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I have a few odd items this morning. First of all, get yourself over to Drug War Rant for the promo material about tonight's program, Peter Jennings on ecstasy. Thanks also to Pete for posting the actual warrant used to search the Dagy family home for using too much electricity and this story on Michael Newby a young black man shot three times in the back by a police officer and then charged with drug and weapon offenses three months after he was killed.

In other news, the Interfax news service reports two unidentified people flung glue and water at drug policy reform benefactor, George Soros outside of a human rights forum in Kiev. No one quite knows why.

And trading on the success of the Most Wanted card series, the secretive Washington-based PR firm the Rendon Group created a deck of playing cards featuring Columbian "narco-terrorists". The trouble is no one wanted to deal.

State officials, as well as U.S. Ambassador to Colombia William Braucher Wood, eventually decided that the vast reaches of Colombia where terrorists camp and redeploy was not suitable. The State official said, "The terrain. Three warring armies. These guys are out in areas where the people are barely literate."

Rendon Group, claims to have produced the cards at the request of the Colombian Defense Ministry, however some diplomats were "surprised" to find out last year that a defense contractor working in Colombia used its contract dollars to produce the decks.

And finally, here's one reason I don't have very many female friends. Normal women do this all the time, but I would rather have a root canal than be at this party. I mean you do it once, and before you know it, they expect you to do it all the time.