Entries Tagged as ‘The Middle East’

March 21, 2008

What up, Peeps?

Friday, 03.21.08 Posted by: Mebz
Greetings from a flooded Missouri. (Send Boat!)  Happy Good Friday and early Easter to everyone!

Usually, I’m a purest.  Particularly with my Peeps, the yellow have been good enough for years.  But I recently had the new green variety, and I must say they are tasty.  Anyone else have opinions on the expanding color palette of [...]

March 20, 2008

John King’s Week Abroad

03.20.08 Posted By Millie
Sorry that it has been a slow week here for us at Johnthenewsking…
To be honest, this whole John Mcain trip, while certainly newsworthy, just doesn’t appeal enough to me to cover in this blog. There are plenty of other places to check out information on McCain’s trip abroad… cnn.com [...]

February 29, 2008

Leap Day

Friday, 2.29.08  Posted by: Mebz
It’s Leap Day, People! That means today, like Presidential elections, only comes once every 4 years, good news for 48 year olds everywhere-they finally turn 12! It is also the only day I vaguely associate with frogs.

CNN has decided to celebrate this time-space anomaly with MORE POLITCAL COVERAGE! WOO0000oooooo… [...]

November 5, 2007

Short But Sweet

Monday, 11.05.07
Here’s an interesting little find from myspacetv. A soldier named Jimmy had a video camera on hand when John was in Kuwait. There is no indication of exactly when this was taken, or where in Kuwait it was filmed, but in the clip you see John laughing and carrying on with some soldiers.

The only [...]

September 5, 2007

“A Pampers Moment”

Wednesday, 9.05.07
In early August, when John sat down for a Q and A with us, he mentioned that he had been in the middle of a “dicey” situation while covering a battle in Khafji, Saudia Arabia, during the 1991 Gulf War.
Here is what John had to say:
Question: What is your proudest moment as a [...]