Posted by: no mo uro ||
01/25/2009 17:20 Comments ||
Top||
#2
John Wolkes Booth's brother saved Lincoln's eldest son from falling off a train platform in Baltimore.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
01/25/2009 17:37 Comments ||
Top||
#3
You know, it's a good thing he didn't try then. Andrew Jackson wasn't exactly a pantywaist when it came to dealing with people trying to kill him. Heck, if you really wanted to try, just challenge him to a duel, he'd of probably accepted. Course, you have to realize, shooting him just pisses him off.
#4
Sounds like a good premise for an alt-history novel. Boothe tries to kill Jackson, Old Hickory kills Boothe's worthless ass instead (you know he would), and John Wilkes is never born.
No, I have no interest in writing it. Just tossing the idea out there into the Intertubes cyberspace for those who might....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
01/25/2009 19:39 Comments ||
Top||
One of Nigeria's biggest daily newspapers reported that police implicated a goat in an attempted automobile theft. In a front-page article on Friday, the Vanguard newspaper said that two men tried to steal a Mazda car two days earlier in Kwara State, with one suspect transforming himself into a goat as vigilantes cornered him.
The paper quoted police spokesman Tunde Mohammed as saying that while one suspect escaped, the other transformed into a goat as he was about to be apprehended.
The newspaper reported that police paraded the goat before journalists, and published a picture of the animal.
Police in the state couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
Belief in black magic is widespread in Nigeria, particularly in far-flung rural areas.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/25/2009 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11128 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Belief in black magic is widespread in Nigeria, particularly in far-flung rural areas.
A Bahamas senator accused of trying to extort money from actor John Travolta after his son's death resigned on Saturday and vowed to prove her innocence.
Sen. Pleasant Bridgewater, an attorney from Grand Bahama, said she plans to fight "untrue and unfair charges" stemming from actions she took as a lawyer. "How these innocent actions can be so misconstrued, so perversely twisted to mean something other than it was, is a mystery," she said without providing more details.
Bridgewater could not be immediately reached for comment.
Travolta had filed a complaint of attempted extortion, according to police, but did not release any details of the alleged plot. The actor and his wife Kelly Preston have returned home to Florida with the ashes of their 16-year-old, chronically ill son, Jett, who died of a seizure this month at their family vacation home on Grand Bahama.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/25/2009 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11127 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Is she a Liberal (aka, Democrat)? Must be. no party affiliation mentioned. :-)
A British tabloid newspaper is reporting that Prince Harry and his longtime girlfriend have broken up.
The News of the World reported on its Web site Saturday that the prince, 24, and Chelsy Davy decided to split up after a series of talks last week. Harry, third in line to the throne, began training to become an Army helicopter pilot earlier this month. He and Davy, a 23-year-old law student, had been dating for about five years, the paper said.
Prince Harry's office at St. James's Palace said there would be no comment on the report.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/25/2009 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11130 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
just remember... no matter how hot they are, there is someone somewhere tired of taking her $hit
Posted by: Abu do you love ||
01/25/2009 3:13 Comments ||
Top||
#6
I'm sorry, the pic is too close to the article. I can't read what the article is about? Will someone explain, with single syllable words and writing slowly (so I can keep up)? I like pink!!
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's heart bypass surgery was a success and he will be fit to campaign in May elections, doctors said. The surgery Saturday lasted nearly 11 hours, said Dr. K. Srinath Reddy, one of the team of 11 doctors involved in the operation. He said the prime minister was conscious and stable and being monitored in the hospital's intensive care unit.
The 76-year-old Singh should be fully recovered and able to resume his duties in six weeks, Reddy said. Singh had bypass surgery in England in 1990 and another heart procedure in 2004.
Singh has held office since 2004 and is expected to run as the Congress Party's candidate for prime minister in elections to be held before May.
"There won't be any restrictions on his campaigning," said Dr. A Sampath Kumar, another doctor on the team, adding that Singh chose to have the surgery now so he would be fit in time for the polls.
A thought: notice that whenever the big cheese in a third-world shithole needs complex surgery or treatment for some grave disorder, they almost always come to the West. Singh needs a re-do of his previous bypass -- NOT an easy surgery by any means -- and he has it done at home. Says a thing or two about India ...
Posted by: Steve White ||
01/25/2009 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11125 views]
Top|| File under:
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A British tabloid newspaper is reporting that Prince Harry and his longtime girlfriend have broken up.
