And fate is setting up the chessboard while death rolls out the dice.
Anyone for tennis, wouldn't that be nice?

BBC: BREAKING: Bridge Collapses in Dubai. Very early report.

RIA Novosti:  Iran unlikely to threaten U.S. territory in next 10 years
"MOSCOW, November 8  - Iran has no capability to build nuclear weapons that could reach U.S. territory within the next seven to 10 years, a Russian military expert said on Thursday."

Kevin Hall/McClatchy:  Congress running out of time to patch the AMT
"When Republicans ran Congress, they passed annual patches to keep the AMT from hitting middle-class taxpayers, but they didn't make up for the lost revenue. They simply expanded the federal deficit."

Pass the bill without DeLay.

Barbara Barrett/McClatchy:  U.S. explores ocean winds, waves, currents as new energy sources  ". . . the Bush administration wants to tap the ocean's winds, waves and currents for alternative energy."

While the rest of the world has recognized, researched, debugged, and advanced "OTO" (other-than-oil) energy production, the Man Who Thinks He's King, along with his faithful advisors Dog & Pony, awoke sometime in the past few weeks with the understanding that "passing wind" through turbines meant more than farting in a fan.  Glory be.  

[NOTE: For more results oriented energy policy see: SpiegelOnline: Inspired by Iran, Arab Countries Pursue Atomic Energy. Via theBulletin, where it's still "5 Minutes to Midnight"].

Here's a link to Ask the Reporters @ McClatchy, in this case Landay+Stroebel on the situation in Iran. Main article is on the front page w/links to other relevant stories.

C-SPAN Media Org page.  Alphabetical listing by media type.  Also accessible through their front page.

equivocate: to use ambiguous or unclear expressions . . . in order to mislead. .

Jonathan Landay/McClatchy:  Experts: No evidence of Iranian nuclear-weapons program  
"Bush and Cheney's allegations are under especially close scrutiny because their similar allegations about an Iraqi nuclear program proved to be wrong."

Yoga Master Chan tries out his new "stretching machine" for tired travelers at the market.

[Image @ Antique Prints.de]

Warren Stroebel/McClatchy: Former envoy: U.S. driving Turkey, Iran together
"In his first extended comments since his departure, Ralston told McClatchy Newspapers that the United States is unwittingly "driving, strategically, the Turks and the Iranians together. . " [W? Not keeping a promise? Gosh-a-mighty.]

Arizona-Sonora Documents Online
". . . provides web access to digital images of archival collections relating to Sonora, Mexico that are located at three Arizona repositories. ." [One of many good sites via this week's Scout Report]

Timberly Ross/AP:   Legal fights highlight church's message
That lede is true only to the extent idiot editors place images and quotes of "the churchers" ahead of Albert Snyder.  These drooling simians probably would have quoted the Nazis after Nuremberg.  

Daphne Eviatar/AmLaw:  What's Behind the Drop in Corporate Fraud Indictments?
". . . credit for the Justice Department's successes in corporate fraud prosecution is due to the local U.S. Attorney's Offices that handled the cases -- not to the Corporate Fraud Task Force in Washington, D.C., that urged them on, often without providing much tangible assistance." [Image: npuge.ca]