Tuesday edition - December 16, 2008

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"Five years ago...they captured Saddam Hussein. Captured Saddam Hussein. Yeah. You know who gets a really big kick out of that? ... Bin Laden. He just thinks that's the funniest thing" --David Letterman

Graphic by Mel

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

• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,209 AP

• British troop casualties rise in Afghanistan Reuters AlertNet, UK

• 18 killed in Iraq attacks after Bush visit AFP

• US: Detainee dies in US custody in Iraq The Associated Press 

• Iraqi police: Bomb in downtown Baghdad wounds 6 AP

• 3 contractors indicted on kidnapping charges The Associated Press

• US prosecutors in Iraq Blackwater case meet victims Reuters

• Official History Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders New York Times

• Defense policy under Obama and Gates Reuters

• Arabs hail shoe attack as Bush's farewell gift AFP

• Russian military mulls buying Israeli drones AP

• Lebanon discusses heavy weaponry procurement with Russia Jane's

• TNT discovered at famed Paris department store AP

How Bush Spent $904 Billion

U.S. military operations, including the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, have cost $904 billion since 2001 and could top $1.7 trillion by 2018, even with big cuts in overseas troop deployments, a report said on Monday.

"Prosecutors said Tuesday there is no evidence that Barack Obama was involved in the Blagojevich scandal. Or, as Fox News reported it, 'Is Barack Obama involved in the Blagojevich scandal?'" --Amy Poehler
 

Disturbing News

• Over 2T tons of ice melted in arctic since '03 AP

Colin Powell vs Rush Limbaugh

Colin Powell, in a lengthy interview with Fareed Zakaria on CNN, questioned whether the Republican Party had a future if it continued listening to and taking its cues from right wing radio host Rush Limbaugh. Powell said that figures such as Limbaugh appeal to Republicans' lesser instincts, suggesting that's not the kind of party that the GOP wants to be.

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Subject:  the Bush/Iraq legacy - "Waved off With Wingtips"

Greeted with "flowers and cheers", invited to leave with "Florsheims and jeers".

Best wishes, Lisa, for great Christmas and a healthy and prosperous New Year - Pudge

Thanks Pudge!

I love another description of that event -- shoe-i-cide.

"This is what politicians do whenever they get in trouble. Early this morning, embattled Illinois Governor Rod Bla-son-of-a-bitch -- is that his name? -- I keep saying it wrong. ... Well, they always do this. He invited several ministers into his home this morning. Well, first, he prayed with them. And then, you know, out of force of habit, he tried to take up a collection." --Jay Leno

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Republican-Shenanigans News

• Bush shoe incident catches Secret Service flatfooted McClatchy Newspapers

• McCain Campaign BlackBerry Yields Sensitive Data Washington Post 

• Republicans' Guilt-by-Association Gamble Washington Post

• Feds: Arsonist poured flammables around Palin's church USA Today 

• Wis. legislator arrested on alcohol, pot charges The Associated Press

• EPA exempts farms from reporting toxic fumes AP

"President Bush's term is winding down, and all these articles are coming out, very strange articles about him. According to an article that just came out in a fitness magazine ... the president often rides a stationary bike on-board Air Force One. That's true. Advisors say he pedals really hard because he thinks he's powering the plane." --Conan O'Brien
 

More U.S. Missile Strikes In Pakistan

A suspected U.S. missile strike killed two people in Pakistan near the Afghan border, officials and a witness said Tuesday, as two prominent U.S. senators visited Islamabad amid flaring tensions over the Mumbai attacks in India.

The Monday night strike in Tabi Tolkhel village, in the North Waziristan tribal region, appeared to be the latest in a surge of alleged U.S. missile attacks on militant targets in Pakistan's northwest border region, long bedeviled by al-Qaida and Taliban extremists. More than 30 have been reported since August.

Rock-The-Voter News

• NY governor: Caroline Kennedy wants Senate seat AP

• Obama Says Inquiry Shows Nothing Wrong New York Times

• Ken Salazar—Barack Obama's interior secretary nominee Chicago Tribune

• Obama names Shaun Donovan to head HUD Los Angeles Times

• Obama Moves to Revolutionize White House Communications Washington Post

• Pelosi pledges quick passage of $600B stimulus plan USA Today

• Election Drew Highest Turnout in 40 Years New York Times

• Prospect of impeachment now looms over Blagojevich AP

"Illinois, where our governors make our license plates"

After weeks trying to find a suitable replacement for the departing Alan Colmes, Sean Hannity will go it alone.

Hannity on January 12 will debut "Hannity," a retooled version of the second highest-rated program in cable news (after Fox News Channel's own "The O'Reilly Factor"). It will be the first time since signing on in 1996 that Fox News Channel has changed its 9 p.m. program in any way, the network said.
 

New Rule: All reporters must attend press conferences shoeless.- Zing!

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Biz-Tech News

• Big Oil Projects Put in Jeopardy by Fall in Prices New York Times

• Consumer prices post second record drop in November Reuters

• Fund manager in scandal once boasted about profits The Associated Press

• Goldman Sachs posts first loss since going public AP

• Toyota puts off opening of Prius plant in South Detroit Free Press

• Mattel settles with 39 states over tainted toys AP

• Yahoo morphing into social networking site San Francisco Chronicle

A car czar. What democracy has a czar?- Jay Leno

As unemployment rises painfully higher and nest eggs are shattered, the Federal Reserve is prepared to slash a key interest rate — perhaps to an all-time low — in a desperate bid to stem the country's economic slide.

With the Fed's key rate dropping ever closer to zero, the central bank is moving into uncharted territory.
 

Bush-Prison-Torture News

• Supreme Court revives lawsuit by former detainees Los Angeles Times

• Chertoff: Obama shouldn't rush on Guantanamo Bay The Associated Press

Russian Warships Heading to Cuba

Russian warships will visit U.S. foe Cuba for the first time since the Soviet era, the navy said Monday.
 

Oh the audacity of it all: some ungrateful Iraqi journalist throwing a shoe at Bush. God, what a waste of a perfectly good shoe. - Grant Gerver

Cheney Compliments Obama

Vice President Dick Cheney is calling President-elect Barack Obama's national security lineup "a pretty good team."

Go-F**k-Yourself News

• 'Very valuable' Guantanamo BAy should stay open, says Dick Cheney New York Daily News, NY 

• Exclusive: Cheney Holds Hard-Line Stance ABC News

• Cheney was key in clearing CIA interrogation tactics Los Angeles Times

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Odd News

• More than 1,000 species discovered in Mekong: WWF AFP

• Madonna to Pay Guy Ritchie $76 Million New York Times

• Michael Phelps stars in White House Barney Cam AP

• 4-year-old tot breaks into Texas variety store AP

• Another Florida man accused of sandwich assault AP

In a photograph provided by the Belgrade Zoo shows two rare white lion cubs born this week. Staff at Belgrade Zoo showed off two white lion cubs to the public on Sunday, the first of their rare species to be born here.
Photo/Belgrade Zoo/Andrej Isakovic

Peace.