We called it less than an hour after the news started to emerge:

HEADLINE: Talk about your lucky breaks

One day after the entire nation starts gawking at your cross-country diaper-wearing tawdry love-triangle cat-fight, Anna Nicole Smith drops dead under mysterious circumstances in Florida.

The Houston Chronicle brings word this afternoon that our hunch was correct:

HEADLINE: Astronaut’s neighbors glad to be out of spotlight

In the Houston neighborhood of astronaut Lisa Nowak, parents are now able to play catch with their kids on balmy evenings. Instead of the hum of satellite trucks, they can hear birds chirping at sunset.

Families who live near the astronaut accused of attempted murder are glad to be rid of the many news crews that swarmed onto their quiet street after Nowak’s arrest. And they say Anna Nicole Smith’s death made it happen.

“As soon as Anna Nicole Smith died, all the media left,” said Candis Silva, who lives three doors down from Nowak near NASA’s Johnson Space Center.

Proving once again that old Journalism-school chestnut:

“A dead blond with big boobs beats a psycho, diaper-wearing astronaut seven days a week.”

Or something like that.

Into the very strange world of illegal immigration steps the AWOL immigrant wives club. Seeing in the tea leaves that the U.S. gov’t is a willing accomplice to the migration of their husbands, these gals are demanding that we close the borders:

“To the United States government — close the border, send our men home to us, even if you must deport them (only treat them in a humane manner — please do not hurt them),”

Hurt them, hell, we give them rides in air-conditioned buses, ladies. Could it be that you’ve not been taking care of your man properly?

“Oh how I worry that you have another woman! Don’t you love me? You told me you love me.”

That’s okay, it’s a win-win according to both governments officials:

businesses and government officials on both sides of the border also acknowledge a sort of grand bargain — the U.S. gets cheap labor, while Mexico has an outlet for its unemployed, who in turn send cash back home

Notice that they left out the part about the U.S. taxpayer footing huge bills for the infrastructure required to have this cheap labor. This guy gets it:

He said it also proves that the men aren’t fleeing poverty.

These women would not be asking their husbands to come back if they themselves were starving,”

Now we know the truth. Pedro just doesn’t want go home to a nag.

Why teach kids about, oh, I don’t know, reading, writing or arithmetic when you can teach them history indoctrinate them?

They proudly marched down the hallways of Nolanville Elementary School as miniature imitators of Jesse Jackson, Rosa Parks, B.B. King, Nat King Cole

All to celebrate Black History Month, a farce of honor forced upon us by the looney tune left.

“We dress up like African-Americans to represent and share what they accomplished,”

Aw, isn’t that special? Sharing Jesse’s illegitimate children like that! Can’t wait for the Gay History Month parade. Why, the costumes might just blow you away!

With all the mud flying around the Dem’s camp in the ‘08 presidential wars, the Pub’s are not getting much attention. Temper tantrum throwing John McCain announced yesterday (to a great big yawn) that he was running. What a surprise. And a few other minor players. But what about Newt? Will he run? Can he win? Will straight talk like this prevent him from being a contender?

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich yesterday called Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton “a nasty woman” who runs an “endlessly ruthless” campaign machine.

Or will it endear him to a truth starved populace?

He called Clinton’s political team one of the most “talented” in U.S. history, but “endlessly ruthless.”

“You can’t beat them tactically . . . They’re too relentless, they’re too well-organized, they have too big a machine and they’ll just grind you down,” he said.

Is he saying it’s pointless to try to stop the nasty woman?

[Hat-tip: Michelle Malkin via Rorschach]

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