I couldn't believe NPR last night - one sentence about Cindy Sheehan's arrest, five minutes on munchgrass or whateveryacallit.

-- RonNLC
http://www.suresha.com

Has any seen the video of the FreeLancers shooting up everything on the road as they drove through Iraq for three hours? You wonder why they might kill people driving through their neighborhood with truck-mounted guns? was it determined that the bastards were NOT shooting at people. You know, the same type of 'suspected' people that were shot from the helicopter yesterday.

:coolhmm:  The difference between Democrats and Republicans is the footprints on the Democrats' asses!  
:coolhmm: 2006: Incumbents should be filling their trousers with butt biscuits! 

LMAO at the End of the Spear thing...my famiy went to see it so now I may have to mention that fact. haha.

OMG I loved him on Dr. Quinn ;) haha!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060202.wxprison02/B...

This is from Andrew Sullivan's blog...Someone who adds up all the Bush proposals over the past years SOTU address and how much they cost...I hope the link works when I paste it here..."Veronique de Rugy, my favorite budget-cruncher, adds up how much of your money the president vowed to spend last night. Oy."

How about:  granulosità dell'aglio

That's garlic grits in Italian, per Babelfish.

"Sucker"

That's NOT the name of the frickin' dish of slop.  It's like calling a peanut butter, Goober Butter

We're talking about garlic grits, not cuttin' taters, but feel free to jump right in.

You can cook (when you aint cuttin tatters). What is the name of grits and garlic served as an appetizer?

Did you just refer to me as "The Beaver"?

tsk tsk tsk

Pasole with "foot of cow"

See, you give it a fancy name and ....well, it's a best seller.

Again, from "breaking news" email from thehill.com

"Boehner pulls off victory on second ballot

By Patrick O’Connor

Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) pulled off a second-ballot victory this afternoon to become the next House majority leader.

Boehner bested Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), who was serving as the acting majority leader, 122 to 109, with one member absent. On the first ballot, Blunt attracted 110 votes, 7 shy of the necessary 117 to win. Boehner had secured 79 votes, while Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) got 40 votes and Rep. Jim Ryun (R-Kan.) collected 2 votes as a write-in candidate. Ryun was not a declared candidate in the race.

Because Ryun attracted votes, Shadegg could have gone on to the second ballot, but has opted to drop out, a source said.

The win marks Boehner’s return to the House leadership table after an almost eight-year absence. Despite trailing Blunt in public support for the entire race, Boehner, who serves as chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee, was able to edge out the acting majority leader thanks to some last-minute momentum in the final week of the race.

The win is also a direct rejection of Blunt, who has been the acting majority leader since Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) stepped aside from that post last fall.

A deputy to former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), Boehner is expected to bring a new style to the leader’s post after pledging during the campaign to involve more members in the legislative process and to offer an olive branch of sorts to House Democrats.

Boehner has long been considered DeLay’s chief rival, and he pledged during his campaign to renew many of the ideals that characterized the so-called Republican Revolution spear-headed by Gingrich.

Rep. Gary Miller (R-Calif.) was not present for the vote."

Oil tanker runs aground in Alaska inlet

By MARY PEMBERTON
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

NIKISKI, Alaska -- An oil tanker being loaded with fuel broke free of its dock in the Cook Inlet port of Nikiski and ran aground on silt, the U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday.

The 575-foot Seabulk Pride was moored in Nikiski, southwest of Anchorage, when it broke free overnight, possibly after an ice buildup strained the lines holding it, said Petty Officer Steve Harrison.

There were no reports of injuries.

Harrison said the Coast Guard received the report about 6 a.m. It was not immediately known how long the tanker drifted before running aground. Tug boats were headed to the area to rescue the ship, he said.

Officials at the refinery where the Seabulk was being loaded said the ship was struck by an ice floe before it broke free, said Sarah Simpson, a spokeswoman for Texas-based Tesoro. Some gas and oil was released into Cook Inlet, although officials did not know how much leaked into the water, Simpson said.

It wasn't immediately clear if the gas and oil came from the refinery's fuel lines when the ship broke free or if the ship was damaged.

According to the company's Web site, the Seabulk Pride is a double-hulled petroleum tanker with a carrying capacity of 342,000 barrels of oil. It is owned by Seabulk Tankers, Inc., of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.