The Nightowl Newswrap

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By BG & YD

The phrase you're looking for is "Karma's a bitch" Also -- she has red hair and PMS. Greyston Garcia, the 26-year-old man who was acquitted of murder under Floridas "Stand Your Ground" law(lessness) in March after chasing down the man who stole the radio out of his car and stabbing him in the chest after the thief turned and swung a bag of stolen radios at him was shot to death Tuesday night after he was caught in the crossfire as two gangs were shooting at one another. If he had gone to jail, where you belong if you chase someone down and kill them with a knife over a fucking radio, he would still be alive.

We're sure the mean-spirited, authoritarian assholes consider this a feature and not a bug. "Papers, Please" anti-immigrant laws are affecting female immigrants more than males, and in states where such laws are on the books, the police have taken to setting up roadblocks and checkpoints near schools and hospitals so they can snare women as they take their children to school and for doctor's appointments. Shit like this makes us wish Karma was more active about dispensing her special kind of justice.

Who the fuck even asks the question that would lead to this headline? Two-Thirds of Americans Think Barack Obama Is Better Suited to Handle an Alien Invasion Than Mitt Romney.

It's nice when the good guys win a round. A top Democratic aide that is familiar with the transportation bill, speaking on condition of anonymity, of course, says that the final version left out the veto-bait Keystone pipeline end-run.

33 years ago, when they murdered her cousin, we would have bet our lives this day would never come. "Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has shaken hands with the former chief of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) for the first time, marking a milestone in the Northern Ireland peace process. The landmark meeting with Martin McGuinness, who is now the deputy first minister of Northern Ireland, on Wednesday came 14 years after the IRA ended its violent campaign against British rule in the province."

First rule of staying in power: keep the people with the guns happy. "Bolivian President Evo Morales's government has announced that it has reached a pay deal with striking police, ending a week of protests across the country."

Is it possible for a candidate of the corrupt PRI to save failed narco-state Mexico? "Enrique Pena Nieto, the frontrunner in Mexico's presidential race, has a wide lead over his rivals ahead of Sunday's elections, according to the most recent opinion polls. A victory for Pena Nieto would see a return to power of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled Mexico for most of the last century."

And finally...

The human family is broader, older, and more interesting than freakazoids imagine. "An early relative of humans chewed on bark and leaves, according to fossil evidence. Analysis of food trapped in the teeth of the two-million-year-old "southern ape" suggests it existed on a unique diet of forest fruits and other woodland plants.The study, in Nature, gives an insight into the evolution of what could have been a direct human ancestor.Other early African contemporaries had a diet suggesting a grassland habitat.The first fossils of Australopithecus sediba, discovered in South Africa in 2008, were hailed as a remarkable discovery. Teeth from two individuals were analysed in the latest research, focussing on patterns of dental wear, carbon isotope data and plant fragments from dental tartar.The evidence suggests the ape-like creature ate leaves, fruit, bark, wood and other forest vegetation.Dr Amanda Henry of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, led the research."We've for the first time been able to put together three quite different methods for reconstructing diet and gotten one cohesive picture of the diet of this ancient species and that picture is really quite different from what we've seen in other hominins (human ancestors)," she said."That's exciting, we're seeing a lot more variation among these species than we'd expected." "