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Friday, January 26, 2007

The Morning News

posted by on January 26 at 8:52 AM

The Bush administration believes Iranian agents are helping the insurgents in Iraq, and now U.S. forces have been given the go ahead to “take whatever actions are necessary” to combat them.

President Bush says he’s still the decision-maker, and that his new plan for Iraq is the best one.

A curfew has been lifted in Beirut after four were left dead and over 150 wounded in fighting between government supporters and non-supporters.

The Senate has unanimously confirmed Army Lt. Gen. David Petraeus as chief commander of troops in Iraq.

Iran is reportedly beefing up its space program. Meanwhile, the country is close to large-scale uranium enrichment.

14 dead in Baghdad after a bomb hidden in a box full of pigeons was set off in a pet market.

Jet skis, iPods, and other “luxury items” are now officially banned from being exported to North Korea.

Two U.S. special forces soldiers may face charges for an alleged “torture death” in Afghanistan in 2003.

The University of Washington is able to raise $1 million every 29 hours.

The urban-corridors administrator for the Department of Transportation doubts Nickels’s “tunnel lite” will really save $1.2 billion.

A woman in Monroe has been arrested for driving infractions for the 50th time.

Nine arrested, nearly $5 million worth of pot seized during drug raids in unincorporated southeast King County.

Bigfoot has been found in Federal Way.

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What on earth is Kim Jong-il going to survive now that he has to buy his luxury goods on the black market from our masters the Chinese instead of from us, which he didn't do in the first place?

This is the most powerful piece of trade theater since those congressmen smashed those radios on the lawn. Yawn.

Posted by Fnarf | January 26, 2007 9:22 AM
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Only 996 more to die in Lebanon before it's officially a civil war. Again.

Posted by Gitai | January 26, 2007 9:53 AM
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Betcha North Korea can still buy Zunes.. since they are craptastic brown.

Posted by Jake of 8bitjoystick.com | January 26, 2007 10:53 AM
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Meanwhile even CNN is reporting that al-Qaeda is alive and well and protected by the Pakistan ISS in Pakistan, as some of us have been saying for, oh, I don't know, FOUR YEARS NOW!

Some talk.

Some do.

And then there's the Pres.

Posted by Will in Seattle | January 26, 2007 12:10 PM
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If they would just let people grow up to a half dozen plants in their homes for personal use we would have a lot less stories like this. Weed should be free!

Posted by elswinger | January 26, 2007 12:32 PM

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