The Nightowl Newswrap

By @BGinKC

• If it has a body count like this, it's a real war and it's time for peace talks. The murder rate in Mexico has tripled since President Calderon sent the military to the border to fight the cartels and the cartels outgunned the army and the police and turned soldiers and cops to their side with the lure of money.

• Anyone who thinks if women ran things it would be a kinder, gentler world has totally blocked out highschool. We can be cruel and vicious, too.Two fifteen-year-old Israeli girls have been arrested in the brutal attack on young Palestinians last week. The arrests brought the number of teens arrested in the attack that took place in the heart of Jerusallem's entertainment district while hundreds of onlookers stood by like cow-eyed fools while the girls goaded their male companions into committing the hate crime.

• Hank Jr. must have wanted to get back in the news, because there was no other reason for him to tell an audience at the Iowa State Fair "We've got a Muslim president who hates farming, hates the military, hates the U.S. and we hate him!" -- and the fact that this asshole and Ted Nugent will have strokes on November 7th after Obama wins on November 6th is enough reason for me to knock on doors.

• We've been a mobile species about 20,000 years longer than we thought. An ancient human skull found in a cave in Laos is the oldest modern human fossil found in Southeast Asia and is believed to be between 46,000 and 63,000 years old, and that we left the coasts for inland terrains far earlier than previously thought..

• It's the happiest Micky Kaus has been since the goat declined to press charges. The infamous crank and shill for all things neocon and movement conservative made a comment that is the twice-removed "supporting evidence" at the bottom of Mitt Romney's third and most eggregious ad spewing the "gutted welfare reform" lie. I've decided that the Rmoney campaign is making the craven, calculated gamble that their voters are stupid enough to let them get away with blatant lies so long as they remain white.

• Okay, let me see if I have this straight, because it's kinda a mind-bender. Mitt Romney went on the record on Monday, saying that the ticket "could not defend" Todd Akin -- which brings up an issue or three that are problematic for his running mate.

• ...since Ryan and Akin are two peas in a pod. They joined forces and co-sponsored a radical personhood amendment that would have outlawed abortion as well as many forms of birth control. The two also worked together on an effort to "redefine" rape to make women impregnated by rapists have to jump through more hoops to get abortions.

• This may be three days old, but it still put a big ole dopey grin on my face and it will yours, too. Kansas Secretary of State and infamous xenophobe Kris Kobach  went to Alabama to defend the heinous immigration law he drafted for the small-minded and hateful republican-controlled legislature and was shouted down and ridiculed by Alabamians who hate the law and what it's done to their communities. Since Kobach is a bully, and the only way to make a bully stop bullying is to bloody his nose, I hope Kris Kobach gets hounded and ridiculed and shouted down everywhere he goes, even including the bathroom.

• Speaking of that horrible immigration law he wrote for Alabama, a Federal court threw out most of it on Monday, including the provision that turned school administrators into ICE agents and the part that made it illegal to "harbor or transport" an undocumented immigrant.

• Give KS 03 Rep. Kevin Yoder a "Luckiest Motherfucker Alive" trophy . He couldn't have possibly had the news of his skinny-dipping adventure in the Sea of Galilee break at a better time for him: the news about him hit several hours after Akin opened his mouth and set the political world atwitter.

• I keep telling you that Onion headline writers have the worst jobs in journalism because often you can't tell at first read whether a headline came from a "serious" paper or The Onion. Take this one for example: Republicans Condemn Akin's Comments As Blemish On Party's Otherwise Spotless Women's Rights Record.

...and finally, a little midnight-music. Tonight, it's Metric with Combat Baby, a group I discovered and song I snagged from my 20-something son's MP3 player...

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