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Monday edition - September 22, 2008
"The Dow
went up 410 points on Wall Street. You may already know, the government has
bailed two huge financial companies out, and today, they strongly hinted that
they would bail the rest of them out, at taxpayers' expense. It's all part of a
new approach our leaders in the White House and Congress are taking to the
economy. It's called socialism." –Jimmy Kimmel
The-World-Is-A-Safer-Place-Without Saddam
The newest disease: Grotesque Republican Evangelical Economic Disorder - Grant Gerver
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Mr. Yakobi, the chairman of Iraq’s Board of Tourism, is charged with attracting foreign visitors to his beleaguered country. Jazirat A’aras, an island in the Tigris that is just across from the fortified Green Zone and the new American Embassy, is central to his plans. He is seeking investors who might want to spend $2.5 billion to $4.5 billion to build on the island, which was a honeymoon resort before it was bombed and looted in 2003 and then taken over by the Americans for use as a construction yard for the new embassy
President Bush doing his best to respond to the crisis. [light laugher] I love that that gets giggles. When that's not even a joke. - Conan O'Brien
Disturbing News
Pakistan Helping the Taliban? Aren't They Our Allies?
Pakistani military forces
flew repeated helicopter missions into Afghanistan to resupply the Taliban
during a fierce battle in June 2007, according to a Marine lieutenant colonel,
who says his information is based on multiple U.S. and Afghan intelligence
reports.
Back in 1984, Sarah Palin came in second in the Miss Alaska beauty pageant. Now she could be vice president of the United States. You know what that means? For the first time in history, a beauty pageant contestant might actually bring about world peace. - Jay Leno
Republican-Shenanigans News
Meanwhile Back In The Western Hemisphere
A Russian navy squadron set off for Venezuela Monday, an official said, in a deployment of Russian military power to the Western Hemisphere unprecedented since the Cold War.
"Somebody hacked into vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin email account and posted it all online. Apparently, the hacker was able to figure out her password, which turned out to be bible-hockey-lipstick-gun." –Jimmy Kimmel
Rock-The-Voter News
“Supporters of Palin say it’s okay she doesn't know what the Bush Doctrine is because the average American doesn’t know what it is. But shouldn’t the bar be a little higher for this job? I mean, hey, let’s be honest. We already had an average guy as president. It didn’t work out that great.” - Jay Leno
Black and White Gap
Biz-Tech News
We are entering a new chapter in the American economy. I believe it's chapter 11. - Jay Leno
Helping Hurricane Ike Homeowners
All along the Texas coast, Latino immigrants are hauling away fallen trees, slashing through storm-tangled brush, patching punctured roofs...These workers, who get picked up off the street by homeowners looking for quick, cheap labor, are helping to rebuild the devastated cities of southeast Texas.
The Bailout includes my credit cards, right? - Grant Gerver
Bush-Prison-Torture News
The crisis affected four Americans in a deeply personal way. McCain: The American economy is in a crisis. Obama: The most serious financial crisis that we've seen. Biden: The crisis that you've been facing on Main Street. It is now hitting Wall Street. Palin: Let me tell you something's going on today in our world. Particularly here in our nation that needs some shaking up and some fixing. Stewart: (long very sarcastic pause with lots of laughter) Did she win a contest?! - Jon Stewart
Go-F**k-Yourself News
Paperweight Terrorism
Officials briefly evacuated the JetBlue
terminal at Kennedy Airport on Monday after a suspicious package containing what
appeared to be hand grenades was reported.
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Odd News
This artist's
rendering, released September 19, 2008, shows a planetary collision in the
constellation Aries. Masses of dust floating around a distant binary star system
suggest that two Earth-like planets obliterated each other in a violent
collision, U.S. researchers reported Friday.
Peace.
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