The medical examiner’s office said 18 pieces of remains were found Sunday. The bones found thus far range from tiny fragments to recognizable bones from skulls, torsos, feet and hands. Some are as large as whole arm and leg bones.

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Some Sept. 11 families, however, called for the rebuilding to stop until the recovery is finished.

“Their actions say remains are not a priority, they’re secondary to the rebuilding” said Charles Wolf, who lost his wife and has never received any of her identified remains. “This is bringing up all the gnawing, gut-wrenching stuff inside us again.”

Workers uncover more remains at WTC site

The family members demanded that construction stop at ground zero until remains of all their loved ones are recovered. They also called for state and federal investigations into the failure to completely remove remains from ground zero.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg called an emergency meeting at City Hall that included police, fire officials and the city medical examiner after the discovery of bones Thursday in a manhole in the 16-acre site. Remains as big as arm or leg bones were found, along with personal effects including at least one wallet, officials said.

NYC to look for more remains at WTC site

I think its right to stop all construction to completely go over and find all the remains they can. Why this was not done before plans and beginning of the memorial I do not know.

I am sure there are some outraged families out there that are frustrated with the lack of a complete search for remains of the victims of 911.

- OT – “Ding dong – Is the witch dead? According to Brazil’s leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, he is. Read the rest here.

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Comment by Big Bang Hunter @ 10/22/2006 – 10:47 pm

Convicted Sex Offender Chooses Canadian Exile Over Jail

Hey – if they can welcome draft-dodgers with open arms, why not “alternate lifestyle pioneers”?

Still, not even Canada deserves this. Sure, most of their leaders have been twits, but Martin is o.k.. Too bad it could not be France. Or Spain. Or Iran. Or North Korea. Or Syria. Or Venezuela.

Look at this part of the interview:

PajamasMedia: The Lancet study uses a baseline mortality rate (the rate during Saddam years) of 5.5/1000 – almost half of the mortality rate of Europe. The mortality rate in the EU is 10.10/1000. Given Europe’s excellent health care, public health infrastructure and, lack of war in the past 60 years, how is it possible that Iraq’s baseline is half that of the EU? Are you simply relying on pre-war publications or was the baseline itself generated by interviews with random clusters?

Burnham: This was a ‘cohort’ study, which means we compared household deaths after the invasion with deaths before the invasion in the same households. The death rates for these comparison households was 5.5/1000/yr.

What we did find for the households as a pre-invasion death rate was essential the same number as we found in 2004, the same number as the CIA gives and the estimate for Iraq by the US Census Bureau.

Death rates are a function of many things—not just health of the population. One of the most important factors in the death rate is the number of elderly in the population. Iraq has few, and a death rate of 5.5/1000/yr in our calculation (5.3 for the CIA), the USA is 8 and Sweden is 11. This is an indication of how important the population structures are in determining death rates. (You might Google ‘population pyramid’ and look at the census bureau site—fascinating stuff.)

PajamasMedia: During the same period, Iraq is at war with Iran and itself. Public-health infrastructure was poor, although perhaps not as poor as today. Does it seem plausible to you that the baseline (or pre-war) mortality rate is accurate?

Burnham: Yes as above. Yes as being the right number, and Yes as what we need it for—comparisons in the same households before the war.

Sev,

Oh, pfft. Who cares if the Cape Cod orca was actively working with the Soviets to frustrate American foreign policy? It’s not like he did someting serious, like, oh, maybe send a few suggestive Emails to congressional pages.

In any case, I’m sure we can count on our heroic media to put teams of investigative reporters on the Kennedy story to determine whether this Soviet memo is authentic, right? No doubt it’ll be the lead story in Sunday’s NYT and WaPo, and Katie will open the CBS nightly news with it for the next few weeks.
(/sarcasm)

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- Yet more bubbles in the Jane Harman pond:

Time/CNN is reporting that “the FBI and Justice Department… are examining whether Rep. Jane Harman of California and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) may have violated the law in a scheme to get Harman reappointed as the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, according to knowledgeable sources in and out of the U.S. government.” Harman claims to know nothing about it.

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- The “cloak of invisibility” thing is one of those projects that science has a panchet for doing that comes under the heading of “sure we can do it, but who the hell would want to”. Something like the exploding Bomb-Bats of WWII that Los Alomos experimented with, or the perfect trash disposal that destroys everything including itself.

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CNN: Science reveals secrets of invisibility.

However, it turns out that CNN’s “cloak of invisibility” works only for blocking invisible microwave radiation. So if anyone is out there who sees only microwave radiation, you are doomed! BWHAHAHAHA!!!!

MSM journalists: Were they simply born ignorant, or did they study and work hard to get this stupid?

Of course, I’m sure everyone in Tel Aviv had a good laugh over that one.

“Hey guys, FRANCE is threatening to fire on our planes over Lebanon!!!!”