“12 Afghan civilians killed in roadside bomb blast - Khaleej Times” plus 4 more |
- 12 Afghan civilians killed in roadside bomb blast - Khaleej Times
- The MSCS Points Race Heads to Lawrenceburg - Who Won
- Wild season keeps OU's dreams alive - Tulsa World
- Maglev company vows to steam on - Las Vegas Review Journal
- Graham County to end ambulance service on 'Dragon' - Asheville Citizen-Times
| 12 Afghan civilians killed in roadside bomb blast - Khaleej Times Posted: 29 Sep 2009 08:24 AM PDT
KABUL A roadside bomb blast in southern Afghanistan has killed 12 civilians.
Police chief Bismullah Khan says a civilian bus hit a bomb in Kandahar province's Maiwand district Tuesday morning, killing the 12 civilians and wounding another 15. He says some of the more seriously wounded civilians were taken to a NATO base for treatment. Militants are planting more roadside bombs than ever as they battle U.S. and NATO troops. But the bombs kill far more Afghan civilians than they do soldiers. A U.N. report issued Saturday said August was the deadliest month of the year for civilians because of violence from the insurgency. A total of 1,500 civilians died in Afghanistan from January through August, up from 1,145 for the same period of 2008.
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| The MSCS Points Race Heads to Lawrenceburg - Who Won Posted: 29 Sep 2009 10:05 AM PDT Tuesday, September 29, 2009 The MSCS Points Race Heads to Lawrenceburg by Eldon Butcher HAUBSTADT, Ind. -- The final event of the 2009 Hoosier Tire Midwest Sprint Car season will be held at the 3/8s mile Lawrenceburg Speedway on Saturday night October 3rd. It will mark the fourth consecutive year that the Lawrenceburg Fall Nationals will coincide with the staging of the MSCS Season Championship race. |
| Wild season keeps OU's dreams alive - Tulsa World Posted: 29 Sep 2009 10:26 AM PDT  Go to Dave Sittler's BlogCRAZY IS about as good a word as any to describe the 2009 college football season as the race to the BCS championship rounds the first turn. You need look no further than the Oklahoma Sooners to grasp just how nutty things have gone thus far. Consider this: OU still has a shot to make a return trip to the BCS title game next January, and quarterback Sam Bradford's hopes for a second straight visit to the Big Apple in December also remain alive. Less than a month ago, the chances of OU playing for the national championship and Bradford traveling to New York City as a candidate for the Heisman Trophy weren't even on life support. They were declared dead by most so-called experts on Sept. 5, after BYU upset No. 3 OU and knocked Bradford out of the contest with a separated shoulder. A funny thing happened to those hellbent on burying Bradford and the Sooners after that 14-13 loss to a non-BCS team. Upsets of top-rated teams became an every-week occurrence, and nobody used the first three or four games to become the Heisman frontrunner. As we hit the backstretch and head into October, OU already has climbed back from No. 13 to No. 8 in the polls, and Bradford definitely has a opportunity to rejoin the Heisman pursuit even though he's played less than two quarters of one game. Here's another example of how goofy things stand: Bradford could miss Saturday's game at No. 17 Miami and STILL be in contention to join former Ohio State running back Archie Griffin as the only two-time Heisman winners.OU obviously has to run the table to make it to Pasadena, Calif., for the BCS Championship game at the Rose Bowl on Jan. 7. In the process, Bradford could capture the hearts of Heisman voters if he writes a comeback story that includes a Big 12 title and a win Oct. 7 against Texas and the Longhorns' Heisman candidate, quarterback Colt McCoy. A lot of what happens from here to December depends on Sooner coach Bob Stoops. In other words, it's times likes these when Stoops earns those big bucks OU is paying him, $3.675 million this season. From the first day he stepped on campus in December 1998, Stoops vowed his OU program would always be about championships. That starts with winning the Big 12 title, which more often than not would earn the Sooners a spot in the BCS championship contest. If Bradford's entourage of medical experts declares it's safe for the Sooner junior to play against Miami even though his shoulder is not 100 percent healed, what's Stoops to do? Risk it and play him, or sit him and focus on the Big 12? Stoops confirmed during Monday's Big 12 teleconference that OU has sought advice on Bradford from some of the country's top medical minds, including renowned sports surgeon Dr. James Andrews. "X-rays, MRIs and (other information) has been sent to multiple, multiple people, including Dr. Andrews," Stoops said. "When it first happened, we got multiple opinions, and everybody's were pretty similar and felt that our (OU medical) guys were definitely on the right track and doing the right things." Ah, yes, doing the right thing. That brings us back to the choice Stoops could face later this week after watching Bradford practice — BCS or Big 12 championship? He could have both, lose both or win at least one of the two. OU obviously doesn't have to defeat Miami to win the Big 12. And with the Sooners opening conference play next week against Baylor, it's conceivable Stoops could save Bradford until the Texas game to lessen the chance of the shoulder being injured again. The Sooners almost certainly can whip the Bears with Landry Jones at quarterback. And now that Baylor has lost standout quarterback Robert Griffin for the season, an OU win on Owen Field on Oct. 10 seems easily attainable without Bradford. Yes, I know about the rust factor. If Bradford doesn't play again until the Red River Shootout at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, he may be so rusty from the layoff that he can't operate against the No. 2 Longhorns. Poppycock. If Bradford scrimmages OU's starting defense several days in practice, he'll face a unit salty enough to knock the rust clean off a 1908 Ford Model T. "We have to feel comfortable that he's healthy," Stoops said of Bradford. "That he feels good enough to make the throws we need to make and he's ready to do it." In other words, don't look for Stoops to add to this wacky season by making the crazy decision to play Bradford before he's ready, just so OU can stay in the BCS race.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Maglev company vows to steam on - Las Vegas Review Journal Posted: 29 Sep 2009 10:19 AM PDT ARRRGGG wrote on September 29, 2009 10:27 AM: Spend the money on other projects? What other project is going to provide 4-5 years of construction jobs and create 90,000 new workers? I've been in lots of trains including the maglev in Shanghai. Hands down, the maglev wins. It is quiet, spacious and very fast. Who the hell wants to ride in technology that is almost 200 years old. Steel wheels are archaic even if you can get them to move a train 150 mph. Also, why put a train on the same track as commercial trains? We're asking for delays and failures if the DesertXpress comes to fruition. Tony wrote on September 29, 2009 10:25 AM: Just like health care reform the tea bagging idiots so desperate for attention want to be heard and begin writing factually wrong statements about technology. Mag technology has been around for 30 + years and if you have ever traveled to any Asian or European country instead of your local WalMart you would know that it zips up and down mountains and hills just fine. Duh! Now go to WalMart and buy yourself a dunce cap and go sit in the corner. High Wire wrote on September 29, 2009 09:56 AM: Once again Reid fails Nevada. He supports a train that takes 84 minutes to get to Victorville (population 64029) yet opposes the train that takes three minutes less to go further to Anaheim (LA area Population 14 MILLION 3.6m in the city itself)? When are we going to vote this clown out of office? LA has a decent mass transit system that can get these folks to Anaheim, but not to Victorville, to catch this train. It will take them 81 minutes to get here and will cost $55. It will cost about the same as round trip airfare, will get you here quicker than a plane once you figure in boarding and security, and you do not need to fight 4+ hours of traffic if you were to drive instead of fly. Heck you could even start partying on the way here. Sounds like a bargain to me. I do not understand why Reid has thrown his support behind the train to nowhere(Victorville). Could it be because they have thrown tons of cash at him? kdpvegas wrote on September 29, 2009 09:43 AM: This just proves what we all knew to begin with, Little harry reid is still living in the past, days of cathouses and swimmin in the pond and traveling on steel wheeled trains, heck harry lets make it a genuine steam engin too! If you want any mass transit in America, maglev is the future. To the nay sayers that say it cant be done, let them try, if they say they can do it let them do it. Who wants to take a train to Victorville anyhow? I used to live in hooterville and there is no reason to go there anymore. At least Anaheim has attractions and people do go there for tourism type travel. Which if you havent noticed, that is our main reason for existence as well. Connecting the two biggest tourist and travel destinations by a high speed train of futuristic technology only makes sense. Of course we cant ever count on politicians to make sense, that is our part of the involvement. We have to tell them what we will support. Little harry living in the past days of horse and buggy ridin to the cathouse are over, we need to bring things up to a new level of technology and common sense. Lets support the maglev all the way, a newer faster way to get to L.A cant hurt people in either area. Steve Miler wrote on September 29, 2009 09:04 AM: I was privileged to go to Germany in 1987 to ride on the Maglev test train. It is so far superior to the steel wheel antique being proposed by Rogich and Reid, that I will not waste time defending it. The Rogich/Reid choo choo to nowhere is a bottomless political money pit like the LV Monorail that will only benefit Rogich and Reid. Roger wrote on September 29, 2009 09:01 AM: Never happen. The technology for mag trains does not allow for climbing mountan passes. Very stupid idea. The train guys are just trying to get Obama tax breaks. Big scam. Curious wrote on September 29, 2009 09:01 AM: Why is Harry Reid so opposed to the mag-lev? Is there not enougth money in it for him? Mr. Environment now wants the rail system but God forbid we talk about coal fired clean burning plants. What a sham! Sam wrote on September 29, 2009 08:37 AM: It's amazing what worthless projects can be done with government (taxpayer) money. Things that no private corporation would ever get involved in. Why? Because it's a money loser. hecubus23 wrote on September 29, 2009 08:20 AM: Waste of money. Any government money going to these useless passenger trains should go back to taxpayers. People need money to spend and it takes people spending to get the economy rolling again. dwms wrote on September 29, 2009 07:55 AM: Senator Reid - Just a thought. Put cameras in the lobbies of your offices in the State of Nevada and Washington, DC. You view the hours of footage. Don't re-assign the responsibility to your staff. Then, contact the persons on film and find out how many people they represent and their complaints. You will find that your staff is not briefing you about your constituency. You will find film speaks louder than your staff's words. Just a note of caution. Shelley Berkley advertised in the Las Vegas Review Journal an invitation for the public to come and express their complaints at her Las Vegas office. The response overwhelmed her staff. To this day, she has not addressed the most serious of complaints. That is, her staff (hint) was so overwhelmed with complainants that they turned away complainants of child abuse. These children later died of the abuse. Just another thought, you may want to subscribe to and read daily the Las Vegas Review Journal. Your staff is quoted in the Review Journal and you may want to know what they are saying. YOUR RIGHT! Ken wrote on September 29, 2009 07:50 AM: Put aside the fact that anything Reid touches turns to dust. They will never come up with the funding for this nonsense and they will never get away with charging $110 for a roundtrip ticket when passengers in California have to look forward to driving to Anaheim just to get on the thing and then find a cab or shuttle to get them to their hotel. Take any money from this boondoggle and put it back into Social Security -- where people like Reid stole it from in the first place. ReidSucks wrote on September 29, 2009 07:43 AM: Reid is a complete idiot. Something so important and he is politicising it out of existance. This would spring us right out of recession and into a boom growth once complete - and it needs to be the one to Anaheim. Thanks for screwing the people again Reid. Yucca mountain is another project that owuld have brought high level jobs and growth , he also screwed us out of that. Victorville is a dump wrote on September 29, 2009 06:13 AM: "It doesn't matter what Harry Reid thinks or says" Yeah! Right on! Stick it to the man! But I don't see how LV to Primm is going to make money. I kinda doubt whether Anaheim to Ontario would be a boon either. Why not just fly? wrote on September 29, 2009 05:16 AM: I'll just fly. Harry Bollox wrote on September 29, 2009 05:00 AM: If it is true that the maglev project has secured the necessary private funding, Reid has NO say in the dispersal of the $45 million federal funding. It has to go to the maglev project as it was intended. If Reid doesn't like that, too damn bad for him. He can quit Congress and stop impeding progress and job creation. Just because he's "in bed" with the DesertExpress crowd doesn't give him the right to shanghai funds designated for one project to support his pet project. Watcher wrote on September 29, 2009 04:36 AM: I don't understand why a train that only goes to Victorville is being considered. We need to go from destination to destinatin. LA to LV. Read All Comments  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Graham County to end ambulance service on 'Dragon' - Asheville Citizen-Times Posted: 29 Sep 2009 10:12 AM PDT ROBBINSVILLE — Graham County next year wont send its ambulances into neighboring Swain County to respond to wrecks on the famous motorcycle route Tail of the Dragon. And the county wont be picking up the garbage there, either. County commissioners last week voted to end a longstanding agreement with Swain County to serve the U.S. 129 area. The road starts in Blount County, Tenn., and packs 318 curves in 11 miles. Motorcyclists from around the world travel to ride it. At least two people a year are killed on the North Carolina side of the road. It takes about 22 minutes for an ambulance to get to the part of U.S. 129 in Swain County from Robbinsville in Graham. It can take as long as 50 minutes to get there from Bryson City in Swain. The agreement that left Graham covering Swain was fine when it started about 15 years ago, county leaders have said. Calls were few back then. Today, Graham gets 30 calls a year to the 10 miles of the highway in its neighbors jurisdiction. Graham County leaders say the service costs about $100,000 a year. The two governments met in July and August on the issue. The Graham board pulled the plug during a meeting on Sept. 21. after Swain County Manager Kevin King offered a discounted rate to house Graham inmates in the Swain jail as compensation, said Graham County Manager Lynn Cody. He said Kings offer of $40 per day per inmate was $5 lower than Cherokee County, where Graham currently houses its inmates. But it still wasnt enough. If you dont have a whole lot of inmates you are really not getting much out of it, Cody said Tuesday. We are just asking to be compensated for some of the costs (on U.S. 129). Swain had been giving Graham $21,000 a year to pick up garbage in the area but wasnt contributing directly to emergency services and law enforcement. The 19,000 acres of private land in the far corner of Swain County generates $195,000 a year in property taxes. Graham leaders earlier this year had floated the idea of asking the General Assembly to change the county line and give them the corner of Swain County. The proposal was tabled. Swain County Manager Kevin King, who did not immediately return a message on Tuesday, has said Swain would be better off buying another ambulance to serve U.S. 129 than giving the land to Graham County. Most of the serious accidents on U.S. 129 happen in Graham County, according to N.C. Highway Patrol records. Troopers last year responded to four wrecks involving injuries on U.S. 129 in Swain County and 20 in Graham County. Troopers wrote one speeding ticket in Swain County and 91 in Graham County. Graham will stop providing services there on Jan. 1.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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