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IN THE past eight years, Karl Bushby has crossed the Andes and the Nevada desert, negotiated Colombian jungles and Arctic ice floes, and talked his way out of a Panamanian jail. But yesterday, the former paratrooper’s attempt to walk around the world appeared to have been thwarted by an even more formidable obstacle: Russian bureaucracy. A Russian court ruled that Mr Bushby and his fellow adventurer, Dmitry Kieffer, should be deported for walking across the frozen Bering Strait from Alaska without the correct paperwork. They would be fined 2,000 roubles (£40), flown back to Alaska, and not allowed to return...

CHESAPEAKE - A 21-year-old Mormon missionary died Monday night after he and his partner were shot while going door-to-door in the Deep Creek area. The other missionary, age 19, was in serious condition at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital Monday night, Chesapeake police said. Police did not release the victims’ identities. According to police the two missionaries were walking in the 2600 block of Elkhart Street off George Washington Highway about 6 p.m. when they were approached by another man. The man shot them both and fled on foot. One of the victims ran to The Charity House, a nearby nursing...

This is the second week without FRIDAY SILLINESS...I'm going through withdrawal!

Bernie Sanders is an open socialist. This "independent" representative for the state of Vermont who serves in the U.S. House of Representatives is also is a member of the "Progressive Caucus" along with dozens of members of Congress. This is just another communist front-group passing itself off as a "choice for the people." What rubbish. There's no question Hillary Clinton is a Marxist if you understand the subject matter. In the past, both Bill and Hillary have been generous donors to the Institute for Policy Studies, a subversive organization vigorously investigated by the FBI.

Jewish and Mormon leaders came to an amicable resolution Monday about the continued appearance of Jewish names on the LDS Church's genealogical index, used for the church's controversial practice of doing proxy baptisms for the dead. Ernest Michel, chairman of the New York-based World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, called the meetings "warm and satisfactory." Essentially the two groups affirmed their 1995 agreement, in which The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints agreed to discontinue vicarious baptisms for Jewish victims and most other Jews as well as remove their names from the giant computerized International Genealogical Index - unless...

A part-time college instructor has apologized for kicking a student because he was wearing a Republican shirt. Fort Lewis College student Mark O'Donnell said he was showing people his College Republicans sweat shirt, which said "Work for us now ... or work for us later," when Maria Spero kicked him in the leg at an off-campus restaurant. Spero then said "she should have kicked me harder and higher," said O'Donnell. "To physically take that out on someone because you disagree with them, that is completely wrong." Spero, a visiting instructor of modern languages, apologized to O'Donnell in a letter dated...

One woman who voted early in Boca Raton, at the Southwest County Regional Library, complained that as she stood in line, two men behind her were "trashing our president," Fletcher said, declining to identify the woman. She tried to ignore them. Then the man touched her arm and said, "Who are you voting for?" "I said, `I don't think that's an appropriate question,'" the woman said she responded. "Uh oh! We have a Bush supporter here," screamed the man behind her. For the 2 1/2 hours she had to wait in line, she was heckled by the man. As they...

he cameras are already in place. The computer code is being developed at a dozen or more major companies and universities. And the trial runs have already been planned. Everything is set for a new Pentagon program to become perhaps the federal government's widest reaching, most invasive mechanism yet for keeping us all under watch. Not in the far-off, dystopian future. But here, and soon.

March 21 — Massive cruise missile strikes took out dozens of buildings in Baghdad and across Iraq on Friday as the Pentagon began its promised “shock and awe” aerial campaign. Fires and huge plumes of smoke filled the skies of downtown Baghdad in what correspondent Peter Arnett said were strikes far larger than what he had seen in the 1991 Gulf War. Meanwhile, on the southern front, thousands of U.S. Marines and British Commandos moved across the desert to the key southern city of Basra after taking control of Iraq’s oil port.

Hi everyone, I'm not sure if this is out-of-line for me to post this or not. I don't wish to spam or anything, so if the moderators feel this is inappropriate, please delete the thread with my apologies. The media would have us believe that all celebrities, artists, musicians, intellectuals, etc. are all part of the peace movement. Many musicians that I correspond with are almost overjoyed that the '60s are coming back. They're cranking out protest songs and marching for a "peace" that I consider surrender and appeasement. Years ago, when I was in the Air Force, I wrote...

Deaths of five children in four days spark investigation By STEVE STONE, The Virginian-Pilot © February 21, 2003 State and local health officials are investigating the sudden deaths of five children since Sunday, four of them in Hampton Roads. ``It's a very unusual occurrence to have five young children, who to our knowledge are healthy, have sudden deaths in this short time,'' said Dr. Robert B. Stroube, the state health commissioner. Stroube urged parents not to panic. ``It may just be a purely chance event, and these cases may have absolutely nothing in common,'' Stroube said. Still, anyone with an...

Feb. 13 — U.S. Special Operations troops are already operating in various parts of Iraq, hunting for weapons sites, establishing a communications network and seeking potential defectors from Iraqi military units in what amounts to the initial ground phase of a war, U.S. defense officials and experts familiar with Pentagon planning said.

NORFOLK -- A state trooper was shot and two people killed during a raid Tuesday night on an Eastern Shore home where a man was sought for threatening to poison Virginia's water supplies, according to police, paramedics and court records. The trooper, who was wounded in the arm, was not identified. A Maryland state trooper said a helicopter was called to the scene to transport the wounded officer to a hospital. The two people killed were not identified. The deaths were confirmed by Capt. Eric Schleis of the Parksley rescue squad. The FBI and Virginia and Maryland state police agencies...

I started working on my 2002 tax return yesterday. Has anyone here noticed...