DH's magazine is blogging the living hell out of Obama this week, and here's his latest contribution: other superheroes Obama should meet.

So if the UN's International Court of Justice orders the state of Texas not to execute a Mexican citizen, but Texas executes them anyway, how bad is that?

US execution 'defied court order'

The International Court of Justice says the US was in breach of an order not to execute a Mexican man sentenced to death in Texas after a flawed trial.

The court was handing down judgment in a bid by Mexico to force a review of the sentences of 51 of its citizens on death row in the US.

Mexico says the US ignored a ruling by the court in 2004 that America had denied the Mexicans consular access.

The court said then that the convictions should be reconsidered.

The International Court of Justice - the UN's highest court - issued an emergency ruling last July intended to halt pending executions.

But three weeks later Texas gave a lethal injection to Jose Medellin, convicted of the rape and murder of two teenage girls.

"The court... finds that the United States of America has breached the obligation incumbent upon it," the ICJ - sitting in The Hague - ruled.

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The US says that it took steps to comply with the judgement but cannot compel individual state courts to comply.

Some US states have agreed to review their death row cases but Texas maintains that its state courts are not bound by the International Court of Justice.

I suppose the UN isn't too popular in Texas anyway....

A clip of a 1964 BBC interview of Dr. Martin Luther King, where he predicts the US would have an African-American president in less than 40 years:

Huh. In the clip they're all "Robert Kennedy thinks it could happen in 40 years, what do you think!?!?" and he's all "I think it could happen in 25!"

Huh.

oh my.

I kinda can't believe a customer would think they would trump the owner on what channel to have on. srsly.

At the movies I used these ancient passes I had bought at work, like 4 jobs ago - they were supposed to charge me a $1.50 surcharge, but they did not - added bonus of these passes, I got free small popcorn with each one, so only had to pay for drinks. $11.25 for 2 kids and me to see the movie and have snacks. WIN!

interesting Bush info: [link]

From msbelle's link:

Number Of Rounds Of Golf Played As President: 24 (The last one on Oct. 13, 2003. President Bush has since explained that he stopped playing golf out of respect for the families of Americans killed in the war in Iraq.)

Huh? I know that the "now watch this drive" clip looked horrible, but he stopped playing golf entirely?

“Celebrating his inauguration with ‘Freedom of Choice’ doughnuts - only two days before the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision to decriminalize abortion - is not only extremely tacky, it’s disrespectful and insensitive and makes a mockery of a national tragedy."

I went through this looking glass and no matter what I do, I can't seem escape back to Not Crazy World. They're playing croquet with flamingos. It's always jam yesterday and jam tomorrow, but never jam today. Free doughnuts make a political statement. There are people Sarah Palin considers white trash. It's disappointing to not find weapons of mass destruction. GWB made the hard decisions and the only ones he regrets are poor photo-op decisions.

Keith Olbermann called donut lady a "loon", iirc. I expected to be old before there was a black President.

In terms of Freedom of Choice, Ezra Klein suggests that if you live or work near anyplace the sells Krispy Kremes you buy one or more on the 22nd, the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade. His point is that while this may not be a tremendously effective way to support a woman's right to choose, it is probably the only opportunity many of us will have in our lifetime to make a political statement by eating donuts.

When I went back to the laundromat, I realized that the white guy was even more of a tool, because the other customer said "I don't speak Spanish" because the TV was playing Primer Impacto, not because she couldn't understand the owner (who was speaking English). Good times.