Midday Open Thread

• Three men have been arrested as suspected terrorists. A search of one suspect's computer turned up bomb-making diagrams and images of baseball stadiums, football stadiums, and sites used for NYC fashion week.
• In related news, three other men were arrested overnight when they were found in camouflage, carrying weapons in the same apartment complex where the terror suspects lived.

Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation stopped the men as they walked through the parking lot of the Vistas at Saddle Rock Apartments, located at 22959 East Smoky Hill Road. The FBI was at the complex because they've been investigating terror suspect Najibullah Zazi, who lives there.

The Arapahoe County Sheriff's Department says one of the men, 37-year-old Brian Laro, was armed with a loaded AR-15 rifle slung over his shoulder and another man, 24-year-old Timothy Guinn, had a .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol tucked into his waistband. The third suspect was unarmed.

The men told agents they had been at Laro's apartment "having a few beers" when they heard what they thought was a gunshot, then they went to investigate.

• The US Justice Department is trying to stop Google from publishing millions of books online.
• So-called "values voters" plan to turn up the heat on 16 Democrats up for re-election in 2010.
• President Obama says his family will get the H1N1 vaccination, but they'll wait their turn like everyone else.
• President Obama has asked NY Governor David Paterson to drop his campaign. Further discussion can be found in betson08's diary here.
• John Edwards seems prepared to admit the obvious.
• Matt Latimer, former Bush speechwriter describes Karl Rove's inept and power hungry style of management.
• The "gang of six" senators who crafted a "bipartisan" healthcare bill have been showered with cash from healthcare lobbyists.

  Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Finance Committee who is seen as key to influencing other conservatives, received the most this year - $223,600. Committee chair Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., was second with $141,000.