Tuesday Open Thread

Before you do anything, leave this post and go read Izzaradar's "Dear Sarah, Dear Sister" if you haven't already.  This is surely one of the best posts to ever go up on P'zane.

On to the news...

So Michael Jackson was "murdered".  Does the fact that his "killer" was paid big bucks by the victim to do what killed him change this?  How much more MJ coverage will we have to endure?

More fear-mongering...the administration's science advisory group says H1N1 could kill up to 90,000 Americans this winter.   From www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,542083,00.html

Monday’s report from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, PCAST, shows a sober assessment of the dangers of a pandemic, but also serves as a pat on the back for a White House preparing for its first public health crisis.

Gotta get those strokes in for the prez.

Four US soldiers were killed by an IED in Afghanistan.  The one war we SHOULD have fought is going south quickly.  Our poor military must be as desperate for some leadership as we are.

Obama taps Bernanke for four more years.  Guess the looting is going to take a while longer.

Scotland says released Pan Am 102 bomber al Megrahi wasn't supposed to get a hero's welcome back in Libya.  Like a quiet return would've made their betrayal just fine and dandy.

The CIA threatened to kill Kahlid Sheikh Mohammed's children.  Sarah Palin knows how he feels.

The VA sent letters to 1,200 vets, wrongly advising them that they had amyotropic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease).  They blame a "coding error".   Panicked soldiers are contacting veterans' groups to find out what's going on.  If this is an example of government health care, is it any wonder those town hall meetings are packed?

Shades of the Hatfields and McCoys...300 people were involved in a riot in Marion, Alabama, arising from a feud between two families.  They've been at it for two or three years now and went at each other yesterday morning with tire irons.  Evidently nobody got up and made coffee.  I hear caffeine withdrawal will do that to you.

Plaxico Burress says he didn't know he'd shot himself until he saw the blood dripping.  I guess somehow he missed the "BANG" when the gun went off.  There's an argument for keeping guns legal.  If guns were outlawed we'd never have this wonderful story to snark on.

Virginia officials have granted Wal-Mart the right to build a new superstore near that Civil War battlefield.  Despite opposition from hundreds of historians and presevationists, locals went for the jobs.  It's hard to blame them.

Eric Holder appoints a prosecutor to look into CIA detainee abuse.  Then puts waterboarding and "enhanced interrogation techniques" by the Bush administration off-limits to said prosecutor.   Reminds me of a line from an old "bathing song"...Now and then you can flirt with the men, but don't go near the water. 

And finally, here's a good read on the mainscream media's growing disenchantment with their Annointed One.  Hat tip to Marge.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/The-thrill-is-gone-for-Obama-...