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Check out this article from the Orlando Sentinel: Police Investigate Dust-Up at Channel 35

And this link: Roger Simmons

 

 

A lot of new bloggers in the last few weeks have their "comments" turned off. If you just want to respond to blogs or make a statment, that's fine, it's your choice.

But if you pose a question, how do you expect anyone to respond if you don't turn your "comments" on? Go to "settings" to turn it on, please.

Okay, read this article from the AP and pay close attention to the LAST paragraph:

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TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Hundreds gathered in Tulsa, Oklahoma to watch as a crane hauled a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere from a gaping hole in the city's courthouse lawn.

The car spent the last half-century snug in an underground concrete vault that was built to withstand a nuclear attack.

A-bombs aside, the crypt was certainly not waterproof. Event organizers had to pump out several feet of water before unearthing the car.

The Belvedere went underground in 1957 in celebration of Oklahoma's 50 years of statehood.

Also buried with the car were ten gallons of gas -- so future revelers could start 'er up, in case internal combustion engines became obsolete by 2007. That attempt will be made this evening.

The typical contents of a woman's handbag were stashed in the glove compartment, which include lipstick, gum and a bottle of tranquilizers.

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Really?! A bottle of tranquilizers were "typical" for women to carry around in 1957?

"If they say why...tell them that it's human nature"

-Michael Jackson

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It seems even our caveman ancestors committed murder!

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GENEVA -- A prehistoric hunter known as Oetzi whose well-preserved body was found on a snow-covered mountain in the Alps died more than 5,000 years ago after being struck in the back by an arrow, scientists said in an article published Wednesday.

Researchers from Switzerland and Italy used newly developed medical scanners to examine the hunter's frozen corpse to determine that the arrow had torn a hole in an artery beneath his left collarbone, leading to a massive loss of blood.

That, in turn, caused Oetzi to go into shock and suffer a heart attack, according to the article published online in the Journal of Archaeological Science.

Even today, the chances of surviving such an injury long enough to receive hospital treatment are only 40 percent, according to the article.

Oetzi, also known as the Iceman, caused a sensation after his body was discovered by hikers in 1991 on a glacier 10,500 feet above sea level on the border between Austria and Italy.

The fact that the arrow's shaft was pulled out before his death may have worsened the injury, said Frank Ruehli of the University of Zurich, who carried out the research with scientists from Bolzano, Italy, where the iceman's body is preserved.

The findings confirm earlier suspicions that linked the arrowhead embedded in Oetzi's body with his death, and virtually rule out other theories that he had been the victim of a ritual sacrifice or had gotten caught in a storm.

George Stephanapolous (sp?) interviewed Barrack Obama this past Sunday. I saw a clip on the Daily Show and just now on the Bill Moyers Journal. I may be paraphrasing here, but here's what Stephanapolous asked:

'You have a very cool style when you're on the stage. Is that because of your race?'

Obama says "That's interesting" and Steph continues his questioning...

Now, I'm not making this about Obama. I don't care if you're left or right wing..if Obama were a republican, or if he were white and Steph. was black... just the nerve of asking a question like that! What!?

Can you imagine interviewing McCain: "You seem kind of stiff...is it because you're white?"

 

 

If we have evidence that a foreign country is responsible for the deaths of 170 Americans, what should our response be? Bush was quick to go to war in Iraq with faulty intelligence; but now that we have evidence against Iran, we do nothing?!

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From Fox News:

Iran has been training Iraqi fighters in Iran on the assembly of deadly roadside bombs known as EFPs, the U.S. military spokesman said on Wednesday.

"We know that they are being in fact manufactured and smuggled into this country, and we know that training does go on in Iran for people to learn how to assemble them and how to employ them. We know that training has gone on as recently as this past month from detainees debriefs," Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, the U.S. military spokesman, said at a weekly briefing.

EFP stands for explosively formed penetrator, deadly roadside bombs that hurl a fist-size lump of molten copper capable of piercing armor.

In January, U.S. officials said at least 170 U.S. soldiers had been killed by EFPs.

Caldwell also said on Wednesday that the U.S. military had evidence that Iranian intelligence agents were active in Iraq in funding, training and arming Shiite militia fighters.

"We also know that training still is being conducted in Iran for insurgent elements from Iraq. We know that as recent as last week from debriefing personnel," he said.

"The do receive training on how to assemble and employ EFPs," Caldwell said, adding that fighters also were trained in how to carry out complex attacks that used explosives followed by assaults with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms.

"There has been training on specialized weapons that are used here in Iraq. And then we do know they receive also training on general tactics in terms of how to take and employ and work what we call a more complex kind of attack where we see multiple types of engagements being used from an explosion to small arms fire to being done in multiple places," Caldwell said.

The general would not say specifically which arm of the Iranian government was doing the training but called the trainers "surrogates" of Iran's intelligence agency.

Caldwell opened the briefing by showing photographs of what he said were Iranian-made mortar rounds, RPG rounds and rockets that were found in Iraq.

Isn't the Stamp Act one of the reasons we went to war with Britain? Oh, wait, I digress..

The price of a postage stamp is gonig up to 41-cents in May. People can buy "forever" stamps that will lock in the price of a stamp against future increases.

My question is, who uses stamps anymore? In the age of e-commerce, I use ONE stamp every three months; to mail out my HOA dues. And I could elect to have that automatically withdrawn, but with constant assessments and increases, I'd rather write the check myself. But everything else; mortgage, credit card, car payments, insurance etc., I either pay or have debited online.

So keep your stinkin' stamps! I'm going to go drink some tea now.

By GILLIAN FLACCUS
Associated Press Writer
SANTA ANA, Calif.
A slow-burning leadership struggle within the Minuteman Project has flared into a full-blown court fight that threatens the 2-year-old anti-illegal immigration group's influence, if not its survival.

Ousted Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist sued the group's board of directors last week for control of the organization after he was fired and accused of embezzling $400,000 in donations.

Board members, who also fired the group's executive director, also allege Gilchrist used $13,000 of the organization's money for his own legal fees. And they recently filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service, saying Gilchrist illegally received a nonprofit postal discount.

On Tuesday, a judge set a March 21 hearing to decide whether to intervene in the dispute, which had been building for more than a year, according to court papers

I'm still undecided on how to vote on a couple of amendments on the ballot. So I'm looking for some input.

First, the measure on amending the state constitution. As I understand it, approval would mean 60% of voters would have to approve of a measure instead of just 51%. At first blush I thought 'hey, that's taking voters' rights away.' If it takes that many votes NOTHING would ever get passed. But then I thought 'wait a minute, that might be a GOOD thing'. It would ensure that no frivolous amendments get passed. I mean that's how the class size amendment got passed.


Second, Eminent Domain. I believe progress has a price. If a city wants to tear down a run-down part of town to renovate it and build businesses and condos etc. then it should do so to help the economy. The problem is, the homeowners forced out are not compensated enough to find new homes.

What do you think?

Hey, did you hear President Bush talking at a lunch during the G8 summit about the Israeli conflict? He was talking to Blair and thought the mic was off. He really let loose and told Blair what he thought.

I found it appalling.....no, not what he said...but that he was talking with his mouth full! EEEEEWWWWW ;o)