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I know what you mean Krissa. That would have put a whole different spin on the story.  |
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Beam Me Up. Dennis Kucinich along with a whole "house" full of spineless Whores has decided James Traficant must leave.Nothing like the pot calling the kettle black.Where do these hipocrites get off booting Rep Traficant out the house. He was a peoples Rep.,not republican,not democrat,He spoke for the citizens and actually made damn good sense when he did.Beam me up, included. James never should have said, 'The Butcher of Waco 'aka Janet Reno,should be brought up on Treason charges. Herr Ashcroft isn't any better. Don't shoot till you see the white of their eyes,I believe the saying goes. |
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Drug Czar Did Nothing For US Borders This is an Oct.17,2000 speech given by Rep.James Traficant on the floor of the house. Madam Speaker,the Drug Czar is retiring to teach national security issues at two colleges.Now do not get me wrong,I like General McCaffrey.But for years,while truckloads and boatloads of heroin and cocaine were coming accross our border,Gen.McCaffrey asked for more money more cops,more halfway houses,more counslers,and moe TV commercials.He did nothing about our borders.This Drug Czar lecturing on national security is like Janet Reno teaching a class on treason Beam me up,I yield back the fact that our soldiers are vaccinating dogs in Haiti,American police departments are training dogs to sniff out heroin and cocaine in our schools.Think about it. |
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Dan Rockwell
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Here's a little good news for a change.
Today: July 27, 2002 at 22:00:23 PDT
Families Rejoice at Miners' Survival
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SOMERSET, Pa.- Cheering and waving their hands in the air, families and friends of the nine coal miners discovered alive celebrated after their torturous three-day wait came to an end.
"I don't want to use the term loosely, but it was a miracle," said David Streets, a distant relation of Robert Pugh, one of the miners.
Hundreds of people had gathered in the Sipesville Fire Hall, where many family members had been keeping vigil for days.
When news came Saturday night that the men were safe, the room exploded with euphoria. "There was so much hope in that room it was incredible," said Sandra Watkins, a friend of trapped miner John Unger.
On Friday night, the families of the victims of Flight 93 sent along words of support and encouragement to the loved ones of the miners. The mine several hundred feet underground was not far from the Sept. 11 crash site.
"During our time of tragedy, you extended yourselves to us and tirelessly continued to do so. We consider you our family, and we sincerely hope and pray that the recovery effort will be successful in bringing your loved ones home," said the e-mail, which was signed "The Families of United Flight 93."
At a news conference Saturday, Gov. Mark Schweiker held up a copy of the e-mail from the Flight 93 victims' families sent to a group they called "the Somerset mining families." "It was uplifting to know that families that had suffered on Sept. 11 by virtue of that plane crashing ... into the Somerset County hillside took the time to express their sentiments and be supportive," Schweiker said. Schweiker called the e-mail "exemplary of how the nation has responded with incredible support" for the victims of Wednesday's accident.
The family members had made several trips to the rescue site and officials met with them every hour. Although it had been a long wait, friends said the families never gave up hope that the miners were alive. "In the room there was a gamut of emotions and hope," Streets said.
"When the drill bit broke, some of those hopes were dashed, but there was never any despair."
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2002/jul/27/072709128.html
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Today: July 27, 2002 at 22:05:24 PDT
One Trapped Miner Pulled From Shaft
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SOMERSET, Pa.- The first of nine coal miners trapped underground for more than three days was brought safely to the surface early Sunday morning and dropped onto a stretcher to the applause of rescuers. All nine miners were found alive Saturday night 240 feet underground, and rescuers rushed to pull them from the flooded shaft.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2002/jul/27/072709147.html
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Dan Rockwell
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Today: July 27, 2002 at 21:20:26 PDT
Mine Accident Timeline
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A chronology of events in the mining accident near Somerset, Pa.:
Wednesday, July 24: 9 p.m. - Nine miners become trapped 240 feet below ground inside the Quecreek mine after breaking into an adjacent, abandoned mine. The Quecreek mine is flooded with 50 to 60 million gallons of water.
Thursday, July 25: 3:30 a.m. - Rescue workers hear tapping from the area where miners are trapped.
11:30 a.m. - Tapping heard again.
2:30 p.m. - A drill rig large enough to bore a rescue shaft arrives from a West Virginia mine. 6 p.m. - Crews begin drilling tunnel to reach miners.
Friday, July 26: 2 a.m. - Drill bit gets stuck in rock about 100 feet down and breaks.
11:10 a.m. - Digging with new equipment begins on another shaft about 75 feet from the first.
4:45 p.m. - Broken bit is removed from the first rescue tunnel. 8 p.m. - Drilling resumes on first rescue shaft.
Saturday, July 27: 3 p.m. - Tunnel reaches depth of 224 feet, less than 20 feet from chamber where miners are trapped.
7:30 p.m. - Gov. Mark Schweiker announces "We're on the verge." 8 p.m. - Drilling in first rescue shaft stopped briefly at 227 feet to fix problem with compressed air drill.
10:20 p.m. - Drill in first rescue shaft breaks through into mine chamber 240 feet underground; workers remove equipment used to pump compressed air into the chamber and begin to tap on pipes, listening for response.
10:50 p.m. - A line of rescue workers lower a telephone and green light into smaller shaft adjacent to drilling site.
11 p.m. - Smiling rescue workers begin to give thumbs-up signs and hug.
11:35 p.m. - Gov. Mark Schweiker confirms all nine miners are alive.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2002/jul/27/072709091.html
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Dan Rockwell
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Sun Jul 28, 2002 8:12 am
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oday: July 28, 2002 at 0:00:43 PDT
Trapped Miners Pulled From Pa. Shaft
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SOMERSET, Pa.- Rescue workers on Sunday pulled all nine miners one by one from the watery, 240-foot-deep shaft where they had been trapped for three days, a jubilant reward for an effort fraught with one gut-wrenching setback after another.
After three grim days of frantic drilling delayed by broken bits and busted seals, defiant crews - with no signs of life to encourage them since Thursday - bored a giant auger through the ceiling of 4-foot high chamber at 10:16 p.m. Saturday.
The breakthrough allowed workers to drop a telephone line to the miners through a small air pipe. Moments later, rescuers were seen hugging and giving the thumbs-up.
Then the word came from an unidentified, mud-caked rescue worker who shouted up from the pit near where they dropped the communication device: "They're all down there. They're waiting to come up. There's nine of them. We talked to them on the telephone."
The first words from the miners were blunt. "What took you so long?" one of the miners asked, according to a rescuer.
Gov. Mark Schweiker then appeared before reporters late Saturday night and raised his fists over his head. "All nine are alive," he said. "And we believe that all nine are in pretty good shape."
Ron Svonavec, of Somerset, was at the top of the rescue shaft when contact was first made. He said one of them said, "There's nine men ready to get the hell out of here. We need some chew."
The Sipesville Fire Hall, where the families had been gathering, erupted in celebration. Families cried and hugged and many were in the street with hands in the air.
"Wow. Wow. Wow. It's just unbelievable," said mine worker Lou Lepley, who has been staffing the mine entrance for three days. "I have no words."
The first, pulled out about 1 a.m., was dropped onto a stretcher to the wild applause of rescuers. After that, miners were brought up in roughly 15-minute intervals; the last emerged at about 2:45 a.m.
When the fourth was pulled up in the yellow, cylindrical capsule, a smile was visible on his blackened face. Battered American flags were seen on the sides of some of their helmets. One miner's helmet flashlight was still aglow.
Randy Fogle, 43, of Garrett, was the first pulled from the 26-inch wide hole. He had reported feeling chest pains while still in the mine, but officials at the hospital where he soon arrived said he was slightly hypothermic but otherwise well.
As they emerged, the miners surprised medical personnel who had prepared to treat them for symptoms of hypothermia or the bends, an excruciating condition caused by sudden changes in pressure.
Decompression chambers, ambulances and 18 helicopters were at the scene 55 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. In the end, however, little medical attention was required for the miners, who for days had been described as a tough breed that knows how to survive.
Air was pumped into the chamber at a temperature of more than 100 degrees to warm the men before it was known they were alive. T
he miners became trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine at about 9 p.m. Wednesday, when they inadvertently broke into an abandoned, water-filled mine that maps showed to be 300 feet away.
As much as 60 million gallons of water rushed into the shaft where they were working, and they were able to warn a second crew, which escaped.
"They knew what was coming. We didn't. They are the heroes. If not for them, there'd be dead bodies," said mine worker Doug Custer, among the group who escaped.
Rescue workers had remained optimistic the miners were alive, even though there had been no contact since midday Thursday, when tapping was heard on an air hole.
"If there's any slogan (among the rescue workers) it's 'nine-for-nine,'" Schweiker said before the drill broke through. "We're bringing up nine of our guys."
Reaching the men was sometimes painfully slow. Drilling a rescue shaft to the men, age 30 to 55, didn't begin until more than 20 hours after the accident, because workers had to wait for a drill rig to arrive from West Virginia. And drilling was halted early Friday morning because a 1,500-pound drill bit broke after hitting hard rock about 100 feet down, delaying the effort by 18 hours.
A second rescue shaft was started and it wasn't until Saturday that measurable progress was being made on both shafts.
The rescuers worked cautiously toward the miners because they feared compromising a hollowed-out section of coal seam believed to be about 4 feet high, which may have been partially flooded.
Before the drill broke through, 30 feet of water had been drained from the mine, the amount needed to give the trapped men more room and ensure the pressure wouldn't cause water to rise when the ceiling was pierced.
A cap was placed over the rescue shaft at the surface to ensure the chamber remained pressurized.
The rescue attempt has transfixed the nation and the region, a hilly, rural area long dependent on coal and one that suffered tragedy during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The 40 passengers and crew on Flight 93 died when it was taken over by hijackers and crashed near Shanksville, about 10 miles from the mine.
Schweiker said family members of Flight 93 victims sent an e-mail message to the families of the miners while they awaited word.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2002/jul/28/072809251.html |
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Mon Aug 05, 2002 8:51 pm
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U.S. Planes Strike Iraqi Facility
The Associated Press
Monday, August 5, 2002; 1:20 PM WASHINGTON –– Airplanes from the U.S.-British coalition patrolling southern Iraq bombed an Iraqi military facility Monday, the U.S. Central Command said.
The coalition aircraft used precision-guided weapons to strike an Iraqi command and control facility at about 1 a.m. EDT, a Central Command statement said.The attack was a response to Iraqi actions that threaten the U.S. and British planes patrolling the no-fly zone over southern Iraq, the statement said.
Central Command says Iraq has fired on coalition planes 70 times this year.An Iraqi military spokesman told the official Iraqi News Agency Monday that "enemy warplanes bombed civil and service installations in al-Nukhayb," about 250 miles southwest of Baghdad in the desert between Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
The spokesman gave no further details.Monday's strike was the latest in a series of flare-ups in the no-fly zones over northern and southern Iraq. Coalition planes struck Iraqi targets six times last month.
The no-fly zones were created after the 1991 Gulf War to protect Iraqi dissident populations from president Saddam Hussein's military. Saddam says the zones are a violation of Iraqi sovereignty and his military often tries to shoot down warplanes patrolling the areas.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46155-2002Aug5.html
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Wed Oct 23, 2002 7:53 pm
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CNN: Armed gunmen seize Moscow theater containing about 1,000 people. Details to come. |
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