where are the balloons?

Also in today's headlines is the story that Condoliar Rice has made a "surprise visit" to Beirut.

Listen, media, it isn't a "surprise visit" when somebody comes to your house in the middle of the night, sneaks in the back door wearing a disguise, and wants you to leave the lights off while they beg favors of you, all the while casting nervous glances in every direction before they surreptitiously slink off hoping they have not been noticed.

Those are the actions of a fugitive.