While You Were at the Bar 4/30

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News you can use:

Senator Barack Obama used strong words Tuesday to denounce and separate himself from his former pastor Jeremiah Wright. Mr. Obama stated that the man who was 'commanding the stage' for the past four days is not the man he knew. Rev. Wright made outlandish claims such as the U.S. government invented AIDS as a punishment to minorities.

Ex-UCLA hospital administrative specialist Lawanda Jackson has been accused of selling the medical records of celebrities to the media. Jackson allegedly sold the private information about dozens of celebrities to an unidentified media outlet for at least $4600.

A second U.S. Naval aircraft carrier has been sent to the Gulf. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that while the carrier was not a precursor to military action against Tehran, "I think it could be seen, though, as a reminder."

News you can lose:

Shannon Elizabeth is voted off of "Dancing With the Stars" Tuesday night.

Word of the day:

gimcrack

Surely you can use this gem of a word in a sentence?

Tuesday's WOD, chimera, means
1. (Capitalized) A fire-breathing she-monster represented as having a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail.
2. Any imaginary monster made up of grotesquely incongruous parts.
3. An illusion or mental fabrication; a grotesque product of the imagination.
4. An individual, organ, or part consisting of tissues of diverse genetic constitution, produced as a result of organ transplant, grafting, or genetic engineering.

Congratulations to Penelope for her sentence " I like that song from Mary Poppins: Chim-chimera, chim-chimera, chim-chim chiroo!"