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And that priest will fly, fly away... but hopefully not in the manner of Elijah...

I kid because it's pretty hopeful they'll find him OK.

Quoted: Rescue workers on Monday searched the waters off the coast of southern Brazil for a Roman Catholic priest who has been missing for more than 24 hours after lifting off with 1,000 large helium-filled party balloons. (April 21)

Obama finally says something on this. It was an obvious strategy from the start; he should have said something sooner. Not that I don't like the idea of a joint ticket (no matter who's on top...)!

Quoted: COLUMBUS, Mississippi (Reuters) - Barack Obama on Monday ridiculed rival Hillary Clinton's repeated hints she would take him for the No. 2 spot on her presidential ticket, accusing her of playing political games...

Well, DUH.

Quoted: A Belgian writer has admitted that she made up her best-selling "memoir" depicting how, as a Jewish child, she lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust, her lawyers said Friday.

One question answered about who will be on the November ballot, anyway. Should be interesting!

Quoted: "If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win. And in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign, be a part of aiding a surrender to terror," Romney will say...

Talk about a tumultuous situation. Sad.

Quoted: Fueled by cheap cell phone calls and the rise of 24-hour television news channels, gossip about who is to blame for Pakistan's woes runs from the reasonable to the ridiculous.

Sad, sad, sad

Quoted: While the twins' injuries are consistent with shaken baby syndrome, experts now are expanding that term to include a range of other traumatic injuries to infants caused by frustrated adults, such as the other girl's broken legs. "We're moving away from the term 'shaken baby syndrome.' It's abuse is what we're talking about," said Carol Jenkins, manager of the children's protection program at Children's. "What we're looking at are the injuries that happen to a child."

Audio slideshow of the Monroe Community Concert Band. They sounded great!

Quoted: Legendary US daredevil Evel Knievel, famous for his death-defying motorcycle stunts, dies aged 69.

Krista's story made A1 of the Washington Post in at least some editions. Not that *that's* a big deal or anything... (!)

Quoted: CARACAS, Venezuela -- Every Sunday, Ana González wears one of her best suits to attend Las Acacias, the largest evangelical Christian church in Caracas.