Hi there, !
Today Sat 07/22/2006 Fri 07/21/2006 Thu 07/20/2006 Wed 07/19/2006 Tue 07/18/2006 Mon 07/17/2006 Sun 07/16/2006 Archives
Rantburg
531692 articles and 1855967 comments are archived on Rantburg.

Today: 118 articles and 730 comments as of 12:35.
Post a news link    Post your own article   
Area: WoT Operations    WoT Background    Non-WoT    Opinion       
IAF foils rocket transports from Syria
Today's Headlines
Headline Comments [Views]
Page 5: Russia-Former Soviet Union
4 00:00 Seafarious [] 
6 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [] 
2 00:00 Besoeker [] 
8 00:00 Crerelet Flamp6464 [1] 
25 00:00 AzCat [] 
11 00:00 mcsegeek1 [] 
13 00:00 WhiteCollarRedneck [1] 
4 00:00 anonymous5089 [] 
5 00:00 Mike [] 
1 00:00 gorb [1] 
7 00:00 Besoeker [] 
1 00:00 eLarson [] 
0 [] 
2 00:00 6 [] 
3 00:00 Old Grouch [] 
1 00:00 KBK [] 
Page 1: WoT Operations
5 00:00 Glase Chavise4984 []
7 00:00 C-Low [1]
17 00:00 Poison Reverse [1]
40 00:00 Poison Reverse []
0 []
4 00:00 3dc []
6 00:00 Captain America []
5 00:00 ed []
6 00:00 C-Low []
5 00:00 ed []
2 00:00 Chuck Simmins []
4 00:00 Fordesque []
48 00:00 trailing wife []
14 00:00 Frank G []
22 00:00 gorb []
5 00:00 Omoluper Chert8271 []
0 []
7 00:00 trailing wife []
11 00:00 trailing wife []
7 00:00 Barbara Skolaut []
1 00:00 mhw []
15 00:00 trailing wife []
14 00:00 Glenmore []
0 []
0 []
2 00:00 Anonymoose []
4 00:00 Snimp Ebbinelet1809 []
6 00:00 twobyfour [1]
9 00:00 Besoeker []
1 00:00 Rightwing []
39 00:00 ed []
12 00:00 radrh8r []
0 []
0 []
0 []
16 00:00 ed []
4 00:00 Frank G [1]
3 00:00 IDF/IAF []
14 00:00 flash91 []
0 [1]
12 00:00 john []
5 00:00 Nimble Spemble []
0 [1]
0 []
2 00:00 Sparkle Farkle []
3 00:00 Mullah Me Dead Now []
0 []
0 []
0 []
6 00:00 Old Patriot [1]
2 00:00 trailing wife []
1 00:00 bigjim-ky []
1 00:00 mojo []
0 []
0 []
4 00:00 6 []
0 []
1 00:00 gorb []
13 00:00 6 []
0 []
1 00:00 Frozen Al []
0 []
Page 2: WoT Background
0 []
2 00:00 phil_b []
4 00:00 trailing wife []
2 00:00 Fred []
1 00:00 ed []
1 00:00 jay-dubya []
9 00:00 Tony (UK) []
1 00:00 Spot []
18 00:00 Oldspook []
3 00:00 trailing wife []
4 00:00 OregonGuy []
5 00:00 gorb []
4 00:00 mojo []
1 00:00 Rambler []
1 00:00 bigjim-ky []
1 00:00 49 Pan []
4 00:00 6 []
0 []
30 00:00 ed []
14 00:00 gromgoru []
2 00:00 PlanetDan []
0 []
Page 3: Non-WoT
2 00:00 anonymous2u []
0 []
6 00:00 Warthog []
2 00:00 mojo []
14 00:00 gorb [1]
3 00:00 djohn66 []
2 00:00 Thromort Glomoger4987 []
Page 4: Opinion
2 00:00 Madeleine Albright []
3 00:00 trailing wife []
1 00:00 trailing wife []
9 00:00 Barbara Skolaut []
16 00:00 6 []
4 00:00 Capsu78 []
4 00:00 J. D. Lux []
36 00:00 JFM []
3 00:00 gromgoru []
13 00:00 Frank G []
3 00:00 JSU []
-Lurid Crime Tales-
Family wallops would-be robber, wraps things up for police
Posted by: anonymous2u || 07/19/2006 14:57 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Boy, when things go wrong..."
-- The Producers
Posted by: mojo || 07/19/2006 15:52 Comments || Top||

#2  When police arrived, the family said the officers ordered Candelaria to step away from Mack. But before she stood up, the housewife gave him a final sock in the face. Police took him away.

So much for Big Mack!
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/19/2006 16:40 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Queen size electric blankets, why do they hate pythons?
KETCHUM, Idaho - It took surgery to save a 12-foot Burmese python after it swallowed an entire queen-size electric blanket — with the electrical cord and control box. The blanket must have gotten tangled up in the snake's rabbit dinner, owner Karl Beznoska said. He kept the blanket in the cage to keep the 60-pound reptile, named Houdini, warm. "Somehow, he was able to unplug the electric cord," Beznoska said Wednesday. "He at least wasn't hooked up to the power. It might have been pretty warm there."

Veterinarian Karsten Fostvedt conducted a two-hour operation on the python Tuesday, and said afterward, "The prognosis is great." Neither Fostvedt nor fellow veterinarian Barry Rathfon had operated on a snake before. "We just basically called a couple of specialists and they told us where to go in," Fostvedt said. X-rays showed the tangle of the blanket's wiring extending through about 8 feet of the python's digestive tract. The surgery to remove it took an 18-inch incision. Specialists at the University of California-Davis School of Veterinary Medicine told them it probably would have taken Houdini six hours to swallow the blanket and the snake probably would have died without the operation.

Beznoska, a retired ski instructor who now works as a draftsman and carpenter, is from Austria and moved to the resort area in 1965. He has had Houdini for 16 years and takes him to local schools for show-and-tell.
Posted by: Seafarious || 07/19/2006 17:32 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You're supposed to keep the heating unit *underneath* the cage, not in it.
Posted by: Iblis || 07/19/2006 18:28 Comments || Top||

#2  D'oh
Posted by: DanNY || 07/19/2006 19:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Damn Bush and his obstinate refusal to recognize man-made Global Cooling. Why else would this poor snake feel the urge to swallow a heating blanket?
Posted by: Dreadnought || 07/19/2006 21:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Poor li'l python.
Posted by: Seafarious || 07/19/2006 23:34 Comments || Top||


2-faced kitten missing from Grove City home
More on that very pressing and ground-shaking story.


A kitten born last week with two faces has disappeared from its Grove City home, the family said last night.

The male kitten, which was born along with two normal kittens, has been missing since early Saturday morning, said Rick Hickman, who lives at the home.

His wife, Michelle, had fed the kitten after she arrived home from work just after midnight Friday and had left him in a box with the other kittens. Mrs. Hickman had been bottle-feeding the cat because it wasn’t able to nurse from its mother.

But at 4 a.m. Saturday, Mr. Hickman went to check on the kitten and it was gone.

"It’s just amazing, that thing just magically disappeared," Mr. Hickman said last night.

"Right before I went to bed I said, ‘Hey, I’m going to see if it’s still alive,’ and he was gone. We searched everywhere."

Mr. Hickman said the family wonders whether someone might have come into the house to steal the unusual cat. One of the home’s two doors had been left unlocked, he said, although a Chihuahua the family owns didn’t bark at any intruder.

The family had scheduled a Saturday veterinarian appointment for the kitten, which was born last Wednesday.

Mr. Hickman said last night that the family intends to file a report with Grove City police about the missing kitten.
Isn't the hizbollah feared to resort to hostage tactics? Just thinking out loud.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 07/19/2006 15:12 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mom tucked it away somewhere to die. She knows it's not right.
Posted by: mojo || 07/19/2006 15:39 Comments || Top||

#2  I think mojo's got it.
Posted by: Xbalanke || 07/19/2006 16:46 Comments || Top||

#3  :< Maker me want to weep.
Posted by: 6 || 07/19/2006 17:07 Comments || Top||

#4  I think mojo's got it.

I just realized what my comment sounds like.

Should be: I think mojo's got it right.
Posted by: Xbalanke || 07/19/2006 17:51 Comments || Top||

#5  I'd be looking real hard at the Chihuahua myself.
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 07/19/2006 18:35 Comments || Top||

#6  #5 - my thoughts exactly.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 07/19/2006 20:16 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Kenya: 6 youths killed in mob justice, bodies set on fire
(SomaliNet) Some six youths who were playing cards were yesterday rounded up by a mob, battered to death and set their bodies ablaze, Nation Media reported Tuesday.
"There they are! Hand me my bludgeon, Ngoro!"
According to the mob, the dead men were robbers who were behind a wave of crime in Nakuru Town. The residents armed themselves with weapons and launched a manhunt for the suspects, who were cornered while playing cards in Heshima Estate.
"Get 'em!"
However, the youths attempted to flee,
"Feet, don't fail me — aaaaiiiieeee!"
but were apprehended and beaten before being frog marched to an open field where they were doused with petrol and set on fire. The Kenyan Police arrived moments later and took away the bodies. Two of the suspects still had signs of life, but police said they died shortly after their arrival.
"Dr. Quincy!"
"What is it, Sam?"
"This one's still twitching!"
"Just ignore it. He'll stop soon."
Posted by: Fred || 07/19/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Canasta is an evil card game left over from colonial times, DO NOT play it here in Nakuru or we will light you up!
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/19/2006 6:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Yet another example of progressive conduct on the part of the inhabitants of Rootsland. See also Somalia, COngo, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, etc., etc., etc.
Posted by: Lancasters Over Dresden || 07/19/2006 11:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Whahahaha, ja Rootsland. Give them another 5 years and we'll have an entire continent subsisting on tubers and roots.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/19/2006 11:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Years ago, I watched an incredible documentary, showing a police "investigation" in Ivory Coast, supposedly an advanced country by african standards.

Procedure followed the death by hijacking of a police officer, and *all* the detective work consisted of waiting for tips by informants, and BEATING SENSESSLY suspects until they "confessed". Wash, rince, repeat as necessary. All this in front of the camera, a real snuff movie, except for a prolonged beating during a whole night which left suspects with broken bones and everything, and had them confess to the crime : false lead, start all over again.

Finally, perps were caught, and one was badly injured in a car accident; he was "interrogated" on the spot, despite being all broken up already, then taken to the hopital.
Next morning, he had disappeared. Escape? Nope, he died in the meantime, and the body was put in a tool house in the hospital's garden and forgotten. Case closed.

Mind boggling.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 07/19/2006 15:24 Comments || Top||


Britain
Carbon rations for consumers
Posted by: anonymous2u || 07/19/2006 14:56 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As. If.

Crazy Limeys.
Posted by: mojo || 07/19/2006 15:42 Comments || Top||

#2  How about they sweep that card through my butt cheeks and lick it?
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/19/2006 15:44 Comments || Top||

#3  They'll make it happen, just you watch.
Posted by: Seafarious || 07/19/2006 16:05 Comments || Top||

#4  When the balance goes to zero, respiration must cease.
Posted by: ed || 07/19/2006 16:07 Comments || Top||

#5  I don't remember - when exactly did Britain become suicidal?

It's been going on a while now. :-(
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 07/19/2006 20:18 Comments || Top||

#6  Not too long ago, an MIT professor, after doing some research, came up with a common algae that consumes huge amounts of CO2 which it turns to mostly biodiesel and some ethanol.

A brilliant idea, that most CO2-producing companies would love: with a small capital investment in water tanks, even in marginal sunlight, 60% or more of their waste CO2 would be turned into profits! in the first run through of the gas.

The stuff works well even in the weak Massachusetts light. And the biodiesel it produced cost a fraction of agriculturally produced biodiesel from plant matter--with no massive energy imput needed to grow the plants in the first place.

Of course, when the biodiesel is burned, the CO2 is released, but by using the "same" CO2 twice, you reduce the total CO2 used by 50%.

The value of biodiesel is so great, that this may ironically result in industrial plants discontinuing much of their CO2 reduction measures impremented over the last decades, so that they can produce more of this waste product to convert.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/19/2006 20:38 Comments || Top||

#7  Chirac must be in a swoon...
Posted by: Unaling Thrash8971 || 07/19/2006 22:51 Comments || Top||

#8  Yeah, yeah, biodiesel, hydrogen, ethanol, blah, blah, blah.
I don't see anyone doing dick with alternative fuels. There are 1001 ways to make them, but people are sitting on their asses waiting for a government grant to start production. I wanted my wife to buy her Ford Escape set up for CNG, but after a quick search gave up on it because there was only one station in all of the Greater Cincinnati Tri-State area to fill the damned thing. Forget about taking it on a trip, you'd be lucky to keep fuel in it to go to the grocery store. If they want to switch over to alternative fuels, they arent showing me sh*t.
Posted by: Crerelet Flamp6464 || 07/19/2006 23:57 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
McKinney Headed for Runoff
Rep. Cynthia McKinney acknowledged about 12:50 a.m. that she is headed for a runoff election to see if she will represent the 4th District in Congress for a seventh term. With 98 percent of precincts reporting, McKinney had 46.9 percent of the vote, compared with 44.5 percent for Henry C. “Hank” Johnson Jr., a former DeKalb County commissioner. A third candidate, Alpharetta businessman John F. Coyne III, received 8.6 percent of the vote. A candidate must receive more than 50 percent of the vote to avoid a runoff. She pledged in a speech to fight for her seat. “The battle is now engaged and we intend to win,” she said. “It is impossible to keep a good woman down.” She also touted her opposition to the Iraq war and her ability to bring money to the district. “I don’t mind speaking truth to power and I intend to speak truth to empower,” she said. The district encompasses most of DeKalb, half of Rockdale County and a sliver of Gwinnett County. A runoff will be held Aug. 8.
Posted by: Seafarious || 07/19/2006 01:32 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  how brain-dead crushingly stupid do you have to be to vote for Cynthia McKinney?
Posted by: 2b || 07/19/2006 8:33 Comments || Top||

#2  ask her two attorneys
Posted by: Uleanter Ebbinenter1449 || 07/19/2006 8:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Unfortunately, she is not a "Good Woman".
Posted by: newc || 07/19/2006 8:57 Comments || Top||

#4  8.6 percent that voted for Alpharetta, will they more likely vote for McKinney or Johnson because whoever gets them wins.
Posted by: djohn66 || 07/19/2006 9:32 Comments || Top||

#5  djohn: Alpharetta is the VERY affluent, majority white, portion of Northern Fulton County (right next to North DeKalb County), so he actually doesn't even live in the District(?). That guy's votes, by and large, will go to Hank Johnson. Heavily Republican in the Northern parts of those 2 counties (DeKalb and Fulton). In fact, North DeKalb County has been completely embarassed by her (it's also very affluent) and they were the ones who switched parties 4 years ago and voted in the Donk Primaries to get Denisse Majette on the Donk ticket (instead of McKinney). She doesn't really show her face in North DeKalb. A buddy I work with lives in N. DeKalb (Dunwoody area) and says there are TONS of "Defeat McKinney" signs everywhere there.
Posted by: BA || 07/19/2006 11:04 Comments || Top||

#6  Of course, unless those same Repubs (in N. DeKalb) "switch" parties again to vote in the runoff, McKinney could win. Having seen them in action 4 years ago, though, I don't imagine that's the case. Of course, she could "get out the vote" in south DeKalb and still win too.
Posted by: BA || 07/19/2006 11:06 Comments || Top||

#7  #1 how brain-dead crushingly stupid do you have to be to vote for Cynthia McKinney?
Posted by: 2b 2006-07-19 08:33


I'm sorry 2b, even in Georgia, voter literacy tests were unfortunately outlawed many years ago.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/19/2006 11:14 Comments || Top||

#8  When I lived there, Alpharetta was referred to as "Thobbing" due to it's proximity to Cumming, GA
Posted by: jay-dubya || 07/19/2006 12:27 Comments || Top||

#9  oops, Throbbing. PIMF
Posted by: jay-dubya || 07/19/2006 12:28 Comments || Top||

#10  Do they allow drilling ?
Posted by: wxjames || 07/19/2006 14:47 Comments || Top||

#11  Good Woman? Curious. I was thinking more along the lines of good piece of shit.
Posted by: mcsegeek1 || 07/19/2006 16:32 Comments || Top||


Democrats file briefs in voter ID case
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Democratic Party, the Michigan Legislative Black Caucus and the Democratic caucuses in the state House and Senate filed a friend-of-the-court brief Tuesday in a case that could decide whether Michigan can require voters to show photo identification at the polls. The Michigan Supreme Court in April voted 5-2 to issue an advisory opinion on the constitutionality of a 1997 state law requiring voters to show photo identification to get a ballot. A court spokeswoman said the ruling will be binding, although it could be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Former Attorney General Frank Kelley, a Democrat, issued an opinion nine years ago that the law violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees U.S. citizens the right to vote. Opponents of the law say the requirement would keep poor people, non-drivers and others away from the polls. They cite figures showing that about 370,000 of the state's registered voters do not have a driver's license or state ID card.

But supporters say the law is needed to prevent election fraud. The U.S. Justice Department, for example, has been investigating allegations that Detroit votes were cast last year in the names of dead people. Michigan Republican Party Chairman Saul Anuzis supports the requirement, noting that Indiana recently began requiring photo ID. Although Democrats in that state are challenging the law and say they received hundreds of complaints about the new requirement, Anuzis said that can largely be chalked up to the learning curve. "From the things that I read, apparently things went very well. There weren't any hitches," he said.
Posted by: Fred || 07/19/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  that's our democratic party that we all know and love. Making sure that they voters can cheat.
Posted by: 2b || 07/19/2006 8:36 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't know that it will matter. Areas of Detroit are known for 100.0% voter turnout at the last minute, with long lists of identical signatures. If the people running the precinct are corrupt, what difference does an ID law make?
Posted by: Jackal || 07/19/2006 8:48 Comments || Top||

#3  They cite figures showing that about 370,000 of the state's registered voters do not have a driver's license or state ID card.


Most of those will be the ones who never vote anyway.
Posted by: mojo || 07/19/2006 11:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Whereas I is representin us folks who is of votin age and lawfully registered democraps. And whereas I is not willin to be photographed cause of past entanglement wif da law. I sez dat photographs isn't right for voters of da democrap persuasion.
Posted by: wxjames || 07/19/2006 11:55 Comments || Top||

#5  polls. They cite figures showing that about 370,000 of the state's registered voters do not have a driver's license or state ID card.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you need to show an ID in order to REGISTER to vote??
Posted by: Charles || 07/19/2006 14:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Not if you register democrat.
Posted by: wxjames || 07/19/2006 16:34 Comments || Top||

#7  When I die I hope to be buried somewhere in Cook County, IL. I'll still be able to remain active in politics.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/19/2006 16:38 Comments || Top||


County Chief Drops Md. Gubernatorial Bid
Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan dropped out of the race for governor on Thursday, saying he has been diagnosed with depression.
"I'm so depressed. I ain't gonna be governor!"
His withdrawal leaves Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley as the only major Democrat seeking the party nomination to run in November against Republican Gov. Robert Ehrlich, who is seeking a second term.

Duncan, a 50-year-old Democrat, said he had struggled with symptoms for more than a year but until recently believed they resulted from the pressures of being a candidate. "This is more than the usual stress of campaigning," Duncan said. Duncan said he will support O'Malley's campaign against Ehrlich. Ehrlich said Duncan's decision would focus attention on O'Malley's record in Baltimore but would have "very little effect" on his own campaign.
O'Malley's record in Baltimore is impressive only in comparison with that of his predecessor, but Maryland's a machine state, so he stands a good chance of unseating Ehrlich.
Posted by: Fred || 07/19/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Blieve Hon'


Posted by: eLarson || 07/19/2006 9:07 Comments || Top||


Sanders a Democrat, at least until primary
The hats are all in the political ring. Vermont's filing deadline passed Monday for major party primaries this fall, and topping the list is the unusual jockeying in the U.S. Senate race. U.S. Rep. Bernard Sanders, an Independent, is running in the Democratic primary this fall in his bid to be the state's next senator, where, according to filings due Monday in the Secretary of State's Office, he will face four other lesser-known members of the party.

But Sanders has vowed not to accept the Democratic nomination if, as expected, he wins it. That move will cut short the senatorial aspirations of Democrats Peter Moss, Louis Thabault, Larry Drown and Craig Hill, who will find themselves unable to run as the party standard bearer. It is Sanders' first direct run as a Democrat, a label he has never previously endorsed, as he girds for a general election fight against businessman Richard Tarrant for the right to succeed Sen. James Jeffords, the three-term incumbent who is retiring this year. Before Tarrant can face Sanders, he has to beat back Greg Parke of Rutland and Cris Ericson of Chester.

The race for the Senate may have the highest profile this election season, but incumbents, perennial candidates and novices alike have signed up for all the major party primaries that will determine who will square off for the eight statewide offices and 180 legislative seats up for grabs in November. In the race for U.S. House — one of the closest and most volatile this election cycle — Peter Welch is the sole Democrat. His Republican opponent will either be Martha Rainville or state Sen. Mark Shepard.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 07/19/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Murtha's followers: Marching toward defeat
THOUGHTFUL Democrats living in the 1st Congressional District must have cringed upon reading their candidates' positions on Iraq in yesterday's Union Leader. The position of the left-wing candidate, Carol Shea-Porter, was to flee and let what happens in Iraq happen. The establishment candidate, Rep. Jim Craig, did not even have a position. The only candidate who made any sense was David Jarvis of Londonderry, a virtual unknown who opposes the war but said immediate pullout would mean going back on our commitments to the Iraqi people.

Democrats who live in the 2nd District have it better. Their only candidate, Paul Hodes, gave a sensible response opposing immediate withdrawal for fear of leaving a failed state behind.

All of this comes up as New Hampshire Democrats prepare for the arrival next Sunday of Rep. John Murtha, D-Penn., the decorated former Marine. Murtha favors immediate withdrawal. But the more he speaks the crazier his position becomes. Last month he said he favored pulling troops out of Iraq and redeploying them to Okinawa. He said the South Pacific island more than 6,000 miles from Iraq could be the launching point whenever the United States needed to deploy quickly to the Middle East.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 07/19/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The others have more shrewdly opted to keep their distance.

Hey, for the average extremist liberal, this is pretty shrewd, indeed!

Methinks Murtha has outgrown his usefulness because he is living in the past.
Posted by: gorb || 07/19/2006 4:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Damn, didn't know about the Abscam connection. Sad that it's unlikely to matter.
Posted by: 6 || 07/19/2006 17:44 Comments || Top||


City clerk to clean Detroit voter list
City Clerk Janice Winfrey is set in less than a month to eliminate from voting rolls the names of nearly 55,000 dead people and those who no longer live in Detroit, as she undertakes a blitzkrieg aimed at restoring integrity and respect to Detroit elections. Winfrey, a political novice and former math teacher, was able to do in six months something her predecessor, Jackie Currie, didn't do for years. "It was very easy," Winfrey said, explaining she bought "death lists" from the state and city Health Department so the names of the deceased could be purged. Then she moved to eliminate the names of people who hadn't cast a ballot since before the 2002 election and who had been mailed voter card registration renewal forms that were returned by the U.S. Postal Service as undeliverable. Already the names of about 33,000 deceased voters have been removed. The rest can be removed after the August primary. Winfrey estimates another 40,000 names can be removed under a similar process in 2008.

Currie said she didn't have the power to clean up the voter rolls, which she claimed could be done only by state officials. Winfrey beat Currie last year amid a growing drumbeat for an overhaul of city elections. Before the election, The Detroit News found that Currie's assistants had improperly distributed ballots and coaxed legally incapacitated people into filling out absentee ballots and that absentee ballot applications were being sent to vacant lots, abandoned nursing homes and in one case even a facility used to house juveniles in trouble with the law.
Posted by: Fred || 07/19/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is obviously racist and a civil rights violation.
Posted by: Jackal || 07/19/2006 8:50 Comments || Top||

#2  True, but dead black folks shouldn't vote no mo.
Posted by: wxjames || 07/19/2006 11:57 Comments || Top||

#3  FWIW, Winfrey and Director of Elections Daniel Baxter are both black. Good on 'em! [Detroit News Picture & Story]
Posted by: Old Grouch || 07/19/2006 15:16 Comments || Top||


Romney moves to oust Big Dig chief as tunnel repairs continue
BOSTON --Gov. Mitt Romney supplied the head of Boston's Big Dig with written allegations of mismanagement and moved forward Tuesday in his efforts to oust him, while crews worked to repair a tunnel network where tons of ceiling panels fell, crushing a motorist. Romney has for years been a critic of Matthew Amorello, the chairman and chief executive of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, which oversees the massive $14.6 billion highway project, and has repeatedly failed in his effort to get Amorello to step down. However, Romney said the fatal accident July 10 bolsters his argument the project has been mismanaged and Amorello should be removed as chief executive. A hearing was scheduled for July 27 on Amorello's dismissal. Romney refused to release the specific allegations and said the hearing would be private.
Posted by: Fred || 07/19/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Romney was on the news last night, on a cherry picker right at the mounting plates. He explained how to recognize the signs of bolt failure, and how they were going to solve the problem by backing up the epoxied bolts with expansion bolts. He came across as competent and in charge.

The idea of gluing bolts into an oversize hole, with the epoxy mixed in the hole as the bolt is inserted, seems ludicrous especially if you expect it to last a century. The new design involves a bolt which expands into an oversized pocket at the bottom of the hole. I would have thought they would have used that obvious approach in the beginning, but apparently there are a lot of tunnel ceilings in Boston and elsewhere that use epoxied bolts. The unusual part of the Big Dig design was the weight of the ceiling panels.
Posted by: KBK || 07/19/2006 13:56 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Infant girl survives live burial
HAMIRPUR: Indian police said they were looking for the parents of a two-day-old girl who was buried alive because of her gender but survived the ordeal. "We are investigating the case. The hunt for the parents is on," senior superintendent of police HS Aparna told AFP on Tuesday. The girl was found in a ditch when her shrill cries caught the attention of a farm helper at Hamirpur, a northern district in impoverished Uttar Pradesh state.

"She is a small little angel. I was lucky to reach that spot and hear the cries of this baby. Otherwise she would have died within hours," said Lakshmi Rani, who now wants to adopt the child. Rani calls the baby Mili, which is Hindi for "found". She already has three children, including a girl and said her construction-worker husband was initially reluctant to adopt the abandoned child but had eventually relented. Residents of Gaura village, where the child was discovered, said that it was the seventh such incident in the past fortnight.
Posted by: Fred || 07/19/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  WTF is it with these people? That was their daughter! Ever heard of an education? Putting in laws and incentives to stop this $hit? What is so F-ing attractive about having sons over daughters? Can't women get gainful employment or something and it will cut into their lifestyle when they retire? My keyboard and my head are both taking a beating over this subject!
Posted by: gorb || 07/19/2006 4:20 Comments || Top||

#2  There are already laws and incentives but when some of the most highly educated women - female gynaecologists - are sometimes complicit in selective abortion - changing cultural practices will not be easy.

The skewed gender ratios have already produced severe shortages of marriagiable women. This - the law of supply and demand - will be far more effective than any law passed by the Indian parliament in changing things.

Posted by: john || 07/19/2006 7:07 Comments || Top||

#3  I recall reading dowery practices are also responding to the supply problem.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/19/2006 7:23 Comments || Top||

#4  gorb,

India is a bit like South America and Africa. You have modernization and the very very primitive We always hear about the modernization of India, but for example, in certain parts of India, there are backward primitative people that live of and in the jungle. There are also many tiny villages that exist today that still soley depend on witch doctors, sometimes the witch doctors give evil advice and no one in the village is educated enough challenge them.

The MSM used mind control for so many years. America have been sleeping for a long time. The internet (blogs), alternative media, and streaming talk radio have changed all that. Now, everybody is trying to fair and balanced.

In the end, although laws against these despicable acts are necessary, but will only help in tiny percentages. There needs to be a massive influx of re-education that needs to spread to these villages. India just recently sent an distance learning satellite that can stream educational material, real time, anywhere throughtout India. It's called Universal literacy through satellite. Unlike, the countries in Africa and South America, India is doing something about their uneducated population. So hopefully, in about in the next 20 to 30 years there won't be any reports such as this. Well, let me put it this way, at least un-education won't be an excuse.
Posted by: Poison Reverse || 07/19/2006 9:12 Comments || Top||

#5  One of the people I work with adpoted a little girl from China whose story is very similar to this.

All I can say is, somewhere out there in the infinite, is one supremely competent guardian angel.
Posted by: Mike || 07/19/2006 14:16 Comments || Top||


Infants saved from wedlock to landlord's son
Sindh police have arrested two landowners for forcing a peasant to give two infant daughters in marriage as repayment for a loan, a police official said.

Police arrested Ali Nawaz Rind and Mohammad Ramazan Rind this week after they held a jirga (council of village elders) that ordered one-year old Moora and two-year old Marvi, the daughters of Bhongar Khoso, be given in marriage to the infant sons of Nawaz. "We have made pre-emptive arrests after we learnt that this jirga was held in Sanghar," said senior police official Ajmal Magsi. Police said Khoso had taken a loan of Rs 25,000 from Nawaz Rind. When he could not repay it, a village council was convened to decide the matter, and invoked the custom of sang-chati, whereby girls are used as bartering chips to settle disputes. The practice has been made illegal, but it is still prevalent in rural areas where feudal and tribal ways hold sway.
Posted by: Fred || 07/19/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  At least they were married to someone about their own age. Nawaz must have ugly babies.
Posted by: gorb || 07/19/2006 4:30 Comments || Top||


Home Front Economy
San Francisco Supervisors Vote To Bankrupt City
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to make the city the nation's first to provide all residents with health care, approving a plan that would give adults access to medical services regardless of their immigration or employment status.

Financed by local government, mandatory contributions from employers and income-adjusted premiums, the universal care plan would cover the cost of everything from checkups, prescription drugs and X-rays to ambulance rides, blood tests and operations.

Unlike health insurance, however, it would not pay for any services participants seek outside San Francisco. Instead, residents would receive care at existing clinics and public hospitals and from doctors who already participate in an HMO for low- and middle-income clients.

With backing from both Mayor Gavin Newsom and all 11 supervisors, the so-called Health Access Plan proved to be a politically popular concept in liberal San Francisco despite unmitigated opposition from the business community.

"What feels very good is the full board and the mayor getting on board," said Supervisor Tom Ammiano, who first championed the idea of making employers pay for some part of their workers' medical costs. "That says the political will is there to make it happen."

To offset the estimated annual price tag of $200 million, firms with 20 or more workers would be required to spend $1.06 for each hour worked by an employee, and those with more than 100 workers would have to pay $1.60 per hour up to a monthly maximum of $180 per worker. Companies that already offer health coverage would still have to pay if their insurance contributions did not meet the city's funding levels.

The Board of Supervisors still needs to vote on the plan once more for it to become final. The ordinance adopted Tuesday calls for businesses with more than 50 employees to start participating starting next July, while it would take effect for enterprises with 20 or more workers in April 2008.

Michael O'Connor, a nightclub owner who serves on the San Francisco Small Business Commission, predicted that the "noble burden" of the mandate would keep businesses from locating in the city and make goods and services here more expensive as employers pass on the costs to customers.

O'Connor said many business owners were disappointed by Newsom's backing of the plan since the mayor got his start in business as the owner of a wine shop and several restaurants.

"One would think that someone who has owned and opened restaurants would be pretty clear on what the profit margin is, and how hard it is to get them open. A $5,000 licensing fee is difficult. A new $60,000 (health care) fee is disabling," he said.

Before the board vote, Newsom defended the proposal as a creative solution to the problem of securing decent health care for uninsured residents, noting that businesses would not be alone in defraying the costs. Of the $200 million, the city would provide $104 million and participants would contribute about $56 million.

"This is a moral debate as much as a political debate," Newsom said.

The initiative adopted Tuesday developed as a compromise between Newsom and Ammiano, who last year introduced legislation that would have required businesses to create health savings accounts for uninsured workers. In a nod to concerns from business, the final plan requires employees to work at least 12 hours a week to be eligible and has an opt-out provision for workers who are insured through their spouses.

Because fees would be adjusted on a sliding scale, city officials did not expect to see a rush of residents canceling their existing health insurance to take part in the city program.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/19/2006 10:35 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well we know where all the illegals will end up. :)
Posted by: djohn66 || 07/19/2006 10:59 Comments || Top||

#2  It will certainly open up the housing market as people move away. Help lower those pesky housing costs.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 07/19/2006 11:03 Comments || Top||

#3  This won't cause people to move, only employers. San Francisco is really an amusement park for adults, esciting cable car rides & all. But even with all its natural assets it is going to price itself out of the market.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/19/2006 11:06 Comments || Top||

#4  ...businesses would not be alone in defraying the costs. Of the $200 million, the city would provide $104 million and participants would contribute about $56 million.

And where did the city get the money it contributes? Pixies in the garden? It got that from taxing businesses in the city.

Is there some idiot gas coming out of the sewers in that city?
Posted by: Oldcat || 07/19/2006 11:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Class action against the Bd of Supes for fiscal irresponsability in 3,2,1...
Posted by: mojo || 07/19/2006 11:18 Comments || Top||

#6  Unlike health insurance, however, it would not pay for any services participants seek outside San Francisco. Instead, residents would receive care at existing clinics and public hospitals and from doctors who already participate in an HMO for low- and middle-income clients.

My office door just slammed. I think it was a gust of wind caused by that sigh of relief by non-San Francisco healthcare providers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/19/2006 11:21 Comments || Top||

#7  Hey maybe their onto something...

After all its working so well for North Korea and Cuba!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/19/2006 11:38 Comments || Top||

#8  Its not as brave or as costly as it sounds.

San Francisco is an extraordinarily wealthy city. It consists of just the tip of the penninsula, and with just under 800,000 residents it is only the third largest city in the Bay Area.

Poor people cannot afford to live in the City. They live in Richmond and Oakland, across the bay, and in South San Francisco. Most of the people living in the city are employed and there are very few children. The vast majority of people are already covered by health insurance.

The City is home to much of the area's high income financial and legal businesses, which generates lots of tax dollars. Further, many of those apparently required to contribute are commuters who do not live in the city.

The mayor is obviously of the opinion that San Francisco is such a great location that businesses will continue to maintain operations in the city. Its not apparent that the additional cost is so great that companies will be willing to accept an Oakland address.
Posted by: DoDo || 07/19/2006 11:38 Comments || Top||

#9  SF just moved to the top of my retirement community list. Now to find a VW bus and
Posted by: wxjames || 07/19/2006 12:03 Comments || Top||

#10  Big organized crime presence in SF. And organized crime has their fingers in that big pot of money for health care. I remember back in the mid 90's in San Diego, that one of the big health care players was doing mergers and it was between the lines that the mob was getting involved.

It's like construction, it's lots of money, difficult prove actual worth of services and products offered and now it will be easy pickings with less oversight.
Posted by: 2b || 07/19/2006 12:07 Comments || Top||

#11  "What feels very good is the full board and the mayor getting on board," said Supervisor Tom Ammiano, See, it's all about feeling good.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/19/2006 12:09 Comments || Top||

#12  It felt good to Tom.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/19/2006 12:12 Comments || Top||

#13  Decrease in new HIV infections smaller than expected
Based on nine surveys, the health department estimates that the number of gay men living in San Francisco is 58,000, a 25 percent increase from 47,000 in 2001.
...
The city's epidemiological portrait estimates that 18,735 residents are infected with HIV, including 14,000 gay men -- 1 in 4 of those living in the city today.

Since AIDS was first detected in 1981, it has taken the lives of 17,917 San Franciscans.


Lifetime cost of anti-HIV treatment estimated at more than $400,000
the researchers predict that adults who begin antiretroviral treatment when their CD4-cell counts drop below 350 cells can be expected to live 24.1 years and will run up a medical tab of between $405,000 with drug discounts to as high as $648,000 without them.

Adults starting anti-HIV drugs with a CD4-cell count below 200—the AIDS-defining threshold—were predicted to live an average of 22.4 years and to spend from $370,000 to $589,000 for their care.
Posted by: ed || 07/19/2006 12:16 Comments || Top||

#14  If I had HIV, no matter where in the world I am from, I would pack my bags and head to SF.
Posted by: ed || 07/19/2006 12:18 Comments || Top||

#15  And that is the real agenda behind this...
Posted by: Thurong Ebbatle2223 || 07/19/2006 12:21 Comments || Top||

#16  DoDo you're not reading too well here.

See "...regardless of their immigration or employment status." means that all those po' folk over in Oakland only have to get across the bridge and they're immediately eligible, likewise, Richmond, South San Fran, Detroit, etc.

RE HIV: Ed...I just did a back of the envelope calculation and find that using the conservative end of your numbers, HIV ALONE will account for almost $250,000,000 (yes million) / year for SF. Can you refine the numbers a bit?

400K total / 25 yr = 16,000 /yr / patient, times 15K patients = 240,000,000.

Now, how much did they say this would cost?

Posted by: AlanC || 07/19/2006 13:46 Comments || Top||

#17  --approving a plan that would give adults access to medical services regardless of their immigration or employment status.--

SF is so backward they don't already have this????

I thought they were "progressive?"

Posted by: anonymous2u || 07/19/2006 14:14 Comments || Top||

#18  --"What feels very good is the full board and the mayor getting on board," --

Well, that IS the most important thing, their "feeling good."
Posted by: anonymous2u || 07/19/2006 14:16 Comments || Top||

#19  Hmmm, United Airlines was considering SF as a possible new location for its HQ, but they chose Chicago instead......

I really thought UA was outta here, but they surprised me. Maybe this is a piece of the puzzle.
Posted by: anonymous2u || 07/19/2006 14:19 Comments || Top||

#20  Can you refine the numbers a bit?
Not sure what you mean. Do you mean how many of those are w/o insurance? I don't know, but at the terminal stage, almost all of them will be w/o. At that point Medicaid takes over. I don't know how SF splits costs w/ Medicaid (e.g. 20/80%). What is more worrying is legal and illegal aliens moving to SF for the free treatment. Then the full burden is on SF taxpayers. If I was HIV positive and poor, my goal would be get to SF so I could live another 20+ years.
Posted by: ed || 07/19/2006 14:54 Comments || Top||

#21  Who wrote this?
Financed by local government...
And their money comes from... what exactly?
Posted by: eLarson || 07/19/2006 15:01 Comments || Top||

#22  ed, what I meant about refining the numbers was mainly what portion of the 15 - 20k patients will be wracking up a half mil in costs. What you bring up is important too. How will this effect medicare / medicare payments? Will it be like private insurance? And, why would anyone in SF buy private insurance?

As far as immigrants, is there going to be a residency requirement (hee, hee,) will someone showing up at a hospital or clinic have to prove that they live in SF?? I bet there will be a lot of 2 hour immigrants that immigrate over and over.
Posted by: AlanC || 07/19/2006 15:10 Comments || Top||

#23  Why do the poor and illegals "deserve" health care at my expense, a man who is not illegal, and worked his ASS off to not be poor? I ask merely for information.
Posted by: mcsegeek1 || 07/19/2006 16:30 Comments || Top||

#24  Companies that already offer health coverage would still have to pay if their insurance contributions did not meet the city's funding levels.

hee hee ha ha ha Hee!
Posted by: 6 || 07/19/2006 17:34 Comments || Top||

#25  Companies that already offer health coverage would still have to pay if their insurance contributions did not meet the city's funding levels.

That would seem to mandate gold-plating of corporate benefits wouldn't it? Pay enough for your employees benefits and you don't pay the city.
Posted by: AzCat || 07/19/2006 23:54 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Doctor and Two Nurses Charged In Katrina Euthanasias
A doctor and two nurses who labored at a sweltering, flooded-out hospital in Hurricane Katrina's chaotic aftermath were arrested and accused Tuesday of murdering four trapped and desperately ill patients with injections of morphine and sedatives.

"We're talking about people that pretended that maybe they were God," Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti said. "And they made that decision."

The defendants were booked on charges of being "principals to second-degree murder," which carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison.

The three were the first medical professionals charged in a monthslong criminal investigation into whether many of New Orleans' sick and elderly were abandoned or put out of their misery in the days after the storm.

Dr. Anna Pou, a cancer and ear, nose and throat specialist, and the two nurses were accused of deliberately killing four patients, ages 62 to 90, at Memorial Medical Center with a "lethal cocktail" of morphine and Versed. The patients' names were not released.

"There may be more arrests and victims that cannot be mentioned at this time," Foti said. "This case is not over yet." He planned to turn the case over to the New Orleans district attorney, who will decide whether to ask a grand jury to bring charges.

Memorial Medical had been cut off by flooding after the Aug. 29 hurricane swamped New Orleans. Power was knocked out in the 317-bed hospital and the temperature inside rose over 100 degrees as the staff tried to tend to patients who waited four days to be evacuated.

In court papers, state investigators said Pou told a nurse executive three days after the hurricane that the patients still awaiting evacuation would probably not survive and that a "decision had been made to administer lethal doses" to them. Overdoses of morphine or Versed can stop the heart and lungs.

Foti, however, said he believed the patients would have lived through the storm's aftermath.

"This is not euthanasia. This is homicide," the attorney general said...
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/19/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
"This is not euthanasia. This is homicide," the attorney general said...
What do you think euthanasia IS?
Posted by: Korora || 07/19/2006 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Bio and photo at link:

http://www.medschool.lsuhsc.edu/faculty_affairs/new_faculty.asp
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/19/2006 6:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Here's a CNN transcript of an interview with a doctor who witnessed it.

Posted by: DanNY || 07/19/2006 6:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Unfortunately, there are far too many (and one is too many, mind you) in the medical profession who seem to be more interested in euthenizing their patients in the name of "eficiency" and "cost effectiveness" and "quality of life" than in treating them. The Mrs. had the SeeBS news on last week, and there was this "medical ethics expert" decrying the high cost of treating premature babies and talking about how the resources could be better used elsewhere. My immediate reaction was, "Oh, in other words, you want to kill them off."
Posted by: Mike || 07/19/2006 8:39 Comments || Top||

#5  Katrina claims three more victims. They may well be guilty of a crime, but they are also three more people whose lives are destroyed by the storm. I don't know why they would have killed patients while rescue was underway, though there were situations prior to that where I might have found it the lesser of two evils (no power meant manually operating breathing machines - and watching people essentially strangle to death over a period of hours after you just couldn't physically go on pumping; a terminal sedative just doesn't seem like such a bad thing then.) I forget who said it, but 'if you tie your dog up in the yard and let him starve to death you go to jail, but if you take him to the vet to be put to sleep it's ok; if you take out the feeding tube and starve a person to death it's ok, but if you give them a terminal sedative you go to jail.
Posted by: glenmore || 07/19/2006 8:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Mike, There's a finite amount of medical resources. It's insufficient to keep everybody alive as long as possible. Right now, the decision of who to treat and who to leave untreated is decided by who has the most money available to fund the medical business. Whether that is the correct basis on which to make the decision is debatable. To take active steps to end life is another entirely.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/19/2006 8:44 Comments || Top||

#7  "Oh, in other words, you want to kill them off."

Oh, in other words you want to kill off other people. Resources are finite. Decisions have to be made as to where to expend them. I have no time for people who characterize situations as absolutes and as a result condemn people who can be saved and contribute to society to death.
Posted by: phil_b || 07/19/2006 9:21 Comments || Top||

#8  I couldn't agree with your more phil_b.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/19/2006 9:34 Comments || Top||

#9  Sorry folks, I'm a doc (as some of you know) and I do critical care. I also take care of patients with ALS, terminal lung cancer and other end-stage diseases.

Never, never, ever would I consider euthanasia, nor would I counsel same, nor would I do anything that would actively shorten the life of a patient. It's immoral.

I distinguish between euthanasia and 'comfort care', in which, together with a patient, we stop trying to cure what is a hopeless situation and instead help a person be comfortable. Hospice care is noble and honorable, and it's not euthanasia. Hospice care is where we go when we recognize that all the resources in the world won't fix the underlying medical problem.

Euthanasia is murder, pure and simple.

And let me add this: what happened in the article wasn't even euthanasia. The patients didn't ask to be given these drugs, the doc and nurses made this decision on their own. They weren't looking to make the patients comfortable or to relieve suffering, they were just tired of taking care of them.

I know two docs who stayed in New Orleans after Katrina. One was at Tulane, the other at Oschner. They and their compatriot docs, nurses and staff were heroes; they provided great medical care despite the extraordinary circumstances. Not a single one of them committed murder.

The people cited in this story dishonored my profession, and I spit on them. There.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/19/2006 10:43 Comments || Top||

#10  Hear, Hear, AoS! I applaud your stance. Truly what the Hypocratic Oath (sp?) is all about. Do NO harm, first and foremost.

I draw the line too. Now, if you were manually operating the breathing machines (like glenmore stated) and you give out, that's one thing. But, to make the decision yourself, without telling/consulting the patient that you're about to OD them is murder in my mind. No one knew for sure what was happening, and a rescue 'copter could've shown up 5 mins. later.
Posted by: BA || 07/19/2006 10:57 Comments || Top||

#11  God Bless You Steve White
Posted by: jay-dubya || 07/19/2006 12:25 Comments || Top||

#12  While you've got a good wad of spit going Steve, spit on the abortionists as well.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/19/2006 12:27 Comments || Top||

#13  I wonder if the medical folks panicked because they were watching the news on the networks and figured it was a holocaust. Maybe they didn't realize it wasn't as out of control as that.
Posted by: WhiteCollarRedneck || 07/19/2006 12:40 Comments || Top||



Who's in the News
118[untagged]

Bookmark
E-Mail Me

The Classics
The O Club
Rantburg Store
The Bloids
The Never-ending Story
Thugburg
Gulf War I
The Way We Were
Bio

Merry-Go-Blog











On Sale now!


A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.

Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.
Click here for more information

Meet the Mods
In no particular order...
Steve White
Seafarious
tu3031
badanov
sherry
ryuge
GolfBravoUSMC
Bright Pebbles
trailing wife
Gloria
Fred
Besoeker
Glenmore
Frank G
3dc
Skidmark

Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2006-07-19
  IAF foils rocket transports from Syria
Tue 2006-07-18
  Israel flattens Paleo foreign ministry, Hamas offices
Mon 2006-07-17
  Israel attacks Beirut airport with four missiles
Sun 2006-07-16
  Chechens Ready to Hang it Up
Sat 2006-07-15
  IDF targets Beirut, Tripoli ports & Hizbollah leadership
Fri 2006-07-14
  IAF Booms Hezbollah HQ, Misses Nasrallah
Thu 2006-07-13
  Israel bombs Beirut airport, embargos coast
Wed 2006-07-12
  IDF Re-Engages Lebanon, Reserves Called Up
Tue 2006-07-11
  163 dead in Mumbai train booms
Mon 2006-07-10
  Shamil breathes dirt!
Sun 2006-07-09
  Hamas gov't calls for halt to fighting
Sat 2006-07-08
  Lebanese Arrested In Connection With New York Plot
Fri 2006-07-07
  Somali Islamists:death for Muslims skipping prayers
Thu 2006-07-06
  UN divided over missile response
Wed 2006-07-05
  Israel destroys Palestinian Interior Ministry building

Better than the average link...



Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
3.89.200.155
Help keep the Burg running! Paypal:
WoT Operations (62)    WoT Background (22)    Non-WoT (7)    Opinion (11)    (0)