The Red, White, and Blue

The Americans are going for the gold - in gold. The U.S. women's team unveiled its jerseys for the upcoming World Cup, and the look certainly is distinctive. The primary jersey is gold, with red, white and blue trimming. "This is a statement Nike and the rest of us are taking on," scoring leader Abby Wambach said Thursday at the first public showing of the uniform. "We believe we can win the World Cup. Seeing how we're No. 1 in the world, we're going into this tournament with all the confidence in the world."
Does this bother anyone else? Would any other country reject their national colors? I won't be watching the World Cup anyway, but if I turned it on I wouldn't even know it was America's team. I hope there is enough reaction that Nike decides to change the jersey colors back to the red, white, and blue. Plus the arrogance inferred by wearing gold and coming in ranked #1 is just asking for other teams to KTFAs.












On the heels of Die Hard 4 (Live Free or Die Hard), Entertainment Weekly ranked the movies that delivered the biggest bang for the buck, from No. 25 to No. 1

25 - The Incredibles
24 - Lethal Weapon
23 - Drunken Master II
22 - Predator
21 - Spiderman 2
20 - Kill Bill Vol. 1
19 - Goldfinger
18 - Adventures of Robin Hood
17 - The Bourne Supremacy
16 - Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
15 - Enter the Dragon
14 - Robocop
13 - The Wild Bunch
12 - The Empire Strikes Back
11 - Speed
10 - Terminator 2
9 - Hard Boiled
8 - Saving Private Ryan
7 - Galadiator
6 - Seven Samurai
5 - The Matrix
4 - The Road Warrior
3 - Raiders of the Lost Ark
2 - Aliens
1 - Die Hard

Iraq watch- The U.S. may be able to reduce combat forces in Iraq by next spring if Iraq's own security forces continue to grow and improve, a senior American commander said Friday. He denied reports the U.S. is arming Sunni insurgent groups to help in the fight against al-Qaida. Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno, the top day-to-day commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, did not predict any reductions in U.S. forces but said such redeployments may be feasible by spring. There are currently 156,000 U.S. troops in Iraq.

Immigration news- U.S. Border Patrol agents say illegal immigrants are being given a potentially deadly cocktail of energy-generating items in hopes of speeding up their mad dash into the country, but agents are worried that the items may be increasing dehydration and leading to death in the baking hot brush country, 1200 WOAI news reports today. "They're giving them what we call a 'triple stacker'," Border Patrol agent Jesus Rodriguez says. "That consists of an ephedrine-type bill, along with an aspirin, along with making them drink Red Bull."

One of the largest UFOs ever seen has been observed by the crew and passengers of an airliner over the Channel Islands. An official air-miss report on the incident several weeks ago appears in Pilot magazine.Aurigny Airlines captain Ray Bowyer, 50, flying close to Alderney first spotted the object, described as "a cigar-shaped brilliant white light". Aurigny Airlines captain Ray Bowyer, 50, described what he thought to be a UFO as 'a cigar-shaped brilliant white light', similar to the image supplied by Dennis Plunket of the British Flying Saucer bureauAs the plane got closer the captain viewed it through binoculars and said: "It was a very sharp, thin yellow object with a green area. "It was 2,000ft up and stationary. I thought it was about 10 miles away, although I later realised it was approximately 40 miles from us. At first, I thought it was the size of a [Boeing] 737.







Her parents knew Georgia Brown was bright. After all, she could count to ten, recognised her colours and was even starting to dabble with French. But it was only when their bubbly little two-year-old took an IQ test that her towering intellect was confirmed. Georgia has become the youngest female member of Mensa after scoring a genius-rated IQ of 152. This puts her in the same intellectual league, proportionate to her age, as physicist Stephen Hawking. According to an expert in gifted children, Georgia is the brightest two-year-old she has ever met.