- Delhi, India, paid 22,853 employees $43.8 million over the course of a year. The only problem is that those employees did not exist. The mayor is seeking to find out who has been receiving the money.
- Anwar Al-Aulaqi, the fundamentalist imam that was Ft. Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan emailed buddy and confidant to 9/11 terrorists, had a fondness for prostitutes.
- This will make the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen interesting. Climate change denier Nick Griffin of the far-right British National Party will be one of the representatives for the EU.
- An American run military detention camp in Afghanistan, known as the Black Jail, is holding detainees for weeks at a time without access to the International Red Cross.
- Barack Obama’s Thanksgiving proclamation was unique from that of all his predecessors. Obama was the first not to directly refer to God.
- Australian police will soon have the power to strip search without cause, including children and the disabled.
- A county sheriff in New Hampshire made a campaign pledge that he would not bill the county for his civilian clothes. However, he may pass the dry cleaning bill onto taxpayers.
- Switzerland is voting to decide if it will ban minarets.
- Canada’s spending $25,000 to determine the best camouflage if its troops are ever deployed in its own cities.
