political nonsense

Doug Schmitt got his wallet back.
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Newsweek revealed that there have been deep divisions within President Bush’s own Justice Department over the legality of the administration’s tactics since 9/11.
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ExxonMobil made a record $36 billion last year – a sum larger than the economies of 125 countries. President Bush pointed out America is addicted to oil.
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Samuel Alito was confirmed as a supreme court justice.
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French police realized that they had spent the last two years trying to identify a female murder victim–whose skeleton was found during a low tide in Plouezoc’h–who actually died in the 15th century. “We reckon it was pirates,” said a policeman.
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Eleven people died in a bombing at an Iraqi sweets shop, and at least 17 people died in other attacks this week.
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The U.S. Army has forced about 50,000 soldiers to continue serving after their voluntary stints ended under a policy called “stop-loss.”

“As the war in Iraq drags on, the Army is accumulating a collection of problems that cumulatively could call into question the viability of an all-volunteer force,”

said defense analyst Loren Thompson of the Lexington Institute think tank.
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A U.S. government audit found American-led occupation authorities squandered tens of millions of dollars that were supposed to be used to rebuild Iraq through undocumented spending and outright fraud.
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America’s tempestuous affair with the car has become a passionless marriage. Americans still need their cars, but the world has changed and they no longer really love them.
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fake braces are totally hot in thailand right now.

boston.com

The search for missing radioactive american money continues in Kazakhstan.
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Contesting allegations that recruiting shortfalls indicate a serious problem, Rumsfeld said that “retention is up” and that recruitment levels must meet higher goals, ones raised because of the operations on the ground. This, however, is blatantly inaccurate, as recruitment goals have actually been lowered several times in the last year in efforts to conceal recruiting shortfalls.
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Bush suggested that we should take Bin Laden seriously.

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Senators leading a congressional investigation into the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina are accusing the Bush administration of thwarting their inquiry.
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An UN commission found in its inquiry into the 24-year Indonesian occupation of East Timor that Indonesian forces caused the deaths of over 180,000 East Timorese.
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UPN and the WB are merging.
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Insurgents attacks have increased 30% in the last year.
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disney bought pixar.
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The Army is in danger of being broken.
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In San Jose, California, Anna Ayala, who planted a severed finger in a bowl of Wendy’s chili, was sentenced to nine years in prison.
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