OTTAWA, Canada (Reuters) — Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy — almost impenetrable forests of marijuana plants 10 feet tall.

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“The challenge is that marijuana plants absorb energy, heat very readily. It’s very difficult to penetrate with thermal devices. … And as a result you really have to be careful that the Taliban don’t dodge in and out of those marijuana forests,” he said in a speech in Ottawa, Canada.

“We tried burning them with white phosphorous — it didn’t work. We tried burning them with diesel — it didn’t work. The plants are so full of water right now … that we simply couldn’t burn them,” he said.

Gotta love war…sounds like a scifi movie…BATTLE THE PLANTS…you have got to be kidding…we humans know what humans will do with these plants!!! Puff, puff. Also the last paragraph…tried white phosphorous, tried diesel…I bet they decided to use a match, rolling paper and a doobie clip! Unless the US Forces via Bechtel and Haliburton have some REALLY expensive BONGS developed specifically for this kind of terrain!

KIM JONG-IL is neither insane nor stupid.

From the CIA’s psychological profilers to his many biographers, experts who have studied the North Korean leader believe that beneath the glaring eccentricities – the bouffant hair and oddball Mao Zedong suits – there is a shrewd operator at work.

Anyone want to get what political affiliation this guy has…bet ya a MilkyWay he is  a Republican! 

Team owner: A terrible and shocking tragedy

1.

Terrible:  Causing great fear or alarm; dreadful

Terror: One that instills intense fear

Terrible=Terror=Terrorism

Yankee Pitcher is a terrorist, I hope his name is being added to the no-fly list.  Being alive is NOT a prerequiste for being on the list (watch last weeks 60 MINUTES).

2. BAN all small planes from flying over people…another directive from George Bush.

God  I love the Republicans.  They need their own comedy show on TV…whoop, oh ya…they do.  It is called “the news”.

Other AT LEASTS:

at least no one got a paper cut

no nuclear weapon test took place

no planets in the solar system went out of orbit

no animals were hurt

no additional dental work was needed

no dreams were shattered

Thank you politicians for continued laughs! 

STOCKTON, California (CNN) — Former Rep. Mark Foley was molested by a clergyman when he was between the ages of 13 and 15, his attorney said Tuesday amid allegations that the congressman exchanged inappropriate e-mails and instant messages with teen congressional pages.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she cannot recall former CIA chief George Tenet warning her of an impending al-Qaeda attack in the United States, as a new book claims he did two months before the attacks on September 11, 2001.

“What I am quite certain of is that I would remember if I was told, as this account apparently says, that there was about to be an attack in the United States, and the idea that I would somehow have ignored that I find incomprehensible,” Dr Rice said on Monday.

Calling the incident “an obscene breach of trust,” the congressmen released a statement saying, “[Foley's] immediate resignation must now be followed by the full weight of the criminal justice system.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans will go into the elections with a message that they’ve made great strides fighting illegal immigration, including authorizing a fence along one-third of the U.S.-Mexico border and making a $1.2 billion down payment on it.

Among its final tasks before leaving to campaign, the Senate on Friday night passed and sent to President Bush a bill authorizing 700 miles of fencing on the nearly 2,000-mile long southern border.