Limited immunity has been routinely offered to private security contractors involved in shootings in Iraq, State Department officials said Tuesday, denying such actions jeopardized criminal prosecution of Blackwater USA guards accused of killing 17 Iraqi civilians.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack declined to discuss specifics of the agency’s role in the investigation, but said any immunity […]

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We haven’t had a contribution from our Dallas connection, Uncle T, for a while. Recently he saw Ryan Adams at McFarlin Auditorium in Dallas. Although there are many concert recordings of Adams, I did not find one for this particular date. I did, however, find nice live recordings from other performances in Adams’ tour schedule […]

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Oh my! It’s all Hallow’s Eve and I’ve got my checklist here to make sure that this Halloween goes off without a hitch.
As soon as I verify that everything is ready, then we’ll get started with the Round-up.

Pumpkin? Check!

Little Stevie got his “Commander Guy” costume on? Check!

Little Richie got his “Ru Paul” costume […]

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…under my feet.
At about 8:04 p.m. tonight, I was sitting in my office eating dinner with a handful of my co-workers when the earth started shaking. And shaking. And shaking. For what seemed an eternity, we had a 5.6 earthquake. It took us a moment to figure out what it actually was, but when the […]

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5.6 magnitude earthquake around 15 km north of San Jose, near Fremont. I was sitting in a small conference room for my Lunar-X meeting when things started to shake at around 1/2 Hz to 1 Hz. Table was swaying, could feel the building sway. We kinda looked around and said “Huh, that’s pretty interesting.” As […]

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Wouldn’t you know it? Just yesterday, I was joking with my wife that the one thing about California I’m missing by being in Colorado this week was the potential for an earthquake. Seriously. It always seems the “interesting” earthquakes take place when we’re out of town, so the next time we’re traveling, we’ll be sure […]

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I was online tonight, joining my guildmates for a run through the WoW Karazhan instance, when it felt as though something had slammed—hard—into the wall of my 9th floor hotel room in Monterey. It took about 15 seconds for me to realize that the repeated shakes and shudders weren’t from a rude neighbor, or a […]

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Brazil has today been named Host Nation for the 2014 FIFA World Cup™ by the FIFA Executive Committee. The South American country was the only one bidding to host the tournament, which was due to be staged on the continent under FIFA’s rotation system.
Sourse: Brazil Confirmed As 2014 FIFA World Cup Host

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This shot with all the duck boats lined up is great. (SawxBlog Photo - Ryan Marie Samuel)

All right well the first series of the Red Sox Rolling Rally parade are up now. Just click the below link and enjoy! Click Here to view SawxBlog’s 2007 Red Sox Rally Parade Gallery 1 Pictures

Sourse: 2007 Red Sox […]

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The good news: Dick Cheney didn’t shoot anybody. The bad news: The NY hunting club sports a Confederate flag in the garage. NY Post The chi-chi Clove Valley Rod & Gun Club costs a fortune to join. The flag flap ignited by a photog who snapped this photo yesterday.
Cheney’s flack claims Deadeye Dick never […]

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