Weekend News Dump with Bad Luck Blackie 08/06/05

Bad Luck Blackie: A kitten enlists the aid of a black cat that causes things like flower pots, safes, and battleships to fall on a bulldog that is tormenting him. (dir Tex Avery) (Click here for hi-res full-size pic.)

When Bad Luck Blackie takes his weekend constitutional through the news wires, the crap in his wake tends to be a little more foul than usual.

Note that the weekend timing of this stuff isn't in itself cynical or ominous, it's just that the appearance of some news in weekend dumpsters is the equivalent of finding a blood spattered wallet emptied of its cash in one dumpster and a recently fired handgun with the registration number filed clean in the very next one. I'm just sayin, is all.

Crossposted at the Booman Tribune

For browsing and discussion convenience, I've placed excerpts from these headlines in separate comments below.

British, U.S. lied about justification for pre-war Iraq airstrikes

FCC Kills Rule on Internet Access

Iran Nukes: Iran rejects EU nuclear compromise and UN team heading to Iran with nuclear monitoring equipment

Iraq Constitution: Barzani Claims Agreement on Referendum for (Kurdish) Independence in 8 Years and Iraq's prime minister holds talks on constitution with leading cleric

Films reveal original Ground Zero

You're not imagining it: He really is a fucking idiot