In the Know

U-T’s student government met yesterday to talk about stuff they want to do next year. About 25 students, including SG reps, showed up to the meeting. They didn’t come to any conclusions except that they intend to talk about health care and tuition sometime soon.
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City Council is changing the curfew (for minors) from 10PM to 11PM. They get an extra hour for their shenanigans now.
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The governor’s mansion is going green. The air conditioners and other mechanical systems that were being put in before the big blaze, were ruined when firefighters were putting out the fire. Rick Perry says he’s all about it. No word on how much it will cost taxpayers.
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Flooding in the Midwest continues as water broke through an Illinois levee and caused two bridges over the Mississippi River to close Tuesday. The floods have caused billions of dollars in damage, according to FEMA. Residents further south along the Mississippi are expecting more flooding as the cresting river moves downstream.
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The Republican Party of Texas will donate 15-hundred dollars it received to lease a booth at its state convention last week.

The vendor to whom the booth was leased to has come under fire for selling a button that reads, “If Obama is President, will we still call it the White House?”

Texas Republicans spokesman Hans Klinger says he and others consider the pin to be distasteful and believe it contradicted the purpose of their convention.

Klinger says the vendor will no longer be allowed to sell at any other state Republican events.
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A Muslim woman says that she and another woman were refused seats behind Barack Obama because of their head scarfs.

Hebba Aref says that she and the other woman were attending Obama’s rally in Detroit on Monday when the groups they were with separately were invited by volunteers to sit behind the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

Aref says that’s when volunteers then told both parties that women wearing hijabs, the traditional Muslim head scarves, were not included in that invitation saying it was “a sensitive political climate.” Members of both groups eventually declined the invitations.

An Obama spokesman has issued an apology on behalf of the campaign and says the actions go against the senator’s commitment for unity.
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Senator John McCain is pushing for the U.S. to end its ban on offshore oil drilling to increase domestic oil production. The Republican presidential hopeful addressed the country’s oil needs Tuesday by saying federal restrictions should be lifted to allow for exploration of the nation’s oil reserves. President Bush has expressed a
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Internet users all over the world are still downloading the newly released version of Firefox.

It came out yesterday after three years in the making.

The web browser’s new features allow for more customization, like add-ons and extensions. It has an “Awesome Bar” that learns your browsing habits, tags and site history. Firefox 3 also promises to run faster and provide better security.

Firefox even tried to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours.

Though they hit a snag yesterday when their servers crashed for two hours because of too much traffic on the web site.

More than 8 million people downloaded Firefox 3 after a single day…but the company is still waiting to hear whether they made the world record.
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AT&T and TWC are beginning to charge heavy users once they hit a bandwidth mark. That sucks.
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Tonight is also a full moon. …A full moon is where we get the term lunatic from. It was used to describe people who acted strange on a full moon