Posted in Uncategorized on Sunday, 31 December, 2006 | No Comments »
Huge celebrations have been held in Romania and Bulgaria to mark their accession to the European Union, 17 years after the fall of Communism. Thousands attended concerts in the two capitals, Bucharest and Sofia.
Several European leaders joined in a folk dance in Bucharest, and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso delivered a speech [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sunday, 31 December, 2006 | 8 Comments »
At midnight on December 24, 14 year old Michael Perham set off a collision warning flare and celebrated Christmas with a spectacular light show in the middle of the ocean.
His 28-ft yacht had already been bedecked with an inflatable Santa in the rigging as he edged ever closer to making history by becoming the youngest [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sunday, 31 December, 2006 | No Comments »
Hundreds in line to pay respects
to the late President Ford
WASHINGTON
With the thunder of cannon and the whistle of a bos’n pipe, the nation’s capital honored Gerald R. Ford’s memory Saturday in funeral ceremonies recalling the touchstones of his life, from combat in the Pacific to a career he cherished in Congress to a presidency he [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sunday, 31 December, 2006 | No Comments »
AUCKLAND, New Zealand - Thousands of people, including families with young children, packed Auckland’s Viaduct Basin with good humour for a ringside view of fireworks to blast in the New Year.
Unlike many other parts of the country, where unseasonably cold and wet weather and liquor bans dampened celebrations, clouds which dumped rain on Auckland on [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Saturday, 30 December, 2006 | 364 Comments »
*** WARNING - GRAPHIC - VIEWER DISCRETION ***
Posted in General on Friday, 29 December, 2006 | 55 Comments »
THE MAN WHO FILMED SADDAM’S DEATH: ‘I Saw Fear, He Was Afraid’…
BAGHDAD - Clutching a Quran and refusing a hood, Saddam Hussein went to the gallows before sunrise Saturday, executed by vengeful countrymen after a quarter-century of remorseless brutality that killed countless thousands and led Iraq into disastrous wars against the United States and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Friday, 29 December, 2006 | No Comments »
(CBS4) KEY WEST - A Key West resort hotel remains closed, and guests have been sent to other area hotels, following an investigation in the death of one guest who may have been exposed to dangerous carbon-monoxide fumes.
The Doubletree Grand resort on South Roosevelt Blvd. was evacuated as a precaution Wednesday after the guests [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Friday, 29 December, 2006 | No Comments »
Ex-dictator’s execution expected to be carried out by start of Eid holiday
NBC News and news services
Updated: 9:17 p.m. ET Dec 28, 2006
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, sentenced to death for his role in 148 killings in 1982, will have his sentence carried out by Sunday, NBC News reported Thursday. According to a U.S. military officer [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Thursday, 28 December, 2006 | 3 Comments »
It’s no secret that NASCAR drivers skew Republican, which is fine with the Federal Election Commission, just so long as they don’t display their preferences where anyone can see them.
In a decision announced Tuesday, the FEC sent an “admonishment letter” to Kirk Shelmerdine Racing. Kirk Shelmerdine, a former pit boss for the late Dale Earnhardt, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Thursday, 28 December, 2006 | 2 Comments »
NOW, HE’S A ‘PIMP’
NASTY ROSIE-TRUMP FEUD REFUSES TO DIE
NEW YORK POST
By Michael Starr
December 28, 2006 — THE holiday cease-fire between Rosie O’Donnell and Donald Trump ended with new bombs dropped yesterday.
O’Donnell, who’d been quiet since her nasty spat began with Trump last week, called him “the comb over” on her blog yesterday - and suggested [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Wednesday, 27 December, 2006 | 1 Comment »
U.S. Stocks Rise, Pushing Dow
Above 12,500, on Home-Sales Gain
Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) — U.S. stocks rose, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 12,500 for the first time, as oil tumbled to a one-month low and home sales exceeded forecasts.
Fifteen of the 16 homebuilders in Standard & Poor’s indexes advanced amid optimism that the worst [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Wednesday, 27 December, 2006 | No Comments »
An Iraqi judge has rejected Saddam Hussein’s appeal and ruled that the former dictator must hang within 30 days. The execution may be controversial, but hundreds of Iraqis want to pull the gallows lever.
Saddam in court last August. An appeals court on Tuesday upheld a ruling that the former dictator should hang for crimes against [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Wednesday, 27 December, 2006 | 2 Comments »
NEW DELHI, Dec 27 (Reuters Life!) - An Indian chess player has been banned for 10 years for cheating after he was caught using his mobile phone’s wireless device to win games, chess officials said on Wednesday.
The player, Umakant Sharma, had logged rating points at a rapid pace in the last 18 months and also [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Wednesday, 27 December, 2006 | No Comments »
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gerald R. Ford, who picked up the pieces of Richard Nixon’s scandal- shattered White House as the 38th and only unelected president in America’s history, has died, his wife, Betty, said Tuesday. He was 93. “My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Wednesday, 27 December, 2006 | No Comments »
Brian Bruggeman caused a stink at the Lincoln County Jail earlier this month and will now have to answer for it in court. Another inmate, Jesse Dorris, alleges that Bruggeman’s flatulence, passed in close proximity to Dorris, sparked a Dec. 14 fight between the two at the jail.
Now Bruggeman, 38, faces a Jan. 11 preliminary [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Wednesday, 27 December, 2006 | 2 Comments »
HOUSTON (Reuters) - No charges will be filed in the case of a 9-year-old boy who fatally stabbed a 2-year-old girl in a Texas home where a teen-ager was babysitting 12 children, Dallas police said on Tuesday after an investigation.
The stabbing occurred on December 22 in a home in southeast Dallas where a 15-year-old was [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Wednesday, 27 December, 2006 | 1 Comment »
MIAMI - British Prime Minister Tony Blair was confirmed to be aboard the British Airways flight that overshot the runway at Miami International Airport Tuesday evening.
Flight 209, carrying 343 passengers and crew onboard luckily had no injuries. The plane did not sustain any damage, but some runway lights were broken by the plane. The plane [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Tuesday, 26 December, 2006 | No Comments »
MADRID, Dec 24 (Reuters Life!) - Traces of cocaine can be found on 94 percent of banknotes in Spain, a country that has one of the world’s highest rates of users, according to a study published on Sunday.
The 100 notes tested were collected in gyms, supermarkets and pharmacies across Spain, where increased affluence and falling [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Tuesday, 26 December, 2006 | No Comments »
BAGHDAD, Iraq
Iraq’s highest appeals court on Tuesday upheld Saddam Hussein’s death sentence and said he must be hanged within 30 days for the killing of 148 Shiites in the central city of Dujail.
The sentence “must be implemented within 30 days,” chief judge Aref Shahin said. “From tomorrow, any day could be the day [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Tuesday, 26 December, 2006 | 1 Comment »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, James Brown. The “Godfather of Soul,” who died in Atlanta on Monday aged 73, was one of the most important leaders of America’s civil rights movement during the second half of the 20th Century.
He communed with presidents and elected officials of all political stripes, recorded groundbreaking [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Monday, 25 December, 2006 | No Comments »
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
Wishing you and yours a Christmas full of joy, laughter,
peace, great food,and wonderful times
with family and friends!
Posted in Uncategorized on Sunday, 24 December, 2006 | No Comments »
A leading Church of England bishop has launched an outspoken attack on “thoughtless bureaucracy and political correctness” for helping to “write Christ out of Christmas”.
The Rt Rev Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, accuses a small but powerful group of officials of marginalising religious celebrations out of an oversensitivity to multiculturalism.
Writing in The Mail [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Saturday, 23 December, 2006 | No Comments »
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. forces said on Saturday they had killed the Taliban’s military chief in southern Afghanistan, who had close links to Osama bin Laden and was heir to the rebel leadership.
Akhtar Mohammad Osmani was the most senior leader killed yet and was targeted in a region where the insurgency is at its bloodiest, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Saturday, 23 December, 2006 | No Comments »
NEW YORK (AP) - The Yankees got the bill Friday for their sorry season. The Yankees were slapped with a $26 million luxury tax by the commissioner’s office, raising New York’s total to $97.75 million over the last four years. Boston, which missed the playoffs, was the only other team over the tax threshold and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Saturday, 23 December, 2006 | No Comments »
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish rock star and rights campaigner Bono has been awarded an honorary British knighthood, the British Embassy in Dublin said on Saturday.
“Her Majesty The Queen has appointed Bono to be an honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in recognition of his services to the music industry [...]
