September 19, 2005
Pretty neat helo video, if you have a fast connection
It’s long but worth it
http://libra.technology.users.btopenworld.com/DRKJ2002.WMV
Clear Instructions on How To Do (just about) Everything
http://www.ehow.com/
Examples:
How to Remove a Broken Key From a Lock http://www.ehow.com/how_16770_remove-broken-key.html
How to Clean a Birdcage http://www.ehow.com/how_18651_clean-birdcage.html
Judge Not…
...According to Barton, Thomas Jefferson seemed worried about this very possibility. Jefferson wrote in 1820 that to "consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions" would be "a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy"...
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/192005a.asp
Kuwait Offers to Build Oil Refinery in US
Kuwait is talking with the Bush administration about building an oil refinery in the United States - America's first new refinery in 30 years, the Houston Chronicle reported... http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3359279
Oil Imports From the Big 5
According to the most recent data available from the Energy Information Administration, the five largest crude oil exporters to the United States in June of this year were Canada, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Nigeria.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/petroleum_supply_monthly/current/pdf/table37.pdf
Jordan top anti-Jew nation; Russia most pro-Christian
September 19, 2005 Jordan leads the Islamic world in its antipathy for Jews according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center.
The poll, which surveyed 17,000 people in 17 countries, said 100 percent of Jordanians viewed Jews unfavorably.
Russia led all other countries with favorable views of Christians (92 percent) while Turkey (63 percent) had the most unfavorable view of Christians.
...The Netherlands led all nations surveyed both in positive views of Jews (85 percent) and negative views of Muslims (51 percent)....
...The poll found decreasing support in Islamic countries for Al Qaida and suicide bombings...Fifty-seven percent of Jordanian respondents expressed support for suicide bombings, up from 43 percent in 2002...In Morocco, support for Al Qaida dropped from 49 percent in 2003 to 26 percent in the latest poll. In Lebanon, only two percent of respondents expressed support for Al Qaida.
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/front2453632.451388889.html
Scotland tops list of world's most violent countries...
September 19, 2005 A UNITED Nations report has labeled Scotland the most violent country in the developed world [despite the fact that they are not allowed to own guns], with people three times more likely to be assaulted than in America. England and Wales recorded the second highest number of violent assaults while Northern Ireland recorded the fewest.
...Violent crime has doubled in Scotland over the past 20 years and levels, per head of population, are now comparable with cities such as Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg and Tbilisi.
...The attacks have been fuelled by a “booze and blades” culture in the west of Scotland which has claimed more than 160 lives over the past five years. Since January there have been 13 murders, 145 attempted murders and 1,100 serious assaults involving knives in the west of Scotland...
...Detective Chief Superintendent John Carnochan, head of the Strathclyde Police’s violence reduction unit, said the problem was chronic and restricting access to drink and limiting the sale of knives would at least reduce the problem...
..The study, by the UN’s crime research institute, found that 3 per cent of Scots had been victims of assault compared with 1.2 per cent in America ...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1786945,00.html
KATRINA'S AFTERMATH
September 19, 2005 New Orleans Should Be Dry by End of the Week. Pumping progress by the Army Corps of Engineers has beaten all estimates. Now mud, downed trees and debris are primary obstacles...The corps estimated that it had pumped out 87% of the water from within the city, representing much faster progress than the agency had previously reported.
...The corps estimates that about 2,700 acres of the city remain flooded, down from 27,000 acres immediately after the hurricane. The water is concentrated in three large pools, 2 to 4 feet deep — in East New Orleans, the northern section of the central city, and the 9th Ward — and should be gone within five days, Gapinski said....
Many once-flooded sections of the city have dried out, including the Lakefront area along Lake Pontchartrain. Residents began streaming back this weekend to look at their homes; the destruction they found was sobering. Many streets were blocked entirely by trees, vehicles and mud up to a foot deep.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-flood19sep19,0,6491869.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Donations swampcharity groups
September 19, 2005 ...Call it too much of a good thing: the donations of furniture, toys and clothing -- "a Mount Everest" of clothes at the Salvation Army alone -- filling warehouses, truck trailers and even churches as people comb their homes for castaway items to send to those who lost everything in the storm.
"It's sometimes called the second disaster," said Caryn Gracey Jones of United Way, which is coordinating the acceptance of donations for Denver-area nonprofits.
...In-kind donations -- for instance, clothing -- can be more trouble than they're worth.
"The sorting, the cost involved in packaging and distributing smaller receipts like a truckload of toys, is almost greater than the costs of purchasing items locally," she said.
... It will cost the organization so much to sort and package clothing and dispose of unusable donations that Salvation Army officials expect they will "probably go $150,000 in the hole this month," he said.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050918-115953-5460r.htm
Protester Sheehan Presses Clinton To Withdraw Support for War
September 19, 2005 War protester Cindy Sheehan came to New York last night with a blunt warning for Senator Clinton: End your support for the war in Iraq or else....Mrs. Clinton is "waiting for the best political moment to say" she opposes the war, Ms. Sheehan said during a 15-minute speech. "You say it or you're losing your job," she said, provoking a roar of approval from the audience. Mrs. Clinton, believed to be a possible presidential contender in 2008, has said she supports the war in Iraq and has pushed for a greater troop presence in the country....
...After touring parts of Louisiana last week, Ms. Sheehan wrote a letter posted on filmmaker Michael Moore's Web site in which she accused the federal government of evacuating people unnecessarily in the days after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast. "George Bush needs to ... pull our troops out of occupied New Orleans..." she wrote.
http://www.nysun.com/article/20195?access=889803
Remember the old civil defense days?
Free report on practical steps for survival of terror attack http://www.ki4u.com/guide.htm
Clinton’s FEMA AWOL in 1990's Worst Disaster
Sept. 19, 2005 ...when the Great Heat Wave of 1995 struck Chicago, killing more than 700 mostly poor, black and elderly victims perished as city and state medical officials complained they were overwhelmed by the greatest disaster to hit the U.S. in the last 112 years.
"On the first day of the heat wave..and the heat index... rose above 120," reported Eric Klinenberg, author of "Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago." ..."I've never seen so many dead people in a short period of time," Chicago paramedic Tim Walsh told the Associated Press.
After the first week of the disaster, the AP reported: "Hospitals were jammed with the sick and the morgue was overloaded with the dead, with dozens of bodies arriving in a somber procession of blue-and-white police vans. Before [the week] was over, more than 450 people, mostly elderly and sick, would become victims of the summer of '95."
As the magnitude of the disaster unfolded, President Clinton seemed dangerously oblivious. With Chicago's poor, black and elderly dropping like flies, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported: "President Clinton seemed unperturbed, going for a mid-morning jog and then playing 18 holes of golf in a threesome that included Judge Richard Arnold of Little Rock."
After Chicago had suffered through eight deadly days of the killer heat wave, the president finally responded. "The current heat wave has been very severe, especially in the Midwest, resulting in hundreds of deaths," Clinton told reporters on July 21. "Chicago has been the hardest hit. This heat wave is an emergency that demands a response from the federal government."
...The Clinton administration had proposed cuts in the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, from which the heat relief money was drawn - only to be overruled by Congress...Clinton's vaunted Federal Emergency Management Agency, under the allegedly able direction of disaster expert James Lee Witt - was nowhere to be found. A Lexis Nexis search of more than 800 media reports on the killer heat wave turned up just a single mention of the agency.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/19/134917.shtml
Locust Meat
It is not generally known in the Western World that insects are a good source of protein. Taxonomically insects, such as locusts and crickets, are not far removed from shrimps, which are considered a delicacy in the West (The Malawi Cookbook 1979). In Central Africa the fried insects are served as a relish or as an appetiser. Relish refers to the sauce that is served with a stiff maize porridge.
These are breed in the U.K. and sold whole ready blanched. They are normally stir fried having a delicious nutty favor and crisp texture or served as a starter - and what a stunning way to start a meal.
http://www.osgrow.co.uk/index.php?document=22
Parcht Locusts
This dish was discovered by William Dampier in 1687, while visiting the Bashee Islands (located between the Philippines and Taiwan). He described it in A New Voyage Round the World:
They had another Dish made of a sort of Locusts, whose Bodies were about an Inch and an half long, and as thick as the top of one's little Finger; with large thin Wings, and long and small Legs. ... The Natives would go out with small Nets, and take a Quart at one sweep. When they had enough, they would carry them home, and parch them over the Fire in an earthen Pan; and then their Wings and Legs would fall off, and their Heads and Backs would turn red like boil'd Shrimps, being before brownish. Their Bodies being full, would eat very moist, their Heads would crackle in one's Teeth. I did once eat of this Dish, and liked it well enough....
That part about the crispy heads sounds particularly appetizing, doesn't it?
Locust Stew
Here's another locust recipe, this one developed by American pioneers. It's quoted from Calvin W. Schwabe's Unmentionable Cuisine (University Press of Virginia, 1979).
Locusts and grasshoppers are prepared for cooking by removing the wings, the small legs, and the distal portion of the hind legs. Then pull off the head, withdrawing any attached viscera.
Boil prepared Rocky Mountain locusts in salted water. Add assorted cut-up vegetables, butter, salt, and vinegar to the broth and cook until the vegetables are tender. Serve as a thick soup or over boiled rice as a main dish.
Apparently, modern gourmands have lost the taste for crunchy locust heads.
http://www.freewill-predestination.com
It’s long but worth it
http://libra.technology.users.btopenworld.com/DRKJ2002.WMV
Clear Instructions on How To Do (just about) Everything
http://www.ehow.com/
Examples:
How to Remove a Broken Key From a Lock http://www.ehow.com/how_16770_remove-broken-key.html
How to Clean a Birdcage http://www.ehow.com/how_18651_clean-birdcage.html
Judge Not…
...According to Barton, Thomas Jefferson seemed worried about this very possibility. Jefferson wrote in 1820 that to "consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions" would be "a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy"...
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/192005a.asp
Kuwait Offers to Build Oil Refinery in US
Kuwait is talking with the Bush administration about building an oil refinery in the United States - America's first new refinery in 30 years, the Houston Chronicle reported... http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3359279
Oil Imports From the Big 5
According to the most recent data available from the Energy Information Administration, the five largest crude oil exporters to the United States in June of this year were Canada, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Nigeria.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/petroleum_supply_monthly/current/pdf/table37.pdf
Jordan top anti-Jew nation; Russia most pro-Christian
September 19, 2005 Jordan leads the Islamic world in its antipathy for Jews according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center.
The poll, which surveyed 17,000 people in 17 countries, said 100 percent of Jordanians viewed Jews unfavorably.
Russia led all other countries with favorable views of Christians (92 percent) while Turkey (63 percent) had the most unfavorable view of Christians.
...The Netherlands led all nations surveyed both in positive views of Jews (85 percent) and negative views of Muslims (51 percent)....
...The poll found decreasing support in Islamic countries for Al Qaida and suicide bombings...Fifty-seven percent of Jordanian respondents expressed support for suicide bombings, up from 43 percent in 2002...In Morocco, support for Al Qaida dropped from 49 percent in 2003 to 26 percent in the latest poll. In Lebanon, only two percent of respondents expressed support for Al Qaida.
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/front2453632.451388889.html
Scotland tops list of world's most violent countries...
September 19, 2005 A UNITED Nations report has labeled Scotland the most violent country in the developed world [despite the fact that they are not allowed to own guns], with people three times more likely to be assaulted than in America. England and Wales recorded the second highest number of violent assaults while Northern Ireland recorded the fewest.
...Violent crime has doubled in Scotland over the past 20 years and levels, per head of population, are now comparable with cities such as Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg and Tbilisi.
...The attacks have been fuelled by a “booze and blades” culture in the west of Scotland which has claimed more than 160 lives over the past five years. Since January there have been 13 murders, 145 attempted murders and 1,100 serious assaults involving knives in the west of Scotland...
...Detective Chief Superintendent John Carnochan, head of the Strathclyde Police’s violence reduction unit, said the problem was chronic and restricting access to drink and limiting the sale of knives would at least reduce the problem...
..The study, by the UN’s crime research institute, found that 3 per cent of Scots had been victims of assault compared with 1.2 per cent in America ...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1786945,00.html
KATRINA'S AFTERMATH
September 19, 2005 New Orleans Should Be Dry by End of the Week. Pumping progress by the Army Corps of Engineers has beaten all estimates. Now mud, downed trees and debris are primary obstacles...The corps estimated that it had pumped out 87% of the water from within the city, representing much faster progress than the agency had previously reported.
...The corps estimates that about 2,700 acres of the city remain flooded, down from 27,000 acres immediately after the hurricane. The water is concentrated in three large pools, 2 to 4 feet deep — in East New Orleans, the northern section of the central city, and the 9th Ward — and should be gone within five days, Gapinski said....
Many once-flooded sections of the city have dried out, including the Lakefront area along Lake Pontchartrain. Residents began streaming back this weekend to look at their homes; the destruction they found was sobering. Many streets were blocked entirely by trees, vehicles and mud up to a foot deep.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-flood19sep19,0,6491869.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Donations swampcharity groups
September 19, 2005 ...Call it too much of a good thing: the donations of furniture, toys and clothing -- "a Mount Everest" of clothes at the Salvation Army alone -- filling warehouses, truck trailers and even churches as people comb their homes for castaway items to send to those who lost everything in the storm.
"It's sometimes called the second disaster," said Caryn Gracey Jones of United Way, which is coordinating the acceptance of donations for Denver-area nonprofits.
...In-kind donations -- for instance, clothing -- can be more trouble than they're worth.
"The sorting, the cost involved in packaging and distributing smaller receipts like a truckload of toys, is almost greater than the costs of purchasing items locally," she said.
... It will cost the organization so much to sort and package clothing and dispose of unusable donations that Salvation Army officials expect they will "probably go $150,000 in the hole this month," he said.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050918-115953-5460r.htm
Protester Sheehan Presses Clinton To Withdraw Support for War
September 19, 2005 War protester Cindy Sheehan came to New York last night with a blunt warning for Senator Clinton: End your support for the war in Iraq or else....Mrs. Clinton is "waiting for the best political moment to say" she opposes the war, Ms. Sheehan said during a 15-minute speech. "You say it or you're losing your job," she said, provoking a roar of approval from the audience. Mrs. Clinton, believed to be a possible presidential contender in 2008, has said she supports the war in Iraq and has pushed for a greater troop presence in the country....
...After touring parts of Louisiana last week, Ms. Sheehan wrote a letter posted on filmmaker Michael Moore's Web site in which she accused the federal government of evacuating people unnecessarily in the days after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast. "George Bush needs to ... pull our troops out of occupied New Orleans..." she wrote.
http://www.nysun.com/article/20195?access=889803
Remember the old civil defense days?
Free report on practical steps for survival of terror attack http://www.ki4u.com/guide.htm
Clinton’s FEMA AWOL in 1990's Worst Disaster
Sept. 19, 2005 ...when the Great Heat Wave of 1995 struck Chicago, killing more than 700 mostly poor, black and elderly victims perished as city and state medical officials complained they were overwhelmed by the greatest disaster to hit the U.S. in the last 112 years.
"On the first day of the heat wave..and the heat index... rose above 120," reported Eric Klinenberg, author of "Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago." ..."I've never seen so many dead people in a short period of time," Chicago paramedic Tim Walsh told the Associated Press.
After the first week of the disaster, the AP reported: "Hospitals were jammed with the sick and the morgue was overloaded with the dead, with dozens of bodies arriving in a somber procession of blue-and-white police vans. Before [the week] was over, more than 450 people, mostly elderly and sick, would become victims of the summer of '95."
As the magnitude of the disaster unfolded, President Clinton seemed dangerously oblivious. With Chicago's poor, black and elderly dropping like flies, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported: "President Clinton seemed unperturbed, going for a mid-morning jog and then playing 18 holes of golf in a threesome that included Judge Richard Arnold of Little Rock."
After Chicago had suffered through eight deadly days of the killer heat wave, the president finally responded. "The current heat wave has been very severe, especially in the Midwest, resulting in hundreds of deaths," Clinton told reporters on July 21. "Chicago has been the hardest hit. This heat wave is an emergency that demands a response from the federal government."
...The Clinton administration had proposed cuts in the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, from which the heat relief money was drawn - only to be overruled by Congress...Clinton's vaunted Federal Emergency Management Agency, under the allegedly able direction of disaster expert James Lee Witt - was nowhere to be found. A Lexis Nexis search of more than 800 media reports on the killer heat wave turned up just a single mention of the agency.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/19/134917.shtml
Locust Meat
It is not generally known in the Western World that insects are a good source of protein. Taxonomically insects, such as locusts and crickets, are not far removed from shrimps, which are considered a delicacy in the West (The Malawi Cookbook 1979). In Central Africa the fried insects are served as a relish or as an appetiser. Relish refers to the sauce that is served with a stiff maize porridge.
These are breed in the U.K. and sold whole ready blanched. They are normally stir fried having a delicious nutty favor and crisp texture or served as a starter - and what a stunning way to start a meal.
http://www.osgrow.co.uk/index.php?document=22
Parcht Locusts
This dish was discovered by William Dampier in 1687, while visiting the Bashee Islands (located between the Philippines and Taiwan). He described it in A New Voyage Round the World:
They had another Dish made of a sort of Locusts, whose Bodies were about an Inch and an half long, and as thick as the top of one's little Finger; with large thin Wings, and long and small Legs. ... The Natives would go out with small Nets, and take a Quart at one sweep. When they had enough, they would carry them home, and parch them over the Fire in an earthen Pan; and then their Wings and Legs would fall off, and their Heads and Backs would turn red like boil'd Shrimps, being before brownish. Their Bodies being full, would eat very moist, their Heads would crackle in one's Teeth. I did once eat of this Dish, and liked it well enough....
That part about the crispy heads sounds particularly appetizing, doesn't it?
Locust Stew
Here's another locust recipe, this one developed by American pioneers. It's quoted from Calvin W. Schwabe's Unmentionable Cuisine (University Press of Virginia, 1979).
Locusts and grasshoppers are prepared for cooking by removing the wings, the small legs, and the distal portion of the hind legs. Then pull off the head, withdrawing any attached viscera.
Boil prepared Rocky Mountain locusts in salted water. Add assorted cut-up vegetables, butter, salt, and vinegar to the broth and cook until the vegetables are tender. Serve as a thick soup or over boiled rice as a main dish.
Apparently, modern gourmands have lost the taste for crunchy locust heads.
http://www.freewill-predestination.com
posted by David Bennett | 5:00 PM
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