This Week in the Mercury
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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Posted by Amy J. Ruiz on Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:37 AM
Screw you, California. Gay couples can get married in Connecticut starting today.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to bail out automakers. Don't do it, Nancy!
Google has now officially thought of everything.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson changes the rules of the other bailout game. "The administration decided that using billions of dollars to buy troubled assets of financial institutions at the current time was 'not the most effective way' to use the $700 billion bailout package, he said." Gee, you think?
On the good news front: "The Obama administration will launch a review of the classified files of the approximately 250 detainees at Guantanamo Bay immediately after taking office, as part of an intensive effort to close the U.S. prison in Cuba, according to people who advised the campaign on detainee issues."
Will Sarah Palin run for president in four years?
Another human foot washes up on the coast of British Columbia!
Jennifer Aniston finally vents about Angelina Jolie in Vogue, calling the other woman "really uncool."
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and the Mars Pheonix lander died, and Fox News wasn't allowed into Obama's press conference (i love him), and a submarine died while looking for a lost nuclear warhead under greenland, and Alaska found 1/3rd of "misplaced" ballots.
Oh, and the Fed has spent $2 trillion to 11 undisclosed sources. Poof! Gone! Bloomberg has filed lawsuit demanding the information via FOIA.
Then there is lobbying from large companies to get the '96 Pension act repealed and all sorts of other fun things making us ever more unheedful of Eisenhower's warning of not letting companies gain more power than the government, else we become a fascist society. Approaching Hobbesian nightmare...narghbleishchuu...
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