Sample: Lee Iacocca to punk rock official state song!

From American Progress:

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Former Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca lambastes the Bush administration in his new book. "Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening?" Iacocca writes. "Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. ... But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, 'Stay the course.'"

Gov. John Corzine (D-NJ) was seriously injured yesterday in a hit-and-run car accident, hospitalizing him "with fractured ribs, a broken leg, and chest injuries." Corzine did not "appear to have suffered life-threatening injuries."

Rudy Giuliani's (R) current foreign policy advisers include retired Gen. Jack Keane, the architect of President Bush's Iraq escalation policy, and former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton.

"Four years after Iraq's Saddam Hussein was deposed by U.S.-led troops, an international panel charged with recommending invitations for an exclusive meeting of the world's democracies" has ruled that Iraq is "not invited," the same status the country had under Hussein's rule. Last year, Iraq had observer status at the Community of Democracies meeting.

"President Bush is threatening to veto a Senate intelligence bill that's laced with provisions that would force the White House and spy agencies to be more responsive to Congress."

Advocacy groups are scoring a "surprising success in an effort to link the Olympics, which the Chinese government holds very dear, to the killings in Darfur, which, until recently, Beijing had not seemed too concerned about."

$100,000: The legal fees paid this year by Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ), who is wresting with separate investigations probing whether Renzi "introduced legislation that benefited a military contractor that employs his father," and whether he "helped promote the sale of land that netted a former business partner $4.5 million."

As many as 6 million prepared meals worth more than $40 million that were "stockpiled near potential victims of the 2006 hurricane season spoiled in the Gulf Coast heat last summer when the Federal Emergency Management Agency ran short of warehouse and refrigeration space."

And finally: Some Connecticut lawmakers are pushing the state to adopt Connecticut Fun, a 1983 tune by the band Punkestra, as the state's official punk song. Peter Detmold of the punk band New London’s Reducers is "amused" by the whole idea: "Well, I just wonder if that sort of recognition is true to the punk ethos. I guess it seems wrong-headed or oxymoronic for a punk-rock song to be official anything, and you wonder what (the legislature) is supposed to be paying attention to."

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