Monroe Cty 911 :.Chuck Simmins | October 30, 2004
AFISWASHINGTON, Oct. 29, 2004 ‘ The assembly lines are moving 24/7 to keep up with the demand for up-armored vehicles in Iraq and for conversion kits to add extra protection to vehicles already there. Gary Motsek, director of support operations for the U.S. Army Materiel Command, said the effort to provide increased vehicle protection against [...]
Chuck Simmins | October 30, 2004
October 30, 2004. A 9.0 earthquake strikes the San Francisco Bay area. Over 10,000 people known dead, fires raging out of control in many places. Aftershocks as strong as 7.0 strike up and down the coast, causing more deaths and destruction from Los Angeles to Seattle.
Can California hold an election on November 2?
October 30, 2004. [...]
Chuck | October 29, 2004
A Presidential election is held during a war. The serving President is vilified, called all sorts of names. The Democratic party nominates a man who is a veteran, and runs primarily on that experience. The Party adopts a platform describing the conduct of the war to date as flawed, wrong, and calls for a negotiated [...]
Chuck | October 29, 2004
U.S. ArmyFORT BRAGG, N.C. (Army News Service, Aug. 26, 2004) — In a fight, two against one is bad odds. Ten against one is a recipe for disaster. Yet those were the odds Sgt. Tommy Rieman and his squad faced and beat when they were ambushed by more than 50 anti-American insurgents near Abu Ghraib [...]
Chuck Simmins | October 29, 2004
does it take?
AFPA landmark bridge in Indonesia’s Sumatra island may collapse because too many people are fond of urinating on one of its steel pillars. Public works officials have found that the Ampera bridge, the landmark of Palembang city, the capital of South Sumatra province, has begun to lean on an angle and rocks slightly [...]
Chuck Simmins | October 27, 2004
The Estonian military has lost its second soldier in support of the coalition liberating Iraq.
MNFBaghdad, Iraq — One Task Force Baghdad Soldier died and five others were wounded Oct. 25, when an improvised explosive device detonated at about 11:15 a.m. in western Baghdad. A two-and-a-half-ton truck was also damaged in the blast. The injured were [...]
Chuck Simmins | October 27, 2004
BBCThird-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) was 9.1%, down from 9.6% in the second and 9.8% in the first.[snip]
Analysts said that China will be heartened by Friday’s data, which showed urban fixed-asset investment, a key indicator, slowing. It rose by 28% in the third quarter, less than the 30% increase seen in the previous six months.
Separate [...]
Chuck | October 26, 2004
“He said, ‘Grandma, if anything is going to happen to any of us, make sure they continue with the war until it’s finished,’ ” she said.
a href=”http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=1&u=/ap/cheney_grandmother” target=”blank”>APMore than a thousand American soldiers have been killed in Iraq, but few families have been as deeply affected by it as the Hobbses. Hobbs’ son, her daughter-in-law [...]
Chuck Simmins | October 26, 2004
According to Sitemeter, I’m going to crash through the 200,000 views barrier sometime today or early tomorrow. Yay, me! I hope it doesn’t hurt…
Chuck Simmins | October 25, 2004
I have a feeling that the end result of this Presidential election will be a surprise to most, especially those in Old Media. Now, I realize that this statement allows for a John Kerry victory [hawk] [spit]. I just have the feeling that the Old Media and the polls will not have predicted what the [...]
Chuck Simmins | October 25, 2004
Jane Galt, in her efforts to decide who to vote for, has not received an argument that convinced her that the Liberation of Iraq was neither a boondoggle nor a clusterfuck. I shall attempt to succeed in this argument.
When we defeated the Iraqi occupiers of Kuwait in the first Gulf War, Saddam and his thugs [...]
Chuck Simmins | October 24, 2004
USMCThe Marines moved into the city under the cover of darkness, speeding past the other companies into the complex. The compound was silent until the initial blasts of tank fire thundered across the buildings. Marines flooded from the tracked vehicles into the objective through holes in walls blasted open by the tanks. The mission to [...]
Chuck Simmins | October 22, 2004
NZ Bear has rounded up a variety of blogs with endorsements of President Bush by heroes, past, future and alternative. Go and read! Mine is there, too.
