Newstimeslive.com A wheel deal::: LINK A year’s service in Iraq gave William von Zehle a host of memories, some good, some bad. The first sergeant in the Danbury-based 411th Civil Affairs Battalion returned home from Baghdad a certified hero for his rescue efforts when terrorists destroyed the United Nations headquarters in the Iraqi capital. He…
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Cell Phone Flask
(I actually got excited about this when I thought it was a real cellphone…combine a real phone and a flask and then you really have something….cd) Cell Phone Flaskwith leather case
Giant catfish caught
(I really don’t get it…why are people suddenly catching so many of the giant catfish I always thought were urban myths….next they’ll be finding alligators in the sewers of NYC…cd) Giant catfish caught A handout picture released Monday Aug. 1, 2005 shows Duncan Rooke, 32, (left) and Stephen Buss, 30, as they haul in a…
Big Girls Don't Cry
(It can’t be easy to find clothes for her…I’ve never seen a giant womens store…cd) Margo Dydek, the polish center for the WNBA Connecticut Sun’s towers over teammates and opponents at 7’2″.
Norway thieves nab copies in bungled Munch theft
(This is two of my favorite subjects wrapped into one…high profile crime and stupid criminals…cd) OSLO (Reuters) – Masked robbers stole three worthless copies of pictures by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch from an Oslo hotel on Wednesday in a bungled raid, almost a year after Munch’s 1893 masterpiece “The Scream” was stolen. Thieves wrenched the…
Let's Clone The Beautiful
(It seems to me that this is some kind of sign of things to come….cd) Korean First to Successfully Clone a Dog – Yahoo! News Scientists for the first time have cloned a dog. But don’t count on a better world populated by identical and resourceful Lassies just yet. That’s because the dog duplicated by…
Homage to Hendrix past due
(It always amazed me that Paul Allen was the only person in the Northwest that created a museum for Jimmy Hendrix. Many Seattlites have no idea he was from there….cd) The other day my 3-year-old son, Oscar, was looking at the birds and planes when he said: “Dad, I want to fly into the sky.”…
Bird flu could spread to European Russia – ministry – Yahoo! News
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A bird flu strain that is dangerous to humans could spread from Siberia to the heavily populated European part of Russia, where the main poultry farms are located, the Emergencies Ministry said on Wednesday. “In autumn, some wild birds migrate from the northern part of Siberia to the Caspian and Black Sea…
Army says seizes power in Mauritania
(Judging by the US and Isreali interests that are represented and at risk, I would guess that action from the US/UN will be forthcoming…never mind that we allow the genocide in Sudan to continue…we have no strategic partners there, it’s just people being slaughtered…..cd) NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) – Mauritania’s army said on Wednesday it had seized…
Feeding Europe, Starving at Home
(Must see – good example of how filmmaking can actually be a potential catalyst for social change – this world is so fucked up, I almost cried when i read this story.–KG) By A. O. SCOTT Published: August 3, 2005 “Darwin’s Nightmare,” Hubert Sauper’s harrowing, indispensable documentary, is framed by the arrival and departure of…