Monroe Cty 911 :.Chuck Simmins | September 30, 2004
Overall, a near draw, which translates to a win for Bush. Kerry started strong a few times then failed to move in for the kill. Unwilling or unable? He should have came out and called the President a liar.
Questions were biased against Bush, softballs for Kerry in large part.
Bush failed to use his experience [...]
Chuck Simmins | September 30, 2004
U.S. ArmyBAGHDAD, Iraq (Army News Service, Sept. 30, 2004) — In the middle of the largest rebuilding effort since the Marshall Plan, a young woman in Iraq joined the ranks of the legal profession this month via a video teleconference with an Iowa judge.
Melissa Head took the bar exam two weeks before she deployed to [...]
Chuck | September 30, 2004
Mudville GazetteInsurgents cannot hope to control Baghdad, so they try to show that the Iraqi government can’t control it either. Today’s attack at a sewage treatment plant did nothing to disrupt the function of the plant, but that is cold comfort to the families of thirty five children killed by car bombs.
The insurgents can’t afford [...]
Chuck | September 30, 2004
USMCMARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.(Sept. 23, 2004) — One Marine carried on a relentless, one-armed fight. Another is credited with spearheading a counterattack that left an estimated 30 insurgents dead. Their tenacious response to an enemy ambush last spring near Fallujah, Iraq, earned them the Bronze Star Medal, awarded Friday in a ceremony at [...]
Chuck Simmins | September 30, 2004
Defend AmericaCAMP LIBERTY, Baghdad, Sept. 30, 2004 ‘ Soldiers attached to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Commandos), worked like cowboys as they rounded up livestock to administer life-saving medicine. Soldiers from the 345th Tactical Psychological Operations Detachment, Dallas, Texas, and 425th Civil Affairs Battalion, Santa Barbara, Calif., worked with Iraqi veterinarians to [...]
Chuck Simmins | September 30, 2004
Information that you won’t see in the Old Media. Found at DefendAmerica [pdf file]
Chuck Simmins | September 30, 2004
What? The Olympics are over?
The heart surgeon for BJ has verified it. He has a heart of gold. 14 caret, plated, but gold none the less.
Can you imagine what Michael Moore’s arteries look like?
Frances hadn’t even left the state of Florida when the media dogs started barking “Ivan”. How about just a little less orgasming [...]
Chuck Simmins | September 22, 2004
You Oughta Go Ta North Dakotaby Lois Steele and Jack Fulton (1958)
“Ya oughta go ta, North DakotaSee the cattle and the wheat,and the folks that can’t be beatYa oughta go ta, North DakotaAnd you just can’t say goodbye.”
“The sky is bluer than blueThe sun is sunnier, tooAnd if you don’t believe meThere’s only one thing [...]
Chuck Simmins | September 22, 2004
Toronto StarSome of Brando’s ashes were scattered in Death Valley, a place that the actor cherished, his son Miko Brando told the newspaper. The ashes of Brando’s late friend Wally Cox, who died in 1973, were also poured onto the desert landscape as part of the same ceremony.
Wally Cox?This may make my brain explode.
Chuck Simmins | September 21, 2004
Paul Campos has a column in today’s Rocky Mountain News. Campos is a professor of law at the University of Colorado. The premise of his column is that voters are illogical, thus idiots.
Campos takes this position based upon polling results that he sees as inconsistent, and on a New Yorker essay by Louis Menand which [...]
Chuck | September 21, 2004
I taught part one of three of my WMD course last evening to the ambulance corps. This segment was bio WMD’s. The course is intended to provide the hours required by NYS for your EMT recert. In October I’ll cover chemical WMD and in November nuclear.
I’m trying to spend more time on the military variants, [...]
Chuck Simmins | September 20, 2004
DOL In the week ending Sept. 11, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 333,000, an increase of 16,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 317,000. The 4-week moving average was 338,000, unchanged from the previous week’s revised average of 338,000.
This is a DOL produced graph. Had I done it, it would [...]
Chuck Simmins | September 20, 2004
Work accidents. See what happens in a country where the government doesn’t protect workers with an OSHA.
MNF Iraq Camp Babylon, Iraq ‘ Iraqi National Guard troops patrolling in the Wasit Province area of the Polish-led Multi-National Division Central South, reported that anti-Iraqi forces blew themselves up as they prepared an Improvised Explosive Device in Suwayra [...]
