] What started as an April Fool's joke involving bad
] grammar landed seven people in jail Tuesday.
]
] Sturgis police arrested seven Sturgis men for placing
] more than 20 threatening letters on various businesses,
] schools, banks and at the post office. At least 12 signs
] were posted Monday morning. Another 20 were put up
] Tuesday evening, according to Sturgis police.
]
] The letters all read "All your base are belong to us and
] you have no chance to survive, make your time."
]
] Information about the letters was forwarded to the FBI
] and U.S. postal authorities, said Sturgis police Chief
] Eugene Alli.

Having fun (not) in Michigan . . .

'All Your Base' Signs Land Seven in Court

] In the giddy spirit of the day, nothing could quite top
] the wish list bellowed out by one man in the throng of
] people greeting American troops from the 101st Airborne
] Division who marched into town today.
]
] What, the man was asked, did he hope to see now that the
] Baath Party had been driven from power in his town? What
] would the Americans bring?
]
] "Democracy," the man said, his voice rising to lift each
] word to greater prominence. "Whiskey. And sexy!"
]
] Around him, the crowd roared its approval. Yet when the
] first round of welcomes to American soldiers and
] journalists were exuberantly, even affectionately
] completed, the people in the crowd had a more urgent
] request than liquor. They wanted water.

Exuberant Crowd's Most Urgent Request: Water

] About 2,000 Kuwaitis gathered in the capital on Thursday
] to show their support for the U.S.-led war against Iraq
] in the face of what they see as hostile Arab sentiment.
]
] In most Arab countries, anti-war protesters have taken to
] the streets, sometimes chanting slogans criticizing
] Kuwait for providing the main launching pad for the U.S.
] and British invasion of its neighbor.
]
] But Kuwaitis -- still grateful to U.S.-led forces for
] driving out Iraqi occupation troops in the 1991 Gulf War
] -- accuse the Arab world of indulging in knee-jerk
] anti-Americanism and of caring little for ordinary
] Iraqis.
]
] "We want to show that Kuwait is right in the face of the
] public opinion abroad," Salem Shehab, an organizer of the
] rally, said. "We are against the Iraqi regime, not the
] Iraqi people."
]
] "We support our country in this time of war," said
] 17-year-old Nada, who would not give her family name.
] "Most Arab countries are condemning this war. We're
] supporting what the United States is doing to liberate
] the Iraqi people."

Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage

] BERLIN (APOnline) -- German Foreign Minister Joschka
] Fischer said Wednesday he hoped Saddam Hussein's
] government would collapse quickly, marking a stark
] turnaround from Germany's previous opposition to regime
] change as a goal of the U.S.-led war.

I anticipate that the closer we get to winning, the more countries are going to be jumping onto the bandwagon. Some because they'll just plain want to be identified with the winning side, and others because they'll be smelling the whiff of war spoils in the air, and will be wanting to try and cash in.

Germany now backs regime change in Iraq

] An Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim leader has urged Iraqis not to
] hinder U.S. invading forces after previously asking them
] to resist efforts to topple President Saddam Hussein, a
] Shi'ite group in the UK said on Thursday.
]
] In a religious ruling, or fatwa, Shi'ite cleric Grand
] Ayatollah Ali Sistani urged Iraqis to stop fighting in
] and around the Shi'ite holy shrine of Najaf, the Al Khoei
] foundation in London told Reuters.
]
] Grand ayatollahs are the highest authorities in Shi'ite
] Islam and Sistani is the only one in Iraq. The fatwa
] applies nationwide.
]
] "Until now the Shias of Iraq and the followers of Sistani
] were confused on whether to take up arms against the
] Americans, whether to fight," said a spokesman for the
] foundation, which represents followers of Sistani.

Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage

] Authorities are investigating whether to press charges
] after a 15-year-old patient at University of Michigan
] C.S. Mott Children's Hospital sought out an escort
] service for sex during his hospital stay this week,
] according to the Ann Arbor News.

Click On Detroit - Teen Hires Prostitute From Hospital Bed

] Conventional wisdom, you may remember, once rode side by
] side with the prophets of change. When the stock market
] hit the puke stage, conventional wisdom turned. The whole
] new economy thing had been a bad thing. Time, talent, and
] capital were thrown away on unsustainable enterprises
] like point-and-click pet food; it was good for Odwalla,
] but not good for America.

I couldn't have written this article better myself.

Why the bust was for the best for the rest of us.

] A colossal squid has been caught in Antarctic waters, the
] first example of Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni retrieved
] virtually intact from the surface of the ocean.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Super squid surfaces in Antarctic

] A man who fell into the penalty box at a Flyers game and
] scuffled with Tie Domi of the Toronto Maple Leafs has
] filed suit.

When Hockey and Stupidity collide

] The minister also said that coalition forces were
] throwing booby traps in the form of pens and pencils into
] Iraqi villages and townships.
]
] "The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning
] to the civilian population not to pick up any of those
] pencils because they are booby traps," he said, adding
] that the British and American forces were "immoral
] mercenaries" and "war criminals" for such behavior.
]
] "I am not talking about the American people and the
] British people," he said. "I am talking about those
] mercenaries. ... They have started throwing those
] pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps
] to kill the children."

I didn't quote the main parts of this article. I just wanted to quote this to see if anyone else thinks this is the most insanely bizarre bit of propoganda yet.

CNN.com - Iraqi official: U.S. lying about progress - Apr. 2, 2003