“Twelve people too stupid to get off jury duty”

(The topic is a fun quote from http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/csi/season4/csi-402.txt CSI) Apparently the District Attorney of Los Angeles agrees with the sentiment, at least where it concerns the Robert Blake trial. DA Says Robert Blake Jurors Were Stupid LOS ANGELES Mar 24, 2005 — District Attorney Steve Cooley says Robert Blake was “guilty as sin” and the …

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Mmmm, chili.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=7996107 Yummy. Gotta love the quote from the environmental health guru: “This individual apparently did take a spoonful, did have a finger in their mouth and then, you know, spit it out and recognized it,” said Ben Gale, director of the department of environmental health for Santa Clara County. “Then they had some kind of …

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Our enemy to the south?

Yeah, Mexico. From http://jonathanmurray.com/greymatter/archives/00000532.htm comicbook style how-tos for border jumping, to songbooks in schools extolling the benefits of drug running, we can always count on our southern neighbor to lend a helping hand. Now the government of the Mexican state of Yucatan has http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,151207,00.html produced a handbook to border crossing, complete with DVD. Obviously the …

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Kofi Annan – Dr. Frankenstein?

The Secretary General of the UN, Mr. Kofi Annan, has apparently discovered a way to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50149-2005Mar19.html piece suicide bombers back together so they can be punished. UNITED NATIONS, March 19 — Secretary General Kofi Annan on Monday will propose establishing new rules for the use of military force, adopting a tough anti-terrorism treaty that would …

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