Live from the Neshoba County Courthouse Vice President Dick Cheney strongly defended the appointment of Mohamed ElBaradei to a third term as head of the UN's nuclear watchdog also according to Cheney, for the last month and a half, a gargantuan news story has been slowly gaining coverage in the US, though it should have exploded across the front pages as soon as it was reported, Michael Jackson is now free to be everything that makes us so uneasy. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had this to say about Jackson "he's free to Resume Sleepovers with whomever he likes at his earliest convenience" but according to Tom Cruise and Kathie Holmes (who by the way says Tom is no Johnny Holmes) insist that President Bush is also free to resume sleepovers with whomever he likes at his earliest convenience; Terrifying Aliens, Destiny's Child, Batman, Lindsay Lohan, Cameron Diaz, Halle Berry, Reese Witherspoon, the San Antonio Spurs, Annika Sorenstam, Shawn Estes, England, Canada, Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali, Serena Williams and even Laura Bush. White House officials quickly tried to deflect Kathie Holmes comment about Tom vs Johnny by saying Rangers second baseman Alfonso Soriano has been chosen to the Iraqi court trying Saddam Hussein who noted that Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, warned Tony Blair yesterday that former Soviet states such as Georgia and Tajikistan needed as much help as Africa if they were not to become a battlefield like Israel. On a lighter note, A powerful 7.9-magnitude earthquake shook Chile's northern mining region on Monday, causing at least eight deaths.