Sunday, February 04, 2007
One Hit News
Boats and helicopters were used to reach the stranded anglers off Sakhalin island in the Sea of Okhotsk.
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...the ice supporting the anglers - said to include women and children - broke free in a number of places in Mordvinov bay, on the south-east coast of Sakhalin. Pushed by strong winds, it began drifting out to sea.
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Florida Tornadoes: A slide-show gallery of damage. Sky News
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French President Jacques Chirac (pictured above) regrets his words that it would not be very dangerous for Iran to possess a bomb or two. BBC
Jock then lit a cigarette and waved a white flag.
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Man released from jail after serving six years of a life term. His crime? He was a Christian caught using a Muslim-Only Restroom. VOM News
Shahbaz was arrested in June 2001 after he used the bathroom at a mosque. "Qari Rafique, the head of the mosque, asked him why he was using the toilet that was adjacent to the mosque."
Chicago mother leaves her one-year old infant daughter in car during freezing cold while shopping. WLS
Police responding to a 911 call yesterday evening found the infant in the back seat of a locked car in a supermarket parking lot. Officers said the child was crying...
United Nations still trying to foist
the panel concluded that it was at least 90% certain that human emissions of greenhouse gases rather than natural variations are warming the planet's surface.
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Will the new UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon be as anti-American as his predecessor, the Always Defiant and Corrupt Kofi Annan? Ohmy News
Secretaries general of the United Nations have a well-known tradition: they have had to rely on strong U.S. backing to win the job. The U.N. may be seeing another tradition formed by two of its most recent ex-chiefs: they displayed an increasingly visible relationship breakdown with the U.S. toward the end of their term.
Norway seeks to "stop foreigners deemed a threat to national security from having the option of pursuing their case through the court system." Aftenposten
Sounds like a good plan to me. I'm sure civil (and uncivil) libertarians around the world will think it terrible that Norway - or any other country - would want to expel trouble-makers and potential terrorists.
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Quit your belly-aching that it's cold where you are, especially if you're in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana or somewhere in the South or Southwest because...you're wussies. THIS is COLD!
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