Detainee Transfers Concern Senators - washingtonpost.com

GULAG TRANSFER WORRIES SENATORS
Senators have expressed 'grave concern' that detainees at Guantanamo Bay will be sent to countries where they have a credible concern of mistreatment upon their arrival. The senators cited recent transfers of detainees to nations such as Libya (yes, Libya!) and Tunisia.
(WASHINGTON POST)

Queen storms out of Leibovitz photo shoot | AccessAtlanta

ICE QUEEN
You'd have thought she'd been asked to pose with Johnny Rotten or something. Annie Leibovitz received an icy stare and a stern response when she asked Queen Elizabeth II to remove her crown for an official portrait, according to a BBC documentary.
(ATLANTA JOURNAL)

WORTHY OF A HEISMAN
A father and his two children awake to flames and smoke. An upstairs window is the only way out. A barefoot hero stands below ...Adolph Cobb and his two children leaned outside a window of their third-floor Decatur apartment gasping for air and trying to decide whether to trust a voice below urging him to toss his babies to safety.
(ATLANTA JOURNAL)

POLL SHOWS IMPEACHMENT SENTIMENT GROWING
A survey by the American Research Group found that 45 percent support the US House of Representatives beginning impeachment proceedings against Bush, with 46 percent opposed, and a 54-40 split in favor when it comes to Cheney.
(COMMON DREAMS)

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2 lawyers found after kidnapping | ajc.com

LAWYERS FREED AFTER BEING HELD HOSTAGE IN "CABBAGETOWN" (NO, REALLY!)
The text message sent by one man to his brother was chilling: "We've been kidnapped. Please call the police and help us."
(ATLANTA JOURNAL)

USA Today's 'Sicko' Debate

A DEBATE WORTH HAVING?
The United States spends twice as much or more on health care per capita than Canada, Britain, France and Cuba, countries with single-payer systems that USAToday criticizes as "beset by inefficiencies." The U.S. government spends about as much on health care as a share of GDP as the Canadian, British and Cuban governments do, and France's government spends only somewhat more--even as the U.S.'s private spending on health dwarfs that of any developed country.
(FAIR)

Music industry attacks Sunday newspaper's free Prince CD | | Guardian Unlimited Business

PRINCE CD DISTRIBUTED FOR FREE
The eagerly awaited new album by Prince is being launched as a free CD with a national Sunday newspaper in a move that has drawn widespread criticism from music retailers.
(GUARDIAN)

Trackstick

STICK IT
Okay, this is too weird. Google is offering a GPS "Trackstick" which "records its own location, time, date, speed, heading and altitude at preset intervals." It can store months of "travel information" and "is the perfect tool for individuals looking for a way to track anything that moves." While the ad postulates that you can use it to track your hiking, biking or vacationing moves, it sounds like it can be used for more sinister motives like checking out where your significant other goes at night.
(TALKLEFT, unearthed by Paul Whitehurst)

Warehouse Fire Claims Ton of Marijuana - washingtonpost.com

I DID NOT INHALE
Firefighters who spent half an hour fighting a blaze in which 2,000 pounds of marijuana went up in smoke breathed so much of it that they would have failed a drug test, a fire chief said.
(WASHINGTON POST, unearthed by Bill Messick)

COMPUTER FIRST AID KIT
So, going out of town? Whether it's a seminar, deposition or vacation, if you're taking your laptop you might want to pack a few of those USB flash drives and load them up with portable apps. This Wikipedia site has an exhaustive list of portable software that will come in handy in a pinch. See Also the Portable Apps.
(Suggested by FUTURELAWYER)

Local News | Man who lied about actions in Iraq admits faking forms | Seattle Times Newspaper

DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE
Jessie MacBeth claimed to have killed more than 200 people, many at close range, some as they prayed in a mosque. He spoke at an anti-war rally in Tacoma and appeared in a 20-minute anti-war video that circulated widely on the Internet. The trouble is that none of MacBeth's deeds were ever done. He made it through only six weeks of Army basic training, was never a Ranger and never set foot in Iraq.
(SEATTLE TIMES)

THESE SANDALS MAKE YOU THINK YOU CAN WALK ON WATER
I couldn't have said it any better than this ad that advertises the Reef Men's Dram Sandal. They feature a flask (just one?) in the heel "so you can smuggle your moonshine into any sporting event, concert, or even a boring lecture" and a "polyurethane-encapsulated canteen in the heel opens with the included church key/fin key. How dope is that? But the Drams don't stop there. These flip-flops' synthetic nubuck uppers and compression-molded EVA uppers are mad comfortable and they won't get thrashed by the water, which makes the Dram Sandals great for boating or chilling on the beach".
(REEF)

US Border Vigilantes Declare War on Themselves - CommonDreams.org - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

PARAMILITARY GROUPS ARE INFIGHTING ON OUR BORDER!
In 2005 the Minutemen attracted volunteers from all round the country to protest at the numbers of immigrants crossing the border clandestinely. Amid much publicity, they set up their own border patrol posts. The anti-immigrant vigilante force is now in danger of imploding in a row over finances. The group, which split within months of its formation in a row over funds, has now fragmented again. A breakaway group, the Patriots’ Border Alliance, is being set up and has established a website.
(COMMON DREAMS)

WHO ARE CAROLINE LYDERS AND CYNTHIA RODRIGUEZ?
So who the hell are Caroline Lyders and Cynthia Rodriguez? Well, that's what I was wondering when I looked at their ranking today on Hot Trends. With this nifty site you can see a snapshot of what's on the public's collective mind by viewing the fastest-rising searches for different points of time. You can see a list of the current top 100 fastest rising search queries in the U.S. You can also select a recent day in history to see what the top rising searches were and what the search activity looked like over the course of that day.
(Suggested by INFOPACKETS)

Antiwar Art in a New Medium: Paintball-on-Web - washingtonpost.com

HOLED UP IN CHICAGO
Wafaa Bilalan, an Iraqi has holed himself up in Chicago for a month where people shoot at him 24 hours a day. He pokes his head out from behind a screen and -- splat! -- inches from his face. "They wait for me to let my guard down, like predators," he said. More than 40,000 shots have been fired at him.
(WASHINGTON POST)