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FReepers, Besides Free Republic, who has the best TV coverage so far on the dim convention? I have been out of town all week, stuck with CBS / Perky Katie / only partial coverage / blah, blah. Now, I have hundreds of channels at my disposal, so let me (and everybody else) know your opinion. Thanks!

Cannot post excerpts from these clowns, but here's a link to the article: http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070913/UPDATE/709130472/-1/rss

Go get 'em Tigers!

A 16-year-old Michigan girl is in police custody in the Middle East after she tried a to visit a man she met on a the popular website myspace.com. Katherine Lester got on plane to the Middle East Monday to visit a man whose Myspace account says he is a 25 year old from Jericho. US officials stopped Lester Thursday night in Jordan on her way to Israel. Lester told her parents she was going to Canada. Authorities are investigating the teen's departure and confiscated the Lesters' home computer as part of the probe. An FBI spokesman declined to provide any...

Apologies for the vanity, but can any fellow FReepers tell me what the haunting melody is on this Web Site?

Aurora Borealis visible in Southern Michigan tonight. Very bright, but not too colorful...at least not yet. Just an FYI for you sky watchers out there.

BOSTON (AP) - An outbreak of toxic red tide algae that has shut down most shellfishing from Maine to Massachusetts also forced state officials to close federal waters, extending the affected area by thousands of square miles. On Friday, the state Division of Marine Fisheries ordered Massachusetts crews to stop using federal shellfishing areas and asked federal officials to extend that ban to out-of state shellfishermen. The move extends the ban for state shellfishing crews from three miles from shore to 100 miles from shore. Toxins produced by the algae contaminate shellfish like clams and mussels, making them unsafe for...

My computer is turned on. I showered last week, although it stuned my beeber a little. This is seriesly hugh...please fix it.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A U.S. soldier pleaded guilty at his court-martial Friday to killing a severely wounded 16-year-old Iraqi, the military said. Staff Sgt. Johnny M. Horne Jr., 30, of Winston-Salem, N.C., was charged with the Aug. 18 slaying in Baghdad's Sadr City, the scene of fierce clashes earlier this year between coalition forces and Shiite rebels allied to firebrand anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Horne was expected to be sentenced Friday, the military said. Horne, a member of Company C, 1st Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment, Fort Riley, Kan., also pleaded guilty to a charge of soliciting another soldier to...

LONDON (AP) - A drunken soldier sparked a security alert when he left a costume party dressed as a suicide bomber, wearing a turban, false beard and a combat jacket stuffed with pretend explosives, British police said Friday. A member of the public called police after seeing the sergeant in his costume walking along a road near the Aldershot army base in southern England on Wednesday. Fifteen police squad cars, armed officers, dog handlers and members of the Royal Military Police were called to the alert. The soldier, a member of the Coldstream Guards who had been attending a costume...

VIENNA, Austria (AP) - The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Monday that South Korea's failure to report nuclear experiments was a "matter of serious concern" as Western diplomats revealed a link between tests conducted in 2000 and Seoul's secret uranium work in the 1980s. Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said that Seoul had recently acknowledged producing more than 300 pounds of uranium metal in the 1980s at three facilities it had kept secret from his agency. "A small amount" of this substance was used in the later nuclear enrichment experiments using laser technology,...