Friday news roundup

- "I once constructed a car bomb this big. No, I'm not exaggerating." Seriously, Mohmar Qadhafi and Libya were given full diplomatic privileges by the United States, after agreeing to stop producing nuclear weapons and taking responsibility for the Pan Am 103 bombing in 1988. Please, please, please let this mean President Bush and Qadhafi will eventually hold a joint press conference. That would be the tops.

- President Bush layed out his immigration plan on Monday, spurring a seriously negative response from pretty much everyone on earth. The plan includes a guest worker plan, penalties for companies employing illegals, and I think T101's guarding the Mexican/American border, because really, it's not like terrorists have ever crossed into the US via Canada. What? Oh.

- The confirmation hearings of General Michael Hayden continued yesterday, where he was pressed about his role in the NSA wiretapping saga as well as his role in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark:


- And finally, in eerily reminiscent of late 1930's Germany news, a law passed in Iran would require Jews to wear yellow strips on their clothing and Christians would be forced to wear red badges. This should speed up the arrival of the "Ahmadinejad as Hitler" charts and graphs Condoleeza Rice has been preparing. However, speaking as a Jew and enormous skeptic of this administration, this scares the hell out of me.