All up in there!

God, I love this country! Who would have pictured Strom Thurmond as the gift that keeps on giving? It seems that Al Sharpton has learned that his people were once owned by Stroms people. Oopps. That'd be "Uncle Strom" to you: racist, rapist, segregationist, dixiecrat. Oh, and it gets better: geneologists have suggested that Reverend Sharpton might be a descendant of Thurmonds great great grandfather. Now Al wants a DNA test to see if he's got the taint. Man, that's gotta burn.

Sharpton 'shocked' by link to Thurmond's family

Doris Strom Costner, a distant cousin who said she knew the late senator all her life, said Sunday she "never heard of such a thing."

"My momma never would talk to me about nothing like that," Costner said of ancestors who owned slaves. "She only talked to me about good things."

No Safe Harbor

"It's OK. I'm alright."

Cheney OK after blast outside Afghan base

After a long week on the run from a verdict in the Scooter Libby trial, Dick Cheney cheated death yet again as a suicide bomb exploded at the main security gate at Bagram air base in Afghanistan. 23 people were killed and many more injured, but the Dick made his flight.

Maj. William Mitchell said it did not appear the explosion was intended as a threat to the Vice President. However, a purported Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, said Cheney was the target of the attack.

"We knew that Dick Cheney would be staying inside the base," Ahmadi told The Associated Press by telephone. "The attacker was trying to reach Cheney."

The event comes several days into Mr. Cheney's spontaneous and hastily extended 'round the world trip, which so far has included stops in Japan and Australia, and suprise visits to Singapore, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Meanwhile, back at home and seeming to correspond with the Vice President's jaunt, jury deliberations resumed in the Scooter Libby trial today with one less member, as the Judge overseeing the case removed one juror and declined to seat an alternate.

Run Dick, run.