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Originally wanted to shut down half of the processing plants in america, about 250 of them. all told, he wanted to shrink the workforce by over 200,000 workers in the middle of the worst economic downturn since the great depression. wanted to end saturday mail delivery. wanted to slow down mail delivery standards. what happened is senators lieberman and corp. introduced the bill that certainly was a heck of a lot better than what the post master general had proposed. in my view, it did not go far enough. i brought together two dozen members of the senate. we are working on now what's called a ...

theblaze.com. happy friday let's get to our "starting point." protests happening right now in afghanistan, protesting the decision of some nato trops to burn korans. hundreds of people to surround the embassy. five people have been hurt. nick paton walsh is live for news kabul. what's the latest? >> well, what we're hearing is that the west of the country, hurat, one of the main city there's. u.s. consulate in kabul, the u.s. consulate out there have a very angry crowd outside. hundreds of people, i had actually from an eyewitness could hear the sirens, the panic from that particular...

atone shtentio attention, including the attention of our president. >> and eruptions rage in afghanistan even after president obama apologizes for the burning of the koran. we are getting reports of a serious increase in the chaos there. >> in this country, a man accused of killing his wife while on a scuba trip and who pled guilty to it elsewhere finds he will not be spending time in prison in this country, the judge said i don't even want the jury to hear this. >> yesterday we told you about the lawmaker who called the girl scouts a bunch of communists and radicals. he says he's so...

More than 32% of the federal waters in the gulf of mexico are now closed to fishermen because of this oil disaster. the leak costing many oyster workers their jobs, but as t.j. holmes tells us, it's not because the oysters are contaminated. >> on a typical monday morning here before the spill, i'd open that door, and find 800 to 1,000 sacks of oysters. to be reduced to this in a matter of 60 days because of something we have no control over, it's very sad, very sad. what can you say? >> reporter: this was one of the largest post-harvest processing plants in the gulf. the co-owner patrick fahey...

Businesses. >> on a typical monday morning here before the spill i'd open that door and find 800 to 1,000 sacks of oysters to be reduced to this in a matter of 60 days because of something we have no control over, it's very sad. very sad. what can you say? >> reporter: this was one of the largest post-harvest processing plants in the gulf. the co-owner says last year the company did $8 million in sales but the oil spill forced the company to cease operations which cost 48 employees their jobs. >> they're part of your family. and you have to tell them to go away. >> when they come back around i...