January 23, 2005 – 9:02 am
Some good news from Iraq: The Iraqi translator who identified Saddam Hussein when the dictator was captured has registered to vote in the Jan. 30 Iraq election. Acting as a civilian translator for U.S. troops massed a few miles south of Tikrit in December 2003, the Iraqi-American known as Samir told the cowering man to […]
January 22, 2005 – 5:57 pm
From World Net Daily: Former President Jimmy Carter has been linked with a key figure in the U.N.’s oil-for-food scandal by the group leading the nationwide effort to evict the United Nations from American soil and halt U.S. funding of the U.N. Move America Forward today will call upon Carter to provide a full accounting […]
January 21, 2005 – 9:14 am
From MSNBC: Aid groups warned on Friday it might be too soon for the U.S. military to scale back its emergency operations for Asia’s tsunami victims, while an informal cease-fire between Indonesian troops and rebels appeared to have collapsed, threatening to derail relief efforts. Following a U.S. announcement on Thursday that American forces would begin […]
January 19, 2005 – 9:15 am
I’m talking about normal problems, not the biggies, of course. Work issues, spousal issues, getting dog poo on your new shoes. Uh uh. Nope. Doesn’t hold a candle to this: A 63-year-old man who hasn’t slept for more than two decades has been told there is nothing wrong with him by doctors. Ukrainian Fyodor Nesterchuk […]
January 18, 2005 – 9:21 am
Quick blurb from this article caught my attention (via LtShaffer from the forum I post on): Abdul Al-Haddad, 67, drove six hours from Raleigh, N.C., with his family to register at the polling station in New Carrollton, Md. He said he spent 13 years in prison in Iraq after he was falsely accused of being […]
January 16, 2005 – 10:11 am
Indonesia is one of the top 10 most corrupt areas in the world, according to Transparency International. Now, the media is concerned about corruption hitting the money earmarked for the victims of the tsunami. When delegates at a tsunami aid world summit in Jakarta tucked into beef, lamb, chicken and swordfish even as Indonesians scavenged […]
January 14, 2005 – 7:58 am
Interesting. Now the Left is hanging it’s hat on one small little story about the the Selective Service System looking for men and women to serve as board members. The Selective Service System is looking for men and women to serve as members of local boards that are currently in a standby mode. A prospective […]
January 13, 2005 – 1:47 pm
By way of Little Miss Attila (who has fortunately not washed away), comes a link to a story that I had heard on the radio or tv or something, and kinda just blew in one ear out the other (I am blonde, after all). Americans need to consume fewer calories and exercise more to maintain […]
January 9, 2005 – 5:21 pm
From An Account of the Events in Salem: From June through September of 1692, nineteen men and women, all having been convicted of witchcraft, were carted to Gallows Hill, a barren slope near Salem Village, for hanging. Another man of over eighty years was pressed to death under heavy stones for refusing to submit to […]
January 7, 2005 – 2:23 pm
See, me hearties, there are times when the Red and Blue can agree. I wholly support Jess at Life, or Something Like It over this nimrod. To the blog owner I say "you go to hell. You go to hell and you die."
