Honduras – more Zelaya showboating

What else can you call a second straight day of Manuel Zelaya, the ousted (ex)-president of Honduras, sticking his toes across the border for 10 seconds?

Kumbaya Prez gets GOP reality check

Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.), on Monday, plans on introducing a resolution demanding President Barack Obama apologize for his comments about Cambridge Police Sergeant James Crowley after his arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates last week.

And, since Crowley is a police officer, other GOPers will surely play up the law-and-order angle. How many, remains to be seen. Will Jim DeMint introduce something similar in the Senate?

Reverse racism in East Austin?

Wow… a white person gets told to move out of a black neighborhood, via a brick through a window.

And, despite a message on the brick saying “Keep Eastside Black. Keep Eastside Strong,” police are NOT treating it as a hate crime.

Now, I’m about 180 degrees from the Michelle Malkins of the world, but it sounds a bit politically correct to NOT investigate this as a hate crime.

Smarter than the average bear – or bear-proof tin

A bear in New York’s Adirondack Mountains has figured out how to open “bear-proof” containers. And now apparently has understudies.

Swine flu could hit 40 percent of US

I’ve previously blogged how vaccine makers, most of them outside the US, could well hold back supplies if conditions are bad in their own countries.

Well, if the rest of the world has anywhere close to this level of outbreak, that’s what will happen and we will hit 40 percent here.

Fatalities? Who even knows.

Help free Leonard Peltier

If you don’t know who Leonard Peltier is, or why he needs helping, you need to go here.

If you do know who Leonard Peltier is, his next parole hearing is July 28. Might still be time to mail a letter here:

United States Parole Commission 5550 Friendship Blvd., Ste. 420 Chevy Chase, MD 20815-7286 (Insert Date) Re: LEONARD PELTIER #89637-132

There you go.