anglican church made clear yesterday they will not undo steps they've taken to end discrimination against homosexuals in the church -- but nonetheless they expressed regret for their actions as requested by a world Anglican commission on church unity.

Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 23:00:40LOS ANGELES (AP) - A fierce storm that swept through the state, killing at least three people, pounded Southern California on Wednesday, sending mud and floodwaters gushing near fire-scarred mountain hamlets, downing trees, caving in roofs and drenching streets and highways.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 22:58:49They found the most up-to-date human genome contains only 20,000 to 25,000 genes - which is about 10,000 less than indicated in the ..draft human genome ... "gold standard" version, published last year news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 22:57:35Indian authorities have launched an urgent investigation after historians reported that the Taj Mahal was leaning and in danger of sinking.reuters.com/ ... 02:05:07An earthquake has rocked a densely populated city in southwestern China, destroying more than 20,000 houses but killing no one news.independent.co.uk/ ... 02:03:43An American woman who received ovarian tissue from her sister has become pregnant in what is believed to be the first case of its kind

Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 23:00:56 Israel's president apologized Wednesday for what he called the "accidental" killings of Palestinian civilians by Israeli soldiers, but said the deaths occurred because Palestinian militants hid among civilians and launched rockets from residential areas.ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:00:29BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's interim government complained Wednesday that the United Nations isn't doing enough to help prepare for January elections, saying the organization has sent fewer electoral workers than it did when tiny East Timor voted to secede from Indonesia.ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:00:18The decision by commanders to add armor to more military vehicles gives a "partial victory" to the soldiers in Iraq who refused to go on a fuel convoy because of safety concerns - and helped save other troops who might be put in harm's way, wives of two of the soldiers said Wednesday.reuters.com/ ... 22:59:33U.S. warplanes killed a family of six in raids against rebels led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, while a top international aid agency suspended Iraq operations on Wednesday after its manager was kidnapped.reuters.com/ ... 02:04:55Iraq's bloody chaos has traumatized many Iraqis, but what troubles one of its top psychiatrists most is the angry young men eager to join the anti-U.S. insurgency. "More of my patients ask my opinion about the guerrillas. They are confused and anxious. Some lean toward the insurgents,"news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 02:02:21A video of a senior charity worker who has been kidnapped in Baghdad has been broadcast on al-Jazeera TV station.katc.com/ ... 02:01:54A ball of fire erupts from a train car, smothering commuters with smoke and littering the platform with bodies and staining it with blood in a chilling security-camera videotape of the March 11 train bombings broadcast Tuesday by a Spanish station.

TUE 2004-OCT-19

Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 11:35:41An Oregon man discovered earlier this month that his year-old Toshiba Corp. flat-screen TV was emitting an international distress signal picked up by a satellite, leading a search and rescue operation to his apartment in Corvallis, Oregon, 70 miles south of Portland.reuters.com/ ... 11:31:13Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday agreed to require only a single license for server software that runs on computers powered by a new generation of chips that squeeze multiple processors into a single package. Chipmakers Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. both hailed the move, which they said could speed the adoption of multiple-core processors that they plan to introduce next year.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:27:42An Australian journalist kidnapped in Iraq was freed after his captors checked the popular internet search engine Google to confirm his identity.

Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 11:36:27"The tattoos, the blood, cutting myself -- it's all very much who I am." -- actress ANGELINA JOLIE, in an interview with Esquire magazine.reuters.com/ ... 11:35:22"Chavs" -- the name given to British teenage delinquents who have a penchant for flashy gold jewelry, white trainers, clothes with prominent logos and Burberry baseball caps -- is set to be the next buzzword, according to a new book. ..."Chav" is thought to be derived from the Romany word for a child. ...Other contenders for this year's buzzword include "retrosexuals" -- men who spend as little time and money as possible on their appearance. reuters.com/ ... 11:32:33Two brothers from Australia and Argentina who lost contact for 53 years were reunited by chance after recognizing each other on a trip to their native Portugal.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:28:40The Sioux tribe of North America is demanding that the famous Parisian nightclub The Crazy Horse change its name out of respect for a former chief.thestar.com/ ... 11:19:54He was India's most wanted bandit, a brutal smuggler who murdered police officers, slaughtered elephants and kidnapped a movie star. In the end, it took millions of dollars, thousands of security forces and more than three decades to bring him down.

Extraterrestrialspace.com/ ... 11:11:59New observations of dust around young stars suggests collisions of large asteroid-like objects and fledgling planets are frequent. But that doesn't likely stop the formation of rocky planets like Earth, a process that may well be common, the results suggest.

US Election 2004reuters.com/ ... 11:34:13California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Monday that his speech backing President Bush at the Republican Convention in August resulted in a dramatic cold shoulder from his wife Maria Shriver, a member of the very Democratic Kennedy family. "Well, there was no sex for 14 days," Schwarzenegger told former White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta in an on-stage conversation in front of 1,000 people. "Everything comes with side effects."washingtonpost.com/ ... 11:26:59Arlington police arrested 21 protesters yesterday after they chained themselves to the front door and one another at Bush-Cheney campaign headquarters during a demonstration against administration policies.washingtontimes.com/ ... 11:25:27President Bush's re-election campaign is getting a boost from powerful Christian groups, which are enlisting entertainers such as actor Jim Caviezel of "The Passion of the Christ" to cajole millions of evangelicals into voting.sptimes.com/ ... 11:22:57Bush on Kerry: "He believes America should pass a global test before we defend ourselves." In contrast, Bush said, "I will never turn over America's national security system to leaders of other countries."toledoblade.com/ ... 11:11:11Ohio - A Defiance County man has been arrested for allegedly filing more than 100 false voter registration forms in exchange for crack cocaine from a Toledo woman working on behalf of the NAACP’s voter registration drive.apnews.myway.com/ ... 11:10:52President Bush on Monday accused Democratic rival Sen. John Kerry of "shameless scare tactics" by suggesting that the president would jeopardize Social Security for older Americans and bring back the military draft for young people.apnews.myway.com/ ... 11:10:17On a day of strikingly personal campaign rhetoric, Bush said his Democratic challenger stands for "protest and defeatism" in Iraq. He added that Kerry would lead the nation toward "a major defeat in the war on terror." The four-term Massachusetts senator accused the president of "arrogant boasting" to hide bitter truths about a war waged on his command. He cited a published report saying the top general in Iraq had warned Pentagon officials last winter about a shortage of supplies.

Only Naturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:30:21The authorities in Brasov, central Romania, have declared a rabies alert after an infected brown bear killed two men and injured six others.

Violencereuters.com/ ... 11:23:27Four Iraqi National Guards were killed and up to 80 others wounded in a mortar attack on their headquarters north of Baghdad Tuesday wistv.com/ ... 11:23:13Spanish officials say they've broken up a terrorist cell that was plotting to bomb the country's National Court. That's the court leading Spain's investigations of radical Muslim terrorists.nytimes.com/ ... 11:11:41Members of the Army Reserve platoon in Iraq that disobeyed orders to deliver fuel to another base last week had tried to persuade their superiors for hours to cancel the mission, relatives of the soldiers said Monday.

MON 2004-OCT-18

Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 11:31:38Thousands of barefoot penitents walked, rolled and even shuffled on all fours to a desert shrine in northern Mexico on Friday to pay homage to a long-dead healer hailed as an idiot savant saint.

US Election 2004reuters.com/ ... 11:27:34"There is no shadow of a doubt that something has happened, something has gone wrong," Professor Simon Wessely, of King's College London, told a news briefing. But the head of the Gulf War research unit at the college said the increase in ill health is unlikely to be a new disease or have a single cause. "There are huge areas that remain unclear and I am afraid I suspect they will always remain unclear," he added.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:23:48The weekend elections and referendum in Belarus.. approved the lifting of a constitutional ban on a third term for President Alexander Lukashenko.... "fell significantly short" of international standards, western observers say.straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/ ... 11:21:38Malaysia's former prime minister has urged Muslims in America to vote for US Senator John Kerry in the Nov 2 presidential election, saying President George W. Bush has been 'the cause of the tragedies' across the Muslim world.time.com/ ... 11:19:23When Senator Mark Dayton shut down his Washington office last week, ostensibly out of concern for his staff's safety, many on Capitol Hill wondered if the Minnesota Democrat knew something everyone else didn't. The answer, it turns out, is far from it. Dayton last month received the same briefing as his fellow Senators about a CIA worst-case scenario involving simultaneous terrorist attacks across the country. Yet he apparently took the hypothetical threat as an imminent one. "Most people who heard the briefing," sniffs an intelligence official, "understood the context. It was theoretical."drudgereport.com/ ... 11:18:22The Kerry campaign finally released.. two pages of.. Teresa Heinz Kerry's 2003 tax return... earned $5.07 million... $2.78 million of that income came in the form of tax- exempt interest... On her "remaining 'taxable' income ...paid $627,150.. overall average federal tax rate of only 12.4% on her $5.07 million in total income." ...a lower average rate than nearly all middle- class taxpayers paid in 2001....abcnews.go.com/ ... 11:15:41a new.. sex poll...
Of those involved in a committed relationship, who is very satisfied with their relationship?
Republicans — 87 percent; Democrats — 76 percent
Who is very satisfied with their sex life?
Republicans — 56 percent; Democrats — 47 percent
The poll analysis also reveals who has worn something sexy to enhance their sex life:
Republicans — 72 percent; Democrats — 62 percent
When asked whether they had ever faked an orgasm, more Democrats (33 percent) than Republicans (26 percent) said they had.sun-sentinel.com/ ... 11:14:22Florida - Problems were being reported at nine of 14 early voting sites in Broward County on Monday morning. Gisela Salas, of the Broward Elections Office, said workers were having problems with a live database connection that is used to verify that a voter is properly registered....news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 11:13:54Russian President Vladimir Putin... said Monday that the terrorist attacks in Iraq were aimed at preventing US President George W. Bush from being reelected.... He warned that if the terrorists achieve the goal, then that will provide a new impulse to international terrorism, leading to more attacks throughout the world.,,,drudgereport.com/ ... 01:05:07The election manual titled -- "FLORIDA VICTORY 2004" -obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT, advocates an apparent unlawful "BALLOT PICKUP" drive by campaign volunteers.

Extraterrestrialreuters.com/ ... 11:30:32"The capsule returned back to Earth safely Friday, but unfortunately it hit a four-story civilian house,"news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:02:55A Chinese satellite has smashed into a villager's house on its return to earth... no-one was hurt.

History - still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 01:02:25 Pierre Salinger, who served as President John F. Kennedy's press secretary and later had a long career with ABC News, has died at a hospital in southern France. He was 79. ... died Saturday from heart failure following surgery last week at a hospital in Cavaillon to implant a pacemaker....

Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 11:32:18 A brown bear in Romania killed one person and severely wounded nine others picnicking on a mountain pasture in Transylvania... "It even attacked the paramedics who arrived at the scene to help the wounded..."

Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 11:30:55 A soccer team made up of Guatemalan prostitutes, formed to call attention to their poor working conditions, lost 3-1 to policewomen on Saturday.washingtonpost.com/ ... 11:11:19A senior Anglican Church commission Monday urged U.S. church leaders to apologize for consecrating a gay priest as bishop and called for a moratorium on the blessing of same-sex marriages.

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 13:57:28

Army Capt. Christopher B. Johnson, 29, of Excelsior Springs, Mo.

Army Chief Warrant Officer William I. Brennan, 36, of Bethlehem, Conn.
died on Oct. 16 in Baghdad, Iraq, when their OH-58D helicopter apparently collided with another OH-58D helicopter and crashed. defenselink.mil/ ... 01:12:13

Army Staff Sgt. Omer T. Hawkins, II, 31, of Cherry Fork, Ohio

Army Spc. Bradley S. Beard, 22, of Chapel Hill, N.C

Army Pfc. Mark A. Barbret, 22, of Shelby Township, Mich
died on Oct. 14, in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their convoy. defenselink.mil/ ... 01:11:11

Marine Cpl. William I. Salazar, 26, of Las Vegas, Nev., died Oct. 15 from wounds received as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 01:10:53

Army Capt. Dennis L. Pintor, 30, of Lima, Ohio, died on Oct. 12.

Army Spc. Michael S. Weger, 30, of Rochester, N.Y., died on Oct. 12.

Army Spc. Jaime Moreno, 28, of Round Lake Beach, Ill., died on Oct. 13 of injuries sustained on Oct. 12
died in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their patrol vehicle on Oct. 12. defenselink.mil/ ... 01:09:50

Army Pvt. 2 David L. Waters, 19, of Auburn, Calif., died Oct. 14 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his convoy vehicle. defenselink.mil/ ... 01:09:32

Army Lt. Col. Mark P. Phelan, 44, of Green Lane, Pa. Phelan was assigned to the Army Reserve's 416th Civil Affairs Battalion, Morristown, Pa.

Army Maj. Charles R. Soltes, Jr., 36, of Irvine, Calif. Soltes was assigned to the Army Reserve's 426th Civil Affairs Battalion, Upland, Calif.
died on Oct. 13, in Mosul, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their convoy vehicle. defenselink.mil/ ... 01:08:46

Army Spc. Josiah H. Vandertulip, 21, of Irving, Texas, died Oct. 14 in Baghdad, Iraq, when his dismounted patrol came under enemy fire. defenselink.mil/ ... 01:08:25

Army Spc. Alan J. Burgess, 24, of Landaff, N.H., died Oct. 15 in Mosul, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his patrol vehicle.defenselink.mil/ ... 01:08:03

Marine Lance Cpl. Brian K. Schramm, 22, of Rochester, N.Y., died Oct. 15 as result of enemy action in Babil Province, Iraq.

Aftermathmosnews.com/ ... 11:13:08Blood tests showed high levels of heroin and morphine in most of the militants, who were killed when federal forces and angry parents stormed the school at the end of a three-day hostage drama... “Some ...had levels exceeding a deadly dose, which indicates they had gotten used to the substance, and were using it regularly while preparing for the attack...." ...insensitive to pain and fought on even after being shot several times. He said their use of drugs had made them immune to pain....ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:07:36Forensic tests have shown that some of the militants who seized more than 1,000 hostages in a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan last month were drug addicts reuters.com/ ... 01:06:09AMMAN, Jordan - A group of militants was summoned Sunday and formally charged for their alleged role in a thwarted chemical attack using suicide bombers, judicial sources said ahead of a trial which should begin in November.

Threatsreuters.com/ ... 11:32:35Saudi Arabia banned tinted car windows Sunday ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:28:09FARGO, N.D. - A Northwest Airlink commuter plane was evacuated before takeoff Monday morning after two passengers claimed to have overheard someone mention a bomb while talking on a cell phone news.com.au/ ... 01:05:26AUSTRALIA has quietly rejected diplomatic overtures from the United Nations and the US to contribute to a military force to protect UN officials in Iraq.

Violencesuntimes.com/ ... 01:05:41Sun-Times photographer Jon Sall and reporter Annie Sweeney spent three weeks in Kuwait and Iraq interviewing Chicagoans in Operation Iraqi Freedom.cfra.com/ ... 01:04:38The movement of alleged Iraqi terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has declared its allegiance to Osama bin Laden.reuters.com/ ... 01:04:24U.S. warplanes pounded Falluja Sunday and American troops reinforced positions around the city in a battle targeting foreign militants led by America's top enemy in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.cnn.com/ ... 01:03:44An explosion rocked central Baghdad on Sunday night, killing three Iraqi police officers... another eight people were wounded....

SUN 2004-OCT-17

US Election 2004news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:58:40The commander of the UN peacekeepers in Haiti has linked a recent upsurge in violence there to comments made by the US presidential candidate, John Kerry.

Extraterrestrialthestar.com/ ... 03:55:18A Russian spacecraft ferrying a fresh crew to the international space station had to be docked manually today after an unexplained glitch sent it toward the outpost too quickly.

Violencereuters.com/ ... 03:59:51A suicide car bomber killed three U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi civilian in Qaim near the Syrian border on Friday. The fourth died after a car bomb blast in Mosul on the same day.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:58:02Overnight strikes by American bombers on the western Iraqi city of Falluja have killed three people, local hospital sources said. Warplanes swooped in on a mission to destroy a "key terrorist checkpoint" in the city's Jolan district, the US military reported.

SAT 2004-OCT-16

Extraterrestrialwashingtonpost.com/ ... 00:32:04 Genesis space capsule... four pencil stub-size gravity switches designed to trigger the release of the spacecraft's parachutes were installed backward reuters.co.uk/ ... 00:31:39A Russian spacecraft has delivered three astronauts to the International Space Station

Violencewashingtontimes.com/ ... 00:31:02U.S. jets struck targets in the insurgent bastion Fallujah again yesterday, and U.S. officials said 10 persons — including a family of four — were killed when a car bomb exploded near a Baghdad police station in a bloody start to the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

FRI 2004-OCT-15

Whoopsreuters.com/ ... 20:42:18A Croatian armed robber abandoned a bank hold up after the cashier ... "Knowing she was behind a bulletproof glass, ...laughed heartily, rang her boss to say she was being robbed and asked him to call the police...."seattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 20:30:16The NASA spacecraft that smashed into the Utah desert last month while bringing home fragile samples of the sun may have been doomed by engineering drawings that had been done backwards

Preternatural Patternsusatoday.com/ ... 22:46:18product placement in TV shows has moved brands from appearing as mere props to becoming stars of the story lines.reuters.com/ ... 20:41:06More men are willing to have sex with their bosses to get a promotion or a salary increase than women, a Belgian human resources weekly said on Friday.news.yahoo.com/ ... 01:15:34A University of Louisiana at Lafayette physics professor ... lost control right after class began Wednesday morning and was yelling obscenities. ... "Then he told us if we got out of our seats he's gonna kill us. He went on the black board and wrote '911 now', so we were really in fear for our lives... He's always acted a little strange, he's yelled and cursed before, and this time we waited for it to stop, but it never did...."

Spears said Houston slapped a student and then told his class he was God.

US Election 2004rockymountainnews.com/ ... 20:33:02Democrats ... leaked page ...urging operatives to lodge a "pre-emptive strike" of claiming voter intimidation, whether it's true or not. ... Ted Halaby, chairman of the Colorado GOP... said it was "a criminal act to falsely allege something that does not exist." ...called on the state Democrats to "denounce and renounce" the manual's teachings... But Democrats... said they must be pro-active to assure that minorities and all others are not scared away from the polls...washingtonpost.com/ ... 20:29:07An overwhelming majority... Nearly two in three likely voters... believe it was wrong for Democratic nominee John F. Kerry to have mentioned in Wednesday's presidential debate that Vice President Cheney's daughter was a lesbian, according to the latest Washington Post tracking survey....newsnet5.com/ ... 20:22:05ELYRIA, Ohio -- A hot-button film is getting multiple viewings at a local polling place the week before the election, NewsChannel5 reported. Some say the West River branch library should not be playing politics.news.yahoo.com/ ... 20:21:20 Kentucky's largest newspaper on Thursday urged Republican Sen. Jim Bunning (news, bio, voting record) to answer questions about his mental health because his behavior as he seeks a second term is troubling voters.story.news.yahoo.com/ ... 01:14:10 Federal Communications Commission topper Michael Powell ... said Thursday the FCC will not step in to prevent Sinclair Broadcast Group from airing an anti-Kerry docu called "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal" in the final days before the election because the agency does not and should not have the power to do so.....cbc.ca/ ... 01:12:49the fifth estate: The Unauthorized Biography of Dick Cheney -- American Vice-President Dick Cheney has walked the corridors of world power for three decades. Cheney's remarkable life story involves the relentless accumulation of power in every form and regardless of the outcome of this fall's election, he will continue to be one of the most powerful and well-connected men in the world. The fifth estate will show how he accomplished this, what it involved in terms of costs for others and what history's judgement could be....

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 22:44:17

Army Spc. Jeremy F. Regnier, 22, of Littleton, N.H., died October 13 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his patrol. defenselink.mil/ ... 22:44:00

Army Staff Sgt. Brian S. Hobbs, 28, of Mesa, Ariz.

Army Spc. Kyle Ka Eo Fernandez, 26, of Waipahu, Hawaii
died on October 14th, in Miam Do, Afghanistan when an improvised explosive device detonated near their dismounted patrol.defenselink.mil/ ... 22:43:12

Army Spc. Ronald W. Baker, 34, of Cabot, Ark., died October 13th in Landstuhl, Germany, of injuries sustained on October 7th in Taji, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his patrol vehicle. defenselink.mil/ ... 22:42:48

Marine Lance Cpl. Daniel R. Wyatt, 22, of Calendonia, Wis., died on Oct. 12 due to enemy action in Babil Province, Iraq.

Marine 2nd Lt. Paul M. Felsberg, 27, of West Palm Beach, Fla.

Marine Lance Cpl. Victor A. Gonzalez, 19, of Watsonville, Calif.
died on Oct. 13 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 22:41:42

Army Spc. Christopher A. Merville, 26, of Albuquerque, N.M., died October 12th in Baghdad, Iraq, when his unit came under enemy fire during combat operations.defenselink.mil/ ... 22:41:25

Marine Pfc. Oscar A. Martinez, 19, of North Lauderdale, Fla.

Marine Cpl. Ian T. Zook, 24, of Port St. Lucie, Fla.
died Oct. 12 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 20:43:43Human Lie Detectors Almost Never Miss, Study Finds scidev.net/ ... 20:30:42Researchers have developed a protein able to block the transmission of HIV in monkeys.

Aftermathap.tbo.com/ ... 20:36:26One of Three Americans Killed in Iraq Blasts Remembered as Man Who Loved Family, Adventure ap.tbo.com/ ... 20:35:50 One of the alleged ringleaders of the March 11 train bombings in Madrid was identified Friday as one of seven suspects who blew themselves up during a police raid on their apartment. Allekema Lamari, an Algerian ..."the emir of the train bombings...."news.independent.co.uk/ ... 20:29:35Kabul -- A US military criminal investigation has found 28 American soldiers culpable in the deaths of two Taliban suspects at an interrogation centre in Afghanistan.

Threatsreuters.com/ ... 20:44:16Singapore has enlisted its 40,000 taxi drivers to foil terrorists, telling them to be on alert for nervous or restless passengers and distributing pamphlets describing what militants might do or ask.worldtribune.com/ ... 20:21:47 Iran and Russia said they have completed construction of the nuclear power reactor at Bushehr. The announcement came less than two months after Iran said Bushehr would not begin operations until late 2006, three years behind schedule.

Violenceabclocal.go.com/ ... 22:37:04Pakistani special forces attacked kidnappers holding two Chinese engineers near the Afghan border on Thursday, killing all five of the al-Qaida-linked militants, who were followers of a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner. One of the hostages was killed in the raid, while the other survived.ap.tbo.com/ ... 20:38:53VALLEJO, Calif. - The husband's story was extraordinary: He and his wife ...cruising the bay ...bogged down in thick offshore mud. ...caught fire and sank ...stranded for hours... was dead the next morning. ...autopsy soon revealed that [wife] had been assaulted. ...husband ...now sits in jail, accused of murdering his wife of seven months....reuters.com/ ... 20:34:01U.S. forces arrested Falluja's chief negotiator on Friday after air strikes on the rebel-held city that the U.S. military said were part of a drive to thwart attacks in Iraq during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 20:33:47About 70,000 displaced people are thought to have died in Sudan's Darfur region since March, mainly from disease and malnutrition, a UN official says.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 20:33:31Israeli troops appear to have withdrawn completely from northern Gaza after a 16-day operation which saw the heaviest fighting there in four years... sent into Gaza to track down rocket teams targeting Israel, and more than 100 Palestinians died...apnews.myway.com/ ... 20:22:22The Army is investigating reports that several members of a reservist supply unit in Iraq refused to go on a convoy mission, the military said Friday. Relatives of the soldiers said the troops considered the mission too dangerous.apnews.myway.com/ ... 01:13:12 U.S. Marines launched air and ground attacks Thursday on the insurgent bastion Fallujah after city representatives suspended peace talks with the government over Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's demand to hand over terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

THU 2004-OCT-14

Preternatural Patternssbcbaptistpress.org/ ... 17:12:36The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a record total of $1.2 million in fines against 169 Fox Television Network affiliates for airing indecent material during an episode of the reality program "Married by America."ap.tbo.com/ ... 17:09:30Starbucks plans to more than triple the number of its worldwide outlets to 30,000, with half of those in the United States.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 17:06:24Yusuf Islam, the singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, is favourite to have the British Christmas number one single with a duet with Ronan Keating.

Supernaturallocal6.com/ ... 17:04:41In the latest issue of "Green Arrow," published Wednesday, a teenage runaway named Mia -- who has been in the care of the title hero for two years -- discovers that her time spent as a street-dweller and prostitute has resulted in her picking up the virus.

Extraterrestrialreuters.com/ ... 00:38:13A Russian rocket carrying a U.S.-Russian space crew to the International Space Station (ISS) blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early Thursday. ...rocket carrying a Soyuz TMA-5 capsule blasted off at 7:06 a.m. Moscow time (0306 GMT).... Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov and NASA's Leroy Chiao will replace Russian Gennady Padalka and American Michael Fincke who have manned the ISS since April.....

US Election 2004seattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 17:03:51Men save signs for Bush in stakeout apnews.myway.com/ ... 17:02:22Vice President Dick Cheney called himself "a pretty angry father" on Thursday after Sen. John Kerry mentioned their gay daughter during the final presidential debate - comments Kerry said were meant to be positive about families with gay children.... Lynne Cheney.. called Kerry "not a good man" and his remarks about daughter Mary Cheney "a cheap and tawdry political trick." ...Elizabeth Edwards.. wife of vice presidential candidate John Edwards.. suggested in a radio interview that Mrs. Cheney might feel "a certain degree of shame" because her daughter is a lesbian. Mary Cheney, one of two Cheney daughters, is openly gay and an official in the Bush-Cheney campaign. The vice president has spoken at length about his daughter's sexuality and his view of gay relationships, even disagreeing with the president about the need for a constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriages.reuters.com/ ... 00:37:15EVEN WHEN THEY'RE RIGHT, THEY'RE WRONG! HELP!
President Bush and Democratic candidate John Kerry, who both oppose gay marriage, disagreed Wednesday on whether the issue should be left up to states and offered differing answers on whether a person could choose to be homosexual.

Digital Consequencesseattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 17:00:22Google's Desktop Search application, technically released as a preview Thursday for Windows XP and 2000 PCs, uses the same algorithms that have made its Internet search engine fast, accurate and popular. At the same time, it makes Windows' slow, built-in search tool eat dirt.palmbeachpost.com/ ... 00:35:37A routine test of Palm Beach County's electronic voting machines was canceled Tuesday because the computer network at the elections office malfunctioned hours before the public exercise.hollywoodreporter.com/ ... 00:34:41Bill Gates, head of the world's largest software company, predicts a future for the entertainment industry in which traditional broadcast television is rendered irrelevant. It's a positive vision, however....

WW2 - still with usreuters.com/ ... 17:11:50 A Japanese publisher will suspend a comic series in its popular weekly magazine after receiving angry protests over its characterization of the 1937 "Rape of Nanjing," in which Japanese soldiers brutally massacred Chinese civilians.

Violencereuters.com/ ... 17:08:14...Suicide bombers are the biggest security nightmare in Iraq, terrorizing the streets up to three times a week with huge explosions that have killed more than 1,000 people. But Iraq's interim government, struggling to stabilize the country before elections planned for January, still has few clues as to who they are....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 17:06:04Insurgents have penetrated Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone to carry out two bomb attacks, at least one believed to be a suicide bombing. Four Americans and six Iraqis are now known to have died....reuters.myway.com/ ... 17:02:48 U.S. warplanes launched sustained and fierce attacks on the rebel-held Iraqi town of Falluja on Thursday... no immediate word on casualties....

Aftermathwashingtonpost.com/ ... 00:33:19NATO defense ministers discussed a U.S.-backed proposal on Wednesday to merge Afghan peacekeeping and anti-terrorism operations under a joint command, despite criticism of the plan by Germany and France.

WED 2004-OCT-13

Preternatural Patternsap.tbo.com/ ... 18:18:02"They have locked the door that connects us and they're not letting us off. We're literally prisoners on board the train..." He said his group resorted to tossing leaflets out of windows at reporters....reuters.com/ ... 18:17:06Wealthy New Lab Aims to Capture Dreams, Literally news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 18:13:35Eminem dresses as Jackson for the Just Lose It video, and is shown on a bed with young boys. His nose also falls off and his hair catches fire. "It is one thing to spoof but it is another to be demeaning and insensitive," Jackson said.reuters.com/ ... 00:46:50An Oklahoma man desperate to save his marriage by appearing like a hero to his wife ended up in police custody on suspicion of staging a crime where he hired burglars and foiled their fake robbery attempt

US Election 2004worldnetdaily.com/ ... 18:53:03The FBI has been notified that hundreds of [non-Republican] voter-registration forms have been intentionally discarded or destroyed by a private company hired by the Republican Party to sign people up to vote.... "We caught her taking Democrats out of my pile, handed them to her assistant and he ripped them up right in front of us,"...worldnetdaily.com/ ... 18:51:59Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign has used the death of Christopher Reeve to highlight its differences with President Bush over embryonic stem-cell research, but the actor himself expressed doubt over the ability of the cells to treat chronic injuries such as the paralysis he suffered from a horse-riding accident nearly a decade ago.azdailysun.com/ ... 18:51:45A state judge refused Tuesday to either block today's presidential debate or add Libertarian Michael Badnarik to the platform.nysun.com/ ... 18:51:30An official Navy document on Senator Kerry's campaign Web site listed as Mr. Kerry's "Honorable Discharge from the Reserves" opens a door on a well kept secret about his military service.klas-tv.com/ ... 00:40:02NEVADA - Employees of a private voter registration company allege that hundreds, perhaps thousands of voters who may think they are registered will be rudely surprised on election day. The company claims hundreds of registration forms were thrown in the trash. Anyone who has recently registered or re-registered to vote outside a mall or grocery store or even government building may be affected.9news.com/ ... 00:39:27voter registration fraud that could cause chaos on Election Day for hundreds, possibly thousands of Colorado voters.... "It has just gone rampant...." Most of the fraud has come from registration drives, where people at grocery stores or on the streets ask you to sign up. ...many workers have re-registered voters multiple times by changing or making up information about them.cnn.com/ ... 00:37:53"If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again," Edwards said....
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist... a Republican from Tennessee... who was a heart surgeon before coming to the Senate, responded Tuesday...
"I find it opportunistic to use the death of someone like Christopher Reeve -- I think it is shameful -- in order to mislead the American people... We should be offering people hope, but neither physicians, scientists, public servants or trial lawyers like John Edwards should be offering hype. It is cruel to people who have disabilities and chronic diseases, and, on top of that, it's dishonest. It's giving false hope to people, and I can tell you as a physician who's treated scores of thousands of patients that you don't give them false hope."

Digital Consequencesc.webring.com/ ... 18:26:56Banned by China webring apnews.myway.com/ ... 18:11:15A tiny computer chip approved Wednesday for implantation in a patient's arm can speed vital information about a patient's medical history to doctors and hospitals. But critics warn that it could open new ways to imperil the confidentiality of medical records.pcmag.com/ ... 18:07:39Microsoft on Tuesday announced its latest round of patches, focusing almost exclusively on flaws in older operating systems, servers and applications that were largely covered by Microsoft XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). Nevertheless, this month's "Patch Tuesday" was busy, with Microsoft releasing 10 security bulletins for various vulnerabilities, a majority of which could allow for remote code execution or result in a denial of service. Several of the bulletins include more than one patch, comprising 20-odd patches in all.nytimes.com/ ... 00:34:21TOKYO, Oct. 12 - Nine people were found dead on Tuesday in two rented cars with the windows sealed and charcoal burners at their feet in pacts that the police said were facilitated by Internet suicide sites.

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 18:55:16

Army Sgt. Pamela G. Osbourne, 38, of Hollywood, Fla.,

Army Pfc. Anthony W. Monroe, 20, of Bismarck, N.D.
died October 11 in Baghdad, Iraq, when two rockets impacted their camp.defenselink.mil/ ... 18:54:28

Staff Sgt. Michael L. Burbank, 34, of Bremerton, Wash., died Oct. 11 in Mosul, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Stryker military vehicle. defenselink.mil/ ... 18:54:11

Army Pfc. Aaron J. Rusin, 19, of Johnstown, Pa., died Oct. 11 in Baghdad, Iraq, of injuries sustained on Oct. 10 when his military vehicle came under fire from enemy forces. defenselink.mil/ ... 18:53:52

Army Spc. Morgen N. Jacobs, 20, of Santa Cruz, Calif., died Oct. 7 in Tikrit, Iraq, of injuries sustained in Aaliyah on Oct. 6 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his patrol vehicle.

Only Naturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 18:15:29Monty Python and the spirit of inquiry news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 18:13:04...130-million-year-old fossil dinosaur... the earliest known example of an animal unearthed in a bird-like repose...news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 18:11:30Learning a second language 'boosts' brain-power news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:41:54Scientists say they have shown how male homosexuality could be passed from generation to generation. Nature encourages mothers to pass on a "gay trait" to their male offspring by boosting their fertility... Critics of the theory argue a gay gene would eventually be wiped out because gay couples do not procreate....

Whoopsreuters.com/ ... 00:47:35Nearly 50 prisoners escaped from a Rio de Janeiro jail on Sunday using a rope made of sheets and towels in the city's second mass breakout in four days.... On Thursday, 69 people fled from a police detention center on the outskirts via a tunnel dug from the jail's courtyard.....ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:45:31An FBI agent who mistakenly exposed a prison informant by sending a letter identifying him to another inmate's girlfriend ... "had his teeth broken by a fellow inmate who accused him of 'ratting' on others...."

Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 18:19:19MILAN, Tenn. - A thunderous explosion tore through a storage building at an Army ammunition plant Wednesday, causing at least one serious injury and creating a blast that could be heard for miles. Two people were reported missing.ap.tbo.com/ ... 18:18:26Public defender Michael Ogul said the inspectors continuously provoked Stuart Alexander over the cooking temperature of his meat until Alexander lost his temper in June 2000 and shot them at his Santos Linguisa Factory in San Leandro.reuters.com/ ... 18:15:46 Israel dealt a double blow to the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas on Wednesday, arresting a West Bank leader held responsible for a twin suicide bus bombing that killed 16 and killing two militants in Gaza air strikes.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 18:12:05Two Palestinian men have been killed in Israeli air strikes on the town of Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip... Both men killed on Wednesday are described as Hamas militants....wftv.com/ ... 18:10:58Police in Bangkok... searching for a man who had his tongue bitten off... tried to rape a girl. ..17-year-old says she pretended to consent to his advances and then bit off a part of his tongue. ...took the inch-long piece of flesh to police....apnews.myway.com/ ... 18:08:51A suicide attack and roadside bombings killed six American soldiers washingtonpost.com/ ... 18:07:15Local insurgents in the city of Fallujah are turning against the foreign fighters who have been their allies in the rebellion that has held the U.S. military at bay in parts of Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland... disputes have spilled over into harsh words and sporadic violence, with Fallujans killing at least five foreign Arabs in recent weeks... "If the Arabs will not leave willingly, we will make them leave by force...."reuters.com/ ... 00:43:08A militant Iraqi group said it had beheaded a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) who it described as a "spy" working as a translator for the U.S. army, according to an Internet statement.

Rebuildingreuters.com/ ... 00:44:32Iraqi actors hoped the fall of Saddam Hussein would herald a new era of artistic freedom. But they have seen their dreams destroyed by violence.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:42:11An Indian paint company says that marker pens with indelible ink supplied for Afghanistan's elections cannot be blamed for cases of election fraud.

Aftermathap.tbo.com/ ... 18:20:00BESLAN, Russia - There was a moment when Vika Kallagova could have fled the hellish maelstrom of bullets, screams and explosions that School No. 1 had become on the first day of September. But the 13-year-old chose not to. Her 8-year-old sister Olya was inside the school, trapped with hundreds of other children and adults by nearly three dozen heavily armed militants. So Vika went back in.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 18:12:25An Israeli newspaper says the CIA is holding senior al-Qaeda suspects at an interrogation facility in Jordan.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 18:11:43Ceremonies have been held to mark the end of the Orthodox traditional 40 days of mourning for victims of the Beslan siege in North Ossetia in Russia.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:40:51Ex-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has had an operation to treat a hernia at a Baghdad hospital news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:40:39A mass grave being excavated in a north Iraqi village has yielded evidence that Iraqi forces executed women and children under Saddam Hussein. .. US-led investigators ...are seeking evidence to try Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity.

Threatswashtimes.com/ ... 18:09:08U.S. security officials are investigating a recent intelligence report that a group of 25 Chechen terrorists illegally entered the United States from Mexico in July.reuters.com/ ... 00:42:52U.N. nuclear inspectors are welcome to return, an Iraqi minister said on Tuesday in response to concerns of an "apparent systematic dismantlement" of Saddam Hussein's once-vigorous nuclear program.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:42:25In pictures: Iranian views on Tehran's nuclear plans nytimes.com/ ... 00:38:21Citing concerns for the safety of his staff because of the threat of terrorism, Senator Mark Dayton, Democrat of Minnesota, announced on Tuesday that he was closing his Capitol Hill office until after the election.csmonitor.com/ ... 00:34:40Concerns are growing that high-precision equipment in Iraq that could be used to make nuclear weapons has been "systematically" disappearing, and may present a new proliferation risk.

TUE 2004-OCT-12

Only Naturalfoxnews.com/ ... 13:38:28A huge crocodile nearly 14 feet long dragged the man out of his tent early Monday morning at a campsite in far northern Queensland... A 60-year-old fellow camper... "She was also camping there..." heard the shrieks of the man's wife and child and, without hesitation, pounced onto the back of the giant reptile... Startled, the prehistoric beast let go of the man's legs, but then grabbed the woman and started heading toward the beach with her clamped in its jaws.... That's when a third camper... ran up and shot the crocodile dead....

Violencesuntimes.com/ ... 13:36:56Authorities suspect sabotage was behind the collapse of two enormous electrical transmission towers in Wisconsin that halted Amtrak train service between Chicago and Milwaukee for much of the weekend.sfgate.com/ ... 13:36:27Someone opened fire into a crowd in San Francisco's Bayview district early [Monday] morning, killing two men and wounding three other people... appeared to have specifically targeted at least some of the victims... "The guy jumped out of the car and started firing... That's why it seems more specific than a random, spray-the-crowd (attack). The people out there said they don't think it's gang-related...."

MON 2004-OCT-11

Transportnews.yahoo.com/ ... 22:19:39A teenager missing for eight days has been found alive in her wrecked car by a woman who said prayer and dreams led her to the site.

US Election 2004seattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 22:17:59Offices that house President Bush's re-election campaign in Spokane were broken into and vandalized last night, the latest in a string of crimes at Republican offices across the country.

Digital Consequencesnewsday.com/ ... 22:19:25China's police ministry on Sunday handed out rewards of up to $240 to people who reported pornographic Web sites in a campaign to stamp out online smut biz.yahoo.com/ ... 22:16:55The [French] government's industry minister has approved a decision to let cinemas, concert halls and theaters install cell phone jammers -- on condition that emergency calls can still get through

Human Rightcnn.netscape.cnn.com/ ... 22:16:19 Italy's nominee to become the European Union's Justice and Home Affairs commissioner failed on Monday to win the backing of the European Parliament's Justice Committee, days after testifying that he considers homosexuality a sin.news.yahoo.com/ ... 22:16:08WILMINGTON, N.C. - A teenager may go to jail for using foul language with a high school teacher.

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 16:36:56

Army Pvt. 2 Carson J. Ramsey, 22, of Winkelman, Ariz., died October 10 in Baghdad, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle. defenselink.mil/ ... 16:36:34

Army Pfc. James E. Prevete, 22, of Whitestone, N.Y., died October 10 in Habbaniya, Iraq, when his military vehicle encountered whiteout conditions and the driver apparently lost control of the vehicle. defenselink.mil/ ... 16:36:19

Army PV2 Jeungjin Na Kim, 23, of Honolulu, Hawaii, died October 6 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, when his patrol was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire. defenselink.mil/ ... 16:36:00

Marine Pfc. Andrew Halverson, 19, of Grant, Wis. died Oct 9 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

Rebuildingworldnetdaily.com/ ... 22:18:26U.S. military sees good news in Iraq -- Declassified report finds progress in government, utilities, health care, schools, economy, security

Threatsseattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 22:17:38Groups of men, including one tied to a federal terrorism investigation, have videotaped Washington ferry operations, prompting federal authorities to conclude the system has been under surveillance as a possible target for an attack.

Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 22:19:13CHAGMALAI, Pakistan - Al-Qaida-linked militants strapped explosives to the bodies of two kidnapped Chinese engineers and threatened to kill them unless they are given safe passage to their leader ap.tbo.com/ ... 22:18:49 A U.S. warplane early Tuesday destroyed a popular restaurant which the U.S. command said was a meeting place for members of Iraq's most feared terrorist organization. The 12:01 a.m. blast demolished the Haj Hussein restaurant as well as nearby shops, residents said. There was no report of casualties and the restaurant was closed at the time, but two night guards were missing news.yahoo.com/ ... 22:17:21 Human Rights Watch listed the names of 11 senior Al-Qaeda suspects it said were held by the CIA in secret locations overseas, where some had reportedly been tortured.

SUN 2004-OCT-10

Mechanical Disasterap.tbo.com/ ... 22:02:11 fire destroyed the museum's wooden hangar at Willow Run Airport, built by Henry Ford to produce World War II bombers on assembly lines like those used at his automotive plants. The cause of the fire remained under investigation Sunday.chron.com/ ... 21:53:45The final day of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta ended with high drama today when a balloon became entangled in a radio tower, forcing the pilot and two young passengers to shimmy most of the way down the nearly 700-foot-tall structure.

Preternatural Patternsnypost.com/ ... 14:50:34A Wall Street financial guru is putting his palatial Fifth Avenue penthouse on the market for a staggering $70 million — the highest-ever asking price for a Manhattan apartment

Digital Consequencesguardian.co.uk/ ... 22:01:30The websites affected by the seizure span 17 countries.story.news.yahoo.com/ ... 22:01:03A website billed as a grassroots news source for the anti-globalization movement and other issues said one of its Web servers was shut down after the FBI served a subpoena.... FBI ...said it was at the request of Italian and Swiss authorities.reuters.com/ ... 14:54:04 Think of it as Wi-Fi on steroids. On its way to U.S. living rooms and maybe even automobiles is a new type of high-speed wireless connection that promises downloaded data rates of up to 1 gigabit per second -- roughly 18.5 times the speed of Wi-Fi -- to personal computers and other devices.suntimes.com/ ... 14:38:03JibJab's new parody: You can't look away

Transportabcnews.go.com/ ... 14:37:43An 11-year-old boy who told authorities he was upset about being bullied at school took off in the family car on an odyssey that ended more than 200 miles away on the other side of the state.

US Election 2004picayuneitem.com/ ... 14:59:24An untapped voting bloc in Mississippi - those housed in jails and prisons - has been pursued in voter registration efforts. The Mississippi NAACP asked sheriffs to let inmates register to vote before the Oct. 1 deadline....palmbeachpost.com/ ... 14:58:54TALLAHASSEE — Law enforcement officials are investigating voter registration irregularities in at least three counties in Florida, and election supervisors fear that the problem is so widespread it could lead to massive confusion on Election Day.pottstownmercury.com/ ... 14:58:31READING -- A backlog of last-minute voter registrations in Berks County is pushing the system to its breaking point, according to election officials. ...flagrant attempts at voter registration fraud. ... "It’s absolutely out of hand... Not only do we have unintentional duplication of voter registrations but we have blatant duplicate voter registrations."...news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:53:25A bulge in the back of President George W Bush's suit jacket during the first TV debate with John Kerry has triggered rumours that he was wired to get help... Bush campaign dismissed the claims, ...it was just a wrinkle... denied some web reports that Mr Bush was wearing a bullet-proof vest....suntimes.com/ ... 14:40:25A mix of familiar misstatements and some new ones came out of the second presidential debate. The town-hall format was looser Friday, and so were some of the facts.suntimes.com/ ... 14:40:11There were no real pleasant exchanges, but there was plenty of tough talk.
"I don't see how you can win in Iraq if you don't think we should be there in the first place," said Bush.
"Compassionate conservative?" said Kerry, referring to Bush's signature line from his 2000 presidential campaign. "What does that mean?"washingtontimes.com/ ... 14:38:59How quickly the winds of fortune change in American presidential politics. The best that can be said of Sen. John Kerry's performance at Friday night's presidential debate is that it was identical to his previous performance in Florida... In St. Louis, Americans saw a different president, one who understands — and can explain — the war on terror and the role of government in domestic affairs....worldnetdaily.com/ ... 00:57:35A pushy Muslim activist demanded a county elections office worker accept a box of 550 applications to vote after the close of business on the last day to register in Palm Beach County, Florida. ..young man showed up 15 minutes after the deadline, insisting she accept a box of 550 applications on behalf of a group of Muslims determined to oust President Bush... She said she told him her office was closed, but that he could mail the forms as long as they were postmarked by midnight that night. "He started hollering about disenfranchising people," said LePore, who took the box after he thrust it at her.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 00:54:50Michael Badnarik of the Libertarian Party and David Cobb of the Green Party... arrested at the presidential debate in St. Louis when they tried to serve the debate commission with a show cause order.

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 15:10:29

Army Staff Sgt. Michael S. Voss, 35, of Aberdeen, N.C., died October 8 near Tikrit, Iraq, when his convoy vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device and small arms fire. defenselink.mil/ ... 15:10:06

Army Sgt Andrew W. Brown, 22, of Pleasant Mount, Penn., died October 8 in Baghdad, Iraq, of injuries sustained on October 1 when his patrol vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device.

Only Naturalseattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 15:14:11A powerful earthquake rocked Nicaragua's western coast on Saturday, sending residents running from their homes. No major injuries or damage were immediately reported.reuters.com/ ... 14:54:18 Beijing will install about 1,000 condom vending machines in hotels, bars, universities and on construction sites in the Chinese capital this month to fight the spread of AIDS msnbc.msn.com/ ... 14:42:02National Geographic updates its massive World Atlas... the Earth's highest point is higher... the lowest point is lower... There's a new nation, the first in this century: East Timor.... Other changes include showing the locations of spaceports for the first time....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:58:38Scientists believe they have discovered a new group of giant apes in the jungles of central Africa.

Rebuildingnewsday.com/ ... 21:50:14A challenge to the credibility of Afghanistan's presidential election appeared to recede yesterday as officials said an independent commission would evaluate voting irregularities, and some Afghan politicians backed away from a demand that the vote be scuttled.

Violencestraitstimes.asia1.com.sg/ ... 21:56:15Two of slain British hostage Kenneth Bigley's captors accepted a large sum of money to help him escape... a Syrian and an Iraqi who had infiltrated the kidnappers on behalf of British intelligence... the car was stopped five minutes later... militants recognised Mr Bigley ... took him back to his captors... he was beheaded... His two companions were also killed....ctv.ca/ ... 21:54:28U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld... warned Sunday... that violence may well increase as Iraq moves towards its January elections.... also offered a possibility that most soldiers would love to come true -- rotation home....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:53:46Two Italians and a Russian are now known to have died in Thursday's bomb blast at Egypt's Hilton hotel in Taba.voanews.com/ ... 14:49:35At least 18 people, including an American soldier, were killed following two car bombings in Baghdad.signonsandiego.com/ ... 14:49:22LAHORE, Pakistan – A suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque Sunday in this eastern city killed four people, including two security guards who lost their lives confronting the attacker and preventing a far greater number of deaths.news.scotsman.com/ ... 14:48:57A sickening video of Iraq hostage Ken Bigley being beheaded by his captors was circulating on the internet tonight. In his last desperate moments, Mr Bigley is seen pleading “to live a simple life” before being executed.msnbc.msn.com/ ... 14:42:52For Marines, Iraq a frustrating fighT -- Some soldiers question how and why war is being waged...ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:39:29An Israeli aircraft fired a missile Sunday at a Palestinian house in Gaza's Jebaliya refugee camp... Four people were wounded in the missile strike, which targeted a home near the Kholfa Mosque, a Hamas stronghold in the crowded Jebaliya refugee camp....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:59:42...14-year-old girl who was shot dead yards from her home as she walked back from a funfair. ...was with friends in Nottingham when she was shot from a car in an apparently random attack....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:58:53At least three people are reported dead after an explosion near the oil ministry in the Iraqi capital

Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 22:02:28Prime Minister John Howard, fresh from winning an election mandate to keep Australian troops in Iraq as long as needed, said Monday he would keep his foreign minister and make the war on terror a top priority of his fourth term.quote.bloomberg.com/ ... 21:57:42French President Jacques Chirac said he is "optimistic" that China will award more contracts to French companies... including ...the world's ...No. 1 maker of nuclear reactors.... "optimistic" that French companies can fulfil China's growing transport and energy needs....story.news.yahoo.com/ ... 14:50:14 Insurgent networks across Iraq are increasingly trying to acquire and use toxic nerve gases, blister agents and germ weapons against U.S. and coalition forces, according to a CIA report.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 00:55:47In a tape seized by authorities, radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri is heard urging Muslim women to breed children for the purpose of creating suicide bombers.tennessean.com/ ... 00:55:26For almost three months, law-enforcement agents have kept a close eye on an Iraqi-born man they say was scheming to purchase machine guns, hand grenades and anti-tank missiles as part of a plan to ''go jihad'' in Nashville.

SAT 2004-OCT-09

Mechanical Disasterfoxnews.com/ ... 19:13:52The lone bus belonging to a mom-and-pop tour operator careened off an interstate and overturned early Saturday, killing 15 Chicago-area travelers, many of them family and friends of the tour company owner.

US Election 2004examiner-enterprise.com/ ... 19:12:55BARTLESVILLE - Candidates for several state and local offices will have an opportunity to win area votes during a series of public forums scheduled in October. The League of Women Voters will sponsor several public forums featuring candidates for office between now and the Nov. 2 election, LWV spokespersons said recently.

Reasons for Repealap.tbo.com/ ... 19:26:45Amid record seizures of cocaine and massive spraying of coca plantations, a senior U.S. official says the "tipping point" in the war on drugs has finally been reached. But skeptics are unconvinced and say the war remains unwinnable.

Human Rightexaminer-enterprise.com/ ... 19:12:35Approximately 60 Bartlesville citizens including students, teachers and parents had an opportunity to hear first-hand Monday night how a random drug testing program works.abcnews.go.com/ ... 19:12:19Laws limiting marriage to a man and a woman do not run afoul of California's constitution, Attorney General Bill Lockyer declared Friday in a long-awaited legal opinion that sought to avoid offending either side in the gay marriage debate.

Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 19:26:06SRINAGAR, India - A suicide car bomber rammed into an army convoy in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday, triggering an explosion that left four people dead and 22 wounded, the army said.ap.tbo.com/ ... 19:25:20Two Chinese engineers helping Pakistan build a dam in a tense tribal region were kidnapped early Saturday along with at least one Pakistani security guard and their driver apnews.myway.com/ ... 19:24:52Kidnappers beheaded British hostage Kenneth Bigley after twice releasing videos in which he wept and pleaded with Prime Minister Tony Blair for his life. A U.S. official said Friday there was credible information that Bigley had tried to escape with the aid of one of his captors.abcnews.go.com/ ... 19:23:22An Israeli aircraft fired missiles Saturday night toward a group of Palestinians near a market in the Jebaliya refugee camp, witnesses said. Several people were injured but could not be evacuated because of Israeli machine-gun fire, they said.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 19:21:30female suicide bomber is believed to have taken part in the terrorist attack on the Red Sea hotel in which at least 31 people died... thought to have been acting with two other suspected terrorists who rammed explosive-laden cars into the front of the Hilton hotel in the Sinai resort of Taba on Thursday night...

Rebuildingnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:25:04Afghanistan's first-ever presidential election has passed off peacefully, but ended in controversy as opposition candidates called for a boycott.quote.bloomberg.com/ ... 19:23:02Afghans turned out in "massive" numbers for the nation's first direct presidential election, a United Nations spokesman said. ... Interim President Hamid Karzai is supported by the U.S. and expected to win. The 15 opposition candidates cited concerns of multiple voting and requested the election be halted, Almeida e Silva said. When that was refused, they said they'd boycott the results, the Associated Press reported....foxnews.com/ ... 19:13:27Afghanistan's historic presidential election turned sour Saturday when all 15 candidates opposing U.S.-backed interim President Hamid Karzai withdrew in the middle of voting, charging the government and the United Nations with fraud and incompetence.

FRI 2004-OCT-08

Digital Consequencesap.tbo.com/ ... 15:08:23...law enforcement officials ...could not: Identify a man who died in an apparent hit-and-run accident 11 years ago in this small town outside Yakima [WA]... Detective Pat Ditter of the Washington State Patrol searched with Google for about a week before identifying the victim as David Glen Lewis, 39, who died 1,606 miles from his home in Amarillo, Texas... came across a distinctive pair of glasses in a photograph on the Web sites of the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Doe Network, an international volunteer organization devoted to solving unidentified cases.... news.designtechnica.com/ ... 15:02:47Dell Recalls 990,000 AC Adapters... could start a fire....manufactured in China and sold separately for $30 and $70. The recalled adapters were used primarily with Dell Latitude, Precision and Inspiron notebook personal computers. "...

Rather Embarrasseddrudgereport.com/ ... 15:11:05WASH POST CORRECTS SCREAM HEADER: U.S. 'ALMOST ALL WRONG' ON WEAPONS examiner-enterprise.com/ ... 12:24:26Embattled CBS anchorman Dan Rather's afternoon feature on a Bartlesville radio has been yanked off the air, at least for the time being.

US Election 2004votenader.org/ ... 15:14:11Nader Campaign: http://www.votenader.org/news.yahoo.com/ ... 15:13:43 Independent candidate Ralph Nader conceded on Thursday that he won't win a single state in the presidential election. .. "Of course not, the system is rigged," the consumer advocate said... remaining in the race... ...on the ballot in more than 30 states, including New York, and is suing for ballot access in several others... Nader [called]... John Edwards... a "sniveling coward."....news.yahoo.com/ ... 12:22:15Officials in one Missouri county are reprinting absentee ballots for the Nov. 2 general election after discovering that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were left off.drudgereport.com/ ... 12:21:07Teresa Heinz Kerry ..on "Dr. Phil" yesterday... "I think men are supposed to be boys always. They just go through different stages and if wives understand that they can love them."

Preternatural Patternslocal6.com/ ... 15:18:07BURLINGTON, Iowa -- A psychiatrist who police say smeared excrement on dollar bills used to pay a parking ticket has been charged with harassment of a public official....denverpost.com/ ... 15:17:27As the whiskey and wine he drank during a fraternity initiation began to kill Gordie Bailey, some of his fraternity brothers wrote racial, misogynist and sexual vulgarities all over his body as he lay passed out in the Chi Psi library.... included "It sucks to be you"....ktuu.com/ ... 12:09:00 inside a South Anchorage home. Police found ..at least 200 cats, plus several dogs, birds and even chickens.. all of them were living in their own waste, with little food and no clean water... “Just a filthy place. It didn’t look like the toilets had been flushed in a long time. Standing water in bathtubs. It didn't look like it would be usable at all...."

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 18:55:56

Remains believed to be those of American soldiers missing in action from the Korean War have been recovered by two teams of United States specialists and will be repatriated to U.S. control at Yongsan Military Compound in Seoul on Oct. 15.defenselink.mil/ ... 18:55:35

Army Spc. Jessica L. Cawvey, 21, of Normal, Ill., died Oct. 6 in Fallujah, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near her convoy vehicle. defenselink.mil/ ... 18:55:12

Army Staff Sgt. Richard L. Morgan Jr., 38, of St. Clairsville, Ohio, died Oct. 5 in Latfiyah, Iraq, of injuries sustained on Oct. 4 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his convoy vehicle. defenselink.mil/ ... 18:54:40

Army Staff Sgt. James L. Pettaway Jr., 37, of Baltimore, Md., died Oct. 3 in Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, of injuries sustained in Fallujah, Iraq, on Aug. 27 when he was involved in a motor vehicle accident.

Only Naturalkirotv.com/ ... 18:58:15Scientists said the earthquakes and explosions at Mount St. Helens could lead to an eruption as powerful as the one in 1980 ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:05:29An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 shook Manila on Friday night, swaying high rises, knocking out power over a wide area and sending frightened residents into the streets. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:04:19.. earthquake ..magnitude 5.8 ...northeast Iran on Friday, injuring 12 people as frightened residents fled their homes for safety...

Rebuildingap.tbo.com/ ... 15:03:30Battle-Tested Iraqi Forces... Gaining Effectiveness, American Commanders Say

Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:09:20Israeli officials say they suspect al-Qaeda involvement in bomb blasts at Egyptian resorts popular with Israelis, in which at least 28 people died. The biggest of the three attacks, at the Hilton hotel in Taba, on Egypt's border with Israel, killed 26 people. The others hit a backpacker camping area near the resort of Nuweiba, 60km (38 miles) further south, killing two.ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:04:38France tightened security around its embassies Friday after a bomb outside the Indonesian Embassy slightly injured nine people in a pre-dawn explosion that shattered neighborhood windows and puzzled police.news.scotsman.com/ ... 15:03:02Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 10-year-old Palestinian girl and a teenage boy in two separate incidents today during Israel’s massive offensive into the northern Gaza Strip news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 14:59:58h hostage Kenneth Bigley kidnapped on Sept. 16 by militants in Iraq has been murdered by the captors,voanews.com/ ... 14:55:31A U.S. airstrike on a suspected terrorist safehouse in the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah has killed at least 12 people and wounded 17 others. Residents and local doctors say the dead and injured were guests at a wedding party. Doctors say the groom was among the dead and the bride was wounded.apnews.myway.com/ ... 12:21:45An explosion tore through a resort hotel in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula where Israelis were vacationing at the end of a Jewish holiday Thursday night, killing at least 30 people and wounding more than 160... Some reports put the toll at 35....cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ ... 12:19:25An 11-year-old attacked her baby sitter with a machete during a struggle that included attempts by the girl to grab a baseball bat, a shovel and a BB gun... 34-year-old sitter telephoned deputies after fending off the Tuesday attack and locking herself and the girl's 12-year-old sister in the bathroom... No serious injuries were reported... had gotten into an argument over feeding a dog, and the girl began to beat and choke the animal...

Threatsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 18:51:33Iran's cleric leaders are harboring Osama bin Laden, according to two Iranian intelligence officials cited in a new book.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:09:48Security forces in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar say they have thwarted an attack that could have killed hundreds of people. A tanker carrying 40,000 litres of fuel and packed with explosives was intercepted on the eve of the country's first direct presidential elections....ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:05:13A man taken into custody after a police officer saw him videotaping Charlotte's skyscrapers has agreed to plead guilty to immigration charges. Kamran Akhtar signed a deal Thursday agreeing to spend up to six months in prison before being deported to his native Pakistan....abcnews.go.com/ ... 12:15:25Schools in six states in particular are being watched closely based on information uncovered by the U.S. military in Baghdad this summer... A man described as an Iraqi insurgent involved in anti-coalition activities had downloaded school floor plans and safety and security information about elementary and high schools in the six states... though the information was recovered in July, it was not given urgency until the attack in Beslan....

THU 2004-OCT-07

Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:19:09...The teenagers were using the Ask Jeeves' UK-based search engine to look for information on the heart during a biology lesson. The links to hardcore pornography appeared because of a matching error between the keyword and the results, said Ask Jeeves....

Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 13:10:45A Brazilian rancher accused of ordering the killing of four government agents inspecting claims of slavery has been released from jail after being elected mayor of his home town.reuters.com/ ... 13:10:21Oklahoma tourism officials have recalled about 200,000 brochures with images of activities that may have seemed uninviting to some travelers, such as cow manure tossing and re-enacting Confederate battles....

Supernaturalreuters.com/ ... 13:06:54Remember limbo, that place where the Catholic Church teaches that babies go if they die before being baptized because they do not deserve either heaven or hell? Pope John Paul ...on Thursday ...asked theologians to think about it harder and come up with "a more coherent and enlightened way" of describing the fate of such innocents....

Human Rightkomotv.com/ ... 13:18:25WHATCOM COUNTY, Washington - The FBI wants to know who checked out a book from a small library about Osama Bin Laden. But the library isn't giving out names, saying the government has no business knowing what their patrons read. The library in Deming isn't much larger than a family home. Located in rural Whatcom County, it hardly seems the site for a showdown with the feds....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:12:25Forty per cent of the registered voters for Saturday's presidential election in Afghanistan are women - so why is there so little debate about women's rights?

Only Naturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:12:10Scientists have shown that tiny changes to modern flu viruses could render them as deadly as the 1918 strain which killed millions.

Reasons for Repealap.tbo.com/ ... 13:11:39Drug smugglers - not the Taliban - were behind an attack on interim leader Hamid Karzai's vice presidential running-mate, the government said Thursday. One man was killed and five people were wounded in Wednesday's bombing, including the former governor of Badakhshan, a mountainous northeastern poppy-growing region. Karzai's running-mate, Ahmed Zia Massood, was unhurt....

Violenceolympics.reuters.com/ ... 13:17:09At least two rockets slammed into the Sheraton hotel in central Baghdad on Thursday, damaging the building and causing a fire nearby reuters.co.uk/ ... 13:16:56 At least 40 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded in Pakistan when a car bomb exploded at a rally to commemorate an assassinated militant religious leader.

Threatsnews.yahoo.com/ ... 13:16:34The Education Department has advised school leaders nationwide to watch for people spying on their buildings or buses to help detect any possibility of terrorism like the deadly school siege in Russia.apnews.myway.com/ ... 13:15:59August Hanning, head of Germany's Federal Intelligence Service said Thursday: "All indications are that he [Osama bin Laden] is alive... We continue to see traces of his activity. He tries to organize, to motivate" his followers,...reuters.com/ ... 13:09:40Police in Iraq have started hauling over drivers of BMWs -- particularly those with black, blue and dark gray models -- following intelligence reports that insurgents are using them to carry out drive-by shootings, kidnappings and other attacks.

Mechanical Disasterreuters.com/ ... 13:09:18French carmaker Renault challenged a driver's statement that a fault in one of its top-of-the-range cars had embarked its panic-stricken owner on an involuntary 200 km per hour motorway dash.... said its engineers had given a clean bill of health to the 40,000 euro ($49,190) Vel Satis... owner ...told police a malfunction in the electronic cruise control was to blame....

WED 2004-OCT-06

Beatles - still with usrollingstone.com/ ... 16:18:20Louise Harrison's car was broken into Sunday in Little Rock, Arkansas, but the sister of the late Beatles' guitarist George Harrison says that -- contrary to published reports -- the items stolen were of little consequence. "There was nothing in there of any commercial value," Harrison tells Rolling Stone. "The way they put it out in the news it sounded like it was all kinds of fantastic memorabilia. It wasn't. There was a photograph of George and me taken in 1964. I'd had about 4,000 of them made to give to people."

Whoopsreuters.com/ ... 16:27:15A German man got more excitement than he bargained for in a sex shop when he dozed off in a video booth, got locked in overnight and was mistaken for a burglar by police as he tried to get out, authorities said on Tuesday. "He'd had rather a lot to drink and had gone in to enjoy himself," said a spokesman for police in the southwestern city of Mannheim. "Seemingly the effects of the alcohol proved the strongest stimulus though. He fell asleep."ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:12:18HONG KONG - Safe deposit boxes from a bank branch in Hong Kong were taken away and crushed as scrap metal, leaving customers angry at the loss of their valued possessions, executives acknowledged Wednesday.

US Election 2004news.yahoo.com/ ... 16:24:26Kerry told reporters he disagreed with his wife's assessment that the possible U.S. capture of al-Qaida terrorist leader Osama bin Laden before the Nov. 2 election could be politically motivated.wisgop.org/ ... 16:19:59(MILWAUKEE) – More than 50 demonstrators supporting Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry stormed a Republican campaign office in West Allis at mid-day today, trespassing, creating a disturbance through the use of a bullhorn in the office and then refusing to leave when asked.local6.com/ ... 16:19:36 A group of protestors stormed and then ransacked a Bush-Cheney headquarters building in Orlando, Fla., Tuesday reuters.com/ ... 16:10:15Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic Sen. John Edwards battled fiercely over the war in Iraq Tuesday in a debate that featured repeated personal attacks on the other side's records and judgment.apnews.myway.com/ ... 16:10:00Sen. John Edwards accused the Bush administration Tuesday night of bungling the war in Iraq and presiding over a historic loss of jobs. "Your facts are just wrong," Vice President Dick Cheney shot back in a crackling campaign debate.

Preternatural Patternscanoe.ca/ ... 16:09:39 John Lennon's killer will stay in prison for at least two years after being denied parole yesterday for the third time because of the "extreme malicious intent" he showed in gunning down the former Beatle in 1980.

Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 16:26:34Making love in a bar lavatory does not breach public decency laws so long as the door is shut, an Italian court ruled on Tuesday.

Only Naturalabcnews.go.com/ ... 16:13:44 scientists said Wednesday that the danger of a strong Mount St. Helens eruption at any moment has passed, but warned the mountain could continue venting steam and volcanic rock for several weeks.

Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:25:32A suicide car bomb blast outside an army recruiting centre in western Iraq has killed at least 12 people. .. town of Anah ...injured about 25 other people ...went off as volunteers stood in line in the town, near the Syrian border....team4news.com/ ... 16:24:00AUSTIN Two Central Texas high school students have been arrested and accused of planning to re-create the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado.... 15- and 16-year-old boys... planned to carry out the shooting during a school pep rally...discussed particular students they planned to target... were waiting for a cold front so they could wear long trench coats to conceal their weapons. Police discovered the plan on September 28th and arrested the boys Friday....news.yahoo.com/ ... 16:22:29BOSTON (Reuters) - A plan by a teenager to murder teachers and students in April, the same month a massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado took place in 1999, was foiled by the arrest of a Massachusetts student last month, police said on Wednesday. ..16-year-old ...arrested after police in Marshfield found maps of the teenager's school that showed gas lines and doorways and evidence that he had exploded bombs in a wooded area and consulted Web sites for information on bomb-making... had named teachers and students "who were going to be murdered"...local6.com/ ... 16:20:56TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Police handcuffed and arrested an 8-year-old boy after a fight and charged him with misdemeanor battery and criminal mischief. First grader Isaac Sutton was arrested Monday by a Tallahassee police officer after a fight with a 10-year-old boy in his neighborhood. A police report says Isaac punched and slapped the other boy during an argument. The victim's mother called police. Isaac was taken to a juvenile center and released to his mother after midnight.

Rebuildingvoanews.com/ ... 16:18:39Iraq's interim government is engaged in cease-fire talks with Sunni and Shi'ite leaders in an effort to restore calm to violent parts of Iraq before January's scheduled election.

Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 16:12:34The FBI is investigating envelopes containing suspicious powder that were sent to several newspapers in the last several days.

Aftermathbrunei-online.com/ ... 16:09:07"I don't think it's going to happen," Rumsfeld told the Council on Foreign Relations on Monday when asked about the threat of civil war. "But what has to be done in that country is what basically was done in Samarra over the last 48 hours." Rumsfeld credited a process of first trying diplomacy, then threatening force and finally using it.
On whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruc-tion before the war, Rumsfeld said flatly Monday that intelligence about such weapons before the invasion was faulty - a markedly different state-ment than what he told a television interviewer just a day earlier.

TUE 2004-OCT-05

Currentkomotv.com/ ... 21:52:19Rodney Dangerfield, the bug-eyed comic whose self-deprecating one-liners brought him stardom in clubs, television and movies and made his lament "I don't get no respect" a catchphrase, died Tuesday. He was 82.

Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 21:12:38Barbie parent Mattel, which once sued MCA records, a unit of Universal Music, for selling and promoting a song called "Barbie Girl" by the Danish group Aqua, is putting out a new compilation album with MCA that bears the almost identical title "Barbie Girls."

US Election 2004drudgereport.com/ ... 21:06:45SEN. JOHN EDWARDS (D-NC)... "I'd say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you've lost your mind."

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 21:50:38

Army Sgt. Christopher S. Potts, 38, of Tiverton, R.I., died Oct. 3 in Taji, Iraq, as his unit was conducting traffic control operations and enemy forces attacked them using small arms fire.

Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 21:12:18A group of Swedish parliamentarians proposed levying a "man tax" to cover the social cost of violence against women.apnews.myway.com/ ... 21:05:38A state judge Tuesday threw out a Louisiana constitutional amendment ...overwhelmingly approved by the voters on Sept. 18 ...banning gay marriage. ...said ...was flawed ...because it had more than one purpose: banning not only gay marriage but also civil unions....

Mechanical Disasterreuters.com/ ... 21:11:39 A mobile phone call may have saved the life of a panic-stricken French driver who found himself hurtling down a motorway at 125 mph but unable to slow down because of a mystery fault with his luxury saloon car.... Renault boss Louis Schweitzer said he was mystified by the incident, telling LCI television: "As its been described to me, this incident surprises me and seems highly improbable."alertnet.org/ ... 21:09:00An estimated 70 people were wounded when wooden stands set up for an Ecuadorean rodeo collapsed, crushing the crowd

Threatswashingtontimes.com/ ... 21:52:48The House of Representatives is expected to reject Tuesday a bill to reinstate the military draft. The bill is sponsored by Rep. Charles Rangel, a New York Democrat....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 21:51:24Israeli jet fighters have prevented an incoming Lufthansa airliner from landing after a bomb alert that German officials had not considered serious.olympics.reuters.com/ ... 21:08:36Iran has increased the range of its missiles to 1,250 miles, a senior official was quoted as saying on Tuesday, putting parts of Europe within reach for the first time.

Aftermathcsmonitor.com/ ... 21:08:11Mr. Rumsfeld "attempted to distance himself from his earlier comments that there were no links between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda..." In a statement issued several hours after he had told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York that "to my knowledge, I have not seen any strong, hard evidence that links the two", [Rumsfeld] claimed he had been "misunderstood"....

Violencefoxnews.com/ ... 21:51:55More than 3,000 U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major operation Tuesday against insurgent strongholds just south of Baghdad, their second mission in five days to wrest control from militants whose attacks threaten national elections seen as crucial to stabilizing this turbulent country.reuters.com/ ... 21:07:02An Israeli helicopter missile killed two Palestinian militants in the Gaza refugee camp of Jabalya on Tuesday night, hours after an air strike that killed the Islamic Jihad commander in the territory

MON 2004-OCT-04

Extraterrestrialnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 23:04:09The rocket plane SpaceShipOne has shot to an altitude of more than 100km for the second time inside a week to claim the $10m Ansari X-Prize.

Mechanical Disasternews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 23:03:46At least 17 people drowned off the coast of Tunisia when their boat sank while trying to reach Italy illegally

Preternatural Patternsabcnews.go.com/ ... 23:07:11Janet Leigh... who died Sunday, insisted she always took baths after seeing the finished cut of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho," in which her character was slashed to death in a motel shower in what may be the silver screen's most memorable murder.local10.com/ ... 23:04:38 A man accused of sending envelopes full of white powder to more than two dozen Broward County cities said mind control made him do it.reuters.com/ ... 23:00:14 A 20-month-old boy wandered for 5 1/2 miles through the scorching desert of southeast Iran before his parents followed his footprints and found him sitting in an open irrigation channelpret

History - still with ussuntimes.com/ ... 15:36:14A picture lifted from a prayer book by a sticky-fingered friar some 500 years ago has been reunited with the late 15th century tome -- with help from a Chicago art dealer.

US Election 2004nypost.com/ ... 23:04:57Was it a cheat sheet — as some conservative bloggers claimed — or was it something innocuous?suntimes.com/ ... 15:35:42 In the presidential campaign's closing weeks, Democrats are bracing for an ''October Surprise,'' an event so dramatic it could influence the election's outcome. The capture of Osama bin Laden, for instance... ''I assume that it will be something,'' said House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California. ''We have to be ready for that.''

Only Naturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 23:03:28Planet under pressure is a six-part BBC News Online series looking at some of the most pressing environmental issues facing the human race today.reuters.com/ ... 23:03:08A elderly Romanian man mistook his penis for a chicken's neck, cut it off and his dog rushed up and ate it forbes.com/ ... 23:01:05Smoking parents worn out by a colicky baby might want to try kicking the tobacco habit, a new study suggests.

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 18:45:50

Army Sgt. Russell L. Collier, 48, of Harrison, Ark., died October 3rd in Taji, Iraq. His unit was conducting traffic control operations when enemy forces attacked them using small arms fire. defenselink.mil/ ... 18:45:26

Army Sgt. Jack T. Hennessy, 21, of Naperville, Ill., died October 1st in Baghdad, Iraq, when his check point came under small arms fire.defenselink.mil/ ... 18:45:04

Army Sgt. Michael A. Uvanni, 27, of Rome, N.Y., died Oct.1 in Samarra, Iraq, he was conducting combat operations and was shot by a sniper.

Threatsnews.yahoo.com/ ... 23:04:25Hundreds of airline passengers suffered disruption to their travel plans when a major regional airport was shut down for an hour after a humming and vibrating adult sex toy was mistaken for a bomb.

Violencereuters.com/ ... 23:05:12 The U.S. military has charged four soldiers with murder in the death of an Iraqi general who died of asphyxiation while being interrogated last November in Iraq news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 23:03:56Two powerful car bombs have killed at least 16 people and injured dozens more in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.reuters.com/ ... 23:00:39 Car bomb attacks brought more carnage to the streets of two Iraqi cities on Monday, killing at least 26 people... More than 100 people were wounded as bombers struck twice in Baghdad and once in the northern city of Mosul...reuters.co.uk/ ... 15:36:28GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Suspected separatist rebels have stormed a village in India's northeast and shot dead six people, police say, taking the toll in the worst violence in years in the troubled region to 62.

SUN 2004-OCT-03

Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 20:32:03...was driving his Ford Explorer "at a high rate of speed..." when he overcorrected and the SUV overturned... was thrown from the vehicle and died, but the Explorer kept going, hurtling into the opposite lane and hitting a Toyota 4-Runner. The driver of the Toyota... died on impact....

Mechanical Disasterap.tbo.com/ ... 20:17:32A massive explosion at a fireworks factory in central Thailand on Sunday killed 14 people, including a 4-year-old boy, and injured two others

Extraterrestrialcbsnews.com/ ... 16:48:56The main oxygen generator for the international space station has failed, and the two astronauts on board may have to tap into an attached cargo ship's air supply next week

Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:46:37US computers users know more about Janet Jackson's breasts than about security software on their own PC.

US Election 2004homepage.mac.com/ ... 23:32:44Hi-resolution QuickTime of Kerry pulling something out of his jacket at debate freepressinternational.com/ ... 23:31:19Why would John Kerry pull out a cheat sheet in front of a Fox News camera? Was it a staged event?zombietime.com/ ... 23:30:16Kerry pulling something out of his pocket at the first debate. (Still-photo sequence)seattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 20:17:08Three computers loaded with confidential campaign plans were reported stolen early yesterday in a burglary at President Bush's Washington state campaign headquarters.azdailysun.com/ ... 20:16:53PHOENIX -- The state Libertarian Party is going to court today to block Arizona State University from hosting the third presidential debate later this month. Party Treasurer Warren Severin said Thursday the cost of the debate -- estimated at more than $2 million -- amounts to an unconstitutional gift of taxpayer funds for the two major parties....drudgereport.com/ ... 16:41:57...the binding "Memorandum of Understanding" that was negotiated and agreed upon by both political campaigns states: "No props, notes, charts, diagrams, or other writings... So what did Dem presidential contender John Kerry take out of his jacket as he approached the stage [with his back to the auditorium's audience]?... A tight zoom analysis of the Boston.Com feed shows Kerry pulling a mysterious item his jacket... Kerry appears to unfold some sort of paper seconds later, at his podium....

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 20:14:55

Army Spc. Rodney A. Jones, 21, of Philadelphia, Penn., died Sept. 30 in Baghdad, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device exploded near his dismounted patrol. defenselink.mil/ ... 20:14:36

Army Spc. Allen Nolan, 38, of Marietta, Ohio, died Sept. 30 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, of injuries sustained on Sept. 18 in Balad, Iraq, when his convoy vehicle struck an improvised explosive device and then came under small arms fire.

Only Naturalseattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 16:48:08Mount St. Helens evacuated; substantial eruption "imminent"

Aftermathreuters.com/ ... 16:47:45...responding to a report in The New York Times that Bush officials ignored doubts about the potential other uses of thousands of the high-strength tubes to press the case for war.... Rice claimed in September 2002 that the tubes were "only really suited for nuclear weapons programs."...

Violencereuters.com/ ... 20:34:36Violence broke out on Sunday after some 2,000 left-wing demonstrators tried to disturb an right-wing march through the city.abcnews.go.com/ ... 16:48:28 Militants bombed utilities, a tea plantation and a crowded marketplace in northeastern India, intensifying violence that has killed 57 people in two days and snarling efforts to bring cease-fires in a region where dozens of ethnic rebel groups are fighting for separate homelands.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:45:59US forces have carried out another air strike ...Falluja ...third in 24 hours... bombed a building which they said was being used by insurgents as a weapons store. ...said to have happened as up to 15 suspected militants were moving ammunition and weapons, probably killing most of those present....
the city of Samarra is now largely under the control of US and Iraqi forces after days of fighting....
Iraqi police report the discoveries of the bodies of a man and woman in Yussifiya, 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of Baghdad; the man had been beheaded and the woman shot in the head...
Scores of Iraqi Kurds take to the streets of the northern city of Kirkuk to demand the departure of Arab families settled in the oil centre by Saddam Hussein's regime...
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld admits he was surprised by the level of anti-US resistance in Iraq, and predicts that the level of violence will remain high at least until January's election....

Threatsnews.independent.co.uk/ ... 20:18:45Two of the most senior figures of Eta, the outlawed Basque separatist group, were arrested yesterday following a series of raids in France.armytimes.com/ ... 16:42:43Amid heightened concerns of a North Korean missile test, a U.S. destroyer has started patrolling the Sea of Japan in what officials say is a first step toward creating a shield to protect the United States and its allies from a foreign missile attack.

SAT 2004-OCT-02

Preternatural Patternsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 21:16:01On their first day of freedom, instead of thanking Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for securing their release Simona Pari and Simona Torretta urged the government to withdraw its troops from Iraq.

History - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:50:47In 1841, the slave ship Trouvadore was lost on a coral reef in the Turks and Caicos Islands, 500 miles south-east of Miami. The slaves, who were bound for Cuba, survived and settled in the British colony, founding a village with an African name. Tim Ecott joined in an expedition which may allow modern-day islanders to trace their heritage back to West Africa.

Whoopsap.tbo.com/ ... 00:09:04The Federal Aviation Administration is fining the city $33,000 for its demolition of Meigs Field and says it is investigating whether federal funds were improperly diverted to pay for the destruction of the lakefront airport.

Digital Consequencesworldnetdaily.com/ ... 15:26:05Pat Rizzotto, vice president of global customer initiatives for Johnson & Johnson, says his company's long-term vision for RFID, or radio frequency identification, includes having physical objects communicate in real time and extending the Internet into everyday items... technology that uses tiny computer chips to identify and track items from a distance will be "on everything from diapers to surgical instruments...."
"RFID radio waves can travel right through solid objects," said Katherine Albrecht, founder and director of CASPIAN, Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering, a group that has led the opposition to RFID. "Information on RFID 'spy chips' can be read through the things we usually rely on to protect our privacy, like walls, purses, backpacks and even through our clothes... It would be a privacy nightmare if we allowed them to be attached to everyday objects."iol.co.za/ ... 12:45:14Nashville - Thanks to a quick-thinking robbery victim and his camera-equipped cellphone, police had a photo of the suspect and tracked him down in 10 minutes, officials said.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:06:15From October, AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, Earthlink and Comcast want those that send lots of messages to their users to comply with new mail standards. These technical specifications will help reveal whether a message came from the net address it claims to. This will help identify hi-tech con artists posing as banks and net domains known to pump out junk mail messages. ...want every organisation that sends out lots of e-mail, including spammers, to comply with technical standards known as the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and Sender-ID....

US Election 2004usatoday.com/ ... 17:54:40Fox News apologized Friday for posting phony quotes from Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on its Web site. ... Carl Cameron, a Fox reporter who covers the Kerry campaign, wrote an item that looked like a news story with made-up Kerry quotes... not intended to be posted ... "Carl made a stupid mistake which he regrets.... And he has been reprimanded for his lapse in judgment. It was a poor attempt at humor."...
'Didn't my nails and cuticles look great? What a good debate!'worldnetdaily.com/ ... 15:24:08Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has urged his country's weapons developers to step up work on making a nuclear bomb... "We must have two bombs ready to go in January or you are not Muslims...."worldnetdaily.com/ ... 15:23:36During the debate with President Bush Thursday, Kerry remarked that the U.S. should have given Iran the nuclear fuel it wanted. "I think the United States should have offered the opportunity to provide the nuclear fuel, test them, see whether or not they were actually looking for it for peaceful purposes...."worldnetdaily.com/ ... 13:42:53In a little noticed remark during the first presidential debate, Sen. John Kerry said he believed the United States should have provided Iran's hardline, cleric-led Islamic regime with nuclear fuel even as intelligence reports indicate Tehran is on the verge of producing a bomb.washingtonpost.com/ ... 00:02:09On a day when the headlines carried news of more than 40 deaths -- most of them children -- from insurgent attacks Bush pronounced himself "realistic but optimistic" about the course of events in Iraq.

Only Naturalnews.yahoo.com/ ... 21:14:48Western Mexico's "Volcano of Fire" unleashed a towering column of smoke and ash Friday, after ropes of burning, orange lava poured from its peak overnight.ap.tbo.com/ ... 17:56:11LOS OLIVOS, Calif. - A 340-pound black bear was captured and killed after it ambled across a private school campus in Southern California just as students were showing up for breakfast.hindustantimes.com/ ... 12:47:37EGREGIOUS HEADLINE OF THE DAY:
Vitamins only take you closer to death
...the study reveals that the careless intake of Vitamin supplements enhances cancer risks and increases the overall risk of death, rather than saving lives.... the risk of death was found to be 30 percent higher in people taking beta-carotene and vitamin A than for those not taking the combination. ...researchers have cautioned that the findings are preliminary, and the negative effects of vitamins might be due to people taking vitamin doses above the medically recommended levels.

Human Rightap.tbo.com/ ... 17:57:30VATICAN CITY - The Vatican's top official for family issues decried as a "sad step" Saturday the Spanish government's proposal to allow homosexuals to marry and adopt children.ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:09:49Simply using computer equipment to view child pornography is not a federal crime, a federal appeals panel ruled Friday in reversing the conviction of a Florida man.sfgate.com/ ... 00:04:29Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's recent speeches have ventured into some surprising territory, with the staunchly conservative father of nine joking about sexual orgies.guardian.co.uk/ ... 00:03:54A man aged 78 stood trial yesterday on two charges of rape dating back more than 30 years, in the third of seven cases on Pitcairn island... The trial has shaken Pitcairn's community of 47, who say that underage sex was the norm.... They fear that convictions of the seven, half the island's adult male population, would render the community unviable....

Rebuildingap.tbo.com/ ... 21:16:18Plenty of Interest, but an Uphill Battle Teaching Afghans About Democracy

Carelessness Consequencesnews.bostonherald.com/ ... 12:49:25An afternoon pick-up at a Stoneham elementary school turned horrific yesterday when an elderly amputee plowed his car into a crowd of students and parents, pinning several young children against a concrete wall... 12 people hurt, including one 5-year-old boy and two 3-year-olds who were slammed against a one-foot high wall near the school's entrance along with an adult woman...

Aftermathnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:07:04Pictures: Polish Radio Channel One organised a charity auction of 49 paintings by Beslan children - they show the horror of the school siege.

Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 21:15:20Israeli troops backed by tanks have taken control of a nine-kilometre area on the edge of the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. The move aims at preventing Palestinian militants from firing Qassam rockets into the Israeli town of Sderot....ap.tbo.com/ ... 17:58:36A militant group in Iraq claimed in an Internet statement posted Saturday that it abducted and beheaded an Iraqi construction contractor who worked on a U.S. military base.... A different militant group claiming to have kidnapped two Indonesian women in Iraq demanded on Saturday the release of an Indonesian cleric jailed in his home country. But the cleric refused to be freed in an exchange, saying hostage-taking is not in keeping with Islam..... Another video showed a man purported to be a Jordanian hostage ...surrounded by gunmen threatening to kill him within 72 hours unless his company stopped cooperating with U.S. forces....ap.tbo.com/ ... 17:56:37Afraid to stray from home, residents buried the dead in their gardens Saturday as U.S. and Iraqi forces battled pockets of resistance in this former insurgent stronghold, where the American military said 125 rebels were killed and 88 captured in two days of fierce fighting. The American commander declared the operation a successful first step in a major push to wrest key areas from insurgent control before January elections.reuters.com/ ... 12:51:05After the latest U.S. air strike on Falluja, enraged residents clasped wounded children and challenged Iraq's prime minister to visit the town to see how bombs were hitting civilians, not "terrorists."reuters.com/ ... 12:43:14Separatist militants set off bombs and opened gunfire across India's northeast on Saturday, killing at least 46 people and wounding nearly a 100 in one of the bloodiest days in the troubled region. Two bombs exploded in a marketplace in Dimapur, commercial center of the state of Nagaland, while a third ripped through a crowded railway station there almost simultaneously, an officer at the local police station said.reuters.com/ ... 12:42:46Angry Shi'ite Muslims set vehicles and the mayor's office on fire in Pakistan's eastern city of Sialkot Saturday after a funeral procession to bury victims of a suicide bomb attack that killed 30 people.

President Pervez Musharraf said the attack "clearly shows that terrorists have no religion and are enemies of the mankind."voanews.com/ ... 12:41:49More than 45 Palestinians and five Israelis have been killed in four days of bloodshed. And militants imposed a commercial strike in Gaza. Palestinian Prime Minister Qureia ...appealed to all Palestinian factions, "to think about the higher national interest," and not give Israel an excuse to continue the military offensive in Gaza.ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:41:03Families of the 35 children who died in a string of bombings in Baghdad blamed American troops for the tragedy, accusing them of attracting insurgents to a ceremony where the attacks occurred.reuters.com/ ... 00:08:47"This afternoon, the Salt Lake City police department was notified by the office of the medical examiner that dental records positively identified the remains found at the landfill as those of Lori Hacking...."reuters.com/ ... 00:07:57Oklahoma police said on Friday they were investigating the death of a University of Oklahoma freshman who died of alcohol poisoning during a fraternity function as a possible homicide... [19-year-old male]... Sigma Chi... more than five times the state's legal limit for driving news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:04:41The US has called on Israel to exercise restraint in its latest offensive against Palestinian militants in northern Gaza.

Threatstallahassee.com/ ... 15:28:03An Episcopal committee angered Jewish leaders Friday by recommending that the church research taking action against companies involved in the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.jpost.com/ ... 15:27:39Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Gillerman, has called on UN Secretary General Koffi Anan to fire Peter Hansen, the head of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) following the publication of video footage showing Palestinian terrorists storing what appears to be a Kassam rocket inside a UN-marked vehicle in the northern Gaza Strip.reuters.com/ ... 12:52:20Afghan authorities arrested 60 Taliban guerrillas who were planning to derail the upcoming presidential election, officials said Saturday ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:10:37DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A suspicious powder found in an envelope forced about 70 employees of The Des Moines Register to evacuate the building Friday for about four hours.reuters.com/ ... 00:02:36The United States' top computer-security official has resigned after a little more than a year on the job

FRI 2004-OCT-01

Whoopsreuters.com/ ... 14:38:18Ten Kenyan prisoners broke out of a police cell by singing hymns and chanting prayers to drown the sound of their escape

Rather Embarrassedapnews.myway.com/ ... 14:31:15The creator of "60 Minutes," Don Hewitt, said Thursday... "I never would have done the story" on President Bush's National Guard service that got CBS anchor Dan Rather in so much hot water.... Hewitt added that it was "stupid" for Kerry to have injected his Vietnam service into the presidential race.... "You can't play war hero if it's about a war where you threw your medals away...."

US Election 2004cnsnews.com/ ... 17:55:16A former Navy crewmate and supporter of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry ..."Let the dead rest, we have got to talk about the issues. Let those guys (Swift Boat veterans opposed to Kerry) go sit in a corner, you know, shut up..." called the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth "a Republican smear tactic.... All of the claims and all of the TV ads were proven false. America ain't listening to them anymore. They are just a crock of lies...."gop.com/ ... 14:27:58KERRY VS. KERRY
Kerry’s Top Ten Iraq Flip Flops
From First Debate media1.streamtoyou.com/ ... 14:19:42Republican's “KERRY VS. KERRY” debate video (WMV format)democrats.org/ ... 14:18:52www.democrats.org rnc.org/ ... 14:16:37Kerry lies about not calling Bush a liar. (Republican page)

Currentapnews.myway.com/ ... 17:56:43Police found what appeared to be human remains Friday at a landfill where investigators have been searching for the body of Lori Hacking foxnews.com/ ... 14:12:17Richard Avedon, who chronicled the famous with his camera and elevated fashion photography to a 20th century art form, died early Friday. He was 81.

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 18:00:31

Army Staff Sgt. Darren J. Cunningham, 40, of Groton, Mass., died Sept. 30 in Baghdad, Iraq, when his unit came under mortar attack. defenselink.mil/ ... 18:00:14

Army Staff Sgt. Alan L. Rogers, 49, of Kearns, Utah, died Sept. 29 in Bagram, Afghanistan, of non-combat related injuries.

Beatles - still with usthisislondon.com/ ... 14:29:31An MI5 file documenting John Lennon's Left- wing leanings and anti-war sentiments could finally be made public 34 years on. A U.S. judge has ordered the FBI to hand over the final ten pages of a 258-page dossier to historian Professor Jonathan Wiener. The FBI said the missing pages would be a national security risk because a foreign government - believed to be Britain - secretly provided the information...

Only Naturalnews.independent.co.uk/ ... 17:57:32One in eight [UK] teenage girls is infected with chlamydia, the sexually transmitted disease that can cause infertility...sanantonio.bizjournals.com/ ... 17:57:09Minorities now are almost the majority in Texas, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report... Texas had a 49.5 percent minority population -- including Hispanics, African-Americans and Asians -- as of July 1, 2003....worldnetdaily.com/ ... 17:56:28California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill.. [which] drastically reduces requirements for mandatory reporting of the known or suspected sexual, physical and emotional abuse of children....wftv.com/ ... 14:31:39SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. -- A surfer says the swell he was riding on a recent trip turned out to be more than just a wave -- it was a whale.guardian.co.uk/ ... 01:46:30It seems unlikely that this is what President Bush meant when he promised to appoint more judges like Scalia to the court thecrimson.com/ ... 01:46:05...“I even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged,” [Supreme Court Justice] Scalia said....

Threatsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 17:52:56U.S. officials are probing the possibility the al-Qaida terrorist network sought to infiltrate a Texas company in order to contaminate ready-to-eat meals designated for the military.

Violencekentucky.com/ ... 17:59:52 Israeli aircraft struck more targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday as the army massed an armored force in apparent preparation for a major military operation against militants in Jebaliya, the Palestinians' biggest refugee camp. Some 200 tanks, armored personnel carriers and armored bulldozers assembled along Israel's border on Gaza's north and east of Gaza. Security officials quoted Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz as ordering troops to "exact a price" from the militants. Soldiers began erecting makeshift camps, indicating commanders could be planning a prolonged operation. At the same time, masked Palestinian gunmen fortified positions in the maze of alleys that lace Jebaliya, a teeming half square mile that is home to 106,000 people, one of the most densely populated places on Earth..... Seven Palestinians were killed and at least 32 wounded by the missiles and in a failed attack on an Israeli border crossing Friday, while two others died from wounds suffered a day earlier. Fighting on Thursday killed 28 Palestinians and wounded 139, most of them in Jebaliya, in the worst single-day toll in 30 months. The Israeli death toll stood at five, including two preschoolers whose killing Wednesday by a Palestinian rocket led the Israeli government to order what was shaping into one of the largest offensives of the 4-year-old Palestinian uprising.reuters.com/ ... 14:37:22U.S.-led forces stormed Samarra Friday and said more than 100 guerrillas were killed in air strikes and street-to-street combat during a major new American offensive to wrest control of the Iraqi town. Samarra's hospital said dozens of bodies were brought in, including at least 11 women, five children and seven old men. Staff could cope with no more wounded and bodies lay in the streets. Clashes stopped some wounded from reaching hospital.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:36:59US and Iraqi forces have carried out a major offensive in the northern Iraqi town of Samarra to try to retake control from insurgents. US troops say around 109 militants were killed, but doctors at the main hospital spoke of 80 dead and more than 100 hurt, among them civilians. An Iraqi minister said 37 insurgents had been captured in the assault....abcnews.go.com/ ... 14:14:24SIALKOT, Pakistan Oct. 1, 2004 — A suicide attacker carrying a bomb in a briefcase struck a Shiite mosque crammed with hundreds of worshippers in eastern Pakistan, killing at least 25 people and wounding more than 50 during Friday prayers. Shortly after the attack, experts defused a second bomb outside the mosque, where hundreds of angry Shiites had gathered to protest the attack.quote.bloomberg.com/ ... 14:13:42The Bush administration has said insurgent-held cities in the so-called Sunni Triangle such as Samarra, as well as Fallujah and Ramadi, must be brought under control either by negotiation or force before elections scheduled for January. Iraq's Defense Minister Hazim al-Shalaan earlier this week said all three cities, as well as violent areas of Baghdad, would be retaken this month, Reuters reported.voanews.com/ ... 14:13:08U.S. and Iraqi forces have pushed into the insurgent stronghold of Samarra, north of Baghdad and taken control of key government buildings and religious sites. U.S. military officials estimate close to 100 insurgents were killed, and say one U.S. soldier was killed and four were wounded.