BoardTracker - World & Regional

Mysterious Cargo Aboard Iranian Ship Seized by Pirates Raises WMD Concerns...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

clip As Somali pirates brazenly maintain their standoff with American warships off the coast of Africa, the cargo aboard one Iranian ship they commandeered is raising concerns that it may contai...

Dow plunges more than 500...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

NEW YORK - Wall Street sank into a deeper depression Tuesday, extending its heavy losses as enthusiasm over Federal Reserve efforts to inject confidence into credit markets gave way to concerns ab...

Anthrax "Emergency" Powers Declared by DHHS...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Anthrax "Emergency" Powers Declared by DHHS ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: Declaration pursuant to sec...

Bankok Protests: 400 injured...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Hundreds Injured in Thai Protests By SETH MYDANS and THOMAS FULLER Published: October 7, 2008 BANGKOK � In a day of street battles that left one person dead and nearly 400 people i...

Lieberman on Obama: "Naive in a dangerous world"...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Senator Joseph Lieberman (Dem - Conn) spells out his reasons for strongly supporting John McCain for President and his fears of what a Barack Obama Presidency might mean. Video: http://video.news...

Polls show McCain closing gap with Obama...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Fair use http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/s...6/daily23.html [http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2008/10/06/daily23.html]> Polls show McCain closing gap with Obama Phoenix Busine...

S&P about to break 1000...whoa......

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

http://finance.yahoo.com/ [http://finance.yahoo.com/]> o)< mike ...

Motorist protests speeding ticket (Dash Cam Video)...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

He must have decided this would be easier than protesting in court. Video 1:24 http://www.wjno.com/cc-common/news/v...&pimg=&count=1 [http://www.wjno.com/cc-common/news/videos/playe...

Acupuncture...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

This is really weird. As an alternative to the allergy-shot program that has been recommended to me by my doctor, I visited an acupuncture clinic this morning. I have just gotten home from treatme...

Book excerpt in Animal Magnetism - Old dogs - well worth a read for furkid lovers...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

If you want to read a very moving essay/book excerpt, please click through the link. This was originally posted a day or two ago by another board member, but I felt it needed its own thread. So mo...

anyone else having problems logging into AOL?...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

I use their free internet email, and haven't been able to open www.aol.com; [http://www.aol.com;]> anyone else having issues? ...

Feel-good story of the day......

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Dog pulls baby out of house fire PADUCAH, Ky. - A family in near Paducah, Kentucky lost everything they own in a house fire this week but they are thankful that everyone got out alive. ...

If you invested $1,000 in AIG...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

I have not submitted this to factcheck.com, but thought it interesting and sadly amusing: If you had purchased $1,000 of AIG stock one year ago, you would have $42 left. With Lehman, you would hav...

450+ people on. How's our speed?...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

It looks to me that our LONGSTANDING performance issue has indeed been resolved. Even with 450+ people on (as there are as I write this) my page refresh times are 1-3 seconds. That's a FAR CRY fro...

Between now and the next few months......

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Three to four months before the governments push will begin to help the economy according to Bush. We must be patient...... Is there any way we can hold on to then? I want to hope for the be...

Stopping the bus on train tracks with a train coming is never the solution...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27064026 [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27064026]> Students Accuse Bus Driver Of Stopping On Tracks District Uses Videotapes To Review Incident DAYTONA BEACH, F...

The missing SNL bailout skit � and the Soros connection...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Watch it before it disappears again... The missing SNL bailout skit � and the Soros connection http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYyGD--Skcg [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYyGD--Skcg]> ...

Latest Robot - You Have to See This...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

life-like robogirl - The Sun UK This robot is based on a five year old japanese girl - really creepy. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1777667.ece [http://www.thesun.co....

Did Biden Get It Wrong? You Betcha (more MSM skewed VP debate reporting)...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,433314,00.html [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,433314,00.html]> Did Biden Get It Wrong? You Betcha Monday, October 06, 2008 By John R. Lott, Jr. ...

ACORN Vegas Office Raided in Voter Fraud Investigation...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10...investigation/ [http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/07/acorn-vegas-office-raided-voter-fraud-investigation/]> ACORN Vegas Office Raided in Voter Fraud I...

How to quickly, easily open a STUCK CLOSED, COLD, PRESSURE COOKER OR CANNER LID...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Learn from a weak OLD gramma that has learned this in the school of hard knocks. DON'T Wreck your pressure cooker, hit or knock it, or break off the handles YOU DON'T NEED TO. THIS will safely, qu...

"You will feel the most helpless, humiliated, betrayed, that you will ever feel."...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...n/6044243.html [http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6044243.html]> Astro's arrest leads to Galveston PD internal probe GALVESTON — Police ...

Bush to Speak on Economic Crisis at 1:55 p.m. ET...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

No news story, just saw the note on Fox News. Oct 7, eh? ...

Terry Pratchett (Author) on Dementia...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

This man is eloquent. Terry Pratchett: I'm slipping away a bit at a time... and all I can do is watch it happen http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...ch-happen.html [http://www.dailymail....

Obama supporters: the OTHER extreme...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Ok, We've seen the singing, the dancing, the black militants, but this type of Obama supporter does not get the press and attention that they deserve: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzQj3B...