"Big new holiday movie. It's the new 'Christmas Carol,' it opens on Friday. And Dick Cheney saw it already and loved it and through the whole movie he was yelling, 'Go Scrooge, come on, Scrooge, go Scrooge!'" –David Letterman
 

The-World-Will-Be-A-Safer-Place-Without Saddam

• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4362  The Associated Press

• US military: 3 US military personnel die in Iraq

• Bomb kills 24, wounds over 100 in NW Pakistan

• Bodies of 6 UK war dead return from Afghanistan

• White House: 3 Americans held in Iran are innocent

• TV footage shows Afghan insurgents with US ammo

• Radical imam praises alleged Fort Hood shooter

• D.C. sniper mastermind set to be executed Tuesday

• Sources: Obama near decision on Afghanistan troops

"HBO is running a documentary about the election of Barack Obama called 'By the People.' 'By the People.' It's all about the election of Barack Obama and after this they have a series, after this, about Barack Obama, they have a documentary about the election of George W. Bush. It's called, 'By Mistake.'" –David Letterman
 

North versus South

 A badly damaged North Korean patrol ship retreated in flames Tuesday after a skirmish with a South Korean naval vessel along their disputed western coast, the first such clash in seven years, South Korean officials said.

There were no South Korean casualties, the country's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement, and it was not immediately clear if there were any casualties on the North Korean side. Each side blamed the other for violating the sea border.
 

Disturbing News

• Landslide triggered by rains kills 42 in India AP

• As oceans fall ill, Washington bureaucrats squabble

PTSD Research

Powerful scans are letting doctors watch just how the brain changes in veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and concussion-like brain injuries — signature damage of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Republican-Shenanigans News

• GOP tries to play 41-seat pickup

• Sarah Palin says she's back using Twitter

• Sarah Palin Will Bring Book Tour To Sioux Falls

• Palin remains a GOP player  CNN International

• Mitt Romney highlights Republican dinner  Florida Times-Union

"During the middle of his show, Fox News commentator Glenn Beck was rushed to the hospital for an attack of appendicitis. Yeah. Apparently, Beck was crying and screaming incoherently, so his audience assumed everything was normal." –Conan O'Brien
 

The Unborn Trump The Already Born

The House bill would bar the new government insurance plan from covering abortions, except in cases or rape, incest or the life of the mother being in danger. That's the basic rule currently in federal law.

It would also prohibit health plans that receive federal subsidies in a new insurance marketplace from offering abortion coverage. Insurers, however, could sell separate coverage for abortion, which individuals would have to purchase entirely with their own money.
 

At issue is a profound disagreement over how current federal restrictions on abortion funding should apply to what would be a new stream of federal funding to help the uninsured gain coverage.

Rock-The-Voter News

• Obama pressed into role as healer, inevitably

• Fired By Trump, Now a Contestant for Congress

"During a speech, President Obama embarrassed his daughter, Malia. Did you hear about this? Embarrassed his daughter Malia by revealing that she recently got a 73 on a science test. Yeah, yeah, then Malia embarrassed him by asking him how the governor's races in Virginia and New Jersey turned out." –Conan O'Brien
 

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Biz-Tech News

• Oil falls below $79 as Ida drops to tropical storm

• World stocks rise again after Dow hits 2009 high

• Home prices fall in 8 out of 10 cities

"There is actually a big swine flu vaccine shortage all across the country, but you know who has gotten the vaccines? Executives at Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. But in the company's defense, if those executives got sick, everything would stop, the companies would go under and the government would have to bail them out." –Jimmy Fallon
 

Bush-Prison-Torture News

• US attorney general: Gitmo reviews under way

Go-F**k-Yourself News

• No new news on Dick Cheney and thank god for that.

Medical Update

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