- Tropical Storm Debby remains stalled out over northern Florida and could drop another foot of rain on top of yesterday's deluge, bringing storm totals to over 2 feet of rain in some areas.
- Paraguay's ousted President Fernando Lugo is appealing to other South American leaders for help as the military has had Lugo impeached.
- Businesses are freely admitting uncertainly over the "fiscal cliff" of Bush tax cuts and payroll tax cuts ending Dec. 31 is affecting hiring and actually causing them to cut jobs.
- Investment ratings agency Moody's has downgraded more than two dozen Spanish banks, including scrapping a dozen banks as junk bonds.
- The endangered California Condor faces a lead poisoning epidemic, not from being shot at by hunters but by eating animals shot by them, bullet fragments and all.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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