A few fun news items:
Spanish Judge calls on US to shut Guantanomo FLORENCE Invoking Spain's history of dictatorship and terror, Baltasar Garzón, the country's most prominent investigative magistrate, has called on the United States to immediately close the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
"A model like Guantánamo is an insult to countries that respect laws," Garzón said during an interview during a counterterrorism conference in Florence in late May. "It delegitimizes us. It is a place that needs to disappear immediately."
Unsurprising News about YoungBloodz Two members of the Atlanta hip-hop group Youngbloodz were busted last week by police and charged with possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute and possession of firearms, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
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"I can confirm rap duo Youngbloodz were arrested last night in Atlanta on possession of marijuana and firearms," Tice Merriweather, senior director of publicity for the group's label, Jive Records, said in a release on Friday. "The guys have never had any trouble with the law. They are completely innocent and they will be exonerated from these charges."
Because OBVIOUSLY people back in the day thought of Meatloaf when they said "like a bat out of hell" The Onion and Mirimax Team Up LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Miramax Films is developing a satirical comedy with the former editor in chief of the Onion. "Homeland Insecurity" will track the misadventures of two Arab-Americans who are mistaken for terrorists while on a business trip to Texas.
Man, you gotta love the news sometimes.