The unfortunate ex-husband’s Coca-Cola bottling factory in Uzbekistan was promptly shut down, three of his relatives were imprisoned, and 24 were deported at gunpoint to Afghanistan.
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Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, called the latest revelations in the [Petraeus] case "a Greek tragedy."
"It's just tragic," King said Tuesday on NBC's "Today" show. "This has the elements in some ways of a Hollywood movie or a trashy novel."
Chicago Tribune
Imagine a future in which old electric-car batteries are deployed in neighborhoods as energy-storage systems that guard against power outages, while paving the way for wind and solar power—and more electric cars. The idea has moved one step closer with the demonstration of a boxy unit of used Chevy Volt batteries capable of providing enough electricity to power three to five average American homes for up to two hours.
National Geographic
Hostess Brands Inc., the bankrupt maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread, said it had sought court permission to go out of business…
Chicago Tribune
Petraeus Scandal Amuses Taliban
A stony-faced Taliban official burst into laughter at the mention of the Petraeus affair during an interview with AFP in northwest Pakistan this week.
Petraeus Affair: Shirtless FBI Pic Was a Joke, Not Sexting, Lawyer Says - ABC News
The FBI agent who started a probe that would eventually depose CIA chief David Petraeus sent a shirtless photo of himself to a Florida socialite at the center of the scandal, but he was joking, not sexting, a lawyer for the agent told ABC News.
Sorry, Fredrick.
Leon Panetta orders military ethics review in wake of David Petraeus sex scandal - CBS News
Citing a string of ethical lapses by senior military officers, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has asked the Joint Chiefs of Staff to review ethics training and to brainstorm on ways to steer officers away from trouble.
Price of 1 gigabyte of storage over time:
1981 $300,000
1987 $50,000
1990 $10,000
1994 $1,000
1997 $100
2000 $10
2004 $1
2012 $0.10
I was online in 1981. The word "gigabyte" was rarely used. For anything. In fact, "megabyte" was something of an abstract concept. A personal computer's RAM was measured in K, and not so very much of that.
Now that the Democratic Party has fully abused and discredited Mitt Romney's economic vision for America, they've suddenly decided that maybe that one idea he had about tax deductions wasn't so crazy after all. The knock on Romney throughout his campaign (according to those same Democrats) was that he refused to offer any specific details about what his economic plans would actually look like. One of the few concrete ideas that he did offer up was a cap on itemized decorations…
Undernews: Obama bails out on gay marriage reform
Examiner - One day after endorsing gay marriage proposals in Washington and Maine, President Obama told MTV viewers that he would not be pushing gay marriage in his second term, ABC News reported.
New details about how the Federal Bureau of Investigation handled the case suggest that even as the bureau delved into Mr. Petraeus's personal life, the agency had to address conduct by its own agent—who allegedly sent shirtless photos of himself to a woman involved in the case prior to the investigation.
Wall Street Journal
Some of the e-mails may have prompted suspicions among FBI investigators because Allen sometimes used words such as “sweetheart” to refer to her, the senior official said. But the official added that Allen, who was raised in Virginia, employed that language as a term of platonic friendship, not romantic interest.
Washington Post
While embedded with Petraeus in Afghanistan, Broadwell said, she often accompanied him on long, six-minute-mile runs.
Ryan, who lost the vice presidency, but won reelection by a slim margin last week, reemerged Monday and told a Wisconsin television station that he doesn’t believe that the presidential campaign was a referendum on his plan to cut the federal budget and overhaul entitlement programs such as Medicare.
Washington Post
If the FBI is really snooping in the freakin' CIA director's email, maybe it's time to go buy stamps.
Well. I decided a long, long, long time ago never to believe anything I read about the CIA (and certain other government agencies). So I don't know if the FBI was snooping in Petraeus's email or if Petraeus himself is really stupid enough to give his girlfriend the password to his email account, plus…wait…gmail? Are you kidding me? Yeah, I know it was just personal (heh heh) email, but still. The CIA director?
Long live the surveillance state and all that but gee, guys, can't you at least do it with a straight face?
