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Sierra Leone's forgotten 'bush wives'
Here’s another Sierra Leone story that is a real bummer. The extent of the devastation caused by war there is hard to comprehend. Everyone you meet in Sierra Leone has…
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UK pressed to jail Charles Taylor
We’ve been following developments surrounding the trial of Charles Taylor closely (there are too many previous posts to list – if you are interested in the background, just search fukn.us…
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He is really really dead! I mean really really really dead.
After months of the war going badly for the US and the new Iraqi government, officials got a nice plum today when they killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of…
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Honolulu Army Officer Refuses to Deploy to Iraq
Army Lieutenant Refuses to Deploy to Iraq I want to offer my congratulations and support to 1st Lt. Ehren K. Watada, the first commissioned officer in the U.S. military to…
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Who is in Charge of Iran?
If you read the news at all these days, chances are that you are hearing a lot about the firebrand President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He is the guy that…
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Diamond Mischief in Sierra Leone
Diamond Mischief in Sierra Leone This story illustrates some of the tribal complexities and inherent problems in creating sustainable economies in third world nations and more specifically in West African…
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Expat Oil Workers Abducted in Nigeria
Since this story broke, all eight workers have been released. In the meantime, 5 South Koreans have been taken….this is a non stop cycle. Â It seems that Iraq is…
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The Incredible Ice Cream Drunken Driver
Okay…I’ve been pretty lax on my homework….here are the stories I have been following the past several days… cd Dennis Cogburn likes to do things in the good old-fashioned cowboy…
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Ghost ship reaches Big Isle after 4,500 miles adrift – The Honolulu Advertiser
HILO, Hawai’i — A derelict, battered 33-foot sailboat abandoned in rough weather off Costa Rica last year apparently drifted for six months and more than 4,500 miles before it was…
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Corrupt Beijing doctors urged to pay back bribes
And they think this is going to work why?? OK, governments all do stuff just so they can look like they are doing something, but this seems like particularly brazen…
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Is it really Shiloh?
From my oh-so-reliable source, the China Daily…. People magazine has outbid all other US weekly tabloids for $ 4.1 million to land the Angelina Jolie- Brad Pitt baby Shiloh pictures.…
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India's eunuchs seek new way
Castrated males are no longer recognized as male by Indian law, nor are they considered female. Sudha is dusky and wears a salwar kameez, a traditional dress for women in…
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Shananapocalypse boy surgery 'success'
The third arm of the Shananapocalypse boy has been successfully removed at Shanghai Children’s Medical Centre. (The little numbers on the photo refer to the surgery, not to the armsÂ…
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Mexican Midget Rodeo
A LA institution…. Â What wonders are conjured, what rough magic promised by the phrase “Mexican Midget Rodeo”? Let us pause to savor that more slowly: Mexican . . .…
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Singing Tibetan nuns finish epic trek
I can’t help but picture “The Sound of Music….” Two Tibetan nuns have arrived in a hill town in northern India to meet their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. They…
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Lost Dimension Yields Accidental Discovery
Hopefully, we are beating boing boing to the punch on this one….that is one of our major purposes in life. cd Using strong magnets and a pigment developed by ancient…
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Hamster survives giant shredder
A hamster has survived almost unscathed after spending several minutes passing through an industrial shredder. The rodent is thought to have got into a skip of rubbish that was taken…
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Coma woman mix-up pains family
This family thought their daughter was in the hospital, while somebody else’s family was having her funeral, thinking it was their dead daughter… Sounds like a soap opera plot, but…
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Update on Indonesia Quake
Today’s story is an update Today I am going to discuss the recent quake in Indonesia. On May 27 a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck the ancient city of Yogyakarta in…
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Ahhh… the great outdoors
Given my borderline relationship with Thumper, I thought that it was appropriate to post this. Perhaps I should write a “how to” guide on getting a rabbit to be your…
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Let's build bridges not fences
Citizen Lobbyists Sending Bricks to Congress Those in favor of building a fence between Mexico and the U.S. are sending bricks to congress as a way to show their representatives…
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A Nice Story…
KEY WEST, Fla. – A man wearing a purple women’s bathing suit and carrying a flare gun was arrested after he told a bartender he was going to “get rid…
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More Reserve U.S. Troops Deployed To Iraq
Okay, here is my story of the day…. cd The U.S. military has made the decision to send the rest of an Army National Guard unit from Kuwait into Iraq…
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Sea of remembrance, peace – The Honolulu Advertiser
The Chairman and I attended last night’s Lantern Floating ceremony at Ala Moana Beach Park in Honolulu. It was moving and beautiful to see a thousand paper lanterns honoring the…
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Poetry Spam Contest
I received the following spam with the headings 1) “Hi Peace Enamored”, from “Clarence Elliott” [email protected] 2) ” Cash out, self-denying” from “coriss vazquez” [email protected] 3) “Cash out, cross date”…
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