22 Sep 2007
Thousands rally in La. to support Jena 6

Imagine the reverse situation: six white teens pound a black classmate to a bloody pulp. I guarantee that the same people would be there protesting for the exact opposite result, demanding that the six offenders stay in jail and be charged with a hate crime.

AP - Traffic jammed the two-lane road leading into the tiny town of Jena early Thursday as thousands of demonstrators gathered in support of six black teens initially charged with attempted murder in the beating of a white classmate.

(link) [Yahoo! News: Top Stories]

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Oz burglar had sex with Hoover

Insanity respects no borders ...

An Oz chap who broke into a neighbour's house and "played sex games in the bathroom with a bottle of toilet detergent and a vacuum cleaner" was fingered two years after the outrage by the DNA he left on a pair of rubber gloves, Reuters reports.

(link) [The Register]

07:39 /Humor | 1 comment | permanent link

Giuliani: I support right to bear arms

And I believe in the tooth fairy ...

AP - Republican Rudy Giuliani sought to reassure the National Rifle Association of his support for a constitutional right to bear arms as rivals Fred Thompson, John McCain and Mike Huckabee contended the former New York mayor is no friend of gun owners.

(link) [Yahoo! News: Top Stories]

07:19 /Politics | 0 comments | permanent link