Can you even imagine watching the evening news in Baghdad?

[Bluebear]

"Good evening, this is Shirin Hassan with the news. Our top story today, 79 were killed and 142 injured in a marketplace bomb in Muqdadiya. A similar car bombing killed 62 across town in the Hurreya district. The bombings brought to 682 civilians killed this month in Baghdad alone.

5 American soldiers died on the road to Baghdad airport when an IED hit their vehicle. Reports are that the vehicle was not equipped with armor sufficient to ward off the blast.

In national news, an air raid in Tikrit killed 29 members of the same extended family who were attending a wedding. The bomb hit a neighboring house where it is suspected that insurgents were hiding. Meanwhile, in Basra, 18 were killed during afternoon prayers when militants stormed their mosque. 22 were kidnapped in addition to those killed.

In news from Ramadi, 28 were killed in a marketplace bombing. This on the heels of a bombing a half hour earlier in Haditha which killed 49 at the market and 18 school children on a school bus which was near the market.

In international news, George W. Bush told a 60 minutes reporter that "the Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of gratitude."

And this just in, there is a total curfew in Baghdad tonight, once again, that will be a total curfew..."

[Botany]

1. And in local Baghdad news

Electricity will be on 2 hours blocks through out the city between 1:00 AM and 11:00 AM

The southeast area of the city will have water and sewer working for 5 hours in the evening

Due to the threat of violence schools will remain closed

Our Cairo reporter will be on shortly interviewing the Dr Ali al Hassin who relocated his medical
practice to Egypt ....

[CrispyQ]

2. If Americans had only a few hours of electricity a day,

OMG, the whining would wipe out all the combined noise of the universe.