US Mother Ships Adopted Boy Back to Russia

Let me get this straight. A single mother of one child in Tennessee adopts a 6 year old Russian boy and then ships him back to the Motherland with a note pinned to his shirt not even a year later because she didn't like his behavior. The Russian-speaking kid formerly known as Artyom Salvayev (which is just a bad-ass name), was sent to live with Mommie Dearest a year ago and, apparently, didn't catch-on quickly enough for this Southern lady that the words "fire" and "burn your house down" might equal a one-way ticket on Aeroflot. Or maybe he did. Maybe he just couldn't believe his bad luck that he came all this way only to live in a trailer park with a woman who pulled his hair and told him she didn't love him. Even Dollywood wasn't going to take this pain away.

I could blame this directly on Torry Ann Hansen, the "mother" who shipped him back, but I choose to blame it on Wal-Mart and their excellent exchange policy. Clearly this lunatic was so used to rollbacks she figured she'd give it a shot. Even if it set off an international incident. That's the same thing as walking out with the security tag still in, right?

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/04/09/us.russian.adoption.return/index.html?hpt=T2

George W. Bush 'knew Guantánamo prisoners were innocent' - Times Online

This horror show kind-of, sort-of speaks for itself. Though I have a bone to pick with the idea that George W. Bush ever "knew" anything. Perhaps "divined" or "read it in a fortune cookie" would be more accurate.

George W. Bush 'knew Guantánamo prisoners were innocent' - Times Online