Just come to my attention as well that _AE_ is a returning member and in the absence of the Welcoming Committee chairman (gross dereliction) and members of the committee I welcome you back.

Normal service has been resumed mwahahahaha.............

p.s. It has been a lovely weekend for those of you who did not notice

Good to see you too LL, i was starting to worry actually

   She´s been posting for the last week 

 Uhmmmm keeping tabs on me are you???

Welcome back _AE_!  I shall start construction on the Grand Re-Opening of the TC Lounge in honor of your return. 

Woman´s Caning Postponed for Ramadan.

KARAI, Malaysia - Malaysia abruptly granted a Ramadan reprieve to the first Muslim Malay woman to be sentenced to caning for drinking beer, but insisted Monday the thrashing would still take place after the Islamic holy month of fasting.

Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, a 32-year-old mother of two, had been en route to a women´s prison for the caning when Islamic officials who took her into custody drove her back home and released her.

Mohamad Sahfri Abdul Aziz, a state legislator in charge of religious affairs, later said the Attorney General´s office advised that the caning should be delayed for compassionate reasons until after the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which began Saturday.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32534618/ns/world_news-asiapacific

How very compassionate and very considered of them..!!

Just fascinated by your tales of delicate stomach and shrinking bosoms

The US army officer convicted for his part in the notorious My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War has offered his first public apology, a US report says.

"There is not a day that goes by that I do not feel remorse for what happened," Lt William Calley was quoted as saying by the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer.

He was addressing a small group at a community club in Columbus, Georgia.

Calley, 66, was convicted on 22 counts of murder for the 1968 massacre of 500 men, women and children in Vietnam.

He was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the killings in 1971. Then-US President Richard Nixon commuted his sentence to three years´ house arrest.

But Calley insisted that he was only following orders, the paper reported.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8215556.stm

 I guess saying sorry makes it all ok then (!!!).  I am sure Teaschip will come up with a good reason as to why they were there in the first place…

If we wait 40 years perhaps we will get an apology for what has happened in Iraq then

A wonderful act of kindness.

Ariz. woman finds taxi driver is a kidney match

Donor cabbie says giving the organ is a ‘whole new kind of lift’

PHOENIX - Rita Van Loenen had no idea that a trip in Thomas Chappell´s taxi cab could end up being the ride that saves her life.

"There are better odds of getting struck by lightning," Van Loenen said. "A random taxi driver offering to give me his kidney and all these pieces match. There has to be something behind this. How can this be?"

Chappell, who has been driving Van Loenen to dialysis appointments, shocked the Gilbert, Ariz., woman a month ago by offering to donate his kidney. But even more shocking to her was that doctors found they had the same blood type, that they were compatible.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32541245/ns/us_news-wonderful_world/?gt1=43001