December 12, 2004 – 10:09 am
From the USA Today: Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas apologized to Kuwaitis on Sunday for the Palestinians’ support of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein after the 1990 invasion of Kuwait, making a gesture many here have long demanded as he launched a tour to repair relations with Arab nations. Why is this good news? Kuwait is […]
December 12, 2004 – 9:53 am
The Ukrainian Police will be reopening the investigation into the possiblility of Yushchenko being criminally poisoned. More good news for the Opposition: The most recent opinion poll has put the opposition leader 10 percentage points ahead of his rival, Viktor Yanukovych.
December 9, 2004 – 8:00 am
From CNN Entertainment comes a story on First Amendment movies: If you don’t think the First Amendment is a burning issue, you’ve already forgotten the ruckus over "Saving Private Ryan" just three weeks ago. Spooked by how the Feds might punish them, 66 ABC affiliates played safe by squelching that acclaimed war film. Their excuse […]
December 7, 2004 – 7:52 pm
From the BBC, the United States has said NO to signing the Kyoto Treaty The US has told a UN conference on global warming that it has no intention of re-joining international efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The chief American negotiator at the conference in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires ruled out any move to […]
December 7, 2004 – 8:24 am
The Dutch have re-arrested a Dutch national for assisting Saddam with genocide. Prosecutors in the Netherlands say they will charge a 62-year-old Dutchman suspected of assisting ex-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in genocide. A spokesman for the chief prosecutor’s office said the suspect had supplied Saddam Hussein with thousands of tons of base materials for chemical […]
December 5, 2004 – 10:58 am
From World Net Daily: In the event of a WMD attack by terrorists on the U.S. homeland or U.S. military facilities overseas, the U.S will immediately and without discussion use its immense nuclear weapons capabilities to destroy the 100 largest Islamic cities on earth, regardless of state, and destroy all of the military facilities of […]
December 5, 2004 – 10:39 am
From the 445th Airlift Wing PAO: A 14-month-old Iraqi girl left for Iraq on a C-141 Starlifter recently after receiving about six months of medical treatment at Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Fatemah Khalil Hassan and her mother, Beyda’a Amir Abdul Jabar, were flown to Ramstein Air Base, Germany, before heading back to Iraq. The […]
November 28, 2004 – 12:10 pm
From the Truth Laid Bear comes an expose on Tom Brokaw’s advice for Brian Williams: "Put your head down and do the work, and don’t read the many media critics who will be out there with commentary and criticism in the beginning. Your compact is not with them but with the audience." I personally think […]
November 28, 2004 – 9:43 am
From South Korea: A South Korean woman paralyzed for 20 years is walking again after scientists say they repaired her damaged spine using stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood. Hwang Mi-Soon, 37, had been bedridden since damaging her back in an accident two decades ago. Now, I really do not know a whole lot […]
November 26, 2004 – 5:39 pm
Ya know, I have said before that I generally do not curse when writing. It isn’t any sort of elitism, it is just the way I write. In personal conversations, I will curse up a storm at times. But, in regards to the World Trade Organization, they can bite me. The World Trade Organization authorized […]
