But before you jump to conclusions, these are not WMD’s.
U.S. troops uncover one of their biggest weapons caches in Saddam’s hometown
The cache turned up 23 Russian-made surface to air missiles, 1,000 pounds of plastic explosives, four rocket propelled grenade launchers and 115 rockets, a mortar and 40 mortar rounds, 1,300 blasting caps and 423 hand grenades
Conventional weapons.
Let no man say that I have never said a good word about Bill Gates. This month, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $55 million to “accelerate dengue vaccine research,” $51 million to “support small dynamic high schools to boost student achievement” in New York City, and $168 million to fight malaria. That’s a quarter of a billion dollars for health and education causes. Good job, Bill.
So now that the Gates Foundation has ponied up the money, spend a few of your minutes reading the press releases to find out how many kids are dying every day from the two diseases these grants are supposed to fight.
A Giant Extinct Rodent from South America.
“PEERING THROUGH the sweat trickling into the corners of my eyes and the heat haze pouring from the bonnet, the lairy stickers and paint job really aren’t needed to reveal that this Vauxhall VX220 Turbo has been through a radical transformation. I press the throttle and further confirmation arrives with the cacophony of induction noise, turbo whistle, dump valve explosions and exhaust snarl.”
–Peter Grunert, Top Gear
Unfortunately, Top Gear’s taken down the story from which I grabbed the quote. Here’s more on the car from evo Car Reviews: Vauxhall VX220 Turbo Sprint
A new tax, of course. Half a cent, I think. SB 314 was also recently passed in this crazy-progressive legislative session (taking advantage of Davis having his back to the wall).
I, for one, look forward to the day I can take a train from Santa Monica to Hollywood or Pasadena. I also think that when that day comes, traffic will be so horrible that I really wouldn’t want to go any other way.