And now the news with Kandy Korrespondent.

On Thursday, the Texas Third Appeal Court US ruled that officials had no legal right to seize 463 children from the Yearning for Zion compound in April. The immediate removal of children from their homes without a court order is only allowable if the children are perceived to be in immediate danger. The decision did not immediately order the return of the children.

The raid was prompted by call allegedly from pregnant 16-year-old who said her much older husband was abusing her. The raid failed to find the girl and authorities are now examining the possibility that it may have been a hoax.

The children removed in the raid were all placed in foster care, 100 of which have yet to be matched with mothers.

The Yearning for Zion sect belongs to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) an offshoot of the Mormon Church. FLDS members believe that a man must marry a minimum of three times in order to ascend to heaven.

McCain has refused the endorsement of Texas pastor Reverend Hagee following the discovery of the later’s anti-Semitic statements. During a late 1990s sermon. Hagee stated that Adolph Hitler was used by God to expedite God’s will the re-establishment of the state of Isreal. He stated,

“‘and they the hunters should hunt them,’ that will be the Jews. ‘From every mountain and from every hill and from out of the holes of the rocks.’ If that doesn’t describe what Hitler did in the holocaust you can’t see that.”

In this writer’s opinion, the real story here is the fact that two extremists such as Hagee and Wright had endorsement power in the first place. I hope that the publicity over these two denouncements will cause the evangelical community to take a good hard look at whom they look to for leadership.

On Wednesday, a senior US official warned that a global ban on cluster bombs could jeopardize American participation in international peacekeeping and disaster relief operations. Cluster bombs open while still in the air and release hundreds of “bomblets”. Many of the bomblets fail to explode, presenting a deadly surprise for anyone who may come across them—most commonly playing children. The US military used cluster bombs during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The death toll for the May 12th earthquake in China is now at 51,151 with 29,328 still missing, 288,431 injured, and at least 5 million homeless. The New York Times has compiled a list of donors through which you can contribute to the disaster relief. Click here to access this list.

And Now for Something Completely Different…

In New Zealand, a woman fed up with wolf-whistles from nearby road workers took the drastic action of … stripping… entirely…. Apparently this unnamed Israeli tourist was about to use an ATM when the whistling started. She said that she had already been pestered by New Zealand men and had had enough. She calmly stripped, used the ATM, put her clothes back on, and walked away.

Okay so correct me if I’m wrong but won’t that simply encourage men to whistle even more? Sigh…

That’s the news!