Hummer drives over police cars

As if Hummers aren't annoying enough on their own, now someone's attempted to escape the long arm of the law by simply driving one over police cruisers. If it weren't a beautiful Friday I'd hate everything...

Visit to Montreal of the Emden was a coup for the Nazi regime

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorIn 1936,the first post WW I German Warship to come into service as the Nazi Regimes flagship Emden paid a visit to Montreal in time for Germany's 11th Olympiad.  The...

Why I Hate Cops

"I don't hate cops. I've had friends who were cops in every town where I've ever lived. One pal o' mine--Cuddles to his friends--drove the meat wagon (picking up corpses) for the Chicago police department. Another was Ziggy, a ex-junkie who submitted an application to the...

Five die in Sydney harbour crash

Five people have been killed in a collision between a fishing trawler and a small cabin crusier in Australia's Sydney harbour."Nine others were injured as all 14 people aboard the smaller boat were thrown into Sydney...

Navy Times: Prankster May Have Been Behind Radio Threats

It's all fun and games until someone blows up a nuclear reactor.  God, this just keeps getting weirder.  The Navy Times is reporting that the whole Iranian think might have been a prank.  Good thing the Bush administration doesn't have an itchy trigger...

Man ejected from yacht dies in Gulf

Lesson to passengers on boats, it doesn't take a big wave to eject you from the bow. Maybe this mans tragedy will save lives, maybe not."BRADENTON BEACH -- A Sarasota man died in a boating accident in open waters in...

A`lian investors interested in building retirement village in Bali

"Some Australian investors hoped that they needed some 25 hectares of land on which to realize their project, Minister Counsellor at the Indonesian Consulate General Jahar Gustom said here Sunday. According to Gultom, the investors of the retirement village were still...

Chrysler PT Cruiser

"Chrysler PT Cruiser Ashish once commented that he has to walk a lot to get good shots and I get them home delivered. I thought I too should walk a little to get a decent shot once in a while and on weekend morning I...

Japanese Porn Swap Leaks US Missile-Defense Secrets

Talk about mixing your business with pleasure: Der Spiegel, citing an unnamed Japanese paper, is reporting that three Japanese sailors are accused of swapping around a porn CD that also contained top-secret...

Aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis Entered the Persian Gulf Tuesday

" WASHINGTON, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis entered the Persian Gulf Tuesday to join another U.S. carrier already there in a show of force seldom seen since World War II. Stennis was escorted by the guided-missile cruiser USS Antietamas it...

Masked Man Robs Westport Bank; Officers Injured in Crash

"A man wearing a mask and displaying a gun robbed a TD Banknorth branch in Westport, Conn. late Friday (Feb. 9, 2007), police said. The robbery at the branch at 1111 Post Road East at the corner of Morningside Drive...

16 year old latino plunges to death off bridge while handcuffed

"OCCOQUAN, VA - A 16-year-old boy €œin police handcuffs€ allegedly escaped Saturday from a police cruiser parked on a bridge, then jumped over a concrete barrier, plunged into a river and drowned, authorities...

Secretary Of State Said The Attack's Time And Place Was Known

October 16, 1941 - After meeting FDR, Secretary of War Henry Stimson wrote: "We face the delicate question of the diplomatic fencing to be done so as to be sure Japan is put into the wrong and makes the first bad move -- overt move." On November 25, 1941 - After meeting...

The Most Enlightened And Best Informed People In All The World

"I want you to know that your government has no information which it has any thought of withholding from you.... You are, I believe, the most enlightened and best informed people in all the world." President Franklin D. Roosevelt. September 1939.  

FDR's Foreknowledge Of The Attack Is Rediscovered Every 5 Years

June 8, 2001 :: It doesn't matter how many times you prove it. Wait five years and you have to prove it all over again. Take Pearl Harbor. The fact that FDR knew the Japanese were going to attack is something that should now be solid American history.

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