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BAGHDAD (Army News Service, Nov. 30, 2005) -- Task Force Baghdad Soldiers found multiple weapons caches on an island in the Euphrates River Nov. 28. Military officials had been monitoring suspicious activity near the Euphrates River southwest of Baghdad for a couple of weeks. When conditions were right, Soldiers from 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division sprung into action. “The timing was right to attack the target,” said 2nd BCT Commander Col. Todd Ebel. “The pieces of the puzzle fit close enough.” Bombs, rockets, grenades found Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment secured the objective and discovered three...

THE LEGEND OF CRAWFORD While book-signings for political figures like Bill and Hillary Clinton, Ann Coulter or Sean Hannity often feature long lines and people waiting for hours, the scene at Cindy Sheehan's book-signing yesterday near President Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch was a much more lonely affair. Photographs published by wire services including the Associated Press and Reuters depict a lonely "Peace Mom" in a virtually empty tent awaiting those seeking her autograph on her new book, "Not One More Mother's Child." The Washington Post reported the scene this way: "Sheehan found herself addressing a crowd of only about 100...

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AL Franken found out the hard way not to mess with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who chided Franken as if he were a delinquent schoolboy at Time Warner Center on Monday night… When Pearlstine opened the floor for Q&A, Franken stood up in the back row and started talking about "judicial demeanor" and asking "hypothetically" about whether a judge should recuse himself if he had gone duck-hunting or flown in a private jet with a party in a case before his court. Franken was clumsily referring to the fact that Scalia had gone hunting and flying with Dick...

If the communities we live are have become an unreliable disaster for our kids we must redouble are efforts as parents. As a matter of fact maybe this should have been part one, as the individual family’s values shape the nature of the community (we could argue chicken and egg theory here). Now this next concept is pretty dramatic and complex, so hold on to your coffee. Here it is....More people need to make raising their kids the most important priority in their lives. This is not a revolutionary idea, but seems terribly hard for many folks to put into...

<p>You people are jerks. Not likeable jerks either, but the kind folks would like to smack in the back of the head with a shovel. Think Judge Snells from Caddyshack or Neidermier from Animal House.</p> <p>I know this probably comes as a shock to you, but if you do some serious soul searching, you'll realize that I am right.</p>

The United Nations has lost its bid to take control of the Internet. That's a good thing, because it was a poor idea at every level. According to a CNN dispatch from a global summit in Tunisia, the U.N. based its argument on the need to close the "digital divide" that separates rich and poor nations. But it's hard to understand how U.N. control over domain names and technical issues would help poorer nations make fuller use of technology. The U.N. certainly hasn't been a factor in the growth of the Internet in the U.S. or Europe. And I doubt...

The United States reportedly may look for a U.N. substitute if that body doesn't improve in problem solving and responding to U.S. needs. U.N. Ambassador John R. Bolton told The Washington Times that the Bush administration requires nothing less than a revolution of reform at the United Nations. "That," he said, "would cover everything from Security Council engagement to management changes to a focus on administrative skills in choosing the next secretary-general." The United Nations, which he said seemed caught in a time warp, "has got to be a place to solve problems that need solving, rather than a place...

NY Times Gets Suckered……………Again !! The New York Times : Gray Lady of the Media ,Fearless Seeker of Truth, Justice, and The American Way –( Well: Okay. Easy on the “American” part !) has gotten suckered , yet again. Desperately eager for yet another burning coal to heap upon the execution pyre they have lit for the Bush Administration, The Times (“All the news that’s fit to print”) latched on to an article – written by the ever-popular "Clayton Hallmark" - that has made the rounds of all the Online Media ,and that was a feature article in “Bellaciao” ;...

MUNICH, Germany (AFP) - German airline DBA said it had ordered 40 new 737 jets from US aircraft maker Boeing, with the first aircraft scheduled for delivery in 2008. The 737-700 and 737-800 jets, to be delivered between 2008 and 2010, would enable DBA to become "the number one" on the domestic German market ahead of flag carrier Lufthansa, DBA said in a statement Monday. The financial terms were not disclosed, but the list price of one new-generation 737 jet stands at 54 million dollars (46 million dollars). At present, DBA currently operates a fleet of 29 leased 737 jets....

UNTIL the last minute of his life at 3.30pm last Wednesday, the logistics skills that the Bali bombing mastermind known as the “Demolition Man” had polished at Reading University did not desert him. As a team from Indonesia’s elite police unit, Detachment 88, crept into place around his hideaway, Azahari bin Husin, 48, was working with an accomplice on the explosive devices that had made his name. They had more than 30 small charges with intricate electronic settings, which police experts think were intended to detonate larger bombs. Computer disks, several mobile phones and jihadi tracts littered the main room...

I am an internet java script sent to infiltrate your site and transform you from political neanderthals into a modern 21st Century progressive mode. This is your first warning. Do not try and resist. It is useless. Accept your fate. You will be assimilated.

Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, aide to Saddam Hussein, died on Friday, al-Arabiya TV channel quoted a statement by the Baath party as saying. Al-Douri, vice chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council under Saddam's regime, ranks No. 6 among the 55 most wanted by the United States with a 10-million-dollar bounty on his head. He died early Friday, the statement said, without giving more details.

Women fought off attackers in a pair of overnight incidents in Charlotte, in one case firing shots at an intruder. The first took place shortly after midnight in the 5100 block of Eaton Circle, off Morris Field Drive near Charlotte/Douglas International Airport. Police say a woman was asleep when she was awakened by a man who had forced his way into her home. The man cut the woman with a knife, but she responded by grabbing a gun near her bed and firing at the intruder. She failed to hit the man, but he ran out of the house and...

Indonesia's most wanted man and the terrorist blamed for a string of attacks including the Bali bombings has reportedly blown himself up after police raided his East Java hideout this afternoon. Malaysian bomb mastermind Dr Azahari Husin apparently triggered a bomb killing himself and two accomplices after police surrounded a villa in the hill resort town of Batu, near Malang, local television news stations reported. An undated police handout photo shows Malaysian bombmaker Azahari Husin. Photo: Reuters Witnesses told of gunshots and at least two explosions after crack anti-terror police raided the house around 3.30pm this afternoon. The area was...

A group of election reforms backed by liberal Daddy Warbucks George Soros has crashed and burned in Ohio, leaving Democrats unable to capitalize on a year's worth of complaints that the state's 2004 presidential vote was rigged. Voters soundly rejected the four Soros-backed proposals, which would have overhauled the way Ohio runs its elections. The initiatives would have opened absentee balloting to all voters, lowered the cap on individual campaign contributions and put boards, instead of elected officials, in charge of drawing legislative and congressional districts and overseeing the state's elections, according to the Associated Press. With 25 percent of...

Madge Hung Up on Net pirates Sensational ... in purple leotard     MADONNA was more Queen Of Strop than Pop last night when she discovered her new album has been leaked on to the internet – costing her a fortune in lost sales. The star has gone to great lengths to keep Confessions On A Dancefloor under lock and key until its worldwide release on November 14. Not even music critics could get a copy of the CD for review. They were forced to go to her record company HQ to hear it. But last night I was...

Just saw on CNN--death row inmate captured in Shreveport. Details forthcoming.

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Palestinians shout as they inspect the wreckage of a car after it was hit by an Israeli missile strike in the Jebaliya refugee camp adjacent to Gaza City GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Nov 1, 2005 — Israel killed two top Palestinian fugitives Tuesday in a missile attack on their cars, triggering threats of revenge by militants that could further erode the fragile truce between the two sides. Even as tensions rose, however, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators were trying to resolve remaining disputes over new security arrangements on the Gaza-Egypt border. Earlier in the day, Israeli Cabinet ministers approved the deployment...