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Posted by Bigfoot on November 2nd, 2009
I now interrupt my travelogue to bring you some news about what’s going on out there in the world.
A staffer for the House Ethics Committee has been fired for revealing the names of seven congresscritters under investigation.
Now that RINO Dede Scozzafava has withdrawn from the special election in the 23rd House district of New York, Intrade gives conservative Doug Hoffman a 65% chance of winning. While she has thrown her support to Democrat Bill Owens, her ex-manager now supports Hoffman.
While the NY23 race has shown some internal divisions in the GOP, with some endorsing Hoffman and others previously endorsing Scozzafava, the Democrats are also having some internal dissention, as fundraising for the conservative “Blue Dogs” has plummeted.
Columnist Star Parker gives her opinion of the “hate crimes” law, recently tacked onto the Department of Defense appropriation bill.
At Right Wing News, William Teach reports that the Senate climate change bill is “on life support”.
In what looks like an honor killing, a young woman dies after her father runs her down with his vehicle – not in Iraq, Iran or Saudi Arabia, but in Arizona.
The world’s largest cruise ship squeezes under a bridge in Denmark by lowering her smokestacks. She’s now on her way to Florida.
Over a year after an explosion shut it down, the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland is about to start operating again. According to the New York Times, two physicists have a strange idea about why it stopped working.
For some humor, from Viral Footage, the world’s worst burglar….
….and from Warming Glow, some drunk Ewoks on the Today Show.
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:38 am
I’m sure that IF the pig that killed his own daughter in an “honor killing” is found guilty, and IF he appeals the conviction and sentence on the grounds that he was following the mandates of his religion, and IF it winds up before the SCOTUS, there will be at least one “wise Latina” who would look favorably at that because it is foreign law, and it says right there in the Constitution that foreign law has to be considered. Doesn’t it?
And remember, this pig’s butt was happily, openly and devotedly following the dictates of his conscience as directed (undoubtedly) by his local imam, who (undoubtedly) is ever so grateful to be living in the United States because of the rights and freedoms he enjoys.