Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 51 for Thursday, February 15, 2007

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A daily roundup of things that seemed important.

We pay in beer.



IT’S POOR MOJO’S NEWS SHOW! FOR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY FIFTEENTH, TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN.



A DAILY ROUNDUP OF THINGS THAT SEEMED IMPORTANT .


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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6357005.stm
WE ARE ALL ABOUT SQUIDS HERE AT POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE, AND NOT BECAUSE THEY TASTE GOOD. IN ONE CAPACITY OR OTHER, WE ALL TOIL IN THE SERVICE OF THE GIANT SQUID, WHOM YOU SHOULD GET TO KNOW BETTER AT THE MAIN PART OF THE SITE, POORMOJO.ORG . MR. SQUID IS AN ADVICE COLUMNIST, ADVENTURER, AND ONCE BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL. ALL THAT TO SAY THAT OUR OWN EDITOR, MOJO, WILL NOT PASS UP POSTING A SQUID STORY WHEN ONE PRESENTS ITSELF. B-B-C NEWS REPORTS RESEARCHERS HAVE DICOVERED A DEEP-SEA SQUID IN THE PACIFIC THAT DISABLES ITS PREY WITH LASER BEAMS THAT SHOOT OUT OF ITS BODY! WELL, Okay, so not lasers per se, but really flashes of light. It's still cool. FROM THE ARTICLE: THE Big deep-sea squid emit blinding flashes of light as they attack their prey... Japanese scientists believe the creatures use the bright flashes to disorientate potential victims. Writing in a Royal Society journal, they say the squid are far from the sluggish, inactive beasts once thought.



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http://cbs11tv.com/topstories/topstories_story_045143506.html
REMEMBER ON FRIDAY, THE FAIRLY SHOCKING NEWS THAT IRV LEWIS "SCOOTER" LIBBY AND VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY WOULD NOT, AS THEY APPARENTLY HAD PROMISED U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton AND SPECIAL PROSECUTOR PATRICK FITZGERALD, TESTIFY AT LIBBY'S FEDERAL PERJURY TRIAL? WELL, OKAY, THE SMART MONEY WAS ON THEM NOT TESTIFYING, AS THEY WOULD HAVE HAD EITHER TO LIE OR TAKE THE FIFTH. TURNS OUT, THOUGH, THAT STIFFING the JUDGE WAS ANYTHING BUT SMART. ACCORDING TO WIRE SERVICE REPORTS, JUDGE WALTON REFUSED TO PERMIT LIBBY'S ATTORNEYS TO SUBMIT CLASSIFIED EVIDENCE THAT LIBBY WAS SO CONSUMED WITH IMPORTANT STUFF THAT HE FORGOT THAT CHENEY TOLD HIM THAT VALERY PLAME WAS AN UNDERCOVER NON-OFFICIAL COVER C-I-A AGENT. THAT'S WHY, ACCORDING TO HIM, THE FIRST TIME HE REMEMBERED HEARING THAT WAS FROM NBC NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF TIM RUSSERT. RUSSERT SPENT EIGHT HOURS ON THE STAND LAST WEEK REPEATING OVER AND OVER THAT THIS WAS STONE BULLSHIT. WITHOUT THE IMPRESSIVE CLASSIFIED STUFF THE JUDGE REFUSED TO HEAR, LIBBY'S CASE APPEARS PRETTY SHAKEY, AND WALTON IS FURIOUS. HE'S STAKED HIS REPUTATION ON HIS CALL TO STIFF LIBBY, SAYING IN RESPONSE TO LIBBY'S ATTORNEY'S PROMISE TO APPEAL: "If that's what the Supreme Court is going to say (in any ruling on an appeal), they might as well say the government's not entitled to a fair trial and the defendant is," Walton said. "I think both sides are entitled to a fair trial. If I get reversed on that, maybe I need to hang up my spurs." YOU Don't piss off a judge. YOU just don't. Now maybe that slimy shit LIBBY and his puppetmaster Cheney can develop the habit of NOT LYING.


http://www.startribune.com/587/story/1002244.html
COMEDIAN AND RADIO HOST AL FRANKEN QUIT HIS AIR AMERICA GIG WEDNESDAY AND ANNOUNCED HIS RUN FOR U-S SENATOR, aiming FOR PAUL WELLSTONE'S OLD SEAT IN MINNESOTA. IN A STATEMENT, HE ASKED VOTERS TO TAKE HIM SERIOUSLY AND PROMISED TO WORK TO INCREASE COLLEGE AID AND PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY. LET'S HOPE HE STAYS OUT OF PRIVATE PLANES.


http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070214/BUSINESS01/70214029
SPEAKING OF THE FRIGID MIDWEST, LIFE IN MICHIGAN JUST GOT AN EENTSY BIT MORE SHITTY WITH DAIMLER-CHRYSLER'S PLAN TO CUT 13,000 JOBS, NINE THOUSAND OF THOSE IN THE U-S, HALF OF THEM BY THIS TIME NEXT YEAR. WITH PUNDITS FIGURING THAT THE STATE IS MERE MONTHS AWAY FROM GOVERNMENTAL COLLAPSE FROM LACK OF FUNDING, IT CONTINUES TO HEMMORAGE HIGH-PAYING JOBS AND RESULTING INCOME AND SALES TAXES. THE DETROIT FREE PRESS REPORTS The Auburn Hills-based automaker, which reported an operating loss of $1.5 billion Wednesday, INTENDS TO RETURN TO PROFITABILTY IN 2008 THANKS TO JOB CUTS.



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http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3659401
THE MAGIC MOVIE MACHINE THAT IS YOU TUBE HAS HIT A BRICK WALL CALLED THE REAL WORLD. DAYS AFTER VIACOM FORCED THE GOOGLE-OWNED SITE TO REMOVE MORE THAN 100,000 OF ITS VIDEOS COMES NEWS REPORTED AT INTERNEWS DOT COM THAT CRIMINAL CHARGES WILL BE FILED AGAINST the YOU TUBE USER WHO UPLOADED EPISODES OF 24 BEFORE THEY WERE AIRED. ALONG WITH ANOTHER SITE, LIVE DIGITAL, YOU TUBE WILL TURN over USER ACCOUNT INFORMATION IN RESPONSE TO SUBPOENAS FILED BY TWENTIETH-CENTRURY FOX IN U-S DISTRICT COURT.


http://editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003545478&imw=Y
IS IT TREASONOUS TO QUESTION THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ? WHAT WOULD ABRAHAM LINCOLN THINK? ACCORDING TO EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, WASHINGTON TIMES COLUMNIST Frank Gaffney, Jr. AND MORE THAN A FEW OTHER CONSERVATIVE WRITERS HAVE USED TO THIS LINCOLN QUOTE: "Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged." STRONG LANGUAGE FROM THE MAN WHO SAVED THE UNION. ONE PROBLEM: IT'S TOTAL BULLSHIT. LINCOLN NEVER SAID IT. BROOKS JACKSON AT FACT CHECK DOT ORG DISCOVERED THAT The conservative author who touched off the misquotation frenzy, J. Michael Waller, concedes that the words are his, not Lincoln's. A MISTAKE IN EDITING PUT LINCOLN'S QUOTATION MARKS AROUND WALLERS WORDS. THAT FACT DOESN'T PREVENT THE MISQUOTE FROM APPEARING IN AT LEAST 18,000 SEARCH RESULTS.



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OTHER STORIES WE COVERED TODAY AT POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE:



COMMERCIAL QUANTUM COMPUTER COMPLETED! BUT... Quantum (K)omputer claims ARE often overstated

Mark Morford's handy guide to the penis

Batman forces school closure'

San Francisco to offer free bieks for everyone

The Chinese Space Potato

Blu-Ray and HD-DVD encryption cracked

Bush: "Money trumps peace"

Mexican drug gangs attacking each other through YouTube

The Daily Show on Douglas Feith's Huge Balls

Could that cell phone photo of me blowing that guy hurt my future in politics?

You don't need a weatherman to know the value of a brand name - THE RETURN OF STUDENTs FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY

AND

Slate Podcast - Which Dem does Hollywood love?





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