Blue Herald

A bizarre cross between a hovercraft and an airplane, developed during Cold War
They hover and skim above the water surface at speeds of up to 250 miles an hour, they carry heavier loads of cargo and troops than any airplane - the Ekranoplans, or “Wing-in-Ground” (WIG) vehicles are possibly the most exciting and strange looking [...]

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By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS, Associated Press Writer
MIAMI, Okla. - The Riviera Courts motel is crumbling away and nobody seems to care. Once a stop along Route 66, the 2,400-mile neon carnival that connected hundreds of communities from Chicago to Los Angeles, this late-1930s Mission Revival is just a weather-worn building on the side of a country [...]

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by Jim Swanson
This seems to be the latest trend for thieves to get into your house!
It’s called “lock bumping“, where a “Master Key” is made from a key similar to most manufactured locks. It’s so simple a pre-teen can do it. There are way to protect yourself against “lock bumping“. And of course, it’s going [...]

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Manfred Mann
“Blinded by the Light“

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from the B.B.C.

Fighting between Lebanese troops and Islamist gunmen from a Palestinian refugee camp has killed at least 40 people in Tripoli, northern Lebanon.
Some 15 fighters from the radical Fatah Islam group and 23 Lebanese soldiers died in intense battles, reports said.
At least two civilians were also killed and a further 40 reportedly hurt in [...]

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CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - The White House on Sunday fired back at former President Jimmy Carter, calling him “increasingly irrelevant” a day after Carter described George W. Bush’s presidency as the worst in history in international relations.
Carter, a Democrat, said on Saturday in an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that “as far as the [...]

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“They send us a bill, and we just pay it,” said a senior military official who has dealt extensively with President Musharraf. “Nobody can really explain what we are getting for this money or even where it’s going.”
BRILLIANT!! Worst administration………EVER!!!!
WASHINGTON: The United States is continuing to make large payments of roughly $1 billion [...]

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WASHINGTON - When the Coast Guard’s first large cutter in 35 years was christened in November at Northrop Grumman’s Pascagoula, Miss., shipyard, it was a gleaming symbol of the service’s ambitious $24 billion Deepwater program to update its aging fleet.
Six months later, Deepwater is listing badly under a storm of congressional criticism for design [...]

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Good thing you posted that happy song this morning Jimmy!! We need some “happy!”
From AOLNews:
WASHINGTON (May 20) - It’s gloomy out there. Men and women, whites and minorities — all are feeling a war-weary pessimism about the country seldom shared by so many people.
Only 25 percent of those surveyed say things in the U.S. [...]

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From Yahoo News
BAGHDAD - Seven American soldiers and a translator were killed in separate attacks in Baghdad and a city south of the capital, the U.S. military said Sunday.
Six of the Americans and the translator died Saturday in a bombing in western Baghdad, the military said. The soldiers were from the Multinational Division-Baghdad.
A soldier from [...]

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