Day December 12, 2005

A big internal breast zit

Sue was scheduled for a breast biopsy today. They did the ultrasound, then the MD went, hmmm,  it’s a sebaceous cyst. He drained it, saw no need to do the scheduled bioposy, and sent the samples to cytology, not pathology.…

Cali Supremes reject Williams’ appeal

 The California Supreme Court on Sunday rejected a last-minute legal effort to block Tuesday’s execution of convicted murderer Stanley Tookie Williams, while Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger put off announcing any decision on whether to spare his life until today. If the…

Here we go again

 Counterfeiting cases point to North Korea Pyongyang is accused of being behind a growing effort to print and move rafts of U.S. $100 bills. U.S. authorities have unsealed hundreds of pages of documents in support of the cases in recent…

Breaking: The EU knew about rendition flights

EU concealed deal with US to allow ‘rendition’ flights The European Union secretly allowed the United States to use transit facilities on European soil to transport "criminals" in 2003, according to a previously unpublished document. The revelation contradicts repeated EU…