6.12.08 11:28am
Your Morning News 6.12.08
See, you could have gotten your news hours ago, but by waiting and reading it here you are getting something those chumps who read the morning papers didn’t get: The news that the Supreme Court has just ruled that Guantanamo Bay detainees have the right to appeal their detentions in civilian courts. Now the next phase of the terrorists devious plot to drain our resources through lawsuits and trying to get “civil rights” can take affect.
Pakistan, Obama, Beer and Porn after the jump
Air strikes by the US military killed 11 Pakistani soldiers while they fought insurgents Tuesday night. Whoops.
Jim Johnson, who was the leader of Senator Obama’s team to vet Vice Presidential candidates, has resigned. It was revealed that Johnson had used his business connections to get favorable loans and lucrative business deals. In order to avoid the kinds of entanglements in the future, Johnson’s successor is expected to have never held a job.
A Belgian beer company, InBev, is offering to buy out Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. for $46 billion. Many are opposed to the deal that would put Budweiser, an iconic America brand, in the hands of foreign owners. I, for one, just don’t trust Belgians.
File this next one under “the best thing we have ever heard.” A federal obscenity trial was suspended this week after the judge revealed he maintained a website full of porn. This wasn’t just your average barely legal stuff either, the site contained “a photo of naked women on all fours painted to look like cows and a video of a half-dressed man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm animal.” Apparently the judge thought the site was for private storage. No judge, that would be your computer, not the internet.
