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Wednesday, August 31, 2005

A Coast Guard officer looks for hurricane survivors from a helicopter flying over New Orleans.


A police officer stands guard Wednesday in downtown New Orleans. The city's mayor says the death toll from Hurricane Katrina may reach into the thousands.

Deadliest U.S. Disaster In Nearly a Century

New Orleans could quite possibly become a ghost town for the next few months.

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 31 -With much of the city inundated and uninhabitable, state and federal officials said today that they would bus thousands of newly homeless residents to Houston, where they will be sheltered in the Astrodome.
In Washington, the Department of Homeland Security assumed control of the federal response to the disaster, with Secretary Michael Chertoff declaring the situation along the Gulf Coast an "incident of national significance."
Hurricane Katrina probably killed thousands of people in New Orleans, the mayor said Wednesday - an estimate that, if accurate, would make the storm the nation's deadliest natural disaster since at least the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
"We know there is a significant number of dead bodies in the water," and other people dead in attics, Mayor Ray Nagin said. Asked how many, he said: "Minimum, hundreds. Most likely, thousands."
The frightening estimate came as Army engineers struggled to plug New Orleans' breached levees with giant sandbags and concrete barriers, while authorities drew up plans to clear out the tens of thousands of people left in the Big Easy and all but abandon the flooded-out city. Many of the evacuees - including thousands now staying in the Superdome - will be moved to the Astrodome in Houston, 350 miles away.

Hurricane Katrina Leaves Tail of Destruction

AP- Rescuers along the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast pushed aside the dead to reach the living Tuesday in a race against time and rising floodwaters, while New Orleans sank deeper into crisis, with Louisiana's governor ordering storm refugees out of this drowning city.

There are reports that 80% of New Orleans is flooded after two levees broke. This isn't too supriding given that the "big easy" lies well below sea level in most places and is surrounded by a gulf, a lake and the largest river in the U.S.

As many as 100 people may be dead in Mississippi and Louisiana. What a terrible way to learn a lesson. God bless those still in need.

Sunday, August 28, 2005

Liberal Stupidity

I was talking to a few people who seem to think that George W. Bush had something to do with 911. More or less, he knew about it and wanted it to happen. Same thing with the London bombings. Blair supposedly ordered that. How stupid can you really get. It seems there is no limit. Liberal minded people who believe in this kind of nonsense seem to thrive on any speculation that can let them believe the people in power are out to get them. That's fine. You keep thinking that. It's just something for everyone else to laugh at and for me to talk about. These are the same people that drive 55 in a 30 zone. It's going to take something tragic for them to stop. It's a liberal mentality, they can't see the reasons for the 30 mph zone. Perhaps they think it's the government doing what "they always do". The truth is, thousands of college students cross that road every day, and you won't kill them if you just go the speed limit. It's really sad to think about all the people who don't understand that concept not to mention all the other aspects of life.

Thursday, August 25, 2005

I'll be back

I just moved about 300 miles away and am still settling in. I will start posting soon, however. I have a lot of work to take care of at school first.

Friday, August 19, 2005

The U.S.S. Kearsage

U.S. Navy Fired On...Big Miss... Jordanian Killed

AMMAN, Jordan, Aug. 19 - A rocket was fired early today at two American naval ships docked in southern Jordan, killing a Jordanian soldier and marking the first attack on American military ships in the region in five years, American and Jordanian officials said. A rocket was fired at the same time from apparently the same area at an airport in a neighboring Israeli port, hitting a stretch of road and wounding a taxi driver, news agencies reported, citing Israeli officials and witnesses. A third projectile was fired at a Jordanian hospital around the southern port of Aqaba but did no damage.
No one claimed immediate responsibility for the simultaneous attacks, which displayed audacity in their use of military-style weapons and techniques. In October 2000, two suicide bombers detonated a launch loaded with explosives next to the American destroyer Cole as it was refueling in a port in Yemen. That attack, which killed 17 people and wounded 39 others, was attributed to Al Qaeda.

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

"I feel that today was a pogrom," said Dikla Cohen, 41, a mother of nine who was forced to leave Neve Dekalim. "We are now refugees of the nation of Israel."

Israeli Troops Persuade, and Force, Settlers to Leave Gaza

NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza Strip, Aug. 17 - Large forces of Israeli soldiers began going house to house today evacuating Jewish settlers from their homes in the Gaza Strip. Soldiers encountered enraged settlers, many of whom called them criminals and begged them to leave. Some had to be physically dragged out of their homes and loaded onto waiting buses still kicking and shouting.

Saturday, August 13, 2005

War Is Never What You Imagine

For all of you who believe in the New York Times and their wonderful headlines about what's happening in Iraq, it's time to get a slap in the face. The truth is that a war... will always be a war. If you constantly focus on the ambushing and the killing, you're simply not going to get the job done. "It's so easy to lose heart when you're back home soaring or falling on every news report. The pictures from Abu Ghraib are a horrible setback - a battle lost...but the war? No. Not yet. Not by a long shot." (Solomonia.com) The NY Times and most other liberal newspapers are excellent in the field of distortion. Sometimes I use NYT articles for my posts. When I do, the news usually is very important for the day. Albeit, I can see through what the reporters are writing and dicern truth from liberal spin. I just hope that you can as well.

Friday, August 12, 2005

Lutheran Church

No Gays In Church

After a daylong passionate debate, the national assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America rejected a proposal yesterday to allow gay men and lesbians in committed relationships to be ordained as members of the clergy.
Which begs the question... What was the debate for?

Monday, August 08, 2005

What a bunch of B.S.

Iran Resumes Nuclear Activity

TEHRAN, Aug. 8- Iran resumed sensitive nuclear activities today at one of its facilities, despite warnings from European negotiators that the move would prompt them to refer the case to the United Nations Security Council for punitive action.

This is simply because no one really takes the EU too seriously, or anything European for that matter. When it comes to sensitive issues such as this, the U.S. should really take action.

Sunday, August 07, 2005

Lt. Vyacheslav Milashevsky, commander of the small Russian submarine, with members of his crew.

Russia Celebrates Safe Return of Trapped Submarine Crew

MOSCOW, Aug. 7 - Russia today celebrated the rescue of a small submarine and its seven crew members who had been trapped for three days more than 600 feet below the Pacific Ocean, but the happy ending was tinged by embarrassment and recriminations over the state of the country's military. Glad we can help... don't mention it.


Saturday, August 06, 2005

The message? We don't fuck around!

Japan Remembers Bomb, Forgets Reason

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Aug. 6) -- Hiroshima marked the 60th anniversary Saturday of the first atomic bomb attack with prayers and water for the dead and a call by the city's mayor for nuclear powers to abandon their arsenals and stop ''jeopardizing human survival.'' Here we go again. Why do you think we dropped the damn thing in the first place? It's not like we thought, "oh, this is going to kill alot of innocent people, drop it". That was how your friend Germany liked to conduct war. On the contrary, Japan's almost immediate surrender is the reason for the bomb. Ironically, the devices from hell may have saved thousands more innocent civillians from the horrors of war. So before you start bitching about human survival, try and remember that the bomb may be the only reason that Japan exists today. Our other alternative was to burn Tokyo which would have gone up like, well, any city made of wood. Besides, you started it.

The U.S. military is flying the "Super Scorpio," below, to Russia in an attempt to help rescue seven Russian sailors trapped on a military mini-submarine on the Pacific floor.

U.S. and British Teams Arrive to Aid in Russian Sub Rescue

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, (say that five times fast)Russia (AP) -- U.S. and British planes carrying robotic undersea vehicles landed in Russia's Far East on Saturday to help rescue seven sailors trapped in a mini-submarine with a dwindling oxygen supply far below the Pacific Ocean. Authorities couldn't say exactly how much air remained, but a top Navy official Saturday said the supply should last until the end of the rescue. This time Russia was quick to ask for foreign assistance. You think they still remember the Kursk?

Thursday, August 04, 2005

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) kisses the hand of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei... (who's your daddy?)

The U.S, Iran and the E.U.

European Offer To Iran

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 - In a first test of the new leadership in Iran, European negotiators have prepared a sweeping proposal that raises the possibility of Iran acquiring nuclear reactors and fuel, and of achieving a full political and economic relationship with the West, if it ends nuclear activities suspected to be part of a weapons program, Western diplomats said Thursday.
The European offer, drafted with the tacit approval of the Bush administration, is to be transmitted by the end of this weekend as the latest step in a European-American effort to get Iran to abandon its suspected nuclear arms ambitions. That effort has run into repeated difficulties, most recently over Iran's announced intention to resume uranium conversion and enrichment in defiance of European warnings.

Monday, August 01, 2005

Stephen K. Robinson with his "Space Cadet" lunchbox.

NASA to Spacewalk a Fix

SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) -- NASA announced Monday that an astronaut will perform a spacewalk to fix two worrisome pieces of filler material protruding from Discovery's belly -- a high-stakes operation to repair a problem that could threaten the shuttle during re-entry.

 
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