| Fred Thompson Surfaces, Resubmerges
We will also admit that we had no idea Fred Thompson had endorsed John McCain. Maybe it's because he released a stealth statement to the Associated Press on a Friday afternoon. That's what you do when you resign after appearing on some escort-service phone list—not when you're endorsing a presidential candidate. McCain could have used a more public blessing, too. The conservative radio mouths calling for his head (Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter) might tone it down a bit if they knew that one-time GOP messiah Fred Thompson was backing him. A message from the ghost of Fred might also have blunted Huckabee's strength among evangelicals. But Fred has always done things his own way. It's as if he wanted to back a winner but didn't want to give McCain the satisfaction of a flashbulb handshake.
GIRL, 7, DIES IN QUAD BIKE CRASH
Young children, even as young as a 7 year old want all the latest gadgets and bikes, etc., whether they are appropriate for their age or not. Parents give in. These are both two very sad stories at Christmastime. My heart goes out to the parents. • Posted by: Rothaymere • Report Comment .
'National Treasure: Book of Secrets' No. 1 For Third Week
The action-adventure snares $20.2 million in its third straight week at No. 1. NICOLAS CAGE's 'National Treasure: Book of Secrets' struck gold yet again, finishing in first place at the box office for the third week in a row, taking in $20.2 million. The sequel to 2004's blockbuster finds Nic rebrandishing his trusty torch as treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates, who must this time track down some long-lost pages from ABRAHAM LINCOLN assassin JOHN WILKES BOOTH's diary. The JERRY BRUCKHEIMER-produced action-adventure co-stars DIANE KRUGER, ED HARRIS, JON VOIGHT and HARVEY KEITEL. 'I Am Legend' rose a spot to reclaim second place, making another $16.3 million. In the big-budget zombie-fest, WILL SMITH fights for survival as the lone human surivor of a worldwide, mutant-brewing plague.
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Foe of pipeline finds plot in lost notebook Notes: 'Ignore negative ...
With several witnesses looking on, including one with a digital camera, Southern Nevada Water Authority staff member Andy Belanger removed the rubber band from the padded notebook and carefully removed its contents. One by one, each document, map and handwritten note was run through a photocopier and returned to its place in the notebook. When a page was copied incorrectly, the duplicate was shown to the witnesses so they could see what it was before it was torn in half and thrown away. The process took more than 15 minutes and was executed with the care of election workers or crime scene investigators. Watching from the doorway of the copy room, a water authority official couldn't help but laugh. "It's not often we have a whodunit," he said. .
Wednesday's total lunar eclipse may be a doozy
It's a good thing none of us are cavemen, or Wednesday night we might find ourselves on a panicked run for ironwood clubs and sharpened mastodon bones. Around 8 p.m., when a total lunar eclipse darkens the moon and imbues it with shades from copper to crimson, we unlike our forebears - will have the advantage of knowing we're in for a really good show. Rain clouds could obscure view of eclipse GRAPHIC: Learn about the lunar eclipse Cavemen weren't so lucky. "In the distant past, people took lunar eclipses as omens of bad things to come. They didn't have the means to understand what was happening," says Claude Haynes, Gilbert sky watcher and East Valley Astronomy Club president. For early man, a blood-red sphere hanging in the sky was a scary thing, a message from an angry god.
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