Most important news story of the week (ending May 15, 2009)

[ColbertWatcher]

Most important news story of the week ending May 15, 2009

A: Credit Card and Healthcare bills wander around the halls of Congress; sometimes hiding in secret rooms, other times being ignored

B: private contractors have all the water they need while US soldier volunteers are forced to steal to drink clean water

C: Iran releases U.S. journalist Roxana Saberi from prison; reduces her sentence to 2 years

D: cities across the nation are cutting services to make up for budget shortfalls from states that are cutting their budgets to make up for shortfalls from the federal budget that cut funds to services despite billion-dollar bailouts and a war of choice in Iraq, which somehow have all the money they need

E: Speaker of the House accuses CIA of lying to Congress

F: Life's first spark simulated in laboratory
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/ribonucleotides/

G: US soldier shoots 5 fellow soldiers at a counseling center on Camp Liberty outside Baghdad

H: Senate subcommittee begins hearings about torture

I: One of the last-minute "incidents" that are a part of the Friday document dump (please see which in my reply)

J: Other (please see my pick for most important new story in reply)

[Demeter]

1. I Picked G Because I'm Hoping It Gets Us Out of Iraq and Afghanistan

If we need a national revolt, so be it. We've already got that going on economic issues.

[Forkboy]

2. Holy crap, I didn't know about choice F.

It may not be the most pressing in terms of immediate importance, but that's a huge story nonetheless. Very cool!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. DICK CHENEY ordered torture to prove the al qaida Iraq connection.

That ties everything together, the invasion, the torture, everything!

[rosesaylavee]

4. I picked J and I agree with you... Cheney and Torture

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. This should be an explosive story.

This should be the headline of every goddam paper in the country.

why the zone of silence?

[ColbertWatcher]

6. "why the zone of silence?" My guess is: GOP-controlled media n/t