John Hawkins scores an interview with Ann Coulter. Kinda cool all the big names he is amassing.
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Windshield Trial
I am sure you are all familiar with this case:
The chief medical examiners in Tarrant and Bexar counties went head to head Wednesday in the murder trial of Chante Mallard, sometimes offering conflicting opinions about what occurred after Gregory Glenn Biggs crashed through her car windshield.
The prosecution completed its presentation of evidence Wednesday morning, and the defense rested it case in the afternoon after calling only one witness – the Bexar County, Texas, medical examiner.
I found this piece of information just awful:
Tarrant County Medical Examiner Nizam Peerwani, who performed Biggs’ autopsy, explained that Biggs suffered a broken right arm, right leg and a nearly amputated left leg. Peerwani ruled the death a homicide.
He testified that Biggs likely survived about two hours before bleeding to death; that he could have been moaning and groaning, or even talking, because he had no neurological damage; and that “positional asphyxia” likely did not contribute to his death.
Positional asphyxia is the inability to breathe because something compresses the abdomen, which sometimes occurs by being lodged in a tight space.
Peerwani also testified that, after reviewing Mallard’s training records as a nurse’s aide, she appeared to be a “medically oriented person” who should have recognized the seriousness of Biggs’ injuries and sought help.
She just let the man die, it really is that simple. I don’t know if it is capital murder (or even murder), but the one thing I do know is that if I hear one more person on television try to excuse her because “she has never committed a crime before in her life,” I am going to wretch. This is an evil, awful, hideous woman, and I hope she never goes five minutes for the rest of her life without realizing what she has done.
Congo
Finally, the NY Times is speaking out:
For more than four years, the deadliest fighting since World War II has raged in the vast Central African nation of Congo. More than 3 million people are dead. In some parts of the country, organized society has collapsed, with tribal vengeance giving way to genocide. For those in the war’s path, childhood ends abruptly. Parents are butchered in front of their children and militias turn the orphans into killers by their early teens. Neighboring countries are inflaming the conflict, arming rival militias and looting resources.
Sadly, the United Nations has seemed powerless to reverse Congo’s deadly disintegration. Before the arrival of a small French-led military force this month, international action has been timid. The new contingent, better equipped and with a stronger U.N. mandate to use force, may now contain the anarchy in one particularly violent area, the northeastern regional capital of Bunia. But the new force has only about 1,400 soldiers and is scheduled to begin pulling out in September. The rest of Congo remains at the mercy of marauding militias.
To expand the Bunia operation nationwide could require a U.N. army as large as 100,000. There is no chance of the Security Council’s sending or paying for a force that large. Peace will come to Congo, if it comes at all, only by strengthening diplomatic efforts to bring together the country’s main factions in a transitional government. Even that won’t have a chance unless the neighboring governments of Rwanda and Uganda order their local proxies to stop fighting.
If we let those people get slaughtered without doing anything meaningful, none of us deserves to sleep peacefully for the rest of our lives.
MoDo
How Powerful is George Bush?
President Bush has got to be the most powerful man to ever walk the face of the earth. Kevin Drum has a long post today about the growth in inequality in income and a discussion attempting to debunk the ‘myth’ of income mobility. He has some very telling charts, and then closes with this sweeping indictment of our current President:
This is fundamentally unhealthy in a democratic society. When the rich absorb more and more of the economic growth of the nation, and the poor begin to lose hope of economic advancement, you have a potentially toxic combination. George Bush and the policies of the Republican party are making this ever worse, and someday soon the poor and middle class are going to figure out what’s going on. How about 2004?
Here are the charts- why am I laughing?
For his next trick, Bush will explain how he shot Kennedy, started WWI and WWII, and helped to craft the policies that led to the Stock Market Crash. By the way, he apologizes for starting the Aids epidemic.
This is Truly Excellent
Via Calpundit, a computerized “Twenty Questions.”
I stumped it, in a sense, even though I gave it credit. My thing was a vodka tonic, and the machine guessed “Gin and tonic.” It shockedthe hell out of me because the questions seemed to be getting broader and I was starting to become convinced it would never get it. Then it guessed, and Iwas so shocked that it was that close that I just gave it credit. After all- how is it supposed to know my drink of preference?
Aung San Suu Kyi
This might work:
Japan, Myanmar’s largest donor, froze all financial aid to the country on Wednesday to punish its military government for detaining pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Japan appears to be rethinking its policy of engaging the junta in a dialogue with promises of aid — unlike the United States, the European Union and Britain, which have already imposed sanctions to press for Suu Kyi’s freedom.
Also Wednesday, U.N. special envoy Razali Ismail, the only outsider to see Suu Kyi since her arrest more than three weeks ago, said U.N. officials are “increasingly alarmed” about the government’s refusal to release her.
I hope she is still alive.