Things that are happening
Harriet Miers continues to be the object of speculation for both Democrats and Republicans. President George W. Bush continues to try and push her as a candidate in spite of the fact that she is not the most qualified candidate.
Electoral officials are looking into "unusually high" vote tallies in certain parts of Iraq, indicating voting irregularities. Iraqis voted Saturday on a new constitution for the country, one which would give the northern, Kurd-dominated "Kurdistan" provinces greater autonomy. The new constitution would also make the Qur'an and shari'a (Islamic tradition or law) the supreme law of the land. Critics of this new constitution say that the country would turn into an oppressive Islamic theocracy, exactly the opposite of what the Iraq War was supposed to accomplish. Now it appears as though there were some problems with high vote tallies, an indication of a rigged election.
In its second super-duper presentation in a week, Apple released updates to both the Power Mac and PowerBook lines. The new Power Mac models have dual-core processors and DDR2 RAM (previous models had DDR RAM). PowerBooks received brighter screens with higher resolutions and DVD-RW drives with support for dual-layer discs. PowerBooks were also upgraded to DDR2 RAM.
