Hard News: Wake me up before you go go. Young and in love.
This wouldn't happen if John Kerry were president:
HONOLULU (AP) -- Residents of Maui and Oahu felt a rare 4.5-magnitude earthquake Thursday that rattled buildings but caused no injuries or damage. The quake was too small to generate a tsunami, said Stuart Weinstein, assistant director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. Earthquakes are not uncommon in Hawaii, but most are felt only on the Big Island, where the most volcanic activity is.
Nor would this. 1,402 (and counting) rockets shot at Israel since fighting began:
Since the onset of the current confrontation on the northern border, 15 days ago, 1,402 rockets have been launched at Israel, the Northern District Police's spokesperson reported. Nineteen civilians have been killed and 1,262 wounded, including 46 who are still hospitalized. Many of the injured suffered from shock.
This is news???
Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader issued a worldwide call Thursday for Muslims to rise up in a holy war against Israel and join the fighting in Lebanon and Gaza until Islam reigns from "Spain to Iraq." In the message broadcast by Al-Jazeera television, Ayman al-Zawahri, second in command to Osama bin Laden, said that al-Qaida now views "all the world as a battlefield open in front of us."
Miss "Fruit Smoothies and Protein Shakes = Hunger Strike" buys Crawford land near the Reich Chancellery:
As President Bush prepares to spend some vacation time at his ranch here, not all is peaceful within the peace movement that has doggedly criticized his war policies for the past year. The Gold Star Families for Peace says on its Web site that its members will again flock to Crawford in August to protest Bush's wartime decisions. Leader Cindy Sheehan is again demanding to meet with the president -- a replay of a year ago -- garnering worldwide attention and making Sheehan, the mother of a fallen soldier, the most familiar face of anti-war protesters. Sheehan has purchased a 5-acre plot in Crawford, saying she did so with some of the insurance money she received after her son, Casey Sheehan, was killed in Iraq.
But not all is swell in Paradise:
But Sheehan and Mark Mattlage, owner of the 1-acre property where protesters have been allowed to gather, have had a falling out over scheduling and increased costs for liability insurance. Mattlage, who no longer lives near Crawford, said he is a registered Democrat but has not opposed Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq. He said he did not lend his land to the protesters for political reasons. Instead, Mattlage said, he was worried that someone would get hurt if anti-war advocates continued to assemble just off Prairie Chapel Road, leading up to the president's ranch. Mattlage said he had no idea so many Sheehan supporters would gather on his property, and he acknowledged some of what the protesters said about Bush and the U.S. in the war made him cringe.
Naw, really? What, is "Bush eats caged human babies" a little over the top for you?
Despite some misgivings, the business relationship between Sheehan and Mattlage was friendly and, at times, jokingly flirtatious, according to an exchange of e-mails between the two, provided to the Star-Telegram by Mattlage.
I'm leaving that one alone... The relationship began to sour somewhat, he said, when he recently learned on the group's Web site that protesters planned to return to Crawford in August. He said he did not agree to let them use the land at that time because it coincided with his family's plans to hunt doves.
Aw, come on! Why not? The 1st Annual Buckshot and Buttocks Over the Texas Prairie! Another "Cheney Incident" involving over the rainbow moonburger people would be most entertaining!
He said he also did not want Sheehan to use his property when Bush was at his ranch. "I just didn't want his vacation to be interrupted. It was out of respect for the president," Mattlage said.
Respect for the Fuhrer?? What? You call yourself a democrat? 89% of Google giving goes to Democrats. Aren't they prepared to foot the bill for another Gore run for the throne?
One more thing that wouldn't have happened if John Kerry were President:
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 28 — A gun-toting Brazilian actor clad only in swimming trunks stormed a television studio and took a hostage during the filming of the ''Snakes and Lizards'' soap opera where he was once an extra.
Out-of-work actor Ricardo Dualibi, who was fired from the series in April, fired two shots in the air from a pistol and took one employee hostage in the incident Tuesday, a Globo television spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
He told police he did not intend to hurt anyone, but only wanted to draw the studio's attention to his art. He was arrested for attempted murder.
I know a lovely 5 acre plot of land in Texas Ricardo could chip in on to help cover any insurance and liability costs...
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