While You Were at the Bar 4/14

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News you can use:

Pope Benedict XVI will be visiting President Bush at the White House on Wednesday. The President is pulling out all of the stops including picking up the pope at Andrews AFB, having an audience of near 12,000 people for his arrival ceremony at the White House and hosting a Bavarian-style dinner Wednesday night. Did I mention that the pontiff won't be at said dinner? Yep, he's got a prayer service that night with some U.S. bishops. Oops.

Trevor Immelman of South Africa beats out Tiger Woods to grab the green jacket at The Masters. Well helllooo, Trevor! Golf just got a little more interesting!

The Iraqi government has fired over 1,300 of its soldiers and policemen who refused to fight or deserted during last month's fighting in Basra. In some cases, security forces handed over vehicles and weapons to the militias they were supposed to be fighting against.

News you can lose:

In a nail biting finale Friday night, Miss Texas Crystle Stewart was crowned the new Miss USA. I have to admit that I watched a chunk of this... Miss Oklahoma was robbed! (She admitted on national TV that she had chased wild hogs! I'm OK with Miss OK!)

Word of the Day:

Importunate

See if you can use this in a sentence, especially if you don't know the definition!

Friday's word of the day, afflatus, means: a divine imparting of knowledge; inspiration. Congratulations to penelope for her sentence "The duck in that insurance commercial was hit by a truck this morning, and is now, without a doubt, afflatus." Runner up is Anastasia Beaverhousen, who consulted Merriam-Webster online dictionary and came up with "Since it was their first date, Sam was doubtful that he would be receiving afflatus from Mary, but one always has hopes."