THIS IS NOT SATIRE…
Jessica Rachel McMaster (née MacMenamin), the woman who coined the term ScrappleFace as a nickname for a family dog, passed away early this morning. Mrs. McMaster is the grandmother of ScrappleFace.com editor Scott Ott, and served as a mother to him and three brothers since the late 1960s.

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(2006-01-30) — Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, today expressed his regrets to ABC News for the injuries sustained by anchor Bob Woodruff and a videographer in what Mr. Zarqawi called, “this tragic incident of friendly fire.”

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(2006-01-30) — Cindy Sheehan, the California woman who parlayed the death of her soldier son into a successful public speaking and writing career, will join Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Tuesday night to deliver the Democrat response to President George Bush’s State of the Union address.

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(2006-01-28) — Rep. Roy Blunt, R-MO, said today that one of his opponents in the race for the House Majority Leader post “lacks the power and influence” to push through a package of reforms designed to reduce corruption, like the influence-peddling scandal involving lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

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(2006-01-28) — Hamas yesterday took responsibility for its victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections, a political bombshell that reverberated around the world.

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(2006-01-27) — The late Yassir Arafat’s Palestinian Fatah movement today declared that the Islamic Hamas party has no right to exist, and announced plans to build a security fence between its people and predominantly-Hamas neighborhoods.

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(2006-01-27) — A spokesman for Sen. John Kerry’s government-in-exile in Switzerland today said that the Massachusetts Democrat’s threatened filibuster of Judge Samuel Alito’s Supreme Court confirmation is part of Sen. Kerry’s secret plan to position himself as “the party’s strong second choice in 2008.”

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