Quitmo for Gitmo: Countdown Newsletter 6/9/05

[Patsy Stone]

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Tonight on Countdown
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Are Guantanamo Bay's days numbered as a U.S. military prison camp? Comments from both President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld seemed to point in that direction, with Rumsfeld noting Thursday that he'd rather have detainees imprisoned by their home countries.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8146881/

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President Bush on Thursday credited the Patriot Act with helping to convict more than 200 terrorists and dismissed accusations that the law has violated civil liberties. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5966983/

Child welfare officials seized a 12-year-old cancer patient from her parents, saying they were blocking radiation treatment that doctors say she needs. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8158534/

Garnet Hertz, a graduate student at the University of California, Irvine has given a roach a car. Mr. Hertz, a Fulbright scholar from Canada, was inspired by robotics pioneers like Rodney Brooks of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who have suggested that robot intelligence should resemble that of roaches and other insects that react quickly and instinctively to their environment. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/07/science/07roach.html?

And the best graduation ceremonies.

That's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.

Finally,
Ex-stripper Diana Hampton will soon have something new to wear - judicial robes. Hampton was elected to the Municipal Court in Henderson, Nevada on Tuesday, defeating Michael Miller in a run-off by 176 votes. Hampton, 39, had acknowledged during the campaign that she worked at a Las Vegas striptease club to help pay her way through college 14 years ago. She was elected to a six-year term. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/STRIPPER_JUDGE?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOME
So if you find yourself before her on a speeding violation, don't even think about being a wise guy.

-- Carey Fox

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More:
Three more men were arrested Thursday morning in connection with the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, and a source close to the investigation said their account of events is that as they left the 18-year-old outside her hotel on the night she vanished a man wearing a security uniform approached her. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8155048/

Jurors in the Michael Jackson child molestation case resumed deliberations Thursday, the day after the pop star made another trip to the hospital for follow-up treatment to his back problems. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8158449/

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Thursday that with the U.S. economy on a "reasonably firm footing" and underlying prices tame, policy-makers should be able to raise interest rates at a measured pace. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8157570/

When Erika Eckstrom began dating her boyfriend at the start of her College freshman year at 18 things were great, but her situation deteriorated and she soon was friendless, isolated and the victim of domestic violence. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8148206/

The U.S. is poised to drop its demand that European nations and other close allies adopt biometric passports by October, a move aimed at avoiding a serious disruption in transatlantic travel, according to U.S. and European government officials. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8157125/

The popular cholesterol-reducing drug Lipitor made by Pfizer does not prevent obstruction of the heart valve that leads to the aorta, the body's largest artery, according to recent findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8156365/

In his upcoming memoir, former Sen. Jesse Helms acknowledges he was wrong about the AIDS epidemic but believes integration was forced before its time by "outside agitators who had their own agendas." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8155406/

Israel's Supreme Court ruled Thursday a Gaza withdrawal plan is constitutional, removing the last legal obstacle to this summer's pullout. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8148952/

One of every seven people in the United States is Hispanic, a record number that probably will keep rising because of immigration and a birth rate outstripping that of non-Hispanic blacks and whites. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8147476/

From Southeast Asia to the Black Sea, fishing nets have become deathtraps for thousands of dolphins and porpoises - and yet low-cost changes could save 10 species threatened with extinction, the World Wildlife Fund said Thursday. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8156858/

The state is investigating allegations that longshoremen's union locals in Boston have placed children as young as 2½ on the payroll in a scheme to give them higher wages as adult dockworkers. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8157759/

Summer's here and the time is right for concerts. Rolling Stones, Eminem, Kenny Chesney among acts on tour. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8072694/

[RevCheesehead]

1. Sounds like another great show.

*sigh* another church meeting tonight - I'll have to catch the re-countdown at 11.

Try not to have too much fun without me! :)

[illini]

2. Did you happen to notice the soldier standing on the toliet?

Keiths #5 story was called "The Detainees Delema". While there doing the story they show some stock footage of Guantanamo Bay. Or at least I think its Guantanamo Bay. One of the shots is of two soldiers standing on an observation deck looking over a wall at incoming detainees. One of the soldiers is STANDING ON A TOILET. It may not be a smoking gun but I think its odd. The Toilet is on a platform and no visible plumbing?