links for 2009-05-07

"President Obama on Thursday will unveil nearly $17 billion in additional budget cuts for the coming fiscal year to showcase what a top adviser called a “constant” effort to find savings at a time when the government’s costs for bailouts, health care and wars are mounting far faster." That's good.

"As recently as 2007, Chrysler had 32 different models. By next year, that number could drop to as low as 13, according to industry analysts, as the company jettisons slow-selling models to make room in its dealerships for new Fiat models."

"But he is having trouble fitting in. He voted against the Democrats in his first two big votes since the switch, opposing the Democratic budget and helping defeat a measure to allow bankruptcy judges to modify mortgages for troubled homeowners."

Yeah right.

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The Air Force and Windows.

"The leader of South Africa's African National Congress, Jacob Zuma, has been officially elected the country's president by members of parliament."

"Women may be allowed to join the exclusive ranks of the world's smallest army, the head of the Vatican's Swiss Guard says." Cool.

"Washington "deeply, deeply" regrets the death of Afghan civilians killed by an air strike, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said." Same words different person.

"Nine months after an employee at a McDonald’s restaurant in downtown Louisville called a group of gay customers a series of anti-gay slurs, the American Civil Liberties Union announced today that McDonald’s has agreed to a cash settlement and diversity training for management at 30 of its Louisville-area restaurants."

"Carmaker Porsche says it has agreed a merger with fellow German manufacturer Volkswagen (VW) after weeks of talks between the two firms' management." Porsche and VW become one.

"Italian carmaker Fiat has denied a report that it would cut 18,000 jobs and 10 assembly and component sites if it reached a deal with GM Europe."

"Maine will be the fifth US state to allow gay marriage, after Connecticut, Massachusetts, Iowa and Vermont."

"The message is pretty clear: People want access to Hulu, but Hulu’s isn’t interested in letting others work around its limits. While it’s annoying for users outside of the U.S. not to have access to the great content, considering that many of the proxy servers also blocked advertisements, you can on some level see where Hulu is coming from on that. Of course, those users are now probably just going to use a service like BitTorrent to find and download the content for free anyway."

"US President Barack Obama has said after meeting his Afghan and Pakistani counterparts that they are united in the goal of defeating al-Qaeda."

"Mr. Madoff listed family members, boat captains, housekeepers and others as employees of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, even though they never actually worked for the firm, newly released documents show."

"The Senate on Wednesday approved a bill that would expand federal efforts to prevent mortgage foreclosures, shield mortgage service companies from lawsuits if they participate in federal loan modification programs, and give renters of foreclosed properties at least 90 days’ notice before eviction. The Senate bill, however, did not include Democrats’ most ambitious proposal to aid troubled homeowners: a provision that would have allowed bankruptcy judges to modify the terms of primary mortgages." I always thought that bankruptcy judges had the leeway to change pretty much all debts associated with an individual.

"Only about 300 students will be testing out the machines." Really 300 students that's it that get to try this sucker out.

"Once the Minnesota Supreme Court has issued its final ruling in this case, the President and I look forward to working with Mr. Franken on building an economy for the 21st century." Joe Biden's office essentially declared this race over. Yeah it's been over for months, Republicans just don't want to give it up.