Thursday edition - June 5, 2008

I hope Obama unites the Democrats sooner rather than later.

"The good news: the whole voting process ended tonight...The bad news: the 2012 Democratic primary starts on Thursday." --Jay Leno
 

The-World-Is-A-Safer-Place-Without Saddam

• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,090 AP

• Truck explosion kills 18, wounds 75 in Iraq AP

• Another death at the wall in Baghdad AFP

• Iraq says UAE to name ambassador to Baghdad in days AFP

• Iraq bill against oil smuggling passed AP

• Obama says Iraq war makes US, Israel less secure AP

• US ambassador says no permanent military bases in Iraq AP

"And former White House press spokesman Scott McClellan has written a book highly critical of the Bush administration. And while in Utah, President Bush told an audience he has not read McClellan's book. He doesn't plan to read it. It's nothing to do with McClellan, just general principle. It's a book. It's got big words, and not a lot of pictures." --Jay Leno

U.S. President George W. Bush and his top policymakers exaggerated Saddam Hussein's links to terrorism and ignored doubts among intelligence agencies about Iraq's arms programs as they made their case for war, a Senate committee reported on Thursday.
 

Disturbing News

• Schwarzenegger proclaims that California is in a drought Los Angeles Times

• Storms cut power, roads from Midwest to Washington AP

Chinese Torture

Wednesday, a California Republican and a Massachusetts Democrat criticized the Bush administration for allowing Chinese officials to interrogate Chinese Muslims being held at the notorious U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
 

Republican-Shenanigans News

• Obama expects GOP to attack his patriotism MSNBC

• Ex-Bush health chief's firm wins Sept. 11 work The Associated Press

• Bush attends groundbreaking for $100M 'earmark' The Associated Press

Way Back When

In 1801, the United States had a new president, Thomas Jefferson. It also had a new party in power: his Democratic-Republican Party. Though supporters of Jefferson were called Republicans, that party led to the modern Democratic Party.

On taking office, Jefferson spoke of the bitter struggle between his party and the Federalist Party of Alexander Hamilton. The United States now had a two-party system. Jefferson held out the hand of peace and friendship to the Federalists. He said: "We are all Republicans. We are all Federalists. Let us unite with hearts and minds. Let us have peace and love in our relations with each other."
 

"Our vice president, our old friend, Dick Cheney got in some trouble, made a joke. Did you hear about this? Made a joke about West Virginia, but he apologized. He did apologize for the joke he made about West Virginia. Nothing yet on the Iraqi war." --David Letterman
 

Rock-The-Voter News

• Obama's gamble in debating McCain San Francisco Chronicle

• Michelle Obama to be a guest host on `The View' The Associated Press 

• Traders bet Obama beats McCain in U.S. election Reuters

Biz-Tech News

• Oil Hits 124 Dollars Per Barrel OilVoice (press release), UK 

• Continental Airlines cuts jobs, retires planes Reuters

• Mortgage turmoil snares Ed McMahon Los Angeles Times

• Home foreclosures set record in first quarter The Associated Press

• Bernanke sees no repeat of `70s-style inflation AP

• LA to sue Time Warner Cable over poor service Los Angeles Times

Panties? Are Our Interrogators Perverts? OR It's Not Torture, It's Humiliation!

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher on Wednesday dismissed the idea that taunting terrorism suspects with women's panties is a form of torture.

In a debate about detainee treatment at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the California Republican cited panties eight times, arguing that making suspected terrorists wear women's underwear on their heads isn't demeaning and degrading enough to be called torture
 

Bush-Prison-Torture News

• Detained journalist sues Bush administration AP

Go-F**k-Yourself News

• Byrd: Relieved That Cheney Apologized for Incest Joke Washington Post

To my loyal viewers

AHNC is about to change, significantly, unless you can help.

Due to the low response to my last fundraiser, I may soon be forced to reduce the number of AHNC editions to two or three times a week instead of five. I will continue as long as your financial support continues.

Obamanomics hit AHNC hard. Once I announced my tepid preference for Sen. Hillary Clinton, the hate mail greatly increased and donations greatly decreased. Oddly, my amount of visitors has also greatly increased during this same time, which disproves the claim, "the more hits your website receives the more money you make."

Like most Democrats, I have to work hard for a living so I can continue to put food on my family.

Thank you so much and fingers crossed.

Love and peace,

Lisa

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Odd News

• O'Neal: 'Dog's Death Prompted Drugs Buy' San Francisco Chronicle

• Brad Pitt drops $500000 on furniture MSNBC 

• Texas woman wins a free funeral at baseball game AP

• Texas justice of the peace sued over paddlings AP

• Japanese patient's 'tumour' turns out to be 25-year-old towel AFP

• 8-foot statue of Jesus stolen off Detroit crucifix AP

In this screen shot provided by People CD, the 'Music' screen of the Zac Browser for Autistic Children is shown. Unable to find tools that could guide autistic children around the web, John LeSieur built the browser and named it in honor of his 6-year-old grandson, Zackary.

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Peace.