Sunday, April 26, 2009
Bea Arthur dies at 86..................
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Beatrice Arthur, the tall, deep-voiced actress who considered herself lucky to be discovered by television executives after a long stage career that included a Tony award for the musical "Mame," died Saturday at age 86. The star of the TV shows "Maude" and "The Golden Girls" died peacefully at her Los Angeles home with her family at her side, family spokesman Dan Watt said. She had cancer, he said, but declined to give details....Link
Saturday, April 25, 2009
2,000 photographs of prisoner abuse........
The Pentagon will release for the first time 44 photographs depicting prisoner abuse after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) won a court ruling in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed in 2004. A "substantial number of other images" are also being processed for release, the Department of Justice wrote in a letter to a US federal court: according to the Guardian, citing an unnamed official, that "substantial number" could be as many as 2,000 photos...Link
Friday, April 24, 2009
HR 1207 Now Up To 92 Co-sponsors!!!.........
Title: To amend title 31, United States Code, to reform the manner in which the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is audited by the Comptroller General of the United States and the manner in which such audits are reported, and for other purposes.
Pair of suicide bombers kill 60.................
BAGHDAD – Two suicide bombers killed 60 people outside a heavily guarded Shiite shrine in Baghdad on Friday, prompting Iraq's prime minister to order an investigation into security shortcomings that allowed the assailants to slip through. Violence in Iraq has dropped to its lowest levels since the months following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, but an increase in suicide bombings and other devastating attacks in recent weeks has renewed concerns about the capabilities of Iraq's security forces...Link
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