Let me clarfy my thoughts on Islam just in case the Malaysian government is monitoring this site: Islam sucks. That is all.

Posted by: Rusty at 01:21 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
Post contains 38 words, total size 1 kb.

Information and links to live feed by clicking here. Duane is reporting another eruption happening during a USGS press conference. Below is a real time image of the volcano. Check for updated images by clicking 'refresh' or 'reload' on your browser. 12:24 CDT: I'm no expert, but that looks pretty big to me! 1:05 CDT: This was just a burp, as they say. But the eggheads are predicting a bigger one "within hours or days-- not weeks".

Posted by: Rusty at 12:06 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment
Post contains 85 words, total size 1 kb.

AP:

A Singapore Airlines passenger jet bound for New York was diverted to Manchester Airport in northern England on Monday after a bomb threat, police said. The Frankfurt to New York flight landed safely at 11 a.m. without a military escort, Greater Manchester Police said.

The pilot of Singapore Airlines flight SQ26 declared a "full emergency" mid-flight, a spokesman for Manchester Airport said. The Boeing 747-400 was carrying 293 passengers and 19 crew.

"Early indications are that it could be a hoax but we cannot confirm that one way or another until full checks are carried out," a spokeswoman for Greater Manchester Police said.

Posted by: Rusty at 08:27 AM | Comments (1) | Add Comment
Post contains 115 words, total size 1 kb.

USGS now raises threat level to 'red'. Duane has the updates. My original post here.

Posted by: Rusty at 03:39 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment
Post contains 29 words, total size 1 kb.

Very strange, via M. H. King this story. If you read the story, though, the gist of it is that the terrorists are using Bigley's ordeal to manipulate British public opinion. Something I've been saying for awhile now (see here and here). Telegraph:

Dutch intelligence officers raided the home of Kenneth Bigley's brother last night. An intelligence officer from the Foreign Office is understood to have accompanied them to Paul Bigley's home in Amsterdam.

The raid came amid claims that the British hostage was free to roam his kidnappers' home in Iraq and was "caged" only for terrorist videos.

Posted by: Rusty at 10:06 AM | Comments (9) | Add Comment
Post contains 638 words, total size 4 kb.

NY Post: French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin say's "The Iraqi insurgents are our best allies."

More here and here.

Posted by: Rusty at 09:47 AM | Comments (7) | Add Comment
Post contains 31 words, total size 1 kb.

Scientist say she probably lived in Asia 3,500 years ago. For my part, I'm betting she's from West Virgina. Joe Gandelman has the goods.

Posted by: Rusty at 09:24 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
Post contains 38 words, total size 1 kb.

10/15 UPDATE: Mount St. Helens continues it's slow eruption. Magma is oozing out of cone, but slowly. A live pic from Mount St. Helens is posted below along with links to live video feed.

10/08 UPDATE: Scientist preparing for major eruption that could rival 1980 event!

10/05 UPDATE: Another day, another eruption. Live video feed of the USFS Mount St. Helens cam here. A real time image of the Mount St. Helens volcano is below.

10/04 UPDATE: She's erupting again!!! Live video links, live images, and information below.

10/02 UPDATE: New eruption imminent, USGS raises alert level to 'red'.

News reports indicate that Mt. Saint Helens has started to erupt. I have been posting about this for days, not really believing it would happen. Well, I was wrong! My previous post has been updated daily and is located here. For your convenience, I have reposted it in the extended entry below. Thanks for Digger for notifying me. He's also on the case. UPDATES BELOW

Below is a real time image:

Whoa!! Check out that pic above from Fox News. Awesome! And by awesome I mean I am truly awestruck by the pics, not Spicolli awesome. The pic below is from the Seattle Post Inetlligencer via M.H. King. It's from earlier and only shows the steam

Click here for live video provided by KGW-TV/DT Portland & KING-TV/DT Seattle. You'll have to sit through a commercial before the video starts, but give it a second (link also via M.H. King).

Duane the Forester is pretty close to the volcano and he's liveblogging it. If you can't wait, he reports "At 40 miles away I didn't feel anything rumbling, sorry but this is one of those cases where MSM has an advantage. The ash is headed my way, however so if we get ashfall here I'll photoblog the event."

KGW-TV/DT Portland reports that there were three large bursts, than the eruuption tapered off. No lava in site. Ash and steam from the eruption have caused several flights to be cancelled out of Portland and Seattle.

UPDATE 4:30 EDT: Watching USGS press conference. Eruption at 12:03 PST--lasted 24 minutes, plume went to 10,000 ft. They report no lava flow. Some glacier melt being detected and elevated waterflow. No mudslides detected. The USGS guy says that there have been half a dozen of these types of eruptions since the last big one. The difference between this eruption and those other small eruptions is that the seismic activity was way larger this time. In fact, the seismic action (those are earthquakes folks) this time is GREATER than the big blow. However, experts still don't expect as large an eruption this time. Yeah, this is the inner geek coming out in me.

New favorite quote from Duane who is liveblogging this thing from ground zero: "John Kerry calls it the "wrong eruption at the wrong place at the wrong time"

One expert is now claiming that he is noticing mud flow coming down the mountain.

Mount St. Helens Live Webcam Here. Very Cool. (site down due to volume)

John Little is also covering this and has some good resources linked in this post which he has been updating. Rob at Say Anything also covering with some cool pics. Daily Recycler has some online news footage, but the link to the live feed above is to a Portland station live covering it and they have some excellent close-up footage. Crazy Gator also has some wicked cool pics. Brian B. is blogging from Eugene and says he might get some of the ash. James Joyner finds an updated story on my earlier report of the morons flocking to Mount St. Helens as tourists. I didn't know Scott was an expat from the area--I guess NY takes in all sorts. more...

Posted by: Rusty at 02:30 PM | Comments (38) | Add Comment
Post contains 1105 words, total size 9 kb.

Bush response: WTF?

Political scientists analyze, sort of.

Posted by: Rusty at 07:30 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
Post contains 22 words, total size 1 kb.