] No member of President Bush's Air National Guard unit has
] come forward yet with recollections of him at the
] Montgomery, Ala., base, but a Selma Republican leader who
] campaigned with Bush says she saw him in uniform on his
] way to drills in 1972.

No conflict of interests. Not at all.

LB

USATODAY.com - Bush seen in Alabama in 1972

] Just like J.Lo and Ben, the romance is over for Barbie
] and Ken.
]
] After 43 years as one of the world's prettiest pairs, the
] perfect plastic couple is breaking up. The couple's
] "business manager," Russell Arons, vice president of
] marketing at Mattel, said that Barbie and Ken "feel it's
] time to spend some quality time -- apart."
]
] "Like other celebrity couples, their Hollywood romance
] has come to an end," said Arons, who quickly added that
] the duo "will remain friends."

You gotta be fucking kidding me??? This sounds like a bad April fools day joke, but AFD is 6 weeks away.

LB

It's splitsville for Barbie and Ken

] Lifeguards at a beach post north of Sydney couldn't
] believe their eyes when a man walked in with a small
] shark attached to his leg.

WEIRD!
LB

Swimmer drives with shark on leg

] Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who urged the United
] Nations to endorse a preemptive war to strip Iraq of its
] weapons of mass destruction, conceded yesterday that
] Saddam Hussein's government may have no longer had such
] munitions.

[ well, how about that. ] -k

Powell Voices Doubts About Iraqi Weapons (washingtonpost.com)

Laughing Boy wrote:
] Understatement of the century! The lack of a tumor weighing
] 2x your normal body weight would really "suit" pretty much
] everyone I'd think.
]
] LB

"It's nott a Toomah"
-Arrrnnoldd.

RE: CNN.com - Doctors remove 175 pound tumor - Jan. 22, 2004

] BALTIMORE %u2014 Sen. Barbara Mikulski is asking NASA to
] review the decision to not service the Hubble space
] telescope, guaranteeing an early death for the orbiting
] science platform that has revolutionized astronomy.
]
] Mikulski (D-Md.), the ranking minority member of the
] Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees NASA's
] budget, told NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe in the
] letter sent Wednesday that she was shocked by the
] decision given the Hubble's extraordinary contributions
] to science.
]
] "I ask you to reconsider your decision and appoint an
] independent panel of outside experts to fully review and
] assess all of the issues surrounding another Hubble
] servicing mission," Mikulski wrote.
]
] Calling Hubble the most successful NASA program since the
] Apollo program that put man on the moon, Mikulski also
] asked that all planning, preparation and astronaut
] training activities continue until Congress has reviewed
] the issue.

ALL HAIL Mikulski! That "bird" Hubble has a LOT more science left in her. Maybe another 20 years worth with regular service missions. KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE!

Sen. Mikulski asks NASA to review Hubble decision

] team of Romanian and U.S. doctors say they have
] successfully removed a tumor weighing 175 pounds (80
] kilograms) from a woman patient in an operation lasting
] 10 hours.
]
] Lucica Bunghez, 47, had been largely confined to bed
] because of the tumor, which weighed almost double her
] body weight and covered her back, waist and hips.
]
] "She is very well, the lack of the tumor really suits
] her," Ion Lascar, head of the plastic surgery department
] of Floreasca Hospital in Bucharest, told reporters on
] Wednesday.

Understatement of the century! The lack of a tumor weighing 2x your normal body weight would really "suit" pretty much everyone I'd think.

LB

CNN.com - Doctors remove 175 pound tumor - Jan. 22, 2004

] SHE WAS at Winston Churchill's side during Britain's
] darkest hour. And now Charlie the parrot is 104 years
] old...and still cursing the Nazis.
]
] Her favourite sayings were "F*** Hitler" and "F*** the
] Nazis". And even today, 39 years after the great man's
] death, she can still be coaxed into repeating them with
] that unmistakable Churchillian inflection.
]
] Many an admiral or peer of the realm was shocked by the
] tirade from the bird's cage during crisis meetings with
] the PM.
]
] But it always brought a smile to the war leader's face.
]
] Churchill bought Charlie - giving him a boy's name
] despite the fact she was female - in 1937.
]
] She took pride of place in a bizarre menagerie of pets
] including lambs, pigs, cattle, swans and, at one point, a
] leopard.
]
] He immediately began to teach her to swear - particularly
] in company - and she is keeping up the tradition today.
]
] The blue and gold macaw is believed to be Britain's
] oldest bird.

'F*** THE NAZIS!!', SAYS CHURCHILL'S PARROT

] RIP Brad. Hopefully you are sharing your sence of humour
] with some good spirits, on the other side.

Another site that CrankyMessiah used pays it's respects. There is a link here to a picture for those who wanted to know what he looked like.

FAZED - Slorum - CrankyMessiah Thread

check the "other news" blurb at the bottom of the page:

"The Congressional bonehead award goes to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) who, on a visit to JPL, asked if Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong! Quipped Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) to the Washington Times: "We just don't teach enough science." Worse, Jackson Lee, who represents Houston, is a member of the House Science Committee's space subcommittee. Perhaps some committee reassignments are in order..."

Congressional Bonehead Award