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USA: Yahoo! News - Pentagon Finds Bush’s Guard Records: W never showed up. He was AWOL. Admit it. “The records do not give any new information about Bush’s National Guard training during 1972, when he transferred to the Alabama National Guard unit so he could work on the U.S. Senate campaign of a family friend. The payroll records do not say definitively whether Bush attended training that summer because they are maintained separately from attendance records.”

Ha-ha-Hawaii: UH-Dobelle talks extended for a week: Great subheadline: the “lawyers are ready to rumble”. Maybe this ugliness will be settled before UH opens its highly profitable and football season - now with 10% more thugs than last season!

Hawaii: Speeding tour boat maims divers off Kauai: This story brings back bad memories for me. Getting run over by a boat is a nasty experience. “Isham, 25, a dive instructor on the Blue Dolphin, a Na Pali Coast tour boat, and Claypool, a first-time diver who was with him, were seriously injured when another tour boat, Captain Andy’s Spirit of Kauai, ran over them and hit both with its propeller. Isham lost his left leg.”

Hawaii: Removal of ancient bones halts work at Wal-Mart - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii’s Newspaper: Wal-Mart lies, and the past is coming back to haunt them. Is northern Arkansas urbanized, too? “An archaeologist has determined that some of the 42 sets of remains that have been found at six burial spots on the Wal-Mart property may be from the 1853 smallpox epidemic that struck Honolulu. The state has determined, in consultation with the O’ahu Burial Council and cultural descendants, that those remains will be moved to a reburial site on the property, rather than left where they were found or grouped with other iwi kupuna at another location. A preconstruction survey of the site had concluded that the property had been urbanized for so long, it was unlikely any remains would be found. Wal-Mart repeatedly has said it met or exceeded state requirements, including performing an archaeological survey of the site, hiring an archaeologist to be on hand during digging, stopping work immediately when any bones are found and notifying the State Historic Preservation Division of the find.”

Tech: NewsMonster is a Mozilla extension to avoid. Don’t even try installing it on Windows, as you’ll have to delete your C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox directory and reinstall. Really, NewsMonster is that bad. I’m still looking for a decent RSS reader. Right now I’m using FeedDemon.