"Imploring people I've never meant to pressure a government with better things to do to punish a man who meant no harm for something nobody even saw." After Ned Flanders watches news anchor Kent Brockman use a shocking expletive when Homer accidentally pours a mug full of coffee into his lap. He then logs on the internet and is asked what he is doing by his kids.
"Did you know that everyday Mexican gays sneak into this country and unplug our brain dead ladies?" Homer Simpson responding to watching a lot of FOX news.
Clemson News:
Former Clemson player and Jet's 2004 second round draft pick Justin Miller Busted For Bar Brawl and Faces Assault Charges For Punching Woman - Sunday night the 23-year-old Pro Bowl returner was arrested after allegedly punching a woman in a nightclub. He was apprehended following a police chase at 4:20 a.m.
Iran Watch:
Iran charges detained Iranian-American scholar - Prominent Iranian-American scholar Dr. Haleh Esfandiar was formally charged with plotting to overthrow the Iranian government by organizing a network "against the sovereignty of the country," according to Iranian television Monday.
Immigration News:
Senate Puts Off Action on Immigration - Senate leaders agreed Monday that they would wait until June to take final action on a bipartisan plan to give millions of unlawful immigrants legal status.
France says no to mass legalisation of undocumented immigrants - France's minister of immigration and national identity, a new ministry created by President Nicolas Sarkozy, has ruled out legalizing undocumented immigrants en mass. The new ministry said today that government policy would be dictated by firmness and pragmatism. "We have to put aside massive legalization. It doesn't work and it penalizes, even immigrants."
Iran expels 70 000 Afghans - More than 70,000 Afghans who were in Iran illegally have been returned in the past month, the United Nations said on Monday, as talks were under way between the neighbors over the controversial deportations.
Immigrant Rental Rule in Texas Blocked - A federal judge Monday blocked enforcement of a voter-endorsed ordinance preventing apartment rentals to most illegal immigrants in this Dallas suburb, opponents of the ban said. The ordinance requires managers to verify that renters are U.S. citizens or legal immigrants before leasing to them, with some exceptions. Violators face fines of up to $500, and each day would be considered a separate violation. Only the federal government can determine whether a person is in the United States legally, wrote U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay. Instead of deferring to federal officials, Farmers Branch has created its own classification to determine which noncitizens may rent an apartment, the judge ruled.
Iraq News:
Iraq makes plans for quick U.S. pullout - Iraq's military is drawing up plans to cope with any quick U.S. military pullout, the defense minister said Monday, as a senior American official warned that the Bush administration may reconsider its support if Iraqi leaders don't make major reforms by fall. The U.S. official did not say what actions could be taken by the White House, but his comments reflected the administration's need to show results in Iraq — as an answer to pressure by the Democrats in Congress seeking to set timetables on the U.S. military presence.
More Lawmaker Hypocrisy: Edwards charges $55,000 to speak to UC Davis students about poverty - Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, who as a Democratic presidential candidate recently proposed an educational policy that urged "every financial barrier" be removed for American kids who want to go to college, has been going to college himself -- as a high paid speaker, his financial records show. The candidate charged a whopping $55,000 to speak at to a crowd of 1,787 the taxpayer-funded University of California at Davis on Jan. 9, 2006 last year, Joe Martin, the public relations officer for the campus' Mondavi Center confirmed Monday.
China News:
Chinese villagers riot over stricter population-control - An intensive campaign to enforce strict population-control measures prompted violent clashes between the police and local residents in southwestern China in recent days, witnesses said, describing the latest incident of rural unrest that has alarmed senior officials in Beijing. The violence appeared to stem from a two-month-long crackdown in Guangxi to punish people who violated the country's birth control policy. The policy limits the number of children families can have legally.
China Questions 2 Companies in Contaminated Toothpaste Exports - Chinese authorities are investigating whether two companies from this coastal region exported tainted toothpaste as more contaminated product, including some made for children, has turned up in Latin America.Other Crap:
Monkey dead from bubonic plague in Denver - A Denver Zoo monkey has died of bubonic plague, apparently after eating a squirrel stricken with the disease, Colorado health and zoo officials said on Monday.
Carter says comments were ‘careless’ after the 39th president had blasted Bush administration as ‘worst in history’ - Former President Jimmy Carter on Monday said his comments over the weekend about the Bush administration were “careless.”
Schwarzenegger accuses government on warming - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and fellow Republican Gov. Jodi Rell of Connecticut accused the U.S. government on Monday of "inaction and denial" on global warming. "It's bad enough that the federal government has yet to take the threat of global warming seriously, but it borders on malfeasance for it to block the efforts of states such as California and Connecticut that are trying to protect the public's health and welfare."
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