The Cody News (May 20, 2005)

US protests British tabloid's photos of captive Saddam
Globe and Mail - 3 hours ago
London — The US military condemned on Friday the publication of photographs showing Saddam Hussein in his prison cell, including of him only his underwear. Friday's publication in Britain's mass circulation ...
These photos seem to me to be a rather clear violation of the Geneva convention. Horrid that they were taken and worse that they were published. Even as we all know that Saddam is guilty of mass murder and should be put to death.

Interest groups pick at stalemate on filibuster
San Francisco Chronicle - 52 minutes ago
Washington -- Senators commonly refer to each other as distinguished. This week, the distinguished Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., compared Democrats to assassins. The distinguished Minority Leader Harry ...
Shame on both parties for politicizing our court system.

Uzbekistan rejects international probe
ISN - 1 hour ago
ISN SECURITY WATCH (20/05/05) - Despite mounting pleas for an international investigation into the bloody crackdown last week against an anti-government demonstration, Uzbek President Islam Karimov on Thursday rejected the idea. ..
Never a good sign when someone rejects a probe into something like deaths.

New Perelman blow to Morgan Stanley
Times Online - 43 minutes ago
By Tom Bawden. MORGAN STANLEY suffered a further setback last night after the billionaire financier Ron Perelman won his second damages claim from the investment bank this week, bringing the total payout that he is due to $1.45 billion (£790 million). ...
I can't get over the irony of how this Perelman creep, who's washed more shareholders and ditributed more money into his own pockets in questionably ethical ways than even Anti-Ethics poster child, Donald Trump, is getting paid for MWD idiocy.

Netscape 8 Goes From Zero Bugs To 41 In Just Hours
WebProNews - 55 minutes ago
So much for the highly-touted cross-site scripting, or phishing, security measures. But the update to Netscape 8.0.1 makes it as safe as Firefox 1.0.4. What exactly were the beta testers doing? After a lengthy ...
Yeah, open source is the answer to all the world's problems. Not.

More sleep, less TV fends off child obesity -study
Reuters AlertNet, UK - 14 hours ago
By Patricia Reaney. LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - Scientists have drawn up a check-list of early warning signs of child obesity, among ..
Cause...or effect? Does more sleep, less TV fend off child obesity. Or do non-fat kids simply sleep more and watch less TV because they're so active?