Tuesday Tid Bits

Huge, HUGE thunderstorms. lightning and tornadoes went thru here last night. First time in about 10 years that I've actually gone to the basement (mostly because of the constant warning sirens). Cooled things down quite a bit though.

SKorean Firm Delivers Commercial Dog Clones

Journalists 'beaten for reporting China police attack'

After 50 years of silence, quiz-show scandal figure Charles Van Doren speaks!

CNN: Presidential vote could help Dems get 'magic' Senate majority
As if Sen. Ted Stevens didn't have enough problems, Sen. Barack Obama might add to them.

Bucky Bon Bons, Clancy Candy.

Marines Ordered to Stay Longer in Afghanistan

The power handbag: Plug in your phone and charge it from the sun

Guantanamo detainees' foreign interrogations were recorded

LA Times: John McCain, Senate absentee extraordinaire, touts need for special session
As part of parrying Barack Obama's spotlight on energy policy today, John McCain invited his fellow senator to join him in taking leave from the presidential campaign trail to return to Washington forthwith and, with other lawmakers, grapple with the nation's energy problems.

Ventura County hot spot puzzles experts

G.O.P. Drops in Voting Rolls in Many States

Politico: Book says White House ordered forgery
A new book by the author Ron Suskind claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein. Suskind writes in “The Way of the World,” to be published Tuesday, that the alleged forgery – adamantly denied by the White House – was designed to portray a false link between Hussein’s regime and al Qaeda as a justification for the Iraq war.

Link fixed Bucky.