Thursday Links For Thee

Don't forget!! Press conference at 11a. Is this the beginning of the end for the Obama Presidencey?

In other news, on this day in history- 1984 - Band Aid -- 38 of Britain's top rock musicians -- recorded Do They Know It's Christmas? for Ethiopian famine victims. h/t Christine.

Injured Veterans Denied Promised Reviews

Gates: More Brigades to Afghanistan by Summer

The £3.20 'invisible' knickers that have overtaken iPods and perfume as the must-have gift this Christmas

Detroit News: Tuskegee Airmen get inaugural invite
They broke down some of the color lines of the military and earned a spot in history for their heroic fights during World War II. Next month, surviving members of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen, an all-black military unit trained for combat, will get to witness another piece of history being made.

Executions plunge

Hard Times? Squatters' Grand Home

Stars who played strippers

Washington Post: Cleaning Firm Used Illegal Workers at Chertoff Home
Every few weeks for nearly four years, the Secret Service screened the IDs of employees for a Maryland cleaning company before they entered the house of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, the nation's top immigration official.
The company's owner says the workers sailed through the checks — although some of them turned out to be illegal immigrants.