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maryb2004 on February 5, 2006 at 11:40 am

Yemeni prisoners dig 150 foot tunnel and escape from prison. Escapees include one of the USS Cole attackers.

cnn

ask on February 5, 2006 at 12:00 pm

Judge takes Congress to task in bankruptcy case

FREDERICKSBURG — Alfonso Sosa, a house painter here who made about $20,000 last year, filed for bankruptcy the morning of Dec. 6, hoping to avoid the foreclosure on his family’s mobile home scheduled for later that day. Judge Frank Monroe of Austin rejected the case 16 days later — with a bang.

In his ruling, Monroe said the new federal bankruptcy law is full of traps for consumers, calling some of its provisions “inane,” “absurd” and incomprehensible to “any rational human being.”
He stopped just short of accusing Congress of being bought and paid for, dryly noting, “Apparently, it is not the individual consumers of this country that make the donations to the members of Congress that allow them to be elected and re-elected and re-elected and re-elected.”
(there is a link to the full opinion in the story)

DyspepTex has an entry on the kos reco list.

maryb2004 on February 5, 2006 at 12:02 pm

Everyone who wants to feel good should read this. And click through to the link that takes you to the actual Order. Don’t worry its short — but sweet.
rba on February 5, 2006 at 12:34 pm

The new “Monroe Doctrine”. Recommend watching for this to emerge next week, and if it doesn’t, someone with the tech-know should set up a blog petition. Strike while the iron is hot.

ask on February 5, 2006 at 12:08 pm

Embassies ablaze as Muslim anger spreads

The increasingly bitter row over the publication of a series of controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad reached a new intensity last night as protesters set fire to the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Syria.

With police signalling that they will launch an investigation into the behaviour of protesters in London who called for those insulting Islam to ‘be beheaded’, protesters in the Syrian capital, Damascus, defied tear gas and water cannon to enter the Danish embassy and replace that country’s flag with another which read: ‘No God but Allah, Mohammad is His Prophet.’
Last night the Danish embassy, which was empty when attacked, was a charred hulk. The Norwegian embassy was still burning. As well as the dramatic scenes in Damascus – not known for its Islamic militancy – rising tensions among Muslims over the publication of ‘blasphemous’ cartoons in Denmark threatened to boil over across the globe.