The Bush administration not only lied but they took revenge on those that questioned them. General Karpinski, Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson come to mind. I say Bush and friends should not be allowed to serve their sentences concurrently.

"These soldiers didn't design these techniques on their own: we were following orders." - Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, who ran Iraq prisons in 2003, including the notorious Abu Ghraib prison

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

• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,275 AP

• US soldier killed in Baghdad, military says AP

• Iraqi officials: 22 killed in Baghdad suicide bomb The Associated Press

• US: 2 militants killed in Afghan raid AP

• Afghan "terps" risk lives to work with U.S. forces Reuters

• China says Obama should not meet the Dalai Lama AP

• Officials Say Hackers Didn't Steal Critical Data About New Fighter Jet Washington Post

Now Where Are Those Vials of Deadly Viruses?

Missing vials of a potentially dangerous virus have prompted an Army investigation into the disappearance from a lab in Maryland.

Don't underestimate the power of Big Oil. It appears it has purchased a vacation home in Florida: the Florida House of Representatives. - Zing!

Disturbing News

• Suspicion in horse deaths falls on vitamins CNN

"So many newspapers all across the country are going out of business. It's pretty scary, so congratulations to The New York Times this week, which this week won five Pulitzer Prizes. I read about it online on Google News." --Jay Leno
 

Mixed Messages From Palin Spokeswoman

Palin family spokeswoman Meghan Stapleton issued a statement on the Johnston interview, saying: "Bristol is focused on going to college, raising Tripp, and advocating abstinence."

However, in an interview earlier this year with Fox News, Bristol Palin said abstinence is "not realistic at all."
 

Republican-Shenanigans News

• Palin faces ethics complaint for SarahPAC role MiamiHerald.com

• Sarah Palin Blames Bloggers Huffington Post

• Cheney, Fox Set Tortured Republican Agenda Bloomberg

• Calif. GOP, state senator blast 'tea party' poster The Associated Press

• Texas Gov. Rick Perry still opposes accepting stimulus money for ... Dallas Morning News

Hillary Stands Her Ground

 House Republicans grilled Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday on renewed US support for abortion providers overseas and on recently released memos detailing harsh interrogation techniques against suspected terrorists in CIA custody, prompting frank and often feisty exchanges with the nation's top diplomat.
 

"Bill Clinton and George W. Bush will appear together on stage in Toronto for a two-hour, friendly debate. Each side gets to pick a topic, so the first hour will be centered on the international banking crisis. The second hour will be dedicated to Nascar trivia." --Jimmy Fallon
 

Rock-The-Voter News

• AP Poll: Americans high on Obama, direction of US AP

• Obama to host credit-card CEOs, pledges new rules AP

• FDA to allow Plan B birth control for 17-year-olds AP

Teen father Levi Johnston dropped a bombshell into the middle of the escalating family feud between Johnston’s family and the family of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whose eldest daughter is the mother of Johnston’s infant son.

In an interview with CNN’s Larry King, Johnston, his mother, and his sister acknowledged that they have a lawyer and are contemplating taking legal action to protect Johnston’s parental rights.

 

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Subject: Yesterday's cartoon

Good pic , but the balloon comments should have been "See no evil", "Hear no evil", and "Evil".

Jat

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Dear Government: you can get tougher on dope, but God forbid you get tougher on AK-47s? _ Grant "Bud" Gerver

"And Rod Blagojevich, the indicted former governor of Illinois, lost his bid to travel to Costa Rica to appear on that NBC reality show, 'I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!' No, he was supposed to be on that show and the judge said he couldn't go. You know what reality show he could be on? 'Cops.' How about 'Cops?'" --Jay Leno
 

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Biz-Tech News

• Oil stays below $50 as recovery hopes wane AP

• Halliburton's quarterly net income falls 40% MarketWatch

• Fla. panel passes offshore drilling bill United Press International

• US ramps up cybersecurity focus BBC News

• Baby Shaker app approved, then removed Macworld

• Malicious program targets Macs, experts say CNN

Shhhhh

Bank of America Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis told the New York attorney general he believed former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke wanted him to keep quiet about the worsening terms of the bank's acquisition of Merrill Lynch, according to testimony reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

"Well, here's no surprise, Exxon has earned the top spot in the new 2009 Fortune 500 list. Last year, Exxon took in -- this is an unbelievable number -- $443 billion in revenue, and made a profit of $45 billion. You know, here's my question: why not have Exxon bail out the car companies? I mean, one can't live without the other, right?" --Jay Leno
 

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UK Wants US Torture Documents

The chief justice of the British High Court on Wednesday gave the British government one week to obtain the U.S. release of classified information about the alleged torture of a British resident who'd been detained at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba .
 

Bush-Prison-Torture News

• Rice OK'd CIA waterboard request as Bush adviser AP

• Abu Ghraib chief says memos are vindication CNN

Crazy Christian College Curriculum

Kevin Roose managed to blend in during his single semester at Liberty University, attending lectures on the myth of evolution and the sin of homosexuality, and joining fellow students on a mission trip to evangelize partiers on spring break.

Roose had transferred to the Virginia campus from Brown University in Providence, a famously liberal member of the Ivy League. His Liberty classmates knew about the switch, but he kept something more important hidden: He planned to write a book about his experience at the school founded by fundamentalist preacher Jerry Falwell.
 

Go-F**k-Yourself News

• Clinton: Cheney Not a Reliable Source Washington Post

It’s “Green Is Universal” week here at NBC. We’re all getting into it. Everyone here at NBC is pitching in. Earlier today, Donald Trump announced that he’s going to release his hair back into the wild.- Jimmy Fallon
 

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Odd News

• 'Bounty Hunter' reality TV star says fugitive shot at him CNN

• Japan aghast over drunk TV star's naked blunder Reuters

• Detroit woman's underwire bra deflects bullet AP

• Minn. surgeon needs two tries to remove appendix AP

• Ark. man digging in garden unearths cannonball AP

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An illustration shows two exoplanets, Gliese 581 in the left foreground and Gliese 581 just to its right, orbiting a star that is 20 light-years from Earth. The identification of the small planet "is a remarkable discovery and bodes well for our eventual discovery of a true Earth-like, habitable planet," astronomer Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington said. Photo/European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere

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