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Keith Olbermann's Worst Person's in the World
Bronze: Walmart’s CEO for doing nothing about being nominated Yesterday.
Silver: Lindsey Graham for going Faux Noise and saying McCain never said the war would be easy. Even though, he did.
Gold: Michael Chertoff for sending his agents out to catch a radioactive cat! (*meow?*)
Democrat Gov. Don Siegelman Released from Prison pending appeal.
Obama Weathers Wright Storm, Clinton has issues
So says pew research.
So much for Hillary’s crossing the Executive threshold eh?
It’s too much to quote here, best to go read it all, for yourself.
There’s a ton of people on this, check out the coverage.
Going to be an interesting couple of weeks, no doubt.
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Space shuttle is back home
A rare nighttime landing for the shuttle, first the video:
The Story: After long mission, shuttle calls it a night (via MSNBC)
The space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of seven returned to Earth on Wednesday, making a rare nighttime touchdown to wrap up "a two-week adventure" at the international space station.
The shuttle swooped through the darkness and landed on NASA’s illuminated runway at 8:39 p.m., an hour after sunset.
"Welcome home, Endeavour," Mission Control radioed. "Congrats to the entire crew."
Congratulations to our fine space explorers on a job well done. Good show guys.
Cross-posted @ My Tech Blog, Tech in a Box
Keith Olbermann's Worst Person in the World
Bronze: Bill O. over the Roland Martin flap
Silver: James Dobson for his Family Research Counsel.
Walmart: For Suing Debra Shank, after she was in accident.
Oooops!
Someone made a big fat boo boo!
Article: Pentagon Admits Mistake in Arms Shipment (via AP)
The U.S. military’s mistaken delivery to Taiwan of electrical fuses for an intercontinental ballistic missile raised concerns Tuesday over U.S.-China relations and triggered a broad investigation into the security of Pentagon weapons.
While the shipment did not include nuclear materials, the error is particularly sensitive because China vehemently opposes U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. Four of the cone-shaped fuses were shipped to Taiwanese officials in fall 2006 instead of the helicopter batteries they had ordered.
Somebody somewhere is either out of a job or in some seriously hot water.
Needless to say the big wigs at the Pentagon are not amused.
"I can not emphasize forcefully enough how strong the secretary feels about this matter and how disconcerting it is to him," Henry told reporters. He added that in an organization the size of the Defense Department there will be mistakes, but that "they cannot be tolerated in the arena in strategic systems, whether they are nuclear or only associated equipment, as was in this case."
In a comment directed at the Chinese concerns, Henry said the error does not suggest that U.S. policies on arms sales to Taiwan have changed.
You don’t think that the pentagon bosses were a little upset, do you?