Apologize for the delay of today's posts- you understand even the Captain needs a brief solo-sail away from it all. Now- on with the secular festivities!
* NEW ORLEANS - It is probably one the most significant "anniversaries" this city has to remember. No one will be celebrating however.
Just after dawn on August 29- 2005- the eye of powerful Hurricane Katrina came ashore just 30 miles east of the Big Easy- and the storm surge and winds blasted over and through New Orlean's defensive levee system.
Katrina killed more than 1600 people and is to this day America's most destructive hurricane. Many areas in New Orleans- and along the affected Gulf coast- remain to be cleaned up- let alone rebuilt.
* BOISE-ID - There seems to be 2 schools of reactions people have after getting caught doing something wrong: Remorse or denial.
Republicrat U.S. Senator Larry Craig was caught in a bathroom of the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport trying to have a sexual encounter with an undercover cop.
Craig has taken the denial route regarding this- pardon the bad pun- (would-be) affair.
* MIDDLE EASTERN PORTION OF PLANET EARTH - The Taliban- an organization long unknown for any humanitarian acts- has reportedly released the 8 South Korean hostages they had taken in Afghanistan. Maybe it's their new ad agency- suggesting to Taliban's leaders "you've got to WIN their hearts- not killing 'em...."
... The American military has released and apologized to a group of Iranians- that included "2 diplomats"- who were detained in Baghdad after "illegal weapons" were found in their vehicle.
No comment on whether the "illegal weapons" were returned to the Iranians.
... Also in Baghdad- Iraq's Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said he was calling off his army- not citing a shortage of ammunition.
* STOCKHOLM- SWEDEN - "Keith can't get no- sat- is- fact-shun" after Mr. Richard and band's "bad reviews of a performance" in this Nordic nation early this year.
* FORT MEADE-MD - The lead military officer in the Iraq Abu Ghraib prison abuse affair has received "a reprimand" by a military jury for his actions. No word if a slap on the hand was also administered.
* CHAMPAIGN-IL - Police have 3 students in custody here- after 6 handguns were found in their school lockers.
* KANSAS CITY-MO - Police have a young woman in custody after she attempted 3 times to flush her newborn child down a toilet of the Midtown McDonald's where she worked.
The good news is that the newborn is expected to survive..
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