This Week in the Mercury
Monday, June 14, 2010
News Good Morning, News!
Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:30 AM
Obama is visiting the gulf states to observe the oil spill disaster and will address the nation with his plan (to hopefully string BP up by their testicles) on Tuesday night.
It's been called a "humanitarian catastrophe" as at least 100,00 Uzbeks flee ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan.
A flash flood kills 19 (at latest count) in an Arkansas campground.
Jimmy Dean (maker of country music and more importantly, sausage) dies at the age of 81.
Democratic party leaders plan to launch an investigation into Alvin Greene's VERY suspicious win in last week's South Carolina primary.
Local officials are now calling the search for 7-year-old Kyron Horman a "criminal investigation."
Now here's what's going on in your neck of the woods: DRY! Cloudy-ish for the next few days with sun returning in force by Thursday.
And finally, a kid gets his wiggly baby tooth yanked out of his head... BY A MODEL ROCKET. I'm with the kid in the background pleading, "Don't do that, daddy!"
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