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Big News

President Bush said Thursday it's hard to read North Korea's motives for firing missiles into the Sea of Japan. The President says he's been checking the papers for North Korean leaks, but right now all his favorite tabloids are too busy racing to see who gets the first interview with Ken Lay.

July 7th

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter celebrate their wedding anniversary on July 7th. To show their love Rosalynn knitted Jimmy a new tool pouch, and he built her a house in the backyard for disadvantaged birds.
- Later today everybody in Plains is invited over for lemonade and peanut sherbet.

The Calgary Stampede begins July 7th. The big event at the Calgary Stampede is the chuckwagon races. That's where teams of deranged cowboys throw their campstoves in a covered wagon and race around and around behind six lunatic horses.
- People travel thousands of miles to watch this -- even though all they can see is dust.
- Can you imagine how popular this sport would be if they did it on ice?

Joan of Arc was acquitted on July 7th in 1456. Unfortunately, she had already been burned at the stake, which tended to temper somewhat the joy of the occasion.
- That's the trouble with the death sentence -- it's very hard to reverse.

July 7th is Saba Saba Day in Tanzania, Tanabata Day in Japan, and on July 7th in 1828 Charles Green of London made an hour-long flight in a balloon while riding a pony.
- Sounds like a great day for a party at the state hospital.

Love & Learn

Stressed Moms Need to Concentrate on Relief - Being a mom is hard work, whether you are an at-home mom or work a full-time job outside the home. There are just so many hours in a day, and when it seems like there aren't enough, life can get hectic. Here's what to do about it.

DVD Select - Newest and best available on DVDs, including The Matador, The Libertine, Stoned, Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing and Charm School, Imagine Me & You, Charlie's Angels Season 3, and Dr. Who The Complete First Series.

Laughing: It's Just Plain Fun - The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

Parent Care - Look for telltale signs older driver should give up keys.

Now, today's driving tip.

Remember, when you rear-end a BMW, be sure to hit it hard enough to knock the phone out of the driver's hand.

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July 6th

Sylvester Stallone was born on July 6th in 1946. Sly still looks good, but I shudder to think what he'll look like when all those muscles start to sag.

Louis Pasteur gave the first anti-rabies shot to a young boy on July 6th in 1885. Then, to see if the shot worked, the kid had to undergo a series of painful mad dog bites.

On July 6th in 1535 King Henry the 8th had Sir Thomas More beheaded because Sir Thomas refused to sanction Henry's marriage. Henry had a violent temper, and every time he lost his head so did somebody else.

The Father of the U.S. Navy, John Paul Jones, was born on July 6th in 1747. In 1899, the U.S. Navy spent a million dollars to move John Paul's body from under a Paris apartment house to a $2 million tomb at the U.S. Naval Academy. At the dedication, a U.S. Senator stood atop the tomb and uttered that famous phrase, "I have just begun to spend."

Love & Learn

To Be Equal - Transforming prison culture to produce productive citizens not hardened criminals.

Lloyd Grove - Ethnic group and Trudeau are polls apart.

Lifewire - Test for abdominal aortic aneurysm is recommended.

Widow's Diamond Ring Keeps Husband's Memory Close By - When Patricia Biedenbach's husband Don died, she wasn't ready to let him go. So she decided to have his cremated remains made into a diamond ring. And she's glad she did.

Films in Focus: New & Recent Releases - Quick reviews and rating of newly released films: The Devil Wears Prada, Superman Returns, Waist Deep, Click, Nacho Libre, Cars, A Prairie Home Companion, The Breakup, Wah-Wah, X-Men: The Last Stand, The Lost City.

Editorial: Smash the Presses - Newspaper reporters and editors make judgments every working hour about what they will deliver to their readers. When it comes to national security, this demands a careful balancing of the public's legitimate right to know against the government's legitimate need to protect state secrets.

Today's intriguingly stupid question

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what do you think a humanitarian eats?

Shallow Thoughts

I learned so much in school it took me years to forget it all.

Anybody who thinks marriage is a 50-50 proposition doesn't know the half of it.

A night at the ballpark's not much fun anymore. If the mosquitoes don't put the bite on you, the hotdog vendors will.