This is a really bad story.
ATLANTA, Ga. — A man facing rape charges grabbed a deputy's gun and shot four people at the Fulton County Courthouse in downtown Atlanta, killing a well-respected judge, a court reporter and a sheriff's deputy and leading authorities on a citywide manhunt.
The suspect, identified as 34-year-old Brian Nichols and described as a balding black male, carjacked a series of vehicles following the 9 a.m. EST shooting. Nichols, 34, is described as a balding black male, 6'1" and weighing 200 pounds, of medium complexion. He was being held on rape charges stemming from an incident in August last year.
Well on this point -- you want hear anything else about them until they say something else that agrees with the Times' agenda... Nevertheless, for the time being, maybe a day, the New York Times believes Evangelicals are good people with an accurate outlook.
A core group of influential evangelical leaders has put its considerable political power behind a cause that has barely registered on the evangelical agenda, fighting global warming.
These church leaders, scientists, writers and heads of international aid agencies argue that global warming is an urgent threat, a cause of poverty and a Christian issue because the Bible mandates stewardship of God's creation. [Story here]
The love affair will last until the next debate over homosexual marriage or abortion...
USATODAY.com - Townes leads life where science and faith coexistHere is an interesting story -- with all the claims that "religious" peoples refuse to listen to science or even consider science from the far left elitist and academics -- this story is refreshing.
NEW YORK — When Nobel Prize-winning physicist Charles Hard Townes was a professor at Columbia University during the 1950s, a colleague, Willis Lamb, asked him if God ever helps him in the lab. Dr. Townes gave the question some thought. "Well," he recalls telling Lamb. "I think so."
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But even in these often discordant worlds, Townes has found little difficulty in reconciling his Christian faith with the empiricism of scientific inquiry.
"I don't think that science is complete at all," says the 89-year-old physicist. "We don't understand everything and one can see, within science itself, there are many inconsistencies. We just have to accept that we don't understand."
Within the great unknowns of the universe, Townes argues there is ample room for faith in God and His presence in human experience.
Further, I would submit there are many Christian scientist that prove the validity of the Bible constantly -- not to mention many scientist that have set out to prove "there is no god" only to become convinced that God does in fact exists.
FOXNews.com - Jacko Misses DeadlineBad move Jacko!
Superior Court Judge Rodney S. Melville said he would issue a warrant for Jackson's arrest and Jackson would lose the $3 million bail that has kept the accused child molester free after he failed to appear in court on Thursday, apparently because of severe back problems.
There seems to be a problem with Blogger so there will be light blogging today -- only when I can access the edit site.
CNN.com - Lebanon's ex-PM nominated to resume postI believe this is a setback for Lebanon -- and makes the resignation of Minister Omar Karami last week simply being for
show. What else are they [Syria] simply doing for show?
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Lebanon's pro-Syria parliamentary majority has nominated former Prime Minister Omar Karami -- who resigned nine days ago in the face of anti-Syria demonstrations -- to resume his post.
The decision was announced Wednesday after consultations between with President Emile Lahoud and lawmakers.
Lahoud is expected to make the official appointment Thursday, political sources said.
Karami's resigned on February 28 following huge mass demonstrations in Beirut against his government. Those protests prompted a huge rally Tuesday in support of Syria presence in Lebanon.
WFMY -- 32,000 Social Security Numbers At RiskThis certainly is not good news -- we, as citizens, seem to be more at risk from those responsible for the security of our personal identity then by ourselves... I would like to see any Social Security reform includes much harsher penalties for those that mishandle our Social Security numbers since it is rapidly becoming the single most important thing we possess yet is requested -- demanded by clerks everywhere from the doctor's office to the car lot and the occasional utility company. Somehow, the privacy act of 1974 does not seem adequate anymore -- heck, I never even see it printed on 99% of the forms that request my social, DOB, and address information.
UPDATE:
ReutersThe U.S. Secret Service and the FBI said they were investigating the incident.
The information accessed included names, addresses, Social Security and driver's license numbers, but not credit histories, medical records or financial information.
Back in January there was a story about a young man and his father filing suit against the school because of mandatory "summer homework", I commented on it in
Academic Future. Well the results are in:
MILWAUKEE (AP) - A judge threw out a high school student's lawsuit against mandatory summer homework, saying he and his father should have done a little more studying themselves before bringing the case.
Students in the Whitnall High School math course - honors pre-calculus - were supposed to do three assignments by certain dates over the summer. Peer Larson, 17, and his father, Bruce, had filed suit in Circuit Court, arguing that homework should not be required after the 180-day academic year is over.
I repeat my previous advice "don't take the class since it is and "honor" and voluntary".
Michelle Malkin has a different take on the "Italian hostage" story -- and I find it interesting and want to know where the outrage is also.
The scandal is not that an anti-war propagandist has accused the U.S. of targeting journalists. That's par for the course. (Yes, hello again, Eason Jordan.)
The scandal is not that mainstream media sympathizers are blaming our military and dredging up every last shooting accident along the treacherous routes to Baghdad Airport. Again, no surprise here.
The scandal is that Italy -- our reputed ally in the global War on Terror -- negotiated with Sgrena's Islamist kidnappers and may have forked over a massive ransom to cutthroats for Sgrena's release.
Where is the uproar over this Islamist insurgency subsidy plan?
Iraqi politician Younadem Kana told Belgian state TV that he had "non-official" information that Italy paid the terrorists $1 million in tribute. The Washington Times, citing the Italian newspaper La Stampa, pinned the ransom figure at $6 million. Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported that the Italian government forked over between $10 million and $13.4 million to free Sgrena [Read here]
Here is one of our Men overseas -- this is one of the thousands that the left imply are criminals with their [the left] allegations of "targeting innocents". Appears to be a
hero rendering aid to me -- how can you possibly see anything else?
Stories like these are getting sickening -- US citizens mostly from the left, you know the ones that care some much, want to concentrate on one unfortunate death -- the Italian intelligence officer simply because they might be able to "get Bush" or "make the military look bad"... This is sad -- this conservative is interested in our men and women returning, but I also know we have started a job and have promised freedom. The below story and many more alike is what Iraqis have to look forward to if we leave in the immediate future. Don't you dare tell me that this is only happening because Americans are there.
This is Muslims killing Muslims -- why because they want freedom... These animals [insurgents] are no longer fighting a war against the American military and haven't been for sometime, no they are fighting against freedom and for a religious totalitarian state. The innocents being killed are
for freedom and Americans here at home have a problem with our fighting with them for freedom. Where would America be had the world opinion been let them do it for themselves during our fight for freedom -- many hate to admit or simply refuse to remember the French assisted us and if you think that assistance was solely or even mainly out of concern for our freedom you are delusional -- it was to weaken their enemy, England... Now our concerns are both Iraqi freedom and to weaken our enemy yet our citizens do not even think of the struggles and price we have paid for freedom -- Iraqi freedom is as of this moment coming quicker and at a lower cost of human life, if not in numbers certainly in percentages... People these animals would be killing freedom loving people weather we were there or not so get behind our military, support them, don't try to demoralize the military, so you can win a war of ideology again scaring our country... Let us assist in allowing people like these of the story to live and live in freedom while receiving the added benefit of weakening our enemy -- an enemy that will be more then happy to bring the fight here (our soil) if not occupied in Iraq.
QAIM, Iraq — Police said Wednesday they found 35 bodies in two different places in Iraq (search), some shot to death, the others beheaded.
Twenty of the corpses were found late Tuesday near Rumana, a village about 20 kilometers (12 miles) east of the western city of Qaim (search), near the Syrian border, police Capt. Muzahim al-Karbouli said.
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A separate discovery was made Tuesday south of Baghdad in Latifiya, where 15 headless bodies were found by Iraqi troops.
The decapitated corpses were found inside an abandoned base of the former Iraqi army, Defense Ministry Capt. Sabah Yassin said. The bodies included 10 men, three women and two children.
Updating my
Something to Watch post yesterday.
Residents in north-eastern Australia have battened down and are preparing for the onslaught of Cyclone Ingrid, which, despite weakening, remains potentially the worst storm to threaten the region in 30 years.
While the cyclone has been downgraded from a category five to a severe category four storm, Queensland residents are preparing for the worst.
The Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre in Brisbane said Ingrid is moving towards the coast, near Cape Melville, at eight kilometres an hour, and is expected to make landfall overnight near the small community of Coen.
"Although Ingrid has continued to weaken a little, the cyclone still poses a serious threat to far north Queensland with a very destructive core and the potential to generate a dangerous storm tide," the Bureau of Meteorology said.
The storm is packing winds of up to 250 kilometres an hour near its centre. [Read stroy here]
Sunday I posted some pictures
here that were pulled from a video and disproved the "300 - 400 rounds fired" claim... Was it the car or not -- now the Italian
la Repubblica has pictures it says is the "real" car, still disproving the "300-400 rounds fired" claim. Here they are!
SYDNEY (AFP) — A severe tropical cyclone with winds of almost 180 miles an hour was gaining intensity Tuesday (U.S. time) as it moved steadily towards the northeastern coast of Australia.
I believe it a good move to include the Italian officials in the in investigation to clarify the events that lead to the "hostage shooting" incident… Do I expect the investigation to find the soldiers on the ground did anything wrong, no -- do I expect that we find that "no communication" is the primary reason, yes, please notice I did not say "miscommunication" but "no communication… I do ask all the "conspiracy birds" to consider a primary fact -- the car approached at approximately 75 feet per second (25 yards), that is football field in four seconds - not much time to make a life and death decision.
The US military in Iraq has begun an investigation into the shooting incident last week that killed Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari.
US Brig Gen Peter Vangjel has been appointed to lead the inquiry, expected to take up to four weeks to complete.
The US-led coalition command added in a statement that Italian officials had been invited to take part. [Read story here]
I consider Europe's concern over President Bush's nomination of John R. Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations an endorsement -- but that is just me.
LONDON Mar 8, 2005 — President Bush's nomination of a tough-talking conservative as ambassador to the United Nations set off ripples of worry in some of America's allies Tuesday.
Critics who had hoped Bush would tend more carefully to ties with overseas friends in his second term feared the selection of John R. Bolton called into question the president's intention to do so.
Well I keep hearing the "protest" of the 1960(s) and early 70(s) will not be repeated, "it is not the same" -- but "things" keep pointing to the opposite. Last month we had the students that seemed coached in writing unpleasant letters, we have the "intentionally shooting journalist" claim, we have the "intentionally shooting civilians" claim and we have a story about "counter-recruiters". So how about reforming hippies you don't think this is sounding familiar and is all an effort to destroy military moral and citizens opinion of the military. Just curious?
NEW YORK — The Marines didn't have to recruit Greg McCullough. He signed a promise to enlist last year, while he was still in high school. But now McCullough has had second thoughts, and he's talking to a different kind of recruiter.
Jim Murphy is a "counter-recruiter," one of a small but growing number of opponents of the Iraq war who say they want to compete with military recruiters for the hearts and minds of young people.
