Via: Flickr Title: Abandoned at meijer megastore By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 24 Mar ’06, 1.33am PST
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Wow, this is all kinds of bad: a cruise ship caught fire in the Caribbean, forcing an early end of the cruise for 1500 people, some of whom are now about to be stranded in Jamaica with no place to stay until they can be flown home. A friend of mine was supposed to sail on this very ship on Sunday, with 200 of her family, for a reunion that’s been planned and booked for nearly a year. I can’t even imagine what they’re trying to figure out now – she left the office yesterday all happy about going on…
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Mike Shuster of National Public Radio filed the most comprehensive, and damning, timeline story to mark the 3-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. NPR : Iraq Three Years Later: The Path to War This week marks the third anniversary of the beginning of the war in Iraq. Mike Shuster tracks the events leading up to the U.S.-led invasion. These include Bush administration claims — since discredited — of ongoing Iraqi nuclear weapons development and links with al Qaeda. I was grateful to my local station, WBEZ, for not running their normal pledge drive schedule that morning – they just…