May 31st, 2004
While the band played a stirring march, the 5th Field Artillery Group passed in review for the sixteen veterans, all members of the Group and its battalions, who had just been decorated with the Silver Star by Lieutenant General GEORGE S. PATTON, JR. The United States Army’s outstanding tactical commander had paid high tribute to [...]
May 29th, 2004
USMCCAMP BLUE DIAMOND, Iraq(May 28, 2004) — Cpl. Charles A. Brown, of Victorville, Calif., wants people to know that he was not named after the famous “Peanuts” cartoon character, but that doesn’t mean he’s not funny.The 22-year-old topographic analyst with 1st Marine Division spends two hours of his workday standing duty outside the main entrance [...]
BBC A group of 29 children, mostly girls, are back in their home district in southern Nepal after being rescued from working in an Indian circus. They were joyfully reunited with their parents and families earlier this month.Days later, they gathered at the office of the Nepal Child Welfare Foundation (NCWF) in the district headquarters, [...]
ReutersLUSAKA (Reuters) – A 50-year-old Zambian man has hanged himself after his wife found him having sex with a hen, police said Friday. The woman caught him in the act when she rushed into their house to investigate a noise.”He attempted to kill her but she managed to escape,” a police spokesman said.The man from [...]
Michele is accessorizing her new home. In fact, she just bought her very own garbage pails.To personalize the experience even more, she named each of them after one of her favorite people, Ted Rall and John Kerry.
I’m off until Tuesday. 12 hours of ambulance duty on Sunday. I’ll leave you with the following blog post about Memorial Day:
The drug wars are heating up again in Rochester. After a bad year in 2003, this year started calmer. But, the boys in the hood can’t keep it that way. And, in the last two days, two dead.I wish Al (Bore) Gore or Nancy (Petty) Pelosi or Robert (Klucker) Byrd had the same level of [...]
May 27th, 2004
ReutersUsing artificial insemination to get pregnant, lesbians are four times more likely to have children than gay men. via Tim BlairI’d say, without running any scientific studies at all, that lesbians are a hundred times more likely, but then, what do I know?
Killings
May 28th, 2004
The drug wars are heating up again in Rochester. After a bad year in 2003, this year started calmer. But, the boys in the hood can’t keep it that way. And, in the last two days, two dead.I wish Al (Bore) Gore or Nancy (Petty) Pelosi or Robert (Klucker) Byrd had the same level of [...]
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