New Sanctions.........

There was international condemnation after North Korea fired a Unha-2 rocket in April 2009. The South Korean cable news channel YTN has reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has cancer and may not live more than five years.

A U.N. Security Council panel imposed new sanctions Thursday against North Korean officials and companies aimed at curbing the nation's nuclear defiance. The designations need no further approval and are effective immediately. The panel banned nations from selling North Korea two types of goods used in ballistic missile parts: graphite designed or specified for use in electrical discharge machining; and para-aramid fiber, filament and tape, which is a Kevlar-like material.

Britain's People Speak Out.........

A British police officer gestures to the anti-war protesters to move away from the gate as they demonstrate outside Downing Street in London calling for British troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan, Monday, July 13, 2009. Britain lost eight soldiers within a 24 hour period that ended Friday last week and pushed Britain's overall death toll in Afghanistan to 184. This looks familiar, wouldn't you say? The American people have done this type of thing time and time again. I wonder if they will accomplish anymore than the American's did? No one wants lives to be wasted. It's a term of war that all people throughout the world have come to acknowledge.

Who Controls Who.........

If you've ever wondered who's in control, you or your cat, a new study points to the obvious. It's your cat.

Household cats exercise this control with a certain type of urgent-sounding, high-pitched meow, according to the findings.

This meow is actually a purr mixed with a high-pitched cry. While people usually think of cat purring as a sign of happiness, some cats make this purr-cry sound when they want to be fed. The study showed that humans find these mixed calls annoying and difficult to ignore.

This is my pain in the backside, and he definitely knows how to push his weight around, where I'm concerned. I really do alot of chasing and scolding to this little imp. He trys his very best and gets right up under my skin.

Local Soldier.....Serving.........

HM3 Simon Trujillo, a medic from Dallas, TX attached to the U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 1st Battalion 5th Marines mans the company's radio inside a compound in the Nawa district of Afghanistan's Helmand province Saturday, July 11, 2009. Bomb blasts killed four U.S. Marines in Afghanistan's dangerous south, where thousands of American forces have deployed in a massive operation to oust Taliban fighters from the country's opium poppy region, officials said Sunday.

McNair's Memorial Service......

In death he was mourned as a good guy, and it is said that he did more good than bad. His wife Michelle, did not allow the news to take pictures of the family. Asking that they be left to deal with this tragedy in peace. Former Titans players, served as pallbearers as the casket of McNair is removed from the memorial service, in Nashville, TN, Thursday, July 9, 2009.