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Real News
Pre-Certified Election Results
The results are in and it looks like the Shiite alliance has come out on top. It's a good feeling for me as an American to see the progress made in Iraq. To know that the citizens of Iraq will be free to choose their own path in life. These are very interesting times...
The United Iraq Alliance, backed by Shiite Muslim Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, won a plurality of votes in the January 30 elections but fell short of an outright majority, the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq said Sunday.
The results announced are "final uncertified" results -- political parties have three days to file objections before they are certified.
Friendly journalist in the Whitehouse?
I don't really think this was as intentional as it sounds. If they really wanted to sneak in a friendly journalist why not get one who doesn't need to use an assumed name? Move along now people.. nothing to see here.
A New York congresswoman asked the White House to explain Wednesday why a man who worked for a news Web site owned by a GOP activist was able to obtain White House press credentials under an assumed name.
James Guckert, who reported from the White House for the Talon News Service under the name "Jeff Gannon," announced he was quitting the business "in consideration of the welfare of me and my family."
"Because of the attention being paid to me, I find it is no longer possible to effectively be a reporter for Talon News," he said in a statement posted Wednesday on his Web site.
Social Security Reform On The Horizon
Speaking in soothing tones, the president used the first State of the Union address of his second term to assure older Americans that their government retirement benefits would not change under his plan to partially privatize Social Security. For the first time, Bush specifically said benefits for Americans 55 and older ''will not change in any way," and he said the plan would help workers protect themselves from market swings that could deplete their accounts right before retirement.
Social security reform is a good thing. It will ensure that Social Security benefits are there today as well as tomorrow. How can that be a bad thing?
A big day for Iraq...
Well for those of you who said it could not have been done, you were dead wrong. For those of you who said that it would happen, you were correct. It was a big day for Iraq, the Middle East and for the world in general. The people of Iraq turned out in big numbers to cast their vote and secure their countries future as a free muslim state.
More than 200 employees, working in shifts around the clock on 80 computers, will tabulate the results as quickly as possible, al-Alami said. The electoral commission said it could not estimate how many voted, but officials said turnout was high. Allawi said Iraqis had showed the world "their courage and their love of freedom."
"The terrorists were defeated in Iraq," he said.
Rumsfield Resigning?
I hope Rumsfeld doesn't resign. He has been a competent Secretary of Defense and although the backlash from the improper treatment of Iraqi prisoners is deserved, it would be sad to see Rumsfeld go.
In a CNN interview, Mr Rumsfeld said he was ready to take responsibility for the scandal over pictures showing US troops and staff mistreating prisoners.
But he said each time he offered to go, President Bush asked him to stay on.
The BBC's Adam Brookes at the Pentagon says Mr Rumsfeld's position now looks even more secure.
Last year was a bruising year for the combative defense secretary, our correspondent says.
In Iraq, the insurgency inflamed cities across the country and then lurid photographs of American troops abusing Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib prison were published around the world.
But the Bush administration has been much encouraged by Sunday's elections in Iraq.
Mr. President, you made the right decision..
Prescription for Murder?
With all the prescription meds getting press these days it makes you wonder about how safe these things really are. I don't know about you but just about everytime I go to the Doctors office I hear about a brand new wonder med (with flashy advertising). And if the health risks themself aren't enough now drug companies and their prescribers also can worry about being pulled into a murder case.
A 15 year old boy in South Carolina currently on trial for murdering his grandparents, raises "Zoloft attributed insanity" as his legal defence. Drug testing files have been subpoenaed and no official comment has been made on behalf of the drugs maker.
If he is acquitted, some of the nation's largest drug makers could be exposed to future lawsuits linked to their antidepressants, possibly hurting sales. At the time of the killings, Christopher Pittman was living with his grandparents outside Chester, South Carolina. His father, Joe Pittman, said that shortly before the killings a South Carolina doctor gave Christopher a sample pack of Zoloft and doubled his dosage a week later. Two days before the killings, according to court files, Christopher Pittman got into a school bus fight with a younger boy. The boy's attorneys contend that Zoloft, a prescription drug manufactured by Pfizer, made him hallucinate and drove him to kill.
Created on 2005-01-31 23:04:41 by admin
Updated on 2005-02-13 12:19:40 by admin
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