Tuesday edition - January 22, 2008

Impeachment will immediately stimulate the economy!

I had a dream. Just like I had a Constitution. - Grant Gerver, www.seriouskidding.com

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

• US military deaths in Iraq at 3,929 AP

• www.iraqbodycount.org

• US military sees first Iraq fatality in new armoured vehicle AFP

• Suicide Attack at Funeral In Northern Iraq Kills 17 Washington Post

• Suicide bomber attacks Iraqi school, injures 21: police AFP

• Iraqi parliament chooses temporary post-Saddam flag Reuters UK

• Army gets fewer high school grads in '07 AP

Waterboarding Update

The first secretary of the Homeland Security Department says waterboarding is torture.

"There's just no doubt in my mind — under any set of rules — waterboarding is torture," Tom Ridge said

With my Bush "economic stimulus stipend," I shall purchase beer and cocaine, in no particular order.- Grant Gerver, www.seriouskidding.com

Disturbing News

• Marine death raises questions of sex attacks in military WTHR

• Bodies Fall Out of Sky As Planes Collide ABC News

• Quality of nuclear devices questioned AP

• Food poisoning can be long-term problem AP

If Sen. Clinton was as bad and as terrible as Republicans say she is, she would be running as a Republican.- Zing!

Republican Shenanigans

• GOP courting Florida's Cubans MiamiHerald.com

• Giuliani's lead in New York diminishes Newsday

• McCain trashes Norris' talk about his age Reuters

• McCain Mum on MLK Most of the Day CBS News

• Romney's Spanish-language FL ad MSNBC

Wow! $800, just for me! Thanks, "W." Thanks, grandkids. And it is still months before the election. Can't wait to see want I might get in November.- Zing!

Rock-The-Voter News

• Clinton, Obama Clash at Debate The Associated Press

HOT!

Bridge to Nowhere  YouTube- a song by Randy Hyden

Biz-Tech News

• Oil pares losses after emergency U.S. rate cut Reuters

• Halliburton to Drill in Mexico Washington Post

• Asian shares plunge again amid near-panic selling Channel News Asia, Singapore 

• Bank of China's shares suspended BBC News, UK

• Wachovia 4Q net down 98% on credit, mortgage losses MarketWatch

• United Airlines' parent posts $53M loss AP

• Yahoo plans to cut several hundred jobs: source Reuters

Bill Clinton: "Hillary's Stage Mother" - Grant Gerver, www.seriouskidding.com

www.internetweekly.org

The conservatives run the government. Now they have to tell us what a great job they're doing
in an organization they think should have no powers. - Anonymous

Bush-Prison-Torture News

• Ex-Md. resident writes from Guantanamo about CIA torture Baltimore Sun

• Padilla Sentence Due in Terror Case The Associated Press  

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On this day in history - January 22

1879 - British troops were massacred by the Zulus at Isandhlwana

1951 - Fidel Castro was ejected from a Winter League baseball game after hitting a batter. He later gave up baseball for politics.

1991 - Iraq began blowing up Kuwaiti oil wells.

2002 - Lawyers suing Enron Corp. asked a court to prevent further shredding of documents due to the pending federal investigation.

Go-F***-Yourself News

• National Lawyers Guild President on Impeaching Cheney OpEdNews 

• WH e-mails missing on key days in court battle over Cheney's ... Raw Story