News Update 12 20 05

• Umbilical Cord blood database started. Props to President Bush and the Congress for getting this done in an effective and non-partisan manner.
• Judge bans the teaching of intelligent design as a science theory in Dover, PA
• New York mass-transit is shutdown
• Hunger and homelessness have increased in the past year according to the Conference of Mayors — yep this economy is unbelievable I tell you, we have not seen anything like this in years.
• Bush Administration claims that the authorization to use force in Afghanistan authorized the use of warrantless searches and wiretaps. Defense Tech disagrees as it speaks with a bunch of former SigInt spooks. Attorney General Gonzales first agrees with the Afghanistan excuse and then disagrees with it. Glenn Greenwald demolishes the claim that the Supreme Court authorized warrantless searches in pursuit of “domestic security” via the United States v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan et al, 407 U.S. 297 (1972) decision.
• Evidently PETA and gay rights groups are aligned with Al-Quaida as they were targets of FBI counter-terrorism surveillance (Note, I am a fellow traveller of PETA — People Eating Tasty Animals —bison is yummy)
• There are Penguin Prostitutes