From Arutz Sheva: A massive manhunt and rescue operation ended in joy around midnight between Thursday and Friday, after a missing child was found alive, floating in the Dead Sea. The high salt and mineral content of the water, while extremely dangerous to ingest, kept the child afloat. I found this really interesting having been [...]
Bridge Terrorism
August 2, 2007
The word ‘terrorism’ has been thrown around a little in regards to yesterday’s bridge collapse. Let me just say if it was a terrorist attack, it was done by some pretty stupid terrorists. With one lane in each direction, it wasn’t a very good target. There would have been much better bridges to hit in [...]
35W Collapse
August 1, 2007
About 75 minutes ago, the 35W bridge over the Mississippi river collapsed. Quite bizarre! I’ve driven across that bridge hundreds of times. Hopefully the casualty rate is minimal, it was at the tail end of the rush hour, and was under construction so a lot of people would have been taking alternate routes. So far [...]
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Missing the Whole Picture
August 23, 2007
Among the buzz today is a statement Bush made yesterday about Democracy in Japan and Germany after World War II. In an effort to bolster his argument that what he’s doing in Iraq is the right thing, he stated (accurately) that there were a lot of naysayers that didn’t believe that Japan and Germany could [...]