American Hero: al-Zaidi

The Roads to Iraq blog is reporting that Egyptian shoe-tossing champion and TV journalist Muntader al-Zaidi is being tortured in an American military prison.

A Roads to Iraq correspondent wrote on the blog this morning, “Iraqi TV al-Sharqiya just reported on the news that AL-Zaidi is transferred to Camp Cropper prison [the Airport prison, managed by the American forces].”

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It’s not a loop as such, but it’s the version going into our iPhone. Credit to BarelyPolitical.com for the flying debris.

Whoever set Sarah Palin’s church ablaze Friday night wasn’t taking chances — ATF investigators on the scene have found evidence of “accelerants” (gasoline or something) in multiple locations around the building.

But local fire chief James Steele says nobody knows yet whether the fire was set by terrorists, hooligans, witches, or turkeys. “At this point, there is no information that we have that even points in that direction,” he said.

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Item: National Lampoon hauled in for securities fraud, relating to kickbacks for stock sales. Carry on.

[Image intervention by Nojo: The graphic CP didn’t want you to see! Not that it matters now…]

This poor guy is so fucked:

Maythem al-Zaidi contacted a judge to ask him if what his brother [Muntader] did is a crime under Iraqi law. The judge told him that he might serve two years in prison or pay a fine for insulting a president of foreign country unless Mr. Bush withdrew the case. “If they manage to imprison Muntader, there are millions of him all over Iraq and the Arab world,” Maythem al-Zaidi said.

Anyone who expects clemency from the Commander Guy should recall his remarks about Karla Faye Tucker.

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A wave of unacknowledged miracles is sweeping the country, as untold numbers of Baby Jesuses are walking away from the nation’s nativity scenes. But rather than recognize God’s wrath against scientists for attempting to reschedule the virgin birth to June, officials are conspiring to attribute the disappearances to common thieves.

A rundown of the latest shocking reports:

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So the only question now is when Blagojevich decides to hang it up.  A.G. Lisa Madigan wants to get him gone.  The Legislature will, at least, yank the Senate appointment by a bill — which Mr. Hair will veto or sit on for weeks, but which would put any appointment under a cloud that would give nuclear winter a run for its money.

But the story here is that Michael Madigan, the House Speaker (fist of iron, as most leaders of state legislatures are) is apparently wavering on passing articles, in a supposed move to promote Lisa’s image.

How these people act just fascinates me. Who says nepotism is dead?

Anyway: my guess is that Gov. Blagojevich, after much soul-searching and prayer, will decide this week that the best interests of the state require that he step aside.

And now, if you will excuse me, the nurse is bringing my nightly medication. Laters.