Daily Cycling Facts 11.11.11

Ruthie Matthes (Image credit: James F. Perry CC BY-SA 3.0) Happy birthday to Ruthie Matthes, World XC Mountain Bike Champion in 1991, National Criterium champion in 1989, National Road Race champ in 1990 and twice 2nd place runner-up in the now defunct Women's Challenge road race among many other notable results. Ruthie was born in 1965 and turns 46 today. William Spencer, American

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Can Hezbollah Disable Israeli Drones?

Speculation Continues Over Hezbollah's Ability To Disable Israeli Drones -- Daily Star

BEIRUT: The recent mysterious disappearance of a suspected Israeli pilotless reconnaissance plane from the radar screen of the French UNIFIL battalion in south Lebanon has raised speculation that Hezbollah has found a way of electronically jamming and disabling drones.

Information has been circulating for over a year that Hezbollah has been exploring – and may have discovered – a means of jamming the data link between a drone and its ground control base or interfering with the guidance system of drones on pre-programed flight missions in order to crash them.

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Update: Hezboll [...]

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Dostana SMS

Dosti Mausam Nahi
Apni Mudat Pori Kare Aur Rukhsat Ho Jaye

Dosti Sawan Nahi
Toot K Barse Aur Tham Jaye

Dosti Aag Nahi
Sulge Bharke Aur Rakh Ho Jaye

Dosti Aftab Nahi
Chamke Aur Dob Jaye

Dosti Phool Nahi
Khile Aur Murjha Jay

Dosti To Saans Hai
Jo Chale To Sab Kuch Hai
Jo
Toot Jaye To Kuch Bhi Nahi...

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Source - Free Downlaod Center

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Fahrenheit 11/11/11

Global Research
David Swanson

Believe it or not, November 11th was not made a holiday in order to celebrate war, support troops, or cheer the 11th year of occupying Afghanistan.  This day was made a holiday in order to celebrate an armistice that ended what was up until that point, in 1918, one of the worst things our species had thus far done to itself, namely World War I.

World War I, then known simply as the world war or the great war, had been marketed as a war to end war.  Celebrating its end was also understood as celebrating the end of all wars.  A ten-year campaign was launched in 1918 that in 1928 created the Kellogg-Briand Pact, legally banning all wars.  That treaty is still on the books, which is why war making is a criminal act and how Nazis came to be prosecuted for it.

    "[O]n November 11, 1918, there ended the most unnecessary, the most financially exhausting, and the most terribly fatal of all the wars that the world has ever known. Twenty millions of men and women, in that war, were killed outright, or died later from wounds. The Spanish influenza, admittedly caused by the War and nothing else, killed, in various lands, one hundred million persons more." -- Thomas Hall Shastid, 1927.

According to U.S. Socialist Victor Berger, all the United States had gained from participation in World War I was the flu and prohibition. It was not an uncommon view. Millions of Americans who had supported World War I came [...]

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"A kid would say ‘pizgetti’ instead of spaghetti, and Jeffy would say, ‘Can I wear my short-sleeve pants?'"

The wholesome humor of "The Family Circus" — love it or loathe it — was a changeless fixture of the comics pages for so many years, drawn by Bil Keane, who died on Tuesday at the age of 89.

It was a favorite target for the great comics blogger The Comics Curmudgeon, and here's his tribute to Keane:

We owe him a debt of thanks for providing such a tempting target for mockery over the years — mockery that he was by all accounts incredibly good-natured about (he even collected Family Circus spoofs). His own sense of humor was reportedly a lot edgier than what the strip became best known for, as some of the early panels (like the one from 1960 above) demonstrate. RIP, Big Daddy Keane.

Meanwhile, little Jeffy (age 53) has been writing and drawing the strip for years now, so expect exactly zero changes on that front, and our mockery to continue unabated.

Well, that's nice, but let's click on the "Family Circus" tag and read some of that old mockery:

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Source - Althouse

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2G scam: Raja, Kanimozhi and others go on trial today

The much-awaited trial in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case, involving high-profile accused like former Telecom Minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi, top corporate honchos and telecom firms, will begi...

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Remains of war dead dumped in landfill

Washington Post

The military has long borne a sacred obligation: to treat its fallen members
and their families with utmost levels of dignity and honor.

The Dover Air Force Base mortuary for years disposed of portions of troops' remains by cremating them and dumping the ashes in a Virginia landfill, a practice that officials have since abandoned in favor of burial at sea.

The mortuary in Delaware, the main point of entry for the nation's war dead and the target of federal investigations of alleged mishandling of remains, engaged in the practice from 2003 to 2008, according to Air Force officials. The manner of disposal was not disclosed to relatives of fallen service members.

Air Force officials acknowledged the practice Wednesday in response to inquiries from The Washington Post. They said the procedure was limited to fragments or portions of body parts that were unable to be identified at first or were later recovered from the battl [...]

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