Month November 2004

On the brink

Yushchenko stops compromise talksYanukovych survives no-confidence voteProtestors try to enter Ukraine parliament

Kerry could fight, but won’t

Kerry apparently thinks that Al Gore’s mistake in 2000 was fighting for the recount in Florida, and if Gore hadn’t have done it, he would have been a viable candidate in 2004. So he has sat back, letting the Green…

Pentagon uncovers propaganda failures

Al-Qaeda and radical Islamists are winning the propaganda war against the United States, says a high-level Pentagon panel, which concluded that President George W Bush’s administration’s policies in the Middle East, its fundamental failure to understand the Muslim world and…

Starbucks grounds for gardens

Coffee grounds make great fertilizer for plants that need nitrogen. Just mix it in the soil. You can also use coffee grounds for composting. Starbucks has a “Grounds for your Garden” program and gives away coffee grounds for free to…

The cunning criminal mind

A man who robbed a bank by handing a teller a note demanding money written on one of his own checks was sentenced to 11 to 23 months in Cumberland County Prison.