Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Browsing the News

SERIAL KILLER SENTENCED IN OHIO.    I was going to suggest that they just turn off his oxygen. Turns out it was an old photo.
List of individuals executed since 1976. Wikipedia

DO BLOGGER HAVE HEADLINES LIKE THIS?
Democrats vow ballot challenge to Ohio union bill    When did you ever hear the word "vow" in a sentence?

LOS ANGELES IS BROKE BUT   L.A., AEG push ahead on NFL stadium
It would cost $1 billion with $350 million bonds floated by the city. Only one question, can Los Angeles even get someone to loan them money? (Time warning. MediaNews Group routinely hide their stories in their archives, sometimes in less than a few hours. This one isn't controversial so it might stick around.)

SHOULD WE BE AMAZED OR APPALLED?   FBI's new fingerprint system is faster - seven minutes to search a database of 70 million sets of fingerprints.

ONE GOOD OUTCOME   Los Angeles Community College official faces investigation. The arrangement was exposed by the Los Angeles Times investigation, called Billions to Spend, into the $5.7 billion spent to rebuild the Los Angeles Community Colleges. I predicted there would be no prosecutions but this is still only in the investigation stage and we have the same District Attorney. So I was wrong about the investigation part.

WE CAN TELL YOU THAT WHEN WE STOP AT A TRAFFIC LIGHT.   The census figures are in: "Once again, Latinos saw the largest increases in population over the decade, making up 37.6% of the state's total population. As a percentage of the total population, whites dropped to about 40%. The Asian population was 12.8% and the black population was 5.8%."  
If they are moving to the Southland to avoid the despair in Mexico, they took the wrong tunnel.    To be honest, corruption in Los Angeles is equal to, if not more, than that found in any Mexican city.
IN A STUNNING REVERSAL of past policies in Canada, a refugee who was a Tamil Tiger for five years was ordered deported. The man can still apply for a review of the decision to the Federal Court of Canada. So don't hold your breath and don't think you can find out the result. His name, age and identifying details can’t be published

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