Situation Normal

Isn't it nice to know that the US media thinks that the most important story since this past weekend isn't the ongoing problems with trying to get a ceasefire to stick between Israel and Hizbullah or the August 22 deadline provided by Iran on what they intend to do about their nuclear program, but that some fruitcake admitted to the 1996 murder of JonBenet Ramsey (and apparently did so about five years ago)What about that case attracts so much attention, even to this day?

I really don't get it. Yet, what it does say is that the media in this country must feel that things are relatively calm and peaceful for them to spend so much time on an unsolved murder when Iran continues its war drums, including attacking a Romanian oil rig in the Persian Gulf.

Of course, there's still the ongoing investigation into the UK airline bomb plot, and 11 of the suspects have been indicted.

Eight were formally charged with conspiracy to murder and plotting to detonate homemade bombs on planes. Three were charged with other terrorism-related offences.

The suspects facing the most serious charges are Abdullah Ahmed Ali, Waheed Arafat Khan, Umar Islam, Tanvir Hussain, Assad Ali Sarwar, Adam Khatib, Ibrahim Savant and Waheed Zaman.

The UN warns of a vacuum in South Lebanon, which is crazy considering that Hizbullah had filled that vacuum ever since Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000. The Lebanese government never sought to maintain control over all its territory, including disarming militias that would carve out their little fiefdoms.