political nonsense

A survey found that almost 60 percent of the military community are critical of the Bush Administration’s handling of the war.
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It was discovered that Rudy Giuliani, presidential candidate and former mayor of New York, gave his mistress a police escort, who drove her around all day and walked her dog.
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Astronomers discovered a one-billion-light-year-wide pocket full of nothing in the sky.

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Food banks across the United States, facing critical shortages, were forced to distribute emergency rations intended for disaster relief.
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Rodney King bicycled home after being shot in the face.

[why not?]
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Israel approved a cutoff of fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip.
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Australia ratified the Kyoto protocol, leaving the United States the only major industrialized country not to do so.
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Voters in Venezuela narrowly defeated a referendum on changing their constitution to abolish presidential term limits and vastly increase President Hugo Chavez’s executive powers.
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Evel Knievel died.

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Scientists concluded that smoking is the only thing worse than violence on television.
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More Americans believe in hell and the devil than Darwin’s theory of evolution.
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Thousands of Sudanese, many armed with clubs and knives, demanded the execution of a British teacher convicted of insulting Islam for allowing her students to name a teddy bear “Muhammad.”
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Oprah and Obama are going on tour together.

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China and France signed a bilateral pact to fight against climate change together.
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The UN Committee Against Torture has determined the use of taser stun guns can be a form of torture and violate the UN Convention Against Torture. Four men in the United States and three in Canada have died after being shot with tasers in the past two weeks.
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96,000 pounds of beef were recalled.

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Australia’s new Prime Minister pledged to sign the Kyoto Protocol, leaving the US as the only major economy which still opposes the agreement, scientists warned that poor people will bear the brunt of climate change, and Oxfam found that more than four times the number of natural disasters are occurring now than did two decades ago, in a study Sunday that largely blamed global warming.
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The Bush administration threatened to lay off up to 150,000 civilian workers at military bases in mid-December if Congress does not approve unrestricted Iraq funding immediately, around 60% of all foreign militants who entered Iraq to fight over the past year came from two of America’s allies- Saudi Arabia and Libya, a former top US commander in Iraq has come out in support of withdrawing most combat troops by the end of next year, and Al Qaeda insurgents disguised as members of a Sunni alliance council attacked the council’s headquarters outside Baghdad leaving at least 18 people dead.
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Nearly all Democrats and more than six in 10 Republicans think the country is going in the wrong direction.
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Swedish women were fighting for their right to go topless.
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