politburo diktat 2.0

W.H. decision near to close Guantanamo
The Bush administration is nearing a decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detainee facility and move its terror suspects to military prisons elsewhere, The Associated Press has learned.
Senior administration officials said Thursday a consensus is building for a proposal to shut the center and transfer detainees to one or more […]

And, oh how they danced, the little children of Stonehenge
STONEHENGE, England (AP) — Druids, drummers, pagans and partygoers welcomed the sun Thursday as it rose above the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge on the longest day of the year — the summer solstice.
Clad in antlers, black cloaks and oak leaves, a group of druids cheered […]

Political Hiring in Justice Division Probed
Karen Stevens, Tovah Calderon and Teresa Kwong had a lot in common. They had good performance ratings as career lawyers in the Justice Department’s civil rights division. And they were minority women transferred out of their jobs two years ago — over the objections of their immediate supervisors — by […]

Small Town Tests Stomachs With Testicle Festival

MOUNT STERLING, Ill. — For the fourth year in a row, the small town of Mount Sterling, Ill., held its Testicle Festival. Proceeds from last weekend’s event were donated to the town’s new community emergency building and to volunteer firefighters and rescue workers. For those attending the festival, the […]

Brigadier General Robin Olds passed away a few days ago.
Olds was an ace in World War Two, destroying 12 German planes.
Later, in Vietnam, he masterminded Operation Bolo, when the USAF sprung a trap for the North Vietnamese and downed at least six MiGs. In modern jet fighter combat, the loss of six aircraft in […]

Maddening.
House Panel Says Records of E-Mails Are Missing
E-mail records are missing for 51 of the 88 White House officials who had electronic message accounts with the Republican National Committee, the House Oversight Committee said Monday.
The Bush administration may have committed “extensive” violations of a law requiring that certain records be preserved, the committee chairman, Representative […]

from Small Wars Journal: Counterinsurgency Guidance from U.S. forces Iraq, signed by Lieutenant General Ray Odierno.
Ten Key Points:
Secure the people where they sleep.
Population security is our primary mission, one that will take time, and one we must carry out deliberately. Most extra-judicial killings occur at night and in people’s homes…
Give […]

Disbarred Duke prosecutor’s future dim
His law license lost and reputation in tatters, Mike Nifong seemingly can fall no further. But the disgraced prosecutor who committed “intentional prosecutorial misconduct” in his pursuit of the Duke lacrosse rape case faces an uncertain — and likely troubled — future.
The falsely accused players and their families, having racked up […]

Web photo phenomenon centers on felines, poor spelling
Computer geeks have their own niche in pop culture. Sometimes, something crazed from that niche escapes and runs rampant among the masses.
Now working its way into the popular consciousness is something far more bizarre and — depending on your point of view and sense of humor — either […]

Please take a look at my site main page:

old menu using tables (index_old.html)
And compare to my work-in-progress:

a drop-down menu (index_dd.html).
Both of those are temporary, working files. At any point, my actual, live index.html might show either one. (Only the US Navy ship links are active.)
Any comments on appearance, functionality (let me know your browser), […]

Giant Bird-Like Dinosaur Fossil Found in China

Scientists have uncovered a huge surprise in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China: the fossil skeleton of an unusually robust bird-like dinosaur that lived 70 million years ago. The animal appeared to be a young adult 25 feet long and weighing 3,000 pounds and, if it had lived […]

Hamas Moves Close to Full Control of Gaza
Abdullah al-Aqad, 28, of Khan Yunis, said he joined the national security forces to have a job. He marveled at the speed of the Hamas advance. “We are 70,000 P.A. soldiers, and where are they all?” he asked. “And facing 10,000 Hamas soldiers.”
I can’t figure it out either. […]

… which I was given to believe was a Zionist plot.

Majority of Republicans Doubt Theory of Evolution

The majority of Republicans in the United States do not believe the theory of evolution is true and do not believe that humans evolved over millions of years from less advanced forms of life. This suggests that when three Republican presidential candidates at a May debate stated they did […]

Hamas’s Gaza and Fatah’s West Bank
“Hamas is effectively in control of the northern part of the Gaza Strip,” said a senior Fatah official. “Now they are trying to take control of the entire Gaza Strip, and I’m afraid they are close to achieving their goal.”
Many Fatah officials in those areas have fled their homes over […]