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MON 2005-OCT-31
Hurricanes Aftermathsciencedaily.com/ ... 04:52:33a leading ecologist says that one of the best things that could happen to New Orleans and the rest of southern Louisiana and Mississippi would be more rain... "The floodwater still covering much of New Orleans and elsewhere is full of everything people store under their sinks in their kitchens and bathrooms. It’s also full of coliform bacteria from backed-up human waste, plus gasoline, oil and countless other pollutants. It is a really toxic stew." An intense rain would dilute the water and could make it possible to varying degrees for organisms -- both large and small -- to cope with it better...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 19:33:49us-flagMarine Sgt. Michael P. Hodshire, 25, of North Adams, Mich., died Oct. 30 of wounds sustained from an improvised explosive device during combat operations near Nasser Wa Salaam, Iraq on Oct. 29. defenselink.mil/ ... 19:33:26us-flagArmy Pfc. Dillon M. Jutras, 20, of Fairfax Station, Va., died in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, on Oct. 28, from injuries sustained while conducting combat operations.
Animal Culturemanchesteronline.co.uk/ ... 05:42:27...a giant pawprint in Bollington which was spotted by walkers just hours before a sheep was mauled to death. The huge print, which measures about 6in wide and 8in long, was found embedded in a soggy cow pat close to the mutilated caracass...
Science Marches Onnnnnnthescotsman.scotsman.com/ ... 05:29:25Scientists have identified a gene that may cause dyslexia...
Clinton Era -- still with usworldnetdaily.com/ ... 05:21:19The film reveals how for more than two decades, the Arkansas prison system profited from selling blood plasma from inmates infected with viral hepatitis and AIDS. Thousands of unwitting victims who received transfusions of a product called "Factor 8" made from this blood died as a result... As governor of Arkansas, Clinton awarded a contract to Health Management Associates to provide medical care to the state's prisoners. The president of the company was a long-time friend and political ally of Clinton and later was appointed by him to the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission. Later, he was among the senior members of Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial re-election team. The death toll from the tainted blood has grown since the figure of 3,000 was calculated in 1997, but recent estimates are not available...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinworldnetdaily.com/ ... 05:13:29Shoreline Community College had electronically erased an AK-47 rifle from the image of.. controversial University of Colorado professor... Ward Churchill... who is slated to speak at the Washington campus Nov. 8... after WND interviewed school officials about the doctored photo, Churchill's image was completely removed from the page promoting his appearance...
Hollywood Disastervariety.com/ ... 04:50:57Last week Universal acknowledged that "King Kong" costs shot up to $207 million... At Warner Bros., the f/x budget alone on "Superman Returns" is said to be running to $100 million... The notion that costs for CGI would come down just like the costs of other technology hasn't panned out. And that, the insider says, is because of an arms race between studios and f/x houses to constantly replace software and hardware in order to blow away the competition...
Supernatural Consequenceshometownannapolis.com/ ... 05:27:42...owner of the Zodiac Zone... told police that a woman approached him around 4:30 p.m. and said, "So, you're supposed to be a psychic?" The woman then pulled a soda bottle from her purse and threw it at his head. "Did you see that coming?" ...third time in two weeks the woman has stopped by his kiosk, and each time she has become more aggressive. He said she makes a scene, telling him he's satanic and that his kiosk goes against the teachings of God... ap.tbo.com/ ... 04:37:31WACO, Texas - A pastor performing a baptism was electrocuted inside his church Sunday morning after adjusting a nearby microphone while standing in water... The woman being baptized apparently had not stepped into the water and was not seriously injured...
SUN 2005-OCT-30
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 10:22:03U.S. troops backed by helicopters and a jet attacked insurgents planning a nighttime ambush... Saturday night near Taji, a U.S. air base 12 miles north of Baghdad... killing six militants and wounding and capturing five... The militants fired on Apache attack helicopters that were conducting reconnaissance. The helicopters fired back, and the insurgents retreated. When they tried to regroup, an Air Force F-15E jet dropped a 500-pound bomb on them...
Saturday night, a U.S. jet dropped a bomb north of Ramadi... killing three insurgents who were planting a roadside bomb...
Insurgents killed seven Iraqi civilians in scattered attacks Sunday...
Sunday morning, a roadside bomb destroyed one of several oil tanker trucks driving on a main road in south Baghdad, sending a fire ball up over the area and killing the two men inside... Four civilian passers-by were wounded...
Three separate drive-by shootings in the capital killed two construction workers and wounded three; seriously wounded a shopkeeper in the Dora district; and hit the car carrying the vice president's brother and driver...
Officials also evacuated a primary school in western Baghdad on Sunday, a school day in Iraq, to defuse a bomb that was discovered by guards there...
In Samarra... a roadside bomb killed a farmer on his tractor and seriously wounded two other civilians...
On Saturday night, the corpses of three handcuffed and blindfolded Iraqis were found in Baghdad, and police said an Iraqi soldier and the brother of a policeman were gunned down...
ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:26:03Near-simultaneous explosions rocked the Indian capital Saturday evening, tearing through a bus and two markets crowded with people shopping for gifts for a Hindu festival. At least 58 people were killed and dozens wounded in the blasts, which the government blamed on terrorists... news.independent.co.uk/ ... 00:22:01The President wants Israel exterminated, defies international outrage and may soon have nuclear weapons. Angus McDowall in Tehran, Raymond Whitaker and Marie Woolf assess the true Iranian threat... ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:20:52GUATEMALA CITY - A group of gang members opened fire on a prison truck here Saturday, killing two guards as they were leaving work at the end of their shift and wounding a third... ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:18:01ALISO VIEJO, Calif. - A 19-year-old in a black cape and a paintball mask went on a shooting rampage Saturday in his upscale Southern California neighborhood, killing a man and his daughter before committing suicide... "It may have been random..." had attended high school with one of the victims... ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:15:30Unidentified assailants attacked a group of high school girls... students from a private Christian high school... on Saturday in Indonesia's tense province of Central Sulawesi, beheading three and seriously wounding another... ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:14:12A bomb hidden in a truck loaded with dates exploded Saturday evening in the center of a Shiite farming village northeast of Baghdad, killing 26 people and injuring at least 34. Three American soldiers died in separate bombings in Baghdad and northern Iraq... ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:10:02...the Pentagon is estimating that 26,000 Iraqis have been killed or wounded by insurgents since Jan. 1, 2004....
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 20:56:05us-flagArmy 1st Lt. Debra A. Banaszak, 35, of Bloomington, Ill., died at Camp Victory, Kuwait, on Oct. 28, from noncombat related injuries. Banaszak was assigned to the Army National Guard. defenselink.mil/ ... 20:55:09us-flagArmy Staff Sgt. Lewis J. Gentry, 48, of Detroit, Mich., died in Mosul, Iraq, on Oct. 26, from a noncombat related cause.
Digital Cultureclickz.com/ ... 00:22:58Sixty-two million U.S. households, or 55 percent of American homes, had a Web-connected computer in 2003...
What Th'...?examiner-enterprise.com/ ... 00:27:06Juggalos are speaking out against what they say is an inaccurate portrayal of them in recent editions of the Examiner-Enterprise. “I'm in a rage about this,” one self-described Juggalo said pointing to the Oct. 13 edition of the E-E. “A real Juggalo would never even tell you they're a Juggalo.” Juggalo ire at the newspaper started after the E-E published articles concerning rumors that began to surface within the community alleging possible gang activity at the Bartlesville Mid-High...
Industrial Incidentap.tbo.com/ ... 00:23:20NEWPORT, Ind. - Army contractors halted operations Saturday at a western Indiana complex built to destroy a deadly nerve agent after nearly 500 gallons of caustic wastewater spilled in a contained area...
Unclear on le Conceptap.tbo.com/ ... 00:13:45French youths rioted for a second straight night in a Paris suburb, torching cars and throwing rocks at police to protest the deaths of two youths who were electrocuted while trying to evade police...
SAT 2005-OCT-29
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 20:29:04...Saturday, a land mine killed a U.S. soldier and wounded four near Beiji...
...Two.. U.S. Army soldiers died in south Baghdad when their patrol struck a roadside bomb...
...five other American service members were killed in Iraq the day before...
...In western Iraq, U.S. warplanes used precision-guided bombs to attack "safe houses..." in the town of Karabilha... killing at least 10... Witnesses said some of the victims were civilians...
...U.S. ground forces.. raided suspected insurgent safe houses in the nearby town of Husaybah...
...New information.. about a triple suicide vehicle attack that occurred last week near the Palestine Hotel complex in Baghdad... attack killed 17 Iraqis on Monday and wounded several reporters. The U.S. military said that one of its soldiers guarding the complex probably saved lives at the hotel by killing the suicide bomber who managed to penetrate the complex before he could reach the entrance of the building and set off his explosives...
...Two police officers died when their patrol hit a roadside bomb in... Kirkuk...
...In the capital, a drive-by shooting in the Dora neighborhood killed a police officer...
...Gunmen opened fire on an Iraqi army checkpoint, touching off fighting that killed 3 Iraqi soldiers and three militants in a town near Baqouba... Seven Iraqi soldiers also were wounded...
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In political developments, former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, a secular Shiite, and the leader of a broad coalition, said that if its candidates are elected, they will "treat all Iraqi people equally and bring stability, security and a strong leadership" to the country...
Hurricanes Aftermathap.tbo.com/ ... 10:15:06On Friday, the New Orleans Police Department fired 51 of them - 45 officers and six civilian workers - for abandonment [during] Hurricane Katrina... "They either left before the hurricane or 10 to 12 days after the storm and we have never heard from them..."
Sabotageap.tbo.com/ ... 00:36:41TUCSON, Ariz. - A fired employee of a natural gas distribution company has been indicted on charges he sabotaged the utility's pipelines by puncturing them and tampering with valves... 30 acts in all - including puncturing of plastic lines with screws or drills and the manipulation of valves to under- or over-pressurize parts of the system...estimated the sabotage cost.. more than $500,000...
US Militaryap.tbo.com/ ... 20:30:55The United States and Japan agreed Saturday to step up military cooperation and substantially reduce the number of Marines on the strategically important southern island of Okinawa.... phased withdrawal of 7,000 Marines.. to.. Guam... expected to take six years... 14,460 Marines in Japan, the largest Marine contingent based overseas...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 00:32:45us-flagArmy Capt. Michael J. Mackinnon, 30, of Helena, Mont., died on Oct. 27, in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV during convoy operations. defenselink.mil/ ... 00:32:21us-flagArmy Master Sgt. Thomas A. Wallsmith, 38, of Carthage, Mo.
us-flagArmy Sgt. 1st Class Ramon A. Acevedoaponte, 51, of Watertown, N.Y.
died in Rustamiyah, Iraq, on Oct. 26, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their HMMWV.
defenselink.mil/ ... 00:31:39us-flagArmy Sgt. Evan S. Parker, 25, of Arkansas, Kan., died at Landstuhl Army Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany, on Oct. 26, of injuries sustained in Balad, Iraq, on Oct. 23, when his dismounted patrol was attacked by enemy forces who threw an explosive device from their moving vehicle. Parker was assigned to the Army Reserve. defenselink.mil/ ... 00:31:09us-flagArmy Spc. Christopher T. Monroe, 19, of Kendallville, Ind., died on Oct. 25, in Basra, Iraq, when his 5-ton truck was involved in an automobile accident with a civilian vehicle. Monroe was assigned to the Army Reserve. defenselink.mil/ ... 00:30:48us-flagMarine Lance Cpl. Robert F. Eckfield Jr., 23, of Cleveland, Ohio
us-flagMarine Lance Cpl. Jared J. Kremm, 24, of Hauppage, N.Y.
died Oct. 27 from an indirect fire explosion in Saqlawiyah, Iraq. Kremm died at the scene while Eckfield succumbed to his wounds at a nearby medical center.
defenselink.mil/ ... 00:30:15us-flagArmy Sgt. James Witkowski, 32, of Surprise, Ariz., died on Oct. 26, near Ashraf, Iraq, of injuries sustained there earlier that day when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV during convoy operations. Witkowski was assigned to the Army Reserve. defenselink.mil/ ... 00:29:54us-flagArmy Staff Sgt. Daniel R. Lightner, Jr., 28, of Hollidaysburg, Pa., died in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, on Oct. 27, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV during combat operations. Lightner was assigned to the Army National Guard. defenselink.mil/ ... 00:28:29us-flagArmy Sgt. Michael T. Robertson, 28, of Houston, Texas, died at Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, on Oct. 25, of injuries sustained in Samarra, Iraq, on Oct. 17, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Bradley Fighting Vehicle. The incident fatally injured another soldier and was reported on Oct. 25.
FRI 2005-OCT-28
Family Sexual Equality Prison Suckstoday.reuters.com/ ... 11:35:19Sweden's prison service may allow babies to live in prison with their fathers, putting men on an equal footing with women in prison parenting...
Big City Storiesbreitbart.com/ ... 10:45:40Residents from the southern tip of Manhattan to the Upper West Side nearly 10 miles north called a city hot line to report a strong odor Thursday night that most compared to maple syrup... There were so many calls that the city's Office of Emergency Management coordinated efforts with the Police and Fire Departments, the Coast Guard and the City Department of Environmental Protection to find the source of the mysterious smell. Air tests haven't turned up anything harmful, but the source was still a mystery...
Yawnap.tbo.com/ ... 10:43:02Actor George Takei, "Mr. Sulu" from TV's original Star Trek series and six Star Trek movies, has come out as a homosexual in a biweekly Los Angeles magazine covering the gay and lesbian community...
Theory of Educationap.tbo.com/ ... 10:42:26The National Academy of Sciences and National Science Teachers Association... say [Kansas] can't use their copyrighted material in proposed science standards that critics contend promote creationism...
National academy: http://www.nasonline.org
Teachers' group: http://www.nsta.org
Board of Education: http://www.ksde.org/commiss/board.html
Business Cultureap.tbo.com/ ... 10:38:53Hershey Co., maker of Milk Duds candy, is trying to stop a California company from using a sound-alike name for a line of clothing designed to make breast-feeding easier... Milkdudz nursing wear... "The clothier is trying to capitalize on the name recognition of Milk Duds to avoid having to build up its own brand..." Kiersten Wall, who co-founded Milkdudz with Stephanie Schulte in March 2004, said the Temecula, Calif., company would fight any name change, and that Hershey had a trademark only for candy, not clothing... "It's not like we'd be right next to them in the candy aisle. We're in boutiques..."
http://www.thehersheycompany.com
http://www.milkdudz.com
Justice?ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:36:59Indonesian officials said Friday that all prisoners, including a reputed leader of the militant group suspected in bombings on the island of Bali, may have their sentences reduced as part of celebrations marking the end of Ramadan... ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:36:36DENVER - Convictions against eight people accused of crimes including sex assault are at risk because a court reporter who has battled cancer quit her job before fully transcribing her notes...
Just Random Chanceap.tbo.com/ ... 10:34:19MEDFORD, Ore. - A woman bought a winning lottery ticket worth $1 million with a stolen credit card and could wind up with nothing if convicted... card.. belonged to her mother-in-law, who died more than a year ago... search warrant served at her home Thursday turned up some methamphetamine, but little money... "Our investigation is still trying to determine what happened to the [first payout of] $33,500..."
THU 2005-OCT-27
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 12:08:35Italian police have arrested two people and seized 7 kilograms (about 15 pounds) of plastic explosive as part of the country's efforts to crack down on the 'ndrangheta crime syndicate...in Brescia, in northern Italy, and Reggio Calabria, the capital of the southern region where the organization is based... Experts say the 'ndrangheta is becoming more powerful in Italy than the Sicilian Mafia... last week 61 suspected mobsters were arrested across Italy... timesonline.co.uk/ ... 10:40:56...military death toll in Iraq... senior officials blamed the increasing sophistication of roadside bombs used by the insurgents... said to be four times more powerful than early versions and can pierce the heaviest US armour... news24.com/ ... 10:38:18Dutch police, aided by helicopters, have launched a manhunt for eight people who escaped from a detention centre at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport after a fire broke out overnight, killing 11 illegal immigrants and injuring 15 people... ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:05:43NORMAL, Ill. - A body found in a burned-out chicken coop in Mississippi has been identified as that of an Illinois college student who disappeared two weeks ago... ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:04:37HADERA, Israel - A 20-year-old Palestinian blacksmith blew himself up at a falafel stand in an open-air market Wednesday, killing five Israelis and wounding more than 30 in the deadliest attack in the country in more than three months...
The attack came hours after Iran's state-run media reported comments from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map" and saying a new wave of Palestinian attacks would destroy the Jewish state...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 22:21:22us-flagArmy Cpl. Benjamin D. Hoeffner, 21, of Wheat Ridge, Colo., died in Ali Al Salem, Kuwait, on Oct. 25, of a non-combat related cause.
US Militaryabcnews.go.com/ ... 22:35:33A woman who took an unpaid leave of absence from work to see her husband off to war has been fired after failing to show up for her part-time receptionist job the day following his departure... defenselink.mil/ ... 22:21:01This week, the Army announced an increase in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization, while the Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard and Marine Corps had a decrease. The net collective result is 4,173 more reservists mobilized than last week... This brings the total National Guard and Reserve personnel, who have been mobilized, to 150,754...
Animal Culturenewscientist.com/ ... 22:37:59Elephants may pay homage to the bones of dead relatives in their home ranges, a study of the creatures’ responses to skulls and ivory suggests... ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:11:13Bunny247-acre Skokholm Island, off the coast of Pembrokeshire in southwest Wales... teeming with sea birds that inspired the classic animal fantasy tale "Watership Down" is up for sale for the first time in 300 years... regarded as one of the most important breeding areas for sea birds in Europe and has been designated one of the region's Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Owners of the Dale Castle Estate hope it will fetch $1.3 million. They have given the right of first refusal to the Wildlife Trust, a conservation group that has managed the island for the past 50 years... home to 45,000 pairs of Manx shearwaters as well as puffins, storm petrels, razorbills, guillemots, oystercatchers and three species of gulls...
Business Culturemoney.cnn.com/ ... 22:42:04A Wal-Mart vice president has suggested to the company's board of directors that it could hold down spending on health care and benefits by hiring more part-time workers and encouraging "healthier, more productive employees... Most troubling... the least healthy, least productive associates are more satisfied with their benefits than other segments and are interested in longer careers with Wal-Mart..."
Transport Troublethetandd.com/ ... 22:40:40When the back window shattered on his parked 2002 Chevrolet Tahoe, blowing glass straight out toward the road, “I figured a tree limb had fell.” However, when Bowman police and fire personnel arrived on the scene, they discovered something more — a small hole in his tin-roofed car port, the shattered Tahoe window, a broken house window and a strange silver object lying on the ground. The mystery surrounding the incident caused officials to cordon off the Dibble Street home while they tried to figure out exactly what the object was and if it was dangerous. It took the Air Force to identify the object as a piece from one of its jets...
Theory of Educationwtkr.com/ ... 22:39:43Virginia Beach... 6th grade English teacher, with almost 20 years in Virginia Beach schools, was arrested at school for being drunk in public... "Like, her hair was all messed up and she just looked a little weird..."
It's All in Your Mindbreitbart.com/ ... 22:24:21...The technology is called galvanic vestibular stimulation _ essentially, electricity messes with the delicate nerves inside the ear that help maintain balance. I felt a mysterious, irresistible urge to start walking to the right whenever the researcher turned the switch to the right. I was convinced _ mistakenly _ that this was the only way to maintain my balance. The phenomenon is painless but dramatic. Your feet start to move before you know it. I could even remote-control myself by taking the switch into my own hands. There's no proven-beyond-a-doubt explanation yet as to why people start veering when electricity hits their ear. But NTT researchers say they were able to make a person walk along a route in the shape of a giant pretzel using this technique...
All in the Timingbreitbart.com/ ... 22:23:07Police say something bad was bound to happen when a butcher knife, the movie "Halloween" and a group of drinking men came together at a Rogers [Ark] motel room... police they had trouble interviewing Hetzel because he was drunk, but the spokesman said Hetzel told officers that he should have killed the victim... breitbart.com/ ... 22:22:21The apparent suicide of a woman found hanging from a tree went unreported for hours because passers-by thought the body was a Halloween decoration...
Historyap.tbo.com/ ... 12:07:30Obituaries in the News...
Marshall Clagett, one of the world's pre-eminent historians on ancient and medieval science and the work of the Greek mathematician Archimedes, died Friday... was.. completing the fourth and final volume of a work titled "Ancient Egyptian Science..."
Robert H. Johnston, whose work in the digital restoration of archaeological finds resulted in ways to read ancient degraded texts such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, died Oct. 19. He was 77...
Big City Storiesap.tbo.com/ ... 12:05:01The Chicago White Sox are World Series champions again at last, and yet another epic streak of futility is not just wiped away but swept away. After seven scoreless innings, Jermaine Dye singled home the only run in the eighth, and the White Sox beat the Houston Astros 1-0 Wednesday night to win their first title in 88 years. Just a year ago, the same story line captivated baseball when the long-suffering Boston Red Sox swept St. Louis to capture their first title in 86 years. Who's next, the Chicago Cubs, without a championship since 1908?...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinworldnetdaily.com/ ... 22:33:48A woman interviewed by controversial filmmaker Michael Moore for "Fahrenheit 9/11" claims he edited her segment to downplay her support for President Bush and for American troops fighting the war on terror... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:54:26There has been widespread condemnation of a call by the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for Israel to be "wiped off the map"... michellemalkin.com/ ... 10:53:21compare the photos for real usatoday.com/ ... 10:47:00[USA TODAY caught in the act by Bloggers]
Editor's note: The photo of Condoleezza Rice that originally accompanied this story was altered in a manner that did not meet USA TODAY's editorial standards. The photo has been replaced by a properly adjusted copy. Photos published online are routinely cropped for size and adjusted for brightness and sharpness to optimize their appearance. In this case, after sharpening the photo for clarity, the editor brightened a portion of Rice's face, giving her eyes an unnatural appearance. This resulted in a distortion of the original not in keeping with our editorial standards...
Doctored photo:
Condi-eyes
Original & unretouched:
Hillary
Cultureap.tbo.com/ ... 12:03:26Michael Kilian, a veteran Chicago Tribune columnist who also wrote mystery novels, nonfiction on public affairs and the Dick Tracy comic strip, died Wednesday after a long illness. He was 66. The Toledo, Ohio, native spent nearly 40 years at the Tribune and wrote more than 6,000 articles on subjects ranging from politics and military affairs to show business, the arts and the niceties of "high society..." forbes.com/ ... 10:39:17Celebrated nasal bard Robert Zimmerman--alias Bob Dylan--inked a deal with Starbucks, the world's leading retailer and roaster of specialty coffee back in June. His album, Live at the Gaslight 1962, featuring 10 previously unreleased ditties recorded at New York's Gaslight Café, went on sale with the muffins, brownies and cookies at the chain's outlets in the U.S. in August...
US Executive Branchtoday.reuters.com/ ... 10:37:33President George W. Bush's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, White House counsel Harriet Miers, abruptly withdrew from consideration on Thursday after fierce criticism from the right and the left about her credentials for the lifetime job...
WED 2005-OCT-26
Age is No Barrierap.tbo.com/ ... 21:25:31Phrase: "Baby Groomer"
Definition: "A man or woman from the age of 40 to 60 who is trying to buck the biological clock."
Use in a sentence: "Geez, Mom, don't be such a Baby Groomer. You're never going to look my age, even if you do whiten your teeth and shop at Forever 21..."
Ten tips...
Digitizing Historytoday.reuters.com/ ... 08:26:13A German man killed two men and wounded two others with a pistol in a farming town in the northern Philippines before he was knocked unconscious with a soft drink bottle... [presumably not one of those soft-plastic 1-litre bottles... unless it was full?...] today.reuters.com/ ... 08:24:15In a blast back to an era when the government lectured its citizens on everything from blowing their noses to how to ride a bus, the UK's National Archives will put 60 public information films online dating back to 1945...
Animal Cultureap.tbo.com/ ... 21:30:08WASHINGTON - A young deer romped through two upscale shops in the city's tony Georgetown neighborhood Wednesday before animal control officers tranquilized it... a buck with small antlers, ran into the Diesel clothing store... "It ran straight to the back of the store and it saw itself in the mirror, so it started ramming itself..." One employee turned off the lights, and the deer left, then ran into the Ralph Lauren store next door, where it went to a fitting room in the back... ap.tbo.com/ ... 07:39:46Whalefollowup-- About 130 pilot whales died after three pods became stranded on a remote beach in southern Australia... Nearly 60 whales died and about 10 had been rescued with the help of scores of volunteers and wildlife officials by nightfall Tuesday. But a third pod began beaching at dusk... Rescuers found about 70 of the latest arrivals dead on the beach Wednesday morning and 14 still alive... return[ed] eight survivors to the sea by late morning. Another eight died...
US Militaryvoanews.com/ ... 08:14:01A major barrier has been cleared for a deal between Japan and the United States on the realignment of American forces in the country... ap.tbo.com/ ... 07:32:00...Since the March 2003 invasion, at least 497 National Guard or Reserve troops have died in Iraq, nearly 1 in 4 U.S. casualties. These are not professional soldiers. These are the people who sell us insurance, drive our trucks, fix our cars. "The Guard is different in the respect that these folks are seen around town every day, driving a deputy sheriff's patrol car or working at the 7-11 or teaching high school," said U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga. "These are everyday folks who have been commanded to go to war...."
20th Century - Less With Usap.tbo.com/ ... 07:27:43Elmer "Len" Dresslar Jr., who extolled vegetables to generations of TV watchers as the booming voice of the Jolly Green Giant, has died. He was 80... was an entertainer and singer for nearly six decades. But his voice rang through millions of households when he sang the simple refrain, "Ho, Ho, Ho..." He periodically re-recorded the "Ho, Ho, Ho" for Jolly Green Giant commercials, most recently about 10 years ago. ...auditioned for the Green Giant job without any idea his baritone would become so recognizable... [Daughter:] "He never got tired of it... If nothing else, it put my sister and I through college."
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 21:22:56us-flagMarine Cpl. Benny G. Cockerham III, 21, of Conover, N.C.
us-flagMarine Capt. Tyler B. Swisher, 35, of Cincinnati, Ohio
died when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces near Al Amariyah, Iraq on Oct. 21. Their vehicle was traveling beside a canal when the attack occurred and the two Marines were thrown from the vehicle into the water.
defenselink.mil/ ... 21:22:18us-flagNavy Petty Officer 3rd Class Christopher W. Thompson, 25, of N. Wilkesboro, N.C., was killed in action on Oct. 21, from an IED explosion while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in the Al Anbar Province of Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 21:21:30us-flagMarine Lance Cpl. Jonathan R. Spears, 21, of Molino, Fla., died Oct. 23 from enemy small-arms fire while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Ar Ramadi, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 00:20:07us-flagArmy Staff Sgt. Vincent E. Summers, 38, of South Haven, Mich.
us-flagArmy Spc. Thomas H. Byrd, 21, of Cochise, Ariz.
us-flagArmy Spc. Jeffrey W. Corban, 30, of Elkhart, Ind.
us-flagArmy Spc. Richard A. Hardy, 24, of Newcomerstown, Ohio.
us-flagArmy Spc. Timothy D. Watkins, 24, of San Bernardino, Calif.
died in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, on Oct. 15, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their M2A2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle during combat operations.
defenselink.mil/ ... 00:18:41us-flagArmy Staff Sgt. George T. Alexander, Jr., 34, of Clanton, Ala., died at Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, on Oct. 22, of injuries sustained in Samarra, Iraq, on Oct. 17, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Bradley Fighting Vehicle. defenselink.mil/ ... 00:18:11us-flagArmy Sgt. Jacob D. Dones, 21, of Dimmitt, Texas, died in Hit, Iraq, on Oct. 20, when his forward operating base was attacked by enemy forces using indirect fire.
Painfully Obviousap.tbo.com/ ... 21:28:28...from "WARNING," a compilation of odd (but real) caution signs by Nicole Recchia.
1. Be careful not to lose control of your wheelchair on a steep incline and go careening wildly into the Alligatorwaiting jaws of an alligator.
2. Be careful not to get wrapped around a rotating crank shaft...
6. Don't strike a surface with a chainsaw in such a way that it bounces back into your skull...
8. Do not put your baby in a large tupperware bin and close the lid...
World of Culturestoday.reuters.com/ ... 08:27:50Indian police have brought charges against a Finnish tourist... [she went] bathing naked in a holy lake in a Hindu pilgrim town [then] walked to her hotel in the nude...
Feeding Ourselvesap.tbo.com/ ... 07:34:34McDonald's Corp. announced Tuesday that it will display nutrition information on packaging for most of its menu items next year.
Cascading Weirdnessap.tbo.com/ ... 07:34:15The Kansas attorney general Tuesday sued two psychologists hired by the state to interview BTK serial killer Dennis Rader, accusing them of profiting from a videotape of a session with him. Segments of the interview were broadcast by "Dateline NBC" in August, five days before Rader was given consecutive life sentences for 10 killings committed between 1974 and 1991...
TUE 2005-OCT-25
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 07:21:35A suicide car bomb exploded near a regional government ministry in a predominantly Kurdish province of Sulaimaniyah on Tuesday, killing at least nine people and wounding four...
two US Marines were killed by a roadside bomb during fighting with insurgents on Friday near Amiriyah...
ap.tbo.com/ ... 07:20:25Militants attacked security forces on two sides of Kabul, killing seven people in some of the deadliest attacks near the Afghan capital in months... Security forces also uncovered a cache of bombs inside the city...
late Monday.. rebels fired rockets at a U.S.-led coalition convoy 10 miles south of Kabul... rockets missed their target and instead hit three civilian cars, killing six Afghans... Three civilians were also wounded. A child was among the dead....
...opened fire with assault rifles on a police vehicle 30 miles east of Kabul... killed a senior police officer who was a teacher at a police academy. Two others were wounded... targeted because they "are teaching new police recruits and are crucial to bringing peace to our country."
fired rockets at the northern city of Fayzabad during the past two nights, wounding a local U.N. staff member and damaging a compound belonging to the government's intelligence agency...
ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:19:20TIJUANA, Mexico - A Roman Catholic priest was found shot to death in his car with his hands cuffed in the rough border city of Tijuana on Monday... ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:17:10Suspected rebels launched homemade bombs at a police station and nearby homes in a southwest town near the border with Ecuador, killing seven people... More than a hundred fighters... fired at least a dozen bombs toward the police station Sunday night in San Miguel... Four police officers, two civilians and one army soldier were killed... Six people were injured and several homes near the station were destroyed...
Science Marches Onnnnnnnews.com.au/ ... 08:15:00US military experts are attempting to create an army of super-human soldiers who will be more intelligent and deadly thanks to a microchip implanted in their brains. Scientists believe the implant will vastly improve the memory of troops so that they can recall every detail of their training and become more effective fighters... removed that section of the brain of dead rats and inserted the chip in its place. The implant sent exactly the same electronic signals as the real thing... [and if we replace the portion of the brain that controls morals and judgment, just think what a soldier we could make!]
Animal Cultureap.tbo.com/ ... 07:15:30WhaleNearly 60 whales died in a mass stranding on a remote beach in southern Australia... Rescuers struggled to save about 10 survivors... Two groups of long finned pilot whales... near Marion Bay on the southern island state of Tasmania... Long finned pilot whales are medium-sized whales, reaching up to about 20 feet in length, with a bulbous forehead rounding to a short beak... A group of 70 long finned pilot whales beached themselves in the same location in 1998... Only 10 survived...
Lasting Contributionssuntimes.com/ ... 07:36:55In many ways, Rosa Parks will forever be a snapshot frozen in time, according to Chicagoans who knew her or simply felt the strength that rippled across the nation -- and each generation -- since she refused to give up her bus seat on that day in 1955... ap.tbo.com/ ... 07:13:04"She loved people with a passion, and when she took that seat on that bus that day, she took a seat for all of us." - Clara Luper, a retired teacher who led a group of teenagers in a sit-in at a downtown Oklahoma City drug store counter in 1958.
"She must be looked upon as not just the mother of the modern civil rights movement; she must be looked upon as one of the mothers of the New America, of the New South." - Rep. John Lewis, D-Atlanta.
"She really was a heroine to us. She was an ordinary woman and we were ordinary kids, and it seems we had a relationship. ... For me it opened up the possibility and also instructed me that it wouldn't be easy, but it would be worth it in the end." - Minnijean Brown Trickey, a member of the Little Rock Nine who desegregated Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
"In one single day, Rosa Parks made the world face the cause of equality, civil rights and justice. No words can adequately describe the courage of her actions, the nobility of her character or the impact she had on an entire nation." - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:24:07...The Montgomery, Ala., seamstress, an active member of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was riding on a city bus Dec. 1, 1955, when a white man demanded her seat... Mrs. Parks refused, despite rules requiring blacks to yield their seats to whites... Mrs. Parks was jailed. She also was fined $14. Her arrest triggered a 381-day boycott of the bus system organized by a then little-known Baptist minister, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.... Mrs. Parks said 30 years later, "It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in..." The Montgomery bus boycott, which came one year after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark declaration that separate schools for blacks and whites were "inherently unequal," marked the start of the modern civil rights movement... led to the 1964 federal Civil Rights Act, which banned racial discrimination in public accommodations... ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:20:44She sparked the modern civil rights movement by refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. Rosa Parks died Monday of natural causes at her home...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 01:13:42us-flagMarine Lance Cpl. Kenneth J. Butler, 19, of Rowan, N.C., died Oct. 21 from an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces near Al Amariyah, Iraq.
us-flagMarine Cpl. Seamus M. Davey, 25, of Lewis, N.Y., died Oct. 21 from an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in the vicinity of Haqlaniyah, Iraq.
Now That's Funny!nytimes.com/ ... 08:18:45..."It has come to my attention that The Onion is using the presidential seal on its Web site," Grant M. Dixton, associate counsel to the president, wrote to The Onion on Sept. 28... Citing the United States Code, Mr. Dixton wrote that the seal "is not to be used in connection with commercial ventures or products in any way that suggests presidential support or endorsement." Exceptions may be made, he noted, but The Onion had never applied for such an exception. The Onion was amused... The Onion's lawyers responded that the paper's readers. are well aware that The Onion is a joke...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinabcnews.go.com/ ... 08:12:52[Last summer's news] Cindy Sheehan: "I'm going to go to Washington, D.C. and I'm going to give a speech at the White House, and after I do, I'm going to tie myself to the fence and refuse to leave until they agree to bring our troops home..." [going to go out on a limb here, and predict that Cindy will be removed from the fence well before the troops come home...]
Post-Racist Worldkatc.com/ ... 08:10:20A "whites only" sign at a barber shop on Moss Street in Lafayette... barber Herbert Leger put the sign up Saturday morning after having to over and over again turn down customers he says he's not qualified to help... "The difference is the technique that you use and they have special technique for cutting black people's hair. Just like there's a special technique for cutting white people's hair. I don't have the training, I don't have the experience, I don't have the knowledge and the technique used in cutting black people's hair." ..says he did not intend for the sign to offend anyone. He also says when a customer walks in he can't help, he sends him to his barber friend across the street...
Just Random Chancekentucky.com/ ... 08:07:52[Kentucky] State officials have won a $36,300 federal homeland security grant to keep terrorists out of Kentucky bingo halls, although not everyone agrees that's much of a threat... John Holiday, enforcement director at the Office of Charitable Gaming, who applied for the grant: "...the potential there, to me, is just huge. You can earn a lot of money very fast and deal entirely in cash... I actually went on the Web and did a lot of research about this. There are articles that have linked terrorism to charitable gaming..."
Justice?worldnetdaily.com/ ... 07:50:32Irwin Schiff, the Nevada man who has made a career out of telling Americans that payment of federal income taxes is voluntary instead of mandatory, was convicted on all 13 counts by a federal jury in Las Vegas yesterday... third time Schiff, who served as his own attorney during the five-week trial, has been convicted of tax-related offenses... Schiff, 77, faces a maximum sentence of 43 years in prison and $3.25 million in fines...
Digital Whoopsupi.com/ ... 07:38:52A class-action lawsuit accuses Apple of knowingly selling defective iPods. Specifically, the company has been charged with shipping out its iPod Nanos, one of the company's smallest and thinnest models to date, even though it knew that the product was prone to being scratched up easily. Moreover, the plaintiffs argue that the scratches make the product unusable as the screen becomes unreadable...
Sexual Equality??ap.tbo.com/ ... 07:27:17homecoming queen... had to accept the honor in her football uniform...
Feeding Ourselvesap.tbo.com/ ... 07:17:44Organic food is a multibillion-dollar industry with growing pains it wants Congress to help soothe. At issue is whether small amounts of non-organic ingredients - vitamins, spices, citric acid, even carbonation - should be allowed in food bearing the "USDA Organic" seal. An appeals court decided earlier this year that none of those things belongs in food labeled as organic. Lawmakers could decide as early as Tuesday whether they want to override the ruling...
Alcohol Was Involvedap.tbo.com/ ... 01:18:53BENTON, Ark. - An attorney appealing his second drunken driving conviction was jailed Monday after he came to court intoxicated...
MON 2005-OCT-24
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 11:40:11Three enormous bombs, including a cement-mixing truck packed with explosives, blew up near an Iraqi police post outside the Palestine Hotel - home to many foreign journalists in Iraq. Iraqi officials said 17 people were killed... second bomb exploded inside a car not far from the police position on the northeast side of Firdous Square and more than 100 yards east of the hotel grounds. Both were believed to be suicide attacks. Security officials said a third bomb struck the area around the same time... did not appear that anybody was killed inside the hotel... Three of the wounded were in the hotel but were not hurt seriously... exploding cement truck blew a hole in a 12-foot concrete wall that separates the hotel from the square where an enormous statue of Saddam Hussein was toppled as U.S. troops captured the Iraqi capital on April 9, 2003... ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:32:34Israeli troops killed a top Palestinian fugitive and a close accomplice in a West Bank shootout Monday, prompting threats of "unprecedented" revenge by the violent Islamic Jihad group... wanted man.. was the leader of Islamic Jihad's military wing in the West Bank and was blamed for the deaths of 12 Israelis in a series of attacks in recent months... ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:10:05"We have interrupted the flow of the suicide missions into the large urban areas. Certainly, we have had success denying free movement of car bombs into Baghdad," Brig. Gen. Donald Alston told reporters in the capital. "It is also a function of Iraqi citizens who have come forward and with their support we have found car bomb factories. We have found a series of large weapon caches..." amid the intensified security clampdown, suicide car bombings have been greatly reduced in recent weeks across the country, and those that have occurred have caused fewer casualties...
More than 33 Iraqis died in a swell of violence...
[suicide car bomb] in a Baghdad square Sunday, killing four people...
other attacks on Sunday.. 12 laborers - five of them brothers - were gunned down.. at a construction site outside the city of Hillah...
Roadside bombs hit three separate U.S. convoys in Baghdad on Sunday morning, wounding a total of five soldiers...
suicide car bomber rammed into a U.S. military convoy Sunday morning in... Kirkuk, killing two civilians and wounding 13...
...slaying of the police colonel and his children.. in Tikrit... had just left his home and was getting into his car with his two sons when a bomb nearby went off, killing the three of them... explosion set a nearby car ablaze, killing two young girls, aged 7 and 9...
...Around.. Baqouba.. a string of drive-by shootings killed a police lieutenant, three civilians and a Shiite student-cleric...
...Gunmen also killed three Iraqis driving a water truck to an Iraqi army base on a highway near Taji...
...In Baghdad, gunmen opened fire on a car carrying Shiite workers, killing one and wounding two...
...killed a leader of a Shiite anti-Saddam group and his driver in their car on a highway outside the southern city of Amarah...
...The U.S. military on Sunday confirmed that four American contract workers were killed and two wounded in Iraq last month when their convoy got lost... Sept. 20...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 10:32:45us-flagArmy Staff Sgt. Dennis P. Merck, 38, of Evans, Ga., died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 20, of a non-combat related injury. Merck was assigned to the Army National Guard.
Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 11:20:39WASHINGTON DC ...cross a busy intersection... carry a bright orange flag... simple idea... Washington's crosswalk flag program, being tested at two high-traffic locations, mirrors efforts in several other cities... she picked up the flag on one side of the street, waved it at drivers as she crossed and then deposited it on the other side... the flags have been successful in reducing pedestrian accidents in cities that are using them, say supporters... two people crossing with flags have been hit since the program began just over a year ago. In Berkeley, Calif., the program got off to a bad start when a woman carrying one was struck during its first week. Berkeley dropped it altogether last year after the flags kept disappearing...
SUN 2005-OCT-23
SAT 2005-OCT-22
Supernatural Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 08:41:14Three people have died during a riot outside a Coptic church in Alexandria, Egypt, after a protest against a play accused of offending Islam... Entitled I Once Was Blind But Now I See, the drama tells the story of a poor young Copt who is drawn to Islamist militants who then try to kill him. Coptic Christian leaders have said the play depicts the dangers of extremism, not of Islam...
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 18:25:21U.S. troops and warplanes killed 20 insurgents Saturday while destroying safehouses for foreign militants near the Syrian border.... found two caches of small arms, ammunition, rocket-propelled grenades, mortar rounds and bomb-making materials.. a car bomb...
Seven Iraqis, including two civilians, were reported killed in drive-by shootings and bombings Saturday...
...The latest U.S. deaths reported by the military included a Marine killed by an explosion near the western town of Haqlaniyah on Friday, the final day of an offensive that began Oct. 4. After the blast, Marines fought with insurgents, killing four and destroying a bunker with an unknown number of gunmen inside... Two more Marines were killed by a bomb during fighting near Amiriyah... A U.S. Army soldier died in central Baghdad on Thursday of a "non-hostile gunshot..."
ap.tbo.com/ ... 08:32:41SANTA ANA, Calif. - The son of a former assistant sheriff and two other men will be sentenced as adults for the videotaped sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl... Judge.. rejected defense requests that the men be sentenced as juveniles, which likely would have brought them lighter sentences... are 20 years old but were 17 when they assaulted the girl in July 2002 as she lay unconscious... ap.tbo.com/ ... 08:27:51A Taliban ambush touched off fierce fighting in southern Afghan mountains that left eight police and four rebels dead... washingtonpost.com/ ... 07:43:24President Hamid Karzai on Friday condemned the alleged desecration of the bodies of two dead Taliban fighters by U.S. troops, but he said mistakes happen in war and Afghans shouldn't let it mar their impression of the United States. His apparent attempt to reduce Afghans' anger over the incident came amid warnings by Islamic clerics of a possible violent anti-American backlash... ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:35:17HELENA, Mont. - Border patrol agents shot and killed a man near the Canadian border Friday after he reached for object later determined to be a stun gun... ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:23:07The bodies of nine men in olive green uniforms were recovered Friday in an area of northeastern India wracked by clashes between rival ethnic militants... ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:22:47SAGINAW, Mich. - Security guards used a metal detector to search Saginaw High School students Friday morning, a day after a sophomore was shot in the chest, allegedly by another boy who had been in a juvenile detention center with him... boys, both 15... enrolled.. after being released from the same juvenile detention center and knew each other...
"I didn't know what to think of it," said ninth-grader ..14,, shooting happened one floor above her. "It was crazy."
ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:11:22KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A car bomb exploded near a mosque in southern Afghanistan, killing a deputy provincial police chief and one of his bodyguards... second bodyguard was wounded...
Nature is Dangerousap.tbo.com/ ... 18:10:22The outer bands of Hurricane Wilma spun off a tornado in Cuba's tobacco-growing region, flattening at least 20 homes and tobacco curing houses in the island's west... Cuba evacuated nearly 560,000... waves of up to seven meters... ap.tbo.com/ ... 08:27:15JABLA, India... The landslides that tumbled across the zone of the Oct. 8 earthquake dramatized not only the power of nature but how humans have brought tragedy upon themselves through massive deforestation and other ecological assaults on the Himalayas. In this once-remote region, loss of green cover from commercial logging, local cutting and overgrazing has weakened the land's ability to retain water, which now rushes easily down mountainsides to set off slides that some call "ecological land mines." Watershed mismanagement has added to the danger, as has the replacement of natural forest by trees that do not absorb as much water... On India's side, landslides killed nearly 300 of the 1,360 who died from the quake... also swept away scores of villages in 2002 in areas of Pakistan not far from the current scenes of devastation. A 1999 quake and accompanying slides killed 100 people and destroyed 6,000 houses in northeastern India's Chamoli area. A year earlier, torrential rains loosened mountainsides that obliterated the India-China border town of Malpa, killing 205... "There has been ecological havoc in the last 15 years. Security forces, the militants, anyone who wanted to cut down a tree in Kashmir did so... Future generations will curse us." ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:07:45SPRINGFIELD, Mass. ...A rare floating island in a pond here broke free during last weekend's storm and was beached in nearby backyard... Experts say there are only a few floating islands in North America...
History - still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 19:30:10...Their attempts to set fire to an 80-year-old fishing boat using their own versions of the device, however, failed to either prove or dispel the myth of the solar death ray... MIT['s] first attempt with their contraption made of 300 square feet of bronze and glass failed to ignite a fire from 150 feet away... produced smoldering on the boat's wooden surface... University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory tried a mirrored system shaped like flower petals, but it failed... In "Epitome ton Istorion," John Zonaras wrote: "At last in an incredible manner he burned up the whole Roman fleet. For by tilting a kind of mirror toward the sun he concentrated the sun's beam upon it; and owing to the thickness and smoothness of the mirror he ignited the air from this beam and kindled a great flame, the whole of which he directed upon the ships that lay at anchor in the path of the fire, until he consumed them all." ap.tbo.com/ ... 18:26:53...According to sparse historical writings, the Greek mathematician Archimedes torched a fleet of invading Roman ships by reflecting the sun's powerful rays with a mirrored device made of glass or bronze. More than 2,000 years later, two groups who believe they had reconstructed the fabled death ray set out to test them Saturday afternoon. The television show "MythBusters," which sponsored the event, had tried before but failed...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 18:07:36us-flagMarine Staff Sergeant Richard T. Pummill, 27, of Cincinnati, Ohio
us-flagMarine Lance Cpl. Andrew D. Russoli, 21, of Greensboro, N.C.
us-flagMarine Lance Cpl. Steven W. Szwydek, 20, of Warfordsburg, Pa.
died Oct. 20 from an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces near Nasser Wa Salaam, Iraq.
Animal Cultureap.tbo.com/ ... 18:23:29DogGAMALIEL, Ark. - Two owners of an animal rescue operation were arrested after hundreds of dogs, some rescued from Hurricane Katrina, were found on the couple's property groveling for food among urine and feces... Between 400 and 500 dogs were on the two-acre lot, including 50 pit bulls... About 75 dogs were running loose... today.reuters.com/ ... 09:30:30Tiny fleas that survive on fungus found under a blanket of snow contain a unique antifreeze that could have implications for farming or transplant surgery...
Just Random Chancenewsday.com/ ... 09:07:20A Medford [Oregon] man says he and his family hold the winning ticket to the record $340 million Powerball jackpot. ...says he has no big plans for the money, other than a car and a vacation...
20th Century - Less With Usap.tbo.com/ ... 00:28:40MINNEAPOLIS - Gordon Lee, the chubby child actor who played Spanky McFarland's little brother, "Porky," in "Little Rascals" comedies, died Sunday. He was 71... played one of the younger members in the "Our Gang" shorts... in more than 40 [films]... from 1935 to 1939... became known as "The Little Rascals" when shown on TV in the 1950s... Porky character is credited with originating the catchphrase "otay..."
US Militarytime.com/ ... 08:51:06There simply wasn't enough room on the rocky hilltop above Gonbaz village in southern Afghanistan for the U.S. platoon and the corpses of the two Taliban fighters. The Taliban men had been killed in a firefight 24 hours earlier, and in the 90 degree heat, their bodies had become an unbearable presence, soldiers who were present have told TIME... platoon leader had sent word.. asking the villagers to pick up the bodies and bury them according to Muslim ritual. But the villagers refused — probably because the dead fighters weren't locals but Pakistanis... "We decided to burn the bodies... because they were bloated and they stank..." ap.tbo.com/ ... 07:55:16For nearly 60 years, the names of a pilot and three crew members who died when their plane crashed into an icy peak have been etched on a military gravestone. During that time, however, most of their actual remains have rested on a lonely mountain... A single headstone bears the names of the pilot.. and three aviation cadets... ap.tbo.com/ ... 07:52:22TUSKEGEE, Ala. - Lt. Col. Herbert Carter is 86 years old and ready for deployment. More than 60 years after his World War II tour with the pioneering black pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen, Carter's new mission will be shorter, though no less courageous. Carter is one of seven aging Tuskegee Airmen traveling this weekend to Balad, Iraq... to inspire a younger generation of airmen who carry on the traditions of the storied 332nd Fighter Group.... The retired Airmen who will make the trip - five pilots, a mechanic and a supply officer - shrugged off the dangers of Iraq, saying they have stared down the enemy before. Some fought in Korea and Vietnam as well as World War II... Current members of the 332nd [now 332nd Air Expeditionary Group].. include men and women of different backgrounds and races... But the black retirees said they are thrilled that a group still fights within their 332nd lineage, regardless of skin color...
The original Tuskegee Airmen were recruited in an Army Air Corps program created to train blacks to fly and maintain combat aircraft during World War II - though some of the retired Airmen say it was really designed to try to prove that blacks were incapable of flying and fighting. Even after the first group completed pilot training in March 1942, they were not allowed to fly for more than a year. Eventually.. flew escort for bombers. .. credited with shooting down more than 100 enemy aircraft and never losing an American bomber under escort to enemy fighters. In all, 992 pilots were trained in Tuskegee from 1940 to 1946. About 450 deployed overseas and 150 lost their lives in training or combat...
ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:10:47As the frozen body believed to be a World War II airman slowly thaws after decades encased in a glacier, forensic experts say a picture is emerging of a fair-haired man in an Army uniform who suffered broken bones when his aircraft crashed in the wilderness... soft tissues such as skin and muscle have been well-preserved, as well as the man's sun-bleached hair and his uniform... "There's a very good possibility for identification..." No dog tags or other form of identification have been found yet... most of the body is still frozen, and experts have not been able to search for things like laundry tags or parachute issue numbers...
...there are 88,000 Americans still missing from past wars, most of them, 78,000, from World War II. Only about 35,000 are deemed recoverable....
Whoops!today.reuters.com/ ... 09:25:38Australian authorities have apologized to the family of an elderly man who was given a parking ticket while he lay dead in his car in a suburban shopping center...
Culturenews.independent.co.uk/ ... 09:18:39...Lady, the hottest music act to come out of South Korea in years, are not your average girl group. They may have looks that many women would die for - but... all undergone sex change operations and used their new, curvaceous physiques to propel them to stardom... even the odd nude photo shoot... Korea's first transgender pop group... "We love chocolate, shopping and gossip. Mentally we were always women, the only difference being that we changed something physical, simply we are women with an extra scar..."
Modern Family Lifewashingtonpost.com/ ... 09:08:59POTTSVILLE, Pa. -- Child-welfare authorities seized a newborn from a hospital Friday and placed the baby in a foster home because his father is a convicted sex offender. A judge granted the mother supervised visitation rights but prohibited visits from the father... father pleaded guilty to rape and sodomy two decades ago in New York...
One Planet One Peopleworldnetdaily.com/ ... 08:56:38A visiting professor at North Carolina State University says the solution to the problems faced by many blacks is the extermination of "white people off the face of the planet..." [A refreshing endorsement of out-and-out race hatred...]
CD/DVD/etc is Deadmsnbc.msn.com/ ... 08:37:36Sony on Friday declared victory in the battle over the next-generation DVD standard, after Warner Brothers, the Hollywood studio that has been a long-time supporter of rival Japanese group Toshiba, said it would back its Blu-ray disc format in addition to Toshiba's HD-DVD...
Feeding Ourselvesap.tbo.com/ ... 08:30:06...Norwegian researcher Anita Lill Hansen wants to know if there's a connection between eating oily fish and controlling violent outbursts... "A lot of crimes are committed on impulse... [If fatty oil found in fish] has a positive effect on people's impulse control, we hope it could result in a reduction in crime..."
Preternatural Patternsap.tbo.com/ ... 00:32:24Police discovered on Friday that a passenger aboard a motorcycle involved in an accident in the rough Mexican border city of Tijuana was in fact a corpse which the driver had been carrying through the city strapped to his back... corpse was wearing a helmet... had apparently been killed by strangulation and had wounds to the head and abdomen...
Sexual Equality??ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:25:44Kansas cannot punish illegal underage sex more harshly if it involves homosexual conduct, the state's highest court ruled unanimously Friday... Supreme Court sided with convicted sex offender Matthew R. Limon. In 2000, he was sentenced to 17 years and two months in prison because, at 18, he performed a sex act on a 14-year-old boy. Had one of them been a girl, Limon could have faced only 15 months behind bars... struck language from the law that resulted in the different treatment... lower court had said the state could justify the harsher punishment as protecting children's traditional development, fighting disease or strengthening traditional values...
Transport Troubleap.tbo.com/ ... 00:24:15An apparent electrical fire in a subway storage room produced heavy smoke, forcing the evacuation of a busy Manhattan station... West Fourth Street... and disrupting rush hour service for thousands... heavy smoke condition at street level as well...
Theory of Justiceap.tbo.com/ ... 00:21:16...defense lawyer in Saddam Hussein's mass murder trial has been found dead, his body dumped near a Baghdad mosque with two gunshots to the head... was defending ..the former head of Saddam's Revolutionary Court...
...four U.S. service members were killed in two attacks Thursday...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinap.tbo.com/ ... 00:35:43JAKARTA, Indonesia - Karen Hughes, who has faced a rocky road since being named Washington's public relations chief, answered tough questions Friday about the invasion of Iraq, and wrongly stated that Saddam Hussein gassed to death "hundreds of thousands" of his people... ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:18:57President Hamid Karzai on Friday condemned the alleged desecration of the bodies of two dead Taliban fighters by U.S. troops, but he said mistakes happen in war and Afghans shouldn't let it mar their impression of the United States.
"Sometimes things happen in these sort of operations, during war. Soldiers make mistakes... We are very grateful for the international community's assistance. ... Their soldiers have shed their blood in our country... [But] We in Afghanistan in accordance with our religion ... are very unhappy and condemn the burning of the two Taliban dead bodies. I hope such incidents will not occur again."
Prison Sucksap.tbo.com/ ... 00:04:04OKLAHOMA CITY - A man got a prison term longer than prosecutors and defense attorneys had agreed to - all because of Larry Bird. ...reached a plea agreement for a 30-year term for a man accused of shooting with an intent to kill and robbery. But [convict] wanted his prison term to match Bird's basketball jersey number, 33...
Oklahoma County District Judge Ray Elliott said Wednesday, "We accommodated his request and he was just as happy as he could be. I've never seen anything like this in 26 years in the courthouse. But, I know the DA is happy about it."
FRI 2005-OCT-21
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 23:57:59us-flagArmy Sgt. Arthur A. Mora Jr., 23, of Pico Rivera, Calif.
us-flagArmy Spc. Russell H. Nahvi, 24, of Arlington, Texas
us-flagArmy Spc. Jose E. Rosario, 20, of St. Croix, Virgin Islands
died in Balad, Iraq, on Oct. 19, when their HMMWV was struck by enemy indirect fire during patrol operations.
defenselink.mil/ ... 23:56:56us-flagArmy Spc. Kendall K. Frederick, 21, of Randallstown, Md., died near Tikrit, Iraq, on Oct. 19, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle during convoy operations.
THU 2005-OCT-20
Sociopath Threatsaljazeera.com/ ... 21:06:44Speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice refused to rule using the military option against Syria and Iran, repeating pervious claims that both countries are aiding the occupation resistance in Iraq, according to Boston News... [It's the Barry Goldwater principle: Never be ignorant enough to say you won't use a weapon in your arsenal... even if it costs you the election...] ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:27:21BALTIMORE - A fifth man has been arrested during an investigation into a possible terrorism threat to a highway tunnel this week... owns an eastern Boston market that was raided by federal authorities on Tuesday... taken in to custody on a handgun charge... Four other men were detained Tuesday on immigration charges and will be deported... al.com/ ... 08:47:53BOAZ, Ala. (AP) — A Boaz High School freshman who wrote an essay proposing a "Killer Day" when everyone would be allowed to kill two people to relieve stress has been charged with making a terrorist threat. The 14-year-old girl, who also wrote that she wanted to kill President Bush... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 08:40:15In what security officials are calling a "very sensitive" case, Israeli soldiers say they arrested an Arab at a West Bank roadblock near Jerusalem with a mortar shell and launching mechanism. Although hundreds of mortars and Qassam rockets have been fired at Jewish communities in and near Gaza the past few years, a mortar launched from the West Bank – parts of which are within firing range of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv – would mark a significant escalation in Palestinian terrorism...
Violencecbsnews.com/ ... 21:05:23Sunni-led insurgents killed 26 people in Iraq on Wednesday, the opening day of Saddam Hussein's trial, including six Shiites who were lined up at a factory and gunned down in front of their fellow workers...
six civilians were killed when mortar rounds hit their homes in Samarra...
three election commission officials were shot and killed on the outskirts of the capital in Abu Ghraib, as they drove home after another round of counting ballots from the constitutional referendum...
A bomb also went off at a famous monument in a Baghdad square honoring the 8th-century founder of Baghdad to whom Saddam often compared himself... toppled the bust of Abu Jaafar Al-Mansour but caused no injuries, appeared to be a jab at the former dictator...
ap.tbo.com/ ... 20:58:18MARTINEZ, Calif. - A teenage neighbor was arrested in the slaying of [the wife of] a prominent defense attorney.. and TV legal pundit Daniel Horowitz... newspaper reported Thursday that he clubbed her to death while looking for marijuana-growing equipment he had ordered... "He was really gothic, always wore a long, dark jacket... He'd hang out with a few kids, but he was pretty quiet, pretty much to himself." ...If convicted as a juvenile, he would be freed on his 25th birthday... ap.tbo.com/ ... 20:55:21TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Guards at a juvenile detention center allegedly assigned a teenage sex offender [17] to bathe and change a severely mentally [15yo autistic] boy, who was then raped by the offender... ap.tbo.com/ ... 20:51:53CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Two men whose bodies were stuffed in oil drums filled with concrete were identified as a former Interpol commander and his lawyer... were tortured and suffocated with a plastic bag... Portillo Madrid, his wife, his lawyer and another woman were kidnapped Tuesday afternoon in the Villas del Sol neighborhood, where Portillo Madrid owned a home, by at least five men carrying automatic weapons... wife.. was released unharmed late Tuesday but the whereabouts of the other woman remain unknown... washingtonpost.com/ ... 08:58:14A woman who was hearing voices tossed her three young children off a pier into San Francisco Bay... found one body, and the two other children were feared dead. ...booked on three counts of murder... ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:01:07SAN FRANCISCO - Rescuers searched Wednesday night for the bodies of three young children who were reportedly tossed into San Francisco Bay near a popular waterfront attraction... children were believed to be under age 10...
Science Marches Onnnnnnnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 02:01:12Scientists are developing a cochlear implant which could allow deaf people to hear music...
Animal Cultureap.tbo.com/ ... 09:32:17DogCHUBBUCK, Idaho - Skeeter the poodle can do one thing really well: play dead. That's because the 11-pound pooch has narcolepsy... "He has no personality right now," his owner.. said. "It is scary. I don't want him turning into a couch pillow." ...chasing a squirrel, going for a walk or sniffing a four-legged friend. All of a sudden, the dog would be out cold... being treated with ..Ritalin and an antidepressant... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 02:00:38RodentThe rat was released on the uninhabited island of Motuhoropapa but refused to be captured at the project's end. The NZ team tells Nature magazine the animal finally turned up on the nearby Otata Island - a mighty swim of 400m....
Modern Culturenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:59:38Energy workers in Russia have marked the onset of the country's severe winter - with a monument to the world's first radiator. The sculpture, of a cat lying on a windowsill over a heater, was unveiled at a power station in the city of Samara south-east of Moscow. Russians say the device was invented in St Petersburg 150 years ago...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 20:48:01us-flagArmy Spc. Daniel D. Bartels, 22, of Huron, S.D., died in Mosul, Iraq, on Oct. 19, of a non-combat related cause identified there on Oct. 18. defenselink.mil/ ... 20:47:33us-flagMarine Lance Cpl. Norman W. Anderson III, 21, of Parkton, Md., died Oct. 19 from a suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Karabilah, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 20:47:13us-flagArmy Staff Sgt. Tommy I. Folks Jr., 31, of Amarillo, Texas, died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 19, of injuries sustained on Oct. 18, in Iskandariyah, Iraq, when multiple improvised explosive devices detonated near his HMMWV during convoy operations. Folks was assigned to the Army National Guard. defenselink.mil/ ... 01:51:36us-flagArmy Chief Warrant Officer Paul J. Pillen, 28, of Keystone, S.D., died in Salwa, Kuwait, on Oct. 17, of a non-combat related cause. Pillen was assigned to the Army National Guard. defenselink.mil/ ... 01:51:12us-flagArmy Spc. Lucas A. Frantz, 22, of Tonganoxie, Kan., died in Mosul, Iraq, on Oct. 18, when he was hit by enemy fire while performing a combat mission. defenselink.mil/ ... 01:50:20us-flagMarine Lance Cpl. Daniel Scott R. Bubb, 19, of Grottoes, Va., died Oct. 17 from small-arms fire while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Al Rutbah, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 01:49:58us-flagNavy Petty Officer 3rd Class Fabricio Moreno, 26, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was killed Oct. 14 in a single-vehicle accident in Manda Bay, Kenya. Moreno was assigned to Naval Mobile Construction, and deployed as part of a Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa construction team.
Carelessness Consequencesap.tbo.com/ ... 01:48:15NEW YORK - block of four rare stamps - misprinted in 1918 with an upside-down airplane - sold Wednesday for $2.7 million.. highest price ever paid for U.S. stamps... depict a Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny," a World War I trainer that became an airmail plane. About 700 of the stamps were misprinted but inspectors caught all but 100 of the mistakes before they were sold... block sold Wednesday.. is the only one in existence that features the printing plate's number upside down and in the stamps' margin...
In 1918, the entire pane of 100 was bought by stamp collector William Robey at a Washington post office. It was later sold and separated into individual stamps and blocks. In June, a single "Jenny" stamp sold at auction for $525,000, then the highest-ever price for a 20th century U.S. stamp...
US Militarydrudgereport.com/ ... 21:29:10In his first U.S. television interview, the former U.S. Army sergeant who deserted to North Korea speaks for the first time about the abuse and control inflicted on him by the communist dictatorship over his nearly 40 years there... "It was the worst mistake anyone ever made..." 60 MINUTES interview to be broadcast Sunday... smh.com.au/ ... 08:59:42US soldiers in Afghanistan burnt the bodies of dead Taliban and taunted their opponents about the corpses, in an act deeply offensive to Muslims and in breach of the Geneva conventions. An investigation by SBS's Dateline program, to be aired tonight, filmed the burning of the bodies. It also filmed a US Army psychological operations unit broadcasting a message boasting of the burnt corpses into a village believed to be harbouring Taliban... abclocal.go.com/ ... 08:32:25It was a plane crash back in 1942 that wasn't discovered until 1947. Now, hikers made a frozen discovery in connection with a World War II plane crash. Hikers found the frozen body of an airman while scaling Mount Mendel Glacier in the Kings Canyon National Park. Now, the military is working to find out who this airman is and whether he was ever reported missing... defenselink.mil/ ... 01:50:49This week, the Army and Air Force announced an increase in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization. The Navy and Marine Corps had a decrease, while the Coast Guard number remained the same. The net collective result is 2,460 more reservists mobilized than last week. ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:59:34The U.S. military said Wednesday it was investigating a report carried on an Australian television network that claimed American soldiers in Afghanistan burned the bodies of two Taliban fighters and then used the action to taunt other Islamic militants...
Criminally Stupidexaminer-enterprise.com/ ... 21:34:01As a result of the arrest, Joseph Brian Tapscott, 38, faces charges of drug trafficking, possession of controlled dangerous substances within 1,000 feet of a school, possession of drug paraphernalia, eluding an officer, failure to stop for a roadblock, possession of a firearm, driving under suspension, speeding, failure to register vehicle, no right mirror, no insurance, improper tag display and improper decal...
Transport Troublenewscientist.com/ ... 21:17:48Dangerous levels of bacteria have been found in drinking water aboard 15% of planes at US airports...
Broadcast is Deadtoday.reuters.com/ ... 21:09:56Fox accounted for six of the 10 shows the Parents Television Council named on Wednesday as the most offensive this season... "We were alarmed to find that the three worst shows ... are being marketed as family-friendly when in fact these shows are none other than wolves in sheep's clothing..."
Rebuildingap.tbo.com/ ... 20:50:01An Iraqi Airways plane landed in Cairo on Thursday, making the first regular flight between Iraq and Egypt in 15 years... 75 passengers... took off from Baghdad nine hours late because of bad weather...
Business Culturekrnv.com/ ... 09:02:43State Supreme Court justices questioned Wednesday whether high school cheerleaders trying to flag down motorists for a car wash might run afoul of a broadly written ordinance targeting pushy Las Vegas-area prostitutes... Under the ordinance, police can arrest someone who "repeatedly beckons to, stops, attempts to stop or engage persons passing by in conversation, or repeatedly stops or attempts to stop motor vehicle operators by hailing, waiving of arms or other bodily gestures..."
Alcohol Was Involvedbreitbart.com/ ... 08:51:36CritterAlmost one in three people bitten by deadly saltwater crocodiles in Australia had been drinking alcohol before the animal attacked... the research found that crocodiles were opportunistic predators and that when people took risks while in their habitat, they sometimes paid the ultimate price...
Digital Culturecentredaily.com/ ... 08:45:07CHICAGO -- Visitors to the 1893 World's Fair were awed by delicate feather armbands worn for decoration in Paraguay, complex necklaces beaded by the Zulu people of South Africa and fantastical masks used in exorcism ceremonies in Sri Lanka. Tens of thousands of cultural objects were collected for the fair, formally called the World's Columbian Exposition. But due to space constraints, it's been almost a century since the public has seen most of them. Instead, the objects reside in storage rooms at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History. Now a project getting under way at the museum aims to photograph up to 30,000 of these artifacts for the development of a Web site that will allow the public virtual access to the amazing collection... theregister.co.uk/ ... 08:43:15Encouraging signs from the Wikipedia project, where co-founder and überpedian Jimmy Wales has acknowledged there are real quality problems with the online work. Criticism of the project from within the inner sanctum has been very rare so far, although fellow co-founder Larry Sanger, who is no longer associated with the project, pleaded with the management to improve its content by befriending, and not alienating, established sources of expertise. (i.e., people who know what they're talking about.)... if you thought Apple, Amiga, Mozilla or OS/2 fans were er, ... passionate, you haven't met a wiki-fiddler. For them, it's a religious crusade...
Justice?ap.tbo.com/ ... 20:48:36The trial of Saddam Hussein took startling turns Thursday when prosecutors said the first witness would be a bedridden cancer patient who helped run Iraq's feared intelligence agency. In the first setback, a lawyer for one of the dictator's co-defendants was kidnapped.... baptiststandard.com/ ... 08:41:22Differences in fertility rates account for 70 percent of the decline of mainline Protestant church membership from 1900 to 1975 and the simultaneous rise in conservative church membership... ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:52:33A piece of key evidence in the trial against Saddam Hussein is a video clip allegedly shot by his own photographer: Prosecutors say it shows Saddam interrogating four residents of the town of Dujail after a purported attempt on his life. Later, 148 people were killed in Dujail, allegedly in retaliation. Other pending cases against Saddam involve more notorious atrocities with far more deaths... prosecutors say they brought the Dujail case against Saddam first, because they had more solid, easy-to-gather evidence...
WED 2005-OCT-19
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 00:34:39us-flagMarine Lance Cpl. Chad R. Hildebrandt, 22, of Springer, N.M., died Oct. 17 from small-arms fire while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Al Rutbah, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 00:34:20us-flagMarine Lance Cpl. Christopher M. Poston, 20, of Glendale, Ariz., died Oct. 17 from a non-hostile vehicle accident in Hit, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 00:33:56us-flagArmy Air Forces 2nd Lt. Augustus J. Allen, of Myrtle Springs, Texas
us-flagArmy Staff Sgt. James D. Cartwright, of Los Angeles, Calif.
us-flagArmy Cpl. Paul R. Stubbs, of Haverhill, Mass.
On June 8, 1941, Allen, Cartwright and Stubbs departed France Field, Panama in an O-47A aircraft, en route to Rio Hato, Panama. When the aircraft failed to arrive at its destination, a search was initiated by both air and ground forces, but with negative results. In April 1999, a Panamanian citizen reported to Panamanian Civil Aeronautics (PCA) he had discovered aircraft wreckage while hunting in the mountains of Panama Province, Republic of Panama....
defenselink.mil/ ... 00:32:39us-flagArmy Pfc. Joseph Cruz, 22, of Whittier, Calif., died in Bagram, Afghanistan, on Oct. 16, of non-combat related injuries sustained in an accident at Organ-E, Afghanistan, on Oct. 15. defenselink.mil/ ... 00:32:16us-flagMarine Sgt. Mark P. Adams, 24, of Morrisville, N.C., died Oct. 15 from an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Saqlawiyah, Iraq.
Science Marches Onnnnnntheaustralian.news.com.au/ ... 00:26:58Stem cells have been harvested from embryos for the first time without killing or hurting them...
Animal Culturenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 08:54:49Cat...Fluffy the cat took up to 10 minutes to die after 34-year-old [mother] put the animal in the machine at her home in Hellesdon... Fluffy was gripping to the washer's metal drum so tightly its claws broke off as it spun round. Eventually the cat drowned... [Woman] was jailed for six weeks... had put the cat in the washing machine because it had scratched her... allegedly bragged: "I put it on boil wash as well..." aftenposten.no/ ... 08:53:14...had erected a statue of a moose in their garden, but a pair of the real thing apparently didn't approve... It remains unclear whether the moose felt threatened by the statue, or whether they were simply irritable, since it's the middle of the annual moose hunting season in Norway... timesonline.co.uk/ ... 08:49:40Snake10ft boa constrictor slithering from their lavatory bowls... one brave resident trapped the giant reptile during a night-time confrontation in his bathroom... managed to coax the snake.. into a bin, ending a two-month reign of terror at the flats in West Didsbury, Manchester... a former resident.. forced out in August for rent arrears.. had owned a 12-year-old snake... "It would have no problem travelling up and down the waste pipe and has probably been eating rats from the sewer...” washingtonpost.com/ ... 00:27:36ChimpA young gorilla in a Congo sanctuary is smashing palm nuts between two rocks to extract oil...
Justice?news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:00:42Saddam Hussein's trial has begun in Baghdad... He refused to confirm his identity... pleaded not guilty to charges of ordering the killing of 143 Shia men in 1982... Later, as the trial adjourned, he was involved in what appeared to be a scuffle with the guards who wanted to grab his arms to escort his out. But this appeared to be for the benefit of the media...
Theory of Educationtorontosun.com/ ... 08:46:04...high school teacher was found guilty of professional misconduct yesterday for kissing her Grade 10 student, asking him to make love to her and showering him with gifts, e-mails, phone calls and visits to his home...
Whoops!signonsandiego.com/ ... 08:44:44A Mexican man who admitted to fabricating a story this year that he had smuggled Chinese and Iraqis who planned to detonate a nuclear bomb in Boston was arrested Saturday in Mexicali... faces up to eight years in federal prison... appeared to be a "disgruntled employee" of a smuggling gang...
Transport Troublemacon.com/ ... 08:42:40It took 24 hours and detours to Birmingham, Ala., Atlanta and Macon before 72-year-old [and 84- and 86-year-old passengers] found her way back home to Upson County after a trip to church. "We tried to find our way home and the more we tried the farther we went.. I wasn't scared. We just locked the car doors and just rolled...
Theory of Medicineap.tbo.com/ ... 00:30:24WICHITA, Kan. - The owners of a home for the mentally ill required residents to work in the nude and perform sex acts on each other, a former resident testified Tuesday... said residents worked for years on a "clothing optional" farm in Butler County to pay off expenses from a trip to Florida... "It never ended... We worked year after year and were reminded about that debt..."
Worth Checking Intoap.tbo.com/ ... 00:08:34GREENWICH, Conn. - Historian Alven M. Josephy Jr. who wrote or edited more than a dozen books about the struggles of American Indian tribes, died Sunday at his home, his daughter said. He was 90...
MON 2005-OCT-17
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 10:59:01us-flagArmy Sgt. Brian R. Conner, 36, of Baltimore, Md.
us-flagArmy Spc. Samuel M. Boswell, 20, of Elkridge, Md.
us-flagArmy Spc. Bernard L. Ceo, 23, of Baltimore, Md.
died in Al Taji, Iraq, on Oct. 14, when they were conducting convoy operations and an 18-wheel tractor trailer accidentally struck the rear of their HMWWV, starting a fire and causing ammunition to detonate. The soldiers were assigned to the Army National Guard.
Animal Cultureap.tbo.com/ ... 10:54:33GiraffeWASHINGTON... National Zoo... 2-year-old giraffe... named Jafari, was being treated for complications from skin cancer, but Sunday morning it appeared disoriented and was walking in circles... [staff] decided to put the giraffe down... was operated on Oct. 5 to treat a cancerous, grapefruit-sized tumor on the top of his head. However, the disease had spread to bone and not all the tumor could be removed. The National Zoo now has only one giraffe, Randall, a 3-year-old male.
Prison Sucksap.tbo.com/ ... 10:58:07The Supreme Court, in an abortion case of relatively narrow scope, cleared the way Monday for a Missouri prison inmate to terminate her pregnancy...
Feeding Ourselvesap.tbo.com/ ... 10:52:08SEMINOLE, Fla. - Just a few decades ago, much of Pinellas County was covered in orange groves. As the years passed, developers flattened the trees until Orange Blossom Groves was the only commercial grove left in the state's most densely populated county. Now, Orange Blossom Groves has closed and the acreage is for sale, a victim of economics and Mother Nature. In Pinellas, the era of free juice and Yankee tourists loading cars with the bright orange fruit has come to an end..."Whoever gets it is going to build it as dense as they can get the permit for. ... It's not going to stay a grove, I'm pretty sure of that."
Transport Troubleap.tbo.com/ ... 10:48:12U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy attempted to rescue six men who had become trapped by high tide on a jetty off Hyannisport on Sunday. The Massachusetts Democrat eventually left the rescue to Hyannis firefighters...
[understandably, old Ed is no young Jack...]
Industrial Incidentap.tbo.com/ ... 10:38:45CLEVELAND - A faulty pump at a steel plant spilled about 500 gallons of oil into the Cuyahoga River just south of downtown Sunday... Floats were used to contain the oil on the water... Vacuum trucks started removing the oil about four hours after workers discovered the leak...
The Cuyahoga may be best known as the river that caught fire when an oil slick burned in 1969. Cleanup efforts have been under way since then...
ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:36:36An explosion set fire to a Houston refinery Sunday as workers tried to restart gasoline-producing equipment that had been shut down since Hurricane Rita. One contract worker suffered minor burns to his hands and arms...
Extraterrestrial Tyrannyap.tbo.com/ ... 10:35:53A space capsule carrying two Chinese astronauts landed by parachute in the country's northern grasslands before dawn Monday following a five-day mission meant to affirm China's status as an emerging technological power...
SUN 2005-OCT-16
Transport Troubleap.tbo.com/ ... 09:51:41OSSEO, Wis. - A bus carrying a high school band collided with a truck early Sunday, killing several students... from Chippewa Falls High School... on their way back from a competition at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater on Interstate 94 when a semi jackknifed in front of them...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 09:53:02us-flagArmy Spc. Scott J. Mullen, 22, of Tucson, Ariz., died in Makati City, The Republic of the Philippines, on Oct. 14, of injuries sustained there from a non-combat related accident on Oct. 13.
Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 09:45:32POINT REYES, Calif. (AP) - A husband-and-wife team reached the Pacific Ocean on Saturday after a 4,900-mile.. nearly eight month.. cross-country hike, becoming the first to backpack the transcontinental American Discovery Trail in one continuous trek... deep snow in the East, a quicksand scare in Utah, close lightning strikes in the Midwest and blinding desert sandstorms in the West while averaging 22 miles a day and taking only four days off...
The transcontinental trail starts in Delaware, meandering through Washington, D.C., Cincinnati, St. Louis and other cities, 14 national parks and 16 national forests before hitting the Pacific at Point Reyes. The trail officially opened in 2000, 11 years after it was proposed by hiking enthusiasts as the first coast-to-coast footpath.
Prison Sucksap.tbo.com/ ... 09:50:17A fire apparently set by rebellious inmates swept through a prison southeast of Buenos Aires on Sunday, killing at least 17 inmates...
Rebuildingap.tbo.com/ ... 09:47:41BAGHDAD, Iraq - Sunni Arabs voted in surprisingly high numbers on Iraq's new constitution Saturday, many of them hoping to defeat it in an intense competition with Shiites and Kurds over the shape of the nation's young democracy... With little violence, turnout was more than 66 percent in the three most crucial provinces...
Digital Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 01:54:55Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam expressed concern Saturday about a free mapping program from Google Inc., warning it could help terrorists by providing satellite photos of potential targets....
SAT 2005-OCT-15
Norman Was Blessedonline.wsj.com/ ... 05:49:14To that unsettling set of facts, blogs and local Oklahoma TV stations added several apparent inaccuracies, including: that Mr. Hinrichs was a Muslim and visited the mosque frequently; that he tried to enter the stadium twice but was rebuffed; that he had a one-way airplane ticket to Algeria; that there were nails in the bomb and that Islamic extremist literature was found in his apartment. None of these claims are true: Mr. Hinrichs's family, university officials and the Federal Bureau of Investigation say Mr. Hinrichs suffered from depression, and the explosion was an isolated event...
Dance Nakedicsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk/ ... 06:19:07The craze for letting it all hang out on the dancefloor is pulling in punters to South Central in Kennington Lane. Clubbers have to wear shoes to protect their feet in case of smashed glass but the only pants to be seen in the whole place belong to the bar staff. Even the DJ is naked behind his decks, though fully-clothed bouncers are stationed outside to stop clothed clubbers stumbling in unawares...
Animal Culturelocal6.com/ ... 06:18:21CatA cat in Dobson, N.C., is believed to be the only cat in the world with two tongues... named Five Toes, was born with two tongues and five toes on each paw... news.independent.co.uk/ ... 05:43:18ChimpResearchers have found that chimps make different calls when given different kinds of food. High grunts denote a highly prized treat, such as bread, and low grunts food of low value, such as apples. Other chimps seem to know exactly what the calls mean... [Where teen-age grunt-speak originally evolved...] ap.tbo.com/ ... 05:34:51OWOSSO, Mich. ...A five-pointer [buck deer] crashed through the front door of his plumbing store Thursday evening... knocked a few things off some shelves and broke a radio before it ran out a garage door... [Owner] returned home last week from an Alaskan hunting trip, is a trophy hunter whose front office is filled with mounted animals...
Transport Troubleap.tbo.com/ ... 12:40:41TEXARKANA, Ark... train car struck a liquid propane gas tank on Saturday morning, causing a massive explosion and spreading poisonous chemicals through the south side of this city about a quarter mile from the Texas border.... reported no injuries... several structures were destroyed by the fire. One of the trains cars was carrying vinyl acetate, which if inhaled can irritate the eyes, nose and throat. Police evacuated hundreds of homes...
VINYL ACETATE... a flammable, clear liquid used mostly to make other industrial chemicals. It enhances the plastic used to package food, and also can be found in glue, paint, paper and textiles.
Rebuildingap.tbo.com/ ... 12:38:56A roadside bomb killed three Iraqi soldiers in northeast Iraq on Saturday, and seven people were wounded... attacks by insurgents near five of Baghdad's 1,200 polling stations...
Insurgents also attacked a U.S. military patrol in central Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, and fired six mortar rounds at a sports hall being used as a polling center... No injuries were immediately reported....
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 06:07:20The people of Iraq are due to begin voting on a new constitution...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinalertnet.org/ ... 06:03:46U.S. intelligence officials who released a letter purporting to be from an al Qaeda leader to Iraq insurgency leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi this week said on Friday they could not account for a passage that has raised doubts about the document's authenticity. The July 9 dated letter, which U.S. officials say was written by al Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahri, appears near its close to urge the Iraq insurgent leader to send greetings to himself if visiting the Iraqi city of Falluja...
Transporttimesonline.co.uk/ ... 05:44:50RYANAIR was accused last night of ignoring industry practice by ordering nine blind and partially sighted passengers off a plane shortly before take-off. Safety regulators dismissed the budget airline’s claim that it was only following safety rules...
History - still with usthemoscowtimes.com/ ... 05:38:57ATHENS -- Deep under a quiet valley in southern Greece, archaeologists are struggling to unravel a 1,400-year-old tragedy that wiped out a rural Byzantine community. Sometime in the late 6th century, a group of at least 33 young men, women, and children sought sanctuary from an unknown terror in a sprawling subterranean network of caves in the eastern Peloponnese. Carrying supplies of food and water, oil-lamps, a large Christian cross and their small savings, the refugees apparently hunkered down to wait out the threat. But experts believe the sanctuary became a tomb once supplies ran out. "In the end, they knew there was no hope of escape and just lay down to die in the pitch black," archaeologist Dimitris Hatzilazarou said... Digs in late 2004 and early 2005 revealed human remains -- many huddled in what look like small family clusters -- 113 fired clay pots, a large bronze processional cross inscribed with the Lord's Prayer in Greek, cheap jewelry and over 200 coins. Some of the pots had been wedged among the cave's impressive stalagmites, an indication the refugees tried to gather water dripping from the roof...
Prison Sucksap.tbo.com/ ... 05:20:11KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The U.S. Supreme Court late Friday temporarily blocked a federal judge's ruling that ordered Missouri prison officials to drive a pregnant inmate to a clinic on Saturday for an abortion. Justice Clarence Thomas, acting alone, granted the temporary stay pending a further decision by himself or the full court. Missouri state law forbids spending tax dollars to facilitate an abortion. However, U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple ruled Thursday that the prison system was blocking the woman from exercising her right to an abortion and ordered that the woman be taken to the clinic Saturday. An appeals court on Friday refused to stay the ruling...
FRI 2005-OCT-14
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 22:36:29us-flagArmy Spc. Robert W. Tucker, 20, of Hilham, Tenn., died in Ad Dujayl, Iraq, on Oct. 13, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV during combat operations. Tucker was assigned to the Army National Guard. defenselink.mil/ ... 22:36:00us-flagArmy Sgt. Donald D. Furman, 30, of Burton, S.C.
us-flagArmy Sgt. Lorenzo Ponce Ruiz, 26, of El Paso, Texas...
died in Balad, Iraq, on Oct. 12, when their military vehicle collided with a civilian vehicle and overturned.
defenselink.mil/ ... 22:35:18us-flagMarine Master Sgt. Kenneth E. Hunt Jr., 40, of Tucson, Ariz., died Oct. 12 at Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, from wounds received July 24 when the vehicle he was riding in struck an anti-tank mine while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Al Taqaddum, Iraq.
Animal Cultureap.tbo.com/ ... 09:10:46Sarah Sevick... 19, has filed an Americans With Disabilities Act complaint against her school because it won't let her keep [her ferret] in her dormitory. She said she needs the ferret, named Lilly... to calm her during panic attacks...
Play Niceap.tbo.com/ ... 09:06:42The Decline of American Civilization, or at Least Its Manners
Rebuildingap.tbo.com/ ... 09:11:27Insurgents determined to derail this weekend's referendum carried out two attacks against Iraq's largest Sunni Arab political party on Friday, after the group dropped its opposition to the draft constitution... exploded a roadside bomb just outside the Iraqi Islamic Party office in central Baghdad, then set fire the party's main office in Fallujah... No injuries were immediately reported...
Theory of Medicineap.tbo.com/ ... 09:03:44LOS ANGELES - A liver transplant candidate was misled about his prospects for a transplant, missed out when an organ became available, and died less than a year later... The organ was improperly given to a less needy patient... and records were falsified to cover the switch...
Preternatural Patternsap.tbo.com/ ... 23:04:00LIVERMORE FALLS, Maine - A woman who fell 12 feet into a well while trying to rescue her dog was pulled to safety after her disabled husband had to crawl down a road to call for help... ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:12:58A passenger punched out the interior pane of an airplane window on an American West flight from Las Vegas to Florida... The outer window was not damaged and the plane did not depressurize... arrested when the plane landed Wednesday at Tampa... faces up to 20 years in federal prison...
...About 90 minutes after the plane departed [he] "woke abruptly from his sleep and turned to the passenger seated in 7B ... raised a clenched fist to his shoulder as if he was going to strike the passenger in 7B, then suddenly turned and struck the exterior window..."
ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:01:25AMARILLO, Texas ..A man crashed a stolen pickup truck into three vehicles, a light pole and a bridge pillar before a crowd caught him and tied him up with a garden hose... suspect was arrested and charged with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, failure to stop and render aid, driving under the influence of drugs and driving with a suspended license... About 20 people chased [driver] before they tied his feet with a garden hose and handcuffed him...
THU 2005-OCT-13
Nature is Dangerousap.tbo.com/ ... 23:32:22TORONTO - An outbreak of legionnaires' disease that killed 17 elderly people could have been spread by a rooftop air conditioner that sent bacteria through a Toronto nursing home and to passers-by on the streets below, health officials said Thursday... two middle-aged men contracted the pneumonia-like illness despite having no connection to the dozens of sick seniors at [the nursing home]... One of the men is a resident at.. a nearby apartment complex.. the other works at a hospital across the street... outbreak includes more than 100 cases of legionnaires' disease involving 71 nursing home residents, 23 staff, 14 visitors, one hospital worker and the [apartment] resident... ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:01:54I start injecting myself in November 1990. The first time I do it on my own I am not scared. I can follow directions, especially if it means being a few inches taller than the girls instead of being forced to look up at them... ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:01:05The toll of those missing in Guatemala in last week's flooding and mudslides linked to Hurricane Stan rose to 828, while the number of confirmed deaths held steady at 654... abcnews.go.com/ ... 22:43:16Four children in an Amish community in Minnesota have contracted the polio virus the first known infections in the U.S. in five years... state epidemiologist said the cases do not pose a threat to the general public because most people have been vaccinated against polio and are unlikely to have contact with Amish people... expects to find more infections within the Amish community... About one in 200 people who contract the polio virus suffer paralysis because of it; others typically rid themselves the virus after weeks or months... sci-tech-today.com/ ... 09:54:57Earthquake victims scuffled over badly needed food that arrived Tuesday in the first aid convoys to reach Muzaffarabad, Pakistan. An army official said the country's government estimated that the quake killed more than 35,000 people, a stark assessment that almost doubled the official death toll... insidebayarea.com/ ... 09:52:56The massive earthquake that rocked Kashmir appears to have dealt a blow to the disputed region's Islamic militants, ripping through their heartland along the mountainous frontier and wrecking their network of camps, safe houses and weapons caches. One former militant said Tuesday that a temporary rebel cease-fire called after the quake was a "clear sign they are in trouble..." news.yahoo.com/ ... 09:35:54....research now provides visual evidence that the AIDS virus ravages some parts of the brain... 15 percent thinner in areas that control language, planning and movement... ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:55:13A sixth straight day of rain from a storm that has parked itself over New Jersey snarled traffic Wednesday, delaying flights and causing flooding that was only expected to worsen. Several northeastern states have been hit with heavy rain in the past week, including New Hampshire, where three people have been confirmed dead in floodwaters and four others remained missing...
Violencecnn.com/ ... 22:40:59A Pennsylvania woman beat her eight-month pregnant neighbor with a baseball bat before taking her to a remote area and trying to cut out her unborn baby... injuries were described as "severe..." underwent an emergency caesarian... her baby -- a boy -- "appears healthy at this time..." "It would appear from the defendant's statement that her goal was to get the victim's unborn child and take it as her own..." appeared to have waited hours, thinking Oskin would die before she cut out the baby. A 17-year-old boy on an all-terrain vehicle discovered the two women and sought help despite Conner's insistence that Oskin, who was bleeding from the head and abdomen, was fine... [alleged assailant] has three children... lied to her family and boyfriend about being pregnant... ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:11:04NALCHIK, Russia - Scores of Islamic militants launched simultaneous attacks on police and government buildings in this city in Russia's turbulent Caucasus region Thursday, sparking battles that killed at least 63 people... Chechen rebels claimed responsibility... forced the evacuation of schools and left corpses littering the streets of Nalchik, the capital of the republic of Kabardino-Balkariya... a city of 235,000... Estimates of the number of militants involved ranged from 60 to 300... Of the 63 killed, 50 were militants and at least 10 were police officers... at least three civilians were among the dead, and 84 people were wounded...
The Chechen rebels' decade-long struggle against Russia, originally a separatist movement, has melded increasingly with Islamic extremism in the past decade and spread far beyond Chechnya's borders to encompass the whole turbulent Russian Caucasus region...
ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:22:26Forty-nine members of a street gang known as the Almighty Latin King Nation were indicted Wednesday on federal racketeering charges for crimes that include four murders, 38 attempted murders and widespread drug trafficking. All 49 defendants - with aliases like Squirt Guns, Spider, Fat Fat, Icy White and Lil' Wolfy - face up to life imprisonment if convicted on the racketeering charges and between 10 years to life on the drug offenses... In the past four years, police have conducted a series of raids that have taken down nearly 200 members in seven different gangs... ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:21:32SWEETWATER, Fla. Wednesday... 35-year-old [wife] fled in her car after she was shot [by her husband], but lost control and collided with another vehicle... While the woman was being treated by paramedics, her husband.. forced his way into the ambulance.. and fatally shot himself... husband.. pronounced dead... wife was treated for multiple gunshot wounds... driver of the other vehicle.. unhurt... ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:12:26Kidnappers shot and killed a businessman on a busy street in Haiti's capital Wednesday after he resisted being taken, then sped off in his car with his wife and two children...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 22:58:26us-flagArmy Spc. James T. Grijalva, 26, of Burbank, Ill., died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 12, of a non-combat related injury. Grijalva was assigned to the Army National Guard.
Love is Strangeap.tbo.com/ ... 10:06:19...was nearly finished etching the big question into a harvested soybean field when he realized the 'm' in 'marry' took up too much room. Since he couldn't erase a plowed field, he had a decision to make. "I figured it would look better to spell it wrong and get a laugh out of it, rather than botch it all... I could have fit all the letters in, but it would have looked tacky." Instead, it read: "KATIE WILL YOU MARY ME?.."
Digital Culturetoday.reuters.com/ ... 22:56:15Finnish scientists have invented a device to make it harder to steal mobile phones and laptops by enabling them to detect changes in their owner's walking style and then freeze to prevent unauthorized use... ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:11:35Apple unveiled its new video iPod on Wednesday, announcing it will make some ABC television shows available for downloading one day after they air... haaretz.com/ ... 09:51:00Milliondollarhomepage.com... He acquired the catchy but not very friendly domain name and opened a site that he divided into a matrix of 10,000 small squares. The size of each square is 100 pixels (10x10) and in total there are 1,000,000 pixels on the home page. The deal Tew offers is simple: whoever pays $100 per square (or one dollar per pixel, it sounds cheaper) will in return receive a tiny bit of real estate on the site. The happy buyer can fill his square in any way he wants, so long as it is in Jpeg or GIF format (without animation), and then transform the square into a hyperlink to any site he chooses, so long as it is not hate-mongering, racist, pornographic or fraudulent and the like. Anyone can buy adjacent squares at the same price per square, depending on availability, and thereby highlight his message in comparison to others...
Feeding Ourselvesap.tbo.com/ ... 00:02:07Shares of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. fell nearly 13 percent Wednesday in heavy trading as analysts and company officials said they did not know what triggered the plunge...
US Militaryap.tbo.com/ ... 23:02:54FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - A soldier was arrested after firing five shots at a group of comrades during their morning workout Thursday... No one was wounded... a nonmilitary-issue handgun, in violation of regulations...
Nearly 17,000 troops from Fort Campbell are serving in Iraq...
ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:01:41SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - The final resting place of a 28-year-old soldier killed in Iraq is now in the hands of a judge who said he would have preferred the bitterly divided family could have resolved the matter without him.... [no doubt!] "I wish I had the power to reconcile this family, but I don't... However, I have the power to decide this case, and I will." ...made an unusual - and futile - plea midway through the five-day trial for the family to try to reach a compromise... divorced parents of Army Staff Sgt. Jason Hendrix... buried last month - against his mother's wishes - in a plot next to his paternal grandfather in Oklahoma. ...father Russell Hendrix had argued that his son's body should stay where it is... mother, Renee Amick of Watsonville, says her son asked to be buried there during a telephone conversation before he was deployed to Iraq... If this happens, it will be his body's third journey across the country. The Army initially sent Hendrix's body to Watsonville. But the body was later shipped to Oklahoma after Russell Hendrix appealed to an Oklahoma probate court... The case has highlighted little-known Defense Department rules, which have come under criticism... If a slain soldier is unmarried and has no children.. the military grants custody to next of kin based on seniority. Jason Hendrix grew up in Watsonville with his mother but finished high school living with his father in Oklahoma....
Digital Yawnap.tbo.com/ ... 23:33:28A year ago, America Online Inc. was seen as an ailing dinosaur of the dial-up era, its Internet access business fading fast. Now that it's tapping into the online advertising boom by opening its content to anyone who wants it, AOL is a hot property being courted by powerhouse suitors...
Hurricanes Aftermathap.tbo.com/ ... 23:30:06French Quarter bar owners plan to challenge the city's midnight-to-6 a.m. curfew the only way New Orleans knows how: with a party... ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:29:45DolphinNEW ORLEANS ...The manatees that grazed in Lake Pontchartrain before Hurricane Katrina haven't been seen since, but eight dolphins were leaping in the lake this week...
About 10,000 animals died after four days without support systems at the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas.. survivors, including a 19-member penguin colony, two sea otters and several hundred freshwater fish, were evacuated to other aquariums....
Big City Storiesap.tbo.com/ ... 23:27:54NEW YORK - A reputed mobster facing a five-year prison term in a waterfront corruption case disappeared in the middle of his trial, prompting speculation that he had instead received a Mafia-imposed death penalty... Lawrence Ricci... 60-year-old alleged capo in the Genovese crime family... charged with two officials of the International Longshoreman's Association with extortion and fraud in connection with mob domination of the New York waterfront...
Headline of the Dayap.tbo.com/ ... 23:04:49[OH! THE PAINFUL IRONY!]
White House Says Miers Won't Withdraw, Complains About Focus on Religion
Sex can be Boringtoday.reuters.com/ ... 22:57:37Sultry actress Marlene Dietrich, one of the 20th century's most iconic figures, hated sex and had a schizophrenic personality, according to her daughter Maria Riva...
Preternatural Patternstoday.reuters.com/ ... 22:56:41Four years ago, Etienne Verhees broke two vertebrae falling off a ladder, after which doctors put a metal plate in his neck to help heal the wound. This week, the Belgian coughed up one of four screws used to hold the plate in place... breitbart.com/ ... 22:53:45A 79-year-old woman was sentenced to five year's probation Wednesday after pleading guilty to drug dealing... retired waitress... first-offender status... guilty to three counts of selling prescription drugs... undercover officers went to the home [she] shares with her 84-year-old husband four times and bought $1,600 in prescription pills including the anti-anxiety drug Xanax, the painkiller hydrocordone and muscle relaxer Soma... the couple, married almost 40 years, were set up by the son of a family friend... the younger drug abuser begged the [couple] for pills, then got into trouble and brought undercover police to the house... [Husband] did not stand trial. The retired welder, who uses a walker and relies on the prescriptions to ease pain cause by back operations, was judged mentally incompetent. ...the couple's daughter was appointed their guardian. If she violates probation [septagenerian woman] faces 30 years in prison...
Criminally Stupidap.tbo.com/ ... 10:08:01PITTSBURGH --Police say they caught a serial burglar.. in the basement of an apartment building he had broken into.. having sex with a woman...
Supernatural Consequencestimesonline.co.uk/ ... 09:51:57THE guitarist Carlos Santana sacked his personal assistant of 16 years for not being spiritual enough, a court has been told. An action filed by Bruce Kuhlman against Mr Santana, says that the musician’s wife, Deborah, ordered him to meet a guru called Dr Dan to improve “his consciousness or awareness level, which would bring him closer to God and make him a better worker”... timesonline.co.uk/ ... 09:47:48THE Vatican is hoping to regain control of the Room of the Last Supper in Jerusalem, one of the most sacred sites in Christianity. It will, in exchange, hand over to the Jewish community the historic synagogue at Toledo in Spain, at present a Catholic church... The Upper Room, where the Last Supper is said to have taken place, is held by Christians to be the place where Jesus broke bread and drank wine with the disciples on the eve of his Crucifixion and also where the Holy Spirit descended on the disciples at Pentecost... The present Gothic-arched room is not the original but was built by the Crusaders in the 14th century...
The renewed Christian-Jewish dialogue comes on the 40th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the Second Vatican Council document which condemned anti-Semitism and paved the way for the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and the Vatican in 1993...
ansa.it/ ... 09:45:39An art expert has uncovered a sculpture of Christ on the Cross he claims Salvador Dali made to thank an Italian friar who exorcised him... [friar] told friends and relatives he exorcised Dali of a demon in 1947 during a spell in France... during a period in which Dali had broken away from Surrealism and started producing more realistic works, often with religious imagery...
Rebuildingseattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 00:57:43Text of proposed Iraqi constitution... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 00:57:22There was wild celebration on the floor of the Iraqi National Assembly last night as political leaders celebrated the adoption of compromises aimed at winning Sunni Arab support for a new constitution...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinbreitbart.com/ ... 22:50:20It was billed as a conversation with U.S. troops, but the questions President Bush asked on a teleconference call Thursday were choreographed to match his goals for the war in Iraq and Saturday's vote on a new Iraqi constitution... newsobserver.com/ ... 09:37:48Patrick Guerriero, president of the Log Cabin Republicans... a national gay Republicans group... was speaking.. at UNC-Chapel Hill.. on the future of sexual politics when a person ran down toward the lectern and hurled a chocolate-laced cream pie at him... "I faked to the left and moved to the right, which is probably something I do in politics sometimes," he said Tuesday... apnews.myway.com/ ... 09:34:30Al Gore.. Wednesday.. no intention of ever running for president again... [hope he means it!]... said the United States would be "a different country" if he had won... [NO question! Like we were becoming the world's Target under his boss Bill]... "We would not have invaded a country that didn't attack us..." [Never mind all the people who agreed, including the UN and Hillary, that we should do it, and never mind that nobody misses Saddam & family...]
"...We would not be routinely torturing people," Gore said...
Tracey Schmitt, spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, called Gore's comments "fictitious rants that border on dangerous." "To accuse Americans of participating in 'routine torture' is absurd and reveals that while Al Gore may no longer be a leader in his party, he still embodies the maniacal anger that guides Democrat leaders in Washington today,"
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 00:56:34Jewish soldiers murder Arab brides in cold blood, and the Israeli coastal towns of Jaffa and Haifa are really Palestinian cities, according to broadcasts this week on official Palestinian Authority television...
US Judicial Branchworldnetdaily.com/ ... 00:42:39Harriet Miers is never going to be grilled by the Senate Judiciary Committee. She is going to withdraw her name from consideration before such hearings ever begin. You can take that to the bank... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 00:41:47Harriet Miers is never going to be grilled by the Senate Judiciary Committee. She is going to withdraw her name from consideration before such hearings ever begin. You can take that to the bank...
Reasons for Repealap.tbo.com/ ... 23:03:41Federal agents arrested 28 people and seized more than 1,300 pounds of cocaine during an overnight raid around Atlanta that dismantled one of the largest drug trafficking cells on the East Coast, the Drug Enforcement Administration said Thursday.... [also] 40 pounds of methamphetamines and $8 million in cash.... ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:18:02HempAn Army veteran who fled to Canada to avoid prosecution for growing marijuana to treat his chronic pain was yanked from a hospital by Canadian authorities, driven to the border with a catheter still attached, and turned over to U.S. officials, his lawyer says. He then went five days with no medical treatment and only ibuprofen for the pain... was still fitted with the urinary catheter when he shuffled into federal court for a detention hearing Wednesday... "This is totally inhumane. He's been tortured for days for no reason..." suffered debilitating injuries in the 1980s when his parachute failed to open during a jump, and those injuries were exacerbated by a car crash in 1990... In 2001, while he was living in McKinleyville, Calif., his marijuana operation was raided for the second time. He fled to British Columbia to avoid prosecution but asylum was denied. Last Friday, he checked himself into a Vancouver hospital for prostate problems, and it was there that he was arrested... Though Tuck has taken morphine - as prescribed by doctors - for about 16 years to help with his pain, he was given no painkiller or treatment at the jail other than ibuprofen... appeared emaciated in court... [STOP THE INSANITY! HempREPEAL! HempREPEAL! HempREPEAL!]
Sexual Equality??timesofoman.com/ ... 09:22:49Female civil servants at Iran’s Culture Ministry and female journalists at the state newspaper and news agency must be out of the office by dusk to be with their families, a directive said yesterday. The directive was issued by Culture Minister Mohammed Hossein Saffar-Harandi, one of a batch of cabinet ministers brought in by President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad. “Owing to the sensitive role of women in the family and in raising children, women employees are banned from staying at the office after 6pm,” the Tosea newspaper quoted the directive as saying... ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:06:05The world must confront widespread social and economic discrimination against women before it can hope to make a significant reduction in poverty, the United Nations said Wednesday... "We cannot make poverty history until we stop violence against women and girls," the fund's executive director, Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, said at the report's launch in London. "We cannot make poverty history until women enjoy their full social, cultural, economic and political rights." ...gender equality and better reproductive health could save the lives of 2 million women and 30 million children over the next decade - and help lift millions around the world out of poverty... "Inequality is economically inefficient, it is a violation of human rights and it is a hazard to health..."
WED 2005-OCT-12
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 23:55:20Armed men hijacked a ship carrying food aid Wednesday as it was unloading at a port in the strife-torn African country of Somalia, said the United Nations food relief agency... Nearly half the total cargo of 850 tons of WFP food aid was on board at the time... Somalia's 1,880-mile coastline is Africa's longest and the country has had no effective central government since opposition leaders ousted dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991. They then turned on each other, transforming this nation of 7 million into a patchwork of battling fiefdoms ruled by heavily armed militias... ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:52:53Palestinian gunmen briefly kidnapped an American and a British journalist on Wednesday as the pair drove through the central Gaza town of Khan Younis... "They have been released by their captors to the Palestinian Authority and are being transported back to Gaza City... They are safe and unharmed..." abducted by a renegade group of militants who had formerly belonged to the ruling Fatah group, said Palestinian police chief Brig. Gen. Ala Husni... kidnappers demanded that they be given jobs as officers in the Palestinian security forces... officials refused to negotiate and the journalists were eventually freed after one of the kidnappers turned himself in for questioning... ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:51:12In a hearing Wednesday at the El Dorado Correctional Facility, District Judge Gregory Waller... wants to make sure... BTK killer Dennis Rader [is].. treated as a sexual offender... ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:06:33The interior minister in Syria killed himself in his office, according to the country's official news agency. Interior Minister Brig. Gen. Ghazi Kenaan. Before he was promoted to that position, he was Syria's intelligence chief in Lebanon, presiding over Syria's control of its western neighbor....
Feeding Ourselvesap.tbo.com/ ... 23:58:04Florida growers are expected to produce 190 million boxes of oranges during the upcoming growing season, a 27 percent increase over last season's crop, which was ravaged by a barrage of hurricanes... Citrus officials greeted [the] news.. with optimism that was tempered by an awareness of the creeping spread of three diseases that could cause the loss of more trees than the hurricanes: citrus canker, citrus greening and tristeza...
Each box of oranges from Florida... holds about 90 pounds of fruit.
US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 23:29:59This week, the Army, Navy and Air Force announced an increase in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization. The Marine Corps and Coast Guard had a decrease. The net collective result is 1,507 more reservists mobilized than last week. defenselink.mil/ ... 08:52:59The Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force met or exceeded their recruiting goals in September.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 23:31:37us-flagArmy Sgt. 1st Class Brandon K. Sneed, 33, of Norman, Okla.
us-flagArmy Sgt. Leon M. Johnson, 28, of Jacksonville, Fla.
died in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, on Oct. 10, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their M2A2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle during combat operations.
defenselink.mil/ ... 23:30:47us-flagMarine Lance Cpl. Sergio H. Escobar, 18, of Pasadena, Calif., died Oct. 9 from an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Ar Ramadi, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 23:30:26us-flagArmy Staff Sgt. Matthew A. Kimmell, 30, of Paxton, Ind., died in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, on Oct. 11, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV. defenselink.mil/ ... 23:29:28us-flagArmy Spc. Jeremy M. Hodge, 20, of Ridgeway, Ohio, died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 10, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV. Hodge was assigned to the Army National Guard. defenselink.mil/ ... 08:54:03us-flagArmy Staff Sgt. Jerry L. Bonifacio Jr., 28, of Vacaville, Calif., died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 10, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his checkpoint. Bonifacio was assigned to the Army National Guard. defenselink.mil/ ... 08:53:38us-flagArmy Lt. Col. Leon G. James II, 46, of Sackets Harbor, N.Y., died at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 10, of injuries sustained in Baghdad, Iraq, on Sep. 26, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV during combat operations. James was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 314th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 78th Division, Fort Drum, N.Y. For further information related to this release, contact Army Public Affairs at (703) 692-2000. defenselink.mil/ ... 08:52:26us-flagArmy Staff Sgt. Gary R. Harper Jr., 29, of Virden, Ill., died in Baghdad, Iraq on Oct. 9, when his reconnaissance mission was attacked by enemy forces. Harper was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group.
Theory of Educationap.tbo.com/ ... 09:02:26Wayne Booth, a prominent literary critic and professor whose books are required reading at many universities, died Sunday... at his home from complications of dementia... 84... University of Chicago... faculty member for more than four decades... Booth's "The Rhetoric of Fiction," published in 1961, is "the single most important American contribution to narrative theory - a book that continues to be read, taught and fought about..." Other works include "A Rhetoric of Irony..." and... "The Company We Keep," about the ethics of fiction. His book "For the Love of It" was a memoir about how he became an accomplished amateur cellist, starting at age 31...
TUE 2005-OCT-11
Hurricanes Aftermathap.tbo.com/ ... 10:01:01...Bush is dining in New Orleans on Monday night... with Louisiana officials in the French Quarter and will stay overnight in a hotel with the first lady...
Nature is Dangerousap.tbo.com/ ... 10:05:09ALSTEAD, N.H. - Residents began assessing the damage left by deadly flooding that tore up highways, swept away houses and tossed boulders and vehicles around like toys. More than a dozen people remained unaccounted-for in hardhit southwest New Hampshire... At least 10 people died in the heavy weekend downpours or in rain-related traffic accidents from Pennsylvania to Maine. About 1,000 New Hampshire residents fled their homes... Three deaths were confirmed in New Hampshire and a fourth was feared... ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:00:25...I am not a diabetic. I am not a heroin user. But I am an addict. My drug is Protropin, a synthetic growth hormone... the drug's use is legal... to give a measure of health and happiness to a high-school freshman whose growth has been stunted by a hormone deficiency... ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:57:31Four Brazilian cities in the Amazon jungle state of Amazonas... Manaquiri, Atalaia do Norte, Anori and Caapiranga... have been declared disaster areas as the worst drought in 60 years dries up rivers that thousands of families depend on to receive food and medicine... dwindling supplies of medicine... more than 42,000 people... drinking water has also become scarce... "The little water that exists in the rivers is polluted..." fears a yellow fever epidemic in the region... Another 17 cities and towns declared a state of alert...
Many cities in the vast Amazon region have little or no road access and rely on rivers for transportation...
Beatles - still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 10:11:47John LennonOn a warm August night in 1974, John Lennon was staying in New York with his assistant May Pang when he stepped naked out to the balcony of his apartment to enjoy the breeze. In the dim haze he saw a circular, brightly lit UFO floating silently in the sky about 100 feet away. He screamed for Pang who ran to the terrace and saw it, too. It hovered for a few minutes, then disappeared. Lennon refers to this on the cover of this "Walls and Bridges" album, released later that year. Pang has given several interviews swearing that it's the truth... ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:08:59John Lennon"He's relevant today, he'll be relevant tomorrow... It doesn't matter how old you are. This is where all other popular music comes from..."
"Baby faces, faces of kids who weren't even a thought when Lennon was shot. It shows he was bigger than the music. He was a social leader..."
Rebuildingap.tbo.com/ ... 10:01:29Sunni Arab activists are going door to door to supporters' homes and using mosque imams in a final drive to persuade the minority community to go to the polls on Saturday and vote against the Iraqi constitution...
MON 2005-OCT-10
Norman Was Blessedchanneloklahoma.com/ ... 20:58:58...The Pakistani roommate... and three other Muslim students... were led in handcuffs from a party shortly after Saturday's explosion... authorities continue to believe that Hinrichs did not try to get into the stadium and that he acted alone... father told investigators his son was skeptical of ideology. "Joe would have become a Muslim fanatic when pigs fly..." freerepublic.com/ ... 20:56:33OKC Ch 9... 3 videos... Hinrichs spent time in the same Norman mosque as Moussaui Ticket to Algeria was found linking back to his Pakistani roommate 5 others possibly involved Hinrichs attempted to enter the stadium and may have had a ticket to the game... normantranscript.com/ ... 20:55:06Hinrichs apparently never visited the Masjid An-Nur Islamic mosque that has served the Muslim community at 1304 George Avenue since 1978. "He had never been to our mosque and he's not associated with our mosque in any way, shape or form," said 44-year-old Mohamed Farid Elyazgi, who has lived in Norman with his family since 1985. "We had never seen him until we saw his picture in the media." Elyazgi emphasized that Islam forbids suicide and Muslims condemn all acts of violence... channeloklahoma.com/ ... 20:30:16Norman police... ran a routine investigation of... [Hinrichs, after] an off-duty, plainclothes officer... a veteran of the Norman police department with 11 years of experience on the force... overheard a [suspicious] conversation.. Hinrichs.. with the proprietor of a Norman feed store last Thursday at 4 p.m... [about] purchase of ammonium nitrate fertilizer... freerepublic.com/ ... 20:25:49KKTV (Video Link) ^ | 10/6/05 This video news report is mostly what's been aired on past news reports: that Joel Hinrichs was turned away from the stadium, etc., but the the KEY quote from this story occurs about :30 seconds into the story, and that is when the reporter says "...a homemade REMOTE CONTROLLED bomb was strapped to his back The story goes on to detail his attempted purchase of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, etc... opinioneditorials.com/ ... 20:18:44...After all, it’s not every day that there’s a terrorist attack on U.S. soil and supposedly there hasn’t been one since 9/11. But that’s exactly what happened outside a packed football stadium at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma on Saturday night (10/1). 21-year-old engineering student Joel Henry Hinrichs III of Colorado Springs detonated a bomb near the stadium, killing himself in the process. The explosion was so powerful that people up to four miles away reported hearing it and windows in the George L. Cross building 100 yards away shattered. One of the drivers of several buses parked in a nearby lot was taken to the hospital after being knocked over by the blast. No one else was injured and 84,000 fans left the stadium, mostly unaware of the magnitude of what occurred outside... Not only was the story essentially buried when it first broke, but the major media outlets have still not seen fit to address it. But thanks to the investigative efforts of Oklahoma photojournalist Lan Lamphere (whose blog features a firsthand account and video), World Net Daily and the Northeast Intelligence Network (cited above), the evidence points to the likelihood that the incident was indeed a botched terrorist attack... According to the Northeast Intelligence Network, initial information “suggested that that the so-called ‘suicide-bomber’ was attempting to attach bombs to the buses parked in the area when one of the bombs detonated prematurely.” Witnesses also described seeing a second device being detonated by robot... a “significant amount” of Jihad literature both in his home and on his computer... a Colorado Springs Gazette photo posted at the Northeast Intelligence Network website shows him with a beard too similar to those worn by newly observant Muslim men... tapscottscopydesk.blogspot.com/ ... 20:07:32...If Hinrichs was just a disturbed guy who decided to kill himself with a bomb 100 yards from a crowd of 84,000 people instead of simply putting a bullet through his temple, slashing his wrists or some other traditional way of doing away with himself, why is the FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force now the lead agency in the investigation?.. tapscottscopydesk.blogspot.com/ ... 20:05:06...Hinrichs attended a nearby mosque, the same one apparently attended by the "20th hijacker" of 9/11, Zaccarias Moussaoui. Moussaoui attended the same Norman, OK, flight school attended by 9/11 mastermind Mohammed Atta and another of the hijackers... took up residence in the university owned apartment complex known as "Little Tehran" in Norman... Hinrichs' roommate in the apartment is reportedly a Palestinian national... bomb-making materials in Hinrichs' apartment [are] known as "Mother of Satan" among Islamofascist terrorist bombmakers... normantranscript.com/ ... 19:58:59University of Oklahoma President David Boren on Tuesday said investigators are saying there is no known threat connected to the Saturday bomb explosion near a packed football stadium... an FBI press release repeated Boren's opinion... FBI release: "There is no known current threat posed by any additional explosive materials. At this time, there is no known threat from any other person(s) related to this incident. At this time, there is no known link between Hinrichs and any terrorist or extremist organization(s) or activities..." Channel 5 News reported Tuesday night that Hinrichs' bomb contained acetone peroxide.. highly unstable chemical.. made from household items.. very sensitive to heat and shock... Boren made a shift in describing Hinrich's death by saying, "I do not say suicide, I say it's an individual death that we're dealing with. That's all we really know..." tapscottscopydesk.blogspot.com/ ... 19:54:45...car registered in the name of OU Suicide Bomber Joel Henry Hinrichs III... inventory of the contents found by law enforcement officials... [included] "13 plastic bottles" in the trunk... a tree near where Hinrichs' bomb detonated displays a number of small round holes and some areas of a metallic substance... only on the side facing the bench on which Hinrichs was seated when the bomb detonated... holes appear to be about the size of the head of 16 penny nail... [neighbor] believed Hinrichs lived with "three or four Arab guys..." [and] all of the residents of the university apartment complex where he and Hinrichs lived are from Nigeria, China and Middle Eastern/Southeast Asian countries...
Disturbing Patterns11alive.com/ ... 19:33:56Three explosive devices found in a courtyard between two Georgia Tech dormitories on the East Campus Monday morning were part of a "terrorist act," an Atlanta police official said. One of the devices exploded, injuring the custodian who found them inside a plastic bag. Two others were detonated by a bomb squad. The custodian suffered ringing to the ears... picked up the bag, one exploded, as it was designed to do when handled. The explosives were made up of chemicals placed inside plastic bottles dailybruin.ucla.edu/ ... 19:32:19....Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad inspected and detonated an explosive device found within the Midvale Plaza apartment complex on the 500 block of Midvale Avenue.... [found] "an improvised explosive device" in the building's open-air courtyard... No injuries were reported... authorities have been slow to release details... Residents.. heard a small explosion sometime between 5 a.m. and 8 a.m. Friday... a resident found an explosive device later that morning... Shortly after 1 p.m., the bomb squad remotely detonated the device...
Police Riottwincities.com/ ... 19:47:00NEW ORLEANS ...One of the 73 people listed as victims of Hurricane Katrina was actually shot by police... outside the convention center.. about 2 a.m. Sept. 3, in the darkness before the National Guard arrived and began evacuating... police statement.. [described] attempted murder of a police officer... [but the victim's] daughter.. and.. niece... both of whom were there... say the officer who shot Brumfield had hit him twice with a squad car before doing so — a nudge the first time, a heavier bump the second. That was when he leaped onto the hood and was shot... Afterward... the car ran over him, and other officers didn't come to investigate for several hours... By all accounts, that night was a time when looting was rampant and widespread rumors of violence had everyone, including police, running scared... [Victim] spent several sleepless nights caring for his five grandchildren and others in the area... He was that kind of man, relatives said — one who would protect children, who would fix his nieces' cars and mow their lawns, who would talk straight to his nephews. He was a straight arrow who didn't even drink, said his sister-in-law... wkyt.com/ ... 19:40:38NEW ORLEANS Louisiana officials are looking into allegations that New Orleans police officers stole Cadillacs from a dealer as Hurricane Katrina closed in. At first, the city's police chief said officers were using the cars for patrols. He said that was not looting. Now the department will only say it is cooperating with the state investigation. The Cadillac dealer president says more than 150 cars were taken, including 88 new Cadillacs and Chevys, used cars and customers' cars and two restored classic cars. Doug Stead says that amounts to more than four (m) million dollars... suntimes.com/ ... 19:37:37NEW ORLEANS -- Two New Orleans police officers repeatedly punched a 64-year-old man accused of public intoxication, and another city officer assaulted a TV producer as a cameraman taped the confrontations. There will be a criminal investigation, and the three officers were to be suspended, arrested and charged with simple battery Sunday...
Sportsmanshipap.tbo.com/ ... 18:58:18ELMWOOD PLACE, Ohio - Police were searching Monday for a man who allegedly drove his car into a crowd of people on a sidewalk, killing one and injuring five, after getting into a fight about a soccer match....
Whoops!ap.tbo.com/ ... 18:52:18DARLINGTON, S.C... An officer answering the alarm noticed tiles, insulation, wires and metal braces hanging from the roof and on the floor of the Check 'n Go... A naked man with scrapes all over his body then dropped from the ceiling and tried to open the front door and leave... "He had a charming story to go along with it though... He said somebody threw his keys on the roof and that's why he was up there. He kind of got a little fuzzy on the 'taking all his clothes off and sliding in the store' part..." The cash advance business doesn't keep money on the premises... ap.tbo.com/ ... 18:47:54LINCOLN, Neb... For 30 to 45 minutes Friday, three of the Kabredlo's Convenience Store's four pumps sold premium unleaded gas for 29 cents a gallon. Gas hasn't been that cheap since 1955, according to AAA Nebraska... lines formed at the store as news of the cheap fuel spread... "I was on E, and I filled my tank up for $4... It made my day..."
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 18:20:38us-flagArmy Sgt. Eric A. Fifer, 22, of Knoxville, Tenn. Fifer died in Al Asad, Iraq.
us-flagArmy Pfc. Nicholas J. Greer, 21, of Monroe, Mich. Greer died in Haqlaniyah, Iraq.
died of injuries sustained in Haqlaniyah, Iraq, on Oct. 7, when their dismounted patrol was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire.
defenselink.mil/ ... 18:18:48us-flagArmy Staff Sgt. Timothy J. Roark, 29, of Houston, Texas, died in Balad, Iraq, on Oct. 2, of a non-combat related injury. defenselink.mil/ ... 17:25:47us-flagArmy Pfc. Benny S. Franklin, 19, of Hammond, La., died in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Oct. 7, of injuries sustained earlier that day in Helmand, Afghanistan, when he stepped on a landmine during patrol operations. defenselink.mil/ ... 17:25:21us-flagArmy Sgt. 1st Class Moses E. Armstead, 44, of Rochester, N.Y., died at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany, on Oct. 6, of a non-combat related illness identified on Oct. 5, as he was returning from leave status and preparing to redeploy to Afghanistan.
Beatles - still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 19:01:33Paul MccartneyJohn LennonLONDON ...Yoko Ono picked up a special trophy at the Q Awards on behalf of John Lennon... Ono said Lennon had sometimes felt insecure about his songs, asking why "they always cover Paul's songs and never mine." "I said, 'You're a good songwriter, it's not June with Spoon that you write. You're a good singer, and most musicians are probably a little bit nervous about covering your songs...'"
...awards ...sponsored by British music magazine Q...
War of Independence still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 18:40:25SAVANNAH, Ga. - The Polish nobleman regarded as the father of the American cavalry finally received a hero's funeral on the 226th anniversary of the Revolutionary War battle in which he was mortally wounded. However, the mystery continues over whether the remains buried Sunday are those of Brig. Gen. Casimir Pulaski, a hero in Poland and among Polish-Americans for his sacrifice... After eight years of trying, investigators failed to extract a complete DNA sequence to compare with a living Pulaski descendant found in Poland... A regiment of Polish cavalrymen on horseback escorted the casket in a procession through the streets, followed by a riderless horse with empty boots in the stirrups... read funeral rites beneath the marble obelisk built to Pulaski in 1854, sprinkling the flag-draped casket with holy water and dirt from the gravesite... The bones had been entombed inside the marble monument in 1854 after they were discovered in an unmarked grave at the former family plantation of William P. Bowen. Bowen said his grandmother and aunt told him the grave was Pulaski's... other historical accounts.. say the general was buried at sea...
...Pulaski came to America in 1777, exiled from Poland after helping lead an uprising against Russian incursion. Recommended by George Washington, he took command of the colonial cavalry. After his legion of 600 troops helped fight off the British at Charleston, S.C., Pulaski headed to Savannah for the ill-fated battle to reclaim the captured city. He fell mortally wounded by grapeshot from a British cannon on Oct. 9, 1779.
Animal Culturetampabays10.com/ ... 17:37:32Miami Gardens, Florida - ...had been looking for her year-old Siamese Catcat for two days when her son pointed out the bulging Burmese pythonSnake slithering in her backyard... that bulge in the 12-foot snake is probably the missing 15-pound cat.... Earlier this month, authorities say a 13-foot python burst after it apparently tried to swallowAlligator a live, six-foot alligator whole...
SUN 2005-OCT-09
Nature is Dangerousap.tbo.com/ ... 09:03:28Angry villagers blocked roads in earthquake-ravaged regions of Indian-controlled Kashmir on Sunday, complaining the government was too slow in getting rescue and aid efforts to them. Hundreds were known dead... damage was severe in parts of Jammu-Kashmir. Collapsed houses and shops line the streets... Hundreds of people were injured... Mud, debris and knee-high slush from landslides blocked roads, cutting off many remote villages... Teams of doctors and Red Cross volunteers were traveling by road and on foot to remote areas in the mountains... ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:01:12More than 30,000 people have been killed in a massive earthquake that flattened dozens of villages and towns near the border between Pakistan and India... Villagers dug with their bare hands Sunday through the debris of a collapsed school, hoping to rescue children who had been heard crying beneath the rubble... Pakistan called Saturday's magnitude-7.6 earthquake the country's worst on record... "We are handling the worst disaster in Pakistan's history," chief army spokesman Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan said. In mountainous Kashmir, the dead included 250 girls at a school razed to the ground and more than 200 Pakistani soldiers on duty in the Himalayas. Near the ruins of one collapsed school, at least a dozen bodies were strewn on the streets and at least 250 pupils were feared trapped inside the rubble of the school... today.reuters.co.uk/ ... 08:41:35A Guatemalan village buried under tons of dirt and debris may be declared a Mayan mass grave as rescuers give up digging for the remains of up to 1,400 people killed in a mudslide triggered by Hurricane Stan. After days of heavy rain, mud, rocks and trees crashed down a volcano's slopes and into the Maya Indian village of Panabaj as people slept early on Wednesday, covering it in a quagmire up to 40 feet (12 meters) deep in places... sfgate.com/ ... 08:40:10Villagers desperate to find survivors dug with bare hands Sunday through the debris of a collapsed school where children had been heard crying beneath the rubble after a massive earthquake killed more than 30,000 people in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir alone... also struck India and Afghanistan, which reported hundreds dead...
Science Marches Onnnnnnnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 08:52:47Stem cells from amniotic fluid have been used to repair windpipe defects in unborn lambs while still in the womb... news.independent.co.uk/ ... 08:52:25British scientists have made a breakthrough in the control of malaria: by creating mosquitoes with fluorescent testicles... A laser beam then singles out the glowing larvae, which are then separated from the females. "This advance could have enormous implications for controlling mosquito populations... Now that we can identify males and females at an early stage, it will be possible to release sterile males into the population without the risk of releasing additional females..."
History - still with usnews.xinhuanet.com/ ... 08:48:16The description of the metropolis Shangdu (Xuanadu) by Marco Polo some 700 years ago has somewhat been confirmed by aerial photography, Yang Lin, director of the center of remote sensing and aerial photography of China's National Museum, told Xinhua on Saturday. "We can see the spectacular city with its scale and the densityof buildings," Yang said. The ruins have been overgrown with grass for more than 600 years... The capital Shangdu was built in 1256 under the command of Kublai Khan who was enthroned there four years later. It became a summer resort after the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) moved its capitalto present-day Beijing and was destroyed during a peasant war at the end of the dynasty. According to Marco Polo's Travel Notes, there were palaces madeof marble in the city, with the rooms gilded and painted, and the palaces were so exquisite that people derived both visual and mental satisfaction...
Because It's Therekantipuronline.com/ ... 08:43:40Chinese government announced Sunday that the summit rock of Mount Everest is 8,844.43 meters above sea level. The newly measured height is 3.7 meters shorter than the measurements of 8,848.13 meters; a figure obtained during the previous measurement in 1975...
US Militaryap.tbo.com/ ... 00:05:21RENO, Nev. - Military investigators have determined that a helicopter crash that killed five Army National Guardsmen in Afghanistan last month was the result of hostile fire, not an accident. ...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 08:55:57Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed!.. Two young brothers who try to make money from a lemonade stall... including "Congresswoman Clunkton" who tells the boys to reduce the amount of sugar in their lemonade and forces them to add a sprig of healthy broccoli to every glass... "Mayor Leach" who takes half the profits for tax and then squanders it on dustpans... the boys are ordered to take down a picture of Jesus by the civil liberties lawyer Mr Fussman and eventually lose the stand when it is taken over by the government of "Liberaland", at which point it goes broke...
Internet Threattoday.reuters.co.uk/ ... 08:53:18Traffic resumed between two feuding Internet access providers on Friday, mending a rift that had blocked off portions of the Internet for thousands of users over the past two days...
Preternatural Patternssouthflorida.com/ ... 08:50:53MEDFORD, Ore... A registered sex offender who fashioned a loin cloth from a rope and... a strip of leopard-print vinyl peeled from the seat of a lawn chair... was arrested near a high school, where he asked four girls for a ride to the mall or a motel... appeared to be covered in feces...
Transport Troubleap.tbo.com/ ... 00:06:00An airliner en route from New York City to Miami made a precautionary landing at Washington Dulles International Airport on Saturday night after smoke was reported aboard...
SAT 2005-OCT-08
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 11:38:55NEW YORK ...9-year-old girl... Shanice... pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter Friday, admitting she... admitted she stabbed... 11-year-old playmate... Queen... once in the chest at a Memorial Day gathering in Brooklyn... fatally... after a tug-of-war over a rubber ball went sour... Judge.. ordered.. Shanice remain in a non-secure setting pending sentencing [and] ordered an investigation into the child's background.... Police.. could not recall a younger suspect being arrested for a killing in the city... ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:29:37TAMPA, Fla. - Police officers shot and killed a man and the woman he was holding hostage after he fired a shotgun at them... "He has the woman in a headlock with the gun pointed at her head... He spots an officer to his right, levels the shotgun at the officer and fires at the officer..." Tampa Police Chief Stephen Hogue said officers typically don't shoot at suspects holding hostages... "It developed very quickly, and the suspect forced the issue by coming out of the room with the hostage and shooting at police...." The SWAT team and a hostage negotiator had been called but hadn't arrived yet.... shootings came soon after [he] had held another woman, his girlfriend, hostage at her condominium for more than seven hours... She broke away and called police, but [he] fled before officers arrived. The girlfriend told police he had used crack cocaine throughout the night... still trying to determine how Brewer knew the woman who died. The first gunshots inside the motel room hit a Dogdog, which was wounded. ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:24:41Five farm workers... arrested Thursday... beat a German woman [38] to death and hid her body on her ranch in a mountain city near Rio de Janeiro... The farm workers claimed they were mistreated and threatened by [her. She] had a history of violent behavior... was charged three times for shooting at hikers and killing a neighbor's cow that was on her property... ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:20:52Gunmen opened fired on the motorcade of a Jamaican member of parliament, killing her motorcycle escort as they drove through one of the Caribbean's most violent cities... Olivia Grange, parliamentarian for the opposition Labor Party... represents Spanish Town several miles west of Kingston... For three years, Spanish Town was the scene of battles between two politically aligned gangs, the Clansman, which supports the governing party, and One Order, which supports the opposition. Jamaica is struggling with its worst violent crime wave on record. More than 1,250 people have been killed this year on the Caribbean island of 2.6 million, compared to 1,467 in 2004. Police blame the violence on well-armed street gangs vying for control of lucrative drug and extortion rings... ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:14:07PHILADELPHIA - A man shot and killed two women at two different strip malls on Friday and then turned the gun on himself... officer witnessed the man shoot a woman inside a car at the first strip mall around 10 a.m... followed the man to another shopping center, where he shot another bystander... an on-duty officer shot the suspect, who then killed himself...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 00:00:04us-flagMarine Cpl. Nicholas O. Cherava, 21, of Ontonagon, Mich.
us-flagMarine Pfc. Jason L. Frye, 19, of Landisburg, Pa.
died Oct. 6 from an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces near Al Karmah, Iraq.
defenselink.mil/ ... 23:59:29us-flagMarine Lance Cpl. Shayne M. Cabino, 19, of Canton, Mass., died Oct. 6 from an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces near Al Karmah, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 11:54:05us-flagMarine Lance Cpl. Patrick B. Kenny, 20, of Pittsburgh, Pa., died Oct. 6 from an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces near Al Karmah, Iraq.
us-flagMarine Lance Cpl. Daniel M. McVicker, 20, of Alliance, Ohio, died Oct. 6 from an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces near Al Qaim, Iraq.
defenselink.mil/ ... 11:53:24us-flagArmy Spc. Jeremiah W. Robinson, 20, of Mesa, Ariz., died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 6, of injuries sustained there on Oct. 5, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV during convoy operations. Robinson was assigned to the Army National Guard.
Whoops!ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:47:58Russian and European teams searched for an experimental mini-spacecraft on the eastern peninsula of Kamchatka on Saturday, a day after the prototype was test-launched from a nuclear submarine thousands of miles away... was reported to have descended toward its target on time... engineers had no communication with the craft and had to call off the search at nightfall... ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:45:49...The script called for the governor to say: "It's time to drop the puck. So everybody say it with me - 'Let's play hockey!'" It was the governor's tripping over the word "puck" that provoked the snickers. Instead of telling people to drop the puck, he used a very similar-sounding word... "It was an unfortunate slip of the tongue, and I am sorry for that. I tried my best to say it as they wanted me to say it, and it just came out..."
Science and Justiceap.tbo.com/ ... 11:52:51Dead Lab Worker's Records Mean Freedom to Convicts... RICHMOND, Va. ...The forensic scientist cut off the tip of a cotton swab and taped it to a lab sheet next to a snippet of stained clothing. Always save a piece of what you test, Mary Jane Burton instructed her watchful trainee. But why? This was 1977, years before the invention of DNA testing. Yet day after day, she repeated this seemingly pointless procedure under the glow of the cramped laboratory's fluorescent lights - taping swabs smeared with blood, semen and saliva and inserting them into their case files...
Rebuildingap.tbo.com/ ... 11:47:09CHAGCHARAN, Afghanistan ...NATO's top brass flew into this regional capital this week to evaluate the expansion into the most dangerous parts of a land that refused to be pacified by Moscow's troops in the 1980s. Under plans up for approval by the 26 allies in November, the NATO mission could almost double in size over the next year to as many to 17,000 troops... The changes appear set to make NATO the predominant security force in Afghanistan...
Fire can be friend or foeap.tbo.com/ ... 11:36:24Fire destroyed a [Lawrence] Kansas apartment building Friday, sending 19 people to the hospital and forcing some tenants to jump to safety from the second and third floors... Three people were missing after the blaze at the Boardwalk Apartments... destroyed 75 apartments... Many of the residents were University of Kansas students...
...two North Carolina State University students died Friday in a fire near campus... among eight members of Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity who shared the duplex....
[Causes not determined in either instance]
FRI 2005-OCT-07
Sociopath Threatsbreitbart.com/ ... 12:07:50...A discarded soda bottle filled with an unidentified green liquid was found at the station during morning rush hour, Amtrak officials said. The substance did not pose a threat to passengers and was removed for testing. A majority of the station was reopened by about 10:45 a.m., more than an hour after it was closed... ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:58:08Authorities closed part of Penn Station on Friday... after a newly disclosed terror threat against the New York subway system. Workers in hazardous material suits, National Guardsmen and police with dogs were at the transportation hub beneath Madison Square Garden by late morning. "We do have a police situation at Penn Station," said Amtrak spokeswoman Marice Golgoski, who declined to elaborate. "The Amtrak police and the NYPD are involved..." ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:39:48A newly disclosed terror threat against the New York subway has raised the specter of an attack with explosives concealed in a baby stroller and prompted an underground show of force by the nation's largest police department... Homeland Security officials in Washington downplayed the threat, saying it's of "doubtful credibility..." ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:13:41New York City officials stepped up security after receiving a credible threat against the city's mass transit system... An estimated 4.5 million passengers ride the New York subway on an average weekday. The system has more than 468 subway stations... ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:08:31President Bush referred in speech Thursday to 10 al-Qaida plots foiled by the U.S. and its allies in the past four years... - mid-2002... targets on the West Coast of the United States using hijacked airplanes... - mid-2003... targets on the East Coast of the United States using hijacked commercial airplanes... - May 2002... blowing up apartment buildings in the United States... [with] possibility of using a "dirty bomb..." - mid-2004... using explosives against a variety of urban targets in the United Kingdom... - spring of 2003... attack Westerners at several targets in Karachi, Pakistan. - 2003... attack Heathrow Airport using hijacked commercial airliners. - spring of 2004... to conduct large-scale bombings in the U.K. - late 2002 and 2003... attack ships in the Arabian Gulf. - 2002... attack ships transiting the Straits of Hormuz. - 2003... attack a tourist site outside the United States. The White House also listed what it call five "casings and infiltrations" [of]... important U.S. government and tourist targets within the United States... U.S. gas stations and their support mechanisms... exploring the destruction of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York... [a facilitator of] post-Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S.... conduct[ing] reconnaissance on populated areas in the U.S...
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 09:57:04Bomb blasts killed six Marines in western Iraq, and U.S. forces killed 29 militants in U.S. offensives... In southern Iraq, British troops detained 12 militiamen loyal to a radical Shiite cleric in the city of Basra, accusing them of carrying out recent attacks on British and U.S. troops... On Thursday, warplanes dropped four precision-guided bombs on an abandoned three-story hotel seized by militants in the town of Karabilah, near the Syrian border... Twenty militants were killed... Seven more insurgents were killed when planes destroyed three buildings from which gunmen were firing on Marines, and two gunmen were killed in fighting in Karabilah... ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:35:23Assailants with assault rifles attacked a mosque belonging to a small Muslim sect in eastern Pakistan early Friday, killing at least eight people and wounding 19... mosque belonging to Ahmadiyya sect... in the village of Mong, about 240 miles northeast of Multan, a main city in the eastern Punjab province... ...An estimated 150 of the 18,000 people in Mong belong to the Ahmadiyya sect. The sect was founded in 1889 by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, a 19th century Indian religious leader who claimed to be a prophet seeking Islam's renewal. The religious group differs with other mainstream Muslim groups over the definition of Islam's founder Mohammad being the "final" prophet. Ahmadiyas have been persecuted and ostracized in many countries, including mainly Sunni Muslim Pakistan, where a law dating to the 1970s forbids them to call themselves Muslim... ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:20:43NORMAN, Okla. - A University of Oklahoma student tried to buy fertilizer of the type used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing two days before he committed suicide using explosives outside a packed football stadium... the attempted purchase raised the suspicions of an off-duty officer who happened to be in the feed store at the time. But though an investigation was begun, authorities were not able to act swiftly enough to stop the student from taking his own life... ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:14:31BELLEVILLE, Ill. - A man was arrested Thursday in the slayings of his former girlfriend, her infant and two acquaintances in a suburban St. Louis apartment... ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:00:25OLYMPIA, Wash. - A 10-mile freeway chase ended early Wednesday when the man pursued by police killed himself... began sometime after 3:30 a.m... suspected of driving drunk... spike strip.. flattened his tires... crashed into a concrete barrier... After the crash.. man appeared agitated and took pictures of officers with his cell phone... then dialed 911 and asked.. officers back off for a minute... five minutes later... officer moved to open the car door... The man drew a gun and shot himself in the head... "That bullet almost hit one of the officers..."
Science Marches Onnnnnnap.tbo.com/ ... 01:11:36This year's other Ig Nobel winners include...
MEDICINE: prosthetic testicles for neutered dogs...
PHYSICS: researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia... tracking a glob of congealed black tar as it drips through a funnel - at a rate of one drop every nine years...
PEACE: Two researchers at Newcastle University in England monitored the brain activity of locusts as they watched clips from the movie "Star Wars."
CHEMISTRY: An experiment at the University of Minnesota was designed to prove whether people can swim faster or slower in syrup than in water.
LITERATURE: to the Nigerians who introduced millions of e-mail users to a "cast of rich characters ... each of whom requires just a small amount of expense money so as to obtain access to the great wealth to which they are entitled."
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 00:56:35us-flagNavy Petty Officer 2nd Class Brian K. Joplin, 32, of Hugo, Okla., was killed Oct. 4, when he fell out of a U.S. Navy MH-53 helicopter during a regularly scheduled training mission in the Central Arabian Gulf. Joplin was assigned to Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 15. defenselink.mil/ ... 00:53:58us-flagArmy Sgt. Bryan W. Large, 31, of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
us-flagArmy Spc. Jacob T. Vanderbosch, 21, of Vadnais Heights, Minn.
us-flagArmy Pfc. Roberto C. Baez, 19, of Tampa, Fla.
died in Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq, on Oct. 3, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their HMMWV during combat operations.
defenselink.mil/ ... 00:53:06us-flagArmy Staff Sgt. Jens E. Schelbert, 31, of New Orleans, La., died in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, on Oct. 1, when his forward operating base was attacked by enemy forces using indirect fire. defenselink.mil/ ... 00:52:42us-flagArmy Sgt. Larry W. Pankey Jr., 34, of Morrison, Colo., died at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 3, of non-combat related injuries sustained in Balad, Iraq, on Sept. 23. Pankey was assigned to the Army Reserve's 467th Engineer Battalion. defenselink.mil/ ... 00:52:08us-flagArmy Spc. Joshua J. Kynoch, 23, of Santa Rosa, Calif., died in Bayji, Iraq, on Oct. 1, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his M2A2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle during convoy operations. defenselink.mil/ ... 00:51:41us-flagMarine Pfc. Andrew D. Bedard, 19, of Missoula, Mont., died Oct. 4 from an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Ar Ramadi, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 00:50:17us-flagArmy Staff Sgt. Sean B. Berry, 26, of Mansfield, Texas, died in Taqaddum, Iraq, on Oct. 3 of non-combat related injuries.
US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 00:49:25This week, the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard announced a decrease in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization. The net collective result is 5,794 fewer reservists mobilized than last week.
Broadcast is Deadnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:08:21Veteran UK broadcaster Sir David Frost is to join Arabic-language TV station al-Jazeera, the network has confirmed...
Billions and Billions...ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:32:01The Senate voted Friday to give President Bush $50 billion more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S. military efforts against terrorism, money that would push total spending for the operations beyond $350 billion. [Senate:] 97-0 vote... would also put restrictions on the treatment of detainees who are suspected terrorists - a provision that has drawn a White House veto threat... $50 billion should last through the first half of the year...
Rebuildingap.tbo.com/ ... 09:54:44YATTA, West Bank - Palestinian police went door-to-door early Friday in this West Bank town and arrested 30 suspected criminals in a crackdown aimed at restoring law and order in the chaotic territories... a previously unknown group said it had kidnapped three leaders of the Islamic group Hamas in three West Bank towns... accused Hamas of putting itself above the law... More than 200 policemen participated in Friday's raid in Yatta, searching for drug and arms dealers and other wanted criminals... Villagers said they could not recall such a heavy crackdown by Palestinian police...
Opposing Digital Tyrannytechnology.guardian.co.uk/ ... 01:48:11After troubled negotiations in Geneva, the US may be forced to relinquish control of the internet to a coalition of governments... breitbart.com/ ... 01:42:32...the Delaware Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed a lower court decision requiring an Internet service provider to disclose the identity of an anonymous blogger who targeted a local elected official...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinbreitbart.com/ ... 01:44:26A woman was booted off a Southwest Airlines flight for wearing a T- shirt that bore an expletive and images of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice... said she plans to press a civil- rights complaint... several passengers complained... "Here we are trying to free another country and I have to get off an airplane ... over a T-shirt. That's not freedom..." [get a CLUE!] drudgereport.com/ ... 01:39:39Louis Freeh Speaks for the First Time About his Terrible Relationship with President Clinton... "The problem was with Bill Clinton -- the scandals and the rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out..." news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:28:42The White House has dismissed as "absurd" allegations made in a BBC TV series that President Bush claimed God told him to invade Iraq. "He's never made such comments," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. The comments were attributed to Mr Bush by the Palestinian negotiator Nabil Shaath in the upcoming TV series Elusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs...
Modern Family Lifeap.tbo.com/ ... 01:18:32A woman who gave birth to triplets using donated eggs is the legal mother of the children even though she has no genetic link to them, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled Thursday...
Industrial Incidentap.tbo.com/ ... 01:17:51POINT COMFORT, Texas - At least eight people were injured Thursday.. at least one [seriously]... in a series of explosions and a fire at a plastics plant in southern Texas... many of the town's nearly 1,000 residents had evacuated voluntarily... appeared no toxic materials had been released into the air...
Oh! The Irony!ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:15:44The Rolling Stones' concert at the University of Virginia was interrupted Thursday night while several police officers and three bomb-sniffing dogs searched the stage. The show resumed after about a half-hour intermission... about the first 20 rows of spectators were cleared until police finished their work. The Rolling Stones are touring North America to promote their latest album, "A Bigger Bang."
CD/DVD/etc is Deadap.tbo.com/ ... 01:01:11Movie-rental giant Blockbuster Inc. said Thursday that its online service won't add new customers as quickly as expected and that same-store rental revenues fell in the third quarter but not as badly as at other stores. Blockbuster said it still expects to reach 2 million customers for its online DVD rental service next year, but not in the first quarter as company officials had forecast...
WED 2005-OCT-05
Hurricanes Aftermathap.tbo.com/ ... 09:39:08New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said the city is now forced to lay off half its workforce because of financial troubles thanks to Hurricane Katrina... [insult to injury] columbiatribune.com/ ... 01:44:55Tale of the forbidden pillow offers insights into FEMA work... many of the firefighters who were sent to the Gulf Coast.. never got an opportunity to do [their] job... One of them, a Missouri firefighter who used to ply his trade in Boone County, kept his wife informed of his exploits, and she kept a diary... sptimes.com/ ... 01:40:20MADEIRA BEACH, Fla--...opened her mother's mail last week to find two checks worth nearly $6,000 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency... [But they] haven't housed any evacuees. "I was shocked when they came, and certainly I never considered cashing them... The way it was written out, I could have cashed it!.."
World Zookeepingap.tbo.com/ ... 09:34:03Fishy FEDERAL WAY, Wash. - Two high school boys swallowed goldfish at a school assembly and were punished with a stern talking-to. Animal rights activists say that's not enough... ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:32:45Chimp...Ai Ai, began scavenging cigarette butts left by visitors at the Qinling Safari Park in the late 1980's after her first mate, Jian Jian, died... Zookeepers eventually began giving Ai Ai cigarettes of her own and lighting them... She was smoking between eight and 10 cigarettes a day before zookeepers decided in August to help her kick the habit....
Transport Troublehonoluluadvertiser.com/ ... 01:47:42Hawaii... Under state law, parking tickets are attached to the motor vehicle, not the registered owner, so the unpaid fines must be dealt with before the car registration can be renewed...
Theory of Educationlocal6.com/ ... 01:42:25A substitute teacher in Lake County, Fla., was terminated and banned from teaching in the county after he ripped out a student's insulin pump during class apparently thinking it was a ringing cell phone... Witnesses said... teacher.. asked the student what the beeping was... then grabbed the device, thinking it was a cell phone beeping and detached the tube that connects the insulin pump to the student's leg. The student went to the school's clinic and had the tube reinserted...
Nature is Dangerousnews.scotsman.com/ ... 00:07:41AN AMERICAN surgeon said yesterday that he would attempt to separate two Indian sisters joined at the head, if their parents agree. Benjamin Carson, of Johns Hopkins Children's Centre in Baltimore, said the separation was possible using an untried procedure in which cerebral fluid would be utilised to erode the girls' brains over several months to create a separation... While the girls' brains are joined, between the join there is a microscopic channel running vertically. The brain sits in a sac of cerebral fluid which pulses in tune with the heart. The surgeon's plan is to pull the brains apart just enough to create a wider channel and allow the cerebral fluid to penetrate the channel... [age not mentioned, but] "The girls sometimes have different opinions about things. Their solution is never to do anything unless they both agree to it. There are never any fights...."
TUE 2005-OCT-04
Hurricanes Aftermathnola.com/ ... 22:52:29The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which was accused of mismanagement, fraud and wasting money after last year's four hurricanes, has asked more than 7,600 Floridians to return $30.3 million in emergency hurricane aid... [Oh, yeah, here, I kept it all in a jar...]
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 22:37:18us-flagArmy Sgt. Marshall A. Westbrook, 43, of Farmington, N.M., died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 1, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV. Westbrook was assigned to the Army National Guard. defenselink.mil/ ... 22:36:31us-flagMarine Cpl. John R. Stalvey, 22, of Conroe, Texas, died Oct. 3 from an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces during Operation Iron Fist in Karabilah, Iraq.
US Judicial Branchap.tbo.com/ ... 22:57:24A federal judge on Tuesday struck down part of a California law that restricts banks from selling consumers' private information to their affiliates, ruling that the state law is pre-empted by federal rules.... news.yahoo.com/ ... 22:56:13William Kristol... I'm depressed. Roberts for O'Connor was an unambiguous improvement. Roberts for Rehnquist was an appropriate replacement. But moving Roberts over to the Rehnquist seat meant everything rode on this nomination--and that the president had to be ready to fight on constitutional grounds for a strong nominee. Apparently, he wasn't. It is very hard to avoid the conclusion that President Bush flinched from a fight on constitutional philosophy. Miers is undoubtedly a decent and competent person. But her selection will unavoidably be judged as reflecting a combination of cronyism and capitulation on the part of the president... townhall.com/ ... 22:51:36Miers is the wrong pick, by George Will... First, it is not important that she be confirmed. Second, it might be very important that she not be. Third, the presumption -- perhaps rebuttable but certainly in need of rebutting -- should be that her nomination is not a defensible exercise of presidential discretion to which senatorial deference is due... the president has forfeited his right to be trusted as a custodian of the Constitution...
Industrial Incidentap.tbo.com/ ... 22:42:51MARION, Ind. - Construction workers mistakenly cut a live wire at a former television picture-tube plant, sparking an explosion Tuesday that critically burned a worker and injured four others...
Feeding Ourselvesap.tbo.com/ ... 22:42:18FOOD RECALL -About 180 bags of cornmeal mix, sold by The White Lily Foods Co., because the cornmeal contains undeclared wheat flour, which can cause a severe reaction in those allergic to it....
Modern Family Lifeap.tbo.com/ ... 22:41:23HYDERABAD, India - A man who kept the embalmed body of his mother at home in a glass casket for 21 years was buried along with her after his death...
MON 2005-OCT-03
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 23:24:54The father of a University of Oklahoma student who committed suicide outside a packed football stadium using explosives said Monday his son didn't intend to harm anyone else or push a political agenda... said his son did not leave a suicide note and that FBI agents told him hydrogen peroxide was used to construct the bomb... ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:49:00Bombs exploded almost simultaneously Monday at three court buildings in Bangladeshi towns, killing two people... suspicion quickly fell on communist radicals and Islamic militants, each fighting separately to overthrow the government... ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:46:42The U.S. launched airstrikes Monday in a town on the Euphrates River in western Iraq, part of a three-day offensive against insurgents that has killed at least 36 militants since the fighting began... No serious U.S. casualties have been reported in the "Iron Fist" offensive... In Baghdad, Iraq's oil minister narrowly survived an assassination attempt Monday when a roadside bomb blasted his seven-car convoy, killing three of his escorts... A U.S. soldier died Saturday of wounds suffered after being hit by indirect fire in Ramadi... Roadside bombs and fighting between insurgents and Iraqi forces wounded at least seven Iraqis in Ramadi... Insurgents in black hoods were seen carrying machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades in the streets... Mosul.. drive-by shooting killed Nafi'a Aziz, a female member of Ninevah's provincial council, and her son... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 10:38:30Local and federal agents were carting away what was described as a huge cache of explosives from the apartment of the 21-year-old student who blew himself up outside the stadium where 84,000 watched a Sooners football game. Joel Henry Hinrichs III, 21, a junior from Colorado Springs, Colo., died in the explosion... web.israelinsider.com/ ... 10:35:32Palestinian police and Hamas militants waged gunbattles across Gaza City on Sunday night that killed three people, including a police officer, and wounded 47 others, including 10 police officers...
Digital Cultureap.tbo.com/ ... 18:11:29The digital music market has more than tripled in a year, and that has helped offset a continuing decline in sales of CDs and other physical formats... digital music sales totaled $790 million in the first half of this year, equivalent to 6 percent of industry sales... ap.tbo.com/ ... 18:09:16Airlines, theme parks, restaurants, tourism offices and others in travel and tourism are eligible for Web sites and e-mail addresses ending in ".travel"...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 17:59:34us-flagArmy Staff Sgt. John G. Doles, 29, of Claremore, Okla., died in Shah Wali, Afghanistan, on Sept. 30, during patrol operations when his unit was attacked by enemy forces using rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire. defenselink.mil/ ... 17:58:53us-flagArmy Sgt. 1st Class James J. Stoddard Jr., 29, of Crofton, Md., died in Afghanistan on Sept. 30, when his vehicle accidentally rolled over.
Sanity May Yet Prevailabcnews.go.com/ ... 10:34:53SHOCKING POLL RESULTS!! Most Americans rule out either a deliberate act of God or the effect of global warming as direct causes of the recent Gulf Coast hurricanes... two-thirds.. see them as an occurrence on God's Earth, but not a deliberate act on God's part... 54 percent think that the severity of recent hurricanes mainly reflects "severe weather events that happen from time to time," rather than the effects of global climate change...
Animal Culturethesun.co.uk/ ... 09:16:55DogSTRAY dogs are being skewered on hooks and dragged behind boats as live shark bait... The cruel practice takes place on French-controlled Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, where Prince William spent two holidays... [WARNING: really ugly graphic of skewered live dog]
Feeding Ourselvesap.tbo.com/ ... 10:54:29The Food and Drug Administration is warning people not to eat certain Dole pre-packaged salads that have been connected to an outbreak of E. coli infections in Minnesota. ..salads carrying the same production codes have been distributed nationwide... At least 11.. sickened... Two.. hospitalized... The particular type of E. coli connected to the salads is known as O157:H7. An infection can cause bloody diarrhea and abdominal cramps. Most healthy adults recover within a week, but children under 5 and the elderly are at risk for complications that can lead to kidney damage or death...
Policing Ourselvesap.tbo.com/ ... 10:49:38More than three dozen Palestinian police officers broke into the parliament building in Gaza City on Monday, firing in the air to protest a lack of bullets and equipment in what they said was a humiliating confrontation with Hamas...
US Judicial Branchhumaneventsonline.com/ ... 23:17:28...by Patrick J. Buchanan... Handed a once-in-a-generation opportunity to return the Supreme Court to constitutionalism, George W. Bush passed over a dozen of the finest jurists of his day -- to name his personal lawyer. In a decision deeply disheartening to those who invested such hopes in him, Bush may have tossed away his and our last chance to roll back the social revolution imposed upon us by our judicial dictatorship since the days of Earl Warren... ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:52:49Reaction to President Bush's Nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court ..."It is the responsibility of every generation to be true to the founders' vision of the proper role of the courts in our society. If confirmed, I recognize that I will have a tremendous responsibility to keep our judicial system strong and help ensure that the courts meet their obligation to strictly apply the law and the Constitution." - Harriet Miers. ..."The Supreme Court would benefit from the addition of a justice who has real experience as a practicing lawyer. The current justices have all been chosen from the lower federal courts. A nominee with relevant non-judicial experience would bring a different and useful perspective to the court." - Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada. ..."This is a smart move. You try to pick a nominee that Democrats won't be able to criticize as much because they are a woman or minority. This is a classic Clarence Thomas strategy." Artemus Ward, Northern Illinois University political science professor. whitehouse.gov/ ... 10:44:14Text of President's nomination of Harriet Miers as Supreme Court Justice, and Miers' acceptance.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 10:31:59President Bush today nominated a Texas lawyer who serves as White House counsel, Harriet Miers, to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court – a pick that apparently was pre-approved by Senate Democratic leadership. In choosing Miers, Bush tapped a person who has never been a judge and therefore has no judicial record for opponents to criticize...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinworldnetdaily.com/ ... 10:28:33CS...Cindy Sheehan.. has elevated "second guessing" to a new art form. "Why did my son have to die?" Ms. Sheehan wants to ask President Bush. Simple answer: He didn't have to die, he could have made the choice to become a doctor, lawyer, electrician, accountant, truck driver, carpenter or garbage man, but instead, Casey Sheehan chose to become a soldier. Of course, being an accountant, lawyer or truck driver also has its risks. You may be one of the 42,600 who will meet their Maker on the roadways this year... One has to wonder: Is Casey Sheehan rolling over in his grave in disgust seeing his mother use his gravestone as a steppingstone for the anti-war movement?.. drudgereport.com/ ... 09:11:39DSDonald Sutherland: "They were inept. The were inadequate to the task, and they lied... And they were insulting, and they were vindictive. And they were heartless. They did not care. They do not care. They do not care about Iraqi people. They do not care about the families of dead soldiers. They only care about profit." At one point during the session, Sutherland started crying: "We stolen our children's future... We have children. We have children. How dare we take their legacy from them. How dare we. It's shameful. What we are doing to our world..."
SUN 2005-OCT-02
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 23:48:18A University of Oklahoma student with "emotional difficulties" was identified Sunday as the person who apparently committed suicide near a packed football stadium using an explosive attached to his body... ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:47:20MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan - Assailants fired rockets at a Pakistani army base Sunday, killing a soldier and four government employees in a spate of violence in the lawless tribal area along the Afghan border,,, About 20 rockets were fired before dawn... In South Waziristan, masked gunmen killed the 20-year-old son of an elder who helped track down Islamic militants last year... two suspected militants were killed at a checkpoint... washingtonpost.com/ ... 09:56:47Suicide bombers targeted the Indonesian resort of Bali with coordinated attacks that devastated three crowded restaurants, killing at least 25 people. Two men linked to even deadlier blasts at the same resort in 2002 were suspected of masterminding the strikes... ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:22:57Hundreds of U.S. troops combed through a village near the Syrian border Sunday, breaking into houses and fighting sporadic gun battles with gunmen on the second day of a new offensive against al-Qaida insurgents. At least eight militants were killed... ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:22:22A 4-year-old girl abandoned on a city street has been asking for the mother she says looks "like a princess" as authorities consider how best to break the news the woman is dead... Police searched Sunday for the body of 26-year-old Monica Lozada-Rivaineira, a day after Cesar Ascarrunz, 32, was arrested on murder charges. Police say the two lived together and Ascarrunz killed her and dumped her corpse in a pile of trash on a Queens street corner... ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:11:43NORMAN, Okla. - One person was killed in an explosion near a packed football stadium at the University of Oklahoma on Saturday night in what authorities said appeared to be a suicide... in a traffic circle about 100 yards from Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, could be heard by some in the crowd of 84,000, but... no one inside the stadium was ever in danger...
Jesus Sellstoday.reuters.com/ ... 10:06:32Sony has apologized for an advertising campaign for its PlayStation game console which featured a young man wearing a crown of thorns with the slogan "Ten years of passion"...
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