Japanese space agency officials, already forced to temporarily shut down one satellite, said Thursday they had lost contact with a second satellite that may have been affected by an electromagnetic storm caused by the largest solar flare observed in decades.

"We have completely lost touch with the Midori 2, and don't know what's going on with it," said Junichi Moriuma, a spokesman for the agency, known as JAXA. He said the agency is trying to restore communications.

It's always comforting to know there are two melon flavored satellites orbitting the Earth, just in case.

The economy grew at a scorching 7.2 percent annual rate in the third quarter in the strongest pace in nearly two decades. Consumers spent with abandon and businesses ramped up investment, compelling new evidence of an economic resurgence.

The increase in gross domestic product, the broadest measure of the economy's performance, in the July-September quarter was more than double the 3.3 percent rate registered in the second quarter, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.

How long will it take for someone to explain this away?

SENATOR ZELL MILLER OF GEORGIA, the nation's most prominent conservative Democrat, said today he will endorse President Bush for re-election in 2004 and campaign for him if Bush wishes him to. Miller said Bush is "the right man at the right time" to govern the country.

The next five years "will determine the kind of world my children and grandchildren will live in," Miller said in an interview. And he wouldn't "trust" any of the nine Democratic presidential candidates with governing during "that crucial period," he said. "This Democrat will vote for President Bush in 2004."

Finally, someone from the Democratic party is speaking sensibly…

Of course, these photographs are fake, right?

Take a look.

Nancy Pelosi (U.S. House Minority Leader)

Why would I bestow her with such an honor? Why would I grant this <cough>champion of the people</cough> an award which is only for those who are totally deserving of it?

Because, in fact, no matter what you think of her, she is totally deserving of it.

U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said on Friday police raids on dozens of U.S. Wal-Mart stores in the search for illegal immigrants this week amounted to "terrorizing" workers.

"It instills a great deal of fear in people who are only trying to earn a living and put food on the table for their family," Pelosi, a California Democrat, told reporters on a Congressional visit to Mexico.

Let us review. She actually thinks that searching for, and rounding up illegal immigrants is "terrorizing'? I doubt many people agree with her on this issue.

The second statement is much, much more important to us, as a country.

"It instills a great deal of fear in people who are only trying to earn a living and put food on the table for their family,"

Excuse me, but what about the AMERICAN citizens and legal residents of this country who, because of the illegal workers, were NOT able to earn a living, and had NO food to put on the table for their families? That's what I call terrorizing.

Congratulations, Rep. Pelosi, you have reaffirmed my statement (from the first award), which stated:

"…the Democratic party really should step back, re-group, and start standing for something. ANYTHING!. If they would stand on their principles and hold members of their own party accountable for their actions, they might return honesty, integrity, and respect to their party. You can only stand upright so long without a backbone."

The fact is, Rep. Pelosi told the crowd in Mexico exactly what they wanted to hear, at the expense of honest, hardworking, American families, and for THAT she is a moron.