WTF Is It Now?!?

Ken Lay bud Arnold to sabotage state lawsuits against Enron
Kennyboy's governor to settle lawsuits for pennies on the dollar

Only three days after Rovian meatpuppet Arnold Schwarzenegger won his victory in California, an aide announced that the governor-elect intends to settle pending energy fraud lawsuits. - - Greg Palast.




Four U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq
A joint U.S.-Iraqi patrol enforcing a curfew clashed with gunmen guarding the headquarters of a Shiite cleric, setting off a firefight that killed three Americans and 10 Iraqis, including two security officers. In Baghdad, another soldier from the 220th Military Police Brigade was killed and two were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded Friday morning.

In other developments:

One Humvee in an American convoy was damaged when a mine or homemade bomb exploded Friday near the central city of Fallujah, witnesses reported. An average of more than 20 attacks a day are being staged against U.S. forces in Iraq.

A bombing at a police station in the northern city of Kirkuk wounded a policeman. Station chief Lt. Col. Anwar Qader Ahmad said the attackers were Saddam loyalists.

In Irbil, 200 miles north of Baghdad, police also shot and killed the driver of a car packed with 220 pounds of explosives as he approached the police ministry office, the U.S. military said.

Other than that, things are goin' great!