Huey Dunbar
“Yo si me enamore”

I have no idea what he’s saying, but I love this song. Dig those pink pants! Bur$atil, what’s this song about??? She’s cheating on him??

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BEIJING (Reuters) - Rain storms and floods have killed at least 23 people across southern China in recent days and made thousands homeless, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.

“Millions of people are suffering,” it said.

Storms killed seven people and left four missing in the southern province of Guizhou on Friday and Saturday. Nearly 20,000 hectares (77 sq miles) of cropland were flooded and 3,000 houses destroyed, Xinhua said.

In Guangdong province, bordering Hong Kong, heavy rain triggered landslides killing three people and destroying 788 houses and about 1,120 hectares of cropland, Xinhua said.

Storms cut off a railway link between Meizhou and Shantou in Guangdong leaving about 1,100 passengers stranded on Friday.

In neighboring Guangxi, two people were killed in torrential rain that destroyed 610 homes, Xinhua said, citing flood control authorities.

In Guangxi, high school students sitting all-important university entrance exams on Thursday and Friday had to be evacuated as heavy rain submerged their classrooms, Xinhua said.

Storms also broke 29 reservoirs, 362 embankments, 165 roads and forced 59 factories to suspend production, Xinhua quoted Chen Rundong, deputy head of the regional flood control office, as saying.

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By SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber driving a tanker truck struck an Iraqi army checkpoint outside the capital on Saturday, killing at least 13 soldiers in the deadliest of a series of attacks against Iraqi forces as they try to take over their country’s security.

In southern Iraq, an apparent rocket attack at the U.S.-run Camp Bucca detention facility killed at least six detainees and wounded 50, the military said. No American casualties were reported.

The U.S. military oversees some 21,000 inmates at Camp Bucca in southern Iraq and Camp Cropper, near the Baghdad airport. Military officials refuse to give a breakdown of how many prisoners are at each facility but say the majority are at Camp Bucca.

Diplomatic tensions also rose, with the Iraqi Foreign Ministry summoning the Turkish charge d’affaires and calling for an immediate halt of cross-border shelling into northern Iraq, saying such actions “undermine confidence between the two nations and negatively affect their friendship.” The statement was the first government confirmation of the shelling.

Turkey has been building up its forces along the border with Iraq and scattered shelling has been reported while its leaders debate whether to stage a major incursion to pursue separatist Kurdish rebels who cross over from bases in Iraq to attack Turkish targets - an operation that could ignite a wider conflict involving Iraqi Kurds and draw in the United States.

A Turkish Foreign Ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information, confirmed the meeting between Mahmoud and Turkish charge d’affaires Ahmet Yazal, but denied it was a “protest.”

read more at YAHOO! NEWS

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Enough to make you want to stay home on Sundays.

JERRY FALWELL (with Pat Robertson agreeing): And I agree totally with you that the Lord has protected us so wonderfully these 225 years. [...] I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way — all of them who have tried to secularize America — I point the finger in their face and say “you helped this (the 9/11 attacks) happen.”

The Lord protected us, wonderfully, for 225 years? Tell that to African-Americans whom God allowed to be wonderfully enslaved, humiliated and often-times, murdered for no other reason than having a different color skin. (Maybe they believe only whites are the chosen ones?) -Buck

Pat Robertson calls for assassination of Hugo Chavez: The religious broadcaster suggested on-air that American operatives assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to stop his country from becoming “a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism.”

Fred Waldron Phelps: Pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), listed as a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center. He is known for preaching with slogans and banners denoting phrases such as “Thank God for 9/11″, “God hates fags,” “AIDS cures fags,” and “Fags die, God laughs (or mocks),” and claims that God will punish homosexuals as well as people such as Bill O’Reilly, Coretta Scott King, Ronald Reagan, and Howard Dean, whom his church considers “fag-enablers”. He has also thanked God for the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

The Mark Foley scandal: Soliciting e-mails and sexually explicit instant messages sent by Republican Mark Foley to young men who had formerly served as congressional pages.

And this, from MSNBC.com:

Wife sentenced in preacher’s death

She gets 3 years, but may end up serving just one more week

Mary Winkler

SELMER, Tenn. - The case against a small-town preacher’s wife who shot her husband started out being eligible for the death penalty. It likely ended Friday with a sentence that could mean she has just a week left behind bars.
[...]

Prosecutors said she was trying to cover up a check-kiting scheme when she killed Matthew Winkler with a shotgun blast to the back as he lay in bed. Jurors convicted her of the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter in April after she testified that he hit and kicked her, emotionally abused her, forced her to look at pornography and demanded sex she considered unnatural.

Sadly, I could go on…

UPDATE: Mary Winkler must serve 210 days, or about seven months, of her sentence before she can be released on probation, but she gets credit for the five months she has already spent in jail, Judge Weber McCraw said. -CNN

(h/t: The other Buck)

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I wonder what the ‘decider’ thinks of this?..

Bush nominee worries Iraq can’t do more

Lute doubts Iraqi government’s ability to assume control of country

Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination to be Deputy National Security Advisor for Irag and Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON - The Army general picked by President George W. Bush to become his war adviser said Thursday he has serious misgivings about the Iraqi government’s ability to take control of the country, no matter how much pressure the United States applies.

“The question in my mind is not to what extent can we force them or lever them to a particular outcome but rather to what degree do they actually have the capacity themselves to produce that outcome,” Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute said during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

“And if produced or if pressed too hard will we, in turn, end up with an outcome that isn’t really worth the paper it’s written on?” he added.
[...]

“Wake up,” Republican Sen. John Warner said in response to Lute’s suggestion that Americans should be more patient with the embryonic democracy in Baghdad. “We’re paying a heavy price for them to establish this government.”
[...]

“How much more time should we give after four years in Iraq?” asked (panel chairman Sen. Carl) Levin.

Full article at MSNBC.com

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Can you say “rat-bastard”?

While in Rome, Bush holds his first meeting with Pope Benedict XVI. Several topics were discussed, including U.S. efforts to battle AIDS in Africa. (Bush, with a straight face, states, “I-ve got a very strong AIDS initiative.”)

The pope then asks Bush about his meeting with Putin:

“The dialogue with Putin was also good?” the pope asked.

Bush, apparently eyeing photographers and reporters who were about to be escorted from the room, (emphasis mine) replied: “Umm. I-ll tell you in a minute.”

Full article at MSNBC.com

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Major League Baseball

American League

Eastern Division - Boston Red Sox 10 1/2 game lead over 2nd place Baltimore

Central Division - Cleveland Indians 2 1/2 game lead over 2nd place Detroit

Western Division - Los Angeles Angels 5 1/2 game lead over 2nd place Seattle

National League

Eastern Division - New York Mets 4 1/2 game lead over 2nd place Atlanta

Central Division - Milwaukee Brewers 5 game lead over 2nd place Chicago Cubs

Western Division - San Diego Padres 1 game lead over Arizona

National Basketball Association Finals

San Antonio Spurs lead their best of seven game series over Cleveland 1-0

National Hockey League

The Anaheim Ducks win The Stanley Cup, beating the Ottawa Senators in their best of seven series 4-1.

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from UPI.COM

ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 8 (UPI) — Just days after a plane crash left a man without donor lungs in Ann Arbor, Mich., he was in stable condition Friday with a new set of lungs.

The 50-year-old man’s first set of donor lungs was lost when the plane carrying them crashed into Lake Michigan Monday, The Detroit Free Press reported.

Dr. Andrew Chang, surgical director at the University of Michigan, said Friday the patient would most likely have died without the transplant.

The recipient had chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder. His name is being withheld at the request of his family.

Chang said the man would remain hospitalized until he can breathe on his own.

Dr. Jeffrey Punch, director of the university’s division of transplantation, said during the procedure the surgical team was “perhaps a little more nervous than usual” because they “didn’t want things to fall through a second time.”

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from UPI.COM

Yale University Professor and conservative icon Robert Bork has sued the Yale Club in New York, seeking more than $1 million in damages.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court in Manhattan, involves injuries Bork suffered in June 2006 in a fall at the club. Bork fell from a dais at an event in a banquet room at the club sponsored by The New Criterion magazine.

“Because of the unreasonable height of the dais, without stairs or a handrail, Mr. Bork fell backwards … striking his left leg on the side of the dais and striking his head on a heat register,” Bork said in court papers.

Bork required surgery and was unable to work for months.

A former solicitor general of the United States and federal appellate judge, Bork is best known for his failed nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1987. President Ronald Reagan named him to the high court but Bork failed to win confirmation from the Senate after contentious hearings.

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