The Early Bird Special.

Verizon is sued for giving the NSA phone records; "Verizon does not, and will not, provide any government agency unfettered access to our customer records or provide information to the government under circumstances that would allow a fishing expedition," the company said. So I guess everything you gave the NSA was "just fine" then, right?

Another government spy program--but this time it's one that does something good for Americans: meet the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, who helped victims of Katrina and Rita.

Displaced New Orleans residents are more than a little upset that the two mayoral candidates, Nagin and Landrieu, are ignoring them now that the April primaries are over; "It was a slap in our face, because we feel they need our votes," said Samuels, whose efforts were led by activist group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. "To have us have to come out here instead of them coming to us kind of downplayed us as not being important at all."

Minutemen and immigrants' rights activists square off at the Capitol; "They should be rounded up and deported, every single one of them," John Clark of the American Immigration Control Foundation said to a cheering crowd of about two dozen. "Leave them here and in 10 years this will not be the United States of America." Racist much, Mr. Clark?

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has come out against putting troops at the US/Mexico border; he says he'd rather have the government fund a program to watch the borders...hello, border patrol??

Britain designs the first cancer-free baby; and there's a heaping amount of "is this ethical?" opinion to go along with it.

Democrats down in Alabama don't know what to do about Larry Darby, who's the Attorney General Democratic candidate; they supposedly just became aware of his views on the Holocaust and "white awareness".

Mel Gibson admits that Bush is the inspiration behind his newest film, Apocalypto, which depicts the fall of the Mayan civilization; "The epic, due for release later this year, captures the decline of the Maya kingdom and the slaughter of thousands of inhabitants as human sacrifices in a bid to save the nation from collapsing." Makes me wonder who the sacrifices for Bush will be.

A mysterious disease known as Morgellons has surfaced in southern Texas; people are complaining of lesions that never heal and report seeing parasitic-like fibers coming out of the open sores. Gross factor x100. Are you itchy now?

And now, Iraqis are fighting against each other; the excitement never stops in Iraq either, apparently.

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