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The Earth's Only Superpower

Friday, August 30, 2002

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• TITLE: "The Earth's Only Superpower" There is only one. And we're it.

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  Chapter 5 is the new edition of the Mullings Dog Days Tour Travelogue!
  Chapter 1: San Antonio
  Chapter 2: The Flight to Las Vegas
  Chapter 3: I Take Las Vegas by Storm
  Chapter 4: WD-40 or Fight
  Chapter 5: The Magic Gulag

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• "... Kvetching ..." From Merriam-Webster's unabridged:

  Pronunciation: kvech, kfe-, k vech
  Function: intransitive verb
  Inflected Form(s): -ed/-ing/-es
  Etymology: Yiddish kvetshn, literally, to squeeze, pinch, from Middle High German quetschen -- quetch: a dry white Alsatian brandy distilled from fermented plum juice
  1:To complain habitually : Gripe <kvetches constantly...

  "... USA Today ..." Here's a link to the USA Today piece on Afghanistan.
  This is a photo of the photo by Ami Vitale which was on the front page of USA Today. For reasons which are not immediately apparent to me, USA Today did not post this photo along with the story.

  USA Today, it appears, was trying to find a new "Afghan Woman" like the one which graced the cover of National Geographic Magazine in 1985. After the defeat of the Taliban, Geographic photographer, Steve McCurry went back and found the same woman, who was identified as Sharbat Gula, by comparing the iris patterns in her eyes:
  
  

  "... CHF International ..." Here's a link to the CHF International web site. Not only is CHF International is based in Silver Spring, Maryland.
  
  
                Marshall Plan Poster
  The words over the Capitol Dome in the
  background read: "Marshall Plan Delay."
  The bear in the foreground represents
  the Soviet Union.

  
  

      Mullings' Catchy Caption of the Day:
  

  
  Democratic Congressmen Earl Blumenauer of
  Oregon, Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, and George
  Miller of California are using YOUR tax dollars
  in Johannesburg to criticize President Bush.

  ( AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills) ____________________________________________________________________________________