Around the World
Headlines from all over the place.
++ In its neverending quest to annoy the fuck out of me, PETA is resuming their "eating meat = genocide & slavery!" ad campaign. Because earth logic waved bye-bye to PETA decades ago.
++ The vice chairman of the Massachusettes Republican party has been charged with drug money-laundering. Nice!
++ Yesterday, the Governator officially launched his "save money with a fun $50 million special election!" campaign. Because the nurses, teachers and firefighters in California need to be TAKEN DOWN, dammit!
++ In the New York Mayoral Primaries, Ferrer is first, with a runoff election possible:
According to preliminary, unofficial results last night, Mr. Ferrer held a strong lead over Mr. Weiner, who rode an anti-establishment political message out of last place in a four-way race in just the last few weeks. But unofficial results showed that Mr. Ferrer captured 39.949 percent of the vote, a hairbreadth short of the 40 percent needed to avoid a runoff on Sept 27.
Foreshadowing a fierce battle over the election results in coming days, Mr. Ferrer stopped just short of declaring victory in the Democratic primary last night, saying, "We're almost there." Mr. Weiner had 29 percent of the vote, and insisted that he was in the runoff.
Right now the results are too close to call and we might not know for a little while.
++ There were several nights of violence and rioting in Northern Ireland, related to the Orange marches.
++ High fuel costs are pushing Delta and Northwest Airlines on the verge of bankruptcy.
++ Because of this news, oil prices just went up yet again.
++ Between high gas prices and Katrina, consumer confidence has plummeted.
++ Hey, Europe is having a gas crisis too? Oh, this is bad.
++ Just a couple hours ago in Baghdad, Suicide bombs and gunmen killed at least 80 people and injured 150 more.
++ In its neverending quest to annoy the fuck out of me, PETA is resuming their "eating meat = genocide & slavery!" ad campaign. Because earth logic waved bye-bye to PETA decades ago.
++ The vice chairman of the Massachusettes Republican party has been charged with drug money-laundering. Nice!
++ Yesterday, the Governator officially launched his "save money with a fun $50 million special election!" campaign. Because the nurses, teachers and firefighters in California need to be TAKEN DOWN, dammit!
++ In the New York Mayoral Primaries, Ferrer is first, with a runoff election possible:
According to preliminary, unofficial results last night, Mr. Ferrer held a strong lead over Mr. Weiner, who rode an anti-establishment political message out of last place in a four-way race in just the last few weeks. But unofficial results showed that Mr. Ferrer captured 39.949 percent of the vote, a hairbreadth short of the 40 percent needed to avoid a runoff on Sept 27.
Foreshadowing a fierce battle over the election results in coming days, Mr. Ferrer stopped just short of declaring victory in the Democratic primary last night, saying, "We're almost there." Mr. Weiner had 29 percent of the vote, and insisted that he was in the runoff.
Right now the results are too close to call and we might not know for a little while.
++ There were several nights of violence and rioting in Northern Ireland, related to the Orange marches.
++ High fuel costs are pushing Delta and Northwest Airlines on the verge of bankruptcy.
++ Because of this news, oil prices just went up yet again.
++ Between high gas prices and Katrina, consumer confidence has plummeted.
++ Hey, Europe is having a gas crisis too? Oh, this is bad.
++ Just a couple hours ago in Baghdad, Suicide bombs and gunmen killed at least 80 people and injured 150 more.