KRT Wire 03/25/2005 Highlights of Bobby Fischer's lifeI am sorry, but do we really care? Must have been a slow news day! However, I must admit I care about this more then I care about Jennifer and Brad - so I posted it.
Bobby Fischer, the 1972 world chess champion now exiled in Iceland, has led a storied life. Here are highlights:
The New York Times -- 23 Are Killed in a Series of Attacks Across Iraq
Well the MSM is happy -- they can report on Iraq again, there is bad news... Notice the "
relative quite" remark -- didn't hear that trumpeted this week as
good news did you? Nevertheless, I can assure you the
bad news will be shouted from the
media "mountaintops".
BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 25 - A string of suicide bombings and armed attacks across central and northern Iraq on Thursday and Friday left at least 23 people dead, officials said.
The attacks, ending a week of relative quiet, included three suicide car bombings, the assassination of a high-ranking police official, and the killing of five Iraqi women who did cleaning for the American military.
Guardian Unlimited | North Korea: Drills Delay Nuclear Talks
This is just an asinine claim -- these exercises have been going on since before I was in the military, actually lasting nearly a month in the past... Just N. Korea being North Korea!
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea blamed joint military drills conducted by the United States and South Korea for a delay in the resumption of nuclear disarmament talks, the North's Communist Party newspaper reported Saturday.
The weeklong military exercises, which ended Friday, were ``derailing the resumption of six-way talks,'' the newspaper Rodong Sinmun said in a commentary also carried by North Korea's official news agency, KCNA.
More thoughts on this
story: Where was the consideration of this women's -- no wait this girl's right to decide... You know the old "it is her body yada - yada - yada" -- well she didn't decide, nor did her family the
MALE and his family did -- were is NOW (National Organization of Women), they should be
outraged, no wait they got what they wanted a died baby!
CNN.com - Canada: No refuge for U.S. soldier
Well, I agree with this but it is bad news for the New York Times and the "un-volunteers"(
story here). Do you notice the little "yet help improve" phrase? Canada better watch out the MSM could be getting ready to start the "it is only politically motivate" smear if one more "anti bleeding heart" decision comes down. As for me -- good for Canada!
TORONTO (AP) -- The Canadian government has denied refugee status to former U.S. Army paratrooper Jeremy Hinzman, a major blow to a handful of U.S. military deserters who have fled to Canada rather than fight in a war they claim commits atrocities against civilians.
Thursday's decision, which was formally announced on a government Web site, could affect at least eight -- and possibly dozens more -- American soldiers seeking refuge in Canada, yet help improve strained relations between Washington and Ottawa.
Mother arrested for attempting to intervene in her 14-year old's decision to have abortionHow far will abortionist go -- for or against abortion this is just wrong -- -- no matter how anyone attempts to spin it.
GRANITE CITY - A Southern Illinois woman was arrested last week (March 17) after trying to intervene on behalf of her 14-year old daughter's effort to have an abortion. The girl was allegedly taken to an abortion clinic by the mother of the man allegedly to have impregnated the 14-year old.
According to the girl's mother, her 14-year old daughter was called off from school in Madison County by a woman posing as the girl's "grandmother." The woman took the girl from her home only minutes before the girl's mother returned home from work.
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USATODAY.com - Texas oil refinery explosion kills 14This is bad news and just another tragedy in Texas City's history -- not many know of the tragedy, one of the worst in our country's history, that also happened in Texas City (information
here) TEXAS CITY, Texas - All but one of the 1,800 or so oil refinery workers have been accounted for after overnight search efforts following the thunderous blast killed 14 and injured more than 100 others, officials said Thursday."
MSNBC - Iraqi friendly fire incident kills 5This is bad news -- but I am guess the Iraqi police are happy a reporter was not around to videotape and swear they were out to get them -- or claim it was some vast conspiracy, instead of a horrible mistake.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi police mistook a group of Iraqi soldiers for insurgents Thursday and opened fire, sparking a 10-minute gunbattle that killed five in the northern town of Rabia. In the south, protesters demanded their representative be named the country's new oil minister.
Yahoo! News - Navy SEALs Sue AP Over Detainee PhotosI like this -- I believe that the only valid claim maybe
endangered the servicemen's lives.
LOS ANGELES - A federal lawsuit filed by several Navy SEALs and the wife of a special forces member claims The Associated Press violated copyright and privacy laws and endangered the servicemen's lives by publishing photographs of them with Iraqi prisoners.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in San Diego, seeks unspecified damages. It also asks the court to bar the AP from further use of the photos and to require the news agency to protect the SEALs' identities.
There has been another High School shooting rampage (originally posted
here) and as Michelle Malkin
advises there are those that claiming
racism because it is not getting the coverage of
Columbine -- this is ridiculous! I have seen plenty of coverage on this story and frankly too much of the other national story (infamous live or die case). This brings me to my point.
I would hope the media has learned a lesson and realize that the 'student' -- individuals -- that perpetrate these crimes want the coverage and if the coverage is indeed lighter then maybe, God willing it will help... However, I don't give the media for this kind of insight or concern for the public -- no, if these is a "shortage of coverage" I give the war in Iraq, the political battle over the fate of Terri Schiavo, or the infamous Michael Jackson... I stated before there is plenty of coverage and if there is less there is more world events taking place then during Columbine... Not to worry I am sure AE and Discover will do special along with a Movie of the week.
News Channel 32, Northeast Georgia -- Children Found Safe After ManhuntAfter the "courthouse shooting", it is good this story that initiated in Atlanta has a good ending.
ATLANTA (AP) - Police say two children kidnapped from their home early this morning by their mother's ex-boyfriend have been found safe.
Clayton County Police Captain Tim Robinson says the children were found with a relative of the suspect in Greensboro, North Carolina. Robinson says he has no other immediate information.
Michelle Malkin has a good piece on "More Blacks dying in Iraq". I feel the myth introduced
here is more evidence of the "Moore Influence" -- Moore introduced the myth of recruiters targeting minorities for recruitment, which was false as I demonstrated
here. Some excerpts.
In fact, as this New York Times op-chart makes clear, the truth is just the opposite. White and Hispanic soliders are overrepresented among military personnel killed in Iraq, whereas African American soldiers are underrepresented. (Blacks account for 18.6 percent of military personnel in Iraq, but account for only 10.9 percent of military personnel killed.) [Read Michelle's piece here
Top News -- U.S. Military Says Kills 24 Insurgents Near BaghdadWell this was a bold and
stupid move -- we can hope they try more attacks like this bringing along the end swifter.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. troops killed 24 insurgents and wounded seven in a battle on the outskirts of Baghdad on Sunday after the guerrillas attacked a U.S. position, the American military said.
BBC NEWS -- Shamed US car maker DeLorean diesThe designer of the
time machine in
Back to the Future dies -- reading this brought back memories of "wanting that car".
The former American car maker John DeLorean has died aged 80.
DeLorean, whose car company at Dunmurry near Belfast collapsed, died in New Jersey on Saturday of complications after a recent stroke.
TheStar.com - Spreading the messageWell I cannot tell you how excited I continue be of Howard Dean's DNC position! I hope he continues to make asinine comments like this and insulting the very people he is charged with enticing to vote Democrat.
Keep it simple' is the key to the White House, failed Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean told members of his party from around the world last night.
One major reason his party lost the 2004 race to the 'brain-dead' Republicans is that it has a 'tendency to explain every issue in half an hour of detail,' Dean told the semi-annual meeting of Democrats Abroad, which brought about 150 members from Canada and 30 other countries to the Toronto for two days.
