REUTERS reported that W. says Iraq is not hurtling toward a civil war despite the increased violence which resulted in 1,300 deaths within a 5-day period.

Book your Mexican vacation plans early. 

Are we handing over 6 or 21 ports or a number in between  those two? Regardless, W. is all for it!

I’ve used a USA Today article for my springboard to re-write history.
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India: Over 1.1 billion people call India home. The world’s second most populous nation could surpass Switzerland within two decades. Problems for the world’s largest democracy abound. Since the fall of the British Raj in 1947, India has seen their national languages increase  from […]

All of us know why W. certainly doesn’t want this.
Are we no better than any other nation? Once attacked, we revert to a mean-spirited view of the rights of people not remotely involved in the outrage. Abe Lincoln may have believed we were the last best hope, but it appears now to be a dead […]

W. donates “Saddamist” to the American lexicon.
This morning on the Stephanie Miller radio program, the hostess played portions of what I believe was W’s Friday speech. The mispronounciation, stammering and jumbled reading of the words caused me to look up the talk. In the tradition of a baseball sabremetrician, I gleaned the following statistics from […]

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By Michael Barbaro
Published: February 27, 2006
Washington, Feb. 26 — With Wal-Mart Stores under mounting pressure to spend more on employee health insurance, the company’s chief executive on Sunday urged the […]

I had mentioned that the Friday Olbermann show had mentioned 21 ports. I guess it is confirmed.
The Democrats had better remain firm. As long as Dr. Video Diagnostics, the senator from Tennessee, did his usual 180, the Democrats will know they are correct.

A Page Three story is one which is front-page material when it hits. Then, anywhere from a month to a year later, the story re-appears–but on page three where scientists, researchers, historians, astronomers change their original theory. Often, competing scientists, researchers etc demonstrate another, all-together different theory.
The subject can be anything under and beyond the […]

Are the Brits in Basra Saying, “No more Mr. Nice guy…”

…or are they simply reverting back to form? Old habits die hard and the Empire Builders had much experience in the North American colonies, India and the sub-continent, Africa from Egypt to the Cape, Burma, Ireland and various islands across the globe. Canada seems to […]

From Yahoo…
In the News 2:11pm, Sat Feb 25
Iran gov’t. warns of risk of ‘endless civil war’
Al-Qaida threatens to hit more Saudi sites
Democrats: Bush lax on security in ports deal
Search for trapped Mexican miners halted
5th-grade teacher accused of sex with student
Deer die after antlers lock during combat

“The antlers would have to be cut or broken […]

“A DP World executive said the company would agree to tougher security restrictions to win congressional support only if the same restrictions applied to all U.S. port operators. The company earlier had struck a more conciliatory stance, saying it would do whatever Bush asked to salvage the agreement.”–AP

…And All of Us Know that Big […]

Disturbing discoveries about the 2004 Florida Presidential Voting
and the Ohio Election Day lack of machines in Democratic areas in Columbus and Cleveland
certainly stinks to high heaven. Kerry should have never rolled over like a bored, little rich boy!

VOICE OF REASON: RESEARCH DEBUNKS ‘BARBIE IDEAL.’
Benjamin RadfordLiveScience.com Fri Dec 30,11:00 AM ET
Once again, Barbie was one of the best-selling toys this past holiday season. Mattel’s world-famous fashion doll has become a cash cow, selling nearly $2 billion of merchandise each year. Barbie has also become part of many a girl’s childhood.
Just before Christmas, […]

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Remember, it’s not for real!!

Bob Dole says he won’t lobby on ports deal

I just heard Keith Olbermann mention that 21–not 6–ports are involved in this Dubai deal.

‘Did the Bush administration “authorize” the leak of classified information to Bob Woodward? And did those leaks damage national security?
The vice-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) made exactly that charge tonight in a letter to John Negroponte, the Director of National Intelligence. What prompted Rockefeller to write Negroponte was a recent op-ed […]

“It is no secret that some parts of TIA lived on
behind the veil of the classified intelligence budget.”

Fiery Chariots or or Conestogas?
I guess our country is not divided enough by Blinky the President. Now we have to have religious homelands? How they by-passed Utah and Kansas I’ll never know. I thought Christianity and all religions were able to thrive anywhere in this country. Could it be that NASCAR is opening a […]

What are the odds that the guards are Pakistani Pinkertons?

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(Photo by S.M. Amin/Saudi Aramco/PADIA) & Cecil B. DeMille

NOW IT CAN BE TOLD…
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Accusatory letters make their way to the administration.

“Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive General Ratko Mladic in an undated file photo. Chief U.N. prosecutor Carla del Ponte on Wednesday denied rumors that Mladic had been arrested and urged Serbia to find him or risk hurting its bid to join the European Union.” REUTERS/Stringer
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AP

Short and Sweet!

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From BANANAS…

Esposito:
From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish. Silence! In addition to that, all citizens will be required to change their underwear every half-hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check. Furthermore, all children under 16 years old are now… 16 years old!

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This is a frightening story which deserves a bit of reverse perspective.
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This appears to be the entrance to a Greenwich Village apartment building.
Let’s have the camera pull back from this shot to reveal…
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The Resident Intellectual is Losing on Points. 

On those days I may have not visited one of the web’s best news sites, my pal Jack has my back. This story in EDITOR & PUBLISHER.com certainly gives one pause. It is a shame the late character actor, James Gleason, hadn’t seen the kid’s request.
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from tyronepower.com

You have to travel to the bottom of the screen, but ESPN.com’s first 2006 Power Rankings are there.

Bob Herbert-New York Times

Egyptian actor Omar Sharif poses during the closing ceremony of the 5th Film RODNEY DANGERFIELD LOOK-ALIKE Festival of Comedy in Monaco, on Nov. 12, 2005.
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Surprise!!! White House has ties to Dubai Company.

Always remember that the vulture guano doesn’t fall far from the tree perch. Didn’t the family get into a little trouble for his business deals with our favorite war-time enemy–the Nazis?

Todays revelations reminded me of those capitalist fatcat cartoons which were once popular. I include a […]

IT’S ABOUT TIME!

This is great.
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If it is true that President Bush considers Michael Crichton an expert on global warming, the sky is the limit. Frankly, I did not read State of Fear and the big reviews seemed less than laudatory.
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I believe the president should have arranged a meeting to speak to Michael Crichton about the author’s […]

MICHAEL
It was HYMAN ROTH that tried to have me killed. I know it was him.
PENTANGELI
Now — Jesus Christ, Mike, Jesus Christ. Look, let’s get ‘em all — let’s get ‘em all now, while we got the muscle.
Why did we not follow Frank’s advice in Tora Bora? At the very least, we would not […]

If you don’t subscribe to the NEW YORKER, please read this.

Substitute Bush and Cheney for Senator. I find it quite amusing that the sight of real blood from a real friend upset him. A lot of GIs have seen blood flow from their friends. As shaken as Dick was, he was not upset enough to […]

The Story Continues…
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I’M AN OLD COWHAND
I’m a big firebrand from Gran Teton land
On the war I sold
I shoulda been canned
I’m a gen’ral who only sees the DOW
Can’t care ’bout troops cause I don’t know how.
Poor whites, blacks, browns they’ll a fight for now
Yippie-yi-yo-ki-yay
Leahy-Go %$#@ Yer Sef!
I’m a Candyass, Hidin’ in tall grass
And I learned […]

It’s either this or hawking indulgences!

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Italian Quits Over Cartoons; 15 Die in Nigeria

Chertoff says Dubai Port Deal Includes Safeguards

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Welcome to the Bush-Cheney-Chertoff Rendition of the Lewis Carroll Classic.

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Partial chesire cat from folkmania.com

Jupiter couple sue McDonald’s

Those four words jarred me after having just commented a few hours earlier about Martian weather. Only after reading further did I realize the truly serious nature of the story which hopefully will alow the child; full recovery and the parents; peace.

Nevertheless, in the twinkling before having read further, other scenarios […]