Jesse Jackson: Family wants 2nd autopsy
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson’s family wants a private autopsy of the pop icon because of unanswered questions about how he died and the doctor who was with him, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said Saturday.
“It’s abnormal,” he told The Associated Press from Chicago a day after visiting the Jackson family. “We don’t know what happened. Was he injected and with what? All reasonable doubt should be addressed.”
If they’re willing to pay, (and they can certainly afford it) they can have as many autopsies as they want.
But everyone should have known that he was not well. He had been really pale lately
US House passes historic climate change bill
The US House of Representatives have narrowly passed historic legislation to cut pollution blamed for global warming, handing President Barack Obama a major, hard-fought victory.
After hours of bitter debate, lawmakers voted 219-212 to put the US economy under a “cap-and-trade” system for managing carbon emissions in a move its backers said would create jobs and restore shaky US leadership on climate change.
“Just remember these four words for what this legislation means — jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs. Let’s vote for jobs,” Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi exhorted her colleagues minutes before the vote.
Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner warned the measure would send energy costs skyrocketing and denounced it as “the biggest job-killing bill that has ever been on the floor of the House.”
Time will tell. But if Boehner is correct and Pelosi is not, how will we be able to correct it?
I think you will be able to date the swift decline in the American standard of living to this vote.
Maureen Dowd tries her hand at imaginary reporting with Cheney Grabs a Third Term and the results are disappointing.
For a much more entertaining example of the genre check out “In My World” at Frank J’s site. It’s much more amusing than Maureen.
U.S. May Revive Guantánamo Military Courts - NYTimes.com
[I]n recent days a variety of officials involved in the deliberations say that after administration lawyers examined many of the cases, the mood shifted toward using military commissions to prosecute some detainees, perhaps including those charged with coordinating the Sept. 11 attacks.
“The more they look at it,” said one official, “the more commissions don’t look as bad as they did on Jan. 20.”
No doubt they will spin it as a difficult choice forced on them by Bush’s mishandling of the orignal prosecutions. And the media will accept that.
This column on a Somali Pirate cruise package seems to be appearing all over the Internet, mostly in comments totally unrelated. So I guess you could classify it as Spam.
Circle City Pundit.com: Somali Cruise Package
A Somali cruise package that departs from Sawakin (in the Sudan ) and
docks at Bagamoya (in Tanzania ).
Read the whole thing. (to coin a phrase)
Colo. man convicted of murdering transgender woman /a>
The case was believed to be the first prosecution under Colorado’s bias-crime statute for a crime involving a transgender person. Gay rights activists hope publicity from the case would pressure Congress to add sexual orientation and gender identity to a federal hate crime law.
Why?
The law didn’t stop this guy.
The law didn’t stop him from committing murder either.
April 18, 2009 – 11:51 pm
Desert clash in West over solar potential, water
OAKLAND, Calif. — A westward dash to power electricity-hungry cities by cashing in on the desert’s most abundant resource — sunshine — is clashing with efforts to protect the tiny pupfish and desert tortoise and stinginess over the region’s rarest resource: water.
Water is the cooling agent for what traditionally has been the most cost-efficient type of large-scale solar plants. To some solar companies answering Washington’s push for renewable energy on vast government lands, it’s also an environmental thorn. The unusual collision pits natural resources protections against President Barack Obama’s plans to produce more environmentally friendly energy.
U.S. navy, pirates negotiate over hostage captain
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the lifeboat appeared to be out of fuel and that “a number of assets” were being used to resolve the situation.
“Piracy may be a centuries-old crime, but we are working to bring an appropriate, 21st century response,” she said at a joint appearance with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and the Australian foreign and defense ministers.
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