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ZonkerHarris's JournalLed Zeppelin might be getting back together...
but it requires installing a wheelchair ramp on their Stairway To Heaven.
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Mingo Sheriff Shot To Death; Suspect Shot While Trying To Get Away
Source: WCHS ABC Channel 8
Reported by: Jeff Morris
Web Producer: Jeff Morris
Reported: Apr. 3, 2013 12:49 PM EDT
Updated: Apr. 3, 2013 1:39 PM EDT
Williamson, Mingo County , West Virginia
The suspect in the fatal shooting of Mingo Sheriff Eugene Crum was shot while trying to get away.
The suspect's condition was unavailable. Crum was shot on Wednesday in downtown Williamson.
Read more: http://www.wchstv.com/newsroom/eyewitness/130403_15097.shtml
edit: A lot of good guys with guns are getting killed by bad guys with guns.
Is This a Pandemic Being Born?
Source: Foreign Policy
Here's how it would happen. Children playing along an urban river bank would spot hundreds of grotesque, bloated pig carcasses bobbing downstream. Hundreds of miles away, angry citizens would protest the rising stench from piles of dead ducks and swans, their rotting bodies collecting by the thousands along river banks. And three unrelated individuals would stagger into three different hospitals, gasping for air. Two would quickly die of severe pneumonia and the third would lay in critical condition in an intensive care unit for many days. Government officials would announce that a previously unknown virus had sickened three people, at least, and killed two of them. And while the world was left to wonder how the pigs, ducks, swans, and people might be connected, the World Health Organization would release deliberately terse statements, offering little insight.
It reads like a movie plot -- I should know, as I was a consultant for Steven Soderbergh's Contagion. But the facts delineated are all true, and have transpired over the last six weeks in China. The events could, indeed, be unrelated, and the new virus, a form of influenza denoted as H7N9, may have already run its course, infecting just three people and killing two.
Or this could be how pandemics begin.
On March 10, residents of China's powerhouse metropolis, Shanghai, noticed some dead pigs floating among garbage flotsam in the city's Huangpu River. The vile carcasses appeared in Shanghai's most important tributary of the mighty Yangtze, a 71-mile river that is edged by the Bund, the city's main tourist area, and serves as the primary source of drinking water and ferry travel for the 23 million residents of the metropolis and its millions of visitors. The vision of a few dead pigs on the surface of the Huangpu was every bit as jarring for local Chinese as porcine carcasses would be for French strolling the Seine, Londoners along the Thames, or New Yorkers looking from the Brooklyn Bridge down on the East River.
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Lots More at link
Read more: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/01/is_this_a_pandemic_being_born_china_pigs_virus?page=0,0
Is This a Pandemic Being Born?
Source: Foreign Policy
Here's how it would happen. Children playing along an urban river bank would spot hundreds of grotesque, bloated pig carcasses bobbing downstream. Hundreds of miles away, angry citizens would protest the rising stench from piles of dead ducks and swans, their rotting bodies collecting by the thousands along river banks. And three unrelated individuals would stagger into three different hospitals, gasping for air. Two would quickly die of severe pneumonia and the third would lay in critical condition in an intensive care unit for many days. Government officials would announce that a previously unknown virus had sickened three people, at least, and killed two of them. And while the world was left to wonder how the pigs, ducks, swans, and people might be connected, the World Health Organization would release deliberately terse statements, offering little insight.
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It reads like a movie plot -- I should know, as I was a consultant for Steven Soderbergh's Contagion. But the facts delineated are all true, and have transpired over the last six weeks in China. The events could, indeed, be unrelated, and the new virus, a form of influenza denoted as H7N9, may have already run its course, infecting just three people and killing two.
Or this could be how pandemics begin.
On March 10, residents of China's powerhouse metropolis, Shanghai, noticed some dead pigs floating among garbage flotsam in the city's Huangpu River. The vile carcasses appeared in Shanghai's most important tributary of the mighty Yangtze, a 71-mile river that is edged by the Bund, the city's main tourist area, and serves as the primary source of drinking water and ferry travel for the 23 million residents of the metropolis and its millions of visitors. The vision of a few dead pigs on the surface of the Huangpu was every bit as jarring for local Chinese as porcine carcasses would be for French strolling the Seine, Londoners along the Thames, or New Yorkers looking from the Brooklyn Bridge down on the East River.
Read more: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/01/is_this_a_pandemic_being_born_china_pigs_virus?page=0,0
This is scary stuff.
North Korea is the optional war the Pentagon really wants, not one with Iran.
a war with North Korea will let them use air power, ground troops and tanks just like an old fashioned conventional war.
It's the kind of war the Pentagon loves and wants badly to conduct.
They have the toys and are like junkies with a syringe full of drugs.
They are going to try to use sooner or later.
Preacher and public idiot Mike Huckabee says gay marriage is like lowering a basketball hoop
from 10 feet tall down to 6 feet.
No Mike, the correct analogy is that gay marriage let's everyone on the court to play the game.
A grasshopper walks into a bar...
And the bartender says "We have a drink named after you."
The grasshopper replies "You have a drink named Irving?"
So the sports fans out there understand what's going on at the Vatican:
The Cardinals have a first round draft pick and they are going for the best "all round Pope" because he needs to play both offense and defense.
The Conclave of Cardinals is gathering in the Vatican today to select the next
winner of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN POPE?
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