Wednesday edition - July 2, 2008

Have you hugged your Flag pin today? - Grant Gerver, www.seriouskidding.com

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

• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,113 AP

• Afghan Death Toll Up as Iraq’s Falls New York Times

• 13 Americans, not 12, electrocuted in Iraq AP

• Palestinian goes on rampage in Jerusalem; 3 killed AP

• US Embassy Cites Progress in Iraq Washington Post

• US Navy: Iran won't be allowed to close Hormuz AP

• Particularly long gas lines in Baghdad AP

• US agrees to scrap immunity for security guards in Iraq: FM AFP

Military Voters Switch

Five years into an unpopular war in Iraq, many US military voters are eschewing their traditional Republican ties to support Democrat Barack Obama for president against John McCain

Disturbing News

• Videos allegedly show torture by police in Mexico The Associated Press

McCain Going To Colombia and Mexico

Republican John McCain planned to tour a Colombian port by boat Wednesday to get a firsthand look at the country's drug interdiction programs, a day after he praised President Alvaro Uribe for Colombia's anti-drug efforts but pressed him to improve the government's record on human rights.

The Republican presidential hopeful was on a three-day visit to Colombia and Mexico, where the eradication of illegal drugs topped the agenda.

Republican-Shenanigans News

• I'm still the best, though John McCain is No. 2, says Rudy Giuliani New York Daily News

• Bush raises Republican cash, touts housing efforts The Associated Press

• White House: Bush to visit South Korea in August AP

• McCain criticizes Obama's high court favorites The Associated Press 

PTSD?

Notably mild-mannered Republican Sen. Thad Cochran shocked many earlier this year with comments about John McCain's volatile temper. .."But I saw some kind of quick movement at the bottom of the table and I looked down there and John had reached over and grabbed this guy by the shirt collar and had snatched him up like he was throwing him up out of the chair to tell him what he thought about him or whatever. I don't know what he was telling him but I thought, good grief, everybody around here has got guns and we were there on a diplomatic mission. I don't know what had happened to provoke John but he obviously got mad at the guy and he just reached over there and snatched him."
 

“Barack Obama’s staff and John McCain’s staff are busy now negotiating when the presidential debates will take place. … Yeah, Obama wants them to be in September, and McCain wants them to be after his nap, but before ‘Wheel of Fortune.’” - Conan O’Brien

Rock-The-Voter News

• Obama pledges to expand aid to religious charities Los Angeles Times

• Obama Got Discount on Home Loan

• Obama Deploys Forces to Long-Neglected Republican Strongholds Bloomberg

• Leonard Pitts: Obama wrong to distance himself from Muslim community Dallas Morning News, TX 

• Barbra Streisand backs Obama Reuters UK

• Obama Shuns the Fist-Bump Washington Post

Voters cool to Michelle Obama, unfamiliar with Cindy McCain

Biz-Tech News

• Get used to high oil prices: Saudi King Hindu Business Line, India

• Car Sales at 10-Year Low New York Times

• Britons Shun Shops as Gas Prices Keep Drivers at Home (Update1) Bloomberg

• Starbucks to close 600 US stores San Francisco Chronicle

• US Officials Stymied in Salmonella Search Washington Post

• Missing Hedge Fund Swindler Surrenders WCBS-TV New York

Starbucks is closing 600 of its stores, forcing patrons to walk half a block to another Starbucks. - Laughlines

Eureka!

Oscar Stohler was raised in a sod house in western North Dakota and ranched there for nearly seven decades. He never gave much thought to what lay below the grass that fattened his cattle.

When oilmen wanted to drill there last year, Stohler, 83, doubted oil would be found two miles underground on his property. He even joked about it....In less than a year, Stohler and his wife, Lorene, 82, have become millionaires from the production of one well on their land
 

Bush-Prison-Torture News

• Guantanamo Justice? Newsweek

• Detainees in Guantanamo to be Returned to Yemen  YemenOnline, Yemen

• CACI Denies Use of Torture in Iraq Washington Post

The National Bartenders Association reported Tuesday that tips at the bar were down thirty percent last month. You don't have to impress a woman in a bar by flashing your cash. Women today won't go home with you unless they see your gas gauge. - Argus Hamilton

Lithuania?

The Pentagon said Tuesday that Lithuania would be a "good alternative" to Poland as the site for a U.S. missile defense base if negotiations with the Poles fail.

Go-F**k-Yourself News

• Cheney to visit Boston on July Fourth Worcester Telegram
   

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Odd News

• Matthews Band sax player injured in ATV wreck AP

• Bon Jovi playing free show in Central Park Reuters

• 15th-century sculpture damaged at NYC's Met museum The Associated Press

• Woman crashes into store then tries to buy beer AP

• Man accused of hitting mom with Polish sausage AP

• Dutch police suspect giraffe for circus breakout Reuters

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An outbreak of blue-green algae is seen on the coastline of Qingdao, the host city for sailing events at the 2008 Olympic Games, in eastern China's Shandong province Tuesday June 24, 2008. The Qingdao government has organized 400 boats and 3000 people to help remove the algae after Olympic organizers ordered a cleanup. Experts say the algae is a result of climate change, and recent heavy rains in southern China, according to the Xinhua news agency.
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Peace.