Tiger Woods, “It’s been a long year”

“It’s been a long year”
Tiger Woods
Sunday, August 08, 2010
Tiger Woods - USA file photo by Tim Hipps
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After shooting a round of 77 Sunday at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Tiger was asked by one reporter if he was surprised... Tiger answered he was not surprised... “It’s been a long year”
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No other words needed, Tiger. No other words needed...
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Just keep after it... It will all come back to ya soon enough and there is many of us out here who will enjoy when the old/NEW Tiger is back... at last.
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AubreyJ.........

Photo for the Day - August 07, 2010

* Photo for the Day *- Watching History Unfold -
Guests look on from the terrace of Operations Support Building II as Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on the shuttle program's last planned night launch. Endeavour’s launch from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A began the STS-130 mission February 8, 2010. Mission STS-130 delivered a third connecting module, the Italian-built Tranquility node and a seven-windowed cupola, which is now being used as a control room for robotics, to the International Space Station.
Image Credit: NASA/Paul E. Alers
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For all you space buffs out there...
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- Space Shuttle Discovery's final Spaceflight -
During the upcoming Space Shuttle Discovery's final spaceflight, (in other words, Discovery will fly no more... EVER after this mission,) the STS-133 crew members will take important spare parts to the International Space Station along with the Express Logistics Carrier-4.
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Another COOL cargo to go up with this mission will be “Robonaut 2”, the latest generation of the Robonaut astronaut helpers and will be the first humanoid robot in space.

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Read more about “Robonaut 2”, with videos/photos HERE
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As of today, Saturday, August 07, 2010, Discovery is being readied for flight inside Kennedy's Orbiter Processing Facility-3 while its solid rocket boosters are stacked inside the near by Vehicle Assembly Building.
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Discovery STS-133 is slated to launch November 1st.
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Read latest news on Space Shuttle Discovery’s final spaceflight HERE
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Note: I’ll be posting MUCH on this final flight/mission of Discovery so check back!
AubreyJ.........

Iraq: On Ground Updates - August 05, 2010

Iraq: On Ground Updates
In first interview since fall of Baghdad, Tariq Aziz accuses Barack Obama of 'leaving Iraq to the wolves'
Thursday, August 05, 2010
.Image by DoD - (From DoD’s famous Iraq Deck of Cards)
See my video of the full Deck of Cards HERE
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* Guardian.co.uk brings us the following report and it goes in part like this... Saddam Hussein's most loyal deputy, Tariq Aziz, has accused Barack Obama of 'leaving Iraq to the wolves' by pressing ahead with a withdrawal of combat troops in the face of festering instability and a surge in violence... In his first interview since he was captured shortly after the fall of Baghdad more than seven years ago, Iraq's former deputy prime minister and long-time face to the world said the United States would cause the death of Iraq if it continued to withdraw its combat forces... "We are all victims of America and Britain," he told the Guardian from his prison cell in Baghdad. "They killed our country in many ways. When you make a mistake you need to correct a mistake, not leave Iraq to its death."...
Read the rest at link below...
Saddam Hussein deputy Tariq Aziz calls for US forces to stay in Iraq

.Note: You can read the full interview with Tariq Aziz in tomorrow's Guardian - I’ll update this post Friday with the new link and more on topic so... Check Back!
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POST UPDATE:
Friday, August 06, 2010
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Tariq Aziz: 'Britain and the US killed Iraq. I wish I was martyred'
Read Martin Chulov's full interview with Tariq Aziz here
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I believe little, if anything... this man says. As far as I’m concerned... he DOES have blood on his hands of the many a 100,000 of innocent people, in and around Iraq, over the so many years under the Saddam reign... This man, Tariq Aziz, this monster... was not only part of... but was one of the main heads!!!
Guilt by association my butt...
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In future trials on this man... and they will most likely be forthcoming.... I can only pray that the guilt of this man is proven in a court of law, by the Iraqis, without a doubt... and that he gets his due...
Hang-um High!!!
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Funny though... As of right now, no one in the lamestream media is reporting any point of view like mine... I KNOW I’m not alone with having this line of thought... or am I?
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AubreyJ.........

Israel: On Ground Updates - August 03, 2010

Israel: On Ground Updates
Senior IDF Commander Killed In Israel-Lebanon Border Clash
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
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* VOANews.com brings us the following troubling news this Tuesday morning and their report starts off like this... Lebanese and Israeli troops have exchanged fire along their border in a battle that Lebanese officials say killed four people on their side and wounded several Israelis... Tuesday's fighting is the most serious in the area since Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group fought a month-long war in 2006...
Read the rest at link below...
4 Lebanese Killed in Fighting on Border with Israel
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* SKY News has the following report up on their website today with News Video, photos and more. Click it out at link below...
Soldiers Die In Israel-Lebanon Border Clash
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* YNETNews.com brings us the latest and most up to date report...
Cleared for publication: IDF Lieutenant Colonel Dov Harari killed in border skirmish with Lebanese army Tuesday... Another Commander seriously wounded. Troops stepped into planned ambush, army says...
Read this report in full at link below...
Lethal clash: Senior IDF commander killed in border skirmish
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IDF has the following report posted up on their website this Tuesday afternoon...
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Breaking News: IDF Officer Killed as Lebanon Opens Fire on Northern Border

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Lt. Col. Dov Harari was shot and killed on Tuesday afternoon (Aug. 3) as LAF opened fire at an IDF force operating inside Israeli territory on the northern border in accordance with UN.
Last update 18:31 - Written by Elana Kieffer The soldier who was critically wounded by Lebanese gunfire was medivacked to Haifa's Rambam hospital. IDF Photo by Shay Vaknin
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The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) fired at an IDF position in the Israeli side of the border along the Lebanese border in northern Israel on Tuesday afternoon (Aug. 3). The Israeli soldiers who were fired on had been in Israeli territory, carrying out routine maintenance which had been coordinated ahead of time with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which is the peacekeeping force created by the UN Security Council in March 1978 following Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.

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Lt. Col. Dov Harari (45) from Netanya was killed by the LAF during this incident. Harari served as a battalion commander. Capt. Ezra Lakia (30) from Kfar Ha'Rif sustained severe injuries in the same incident. Capt. Lakia served as a platoon commander.

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. The border area is west of the Israeli town of Misgav Am. The incident occurred east of the internationally recognized “Blue Line”, the border between Israel and Lebanon, and west of the security fence, thus lying within Israeli territory.
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The IDF force immediately returned fire to an LAF force. Several minutes later an Israel Air Force (IAF) helicopter fired at the LAF Battalion Command Center in Al-Taybeh, damaging several LAF armored combat vehicles.
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The IDF holds the LAF responsible for the incident that disrupted the calm in the region, and its consequences.
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Chief of the General Staff, Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, arrived at Israel's northern border and has been closely following the events as they unfold. He is currently holding situation assessment meetings with the Commander of IDF's Northern Command, Maj. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, as well as the Commander of the Galilee Regional Division and additional commanders.
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Since the conclusion of the Second Lebanon War over four years ago, three incidents of firing towards Israeli territory have been recorded, and terrorist organizations have claimed responsibility for each of these incidents.
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There have also been two recorded incidents of Lebanon violating the Blue Line. First, in a cross border raid in October 2000, Hezbollah forces abducted and killed three IDF soldiers, Sgt. First Class Adi Avitan (22), Sgt. First Class Benyamin Avraham (21), and Sgt. First Class Omar Sawaid (27), who at the time had been patrolling on the Israeli side of the border demarcation.
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In an additional cross border raid in 2006, Hezbollah forces attacked two Israeli armored Hum-vees which were located within the Israeli side of the border. As a result, seven IDF soldiers were killed, two were wounded, and Sgt. First Class Ehud Goldwasser and Sgt. First Class Eldad Regev were abducted and killed.
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> Photo gallery: Unrest on the border
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Post Update:
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
9:00pm CDT
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* NewsBlaze.com brings us the following report and it starts off like this... A Lebanese military spokesman said Wednesday (Aug. 4) that the Lebanese army was first to open fire in a border ambush that occurred the previous day. The attack killed six people: four Lebanese soldiers, a journalist affiliated with Hezbollah and an Israeli officer; a Lebanese journalist, also affiliated with Hezbollah, was wounded, as was an Israeli soldier... This is the third attack on Israel in the past week, highlighting the threats Israel faces on all its borders. A rocket was fired into the Israeli city of Ashkelon by Gaza militants, and rockets were fired toward the southern city of Eilat, killing a Jordanian civilian and wounding three others... Lebanese journalists and photographers knew in advance of the Lebanese army's plans to ambush IDF soldiers as they conducted routine maintenance work, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)...
Read the rest of this report in full at link below...
Lebanese Army First to Open Fire on IDF, Planned Ambush
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* Ynet.com has this follow-up and it goes in part like this... The Lebanese army's fire on IDF troops working on Israel's northern border was "wholly unjustified and unwarranted," US State Department Spokesman Philip Crowley said Wednesday.
Read the rest at link below...
US: Lebanese fire unjustified, unwarranted
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AubreyJ.........

Iran: On Ground Updates - August 01, 2010

Iran: On Ground Updates
"The military options have been on the table and remain on the table," says Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Sunday, August 01, 2010
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* SKY.com brings us the following report today and it goes in part like this... Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said a plan does exist - although he thought a strike was probably a bad idea... Such an attack would only be launched to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, he added... The American officer has often warned that a military strike would have serious and unpredictable consequences across the Middle East... However, he also said the risk of the country acquiring a nuclear weapon was unacceptable...
Read the full report at link below...
Iran Attack Strategy 'Is Ready If Needed'
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NBC Meet the Press - Mullen: U.S. Has Iran Strike Plan


About this News Video: Admiral Mike Mullen discusses the ripple effects of a military strike on the Islamic republic with David Gregory on “Meet the Press.
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Click HERE for Meet the Press transcript, August 1, 2010
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AubreyJ.........

DOD Identifies Army Casualties

No. 661-10 - July 26, 2010
DOD Identifies Army Casualties

The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of four soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
They died July 24, at Qalat, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained when insurgents attacked their military vehicle with an improvised explosive device.

Killed were:
Staff Sgt. Conrad A. Mora, 24, of San Diego, Calif
Sgt. Daniel Lim, 23, of Cypress, Calif
Spc. Joseph A. Bauer, 27, of Cincinnati, Ohio
Spc. Andrew L. Hand, 25, of Enterprise, Ala

They were assigned to 5th Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment, 17th Fires Brigade, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.

For more information the media may contact the Joint Base Lewis-McChord public affairs office at 253-967-0147 or 253-967-0152.

UPDATE: July 28, 2010 - Pfc. Hand was posthumously promoted to Specialist.

U.S. Department of Defense - Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)

DOD Announces Navy Casualty and Identifies Sailor Listed as Whereabouts Unknown - No. 665-10 - July 27, 2010

No. 665-10 - July 27, 2010
DOD Announces Navy Casualty and Identifies Sailor Listed as Whereabouts Unknown
. The Department of Defense announced today the death of a sailor and the identity of another sailor listed as Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown (DUSTWUN). The announcement resulted from a July 23 incident in Logar province, Afghanistan, while the sailors were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
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Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin McNeley, 30, of Wheatridg, Colo., died from wounds sustained from the July 23 incident. Coalition Forces recovered his body July 25 after an extensive search. He was assigned to Assault Craft Unit One (ACU-1), San Diego.
Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove, 25, of Renton, Wash., is listed as DUSTWUN from the July 23 incident. Search and recovery efforts are ongoing, and the incident is under investigation.

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For further information related to McNeley, contact Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet public affairs at 619-929-7444. For information related to Newlove, contact the Navy Office of Information at 703-697-5342.
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U.S. Department of Defense - Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)

On Ground Updates: Afghanistan/Pakistan - July 25, 2010

On Ground Updates:
Afghanistan/Pakistan
1 of 2 American soldiers missing in Afghanistan was killed in ambush Friday - Other soldier captured alive, says Taliban spokesman
Post Date: Sunday, July 25, 2020
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* chron.com brings us the following report out of Afghanistan today and it starts off like this... The Taliban claimed Sunday that they killed a U.S. sailor and kidnapped another as NATO forces ramped up a massive search for the servicemen, who went missing two days earlier in an area held by the militants...
Read the full report at link below...
Taliban claim to capture US sailor, kill another
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Two US soldiers 'captured by the Taliban'

About this News Video: Afghan insurgents captured two US soldiers and are holding them in southern Logar province, a Taliban official has said.
This video posted on YouTube by itnnews
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AubreyJ.........