Pennsylvania Celebrates 330rd Birthday - Yahoo! News: "The Walking Purchase dispute stemmed from the land deed that William Penn had arranged with the Indians in 1683. Considering that the land was wilderness, seemingly without beginning or end, the terms of that deed were loosely drawn and vague.
* The Indian chiefs who made the original deal with Penn had specified only that they were selling an amount of land marked by a 'walk of a day and a half' from a point near present Wrightstown, Pa. Due to that vagary, the actual size of the plot had been in dispute for many years."
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Factbox: Anatomy of a Meltdown for English Majors - Yahoo! News
Factbox: Anatomy of a Meltdown for English Majors - Yahoo! News: "'Does it bother anyone that CNN has a picture of a Pressurized Water Reactor on this page when the Reactor at Fukushima I Unit 1 is a Boiling Water Reactor (BWR-3)? ' asks RickW123.
We liberal arts and English majors shrug our shoulders and talk to each other in frightened, shrill tones, admitting to each other that, like scientific bigots, 'they all look alike.'"
We liberal arts and English majors shrug our shoulders and talk to each other in frightened, shrill tones, admitting to each other that, like scientific bigots, 'they all look alike.'"
Yishai cried: Where's daddy? I want my daddy - Israel News, Ynetnews
Yishai cried: Where's daddy? I want my daddy - Israel News, Ynetnews: "'The little boy was crying: 'Where's my daddy? Where's daddy? I want my daddy.' I changed his clothes, he was tired, and I cleaned the blood off his legs,' the Fogel family's neighbor told Ynet, recalling the events of Friday night. Late that night terrorists murdered father Udi (36), mother Ruth (35) and their children Yoav (11), Elad (4), and Hadas (three months). The couple's three other children – Tamar (12), Roi (8) and Yishai (2.5), survived the hellish attack."
elianabenador.com: PALESTINIANS CELEBRATE MURDER OF INNOCENT JEWS IN SAMARIA, ISRAEL
elianabenador.com: PALESTINIANS CELEBRATE MURDER OF INNOCENT JEWS IN SAMARIA, ISRAEL: "The five were stabbed to death. Their 12 year old daughter Tamar was first to find the bodies about an hour after the attack when she returned home from local youth movement activity. She found her two additional brothers sleeping in a room the terrorist had overlooked (thank G-d)."
Saturday, March 12, 2011
front lines: Hamas ordered five Israelis murdered following secret Islamist Khartoum parley
front lines: Hamas ordered five Israelis murdered following secret Islamist Khartoum parley: "Palestinian Hamas websites quickly hailed the murder of a mother, father and three of their children, aged, 11, three and a baby of a month, whose throats were slashed in their sleep at Itamar, south of Nablus Friday night, March 11 as 'a heroic operation.' The escape of at least two Palestinian killers long before the alarm was sounded after midnight was eased by the dismantling of most Israeli security checkpoints on the West Bank and slow military vigilance."
Thursday, March 10, 2011
International Response on Libya Varies; French Take High Moral Ground - Yahoo! News
International Response on Libya Varies; French Take High Moral Ground - Yahoo! News: "German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle:
'There is no further cooperation with Gadhafi possible. Sanctions must be broadened; more have to be decided, so that Gadhafi gets no fresh money to pay mercenaries that he uses against his own people.'
That's solid Teutonic thinking, except for the fact that Gadhafi doesn't need 'fresh money to pay mercenaries.' He's reported to have plenty of cash in his own coffers. One source says Gadhafi controls $32 billion in liquid assets, and was not dumb enough to trust Bernard Madoff. Not all of Gadhafi's assets are frozen , and he'd recently made weapons and fighter jet deals with the Russians."
'There is no further cooperation with Gadhafi possible. Sanctions must be broadened; more have to be decided, so that Gadhafi gets no fresh money to pay mercenaries that he uses against his own people.'
That's solid Teutonic thinking, except for the fact that Gadhafi doesn't need 'fresh money to pay mercenaries.' He's reported to have plenty of cash in his own coffers. One source says Gadhafi controls $32 billion in liquid assets, and was not dumb enough to trust Bernard Madoff. Not all of Gadhafi's assets are frozen , and he'd recently made weapons and fighter jet deals with the Russians."
NPR -- Radioactive, Unplugged - Yahoo! News
NPR -- Radioactive, Unplugged - Yahoo! News: "In the video, Ron Schiller disparages the Tea Party, Christians, 'weird' Evangelicals, and 'white, middle-America gun-toting racists.' Ron Schiller was nonplussed as the Muslim poseurs engaged him in a clichéd and bigoted characterization of a Tea Party dominated by fanatics and a U.S. media 'controlled by Jews' and 'Zionists.'"
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
White House Believes Court Contempt Citation is a Traffic Ticket - Yahoo! News
White House Believes Court Contempt Citation is a Traffic Ticket - Yahoo! News: "Three months after the first Gulf drilling ban, Judge Martin Feldman ruled that it was too broad, and must be revised or lifted. As if Judge Feldman's ruling was akin to a ticket for illegal parking, Secretary Salazar simply imposed a second drilling ban using the template for the first one. That disregard for law and the courts earned a citation for being in contempt , when Feldman spanked the Interior Department for its legal tone deafness."
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Raymond Davis Life in Peril in Pakistan Prison
Yahoo!The U.S. State Department needs to make sure Raymond Davis does not become a "moral argument." Equivocating the objectives of Islamist militants with the objectives of the NATO military mission is a liberal cocktail party version of a psychological suicide bombing.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Pakistan Taliban Wants to Hang American Raymond Davis - Yahoo! News
Pakistan Taliban Wants to Hang American Raymond Davis - Yahoo! NewsCOMMENTARY | An ugly incident that could sever the thin ties between the U.S. and Pakistan is growing more intense. President Barack Obama said that consular employee Raymond Davis is entitled to full diplomatic immunity for killing two men he believed were trying to harm him.
Davis has been identified as an advisory consular official in American accounts of the incident. The Pakistanis have a problem with the claim that Davis was a consular official.
They say that diplomats don't carry guns. In fact, Davis was a former Special Forces operator with extensive firearms experience.
Davis has been identified as an advisory consular official in American accounts of the incident. The Pakistanis have a problem with the claim that Davis was a consular official.
They say that diplomats don't carry guns. In fact, Davis was a former Special Forces operator with extensive firearms experience.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Lifetime TV Network Faces Criticism for Scheduling Amanda Knox Movie - Yahoo! News
Lifetime TV Network Faces Criticism for Scheduling Amanda Knox Movie - Yahoo! News: "From an American legal standpoint, there are problems with the evidence presented in the Knox case. Because the DNA samples used to convict Knox and Sollecito were not tested by the prosecution, an Italian appeals court judge granted a defense motion request that the DNA testing be re-examined by two well-respected forensic experts from an Italian university."
Former Luzerne County Judges Had Slick Racket
"It's beginning to sound just like the Scranton where I used to work several years ago. A big little city where, even if you don't know someone, you know someone who knows that someone."
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Reality and Fiction on Collision Course in Amanda Knox Movie - Yahoo! News
Reality and Fiction on Collision Course in Amanda Knox Movie - Yahoo! NewsDid Amanda Knox clean the knife found in Raffaele Sollecito's apartment? Did she clean it well, poorly, or not at all? Italian police pinned their case on a tiny speck of flesh found in the groove of the knife blade.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Astronaut Mark Kelly: Deep Space is Not so Far Away - Yahoo! News
Astronaut Mark Kelly: Deep Space is Not so Far Away - Yahoo! News: "Should Mark Kelly leave Gabrielle Giffords to go into space? Certainly, Mark Kelly's decision to go ahead with training in preparation for April's shuttle flight has spawned a cottage industry of moralizing."
Friday, February 4, 2011
Obama Interior Department Faces Criticism from Democrats, Republicans - Yahoo! News
Obama Interior Department Faces Criticism from Democrats, Republicans - Yahoo! News: "'I am seeing more and more people throw in the towel every week. We can't continue to let these vessels sit at the dock crewed up with no work. We are all cutting each others throat over here to get a spot job,' says a marine worker in a post on the Pensacola Fishing Forum website."
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