In a resounding fashion, State Senator R. Creigh Deeds beat
former Democratic Chairman and Hillary Clinton campaign chairman, Terry McAuliffe in the primary race for Governor in Virginia. R. Creigh Deeds received 51% of the vote, McAuliffe received 26% and Brian Moran received 23%. Some reports indicate that the fact that there were three men in the primary made it tougher for McAuliffe. Other reports indicate that Deeds and Moran both had state wide constituencies, while McAuliffe, although he lived in Virginia for 17 years and had a national reputation politically, did not have a base in the state. Mr. Deeds is an attorney and has been a state Senator from 2002 until the present, according to reports. He will met the Republican nominee in November, in the race to decide who will run the state of Virginia in the future.
Fiat is now the controlling entity for Chrysler. The Supreme Court cleared the way for the sale of the major part of Chrysler's assets to Fiat, rejecting the request be consumer groups and three Indiana pension fund plans, to stop the sale. The court through a temporary ruling by Justice Ruth Ginsberg gave the applicants time to show that at least four of the nine justices, found the issue serious enough to warrant a full hearing, and that a majority of the court would conclude that the lower court ruling to allow the sale was wrong. The court found that the applicants did not carry that burden. The court did not consider the merits of the opponents argument, only whether to hear their full-blown appeal.
Italy's Fiat will now operate Chrysler. Reports are that the first order of business will be smaller, more efficient automobiles.
The bankruptcy judge also approved Chrysler's decision to terminate seven-hundred and eighty-nine dealerships.
All eyes are on the election which will be held in Iran on Friday of this week, where the incumbent President, has, according to some polls and reports fallen behind his challenger by 15 points. This in light of the Sunday win over the Hezbollah candidates in Lebanon; Some reports are pointing to President Obama's speeches in the Muslim world as possibly having an effect on these elections. Others say, for instance in Iraq, the people are angry at their President for allowing their country to be viewed in a negative light, by his actions. Hopefully the election on Friday will be legitimate and the votes will be accurately counted.
The small island of Palau, 500 miles off the coast of the Philippines, has tentatively agreed to take 17 Chinese-American Muslims from Gitmo. The detainees were declared to be non-combtants by the courts. In return for taking these prisoners, the island country will reportedly receive two-hundred million dollars in long term aid from the United States.
A hearing is underway in Congress, debating whether or not to include a single-payer health care plan in the reform changes. The Republicans are against it, because their argument is, that private health care companies would suffer. Boo hoo.!
A French nuclear submarine with radar and sonar equipment, will assist in the search for the black boxes on the downed Air France flight in the Atlantic ocean.
The submarine will scan the bottom of the ocean, listening for the "pings" from the boxes, which will emit for 30 days.
Story of the day: An Israeli woman bought her elderly mother a new mattress as a surprise gift on Monday.
She then threw out the old mattress, which was collected by the trash men. The next day, she remembered that she has hidden her life savings of one million dollars in the discarded mattress. She went to three different land fills, searching for the mattress, to no avail. One landfill reportedly had over two thousand tons of refuse. The woman was unidentified and would not say how she had accumulated such a large sum of money, only that the money was in American dollars and Israeli shekels.
The reason she had hidden the money in the mattress reportedly, was because she had traumatic experiences
with banks.
A 72 year old grandmother, was tasered on a U. S. highway by a policeman after she refused to stop her unruly behavior. The event was videotaped.
The Wisconsin Senate voted to allow hunting licenses to those as young as ten years of age. Bambi shooting Bambi?
The family of the doctor who performed late term abortions, has reportedly said that his clinic would be permanently closed.
Federal regulators are charging two northern California men with operating an eighty-five million dollar Ponzi scheme, which promised to deliver spectacular returns on foreign-currency trading, to Korean-Americans.
London police are reportedly being accused of water-boarding their suspects.
Twenty-nine people were reported killed in southern Iraq, in a car bombing in a busy market.
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