Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Morning News Update

Anything mildly important/interesting/amusing that happened while I slept.

  • The Heat beat the Mavs 95-92 last night to clinch their first franchise championship; if you read this here first, you're pathetic.
  • I'm starting to think the award for "Most Dangerous Job in Iraq" goes to Saddam's defense team - three of them have been killed since his trial began. As much of a farce as it is, and that's thanks almost entirely to the former dictator's delusional antics, it's good to see the Iraqi people pursuing him through rule of law rather than vigilante justice. Yet because they're trying to address these issues legally, it really is unfortunate that his lawyers keep dying.
  • Chris Cilizza reports on the Democratic fundraising lead, a lead that is only extant in comparing Congressional and Senatorial committees; the DNC is still getting kicked around by the RNC. And the latest NRCC/NRSC numbers don't include the $27 million that Bush raised for them on Monday night!
  • Bush is in Vienna talking to the EU - because they so obviously respect the President and are honestly going to listen to what he has to say. Send flowers and a letter of condolences for their slowly collapsing economies.
  • North Korea is still rattling its cage. If they follow through with their harebrained threats (backed up by some of the worst logic and reasoning I've ever heard), it won't prove that Kim Jong-Il ranks among the ballsiest world leaders, merely the stupidest. Complain about the picture if you want, it's early, I think it's funny.
More later.

No comments: