!!!! All charges dropped against Josh Connole!!!!

“We will be partying loud and hard in the parking lot of the West Covina Civic Center.”, the Free Josh campaign.

This is unconfirmed on news wires as yet, however it comes from someone close to the case as well as another highly reliable source.

The police should be ashamed of themselves! Blundering about like the Keystone Cops. Saying Josh was responsible for the Hummer firebombings. Then dropping all charges.

I’m not sure whether to be appalled or laugh at them.

Update: NBC Channel 4 in L.A. is confirming that Connole is indeed free

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BREAKING NEWS

Appeals court postpones Oct. 7 recall vote

From the Sacramento Bee

A federal appeals court postponed California’s Oct. 7 gubernatorial recall election, ruling the historic vote cannot proceed as scheduled because some votes would be cast using outmoded punch-card ballot machines.

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WTO trade talks collapse

The world trade talks collapsed on Sunday after 100-odd developing and least developed countries blocked the European Union and United States agenda to bring in new issues including investment rules and competition policy into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) work programme after bitterly fighting over agriculture, loaded heavily in favour of developed countries

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Microsoft will be putting a version of its Windows operating system in mobile phones in North America.

How can one do satire with news like this…

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Crazy high gas prices editorial cartoons!

Pages and pages of them!

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Quote of the Day

“Frankly, if there was a President Gore, we wouldn’t be in this particular mess. But we are, and we cannot fail.” — Former  Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, in Time, on what the United States need to do next in Iraq.

She continues:

I very much hope there will be a U.N. resolution that makes clear the U.S. has military command but that would set up a U.N. high representative to coordinate the political and humanitarian things the U.N. does very well.

If you keep doing what you’re doing, you keep getting what you’re getting.  The US command is failing miserably, continues to alienate the Iraqi populace, and is only making things worse. We should get out and let the U.N. take over completely. 

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Darth Ashcroft: Copyright infringement is your best protest dollar!

From Boing Boing

Remember the Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin gives himself his own music-track to accompany his comings and goings? Protestors are applying that to Darth Ashcroft, playing the Imperial March when he puts in appearances.

Ashcroft was bombarded by cries of “Shame!” and the sound of the “Imperial Death March” from the movie “Star Wars” as he entered a meeting with law enforcement officials in Faneuil Hall.

And oh yes, thanks to Ashcroft, methamphetamine, simple fraud, and other such things can now be considered terrorism, so you can be jailed indefinitely and they needn’t bother with those pesky laws and Constitution and stuff.

The complaint that anti-terrorism legislation is being used to go after people who aren’t terrorists is just the latest in a string of criticisms.

More than 150 local governments have passed resolutions opposing the law as an overly broad threat to constitutional rights.

In 2004, remember, regime change starts at home.

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