Posts Tagged ‘somali pirates’

Gitmo-As-We-Know-It Will Officially Span Two Decades

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

A lot of gynecologists and other lady and/or oncological doctors disagree completely with yesterday’s new things about mammography announcement. [New York Times]
Obama admitted that Gitmo is not going to close by January. This makes keeping his promise to close Gitmo by January a considerably tenuous one. [Washington Post]
Between fraud and anything having to do with Recovery.gov and cleverer types of fraud, the federal government managed to accidentally overpay $98 billion dollars last fiscal year. [CNN]
The Somali pirates are like obsessed with this one US-flagged cargo ship, which they just attacked for the second time in seven months. Creepy. [AP]
Obama’s admiration of the Great Wall of China can be seen from space. [WSJ]
Meet Vaira Vike-Freiberga. Alias: VVF. Pedigree: Twice former president of Latvia. She is this lady running for president of Europe and she is so dope—read all of this: [Times Online]

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Obama and Chinese president Hu Jintao had the best conversation ever, according to the brief, detail-less talking points Obama gave to reporters right afterward. [New York Times]
If you are a lady over 40 and/or a lady over 50, there have been important changes re: scheduling your no-longer-annual mammogram! [Washington Post]
Obama says that he and Russian president Dmitry “Vladimir Putin” Medvedev are THISCLOSE to drafting a new nuclear nonproliferation treaty. [The Hill]
The nuisancey and frankly a bit boring Somali Pirates obnoxiously and predictably seized a chemical tanker and its North Korean crew off the coast of Seychelles. [CNN]
Non-Bill Gates Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen began a course of chemo for his non-Hodgkins lymphoma. [WSJ]
The UN and Iran have been having secret meetings, at which everyone whispered secret suggestions during a dramatic game of telephone about how Iranians can keep enriching uranium but only if they’re friendly to weapons inspectors. [Times Online]

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Maurice R. Greenberg, the impossibly geriatric former head of AIG, has been quietly luring young, unsuspecting insurance execs to his new firm. [New York Times]
Harry Reid promised out loud that the new health care bill will have a public option, which means it actually might! [Washington Post]
Like half an hour ago, NASA sent the the largest rocket ever (327 ft.) into space. The moon was unharmed. [CNN]
Starting nowish, a Senate committee will meet for the next three days in order to figure out some tenable clean energy initiatives. It’s bipartisan, because look: Lamar Alexander! [Reuters]
Over the last three days, 700 adults were arrested in sweeping sex-with-children raids that spanned 36 cities. [Los Angeles Times]
The Somali pirates not only continue to exist if everyone pretty much ignores them, they also apparently continue to kidnap British people. [Times Online]