political nonsense

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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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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OPEC’s members have expressed interest in converting their cash reserves into a currency other than the depreciating U.S. dollar, referred to by the President of Iran as a “worthless piece of paper.”
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Supermodel Gisele Bundchen stopped accepting payment in dollars.

[no longer accepting dollar bills]
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Hollywood screenwriters went on strike. “I’m really scared,” said Oren Ashkenazi, a dry cleaner who caters to Warner Brothers.
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The US dollar fell to 93 cents Canadian, the lowest its been since the Civil War.

[not much]
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A jury ordered an anti-gay Kansas church to pay $10.9 million in damages to relatives of a reportedly gay dead U.S. Marine after church members cheered his death at his funeral.
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ABC news reported that little girls have started dressing like skanks.
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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 reported that smoking cigarettes doesn’t make you skinnier.

[but it still looks cool]
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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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The FDA voted to ban cold medicine for small children, because they are potentially extremely harmful and there is no proof that they do any good.
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The Chair of the Federal Communications Commission proposed doing away with media ownership rules that bar companies from owning both a newspaper and a television or radio station in the same city.
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It was reported that swearing boosts work morale.
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US and Iraqi officials were negotiating Baghdad’s request to expel the private security company Blackwater within six months following last month’s deadly shoot out in Baghdad, a Washington Post correspondent was shot dead in Baghdad, former US military commander in Iraq Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez described the war as a “nightmare with no end in sight,” the Turkish government formally sought authorization from the Turkish parliament to invade Northern Iraq and attack Kurdish rebel groups after amassing 60,000 troops along the country’s border and shelling Kurdish regions across the border, and a former top US general admitted the war in Iraq was about oil. “Of course it’s about oil, we can’t really deny that,” former Commander General John Abizaid said.
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Two thirds of American CEOs, a study found, think that American CEOs are overpaid.
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Researchers reported that strippers earn more money when they’re ovulating.

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Economists pointed out that going to college might not be worth it.
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