Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka looses a parliamentary vote of confidence, less than two weeks after he was appointed to the post. He will continue in a caretaker capacity until a new candidate is appointed. (BBC)(PolitInfo)
The impact crater of the "Great Dying" — the end-Permian event, the largest extinction event in the history of life on Earth — appears to be a 125 mile (200 km)-wide crater called "Bedout" off the northwestern coast of Australia. (UCSB Press release)
May14 is the 134th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (135th in leap years).
2004 - Piers Morgan is fired as editor of the Daily Mirror, when photographs that had been published in the newspaper of alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British soldiers were proved to be fake.
2004 - Insurgents or terrorists in Iraq detonate a 155 mm shell containing several liters of binary precursors for sarin.
So it may not be as disproportionate, at least to Iraqi minds, as we perceive it to be.
WhatReallyHappened.com may appear to be a wacko site, but the number of links posted to articles asking how Berg came to be where he was is compelling.
Bennett, you again resort to crass and needless provocation with comments like, "as annoying as that may be to military lifers who want to collect their pensions without facing any more risk than the rest of us." You reveal yourself to be a small man of poor character and no honor.