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Showing posts with label map. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
North Koreans Attack South Korean Island: One Dead, 70 Houses Burning, Dozens Injured (photos, video)
0 comments Posted by queen at 12:32 AMSouth Koreans return fire- scramble fighter jets
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| Some houses in South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island in the Yellow Sea are ablaze as scores of rounds of artillery, fired by North Korea at 2:34 p.m. on Nov. 23, hit the island. |
North Korea on Tuesday fired dozens of rounds of artillery toward South Korean waters and an island near the tense west sea border, the South's military said, leaving at least four South Korean soldiers wounded. The North's artillery shells started falling in the South's waters off the island of Yeonpyeong from around 2:34 p.m., some of them landing directly on the island, said Col. Lee Bung-woo, spokesman for the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).
The South's military fired back some 80 rounds, he said. The military is on its highest peacetime alert, he said. The Air Force has deployed fighter jets to the island.
One marine was critically wounded and three others sustained minor injuries, according to Lee... Island residents said people are being told to evacuate.
Officials said the North's shelling was intermittently continuing and that the South was also responding with return fire. The presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said it was looking into the possibility that the North's firing was in protest to an ongoing South Korean military drill on the western coast.
The "Hoguk Exercise," one of South Korea's three major annual defense exercises, began Monday with some 70,000 troops participating. The North had sent a message to Seoul denouncing the exercise earlier in the day, Cheong Wa Dae said. The president convened an emergency meeting of security ministers and instructed the government to ensure that the situation is contained.
The western sea border was the scene of bloody gun battles between the navies of the two Koreas in 1999, 2002 and most recently in November of last year.
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Thursday, October 21, 2010
Google Poll-of-polls Election Forecast Map... and Other Fun Facts
0 comments Posted by queen at 5:46 AMGoogle Maps now has joined forces with RealClearPolitics, Cook, Rothenberg, et. al. to produce this useful midterm tracker as Americans prepare en mass to pound a stake in the heart of the ill-fated 'progressive' movement...
Lookin' good for the white hats... and grim for the White House:
Interestingly, Rasmussen reports that a majority of likely voters now say that any low-down congresscritter that voted for the multi-zillion-dollar bailouts, porkulus, and/or ObamaCare boondoggle ought not be re-elected... but rather frog-marched out of the capital building ASAP -here-
In another survey, The Hill reports a majority in key congressional battleground states feel Obama has either brought no 'change' to DC... or only a change for the worse -here-
Just a few weeks back, Dick Morris and Michael Barone were about the only ones daring to say a 100-seat Demplosion was within the realm of real possibility- with many warning against Republican overconfidence. But with just 12 days before election, a historical 3-figure shift is not only being discussed widely amongst us... but in Democratic circles as well, as they now observe -to their abject horror- a Midwest meltdown unfolding right before their eyes... -here-
No wonder they're starting to freak out, like Steny Hoyer actually laying a sucker punch on his GOP opponent in Maryland Charles Lollar. Does this idiot Hoyer know Major Lollar is a Marine reservist...? Talk about cruisin-for-a-bruisin... lucky for him Lollar's above it -here-
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