EL DORADO, Kan. (AP) - A missing Kansas boy’s adoptive parents, who failed to report his disappearance for nearly a decade, are considered “people of interest” in the case as authorities expand their search nationwide, a sheriff said Monday.

Investigators were focused on finding Adam Herrman, who was 11 when he disappeared in 1999 from a mobile home park in Towanda where he lived, Butler County Sheriff Craig Murphy said.

Authorities only recently learned he was missing, and would not say whether they believed he was still alive.

“We are working it as if it is a death - but we are not leaning one way or the other,” Murphy said.

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Search begins for Kansas boy missing 10 years

OK, this story is in NO WAY a funny story but my 1st reaction was “What the hell?”, the boy has been missing for 10 years and the search is just now underway? Too soon maybe? What the hell?

Then I clicked on the link and got the story. It seems to me that the MSM is drastically lacking in the skilled writers department! Talk about a deceiving headline. But, maybe they do that to get you to actually READ their stories. There has to be a method to the madness and that’s the only one I can come up with.

And then there’s this:

Eating Less Thwarts Middle-Aged Weight Gain

Lots of experts disagree over the seemingly obvious notion of keeping weight off by trying to eat less – a debate that centers on whether the practice backfires, leading to binging and weight gain.

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Eating Less Thwarts Middle-Aged Weight Gain

Brilliance!! Sheer brilliance I tell you. Who would have figured that out? Pure *rocket science*.

If I eat less I won’t be so fat. Who’d a thunk it??

Richardson withdraws bid to be commerce secretary

WASHINGTON (AP) - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Sunday announced that he was withdrawing his nomination to be President-elect Barack Obama’s commerce secretary amid a grand jury investigation into how some of his political donors won a lucrative state contract.

Richardson’s withdrawal was the first disruption of Obama’s Cabinet process and the second “pay-to-play” investigation that has touched Obama’s transition to the presidency. The president-elect has remained above the fray in both the case of arrested Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and the New Mexico case.

A federal grand jury is investigating how a California company that contributed to Richardson’s political activities won a New Mexico transportation contract worth more than $1 million. Richardson said in a statement issued by the Obama transition office that the investigation could take weeks or months but expressed confidence it will show he and his administration acted properly.

“I have concluded that the ongoing investigation also would have forced an untenable delay in the confirmation process,” Richardson said. “Given the gravity of the economic situation the nation is facing, I could not in good conscience ask the president-elect and his administration to delay for one day the important work that needs to be done.”

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Richardson withdraws bid to be commerce secretary

Unlike some, I am not going to label this as *rats and a sinking ship*, not yet. The Obamanation isn’t sinking, he’s just looking like he’s made a few bad choices and has a few friends he shouldn’t have. You KNOW that’s how the DNC is going to spin it!

Pay to play, I like that phrase. You start with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his attempt to SELL the senate seat that Obama is vacating, now Richardson and his investigation. Maybe politics doesn’t pay as much as it should. Maybe the guys are just trying to supplement their income in these tough financial times. Yeah, that it, supplemental income…

Muslims around the world protest Gaza assault

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Thousands protested Friday against Israel’s air offensive targeting Hamas at demonstrations in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe and South America.

Similar protests have been held daily across the Middle East since Israel launched the bombing campaign last Saturday. But these gatherings held mostly after Friday prayers were larger - mainly because Friday prayers are a traditional gathering opportunity for Muslims - and seemed to be more far-reaching in the number of countries where protests occurred.

The Israeli offensive has killed more than 400 Palestinians and sparked outrage among the Arab public. Israel says its offensive is aimed at silencing Hamas rockets.

In Tehran, a crowd of about 6,000 stretching for a half-mile (kilometer) marched from prayers at Tehran University to Palestine Square, chanting “Death to Israel” and “Death to America” and burning Israeli flags.

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Muslims around the world protest Gaza assault

To ALL of Islam, each and every one of you Islamic, Muslim, rag wearing, goat loving, Allah believing, *religion of hate and death* moonbats can, individually or collectively:

Where was your outrage when Hamas was launching rockets into Israel? Where was your outrage when al-Qaida flew airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon?

Your hypocrisy has come back to bite you. You are exposed, as is those that support you. Die Islam. Die Hamas. You are finally being given the punishment you so richly deserve!

Israel destroys Hamas homes, flattens Gaza mosque

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israel bombed a mosque it said was used to store weapons and destroyed the homes of more than a dozen Hamas operatives Friday, but under international pressure, the government allowed hundreds of Palestinians with foreign passports to leave besieged Gaza.

Israel has been building up artillery, armor and infantry on Gaza’s border in an indication the week-old air assault on Gaza’s Hamas rulers could soon expand with a ground incursion.

At the same time, international calls for a cease-fire have been growing, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy is expected in the region next week to push for a halt to the violence. Israel has so far been cool to a truce, and in a setback for diplomatic efforts, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she had no plans to come to the region.

“Hamas has held the people of Gaza hostage ever since their illegal coup against the forces of President Mahmoud Abbas,” she said. Hamas seized control of Gaza from Abbas’ Fatah forces in 2007 and Abbas set up a rival government in the West Bank.

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Israel destroys Hamas homes, flattens Gaza mosque

Israel bombed a mosque? Well, the world will go off on that atrocity I am guessing. I am NOT the world, I applaud Israel for striking targets where the targets are.

Anyone that has been reading my blog since I started the original on Blogger is fully aware of the outrage I expressed when we, the USA, and our leaders, failed to conduct the operations necessary when the Mahdi army and Muqtada al-Sadr were holed up in a mosque in Najaf and were KILLING our U.S. Marines from behind the walls OF said mosque.

I am NOT a politically correct person. I am a long ways from PC and have no use for anyone that is, so this next statement will NOT surprise any that are familiar with my blog. I don’t care if they are holed up in 1st Baptist Church in downtown Shreveport, if I am taking fire from that church, it just stopped being a church and has now become a *target of opportunity*.

It appears that Israeli military leaders feel the same way, and that is exactly how war needs to be prosecuted! The cretins of Islam, the *religion of peace*, will use their Koran to justify the killing of all that they consider to be *infidels* and then attempt to mask their activities by conducting war-like actions from within the walls OF a mosque. And when they are being engaged by opposition troops, they seek shelter and safety within those same walls as well.

Muslims are the epitome of hypocrisy. They talk out of both sides of their hypocritical mouths at the same time. Peace and war. When WAR and death are all they really want!

Looks like the rules may have changed for Hamas in Palestine!