CNN:
There are 700,000 more millionaire households this year than in 2004, according to a survey released Wednesday.
Households with a net worth of at least $1 million excluding primary residences rose 8 percent to a record high 8.9 million, according to an annual report by TNS Financial Services, a market research and polling firm.
This is the […]
A photograph released by Dr Tsunemi Kubodera of Tokyo’s National Science Museum of an 8m (26ft) long giant squid taken as it attacked bait on a longline at 900m depth off Japan’s Bonin islands.
They have been trying to photograph this beast for a while now. Very cool that they have succeeded.
Washington Post:
The state’s representatives have come up with a request for $250 billion in federal reconstruction funds for Louisiana alone — more than $50,000 per person in the state. This money would come on top of payouts from businesses, national charities and insurers. And it would come on top of the $62.3 billion that Congress […]
Aljazeera:
Armed men have killed five Shia primary school teachers and a driver in a school in Iskandariya, south of Baghdad, a spokesman for Babel police says.
‘These men were terrorists in police uniform,’ the spokesman told reporters on Monday.
He said the attackers arrived at the school in two civilian cars, led the teachers and the school […]
This Instapundit Post with links to Strategy Page and The Belmont Club posts makes an interesting point, Brad Bettin emailed Glenn this:
SP says disbanding the Sunni-dominated Iraqi army resulted in the new army being heavily Kurdish & Shia … making it less likely to support a Sunni effort to regain control of Iraq.
Perhaps disbanding the […]
The Washington Post has a great article on Gen. Honore.
This was from before the ’stuck on stupid’ comment, but reading it tells a lot about where that comment came from.
(via Dean’s World)
You are a
Social Liberal
(80% permissive)
and an…
Economic Conservative
(68% permissive)
[…]
Hurricane evacuees killed in highway bus fire. 23/09/2005. ABC News Online:
It is reported that 20 elderly people have died in a bus fire outside Dallas, Texas, on a key evacuation route for Houston residents escaping Hurricane Rita.
Some reports put the death toll at 15, but local television WFAA reports 20 were killed.
‘It burst into flames […]
Today is my birthday, which gives all of my readers a wonderful chance to link to me and say nice things about me!
You all are so lucky to have this opportunity!
In keeping with my reverse aging methodology, today I am 25.
Yesterday was Gib’s birthday, so you probably should say nice things about him to. […]
EUobserver.com:
The EU has been forced to back away from its tough stance on Iran after it failed to get Russia’s support for reporting Iran’s nuclear ambitions to the UN Security Council.
After a series of negotiations at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, the EU, represented by France, Germany and the UK, decided to […]
