This Weeks Post Was Suggested By Toni
Lieutenant Colonel Tim Karcher was shot in the shoulder in Iraq back in 2006. After just 5 months of healing at home that included 7 surgeries, he chose to go back to war.
“My unit was over there, they were taking casualties. It felt terrible to be here, it felt wrong,” he said.
A Tyrannosaur bone found in Australia is the first found on the Southern Hemisphere. Scientist say that the discovery of a Tyrannosaur hip bone could possibly shed light on the evolutionary lineage of the ancient dinosaur and why they thrived above the equator and not below it.
Prior to the recent identification of a Tyrannosaur hip bone that had been discovered in Australia, Scientist believed that the Tyrannosaurus Rex had lived only in the Northern Hemisphere after the continents separated. Previously, such findings had only been made in Asia, Europe and North America.
James Cameron apparently doesn’t like Glenn Beck and called him out about something to do with Al Gore’s global warming. He also seemed to have a bone to pick with Beck for making some kind of anti-Christ comment about one of his movies several years ago. Beck responded to Cameron by calling Avatar a ‘Smurf-murdering movie’. He also addressed the anti-Christ statement. Does it get any more hard-core than this? Ha! I jest. See the video below.
There’s nothing more fun than when the hollywood elite try to venture into the world of politics and get out of their comfort zones. Such is the case of hollywood director James Cameron who has made public statements about his dislike of conservative political commentator Glenn Beck. Cameron, a multi-billionaire, called Beck a ‘f***ing asshole’ in a recent interview while he was promoting his blockbuster movie, Avatar. Well, when he was called on his comments he did back-peddle a bit. But still, his obvious dislike of Beck was … well … obvious.
It seems that his friction with Beck goes back to when Beck was on CNN rather than on Fox News. Apparently, at some point in time, when Glenn Beck was on CNN, he commented on his show that ‘only pure evil could have directed that show, perhaps even the anti-Christ’ – referring to the James Cameron film The Lost Tomb of Jesus. In that movie, Cameron cast down on the resurrection of Jesus. Even though its fairly obvious that Beck was joking, Cameron didn’t seem to think it was funny.
Today a pirate was killed in a failed hijacking off Somalia. As we all know by now, the Somalian pirates have run rough-shod over cargo ships, cruise ships and any other vessels that have dared to sail the seas off the Somalia coast that they control. Ships that have to navigate those waters have been advised to have security guards on-board in the event of a pirate attack. In this case, that advise paid off. You can see a video report of the story below.
The failed pirate hijacking happened yesterday, March 23, 2010, off the coast of Somalia. The MV Almezaan, a Panamanian-flagged cargo ship, was in route to Mogadishu when it was fired upon by Somalian pirates. The private security team on board the ship returned fire and were able to repel two attempts to hijack the ship. A gun battle ensued during a third attempt to attack the ship and one of the pirate’s was killed.
The European Union (EU) naval force was called for assistance. They boarded three pirate ships that had been involved in the attack on the MV Almezaan and detained six suspected pirates. A seventh pirate was found dead of an apparent gunshot wound.
Somalian pirates have been a plague on the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean off the coast of Somali for years now. Two cargo ships were seized yesterday, making three attacks on cargo vessels in the area in just one day.
The MV Frigia was seized. It is a Turkish-owned and Maltese-flagged cargo vessel that was in transit from Port Said, Egypt to Kaousichang, Thailand. The MV Frigia had 19 Turkish and two Ukrainian crew members on board at the time it was hijacked in the Indian Ocean yesterday.
The MV Talca is a Virgin Island-owned and Bermuda-flagged cargo vessel that was hijacked in the Gulf of Aden yesterday. It was captured about 180 miles south of Mazera off the coast of Oman. The MV Talca was in route from Sokhna, Egypt to Busheir, Iran with 23 crew members from Sri Lanka, one from the Philippines and one from Syria.
The pirate killed in a failed hijacking off Somalia is the first of its kind. Predictably, it has raised controversy as to who has jurisdiction in the waters off the coast of Somalia, whether or not the private security teams are legal, what kinds of individuals would take those jobs and how they are being regulated and overseen.
I have one thought on the controversy. When someone takes the guns away from the lawless Somalians, regulates and sets up oversight of their activities, then we’ll get more concerned about merchant vessels’ efforts to protect themselves. Seriously!
Pirate Killed in Failed Hijacking Off Somalia – Video
Albert Gubay made a ‘Pact with God’ and became a billionaire. Or so he says. It seems that he was once a man with almost nothing and now has generated billions of dollars. Most the money he has made, he has donated to charity.
Gubay is a Roman-Catholic who made a ‘Pact with God’ when he was close to penniless, selling candy in Wales after World War II. He promised God that if he ever became rich, he would donate half his money to charity. And that is precisely what he is doing. In fact, sources say that he is donating MOST of his fortune to charity.
This Weeks Post Was Suggested & Written By Debbie In Honor Of Her Great Uncle.
William Robert Cain (August 1, 1922 – July 4, 1944) was a husband to Genevieve (Anderson) and the only son of Cleveland and Margaret Cain. He was the baby brother to three sisters, Lena Mae, Anna Phyllis (who died in 1932) and Lora Genevieve.
An Iceland volcano erupts with little warning in the early morning hours of March 21, 2010. The volcano erupted next to the Eyjafallajoekull glacier and had been dormant since 1821. The eruption has caused over 500 residents of the area to flee their homes and there are concerns as to how the eruption will affect weather patterns.
Iceland Map
Roads have been closed in the area of the Eyjafallajoekull glacier, the fifth largest in Iceland, as authorities warn of severe danger in traveling anywhere near the area of the volcanic activity. The volcano has been continuously spewing ash and molten lava. The molten lava and heat from the volcano is causes the glacier to melt which is flooding the area.
There is also a great deal of concern that an 800-yard fissure caused by the eruption could get larger and closer to the Myrdalsjokull glacier which is on top of the Katla volcano. Historically, when the Eyjafjallajokull volcano erupts, the Katla volcano erupts soon after. That event would be catastrophic.
The Ronald Reagan ‘GE’ tapes are restored and in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley California. Read about it below and see a video of the General Electric celebration of the Reagan Centennial.
Ronald Reagan was a great president, but before he was President of the United States, he was Governor of California. Before that he was an actor. While he was an actor, he hosted television’s ‘General Electric Theater’. For a long time it was thought that the tapes from many of the GE episodes were damaged or lost. However, they have been found and restored and all 208 episodes of ‘General Electric Theater’ hosted by Ronald Reagan have been delivered to former First Lady Nancy Reagan. She received the GE tapes on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 as part of the two-year celebration of the late president’s 100th birthday.