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...
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...
"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 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...
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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...
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...
"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...
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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...
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...
" 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...
"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...
"OCCOQUAN, VA - A 16-year-old boy in 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...
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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...
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"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.
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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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