] The Dept of Homeland Security would like to take this
] opportunity to explain the current political situation to
] you all.

Kieran Healy's Weblog: Public Service Announcement

] 4. If you see signs of a chemical attack, quickly try to
] define the impacted area or where the chemical is coming
] from, if possible.

I like this guy. He's in the classic "Hmmm.. I'm pondering" position. He's not 'quickly' defining anything.

Ready.gov - Be Informed - Chemical threat - Visual Guide

] Federal scientists are looking for evidence that a bolt
] of electricity in the upper atmosphere might have doomed
] the space shuttle Columbia as it streaked over
] California, The Chronicle has learned.

Cosmic bolt probed in shuttle disaster / Scientists poring over 'infrasonic' sound waves

] In Paramus, more than 100 doctors gave blood to
] demonstrate commitment to patients' health, said Dr.
] Thomas Ahlborn, director of surgery at Valley Hospital in
] Ridgewood.

Excellent, I'm glad some good can come of this. But I hope they were donating blood because they really care, not just to prove a point.

N.J. doctors scale back planned protests

] A gargantuan recovery effort turned increasingly grim
] today, as hundreds of officials, volunteers and
] homeowners combed the countryside of East Texas and
] western Louisiana, turning up remains of some of the
] astronauts aboard the space shuttle Columbia.

This article brought me back to the question that's been nagging at me ever since I was eight and a half years old and I saw the Challenger explosion.. did they ever find remains from the crew of the Challenger? If anyone knows, or finds an article about that, please let me know.

While on the subject, I remember years ago, having a conversation with a girl I worked with, we were talking about how our parents always told us the stories of where they were when numerous historical events took place (prime example: when they found out JFK was shot). We were saying how the only thing we could tell our kids is where we were/how we found out about the Challenger. A week after that conversation, Princess Diana died. I remember that, I remember when I found out that the Gulf War started, I remember Sept. 11, and now also the Columbia. I'm getting a bit tired of having things happen to tell my children about. But I guess that's part of growing up, and living history. I'm glad I was always curious about events around me, and I'm glad my mom made me watch all the coverage of the Challenger, and I'm glad she called me on Sept. 11 and told me to turn on the TV right after the first tower was hit, and I'm glad that ever since then, I put the news on first thing every morning. I'm glad I got up early on Saturday and saw everything.

Recovery Turns Grim as Remains of Some Victims Are Found

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Mohegan Sun Wolf Den Events

] "Paul Kenneth Donahue, 50, and Teresa Marie Wood, 46, had
] been scheduled to fly from San Jose, California, to
] Atlanta, Georgia, on Delta Flight 576 Tuesday. When their
] bags were put through a bomb detection machine, federal
] screeners found what turned out to be a snow boot with
] batteries, wires and an electrical power strip arranged
] in a suspicious way.
]
] Screeners also found a note that read, "To the uniformed
] puppet opening this bag -- congratulations. You've just
] brought this once free nation one step closer to becoming
] a fascist police state," according to Transportation
] Security Administration spokesman Robert Johnson. The
] note was scribbled on one side of the cardboard torn from
] a box of Cracklin' Oat Bran."

God help the USA.

Luggage bomb hoax lands couple in jail

] "A teenager was charged Thursday with first-degree murder
] for allegedly killing a romantic rival by spiking his
] soda with cyanide."

Blame what you will on video games and music. But this kid reads too much Shakespeare.

I'm sure that the girl fell madly in love with him and they'll live happily ever after. At 17. Is love so serious at 17 that it can drive people to kill? I remember when I was 17, and in love, and I remember what was serious to me back then. Nothing that would have driven me to kill.

Teen charged with poisoning friend

] "The crash comes after a year in which there were no
] commercial airline fatalities in the United States,
] federal officials said. (Full story)"

It's like saying "We haven't hit traffic during this whole trip!" and you know what happens after that. You hit traffic. "CNN reports that there were no fatalities on commercial flights this year". They jinxed it. Bad CNN.

Plane crashes, 19 aboard, in North Carolina

] "LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hundreds of Iranian and other
] Middle East citizens were in southern California jails on
] Wednesday after coming forward to comply with a new rule
] to register with immigration authorities only to wind up
] handcuffed and behind bars."

Are you fucking kidding me? Did I go to sleep and wake up in a nightmare? My boyfriend's parents risked their very lives fleeing Hungary in the 1970's to have a child in this country, a country free of communism, and now 30 years later, America is on its way to something similar? We're all immigrants, that's what this country is made of, and now we are jailing young men who came here looking for a better life, just as our ancestors did years ago, simply because they are from countries that "scare" us?!? How come there's no other news about this? This country is rapidly turning into a place that i can't defend anymore.

Hundreds of Muslim Immigrants Rounded Up in Calif.