Despite all the critics’ complaints as to why the Guantanamo Bay prison should be closed, an Afghanistan delegation who spent 10 days talking with the 96 Afgan prisoners said conditions at the prison were humane. 

Read it here

“Conditions of the jail was humane. There were rumors in this country about that. It was wrong. What we have seen was OK,” said Abdul Jabar Sabhet of the Interior Ministry.

Well, it’s about time someone has said this lately, especially with all the critics of the prison up in a frenzy over the suicides of three prisoners only a few days ago.

To the outrage of many people, Arizona Republic cartoonist Steve Benson published a cartoon last Wednesday of the Marine Corps emblem (Eagle Globe and Anchor), bleeding with a banner below reading ‘United States Massacre Cover-Up’.

Read more at MichelleMalkin.com and at Townhall.com.

Being a Marine myself the cartoon really doesn’t offend me.  I see this cartoonist as just another half-witted dumb ass sitting in a small dark room reading every negative headline and opinion as if they were Cliff Notes and taking them in as fact.

A group of Kossacks (members of the Daily Kos a popular liberal blog) decided to hold a tin foil hat competition during the highly publicized Yearly Kos convention, which was being broadcast live in Las Vegas, Nevada. 

Was it meant as a harmless joke referring to the idea that the Yearly Kos was going to be like a Star Trek convention, or was it just a small group of people with too much to drink and one really bad idea?  Honestly, I don't know and it doesn't really matter now, because the buzz on the net is: 'What the hell were they thinking?'

For more on tin foil hat wearing Kossacks visit here, here, or the Daily Kos itself.