My Very Exciting Magic Carpet Just Sailed Under Nine Palace Elephants.

Its a good way to remember the 11 planets. Although I coulda sworn when I was in school, there were only 9. hmm.

In a very interesting story, a 16-foot scrub python ate an Australian families dog while their 2 young children watched. The snake swallowed the dog whole in front of their eyes. Apparently this is not uncommon, however the family probably could have figured something was up when 4 days earlier they saw te python hanging out by the dogs enclosure and watching it. The dog was probably being stalked for 4-5 days.
There is a cool picture of this if you follow the link. http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/27/australia.snake.ap/index.html

In even better news, the mayor of Arlington, Oregon was temporarily removed from office after a picture of her posing in lingerie on a fire truck was found on her myspace page. This is one foxy mayor. She was later reinstated. Watch the video, rowr.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/02/27/barker.racy.mayor.photo.katu

Lastly, while I ususally try to steer away from anything involving the Middle East, I have to comment on a particular CNN article I read today. The headline of the article was
Poll: Most Israelis back talks with Hamas,
Now that's fine, the article is talking about Israeli public opinion regarding peace talks.
Now i'm sure CNN tries to pride itself as a non-biased news network so they start talking about how human rights groups are bashing Israel for cutting off some aid to Gaza. Then the article counters with the reasoning behind the blockade is the daily launching of Kassam rockets into Israel. Fine, cool, awesome. Everything is evenly balanced, until they stil in this little gem.
"The rockets rarely travel a significant distance but have occasionally injured and killed people." What is the point of trivializing these rocket attacks. Though, "the rockets rarely travel a significant distance", the author is literally attempting to undermine the blockade by saying, well the bombs don't really reach people usually, so its not so bad.
Imagine that in America, "well, yea he shoots at his neighbors, but the bullets rarely even reach the house next door.." What a fucking rediculous statement! either stay unbiased or state your claims, but please do not try and trivialize human life and violent attacks by spewing crap like this.

That's all.