Day May 3, 2005

Good

Florida girl’s abortion allowed. The Florida authorities admit defeat in a legal battle to stop a 13-year-old girl having an abortion.

Italy rejects U.S. report on shooting

Italy has issued a strongly worded rebuttal to a U.S. report clearing U.S. soldiers of responsibility for the shooting death of an Italian intelligence agent at a roadblock in Iraq. “Inexperience and stress” on the part of the soldiers were…

Psychos

Prisoners abused for ‘amusement’ A clique of US soldiers tormented Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison for “amusement,” not for any authorized military mission, Pfc. Lynndie England testified Monday as she pleaded guilty to seven abuse-related charges. Thus, Lynndie fell…

Fat bigots

From Sue to The Daily News [Insert slur against more easily vilified group here] Your article dated May 2nd, “Childhood Obesity Bills to Sink State?”, could easily qualify as hate speech by merely substituting in the place of “overweight adults,”…