July 5, 2008
6:26 AM
9:40 A.M.
BEND, Ore. (AP) - A man has taken flight in a lawn chair hoisted by more than 150 large helium-filled party balloons in a bid to ride the wind from the central Oregon town of Bend all the way to Idaho.
Kent Couch was wearing a parachute Saturday morning as he kissed his wife and kids goodbye, patted his dog and took off at sunrise from his gas station.
This is Couch’s third lawn chair flight in as many years.
He hopes to do better than last year, when he flew 193 miles before running low on helium and had to land in the sagebrush of northeastern Oregon.
12:40 P.M.
Bad Joke Of The Day:
Guy in bar to Girl in bar: “Hey, you with al-Qaeda?”
Girl: “No!”
Guy: ” `Cause you da bomb!”
5:12 PM
Irish woman seeks “husband” for 120 liters of beer
9:41 PM
In a Monday June 9, 2003 file photo, UN inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) work at the nuclear facility in Tuwaitha, Iraq, 50 kms east of Baghdad. The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program _ a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium _ reached a Canadian port Saturday, July 5, 2008, to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das, file)
10:17 PM
Tour of Tuwaitha, Iraq WMD Lab
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