Odds and Ends

I take a few days away from blogging and stuff doesn't even have the courtesy to stop happening. How rude. Before I dive back in, here's a quick look at what's been going on.

I have a new Governor... he's kicking ass and taking names: "Gov. Eliot Spitzer signed five executive orders in his first morning as governor of New York, including orders establishing a number of ethical guidelines for state workers and making the government more open to the public."

Meanwhile, the execution (pardon the pun) of Saddam Hussein's hanging-- particularly the leaking of a cell-phone video of the full incident-- is creating international controversy. Both the Iraqi government and the White House are taking heat for their roles in the event. Talking Points Memo has been updating regularly with new revelations... latest update here.

Washington DC may finally get the congressional representative they've been lacking.

The bigoted crusade of Rep. Virgil Goode (R-Va.) continues.

In what is no doubt a super-duper coincidence, right after the buzz starts of a Barack Obama presidential run, the liberal media keeps making 'mistakes' and confusing him with 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden. The two most recent incidents are from big sources... CNN and Yahoo News. I'm sure it's a honest mistake, name similarities are why I keep labeling the President as a bunch of pubes.

In GOP World, someone sympathetic to Rudy Guiliani's primary rivals has revealed his entire official 2008 battle plans, including a internal Guiliani campaign assessment of his strengths and weaknesses. Primary season is a bitch.

A retired army general makes the case for allowing gays in the military.

Finally, more barely-a-blip-on-the-radar news out of Guantanamo Bay: "FBI agents documented more than two dozen incidents of possible mistreatment at the Guantanamo Bay military base, including one detainee whose head was wrapped in duct tape for chanting the Quran and another who pulled out his hair after hours in a sweltering room... The reports describe a female guard who detainees said handled their genitals and wiped menstrual blood on their face. Another interrogator reportedly bragged to an FBI agent about dressing as a Catholic priest and 'baptizing' a prisoner." Is it 2009 yet?