In the News… Muck.

Posted at 9:10 am on Wednesday, September 26, 2007, in In the News, and tagged bush, health, iraq, microsoft.

- A bug in the newest release of Microsoft Excel leads to a computation error: 850 x 77.1 = 100,000. (Note: I use Excel a lot.)

-Rahm Emanuel on Bush’s promised veto of an expansion of child health coverage: “Two hundred billion dollars more for Iraq — and $35 billion for kids is labeled excessive spending? Forty-one days of war would give all 10 million children health care. This is not a matter of spending, it’s a matter of priorities.” (Emanuel was one of the reasons the democrats regained power in Washington.)

- Also, at the same time, “Defense Secretary Robert Gates will ask Congress on Wednesday to approve nearly $190 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2008, increasing initial projections by more than a third.” Bush is faithfully executing his office out of both sides of his mouth.

- And a senior U.S military official on the Blackwater scandal: “It may be worse than Abu Ghraib.” Um, that’s some mucky shit right there. (By way of TPM Muckracker.)

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