Kathryn Johnston, age 92

Murdered.

(Possibly 88, according to associates of the people who killed her).

Negligent homicide is the minimum that occurred.

I so charge.

Update: Dale Franks writes (in the comments) at Q and O,

The illegal obtaining of a warrant is a felony. Breaking into someone’s home with an illegally obtained warrant is a felony. In the course of committing that felony, an innocent citizen was killed. That makes the charge felony murder. It’s no different that blowing away a convenience store clerk during an armed robbery. If you kill a person during the course of a felony, it becomes a felony murder case.

Couldn’t have said it better. Hat-tip to Libby Spencer.

Get out.

Laura Rozen quotes the Washington Post,

In a sign of the discord in Washington, the senior U.S. intelligence official said the situation requires that the administration abandon its long-held goal of national reconciliation and instead ‘pick a winner’ in Iraq. He said he understands that means the Sunnis are likely to bolt from the fragile government. ‘That’s the price you’re going to have to pay,’ he said.”

This isn’t a booger, it’s a civil war.

Open thread

We’ve had 14,998 separate visitors to Cannablog as of a minute ago, we’ll go over 15,000 before I finish posting this update, most likely.

Thanks for visiting, hope you’ll stick around and tell me what you think.

Update: Apparently there is a delay, because I could see there were 599 separate visitors today when I started and it was up to 607 when I checked again, but the total history count had not changed yet.

Sign of the season

Bill Trimarco and Lisa Jensen and their now famous Peace Wreath. This is a better picture than the one I posted last night, and was taken by Randi Pierce for the Durango Herald, in which Thomas Munro writes more.

Related post:

• Declaring peace on Christmas

Istanbul was Constantinople

How will the fall of Babylon compare to the fall of Saigon?

That’s current events, folks. What did you think was the original name for Baghdad?

Don’t let the turkeys get you down

Hat-tip to Creature.

The more you know

Hat-tip to qmass.

History you never knew

Wine is the Jewish sacrament, and cannabis is the Christian sacrament, this is the difference that existed between them when the change happened 2,006 years ago.

Once for all, we are here now and there is no time like the present.

Listen to the wind