Fair And Balanced - Updated

Update: This post is updating at bottom - please keep looking. - Dan

I am working on a longer, and likely to be a controversial post. Hopefully up with an hour, though I am waiting to see if one email is returned.

Meantime, a point of clarity regarding this post.

From today's mailbag:

Dan: I live in the Mountain Brook suburb of Birmingham and know some of the parents whose children were on the Aruba trip. Yellow ribbons are everywhere around here. The Holloway case is tragic, and I appreciate your diligent work on this matter.

I thank the reader for their kind thoughts and also wish to clarify that I never intended for that previous post to suggest some, if any direct linkage to the friends and family of Natalee Holloway.

From someone who has strong feelings in the matter, certainly. But it wasn't intended to purport to shed light on any one group or town - or that I have feelings as to from where it came. I thought it showed the unfortunate nature of someone, anyone so trapped into one picture of a thing, that they cannot afford to entertain a conflicting view. Far from dedication to and belief in something, the kind of thinking represented in that earlier post is defined by cowardice and insecurity - the very opposite of what it would propose to convey.

I'm off to finish my work in between phone calls and errands, so why not give this guy a look, they had a baby not long ago. And if you want to see some quality information on medicine, science and a varirty of topics, including links to information on this case, go to Hyscience. And if you are burnt out on Drudge and desire a similar type service that also hosts and indexes blogs - go to Dilby's News Monitor.

I'll keep updates coming to this post as need be:

Thanks to reader Tanya - ORANJESTAD, Aruba - Three suspects being held in Aruba jails will be transferred to prison today, following a judge's ruling that they could be held for another eight days in the case of an Alabama teen who disappeared from the Dutch-occupied island three weeks ago, FOX News has learned.

That should be Joran, Satish and Deepak.

On a side note, from another reader - Sloot is pronounced as with a long O - think "Slote" and Joran is pronounced (YORan) - thanks Suzanne - (would love to get an email back on that last item I mentioned.)

Another Update: A reader who clais to know and sounds reasonable states that a group of students from Mountain Brook did go on a cruis on the Tattoo while in Aruba - no information to indicate Natalee went along. Marcus Wiggins, Croes former employer who vouched for him runs three boats - links embedded in boat images here.

The Political Teen has some relevant video of a boat and a prison here.

Comments

[tina]

the 4 language is Papiamento the local language of the people, a mix between diffrent languages manly spanish and dutch. only spoken on curacao, bonaire and aruba.

[Mary]

WiseOne

Up your nose with a rubber hose.