But Bush and Cheney aren’t there drilling for oil and drive SUVs all around the plant! AP:
Jupiter’s third spot may not be around for long.
Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope show the third spot, the smallest of the three, recently passed under the Great Red Spot and now is a pale version of its […]

Rob and kill someone while afflecting “83 blunt force injuries and more than three dozen stab wounds”?
Not-****ing-good-enough:
A man convicted of killing “Curious George” collaborator Alan Shalleck in South Florida has been spared the death penalty.
A judge sentenced Vincent Puglisi to life in prison yesterday after a jury found him guilty of first-degree murder and robbery […]

I was watching the 3 a.m. news that either ABC or CBS was running on Tuesday morning (the 15th), when they had some female talking head talking about the recent request by the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court for an arrest warrant for Omar al-Bashir, the President of Sudan, for war crimes committed during […]

At The Jawa Report:
AP photographer Rahmatullah Naikzad was a witness to a Taliban murder. The two women were alleged to have been prostitutes who served Western clientèle.
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This page from the AP seems to suggest that Rahmatullah Naikzad also took a snuff video of the two women being murdered. [UPDATE: Yes, he did. Video […]

Or they’re just incompetent; take your pick.
Consider a recent “news story” from Jeff Schapiro about the recent General Assembly special session. First the intro:
Shame on our short-timer governor, Tim Kaine. How dare he berate the legislature for doing nothing on transportation.
On the contrary, the General Assembly was enormously productive during the six days in June […]

On television, now that the writer’s strike is over, the good television shows (that means no Grey’s Anatomy, guys) will be back on. Of course, with the possibly of an actors strike, who knows.
But anyway, my shows to watch:
Stargate Atlantis’s fifth season has already started on SCI FI (first episode was on July 11th).
Can a […]

Some New Orleans paper:
With minutes left in the last shift of his 35-year New Orleans police career, Sgt. Bobby Guidry received a call from a supervisor telling him he had been suspended for wearing the wrong uniform shirt, the veteran officer said.
The Police Department confirmed the censure Tuesday, though it quibbled with the term “suspended.” […]

At Michelle Malkin’s blog: DC mayor still unclear on the concept explained in Heller

WTOP:
As the District prepares to begin accepting applications for handgun permits, police are having a tough time finding tens of thousands of guns already registered in the city.
About 41,000 handguns are registered in D.C., but more than 36,000 of those guns are owned by residents who registered prior to the 1976 ban.
On WTOP’s Ask the […]

…and D. J. McGuire rips them for it.