bRight & Early

I had planned to post more today. I should have had the time. It just didn’t work out that way.
Of course the big news is the cease-fire in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. To discribe this as fragile would be overstating reality.
Also in the Mid East is the story of the two FOX-TV [...]

Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul. ~ Isak Dinesen
Blue Crab Boulevard Sanity? — “More Muslims have been saved from death in the past decade by the Western governments than by the Muslim governments. More Muslims have been killed by the [...]

Forgive me if I quote the whole story, but this is the shortest AP piece I’ve ever seen:
HAVANA - Raul Castro made his first public appearance since being named Cuba’s provisional president, greeting Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez at the airport Sunday.
I’m guessing that further details will be forthcoming.

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Tags: Cuba, fidel castro, Hugo Chavez, Raul [...]

I guess he looks alive. He’s probably getting ready to take a little jog on his 80th birthday. The picture is just ripe for some fisking, photoshopping (if it hasn’t been already) or captioning.

CNN is reporting this from the U.S. State Dept.:
The prolonged disappearance of Fidel Castro from public view indicates that the Cuban president is confronting “serious” health problems, a senior U.S. State Department official said Friday.
Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Shannon, briefing reporters, also said he believes that Castro’s attempt to turn over power to his [...]

The story of an obscure Cuban legend is being reported in today’s Miami Herald:
News of Fidel Castro’s illness has renewed interest in an obscure legend involving Cuba’s patron saint and her prediction to a priest 150 years ago that one day Cubans would be enslaved by a bearded young leader — who then dies during [...]

Sitting at home with my high-speed connection, my cold Dr. Pepper, and all the blessings of being a free American, this story truly brings home some of the things that are easily taken for granted:
LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ
Associated Press Writer
MIAMI
Dissidents in Cuba’s eastern provinces said Friday the country’s military has beefed up its presence on the streets [...]

The drink that comforteth the brain and heart and helpeth digestion. ~ Sir Francis Bacon
Captain’s Quarters (Ed Morrissey) There’s Gotta Be Irony In Here Somewhere — “Israeli PM Ehud Olmert has told an interviewer that he wants German troops in any international force protecting the Jewish state.”
Iowa Voice (Brian) Senate Dems Block Minimum Wage Bill [...]