Odds and Ends

It's President Day, and how very unpatriotic of my boss to make me work. Here's news...

NYC Mayor Bloomberg perfectly sums up why the stimulus checks are an insult. He "has unleashed another flurry of jabs on Washington, ridiculing the federal government's rebate checks as being 'like giving a drink to an alcoholic' on Thursday, and said the presidential candidates are looking for easy solutions to complex economic problems."

Put down that Whopper, folks! A CA meat company has "issued the largest beef recall in history, 143 million pounds, some of which was used in school lunch programs, Department of Agriculture officials announced." This is the result of an undercover video from the Humane Society showing the cows being abused.

(A good time to go organic?)

Speaking of abuse... Gulf Coast residents, your FEMA trailer is toxic.

Meanwhile, big news in Europe: "Revelers fired guns, waved red-and-black Albanian flags and set off fireworks over Kosovo Sunday after parliament proclaimed independence in defiance of Serbia and Russia, which condemned the declaration of the world's newest nation." EU leaders are split over this matter.

Finally, voters in Pakistan went to the polls today, in the election postponed by Bhutto's assassination. And, next door in Afghanistan, events continue to spiral out of control.