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Jester’s Court — November 24, 2009

Posted in November 24th, 2009

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford is facing 37 ethic violations for travel and finance expenses that he claimed.
There are more driving violations for the Schwarzenegger family. After Maria Shriver was caught talking on a cell phone while driving and parking in a red zone, Arnold Schwarzenegger was seen getting into a silver Porsche parked in a red zone in Beverly Hills.
The Philippines’ presidential election is next year, and there are some interesting characters preparing to run.
A world survey found that 57% oppose a proposed UN resolution banning blasphemy. Support for the resolution extended throughout Muslim countries and India. Africa was split; most north Asians opposed it; Europe, Latin America and North American were dead set against it.
Two groups applying international humanitarian law to video games found a widespread “absence of rules or sanctions.” The worst offenders were 24, The Game; Army of Two; Call of Duty (4 and 5); Tom Clancy Splinter Cell Double Agent; and World in Conflict.
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavel Ivanovich Lazarenko was sentenced to 97 months in federal prison for money laundering. It is the first U.S. prosecution of a one-time foreign leader since Manuel Noriega.
Nepal’s former King Gyanendra, now just a commoner, has received his first passport, a year after being dethroned in a vote by his country’s people.
Iraq’s elections, scheduled for January, “might slip” to a later date.
Even before Honduras votes on Sunday, no one has anything good to say about the elections.
There is enough evidence to charge five government ministers in Afghanistan with embezzlement and fraud, but President Hamid Karzai refuses to sign the arrest warrants.
Republican leaders are developing a 10 point issues statement to identify which Republican candidates deserve party funds or endorsement. If a candidate disagrees on more than three issues, that candidate can expect no help from the national party.
Iran has banned its largest newspaper for running a photo of a Baha’i temple.