The Nando Times: U.S. urges Yugoslavia to cooperate with war crimes panel
Well, that isn’t ironic or hypocritical or anything… I’m not criticizing the administration. We’ve got the power, and we might as well use it. But it is odd to see us saying we won’t participate in the world criminal court (again, I’ve no problem with that) and then pushing a war crimes tribunal on someone else.
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Venezuela Demands Chavez Resignation
That’s a bit of an exaggeration; when has an entire country ever agreed on anything? A lot of Venezuelans want him out; more than a hundred thousand were estimated at a rally today. But thousands were reported at a pro-Chavez demonstration in Maracay. My guess is if there hadn’t been the failed coup, Hugo would be long gone.
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Fun With Parallel Headlines
Thank you, Google News…
UN tells Afghan warlords to end violence
Afghanistan delegates use their fists
It is kind of hard for them to stop the fighting when there’s fighting going on even in the loya jirga itself.
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Judge fines state for jails’ backlog
A Montgomery judge fined the state $2.16 million Friday for failing to remove hundreds of convicts from Alabama’s county jails and again threatened to throw the prison commissioner in jail if conditions don’t improve.
It’s a switcheroo! Actually, it sounds like a bad movie, probably starring Joe Pesci, except he already made that one… The state is basically dumping its overcrowding problems on the counties by neglecting to pick up prisoners bound for state prisons. There are about a thousand state prisoners in county jails now.
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Ex-Vestavia student cleared in threats case
I still say he was guilty of something, but the jury seems to have bought his act. Oh, well, he’s Utah’s problem now. I’m just waiting for the “Mormon Missionary Goes Berserk” headlines.
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Arthur Andersen Convicted of Obstruction of Justice
It’s not much, but it’s something. Andersen is dying a slow death; this is just one bite. The jurors had a lot of trouble reaching the verdict and my guess is that they just wanted to go home. Hey, that happens.
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CNN.com - Feds arrest man linked to ‘dirty bomb’ suspect - June 15, 2002
Adham Amin Hassoun is described as a “Muslim activist”. The whining about being singled out coming from other Muslim activists might be more convincing if so many of their compatriots didn’t keep turning up in terror investigations.
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Ananova - Mongoose population threatened by paint brush production
I really hate people who do things like this, who kill wild animals for stuff like flipping paint brushes. You know what’s worse? They pluck the hair while the animals are still alive. That is — there is no other sufficient word for it — evil… Pressure is on the Indian government to up protection for the mongoose population, but they have other things on their minds right now.
UPDATE: John Braue (Hi, John, I can’t get into your comments!) points out that it’s evil and stupid, because they kill the animals (I don’t know the plural of mongoose) after they pluck them. I didn’t even think of that, but he’s right.
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Lukewarm Americans Lack Enthusiasm in World Cup Success
China’s Xinhua news agency reports the shocking news that Americans don’t care about soccer. Oh, those wacky Yanks!
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Spam Spam Spam Spam… Beautiful Spam, Wonderful Spam!
Joke if you want, but canned convenience food Spam has its own museum
Including several cans from the original production run in 1935, most of which are just as edible as they were when originally produced.
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