Monday - April 23, 2007

Bye-Bye, Boris

Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s First Post-Soviet Leader, Is Dead
MOSCOW (NY TIMES) - April 23, 2007 10:12 EDT

Boris Yeltsin, who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union and pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy as the country’s first post-Communist president, has died, a Kremlin official said Monday. He was 76.

Kremlin spokesman Alexander Smirnov told The Associated Press that Yeltsin died, but gave no cause of death or further information. The Interfax news agency cited an unidentified medical source as saying he had died of heart failure.

Although Yeltsin was initially admired abroad for his defiance of the monolithic social system, many Russians will remember him mostly for presiding over the steep decline of their nation.

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   Wednesday - April 18, 2007

Recon Patrol Status Report

What are our reconnaissance scouts coming up with at the BMEWS Recon Patrol blog? Let’s find out ....



“LOST!" -by- TIM C

“What are they going to do about it? VT” -by- Jaguar

“Dennis Kookcinch at it again” -by- Infinity

“Good Terrorist?” -by- Infinity

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   Friday - April 13, 2007

More Biased Reporting?

Blackfive has an interesting letter from a guy who is there on the ground.  He says the Parlament building is not even in the green zone.  But we keep hearing the MSN spout how this “insurgent” had to cross no fewer than six checkpoints to get to there.  WTF?  Who is right here?

Actually, depite the reporting I’ve heard from CNN, BBC and NPR, which keeps up the ominous drone of doom about the terrorists breaching the Parliament buliding in “the heart of the heavily fortified Green Zone,” the FACT is the Parliament buliding is NOT IN the Green Zone. We turned it over to the Iraqis in 2006. And when it was, it was at the outer NW edge of the Green or International Zone.

Of course, no one here especially expects the press, with its now, 4 year old biases to get it right. But that being said, I am beginning to believe there is something else going on here that this episode illustrates, which in an unfortunately perverse way, suggests deeper progresss.

Developing......

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   Wednesday - February 28, 2007

While You Slept …

• The Taliban tried to take out Dick Cheney. Cheney responded by inviting Osama to come go quail hunting this weekend.


• Stock in Chinese companies suddenly became worthless so stock markets around the world collapsed in sympathy. Your Enron stock just went from “worthless” to “poor substitute for toilet paper.”


• Prince Charles, having nothing better to do, decides to ban McDonalds. And when he becomes king he plans to have the Burger King shot as an imposter.


• In their showdown with the President over Iraq, Democrats in the Senate decided to throw down their guns and run away. The Gunfight At The Not-OK Corral will be postponed until further notice.


• Our fearless weather forecasters are predicting the End Of The World in this year’s hurricane season. For the third straight year - sooner or later we’re all gonna die.


• Fidel Castro is still alive. Yassir Arafat will have to wait just a little longer than expected for the bearded one to join him in Hell.

Colorado Police: Infant Traded for Used Car
_{PUEBLO, Colo. - February 28, 2007, 12:12 AM EST}

A woman was a accused of giving a 5-month-old boy to a couple in exchange for a down payment on a used car, police said Tuesday.

A tip led police Monday to Nicole Uribe, 23, who got a Dodge Intrepid as part of the deal with Jose-Juan Lerma, 47, and his wife, Irene, 27, authorities said. The baby was allegedly switched for $1,500, only $500 of which was for the down payment.

The couple was arrested Tuesday. The three are charged with suspicion of felony trafficking in children and were being held at the Pueblo jail under $50,000 bail each.

It was not clear if they had attained attorneys.

The baby was placed in a foster home, Police Sgt. Brett Wilson said. Wilson said all three were Mexican nationals and federal officials had been asked to investigate their immigration status.

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   Sunday - February 11, 2007

The Week In Review

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   Friday - February 09, 2007

Obituary

This is the offical “Anna Nicole Farewell Post”. Pay your parting respects in the comments if you please. Yes, we ogled her in the pages of Playboy, laughed at her marrying that old geezer who was 60 years older than her, followed the vicious war between her and the old man’s son as they fought over the millions he left behind all the way to the Supreme Court.

We watched in shock as she ballooned out to 300 pounds, wondered how she did it when she lost all that weight practically overnight and in recent years wondered how long she would last as her parties got wilder, her son died of a drug overdose and her own behavior spoke of probable problems with alcohol, drugs or both.

Now it’s over. Our morbid fascination with another sexy blonde is done. Where will the next one come from? Somehow I just don’t feel Paris Hilton can ever fill Anna Nicole’s bra shoes. RIP.

Anna Nicole Smith Dies in Florida at 39
_{HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) - February 8, 2007}

Anna Nicole Smith, the curvaceous blonde whose life played out as an extraordinary tabloid tale - Playboy centerfold, jeans model, bride of an octogenarian oil tycoon, reality-show subject, tragic mother - died Thursday after collapsing at a hotel. She was 39.

She was stricken while staying at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and was rushed to a hospital. Edwina Johnson, chief investigator for the Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office, said the cause of death was under investigation and an autopsy would be done on Friday. Just five months ago, Smith’s 20-year-old son, Daniel, died suddenly in the Bahamas in what was believed to be a drug-related death.

Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger said a private nurse called 911 after finding Smith unresponsive in her sixth-floor room at the hotel, which is on an Indian reservation. He said Smith’s bodyguard administered CPR, but she was declared dead at a hospital. Later Thursday, two sheriff’s deputies carried out at least eight brown paper bags sealed with red evidence tape from Smith’s hotel room.

Dr. Joshua Perper, the chief Broward County medical examiner who will perform the autopsy, said if her death was from natural causes, the findings would likely be announced quickly. He cautioned, however, that definitive results could take weeks. “I am not a prophet, and I cannot tell you before the autopsy what I am going to find,” he said.

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   Wednesday - December 27, 2006

Obituary

My memories of Gerald Ford center around two key events: (1) his pardon of Richard Nixon and (2) the evacuation of Saigon and the official end of the Vietnam War. Both of which were key turning points in our nation’s history.

Pardoning Nixon effectively brought to a halt the witch hunt being carried on by the Democrats in Congress and the media, both of whom had an enduring hatred of Nixon and would have torn the country apart if they had been allowed to continue.

It was also on his watch that the country watched the last helicopter leave Saigon with refugees as the country fell to communist invaders thanks to the Democratic controlled Congress cutting off all aid funds to the South Vietnamese government.

I was in the Air Force at the time and I recall it as a bleak time for the military and for the country as a whole. Gerald Ford was a good man with all the right intentions. It was not his fault that he had the Congress against him, the military morale at rock bottom and the Arabs cutting off the oil supply.

He did the best he could with the mess he was given and his efforts probably saved us all from a lot of grief. If he had only defeated Carter for re-election in 1976, the world would probably be a much better place. We’re still paying the price for that.

Our prayers and sympathies go out to his wife Betty and his family. Rest in peace, Mr. President.

Gerald R. Ford (1913-2006)

When Gerald R. Ford took the oath of office on August 9, 1974, he declared, “I assume the Presidency under extraordinary circumstances.... This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts.”

It was indeed an unprecedented time. He had been the first Vice President chosen under the terms of the Twenty-fifth Amendment and, in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, was succeeding the first President ever to resign.

Ford was confronted with almost insuperable tasks. There were the challenges of mastering inflation, reviving a depressed economy, solving chronic energy shortages, and trying to ensure world peace.

As President, Ford tried to calm earlier controversies by granting former President Nixon a full pardon. His nominee for Vice President, former Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York, was the second person to fill that office by appointment. Gradually, Ford selected a cabinet of his own.

Ford established his policies during his first year in office, despite opposition from a heavily Democratic Congress. His first goal was to curb inflation. Then, when recession became the Nation’s most serious domestic problem, he shifted to measures aimed at stimulating the economy. But, still fearing inflation, Ford vetoed a number of non-military appropriations bills that would have further increased the already heavy budgetary deficit.

Ford obtained his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, where he was a football star. He went on to obtain a law degree from Yale University before serving in the United States Navy during World War II. Returning from the war a confirmed “internationalist”, Republican Ford defeated the incumbent in the party primary and was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1948, representing the Grand Rapids, Michigan area.

He was elected House Minority Leader in 1963 and served in the House until 1973. When Spiro Agnew resigned, Ford was appointed Vice President of the United States at the height of the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to Richard Nixon’s resignation. On November 12, 2006, Ford officially became the longest-lived President, surpassing Ronald Reagan. He had the second-longest post-presidency after Herbert Hoover.

Gerald Ford died at the age of 93 on December 26, 2006 of a severely impacted bowel obstruction at his home in California. At 11:49 p.m. EST, it was reported that Ford’s wife, Betty, has confirmed his death.

“My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather has passed away at 93 years of age,” Mrs. Ford said in a brief statement issued from her husband’s office in Rancho Mirage. “His life was filled with love of God, his family and his country.”

“Laura and I are greatly saddened by the passing of former President Gerald R. Ford. President Ford was a great American who gave many years of dedicated service to our country. On August 9, 1974, after a long career in the House of Representatives and service as Vice President, he assumed the Presidency in an hour of national turmoil and division. With his quiet integrity, common sense, and kind instincts, President Ford helped heal our land and restore public confidence in the Presidency. The American people will always admire Gerald Ford’s devotion to duty, his personal character, and the honorable conduct of his administration. We mourn the loss of such a leader, and our 38th President will always have a special place in our Nation’s memory. On behalf of all Americans, Laura and I offer our deepest sympathies to Betty Ford and all of President Ford’s family. Our thoughts and prayers will be with them in the hours and days ahead.”—President Bush

Officials Prep for Ford to Lie in State
_{WASHINGTON (AP) - December 27, 2006, 12:40 PM EST}

Officials were preparing tentative plans for President Gerald Ford’s body to lie in state this weekend and expected a funeral service after New Year’s at National Cathedral capping days of mourning in the capital.

U.S. Capitol Police officers said they were told to prepare for Ford’s body to come to the Capitol Rotunda on Saturday, and congressional officials who have been briefed on plans said a public viewing would begin after an arrival ceremony. The cathedral service was expected Tuesday.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the Ford family had not yet signed off on that schedule. The hallmarks of a presidential state funeral began falling into place a day after the 38th president died at his Rancho Mirage Calif., home, at age 93.

The public was expected to get a first chance to pay respects at a church near Ford’s California home, then at the U.S. Capitol and finally in Grand Rapids, Mich., home of his presidential museum and his anticipated place of interment. But funeral plans were not complete.

A senior Republican leadership official said all events related to Ford’s funeral in Washington would be finished by Jan. 4, opening day of the 110th Congress, meaning no delay was anticipated in the hand-over of congressional control to Democrats. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because funeral plans were not complete.

Planners are guided by the wishes of the family and any instructions from the president himself on how elaborate the events will be, how much of it takes place in Washington and more. Ford’s collegial character and unassuming style in the White House are expected to be reflected in his presidential funeral arrangements.

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   Monday - December 25, 2006

Christmas News Briefs

• James Brown died early this morning at the age of 73. Papa’s got a brand new bag.


• Ethiopian ground forces march into Somalia and their air force bombs Mogadishu. The fuse has now officially been lit in the Horn Of Africa.


• Fidel Castro isn’t dieing of cancer but Spain just sent their best cancer surgeon to Cuba. Raul Castro better start coming up with a better story soon.


• The Pope’s Christmas message: worship God, not technology. So turn off your computer and go to church but don’t forget to take your cell phone.


• The United Nations gives Iran a slap on the wrist over its nuke technology. A strongly worded letter is next step if they don’t comply.


• Fraud in Katrina rebuilding effort reaches $1 billion - Shaw Group Inc., Bechtel Group Inc., CH2M Hill Companies Ltd., and Fluor Corp under investigation. One name conspicuously absent from list of evil companies is Haliburton ... someone alert the media.


• Finally, North Korea reports a halo around the sun occurred on Kim Jung Il’s 15th anniversary of taking power ....
  
  
  A mysterious halo appeared in the sky over North Korea just before its leader Kim Jong-Il marked an important anniversary, the communist state’s official media reported. The “unprecedentedly great halo” appeared over the city of Kusong on December 23 during a day of cloud and gentle hail, the Korean Central News Agency reported Monday.
  
  “The big ring around the sun stayed for 30 minutes, throwing bright rays of seven colours. And when it disappeared, the hail stopped and not a speck of cloud was seen,” the agency said. In a separate dispatch, the agency said youths and students held dances in different parts of the country to celebrate. “The participants delightedly danced to the tune of ‘Let’s Sing of Our Pride in Being under the Guidance of the General’ and ‘Our General Is Best’ and other songs,” it added.

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   Sunday - December 10, 2006

Sunday Odds And Ends

• William Jefferson (known for keeping cold cash bribes in the freezer) has won the runoff election in Louisiana. Having re-elected one of the most corrupt politicians in Louisiana history, the people of that state now want you to throw more money at them to ... erh ... uh ... fix the mess left by Katrina.


• Iraqi President Jalal Talabani doesn’t like the Iraqi Study Group’s report. What’s not to like - we cut and run, Iraq descends into chaos as Shiites and Sunnis fight over the remains and leaders like Mr. Talabani have their heads removed. And ... Donks blame Bush. More fun for everyone!


• The Donald Rumsfeld Farewell Tour 2006 is in Iraq this week. Reports are that Rummy had to leave the US before the ACLU filed suit and he had to bypass Germany on the tour for similar reasons. Rumors are Rummy plans to retire to an undisclosed location.


• Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is dead. Now joining Yassir Arafat, Adolph Hitler and Idi Amin in nice cozy spot in hell - soon to be complete with addition of Saddam Hussein. Word is out that they plan to form a rock group for Satan and the damned. Help them pick a name.


• Chicago shooter storms in to law office and kills four people in hail of gunfire because ... someone stole his toilet truck. I’d be mad too if someone stole my .... SAY WHAT?


• Finally, in Cleveland the surfers are out catching waves and hanging ten on Lake Erie, one of the most polluted waters in North America and they have the lake all to themselves because temps are down in the 20’s. Key quote in this story comes from one experienced muck-surfer: “Surfing Lake Erie is basically disgusting but then I catch that wave and I forget about it, and I feel high all day. I was so excited I could barely sleep last night.”

KOWABUNGA!

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   Monday - November 13, 2006

Early Morning News Bytes

• President Ahmawhackjob of Iran is screaming at the United Nations Security Council. Obviously, Iran cannot survive without nukular stuff.


• American terrorists are being deported from Vietnam. Yep, you read that right - it just gets weirder and weirder every moment.


• Algeria is demanding France apologize for being a bad colonial overlord. Feel free to make up your own Fwench jokes over this one.


• Castro is at death’s door and ringing the doorbell. Go ahead, Fidel - open the door and go on in. We’ll wait for you out here, buddy.


• Democrats have now decided to start pulling troops out of Iraq starting in March-April. That flushing sound you hear is the fledgling Iraqi democracy going down the drain next summer.


• Tony Blair wants to make nice with Iran and Syria to solve the problems in the Middle East. Yeah, that ought to do the trick - let’s appease the two main troublemakers in the region. Hey, it worked in 1939, didn’t it?


• Pakistanis are trading in their slightly used kidneys for extra cash. They decided they didn’t need two of everything - used eyeballs are primed to be the next hot commodity.


• Election ‘06 is over and John McCain becomes the first candidate in the 2008 Presidential race. Is it just me or is anyone else a little nervous about the Manchuran Candidate?

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   Sunday - October 29, 2006

People In The News

• Fidel Castro: “Im Not Dead Yet!” No, but you will be soon. Cue up Monty Python.


• Bill Clinton: “I’m Not Dead Yet Either!” No, and we really don’t care. Now go away. We ain’t paying $500k to attend your party.


• Hugo Chavez: “All Your Voting Machines Are Belong To Me!” The only chad left dangling here is Chavez himself. Loser.


• Vladimir Putin: “Attention K-Mart Shoppers! Arms For Sale In Aisle Six!” Cheap Russian weaponry in the Third World? I feel safer already.


• Chuck Schumer: “We Have Already Won! Why Bother To Have An Election?” Counting those unhatched chickens already, eh Chuckie?


• Michael Jackson: “I’m Back!” Oh, dear God! Not again! Somebody shoot me. I can’t take any more of this weirdo.


• Jacques Chirac: “I’m Not Dead Yet Either!” Wanna bet? Watch your back, Jack.


• Sultan Mohammadu Maccido Of Nigeria: “OK! All Right, Already! Yes, I’m Dead!” A Nigerian and a Muslim? The worst of both worlds. Good riddance.

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   Wednesday - October 11, 2006

EVERYBODY PANIC!

Two Killed in High-Rise Plane Crash
_{Wednesday, 11 Oct 2006, 3:01 PM CDT}

A small plane crashed into a 50-story condominium tower Wednesday on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, killing at least two people and touching off a raging fire that rained flaming debris on the streets below, police said.

The FBI and the Homeland Security Department said there was no evidence it was a terrorist attack. “The initial indication is that there is a terrible accident,” Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke said. Nevertheless, the crash at the Belaire overlooking the East River struck fear in a city devastated by the attacks of Sept. 11 five years ago.

Sirens echoed across the neighborhood as emergency workers and ambulances rushed in with stretchers. Broken glass and debris were strewn around the neighborhood.

“There’s a sense of helplessness,” said Sandy Teller, watching from his apartment a block away. “Cots and gurneys, waiting. It’s a mess.” Another witness told Fox affiliate WNYW that he saw several people run from the building shortly after he heard a loud crash that “sounded like a Harley-Davidson,” some with bloodied faces.

Flames shot from the windows on two upper floors of building on East 72nd Street, about five miles from the World Trade Center. A pillar of black smoke rose over the city, and burning debris fell as firefighters shot water streams of water at the flames from the floors below. WNYW executive producer Sarah Graham was at the scene shortly after the collision.

“It’s unbelievable at this point,” Graham said in a telephone interview. “I am literally right across the street from this building. This dead-end street is all residential, all apartments. You’ve got people coming out of the building not knowing what happened to it. I just heard the chaos.” Added WNYW reporter John Deutzman: “There’s a massive hole in the side of this building.”

The blaze was extinguished in less than an hour. The aircraft struck the 20th floor with a loud bang, authorities and witnesses said. The Federal Aviation Administration said it was too early to determine what type of aircraft was involved, or what might have caused the crash in the middle of a hazy, overcast October afternoon.

The tower was built in the late 1980s and is situated near Sotheby’s auction house. It has 183 apartments, many of which sell for more than $1 million. All three New York City-area airports continued to operate normally, FAA spokesman Jim Peters said. And the Homeland Security spokesman said, “There is no specific or credible intelligence suggesting a threat to the homeland at this time.”

Lidle Dies As Plane Crashes
Into Manhattan High-rise

NEW YORK (ESPN) - A small plane with New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle aboard crashed into a 50-story condominium tower Wednesday on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, killing Lidle and three other people and raining flaming debris on sidewalks, authorities said.

Federal Aviation Administration records showed the single-engine plane was registered to Lidle, and FBI reports show that Lidle’s passport was found at the scene. The FBI believed Lidle was the only person aboard the plane and the other three deaths occurred inside the building.

Lidle crossed the picket line at spring training in 1995 following the ‘94 players’ strike. He pitched for seven major-league teams beginning in 1997 with the Mets. He also pitched for Tampa Bay, Oakland, Toronto, Cincinnati, Philadelphia and finally the Yankees, who acquired him before the trade deadline in July along with outfielder Bobby Abreu. For his career, he was 82-72 with two saves and a 4.57 ERA.

(CNN) - There was a mayday, FAA reports, from the pilot involving a problem with fuel before the aircraft crashed into the 50-story high-rise on Manhattan’s East Side.

Witness Henry Neimark, who is also a pilot, said he saw a plane flying at relatively low altitude which seemed to come from LaGuardia International Airport.

“It looked to me in retrospect that this was a pilot desperately trying to get back to the airport and land safely on a runway,” he said.

“The fire was raging out of two windows,” witness Sarah Steiner told CNN. “It looks like the plane just flew into someone’s living room.”

Steiner said fires were burning on the ground. “It looks like the plane just flew into someone’s living room there.”

“It looks as if the aircraft didn’t go into the building but fell down,” she said. “It may be part of the debris burning on the ground.”

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   Monday - September 18, 2006

Morning News Brief

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   Thursday - August 17, 2006

High Alert Seems to be Working

Via Mary Katherine Ham at Michelle Malkin’s site:

Huntington airport evacuated
Charles Shumaker - Staff writer

HUNTINGTON—Tri-State Airport in Huntington was evacuated just before 11:30 a.m. Thursday after a suspicious liquid was found in a passenger’s carry-on luggage.

A State Police bomb-sniffing dog reacted to the liquid in the luggage, according to Beckie McKinley, marketing director for the airport.

McKinley said the luggage belonged to a female passenger who was traveling on a US Airways flight departing at 9:17 a.m. for Charlotte, N.C.

In response to reporters’ questions, McKinley confirmed the woman was of Middle Eastern descent. She said the woman was not treated any differently because of her nationality.

McKinley said the woman had been “detained” by authorities.

As of 1:50 p.m., no flights were taking off or landing at the airport. Passengers and airport workers had been moved to a nearby building.

The plane to Charlotte was reportedly diverted to Yeager Airport in Charleston.

Seems like we’ll be seeing more and more of these.  We can’t stop flying folks, even though it sucks right now.  If we do, they win.

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