political nonsense

General Mills recalled five million frozen pepperoni pizzas.

[do not eat]
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The Bush administration is trying to diffuse a public relations fiasco over news U.S. diplomats are refusing mandatory job assignments in Iraq.
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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 Republican state legislator who repeatedly voted against gay rights measures resigned his seat Wednesday amid revelations he had sex with a man he met at an erotic video store while in Spokane on a GOP retreat. “I am not gay,” he said.
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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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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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