Friday, April 8, 2011

TODAY in the news April 8

Setting the ground rules. The legal team for Dr. Conrad Murray asked a judge to prohibit any mention of the physician's extramarital affairs, out-of-wedlock children or penchant for strip clubs at his manslaughter trial next month in the death of Michael Jackson. The lawyers plan to make Michael Jackson's financial woes central to their case, but do not want the fact known that Murray owed a host of creditors and was behind in child support for some of the six children he had fathered with four women that the prosecution wants to show how desperate Murray was to keep his job with Jackson. STORY Los Angeles Times (April 8)

Remember that Gay Caveman Found story? Turns out he wasn't gay or a caveman. He was a "third gender" and a pre-Bronze Age farmer. He might even have been a shaman.
FOUND at LiveScience (April 8)
-- Or it might have been a media agenda thing.

How's that Marxism going? Not too well in Venezuela where a blackout hit much of the country. Venezuela said it was due to a forest fire. Last year Venezuelans had blackouts for months when government said cutbacks were necessary during a drought.
Report    FROM Associated Press (April 8)

Florida proposes budget cuts of $4 billion. AT at Orlando Sentinel (April 8)
-- In comparing the budget cuts, the newspaper puts the emphasis on health and school cuts, listing the very large savings of $700 million on public-employee pension below the scroll.
-- If Florida can cut $4 billion from their budget, why is the administration shutting down the Federal government over a dispute over cuts of only $12.5 billion?
Texas House approves 85-mile speed limit. Not on all highways. "Texas and Utah are the only states that now allow speed limits of 80 miles per hour." STORY FROM Orlando Sentinel (April 7)
The biggest drug dealing organizations. "A top U.S. State Department anti-narcotics official said Thursday that Colombia's leftist rebels and the Taliban are among the world's largest drug-trafficking organizations." ITEM Associated Press (April 7)
-- Someone should ask who is proving support to those organizations.
UPDATED Mexican Violence Continues  Police found more than 40 bodies in eight pits found in a Mexican graves 80 miles from Brownsville. It is the same area where police found the bodies of 72 migrants shot to death August 24. Source: Houston Chronicle (April 6) The count is now up to 58 59.   Police found the bodies while looking for abducted bus passengers.   Brownsville Herald story (April 6)
Investigators have found an additional 13 bodies in two more mass graves. AP story (April 8)
Planned Parenthood spent over $1 million electing Democrats in 2010. Story at Washington Examiner (April 8)
-- No wonder Democrats don't want it defunded.

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