(LA TIMES Article)

Maybe radio's Rush Limbaugh was trying to provide the Rev. Pat Robertson with a little cover when he suggested on-air that people don't need to contribute money to Haitian earthquake relief.
It was Robertson who first suggested that the people of Haiti are paying for "a pact with the devil'' made centuries ago.

But it was Limbaugh -- at a time when President Obama is asking Americans to contribute money to earthquake relief and directing them to the White House website to learn where they can help -- who told a caller that all helping out will do is get someone on Obama's campaign e-mail list.

"We've already donated to Haiti,'' Limbaugh told the caller on his radio show. "It's called the U.S. income tax."

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My comment: Another heartless asshole. Somebody send Rush some more oxycodone. I think he ran out of his supply. And put Rush in the same category as Pat Robertson, as they both suffer from Foot-In-Mouth Disease.

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(BBC World NEWS)

Disaster may be brewing - or not - in beer-loving Belgium, where supplies of two of the country's most famous beers may be down to the last dregs.

An industrial dispute over planned job cuts means a blockade is threatening supplies of Stella Artois and Leffe.

A week-long blockade has stopped any beer from leaving the Leuven headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's biggest brewing company.

Belgian supermarkets and bars have warned stocks are running low.

The unions are protesting against the company's plans to cut more than 250 of 2,700 jobs in Belgium, and so far talks aimed at resolving the dispute have got nowhere.

But there is no need for beer-lovers to panic just yet, says the BBC's Dominic Hughes in Brussels: There are probably around 125 breweries in Belgium producing around 800 standard beers.

Add in special one-off brews, and some experts believe there could be more than 8,000 beers.

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Yesterday they turned back the "Doomsday Clock" by one minute to 11:54. Whew.

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Time flies (no pun). One year ago today pilot "Sully" put the airliner down into the Hudson River after colliding with birds knocked out power in both jet engines, thereby saving the lives of the passengers and crew. There's a true national hero - and he didn't have to take steroids to do it.