Thursday, April 23, 2009
News Morning Newsdome: Back to not-happy news
Posted by TL Pixley on Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:40 PM
>> WTF: First-time homebuyers and "investors" are setting off bidding wars on foreclosed homes. Something about that is just wrong.
>> Purchase of the morning-after pill by 17-year-olds has been approved by the FDA. As with any decision ever made in America, some people are ecstatic, some people are pissed.
>> SCARY: Taliban forces march ever-closer to the capital of nuclear-armed Pakistan, with the government seeming to offer little resistance.
>> China flexes its monetary muscles through loans to struggling countries like Jamaica.
>> WORD UP: The lone voice of sanity on Fox News, Shepard Smith, speaks: "I don't give a rat's ass if it helps. We are AMERICA! We do not fucking torture!!"
>> 'Tis a mutiny, ARRRRGH: Pirate Bay lawyer calls for a retrial as judge presiding over the case belongs to a pro-copyright lobby group.
>> Top MySpace execs are on their way out. Does this mean new sign-ups for the site won't be greeted by Tom as their first friend?
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
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