An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Morning Coffee 6/28/07
Car Bomb Kills at Least 22 in Iraq, 20 Found Beheaded
BAGHDAD, June 28 — A massive car bomb exploded at a street-side bus depot during Baghdad’s Thursday morning rush hour, killing at least 22 people and wounding more than 40 others in a tremendous explosion that set fire to scores of vehicles, Iraqi police said.
I’m at the point, they can blow themselves to smithereens. I’m just not sure I care anymore. After seeing how they treat their orphans? I’m finding it difficult to have any compassion.
Man With Headache Finds Bullet in Head
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — A woman was arrested Tuesday after her husband woke up in the middle of the night with a terrible headache and later learned he had a bullet lodged in his head.
Sounds like he seriously chapped her hide.
Northwest’s unreliability irks passengers
Northwest Airlines frequent flier Mike Wingertzahn can recall a time when the airline provided reliable service into and out of Milwaukee’s Mitchell International Airport, where it is the second-busiest carrier.
There use to be a time when airlines actually treated people like people, instead of cattle. Now, they just plain suck. And Northwest is right up there at the top with AirTran on the suckage list.
McMahon: Don’t assume ‘roids in deaths
ATLANTA — World Wrestling Entertainment owner Vince McMahon on Thursday urged people not to assume that steroids played a role in the murder-suicide of pro-wrestler Chris Benoit, his wife and 7-year-old son.
(I thought McMahon was dead.) I’d rather blame this tragedy on ‘roid rage, than to think the man could smother his own child for no reason other than he wanted to.
Thompson’s campaign gets financial boost
Fred Thompson’s late entry into the presidential race shouldn’t hurt his ability to raise the millions of dollars necessary to mount a competitive campaign, according to a political expert.
I don’t think money is going to be Fred’s problem. 
Even though many think he won’t be able to ‘catch up’ with the other candidates, at this point in time, they other candidates should be very concerned, and the bottom tier should just drop out. Actually, one or two at the top should throw in the towel too, considering recent events in the Senate.
Nifong a no-show at removal hearing
DURHAM, N.C. — Disgraced prosecutor Mike Nifong didn’t show up Thursday at a hearing to consider his immediate removal as Durham County district attorney, a position from which is has been suspended and already pledged to resign.
Hmmm….for someone so arrogant, you’d think he’d be front and center.
Court Limits Schools Considering Race
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected school diversity plans that take account of students’ race in two major public school districts but left the door open for using race in limited circumstances.
Honestly, they really need to remove race from any applications….schools, employment, etc.
Pope approves wider use of old Latin Mass
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI has approved a document that relaxes restrictions on celebrating the old Latin Mass used by the Roman Catholic Church for centuries until the modernizing reforms of the 1960s, the Vatican said Thursday.
One of my very best friends has mentioned often how much she misses the Latin Mass. Hope this will make her day.
Hilton reveals little in post-jail interview
Saying her confinement was unfair, the hotel heiress confirms that she suffered panic attacks.
Paris Hilton says she doesn’t have a drinking problem, has never taken drugs and doesn’t believe she deserved to be behind bars.
“I think the crime did not fit the punishment,” the hotel heiress told CNN’s Larry King in a taped interview that aired Wednesday night.
Does anyone really give a happy crap. Poor whining baby! Although, I do have to admit, she looks a heck of a lot better without the ‘war paint’. I guess jail got her out of the hootchie mama faze, at least for a while.
Despite low ratings, House votes for raise
WASHINGTON — Despite record-low approval ratings, House lawmakers Wednesday voted to accept an approximately $4,400 pay raise that will increase their salaries to almost $170,000.
Are they freakin’ kidding? No way do any of them deserve a raise! The majority need to be flippin’ FIRED!
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Just a quick note on the NWA blurb. Amazing that the paper failed to title it: Union backed illegal “sick out” by pilots causes delays. I ahte NWA but in this case it is not their fault. It is the frickin union.
Now why on earth would they say anything about the union? Pfffft! They LIKE unions, and fail to see the damage they have done to almost every aspect of American life.