What a weird story neffable just alerted me to. Have you noticed on the sidebar/been following the developments about some Somali pirates’ hijacking of an Iranian ship? Well, look at this from the Times of Zambia:
A tense standoff has developed in waters off Somalia over an Iranian merchant ship laden with a mysterious cargo that was hijacked by pirates.
Somali pirates suffered skin burns, lost hair and fell gravely ill “within days” of boarding the MV Iran Deyanat. Some of them died.
Andrew Mwangura, the director of the East African Seafarers’ Assistance Programme, told the Sunday Times: “We don’t know exactly how many, but the information that I am getting is that some of them had died. There is something very wrong about that ship.”
The vessel’s declared cargo consists of “minerals” and “industrial products”. But officials involved in negotiations over the ship are convinced that it was sailing for Eritrea to deliver small arms and chemical wea...
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Sad photo from Manchac…From: folo.us
Post Date: 2008-09-17 12:50:23
From Tom Fitzmorris’s website covering New Orleans restaurants. Apparently, Ike pushed enough water in the Lake Ponchetrain to flood Manchac and close Middendorf’s. It also flooded the home of the new owners, Horst and Karen Pfeifer. The Pfeifer’s had owned Bela Luna in New Orleans, which did not reopen after Katrina. The water is not down enough for them to assess the damage.
Middendorf’s has come up on the blog before, here , and they (along with T...
more Zach’s up on his hind legs againFrom: folo.us
Post Date: 2008-09-17 11:36:18
From Patsy Brumfield :
OXFORD – Zach Scruggs, serving a prison term for his part in the judicial bribery scandal that brought down his famed lawyer father, Dickie Scruggs, is asking the U.S. District Court to tell the Mississippi Bar Association it can’t “permanently” prevent him from practicing law again.
The Mississippi Supreme Court approved the Bar’s motion July 31 to “permanently” disbar the younger Scruggs, who pleaded guilty to knowing about but...
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