Ed Andrieski/Associated Press

Who do they think they’re kidding?
Despiste protestations to the contrary, most churches are businesses–religious, maybe; but businesses nonetheless. They advertsise, and they have assets and they pay low salaries. Just turn on the tube any morning to watch the sleaze merchants hawking bibles, grace and penance for those willing to pay. The Boston […]

So, What’s the Week-end Look Like, Al?
The Christian Science Monitor reported bad weather on Mars for the planet’s biggest travel day–the Saturday before Fat Tuesday. Many Martians are angered that nothing was done to improve travel
after last year’s debacle caused by an over-turned inter-orbital transitfrom Mercury.

White House Briefing
News on President George W Bush and the Bush Administration

Despite the White House wishes, the Quail Shoot story is not fizzling like so many other administration screw-ups. The Associated Press wrirtes that there are many discrepancies.

Could it be that the situation down on the Armastrong Ranch had reached another level?
Maybe quail, rabbits and coyotes were no longer challenging enough for a […]

Where we once had Aquinas, Leo XIII, Teilhard de Chardin and Richard McSorley, S.J.; we now have
William A. Donohue, President of the Catholic League for–(GET THIS) Religious and Civil Rights.
There is one personal consolation. He’s not Italian-American.

The Wall Street Journal asks the question: Is Dick Cheney becoming a liability for Republicans?

OOPS!!

Eddie Seal/Bloomberg News

Harry Whittington, the man shot by Vice President Dick Cheney
in a hunting accident, spoke to reporters today.

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Fox News via newshounds.us
This graphic is based on the Game Warden’s report. Obviously, they don’t watch
CSI: Brownsville or even CSI: Sesame Street.

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REUTERS/David Bohrer/White House/Handout

Condoleezza Rice believes it will be difficult to secure sanctions against Iran.
While China, North Korea and Iran were improving, establishing and researching their nuclear programs respectively, Condi was telling us about Carlos Castaneda mushroom clouds from the wonderful folks who gave us the 1991 48-hour land war.
It is odd, though. Why would the […]

Also from yesterday’s Lou Dobbs Tonight, Kitty Pilgrim, CNN CORRESPONDENT:“These satellite photos are a view of a secret underwater submarine tunnel in China. Nuclear warheads are thought to be in the tunnel next to the submarine. Nuclear experts bought the photos from commercial satellite companies.”

Xia missile submarinee at Jianggzhuang Submarine Base,
with underground sub facility. […]

What a coincidence!

Here is a transcript of yesterday’s Lou Dobbs’ Tonight on CNN. As usual, the program dealt with real stories of interest to Americans. Especially frightening is the discussion of selling of American port rights to Dubai. The Dubai port story also peared in the paper’s New York Region section.
With the above in mind, I […]

That Roehm had been dead for 70 years apparently did not diminish his powers of organization and his ability to recruit. The SA climbed from about 70,000 men to over four million souls during his stewardship of the thugs, union busters and election day brutes necessary during the gestation of the nightmarish Third Reich. Any […]

At least, it’s an exclamation point.

Carlos Osorio / AP file

City Councilwoman Monica Conyers attends a labor rally with her husband,
Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., in September.

Consider the number of three game sets rolled in the recorded history of ten-pin bowling. This young man is only the 8th to accomplish the feat.

Lonnie Billiter, Jr–Cincinnati Post

Florence Nightengale Meets Mary Shelley

“Top political appointees in the NASA press office exerted strong pressure during the 2004 presidential campaign to cut the flow of news releases on glaciers, climate, pollution and other earth New York sciences, public affairs officers at the agency say.” Andrew Revkin,
New York Times

The San Francisco Chronicle headlined an article by the Washington Post’s
Walter Pincus & Dan Eggen with this.
Roster of alleged terrorists swells to 325,000 names

They’re waiting for I.E.D.s to become a problem!

They are two different people. Here’s proof.

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So, the President is livid?

Thanks to GODFATHER, Reuters and AP?

You will especially like former Wyoming Republican Senator Alan Simpson’s
view of the affair from his side of the looking glass.

U. S. STATE DEPARTMENT STATS
EMPLOYEES:
34,000
EMPLOYEES REMAINING IF SPEAKERS OF FLUENT ARABIC LEFT TO WORK FOR
EGYPTIAN HOME SHOPPING NETWORK:
33,990

A General Passivity Fell Upon the G.

It worked in the Third Reich and it workwed here during the McCarthy period:

Government-instilled paranoia

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I liked the following Page One-headline in today’s New York Times

U.S. Royalty Plan to Give Windfall to Oil Companies
$7,000,000,000 OVER 5 YEARS
Incentives for Exploration Are Backfiring in Time of Higher Prices
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Thanks to worldbk.com,jazzbabies,com,dvla.gov.uk,sturbo.com & AP

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I am Dick Cheney & I shalt not have strange gods before me.

Nurse Investigated for ‘Sedition’ After Writing Letter to Editor 

US group implants electronic tags in workers

During the mid-1980s, daily media reports about child disappearances almost froze me in fear about our kids. When the news stories finally began to quote statistics that the abductions were generally the result of inamicable divorces and custody fights, I still maintained a healthy fear. This dread was catalyst […]

“Oh, now I remember. You mean that meeting.”

Senators: Cheney Should Be Probed in Leak

I found this Joe Geobbels figurine at an online toy store. I guess the old ’seig heil’ is movement, but I really can’t call it an action figure. Besides, it looks more like pianist Oscar Levant or Jimmy Dodd of the Mickey Mouse Club.
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Violent Crime Rising in Some Cities
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This October 27, 2005 gun bill signing could be one reason.

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This could be another.

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Torture, post-Katrina failures, lost jobs, corruption & crumbling public education don’t help.

Cheney Accidentally Shoots Fellow Hunter

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Vice President Dick Cheney, center, accepts a rifle from National Rifle Association President Kayne Robinson, right, and NRA Vice President Wayne R. LaPierre, after concluding his keynote address to the 133rd annuanl NRA convention in this April 17, 2004 file photo in Pittsburgh. The Bob Taft and Kai Winding look-alikes […]

I had wanted him to run for president against the former Pittsburgh Pirate catcher, Ed Ott. The total of eleven letters would have whipped the current record of political adversaries (Lon Nol vs. Pol Pot) by one letter.
Certainly, Al Ng vs. Ed X as the penultimate challenge.
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Bob Ney’s book has remained on the best-seller […]

Polar bears closing in on endangered species list
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Arctic giant: a polar bear and her cub stand on a frozen beach in Bay Village, Ohio. With global warming shrinking their habitat, polar bears have become more belligerent when drinking. They are fighting the government’s consideration of placing them on the endangered species list because they […]

Inquiry Into Wiretapping Article Widens

Jason Reed/Reuters
Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, left, spoke this month at a Senate hearing on threats to the United States. With him were C.I.A. Director Porter J. Goss and F.B.I. Director Robert S. Mueller III & Curly.

Keith Olbermann and Gerald Posner Discuss the Latest Bush Plot Speech

First Photo of Bush and Abramoff

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“That’s a good-lookin’ boy ya got there, Jack. Chip off the ole block, uh?”

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“And then we’ll go sailing on the pond, an’ then we can have ice cream
an’ then we can cut some brush an’ then we can ride bikes an’ we can make a fort an’ all the […]

YES!
Read the Los Angeles Times article from which the following quote is cited.
‘”Boys and girls,” Ham said. If a teacher so much as mentions evolution, or the Big Bang, or an era when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, “you put your hand up and you say, ‘Excuse me, were you there?’ Can you remember that?”

The […]

Republican Speaks Up, Leading Others to Challenge Wiretaps

Danish Imam Condemns Cartoon Violence

This is cartoon violence.

The Simpsons’ Itchy & Scratchy.

This is real violence.

The Danish Embassy, Beirut.

Northern hemisphere hottest in 1,200 years

EVENTS 800 A.D.
Holy Roman Emperor
The most important event of 800 A.D. almost happenerd in 801, but on Christmas Day, Pope Leo III certified the King of the Franks as the first Holy Roman Emperor. King Charles had planned on taking the name Alderman of the Almighty, but a tenor sax […]

Poll: Surveillance Wins Some More Backers

I wonder how many of the 50% believe that they will ever see those rights again?
They should talk to labgor unions about the end result of givebacks.
Has this administration done anything to allow average Americans to trust them?

Hastert, Frist said to rig bill for drug firms

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DeLay Lands Coveted Appropriations Spot

When ‘Moneyball’ No Longer Pays Off
Murray Chass’s Tuesday piece in the New York Times brought rationality to the subject. In the wake of Michael Lewis’ s MONEYBALL several years ago, Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland A’s ball club, became the baseball media’s second coming of Branch Rickey, Bill Veeck and George Weiss rolled […]

Expert on Congress’s Power Claims He Was Muzzled for Faulting Bush

Cheney ‘Authorized’ Libby to Leak Classified Information

Other Facts We Would Have Never Imagined

Limbo does not exist.

McDonald’s french fries may have more trans fats than originally believed.

Credit card companies lobbied for the new Bankruptcy Law.

W’s proposed budget continues his program to help the rich at the expense of everyone else.

Lip-synching.

At the present, the blue […]