BREAKING NEWS

“like on the 14-16 th? unfortunately, i must work that weekend. whens your next trip after that?”

“Yup, that one. Its ScorchFire's trip, although she may not get much hiking in herself.

I personally don't have anything set up yet beyond that. I really wanted a cold-weather trip but it looks like the AT trip will be pretty warm. Not complaining, I love the heat, just saying my mindset was ready for the cold. Might try for another trip out in Feb or March next.”

“I am such a 3-season person! But a road trip to Richmond with a chance to mingle with real Sutherners?

Do you have real hushpuppies?”

“Baume - I don't have any plans firmed up - I'm hanging loose on the Walls trip - depends on the weather report on Wed before the trip - after that I have no plans”

“I imagine in Richmond, they have real hushpuppies. I could make a meal out of those alone...”

“I think Gem's right though. You do miss out on a lot of it through being a foreigner. Once people find out you're not from America that seems to be more the focus than race for some reason. Of course I wouldn't normally be the victim of racism anyway.”

“Want racism, take a look at the Tsunami thread where Indians will not share releif aid with people of a lower caste.

How much aid do you want to send there ??”

“BREAKING NEWS Magnitude 7.7 earthquake reported in eastern Indonesia, U.S. Geological Survey says.”

“They're reporting there's no danger of a tsunami though. It was in the Banda sea.”

“http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060205/ap_on_re_mi_ea/interpol_yemen_escape

Cole Attack Planner Escapes Yemen Prison By AHMED AL-HAJ, Associated Press Writer

SAN'A, Yemen - An al-Qaida operative sentenced to death for plotting the USS Cole bombing that killed 17 sailors in 2000 was among a group of convicts who escaped from a Yemen prison last week, Interpol said Sunday in issuing a global security alert.

Officials set up checkpoints around the capital of San'a, where the prison was located, to try to catch the escapees before they could flee to the protection of mountain tribes, according to a Yemeni security official speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press.

Some mountainous tribal areas are essentially outside the control of Yemen's central government, raising fears the fugitives could hide there before escaping the country.

The Yemeni government made no official comment Sunday.

Yemeni officials said Jamal al-Badawi — a man convicted of plotting, preparing and helping carry out the Cole bombing — was among the fugitives, Interpol said. Al-Badawi was among those sentenced to death in September 2004 for plotting the attack, in which two suicide bombers blew up an explosives-laden boat next to the destroyer as it refueled in the Yemeni port of Aden on Oct. 12, 2000.

A Yemeni security official announced the escape of convicted al-Qaida members Friday but did not provide any details or names. The official said only that the escapees had all had been sentenced last year on terrorism-related charges.

Interpol said in a statement that at least 13 of the 23 escapees were convicted al-Qaida fighters.

The convicts escaped via a 140-yard-long tunnel "dug by the prisoners and coconspirators outside," Interpol said. The Yemeni official said the prison was at the central headquarters of the country's military intelligence services in a building in the center of the capital.

Another of the 23 escapees was identified as Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeiee, considered by Interpol to be one of those responsible for a 2002 attack on the French tanker Limburg off Yemen's coast. That attack killed a Bulgarian crew member and spilled 90,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf of Aden.

Al-Rabeiee also was convicted for an attack on a helicopter carrying Hunt Oil Co. employees a month later and the detonation of explosions at a civil aviation authority building.

"We are closely monitoring the situation at this time and we will work with our domestic and international partners to actively pursue these dangerous terrorists," FBI Special Agent Richard Kolko said in Washington.

Interpol's urgent global security alert, known as an "orange notice," was issued "because the escape and unknown whereabouts of al-Qaida terrorists constituted a clear and present danger to all countries," the statement said.

Noble urged Yemen, the ancestral home of Osama bin Laden, to provide names, photographs, fingerprints and other information about the suspects.

He called on the agency's 184 member states "to take all relevant precautionary measures both at and inside their borders" and to help Yemen locate and capture the fugitives.

Noble also said that unless the fugitives were tracked down, they possibly "will be able to travel internationally, to elude detection and to engage in future terrorist activity."

The escape came a day before the expected start of a trial of 15 people charged with involvement in terror operations in Yemen, including Mohammed Hamdi al-Ahdal, another suspected plotter of the Cole and Limburg bombings.

The trial was postponed indefinitely.

Yemen was long a haven for Islamic militants. After the Sept. 11 attacks, the government aligned itself with the U.S.-led war on terrorism. But many diplomats and outside experts have raised questions about Yemen's cooperation and inability to control tribal areas”

“The whole middle east is one big clusterf--k. The place would be as bass-ackwards and insignificant as Africa if they weren't sitting on one of the most valued commodities in the modern world.

It really gripes me that we've been having to deal with these religious wackos and dictators for 40 years and we still haven't figured out a way to get off the oil teat.”

“Oil is cheap compared to anything else. As soon as that changes the market will change. Not before.”

“I don't disagree, bacpac. But we as a nation should have been finding a way to lessen our dependency on these nuts. I blame administrations from all political stripes.”

“A Truly Canadian Apology to the USA...

Courtesy of Rick Mercer from This Hour Has 22 Minutes,
CBC Television:

"On behalf of Canadians everywhere I'd like to offer
an apology to the
United States of America. We haven't been getting
along very well recently
and for that, I am truly sorry.I'm sorry we called
George Bush a moron. He
is a moron but, it wasn't nice of us to point it out.
If it's any
consolation, the fact that he's a moron shouldn't
reflect poorly on the
people of America. After all it's not like you
actually elected him.

I'm sorry about our softwood lumber. Just because we
have more trees than
you doesn't give us the right to sell you lumber
that's cheaper and better
than your own.

I'm sorry we beat you in Olympic hockey. In our
defense I guess our excuse
would be that our team was much, much, much, much
better than yours.

I'm sorry we burnt down your White House during the
war of 1812. I notice
you've rebuilt it! It's Very Nice.

I'm sorry about your beer. I know we had nothing to
do with your beer, but
we feel your pain.

I'm sorry about our waffling on Iraq. I mean, when
you're going up against
a crazed dictator, you want to have your friends by
your side. I realize it
took more than two years before you guys pitched in
against Hitler, but that was different. Everyone knew
he had weapons.

And finally on behalf of all Canadians, I'm sorry that
we're constantly
apologizing for things in a passive-aggressive way
which is really a thinly
veiled criticism. I sincerely hope that you're not
upset
over this. We've seen what you do to countries you
get upset with.

Deepest apologies. Thank you."”

“RIGHT”

“Canada, just like having a little brother. :o)”

“In that case, let me say thanks:

- for letting me feed your giant mosquitos during my visits.

- for letting me fly overhead during 15 visits to Alaska, without so much as a thought about visiting your county.

- for allowing passage across the border for so many visitors we caould do without.

- for your yearly support of our economy in Florida during the winters.

- for providing shelter and aid to so many of our citizens, who wanted to avoid fighting in Asia. And, finally,

- for providing so many nice trolls to entertain us on TT.

Canada, you're wonderful.”

“The trolls come from Canada? Who-da thunk it?”

“I still remember the World Series with Atlanta and Toronto where the US Marines brought the Canadian Flag out upside down. OH the hell that broke loose was hilarious. I called an old buddy who was a Canadian Pilot to gauge his displeasure. He told me he had watched the game, when I mentioned the flag he replied...."Um it was upside down you say?" Then he went on to explain those sort of things weren't that big a deal up there. (LOL)
Hey the Canucks have been our friends forever (discounting that little tiff around 1812).”

“They should burned some embassys to show their displeasure.”

“Canada's just insecure about its small weiner.”

“Then he went on to explain those sort of things weren't that big a deal up there. (LOL)


You mean they don't treat their flag like a sacred religious icon?

How strange.”

“I think bearmagnet's been around Y2 too long...”

“Y2 lives on the Other side of DC, at least a 10-15 min drive or metro ride, has a GF and a job.

I never see him.”

“Just don't try to smuggle used tools past Ranger Gord at the Canadian border station on Campobello Island.”

“WASHINGTON - Interior Secretary Gale Norton is resigning after serving more than five years as the Bush administration's point woman on natural resources, the department said Friday...
snip
Norton is a former Colorado attorney general who guided the Bush administration’s initiative to open Western government lands to more oil and gas drilling. She is to formally step down at the end of March...
snip
Logging, mining background
Norton, who turns 52 on Saturday, is the first woman to hold the Interior job. Her background work for logging and mining interests made her a controversial cabinet nominee, and environmentalists labeled her as “James Watt in a skirt,” referring to the Reagan administration Interior secretary who once worked with Norton at the Mountain States Legal Foundation...
snip
Under her watch, the Interior Department stripped protection from areas previously managed as wilderness, opened forests to increased logging, reopened Yellowstone National Park to snowmobiles and urged federal land managers to speed up drilling for gas on public land...
snip
Norton called the work “cooperative conservation,” which included partnerships with landowners and developers as opposed to regulations...
snip
She also was the administration’s biggest advocate for opening part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Alaska’s North Slope to oil drilling. Attempts to get Congress to do that have so far failed...
snip
Before joining the administration, she was one of the negotiators of a $206 billion national tobacco settlement in a suit by Colorado and 45 other states. She was Colorado’s attorney general from 1991 to 1999...
SNIP


GOOD BUY B I T C H!!!!”

“The Yugoslavian Republican Party lost a great leader in Slobodon.

Norton - Later whore (corporate that is). Bush will probably appoint Sherman to the post now.
last edited: 3/13/06 8:46:12 PM”

“Gale you're doin a hellva job. Oh , Gale ! before you go could I ask if you stole things from department stores while in office?”

“Arrests Made In Illegal Castrations
Three men face charges in a bizarre case of castration and mutilation of men in Haywood County.


Michael Mendez, Richard Sciara, and Danny Reeves are accused of cutting private parts off five victims and performing illegal surgeries on them.

Sheriff Tom Alexander says it appears all the surgeries were performed with the consent of the victims.


Deputies raided their home in the Allens Creek community and found plenty of evidence that genitalia were cut off. Sheriff Alexander says detectives investigated this case a year and a half after discovering a website showing video footage of men engaging in sex acts.


The evidence they found in what appeared to be a sadomasochistic dungeon, includes CDs and DVDs along with preserved body parts.


Authorities took plastic containers as evidence containing what appeared to be frozen testicles. They've been sent to the lab to be analyzed. The Sheriff says the list of evidence also includes a severed #&%!$.


The investigation shows the first operation was performed in 2004 the last was February of this year.

The three suspects are in the Haywood County Jail under $150,000 bond.


(posted 5:40 pm, 03/31/06)

http://www.wlos.com/news/news.shtml#story2
last edited: 3/31/06 5:12:23 PM”

“That's why my shoes always get wet.”

“Imagine the lab techs facial expressions when "THOSE" come in.”

“YIKES!!!”

“They were consentual castrations.

No harm - no foul.”

“The Old Crayola Oblongata comes to mind.”

“Rev Jerry Falwell has just died”

“Sparklers can burn children. I don't have a link but I just saw it on ABC DC. Thought y'all should be alerted to this new hazard.”

“Thank God for ABC.”

“That IS just SHOCKING!!!

Here in the Golden State, all you can buy are sparklers and some of them are $50! Oh yeah, and smoke bombs and snakes. It's really pretty boring on the fireworks front and really doesn't hold a candle to making the cross-border trip to Bama from GA for some REAL fireworks. I guess I could just have a white trash 4th, light an aerosol can on fire and shoot it with the 22...

Oh well, this place is a tinderbox right now anyway...”

“great. wonderful. fantastic.”

“We are so lucky that my sons survived last night's sparkler fest. And to top it off they were playing with snap-its as well. We really dodged a bullet. Whew!”

“Hell, just pop a few .12 gauge shells of birdshot out the back door!

Wher's that jar uh corn squeezin's?”

“I had seventeen sparklers in one hand last night. I'm partially blind now but it was worth it.”

“Yes -- you should've had your welder's goggles handy to preserve your night vision, < G >”

“New warning label to be required:

”

“Tilt's partially blinded too, but it wasn't sparklers he had in his hand.”

“I really need to shave my palms....”

“Rhode Island Night Club Fire.....ground sparklers...same thing allowed by Georgia Law Tilt.

But then...in Augusta we have a pretty good burn unit.”

“http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071128113849.7yp039ln&show_article=1

French police detain 'drag queen' over 18 gay murders

What is a "gay murder"?”

“Happy murder?”