attacks

Things have gone from bad to worse in the gaza strip over the past 72 hrs. HAMAS exploded 2 car-bombs inside the Kerem Shalom crossing, as part of a coordinated muli-pronged attack on IDF troops at various points. The bombing at the Kerem Shalom crossing was the fifth attack at Israel-Gaza...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6242867.stm Terrorist apologists, on your mark... get set... GO!

Yesterday, I saw at least a 1-hour program dedicated to attacking the NY Times for publishing news. It couldn't be much clearer that Faux News would greatly prefer a press in which they are the only parties free to say what they want. The attacks were jingoistic, emotionally laden...

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FBI investigates Michigan mosque attacks It seems interesting to me that throwing shoes is a Muslim insult - something that would probably be lost to your average American teenager. I suppose those who grow up around Islamic communities would be able to pick up on the symbolism, though it does...

When I was a young child I would have terrifying nightmares several times a year. Once I woke up and realized that it was a dream then I was fine and could get right back to sleep, except for one thing. When awakened by one of these nightmares, I would feel pain in my chest. Not just a little...

Consider: Bangladesh has incurred the deaths of hundreds of thousands of it's residents by flood and....giant hailstones! (And Bangladesh is in the tropics!) Consider: Trailer courts...often a harborage for societies low-life misfits... actract tornadoes in a way that magnets attract iron...

Theres a local Rush-wannabe talk radio guy who loves to make up links tween Saddam and terrorism. He sites all the attacks prior to 911 (original WTC bombs and African embassy bombing). I was wondering. In all western terror attacks, counting England, Spain ect.. Were any of the perpetrators...

Eh? Does this mean that they're not going to sanction any more bombs on buses in Israel? Or are Israelis not civilians? Or does the political bureau pretend to have nothing to do with the violence, a la Sinn Fein? From here

Note: I'd posted this on the BABB recently, and figured I'd duplicate it here to hopefully acquire additional perspective. The other day I began reading the April 2005 issue of Sky & Telescope, in which Editor-in-Chief Richard Fienberg's article Evolution: We Can't Sit Idly By (p.8) really got...

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?id=2005030113370002099374&dt=20050301133700&w=RTR&coview= ...full article

Green tea could help protect against the damage caused by heart attacks and strokes, researchers suggest. A chemical found in the tea, which has been drunk for over 4,000 years, has been shown to reduce the amount of cell death which follows such trauma. Cell death leads to tissue death and...

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050216/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/obscenity_appeal_3 Screw free-speech, and while we're at it, screw double jeopardy.

Ugh. John Gibson's commentary on Madame Tussaud's controversial nativity scene featuring celebrities and President Bush as one of the wise men. Commentary Yeah, the poor Christians are being picked on. And it's all a result of those violent muslims and cowering atheists! Sheesh. He's...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3989127.stm

http://www.hpathy.com/interviews/jawaharshah.asp Another one for Barb. "Cactus 6C when attack is mild--give every 15 minutes. Second is Crategus when pain is very severe. Give 6C every 15 minutes until patient responds; later make it once hourly. " No mention of actually going to a hospital...

Kosovo Albanians Organized Unrest, AFP Says, Citing NATO Chief This is a follow up to a story from last week.

[/B] http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,62119,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1 Yes...unbiased. I'm sure that's the word for it.

Okay anyways just a quick post before work (I think this is a "current event"). Most of us have heard about a nasty "worm" going around infecting peoples computers in preparation for an attack on Microsoft's website. Not that the idea bothers me all that much ;) but... I was able to catch this...