Gitmo Update

After the Bush administration appealed an earlier court ruling to release 17 Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo Bay, a judge upheld the earlier ruling and ordered the 17 men to appear before him in 3 days to be released into the U.S.

This ruling was made possible due to the hard work of a lawyer named Sabin Willett, my godfather. An article about this can be read here.

Hail to the Mayor

The great mayor (insert sarcasm) of Jackson, MS is Frank Melton. In 2006, Mayor Melton went into a poor neighborhood with police officers and his posse of troubled youths. He instructed everyone to take sledgehammers to an old house believed to be a drug house. Melton had no search warrant or any right to do any of this, but he felt it was the right thing to do. Trouble is that it wasn't a house used for dealing drugs and was just some poor peoples' house.

Today, Marcus Wright, a police officer charged in the incident, cut a plea deal with prosecutors to get his charges reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor in exchange for possible testimony against Mayor Melton and others.

When this news broke, WJTV asked viewers for their opinion with this insightful and well-thought question for their poll:

What effect do you think Wright's plea deal will have on Melton's case?

• Help It
• Hurt It
• No Effect

Seriously? That is the question that WJTV wants viewers to really think about and share with their beloved newstation? When I voted so that I could see the results, 78% had voted that it would hurt Melton's case. 5% had voted that it would help it, and I hope those were joke votes.

How dumb is America getting that we have to be subjected to these type of questions that should be reserved for small children with learning disabilities? How ignorant is our nation becoming when people claim that Sarah Palin did well in the Vice Presidential debate? If her performance in the VP debate is considered good, then I fear for the intelligence level of our citizens (Biden didn't do so hot either.)

Demonstrating to me the laughable journalistic skills of our media today, this question is just further evidence that members of the media should be shipped off to North Korea.