Medley October 21, 2007
In an interview with Newsweek magazine, Paris Hilton says that she "wants to leave her mark on the world". This obviously means that in the coming months she will be releasing a children’s book, new fragrance or video game of her life.
Civil rights activist Al Sharpton says Congress should expand hate crime laws to deal more forcefully with noose-hanging incidents like the one in the Jena Six case. A House representative responded “We expect little movement on the proposal due to the fact that more Americans are worried that such a measure would mean Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would have to get real jobs.”
Verizon Communications, told congressional investigators that it has provided customers’ telephone records to federal authorities in emergency cases without court orders hundreds of times since 2005. According to transcripts the emergency most commonly sighted was; “because Dick Chenney said so”.
