political nonsense

A DNA study revealed that some Neanderthals were redheads.

[that's hot]
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UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei said Sunday he had no evidence that Iran is building nuclear weapons and accused US leaders of adding “fuel to the fire” with recent inflammatory rhetoric.
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ABC news reported that little girls have started dressing like skanks.
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The Dalai Lama told President Bush he had some reservations about Iraq.
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At least four Palestinians were killed Saturday when an explosion rocked a house in the south-eastern Gaza Strip, residents and security sources said. A Hamas spokesman claimed the blast was caused by an Israeli missile, but Israel denied any involvement.
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FEMA apologized for holding a fake press conference.
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Results of a telephone survey showed that in a race versus Republican Rudy Giuliani and Democrat Hilary Clinton, comedian Stephen Colbert would receive 13% of all votes.

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The US government is to order up to 50 diplomats to fill vacant posts in Iraq in the first such large-scale forced assignment since the Vietnam War, at least 33 people were reported killed in a fresh wave of Iraq violence, Turkey’s prime minister rejected an Iraqi proposal to resolve the standoff over raids by Kurdish guerrillas across the rugged border into Turkey because it included a military role for the United States, Iraqi troops found 17 decomposed bodies of unidentified men, and a British private security company was being sued in the US over the death of a US soldier hit by one of its convoys in Iraq.
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The Bush administration intensified its campaign against Iran with a new round of sanctions against its military and leading companies.
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Scientists in Utah turned a worm gay.

[now a dyke]
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The UN reported that we may be passing the point of no return.
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It was reported that there are now more than three quarters of a million names on the U.S. government’s terrorist “watch list,” and a government report raised concerns the list may be becoming too large.
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The UN warned that the situation in Gaza was deteriorating fast in a way that undermined potential progress in planned peace talks, and Israel’s defense minister approved sanctions against Gaza, including cuts in the supply of electricity and fuel.

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A Fox News anchor speculated that Al-Qaeda might have started the fires in California.
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A study found that marijuana in low doses is an anti-depressant, and in high doses is a depressant. The effect of medium doses was unknown.

[he's a lil' guy]
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Scientists reported that smoking cigarettes doesn’t make you skinnier.

[but it still looks cool]
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A State Department review of its own security practices in Iraq assailed the department for poor coordination, communication, oversight and accountability involving armed security companies like Blackwater USA and DynCorp, Blackwater was being accused of tax evasion and defrauding the government of millions of dollars by designating many of its employees as independent contactors instead of company personnel, President Bush requested another $46 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan bringing the total request this year to $196 billion, Osama bin Laden released a video urging Sunni Arab insurgents in Iraq to unite to fight against the US, about 10,000 Turkish troops were amassed along Turkey’s border with Iraq, and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said he would shut down the offices of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and will not allow the group to operate in Iraq after Kurdish rebels killed 12 Turkish soldiers on Sunday. The PKK has been fighting for Kurdish autonomy in southeastern Turkey since 1984.
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Scientists pointed out that not sleeping makes you crabby.
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Michael Chertoff, the homeland security secretary, waived several environmental laws to resume building the Mexico border fence; meanwhile President Bush announced he will ask Congress to approve a $500 million package to help Mexico fight drug cartels, the largest international anti-drug effort by the United States in nearly a decade.
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People are getting fatter in all parts of the world, with the possible exception of south and east Asia.

[somewhere not in south or east Asia]
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