Bit's O Pieces - Nov 15

[Nbadan]

A little bit of this and a little bit of that...(open thread)

New Google Bomb..

Type in the words 'terrorist sympathizer' and click the 'I'm feeling lucky' button

[Nbadan]

Get ready to pay more for the right to receive junk mail...

Bloomberg News
Tuesday, November 15, 2005; Page A04

The U.S. Postal Service board of governors approved a rate increase that will boost the price of mailing a first-class letter to 39 cents from 37 cents starting Jan. 8.

Overall, rates will rise by 5.4 percent, the Postal Service said in a news release.

Washington Post

Anyone else feel like Cramer in that one Seinfeld episode. Just want to just go to the post office and say, "I want out!"

[Nbadan]

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) -- The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, is issuing a rare tornado prediction for southeastern Indiana.

The forecasters say there is an 80 percent chance of two or more tornados in an area including southern Indiana and southeastern Illinois Tuesday.

They’re calling it a “potentially dangerous situation.” The classification is used for only a handful of storms annually.

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The National Weather Service says atmospheric conditions today are similar to those that caused a string of storms that spun off the tornado earlier this month. That storm raked a 41-mile path across Indiana and Kentucky.

Link

The latest radar scan of the area looks ominous

[Nbadan]

She's baaaacccck...

Sheehan plans to resume war protest near Bush ranch next week


CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - President Bush plans to spend Thanksgiving at his ranch in Crawford, Texas -- and Cindy Sheehan will be there, too.

Sheehan and about a dozen supporters plan to return to their old campsite near the president's ranch.

Sheehan has been protesting the war in Iraq since her 24-year-old son was killed there last year. She spent 26 days in August camped near the president's ranch, demanding a meeting.

There was no meeting but Sheehan drew thousands of supporters, prompting McLennan County officials to impose new limits on roadside camping. Sheehan and her supporters say they're prepared to be arrested.

News Watch 50

Sheehan is going to court tomorrow and plead not guilty to the ticket she was given when she was arrested outside the white house. She is then going back to California to get ready to spend the Thanksgiving Holiday outside of the Crawford ranch, and she is prepared to be arrested again if thats the way it comes down.