In a speech yesterday, Congressman Brad Sherman told the House that the only way "they" could pass the bill, aka Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 was "by creating and sustaining a panic atmosphere" and that that atmosphere is not justified. The Congressman then went on to say that many of his colleagues were told that if they voted against the bill (on Monday) that:
"the sky would fall, the market would drop two or three thousands points the first day, another couple of thousand the second day, and a few members were even told that there would be martial law in America if we voted no".
We cannot simply keep protesting without proposing exactly what it is we think Congress should do.
Friends,
The richest 400 Americans -- that's right, just four hundred people -- own MORE than the bottom 150 million Americans combined. 400 rich Americans have got more stashed away than half the entire country! Their combined net worth is $1.6 trillion. During the eight years of the Bush Administration, their wealth has increased by nearly $700 billion -- the same amount that they are now demanding we give to them for the "bailout." Why don't they just spend the money they made under Bush to bail themselves out? They'd still have nearly a trillion dollars left over to spread amongst themselves!
Of course, they are not going to do that -- at least not voluntarily. George W. Bush was handed a $127 billion surplus when Bill Clinton left office. Because that money was OUR money and not his, he did what the rich prefer to do -- spend it and never look back. Now we have a $9.5 trillion debt. Why on earth would we even think of giving these robber barons any more of our money?
I would like to propose my own bailout plan. My suggestions, listed below, are predicated on the singular and simple belief that the rich must pull themselves up by their own platinum bootstraps. Sorry, fellows, but you drilled it into our heads one too many times: There... is... no... free... lunch. And thank you for encouraging us to hate people on welfare! So, there will be no handouts from us to you. The Senate, tonight, is going to try to rush their version of a "bailout" bill to a vote. They must be stopped. We did it on Monday with the House, and we can do it again today with the Senate.uld do.
We somehow came to believe Wall Street's success was ours too, and that the bills we owed were never going to come due. Well, they are now.
Myriad cultural historians have noted the American belief that success is a sign of God's favor. Over the past couple of decades, He has had a downright lovefest with the already-rich -- so much so that the richest 400 Americans now have more money stashed away than the combined bottom 150 million Americans. Some $1.6 trillion.
This was accomplished by selling off or shipping out every available asset, from jobs to seaports, smashing usury and anti-monopoly laws, raiding the public coffers and manipulating the medium of exchange and blackmailing the peasantry regarding common needs such as health care and energy to keep their asses warm, to name a few. The ultimate coup was to convince the entire nation that the well-being of the rich, meaning the well-being of Wall Street, was indeed the common man's well-being.
Bullhead City, AZ - A distraught woman who called police after spotting a bruised and bloodied 3-year-old boy in a shopping cart in a local store is being credited with saving the child's life, Bullhead City police said.
Officers who arrived at the Wal-Mart store found the malnourished and dehydrated boy with bruises all over his body, dried blood on his mouth and rope marks on his wrists where he had apparently been tied up, police spokeswoman Emily Montague said Friday.
The boy was slumped over in the shopping cart and unresponsive.
His mother, Mitzie Dawn Hadsall, 25, was arrested on aggravated assault, child neglect and endangerment charges after an investigation. Montague said Hadsall physically abused her son and would keep him locked in a closet for days while denying him food and water as a form of punishment.
State authorities in Nebraska are reeling from a sudden spate of children being abandoned by their parents and guardians under a new law that allows caregivers to leave any child up to the age of 19 at hospitals without fear of prosecution.
In September alone, 14 children were abandoned in hospitals and another mistakenly taken to a police station that is not covered under the law.
Fayetteville, N.C. - The husband of a female soldier found stabbed to death near her home was arrested Friday and charged with murder along with a second man authorities say was hired to kill the woman.
The death of 29-year-old Sgt. Christina E. Smith was the third off-post killing of a Fort Bragg servicewoman in four months, stunning a tight military community that was still seeking to come to grips with the earlier deaths.
"For me, I was thinking, 'No, gosh, not another one,"' said Fayetteville police spokeswoman Theresa Chance.
When confronted with a rash of new polls showing that the economic crisis has propelled Barack Obama farther ahead in the race for the White House, John McCain gave a shrug yesterday and offered this explanation: "Because life isn't fair."
SAN ANTONIO - Pastor John Hagee, the internationally known radio/TV evangelist, was recovering after undergoing open heart surgery. A spokesman for Hagee's Cornerstone Church, Juda Engelmayer, said the successful procedure was done Thursday at a San Antonio hospital.
Duncan Gardham The Daily Telegraph 2008-10-03 14:24:00
The terrorist threat in Britain is approaching critical as police and MI5 face an increase in activity by al-Qaeda militants, senior security officials have disclosed.
The threat level is at the "severe end of severe" according to sources who say the level of "chatter" among terrorist cells has increased in recent months.
The security services say they are now operating at full stretch to counter the elevated threat.
Britain's close relationship with the US has been particularly inflammatory after cross-border raids into Pakistan by American forces.
Security officials had considered downgrading the official threat level from "severe" but that plan has now been abandoned as a result of the increase in terrorist activity.
A senior counter terrorism source said: "We were looking at the threat level six months ago and asking how severe is severe? But it is October now and we are at the severe end of severe."
An Internet game in which players roam a school and kill kindergarten students with a shotgun has been pulled from a Finnish children's gaming site one week after the country's worst school shooting.
"We have removed pages from our site that are not necessarily appropriate for younger family members," lastenpelit.fi said in a statement on its Web site.
The game, "Kindergarten Killer," can be found widely on the Web.
Matti Saari, 22, last week killed 10 people at a vocational school in Kauhajoki, Finland, in the country's second school shooting in less than a year. Saari prefaced his rampage with boastful video clips on Web sites such as YouTube.
An "expressionless" seven-year-old boy broke into a zoo, bludgeoned to death giant lizards and fed them - and other live animals - to a crocodile named Terry in Outback Australia this week.
Zookeepers were horrified when they arrived at work on Wednesday morning to see Terry, an 11-foot long saltwater crocodile, feasting on his fellow showcase reptilians at the Alice Springs Reptile Centre in the Northern Territory.
At first they thought the animals, including the zoo's favourite, metre-long, 20-year-old goanna, had escaped from their outdoor pens and accidentally become breakfast for Terry - the local zoo's prize attraction.
But further investigation uncovered CCTV footage of the local boy's horrific 35-minute killing spree which began when he scaled the fence of the zoo, located in the centre of Alice Springs, a popular tourist destination town in central Australia, just before 8am on Wednesday morning.
Edith M. Lederer Associated Press 2008-10-03 17:23:00
A proposed U.N. resolution calls on all countries with a stake in maritime safety to send military ships and aircraft to fight piracy off the coast of Somalia, according to a draft obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.
The Security Council measure would also call on ships and planes to use "the necessary means" to stop acts of piracy.
Prominent Pashtun nationalist politician and head of the Awami National Party (ANP) Asfandyar Wali Khan survived a suicide attack yesterday that killed at least 5 people and injured 13 in northwest Pakistan, police said.
The bomber blew himself up outside the residence of the secular party's president in his hometown Charsaddah in the North West Frontier Province, which is ruled by ANP - a partner in the federal government led by President Asif Ali Zardari's Pakistan People's Party.
Asfandyar said the attacker rushed towards him and about 40 guests as they were coming out of the house after a get-together on the second day of the three-day Eid festival.
"The police fired but could not stop the attacker. My guard then grabbed the man and both tumbled to the ground when the explosion took place," he said.
Michael Evans, Rob Crilly and David Charter The Times 2008-10-03 00:26:00
An international armada was preparing to head towards the Somali coast yesterday as the stand-off with pirates holding a Ukrainian ship to ransom threatened to escalate.
Amid warnings that an effective blockade by the pirates could spark a famine in the Horn of Africa, European Union defence ministers meeting in Paris agreed to set up a naval taskforce to tackle the threat.
Two Royal Navy frigates, HMS Chatham and HMS Lancaster, are already in the region and could join the proposed fleet.
The pirates who seized the Ukrainian cargo ship MV Faina were in defiant mood yesterday, vowing to fight if there was an attempt to rescue the crew of 20. They also said that they were only prepared to hand over the cargo of tanks and weapons in return for a ransom of £11 million.
A Canadian researcher has discovered that a Chinese version of eBay Inc.'s Skype communications software snoops on text chats that contain certain keywords, including "democracy."
The revelation is not only of interest to rights groups that monitor Internet censorship. The discovery also likely intrigues law enforcement and intelligence agencies in other countries, because they have been bothered by the growing use of Skype, which claims 338 million users across the world.
By its very nature, Skype is difficult to wiretap. Skype routes calls and chats between computers over the Internet, avoiding traditional phone networks. And the contents are supposedly encrypted, raising concerns in law enforcement that Skype could let criminals communicate without fear of eavesdropping.
The FBI has argued for applying U.S. wiretapping law to Internet phone calls. The bureau got a favorable court ruling in 2006, but it's not clear whether it applies to systems like Skype that skip telephone networks.
Nicole Martin and Christopher Hope The London Telegraph 2008-10-02 23:34:00
Britons have been "stripped" of their civil liberties amid an "atmosphere of panic" over the threat from terrorism, according to the novelist John le Carré.
Adam Nagourney The New York Times 2008-10-03 17:12:00
Gov. Sarah Palin made it through the vice-presidential debate on Thursday without doing any obvious damage to the Republican presidential ticket. By surviving her encounter with Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. and quelling some of the talk about her basic qualifications for high office, she may even have done Senator John McCain a bit of good, freeing him to focus on the other troubles shadowing his campaign.
Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus Washington Post 2008-10-03 15:21:00
The Defense Department will pay private U.S. contractors in Iraq up to $300 million over the next three years to produce news stories, entertainment programs and public service advertisements for the Iraqi media in an effort to "engage and inspire" the local population to support U.S. objectives and the Iraqi government.
Sarah Palin and Joe Biden together proved one thing - that modern-day television debates are less debates in the classical sense than like watching rival infomercials attempt to occupy the same space on the small screen and destroy each other.
Stephen C. Webster The Raw Story 2008-10-03 04:55:00
Christian Broadcasting Network co-founder Pat Robertson, in a new update to his Web site, states that, "we have between 75 and 120 days before the Middle East starts spinning out of control."
The 700 Club host is convinced that Israel will attack Iran's nuclear energy facilities shortly after the US presidential election, triggering a series of "dramatic events" that conclude only once "God has rained fire on the islands of the sea and on the invading force coming against Israel."
Salim Awadh is talking to me from inside a cell somewhere in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. There are seven other prisoners kept in the same small, dark room, he starts to tell me. Then he suddenly stops speaking. I can hear frantic whispering in the background. Then he says it is safe to carry on.
"The conditions are really bad: we don't have enough food, we don't have enough access to medicine. The cell is wet," he says. "We sleep on the floor rather than the sodden mattresses. One of the other prisoners was beaten so badly he's had his leg broken."
Salim is able to speak to me because he has bribed a guard and got access to a mobile phone.
For weeks I have been trying to find out information about him and other detainees in what has been called "Africa's Guantanamo". It is a story the governments involved do not want to talk about: The first mass rendition of terrorist suspects in Africa.
Steve Best CounterCurrents.org 2008-09-09 18:32:00
In 2002, arch-conservative Matthew Scully wrote a book called, Dominion: The Power of Man, The Suffering of Animals, and The Call to Mercy, that was universally and uncritically acclaimed by the animal advocacy movement. Because this movement is overwhelmingly single-issue in its focus, and in most cases doesn't care about a person's views or politics except how they relate to animals, no one had a problem with the fact that Scully was a senior speechwriter for President George W. Bush. He wrote some of the key fear-peddling diatribes that got Bush elected and he was recently re-enlisted to help Bush sell the Iraq war "surge" to the American people.
As someone who is concerned about a person's overall political standpoint, and who would not embrace a Leftist who is a speciesist anymore than an animal rights person or vegan who is a racist, I had some serious problems with Scully and the fawning adulation of his book by virtually the entire animal advocacy movement. Many people, such as Karen Dawn (the founder of DawnWatch.com), saw it as a key sign of progress that the conservatives were embracing the animal cause (in welfarist form), and thus concluded that animal advocacy could be introduced to an entire new audience of people--some very rich, powerful, and influential ones at that.
Although the "surge" has failed as policy, it appears to be succeeding as propaganda. It seems to be the only thing that supporters of the war have to point to, and so they point, and they point, and they point. Allow me to point out that while there has been a reduction in violence in Iraq -- now down to a level that virtually any other society in the world would find horrible and intolerable, including Iraqi society before the US invasion and occupation -- we must keep in mind that thanks to this lovely little war more than half the population of Iraq is either dead, crippled, traumatized, confined in overflowing American and Iraqi prisons, internally displaced, or in foreign exile.
Moscow said that the involvement of Georgia by the United States into a military operation against Iran will pose an additional threat to Russia's national security.
David M. Herszenhorn The New York Times 2008-10-03 20:44:00
The House of Representatives gave final approval on Friday to the $700 billion bailout for the financial system, reversing course to authorize what may be the most expensive government intervention in history.
A 90-year-old Akron, Ohio, woman who shot herself as sheriff's deputies tried to evict her from her foreclosed home became a symbol of the nation's home mortgage crisis Friday.
Maura Reynolds, Richard Simon and Nicole Gaouette Los Angeles Times 2008-10-03 16:42:00
The Senate voted reluctantly but solidly in favor of a modified $700 billion Wall Street rescue plan last night, but it remained uncertain whether the legislation - even with a carefully designed package of tax breaks - would withstand the fierce crosswinds of liberal and conservative resistance in the House later this week.
Employers made deeper cuts in their payrolls in September, according to the Labor Department's monthly jobs report, as the economy experienced the biggest drop in jobs in more than five years.
There was a net loss of 159,000 jobs in September, the ninth straight month the U.S. economy has lost jobs. The August job loss was revised to 73,000 jobs, taking year-to-date job losses to 760,000.
The unemployment rate remained at 6.1%, the same level as August and in line with economists' forecast.
Economists surveyed by Briefing.com had forecast the loss of 105,000 jobs in the month. It was the largest monthly job loss total since March 2003, when payrolls were down 212,000, and the second-largest decline since the months that followed the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in late 2001.
The economy isn't the only thing that's sagging - so are faces, breasts and bellies as would-be cosmetic surgery patients increasingly opt against costly nips and tucks because of tough financial times.
Anecdotal reports and a recent unscientific survey from an industry trade group suggest many cosmetic surgeons have been seeing a drop-off in costly operations, some by as much as 30 percent or more.
Diane Lawyer, a software company manager in Atlanta, said belt-tightening has made her put off getting her eyes done, a procedure that would cost a few thousand dollars.
Christopher Sherman Associated Press 2008-10-02 22:50:00
Padre Island National Seashore, TX - The world's longest undeveloped barrier island now looks as if people have been living - and dumping - on it for decades.
Tons of debris swept up by Hurricane Ike last month were carried by Gulf of Mexico currents hundreds of miles from the upper Texas coast to this ordinarily pristine landscape just north of the Mexican border.
Sections of roofs, refrigerators, loveseats, beds, TVs, hot tubs and holiday decorations litter the more than 60 miles of gently arcing sand in the national park.
Some of the junk is good for a laugh, like the lifejacket-clad snowman someone placed next to a plastic pumpkin, a small but real palm tree and an acoustic guitar. But it's no joke to wildlife workers who are worried the trash will harm birds and other animals, including an endangered turtle that nests here in the spring.
Catherine Brahic New Scientist 2008-10-02 22:37:00
It's not easy being a fish these days, but it could be even harder being a crab. Research into marine "dead zones" around the world suggests that crustaceans are the first to gasp for air when oxygen levels get low.
The findings, based on a review of 872 published studies of 206 ocean-floor dwelling species, also suggest that a much greater area than we thought is dangerously low on oxygen.
In marine dead zones - also known as hypoxic zones - the amount of dissolved oxygen in the water becomes too low for organisms to survive.
They are usually caused by synthetic fertilisers, which are carried from fields, down rivers, and out to sea, where algal blooms gorge on the extra nutrients. When these phytoplankton die, they fall to the bottom where they are eaten by bacteria that consume all the local oxygen in the process.
Marine biologists generally hold that any area that has less than 2 milligrams of dissolved oxygen per litre of seawater is hypoxic - "dead". The threshold was set by a study in 1983 in the Gulf of Mexico, when marine biologists found that fish and shrimp had deserted bottom waters that had 2 mg/l of oxygen or less.
Bluefin tuna born on opposite sides of the Atlantic spend their juvenile years together, before returning to natal waters in the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean Sea to breed.
The findings could have implications for the management of what were once thought to be entirely distinct populations.
David Secor of the University of Maryland and colleagues looked at chemical signatures in the fish's inner ear to determine where each of the highly endangered fish came from.
Specifically, the team looked at a bone-like structure called the otolith, a calcium-carbonate deposit that is laid down after a fish hatches. These carry different concentrations of oxygen isotopes depending on whether the fish developed in cool Mediterranean waters - eastern bluefin - or warmer Gulf waters, which spawn western bluefin.
Not only are doctors, nurses, and firefighters essential during a severe pandemic influenza outbreak. So, too, are truck drivers, communications personnel, and utility workers. That's the conclusion of a Johns Hopkins University article to be published in the journal of Biosecurity and Bioterrorism.
The report, led by Nancy Kass, Sc.D, Deputy Director of Public Health for the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, provides ethical guidance for pandemic planning that ensures a skeletal infrastructure remain intact at all times. Dr. Kass says, "when preparing for a severe pandemic flu it is crucial for leaders to recognize that if the public has limited or no access to food, water, sewage systems, fuel and communications, the secondary consequences may cause greater sickness death and social breakdown than the virus itself."
The authors represent a wide-range of expertise in several areas of pandemic emergency planning both at the state and federal levels. After examining several accepted public health rationing strategies that give priority to all healthcare workers and those most susceptible to illness, the authors propose a new strategy that gives priority to a more diverse group. "Alongside healthcare workers and first responders, priority should be given to the people who provide the public with basic essentials for good health and well-being, ranging from grocery store employees and communications personnel to truck drivers and utility workers," says Dr. Kass.
By Paul Henley BBC News, Andorra 2008-10-03 13:24:00
High on the French-Andorran border, desolate mountain peaks are still green in the last warmth of clear autumn skies. There is the sound of cowbells and the occasional shout, in Catalan, from farmers rounding up white cattle, ready to herd them down into the valleys for winter shelter.
But there is something slightly different about these farmers.
Almost all of them, I notice as they chase the animals across scree slopes and shove them into wooden pens, are older than you might expect. In fact, there is barely one under pensionable age. Clearly, I was not misled about older Andorrans leading an active life.
Beltsville, Maryland - Over-the-counter cough and cold medicines should not be sold for young children because they are unproven and can be dangerous, doctors and consumer advocates said on Thursday, despite objections from industry representatives.
Experts urged U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials to ban sales of the products, which take in billions of dollars in annual sales and include versions of Wyeth's Dimetapp and Procter & Gamble Co's NyQuil, for children ages 2 to 6.
"Cough and cold medications ... have not been proven to be effective and they have clear risks. It is time for them to be reevaluated," Dr. Wayne Snodgrass of the University of Texas Medical Branch, said at an FDA meeting to discuss whether the nonprescription remedies should be sold for children.
is the sharpest picture of Jupiter ever taken from the ground. Taken with a device called - are you ready for this? - the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (or MAD, in an acronymic stretch), it has a resolution better than Hubble's!
The Earth's atmosphere roils and waves, distorting ground-based views of the sky. That's one of the reasons we launch telescopes into space, to get above all that mess. But if you can observe a point-like object such as a star at the same time you observe your target object, it's possible to compensate for the distortion by taking extremely rapid fire snapshots and measuring the way the star image changes. You then apply a correction to the image, and presto! It's cleaner. However, you can only do this for the area near the star. Distortions change across a telescope's field of view, making this technique somewhat limited.
DRUIDS, mystics, UFO enthusiasts and even the occasional rock star have converged in awe beneath its arcane structure.
Now, after its eternal mysteries have driven generations of archaeologists round in circles, a lucid new theory has suggested Stonehenge was conceived for a more prosaic purpose - as a Neolithic health centre.
The latest hypothesis surrounding one of the world's best known but least understood landmarks suggests the world heritage site was a precursor to Lourdes.
The claim follows the first dig inside Stonehenge's concentric circles for nearly half a century. The excavation this spring unearthed many fragments of bluestone, accorded healing powers in medieval folklore and literature, and seemingly taken as lucky charms by visitors to Salisbury Plain.
Rachel Courtland New Scientist 2008-10-02 22:25:00
NASA's Messenger spacecraft will zip past the surface of Mercury on Monday, allowing it to glimpse a third of the planet that has not yet been seen close up.
The flyby will take the car-sized probe within 200 kilometres of the surface, at a speed of more than 24,000 km per hour.
This is the probe's second close look at the scarred, rocky planet. During a flyby on 14 January, Messenger captured detailed images of a previously unseen 20% of the planet's surface.
Monday's flyby will produce more than 1200 images - the first of which will be transmitted back to Earth on Tuesday - to cover an additional 30% of the surface.
They may not have used clubs, but Neanderthals hunted seals too. Anthropologists have discovered ancient seal bones showing signs of butchery, as well as some dolphin remains, in two caves in Gibraltar.
The discovery bolsters the image of Neanderthals as intelligent and adaptable hunters, rather than knuckle-dragging brutes, says Clive Finlayson of the Gibraltar Museum.
Finlayson was part of an international team of anthropologists who discovered and analysed the marine mammal bones.
"Neanderthals could not have been that stupid and dumb," he says. "These people probably had a pretty good knowledge of the seasons and when to go hunting."
Finlayson and his colleague Yolanda Fernández-Jalvo, of Madrid's National Museum of Natural Sciences, discovered the bones in two cliff-base caves overlooking the Atlantic Ocean: Gorham's cave and Vanguard cave.
The sites, dating to around 40,000 years ago, also contain signs of hearths, tool-making and the remains of molluscs, boars and bears.
Francis Reddy / Rob Gutro NASA 2008-10-01 21:11:00
Hot spots near the shattered remains of an exploded star are echoing the blast's first moments, say scientists using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
Eli Dwek of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and Richard Arendt of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, say these echoes are powered by radiation from the supernova shock wave that blew the star apart some 11,000 years ago. "We're seeing the supernova's first flash," Dwek says.
Other Spitzer researchers discovered hot spots near the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant and recognized their importance as light echoes of the original blast. Dwek and Arendt used Spitzer data to probe this hot dust and pin down the cause of the echoes more precisely.
I saw three luminous spheres in the sky to the left of the helicopter. I could not see what type of helicopter it was. When I first saw the three spheres and helicopter in close proximity, I felt a sense of terror.
Witness statement (translated from Italian): I do not sign my name to remain anonymous. I am sending you some incredible photographs. I have studied these for months, and they are still a mystery to me. In my area, black helicopters I see quite often, since I am located about 10 kilometers from the base of Cervia, the home base of the 5° Stormo Caccia Intercettori.
Date: September 30, 2008
Time: 12:35 a.m.
Location of Sighting: Edmonton, Alberta.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Triangle with lights on each corner.
Full Description of event/sighting: It was about 12:30am and I went outside for my last smoke and I was looking up to the west in the sky as I usually do, looking for satellites when I spotted this triangle with low light almost yellow/orange on each corner appear out of no where. It was traveling slowly south then veered to the West and it was gone. When I first spotted it, it was travelling slowly and I was able to see it very clearly and detailed. It looked like a pool table rack that you use to set-up the balls and the way it moved was very different from a plane or helicopter, there was no sound what so ever. It moved like a hockey puck on ice! I was able to keep my eyes on it for about 10 seconds. I went back into the house, went on the internet and searched 'triangle UFO' and there it was exactly what I had seen.
Last night I was waiting around dusk to see if it would happen again. The star like objects did not repeat the actions from the night before, however I did see one come into the atmosphere. I saw a gold streak in the sky way above me, very high up, the streak was about 8 inches long, and at the end of it a star like object flashed a couple of times, like they do around the sky here late at night. I will be out again tonight, tea cup in hand and watching. Take care.
A second Aspenite has reported seeing an unidentified flying object in the skies over Aspen in the early morning hours of Thursday.
Dr. Patricia Hill, a psychologist and host on GrassRoots TV, said Friday that she saw an object moving through the sky over her home in Meadowwood that morning after being awakened by what she described as "some big, bright lights, kind of casting about toward the tops of the trees."
"I thought at first it might be a car," she said. "I thought maybe there was a road [up the hill from her home] that I didn't know about."
Then the object, which had moved past her house, came back, "but higher," she recalled. "And I thought, 'Cars aren't up in the sky.'"
Date: September 27, 2008
Time: 01:00
Location of Sighting: Sydney Australia.
Number of witnesses: 3
Number of objects: 5
Shape of objects: Triangular, round dot.
Full Description of event/sighting: The time is around 01:00 AM 27/09/08 Sydney.
While outside my place north western suburbs of Sydney while having a conversation before my 2 friends headed over to their cars, we all notice the way three stars (bit bright and larger than the other stars around) was perfectly in a straight line about ten minutes later a fourth very faintly appears too. The four of them moved a bit forward (presume it was because the other stars remained in same position).
On 9-26-8, around 5:00pm, I saw a strange disc like object in the western sky, Vernon, BC. It was at cloud level, and disappeared into up the clouds as quick as I got one not-so-great photo which I will attach with its zoom. I have also drawn a picture to show exactly what it looked like to the naked eye. Thanks again.
FORT MYERS, Florida - Authorities say a Fort Myers man shot himself in the arm after his girlfriend refused to have sex with him. The Lee County Sheriff's Office reported that a 29-year-old man and his girlfriend returned home from a bar early Wednesday morning.
Several times during her exclusive interview with Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric asked Palin whether or not she was aware that the interviews were being taped, and that "other people would see them." Palin reportedly told Couric that she was indeed aware, but then asked Couric what she meant by "broadcast."
