Friday, July 07, 2006

Random News & Views Roundup

- Ann Coulter is being investigated for plagiarism. Is that sweet justice I smell?

- Editor & Publisher weighs in on Larry King's interview with Bush and his wife and notes two glaring mistakes by both of them.

- Putin explains his odd belly kiss of a young boy in public. He said he wanted to 'touch him like a kitten'.

- The Innocence Project has secured the release of yet another wrongly convicted prisoner who spent 20+ years confined after being found guilty of rape. And just how many innocent people have been killed using the barbaric death penalty? We'll never know.

- Reportedly, Joe Lieberman stormed out after his debate with Ned Lamont on Thursday evening. Maybe he was in a hurry to plan the Iran war or something...

- Check out Glenn Greenwald's latest: 'The thug and intimidation tactics of the Far Right go mainstream'. Their actions cannot go unchallenged in lite of the fact that someone could get seriously hurt or worse. Some in the right-wing blogosphere have veered off into very dangerous territory.

- Iraq's PM has some advice for Rummy:

BAGHDAD, July 6 (Reuters) - Iraq's prime minister urged the U.S. military on Thursday to keep "reckless" troops from serving in Iraq in order to prevent abuses like the alleged rape and murder of a teenager and her family by U.S. soldiers in March.

Expanding on calls for an independent inquiry and a review of foreign troops' immunity from Iraqi law, Nuri al-Maliki said commanders should do a better job in preparing their soldiers.

"There needs to be a plan to educate and train soldiers, and those who are brought to serve in Iraq shouldn't bear prejudices nor be reckless towards people's honour," Maliki said.

Wait til he hears about the white supremacists in the ranks of the US military.

- Bush is heading to Chicago's Museum of Science and Technology on Friday. That's interesting, considering that he doesn't even believe in science. Maybe he'll learn something. Umm...what was I thinking?? Scratch that.

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