Thursday edition - November 13, 2008

On Veterans Day John McCain laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Plumber. - David Letterman

The-World-Will-Be-A-Safer-Place-Without George W. Bush

• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,195 AP

• British death toll in Iraq and Afghanistan hits 300 Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom

• Iraqi soldier guns down 2 GIs, injures 6 Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

• Suicide Attack Kills 11 in Eastern Afghanistan Voice of America

• Two British soldiers killed in Afghanistan: ministry AFP

• Two schoolgirls blinded in acid attack in Afghanistan CNN International

• Reporter in Afghan kidnap says family grabbed her AP

• Iranian diplomat kidnapped, guard killed in Pakistan: police AFP

• New rocket barrage tests shaky Israel-Hamas truce The Associated Press

• Medvedev: ready to respond if US ends missile plan Reuters

• Pakistan leader meets with Rice on missile strikes AP

• US general urges Obama to keep missile defense AP

Anthrax Update

Two newspapers asked a federal judge Wednesday to make public several documents relating to a former Army scientist who was named as a person of interest in the 2001 anthrax attacks and later exonerated...."The public has a right to know why he was targeted," said Jeanette Melendez Bead, lawyer for the newspapers.

Disturbing News

• Study: Calif dirty air kills more than car crashes The Associated Press

• U.S. trails other nations in chronic illness care Reuters

"You know the Secret Service that follows the candidates around and stuff? They have nicknames for the people that they work with. Like Barack Obama, his nickname, the Secret Service called him 'Renegade.' John McCain, I think they called him 'Maverick.' President Bush's Secret Service nickname is 'Occupant.'" --David Letterman
 

Fooling The Media

MSNBC was the victim of a hoax when it reported that an adviser to John McCain had identified himself as the source of an embarrassing story about former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the network said Wednesday.

David Shuster, an anchor for the cable news network, said on air Monday

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Republican-Shenanigans News

• Saxby Chambliss says he’d vote to expel Alaska senator, and Sarah Palin may replace him Atlanta Journal Constitution

• Palin leaves door open for possible Senate run AP

• Republican Party to challenge campaign money laws The Associated Press

• Gingrich says GOP is outmatched MLive.com, MI

• Exit poll: Tenn. still buckle of Bible Belt Knoxville News Sentinel

• Disgraced pastor Haggard: I was abused as child AP

• Bush Says He Regrets Use of Iraq `Mission Accomplished' Banner Bloomberg

Just Separate Church and State, Already!

The US Supreme Court Wednesday took up the issue of freedom of speech and religion in a case in which a small sect wants to place its own monument alongside one of the Ten Commandments in a public park in Utah.
 

"In the Senate, 90-year-old Robert Byrd will step down as Appropriations Committee chair. He'll be replaced by Hawaiian Senator Daniel Inouye, who is 84. Finally we're getting some young blood in there." --Jay Leno
 

Rock-The-Voter News

• Democrat takes lead in Alaska Senate race The Associated Press

• Obama aides heading to Georgia for Martin Atlanta Journal Constitution

• Klain accepts job as Biden chief of staff Politico

Fake New York Times

A group of pranksters handed out more than 1.2 million fake New York Times newspapers mainly in New York City and Los Angeles on Wednesday with a front page story declaring "Iraq War Ends."

The elaborate 14-page edition, dated July 4, 2009, is said to be the work of a group called the Yes Men,

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Sarah Palin:

Gah! Nothing specific right now. Sitting here in these chairs that I’m going to be proposing but in working with these governors who again on the front lines are forced to and it’s our privileged obligation to find solutions to the challenges facing our own states every day being held accountable, not being just one of many just casting votes or voting present every once in a while, we don’t get away with that.

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Biz-Tech News

• Oil falls to 22-month low at $55 on recession fears Reuters

• Paulson: Rescue package not for automakers AP

• Recession fears grip world markets CNNMoney.com

• Germany enters recession, China output growth hit Reuters

• Foreclosure Filings Rose 25 Percent in October as Prices Fell Bloomberg

• Regulators nix credit card debt forgiveness plan AP

• End of a snarky era: Gawker shuts down Valleywag CNET News

Bailing Out Our Pockets

"It's a mess," said Eric M. Thorson, the Treasury Department's inspector general, who has been working to oversee the bailout program until the newly created position of special inspector general is filled. "I don't think anyone understands right now how we're going to do proper oversight of this thing."

Email

Subject: Bailout of Banks

Lisa,

Henry Paulson learned this Modus Operandi from Paul Bremer who handed out billions in cash in Iraq in order to bypass the bureaucracy and speed up the rebuilding process.

When someone asks where it went they will just shrug their shoulders and say it was more important at the time to distribute it than keep track of who actually got it.

Hopefully they at least have it written down on a yellow legal pad somewhere...

Bob/Iowa

I doubt anyone in the Bush administration writes anything down.

Henry Paulson looked nervous, as though he was lying, in his TV appearance yesterday. No wonder stocks dropped like a rock.

Meanwhile Another 84,868 Foreclosed Last Month

As government and industry scrambled to stem the housing crisis, another 84,868 homes were lost to foreclosure in October, according to a report released Thursday.
 

"Obama said his favorite part of the tour was when the president showed him the secret dial under his desk that he uses to control the price of gasoline." --Jimmy Kimmel

Bush-Prison-Torture News

• Former Guantanamo prisoners still struggling Reuters

Valerie Plame Movie - But She's Not The Star

The long-awaited Rod Lurie, "Nothing But the Truth" -- loosely based on the Valerie Plame/CIA leak case and starring Kate Beckinsale as a Judy Miller character -- opens on December 17

Go-F**k-Yourself News

• Cheney set to meet with his successor Joe Biden The Associated Press

Valerie Plame Update

Two watchdog organizations scored a legal victory this week when a federal court denied a motion by the Bush Administration to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the White House's failure to properly store and recover millions of e-mails.

The e-mails are thought to pertain to several controversial issues including the Iraq war, the Valerie Plame leak and the CIA's destruction of interrogation tapes.

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Odd News

• Lindsay Lohan: Hooray for the "Coloreds" TMZ

• Michael Jackson gives Neverland to corporation AP

• Man's untimely nap damages church's organ pipes AP

• Prisoner, too fat for cell, released early Reuters

• Man allegedly attacks girlfriend over macaroni AP

A virtual version of ancient Rome's Coliseum is shown in an animated map provided by Google Earth in Rome November 12, 2008. Chief Technology Advocate Michael T. Jones, co-founder of Google Earth and Maps, the service that lets users move through three-dimensional satellite images of city streets, was in Rome to launch a new facility providing virtual visits to ancient Rome, circa 320 AD. Based on virtual architecture of the ancient city created by U.S. and Italian academics, it now allows the 400 million people who visit Google Earth to enter the ancient Roman Forum "or go to the Circus Maximus and imagine you are Ben Hur", said Jones.

Photo/Google Earth
 

Peace.