Contextless Links

• Brazil loses to France... again
• Somme losses marked 90 years later.
• It's Canada Day today.  The old country turns 139.  The big parties are in Ottawa.  Saskatoon has it's own (rather lame) stuff going on as well.
• Doh!  I get a heart attack 15 years earlier because of diabetes.
• An Al Queda FAQ :: From a list of questions, believed to have been asked by recruits at Al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan, found by U.S. forces in 2002 in a “safe house” in Kandahar. The questions, which date from 2000 and 2001, were released in February by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point.
• Speaking of terrorism, big city police chiefs say that the intelligence that they are getting isn't much better then the nightly news.
• England loses in a shootout to Portugal :: England also lost on penalty kicks to Portugal in the 2004 European Championship quarterfinals, to Argentina in the second round of the 1998 World Cup, to Germany in the 1996 Euro semifinals and to Germany in the 1990 World Cup semis. Its lone win in that span was against Spain in the 1996 Euro quarterfinals.