Archive for November, 2005

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Advent Began On Sunday. Happy New Year!

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Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Balloons Highlighted By York Cathedral

All four of us have been here:

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Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

U.S. Acknowledges Secret-Prison Concern

Associated Press | November 30, 2005
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration acknowledged Tuesday that reports of secret U.S.-run prisons overseas for terror suspects have raised an outcry among European allies and said the U.S. will account for its actions.
Without confirming that any CIA detention sites exist in Europe, a State Department spokesman said the […]

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Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Ohhhhhhhhhh-Kayyyyyyyyyy!?!

A map of the Star Wars Galaxy:

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Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

From “The Onion”

CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years
November 30, 2005 | Issue 41•48
LANGLEY, VA—A report released Tuesday by the CIA’s Office of the Inspector General revealed that the CIA has mistakenly obscured hundreds of thousands of pages of critical intelligence information with black highlighters.
CIA Director Porter Goss.
According to the report, sections of the […]

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Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Is This Progress?

More women charged in sex cases
By Wendy Koch, USA TODAYWed Nov 30, 7:03 AM ET
In courtrooms nationwide this month, at least seven women - four of them teachers - have been charged or sentenced for having sex with boys, mostly teenagers. One of the women is pregnant.
Tuesday in Georgia, Lisa Lynette Clark, 37, was indicted […]

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Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Amazing!

Woman has first face transplantSurgeons in France have carried out the first face transplant, it has been reported.
The woman had lost her nose, lips and chin after being savaged by a dog.
In the controversial operation, tissues, muscles, arteries and veins were taken from a brain-dead donor and attached to the patient’s lower face.
Doctors stress the […]

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Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Nice Photograph 3

A raven, top, and an immature bald eagle shared a roost Nov. 28 along Ship Avenue in the industrial area of downtown.

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Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Nice Photograph 2

The nearly full moon rises over a ridge north of the Nome cemetery on a recent evening.

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Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Nice Photograph

The rising sun burns through fog layers the morning of Nov. 29 on another colder-than-normal day in Anchorage. The forecast for the next four days has highs in the teens and lows in the single digits.

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