Rotation Of The Earth Plunges Entire North American Continent Into Darkness | The Onion

Rotation Of The Earth Plunges Entire North American Continent Into Darkness The Onion - America's Finest News Source

OMG!! It's the End of the World. Armageddon (sp?). The End Times! OMG, OMG. !!!!!

I couldn't resist the ONION article. Ever get the feeling that the news media makes a point of making life scary, anxiety-filled, and dangerous?

Listen to the tone of TV news announcers - no, not the actual newscasters - the announcers. The guys who are trying to sell you on the idea of watching their news during the commercial breaks.

For example, listen for this on CNN. Tense, anxious, hushed, dramatic...

(When it's not doing it's Voice of God thing, brought to us by the big-voiced James Earl Jones. {{{"This is CNN..."}}} Where's the lightning bolts and thunder?)

CNN also has what I call their "scary water music" - used for the Asian tsunami, used for hurricanes.

Note also that CNN also has their regular "Security Alert"s. Do we really need such a thing? Guess they'd like to think we do - or think we should. So we'll watch them. Of course.

NO, it's not just CNN. It's all over the TV news, national and local. If we're too mellow we simply won't watch them as much.

PS: I actually like CNN and watch it regularly (how else would I know this stuff?). Miss Aaron Brown, what was the deal with that?! Okay, Anderson Cooper is a good guy/journalist and reporter, but why not have both of them? I digress. Yes, the sun will come up tomorrow.

Bourbon Street Journal - NOLA Rising

Bourbon Street Journal - NOLA Rising - "Voices of Katrina" blog by Jon Donley, NOLA.com

I especially like the woman who went to Mardi Gras dressed as Hurricane Katrina (Katrinarita Gras, blog entry 2/27).

It's good to see the people of New Orleans take a break from their grim and difficult situation - and celebrate. Good for them!

Kobe Bryant Named As 2008 Olympic Basketball Team | The Onion

Kobe Bryant Named As 2008 Olympic Basketball Team The Onion - America's Finest News Source

We're overdue for some of the lighter side of news from SoCal.

Hey, Kobe pretty much is the Lakers these days...

Arab Co., White House Had Secret Agreement

Arab Co., White House Had Secret Agreement - Yahoo! News

What the heck...? See the following from the article:

Bush personally defended the agreement on Tuesday, but the White House said he did not know about it until recently. The AP first reported the U.S. approval of the sale to Dubai Ports on Feb. 11, and many members of Congress have said they learned about it from the AP.

This situation is head-spinning - on the one hand, the L.A. Times , as well as Jimmy Carter, both very respectable sources, IMO, condone this ports arrangement, while, OTOH, intuitively at least, it defies common sense, big time.

At least, Long Beach/Los Angeles is not involved... But, still!

SO, THREE MUSLIMS WALK INTO A PORT - Coulter's Op

SO, THREE MUSLIMS WALK INTO A PORT - Yahoo! News

I cannot believe it's come down to this... Ann Coulter and I actually agree!

From the article above...

The Bush administration defended Muslims rioting over cartoons, saying, "We certainly understand why Muslims would find these images offensive." Hey, while they're at it, why don't they invite some Muslim leaders with well-known ties to terrorism to the White House for a reception? Oh wait, I forgot ... They did that right after 9/11. Yes, now I see why we must turn over our ports to the United Arab Emirates.

The University of Illinois has suspended editors of the student newspaper, The Daily Illini, for republishing the cartoons -- even though the kiss-ass editors ran a column accompanying the cartoons denouncing them as "bigoted and insensitive."

That was still not enough for Richard Herman, the chancellor of the university, who wrote a letter to the editor saying that he was "saddened" by the publication of the cartoons. You want sad? The University of Illinois' sports teams are known as the "Fighting Illini." Now they're going to have to change it to the "Surrendering Illini."

I normally can't abide Coulter, and she sure can't abide my ilk, but I agree with not one, but two, of the points she makes above. About the ports and about "the cartoons."

(Worse, my husband is an Illini alumni. He's not going to appreciate that U of I stuff.)