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  • Mascot demoted for acting the goat on parade

    06/24/2006 11:03:35 PM PDT · by sully777 · 16 replies · 1,176+ views
    Reuters ^ | Sat Jun 24, 2006 11:32am ET
    NICOSIA (Reuters) - The six-year-old mascot for a British army battalion has been demoted in disgrace for acting the goat during a parade in full view of dignitaries. Billy Goat has been a mascot of the First Battalion, the Royal Welsh regiment, since he was six months old and had the official rank of lance-corporal before his frisky antics during a parade marking Queen Elizabeth's official birthday earlier this month. The army said he had been demoted to fusilier (private) as a result of his behavior. "The goat major had a hard time keeping him in line, he was bouncing...
  • Bush feels the heat as rural heartland goes cool

    10/26/2004 6:37:30 PM PDT · by pickemuphere · 69 replies · 3,356+ views
    Telegraph UK ^ | 10/26/04 | Alec Russel
    President George W Bush campaigned up and down a small rural stretch of the heartland yesterday, desperately seeking to shore up his position in a once safe region where Republicans are registering the first prickles of concern about his record - and his chances. With just a week to go before voting, Mr Bush focused his fire on Wisconsin and Iowa, two mid-western states that have become pivotal to his chances. He lost both narrowly to Al Gore in 2000 but now badly needs to win them as an insurance policy, given the state of play in Ohio and Florida,...