NEW DELHI (Reuters) – About 5,000 personnel including snipers, commandos and U.S. marines using helicopters, bomb detectors and electronic jammers will protect President George W. Bush during his visit to India this week, officials said on Monday.

And more:

“A rocket launcher normally has a 1,000-meter (3,300 ft) range so we would be deployed in forests around venues,” he said. “We will have 360-degree rooftop surveillance around all the venues.”

How’s that for security? It’s amazing how dedicated security forces are these days.

From Reuters

“Have at you!”

Bush/FEMA Drop the Ball Again
Minorities, Children Hit Hardest
As President Bush and his staff cowered in the White House, the snow continued to pile up on the many poor and African-American victims who could not afford to get out of town or to safety in Florida. Crucial supplies of blankets, hot cocoa, popcorn, and dark rum – so essential to surviving the stress of any major snowstorm – lay in stores undelivered.

“Where is the government? I need my sidewalk shoveled so I can get out to buy my damn lottery tickets!” said one D.C. resident from his living room. “Why are we wasting money in Iraq when we could be spending it here on me?”

more from the people’s cube…

So I’ve decided to start another “little section” of this blog (lets hope this one is more successful than my first plan.) I call it “Did you know…” Each week (or more like when I get around to it) I will feature some interesting fact or feature from the INTERWEB. Basically I decided to start this because I wanted to tell you about just this…

So you think iTunes is just an expensive tool for downloading over-priced media from Apple? Think again. Itunes features hundreds of free radio stations, all top quality because they’re not actually “radio” … they’re streamed over the internet. If your getting sick of some of the same playlists you run when your working at your desk or computer, check out the ambient section to chill out while you work. There are “Top Hits” stations, stations featuring music from the big band era, and even comedy stations. The best thing is there are usually many stations that rarely play commercials, and there is always a fresh new rotation of songs for you to listen to for FREE. So get on over there, download iTunes even if you don’t plan on buying ;)

Poor rusty!