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The USS San Francisco crashed into a mountain that the Navy's mapping & charting department didn't know was there. The NOAA, USGS, and NASA all knew it was though. If the navy simply worked with the NOAA then at least one sailor would still be alive. "Wall of Separation" Doesn't End With IntelligenceHow many accidents, terrorist attacks, and tragedies will it take before our government realizes that redundant organizations are not the way to go.

There has been a lot of talk over the past thirty six hours about the disconnect between exit polls and the actual count of ballots. Many Bloggers have been quick to criticize the mainstream media for screwing up yet again, and as is so often the case the media has been quick to pass the blame back on us. Until recently the mainstream media has been allowed to operate with out supervision, reporting their polished version of the news. That era has ended and now those news sources are resentful that they now have to answer to the public the...

Europe's best selling newspaper, Germany's Bild Zeitung has made its first ever editorial endorsement of a candidate for US president: George W Bush. The editorial came after a Tuesday endorsement for Mr Bush's challenger, Senator John Kerry, in Europe's biggest financial newspaper, the Financial Times and just before today's very reluctant endorsement of Senator Kerry by The Economist. That a financial newspaper in a boots-on-the-ground ally of the US in Iraq would endorse a "tax-and-spend" liberal Democrat might have raised a few eyebrows on the bourses, but that the Bild would endorse Mr Bush -- despite Germany's polarisation from the...

The Iraqi boy who wants to swap places with HassanWhen Mohammad Hamdan, 18, stepped on an unexploded cluster bomb while playing football near his home in Baghdad last year, his active life appeared to have come to an abrupt end. He was unable to walk after suffering serious injuries to his upper back and left lung, tears to the stomach and intestine and compression of the spinal cord. “I just lay there like a vegetable, a soul in this life unable to move, talk or feel,” he said. It was then that Margaret Hassan, 59, the Dublin-born charity worker abducted...

UNITED NATIONS — U.S. officials suggested yesterday that nearly 380 tons of conventional high explosives that disappeared from an Iraqi weapons facility near Baghdad were gone before American forces took over the area in April 2003. In reports to the Security Council yesterday, U.N. and Iraqi officials indicated that the explosives, including some under U.N. seal because of their potential use to detonate a nuclear bomb, were lost while the country was under U.S. occupation.

DU has a new piece out listing the "top ten conservative idiots." They are... 1. "Team Bush" 2. Dick Cheney 3. Condi Rice & Tom Ridge 4. George W. Bush 5. George W. Bush 6. Vote Fraudsters 7. George W. Bush 8. Tom Delay 9. Alan Keyes 10. Randal Wagner So we have a whole group of people for #'s 1 & 6, two people for #3, and one person listed three times. I guess to someone who can't actually count to ten, they wouldn't understand the world we live in, so they might be inclined to call names for...

The linked website is simply an attempt to get people to vote for Kerry. They are trying to scare college kids into thinking that the draft is coming. Unfortunately college kids are very susceptible to this kind of propaganda, fortunately they are a group that is very unlikely at the polls on 11/2. See this rediculous site at http://www.enjoythedraft.com