Cincinnati, Ohio (The Weekly Vice) - Darrell Bess, a 52-year-old homeless Ohio man, was arrested after he was allegedly found naked in the library with two knives and 4 pounds of stolen parmesan cheese.
Goin' to the RIVER!!!!!! oh yeah oh yeah. Redneck Roundup Away.
St. Paul, Minn. — A prominent Rwandan opposition leader spoke out Wednesday in defense of her jailed attorney, Minnesota law professor Peter Erlinder, who has been detained in the African country on charges of denying the country's 1994 genocide.
Rwandan presidential candidate Victoire Ingabire accused the current government of using Erlinder as a pawn in a growing crackdown on political opposition.
"We condemn [his arrest] as shameful exploitation of the misfortune of all people for political ends," Ingabire told MPR News.
Erlinder, 62, arrived in Rwanda about two weeks ago to represent Ingabire against charges that she denied the genocide. The William Mitchell College of Law faculty member was arrested on May 28 and faces similar charges of violating the country's laws against "genocide ideology." If convicted, he could face 25 years in prison.
"The government of Kagame uses the genocide as blackmail to frame everybody who's against him," she said.
Ingabire said she hopes the situation will shine a light on political oppression in Rwanda -- and she called on the U.S. government to do more to support democracy throughout Africa.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/06/09/peter-erlinder-professor-rwanda/
PHOENIX (CNN) -- A voter-approved English-only measure that brought cries of racism in Arizona was ruled unconstitutional Tuesday by the state's highest court.
In a unanimous decision, the Arizona Supreme Court said the law requiring that official government business be conducted in English unfairly interfered with the access to government by those who did not speak the language.
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London, England (CNN) -- All non-European immigrants to the United Kingdom must pass a basic English language test before being granted a visa under new rules announced by the government Wednesday.
The rules will apply to anyone wanting to join their spouse or partner in the United Kingdom, and they will come into effect in autumn this year, the government said.
One harrowing year since the stolen election, the people of Iran need the world's attention to go beyond the nuclear issue.
Do not forget Iran. Remember Neda. If there are green-clad protests in Tehran this weekend, to mark the first anniversary of the election that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stole, they will doubtless again be crushed with casual brutality by the thugs of the basij militia, secret police and Revolutionary Guard. Imprisonment, torture, male rape and execution are the offerings these henchmen of the Islamic Republic bring to honour Allah, the compassionate, the merciful.
Faced with such violent repression, the Green movement is a long way down – but not out. Iran will never again be the country it was before the election of 12 June 2009. In the great demonstration three days later, one of the largest in recorded history, everything was changed, changed utterly. In the subsequent repression, a terrible beauty was born. The historical process may take years, but one day, as the economy worsens and discontent spreads to more sections of society, the movement will be back in force, though perhaps in a different form. Eventually, in Iran there will be statues of Neda Agha-Sultan, the young woman shot in one of the early mass demonstrations, and memorials to the martyrs of this struggle for freedom, as there are now memorials to the martyrs of the Iran-Iraq war.
We should also never forget that this is a self-generated movement from within a Muslim society, dedicated to transforming the contemporary world's longest-running and still most formidable Islamist regime into something very different.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jun/09/iran-tortured-green-elections-nuclear
A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and killed a teenager who was hurling rocks at him near El Paso, Texas, on Monday. A representative from the Border Patrol agents' union noted that rock throwing can be deadly, and police are permitted to fire in response. How many officers have been killed by rocks?
Three in the United States, but none in almost seven decades. The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund has gathered records on all police officers killed in the line of duty since the first U.S. patrolman went down in 1792.
According to their database, rocks were responsible for three of 18,983 fatalities.
http://www.slate.com/id/2256457/
This is going to be fascinating news for those of you out there with trypanophobia--fear of hypodermic needles. Pantech Biosolutions has just been given approval for its painless drug delivery system that uses frickin' laser beams.
Gov. Jan Brewer said in a recent interview that her father died fighting Nazis in Germany. In fact, the death of Wilford Drinkwine came 10 years after World War II had ended.
During the war, Drinkwine worked as a civilian supervisor for a naval munitions depot in Hawthorne, Nev. He died of lung disease in 1955 in California.
Brewer made the comment to The Arizona Republic while talking about the criticism she has taken since signing SB 1070, the new immigration law that makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally.
"Knowing that my father died fighting the Nazi regime in Germany, that I lost him when I was 11 because of that... and then to have them call me Hitler's daughter. It hurts. It's ugliness beyond anything I've ever experienced," Brewer said in the story, published Tuesday.
Officials with the governor's administration said her statement should not be taken to mean that she was claiming her father was a soldier in Germany during the Nazi regime
My thighs hurt and not from anything dirty....damnit. We rented Jet Skis. Now I can't sit down to pee without groaning like my Aunt Helen. Ew.
