] "I do not think she has shown any new sexual art," the
] portal's owner, Matija Babic, told the agency.

WTF?

Yahoo! News - Pop Star Wants Home Sex Movie Shown in Court

] Earlier Tuesday, another top health official said the FDA
] (news - web sites) is in "active negotiations" with a
] Canadian manufacturer to obtain an extra 1.5 million
] doses of flu vaccine. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the
] National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
] (news - web sites), said in an interview "it's possible"
] the vaccine from ID Biomedical would make it to American
] consumers this flu season.

So, just to set the record straight on this, the US flu vaccine suppies come from Chiron (the ones that were contaminated) made in the UK (and the contamination was caught by them there, not by anyone here), from Aventis Pasteur, a French Company, and now we're talking to a Canadian company.

Where are all those self important US pharmaceutical compaines? The ones who are so up in arms about drug reimportation? National health issue here and I don't see Merck stepping up to bat...

Yahoo! News - U.S. to Get 2.6 Million Flu Shots in Jan.

] The federal government reached its $7.4 trillion debt
] ceiling yesterday, forcing Treasury Secretary John W.
] Snow to delay contributing to one of the federal
] employees' pension systems to avoid running out of cash
] and possibly defaulting on government debt.

And to think just a few years ago we had space under that ceiling and it was GROWING! Reason #1 Clinton was better than either Bushie - a balanced budget.

Yahoo! News - U.S. Hits Debt Limit After Senators Put Off Raising Ceiling

] Employees of a private voter registration company allege
] that hundreds, perhaps thousands of voters who may think
] they are registered will be rudely surprised on election
] day. The company claims hundreds of registration forms
] were thrown in the trash.
]
]
] Anyone who has recently registered or re-registered to
] vote outside a mall or grocery store or even government
] building may be affected.
]
]
] The I-Team has obtained information about an alleged
] widespread pattern of potential registration fraud aimed
] at Democrats. The focus of the story is a private
] registration company called Voters Outreach of America,
] AKA America Votes

I suppose I should be shocked and appalled by this. I am appalled, but just when I thought the right wing couldn't stoop any lower, they do.

Voter Registrations Possibly Trashed

] In remarks published Tuesday, the official, L. Paul
] Bremer, said he arrived in Iraq on May 6, 2003 to find
] "horrid" looting and a very unstable situation %u2014
] throwing new fuel onto the presidential campaign issue of
] whether the United States had sufficiently planned for
] the post-war situation in Iraq.
]
]
] "We paid a big price for not stopping it because it
] established an atmosphere of lawlessness," Bremer said
] during an address to an insurance group in White Sulphur
] Springs, W.Va. The group released a summary of his
] remarks in Washington.
]
]
] "We never had enough troops on the ground," Bremer said,
] while insisting that he was "more convinced than ever
] that regime change was the right thing to do."

Now I'm no fan of Saddam, but let's be real, if what you're looking at as a replacement is worse, you don't take that course of action. If we weren't there right now as someone for the various factions to rally against, Iraq would likely be in the midst of a full blown civil war. As it is, it's a police action that's getting uglier daily. If we'd gone in with more guys, it may have been better. If we'd found a way to eliminate him without invasion, it may have been better. This is likely the worst of all worlds.

And since it's in the same acrticle...

"There are clearly ties between Saddam Hussein's regime and al-Qaida," McClellan said. "There (were) clearly some disturbing similarities that existed as well."

"We know there were senior-level contacts between the regime and al-Qaida — the 9/11 commission documented that," McClellan said.

In fact, the 9/11 report said that while there were "friendly contacts" between Iraq and al-Qaida and a common hatred of the United States, none of these contacts "ever developed into a collaborative relationship."

By the rationale the White House is giving us, they could make the same argument that Time Magazine, which has managed to get an Al-Qaida interview here and there is also linked.

Please go out and vote next month and help see that these dolts aren't running the country.

Yahoo! News - White House Silent on Bremer Troop Request

] With a State Patrol airplane overhead, a motorcyclist hit
] the throttle and possibly set the informal record for the
] fastest speeding ticket in Minnesota history: 205 mph.

This is someone we can probably look forward to in a later edition of the Darwin Awards.

News

] General Odom said: "This is far graver than Vietnam.
] There wasn't as much at stake strategically, though in
] both cases we mindlessly went ahead with the war that was
] not constructive for US aims. But now we're in a region
] far more volatile, and we're in much worse shape with our
] allies."

Worse than Vietnam? I'm not sure how you can really get more damning than that.

Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | Far graver than Vietnam

] Among the many people quoted in the Atlantic is Jeffrey
] Record, a professor of strategy at the Army War College,
] who summed up a good deal of the thinking in Washington
] now: "Are we better off in basic security than before we
] invaded Iraq? The answer is no. An unnecessary war has
] consumed American Army and other ground resources, to the
] point where we have nothing left in the cupboard for
] another contingency -- for instance, should the North
] Koreans decide that with the Americans completely
] absorbed in Iraq, now is the time to do something."

When the Army War College says one thing and the White House says the opposite, I think I'm going to have to go with the guys who have a clue. The Army.

Yahoo! News - WHAT IF WE HAD NOT GONE INTO IRAQ?

] In a late Tuesday night court filing, the department told
] U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen it supports the Detroit
] defendants' request for a new trial and would no longer
] pursue terrorism charges against them. The defendants at
] most would only face fraud charges at a new trial.

Now here's a strange case. For those who have been reading me in the past, they know I mentioned this case before, and there, the local prosecutors absolutely blasted the Justice Department for not only not providing help, but doing everything it seemed they could do to hinder the local office. What's next? Who knows.

A better question might be, why did they drag their feet eartlier and are now trying to throw out what was done? This sure doesn't sound like the sort of thing we expect from the Ashcroft Justice Department so what's the ulterior motive behind tossing this one which was originally touted as a great case in the "War on Terror?"

Yahoo! News - U.S. Seeks to Throw Out Terror Convictions

Nothing significant to this one, it's just funny.

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