A Democratic leader in the Senate says...there are not enough votes
in next week’s session, to bail out the car companies.
G-M is expected to go under by the end of January.
The talk’s heating up...
that Hillary Clinton may be our next Secretary of State.
And President-Elect Barack Obama will be on 60 Minutes Sunday,
in his first interview since the election.
He sits down Monday with John McCain, to talk about
how the two of them can work together.
The next banks to need a bail-out may be...British sperm banks.
Facilities in the U-K say that—thanks to new laws there,
they’re getting fewer donors.
The new laws include one that allows children
to learn the identities of their donor daddies.
Another, limits the number of women
who can use the work of just one donor.
Donations are now down by about forty percent.
The vaccine recently approved for preventing cervical cancer
in young women, has now been shown to prevent genital warts in men.
That could double the sales at Merck pharmaceuticals.
The drug had only been approved for women,
because it had NOT been shown to prevent disease in men.
Now that it has, it will soon likely be available to men, who—of course—
can carry the virus that causes both the warts...and the cervical cancer.
Police in Sweden have busted-up a bestiality ring.
They targeted 30 zoophiles from across the country...
who were meeting regularly to film their encounters with dogs, goats,
and other four-footed creatures.
But, because there is no law against bestiality in Sweden,
no-one’s been arrested.
One of the group’s outed members says his dog provoked it,
by making herself available while she was in heat.
He says he always understood that no means no,
and backed out when she wasn’t into it.
A couple on a crowded train from Liverpool to London was arrested
this week, after a guard watching security video,
saw the woman perform an act on her male partner.
The woman’s been released on bail. The 49 year old businessman
is facing charges of “unacceptable behavior.”