Is it possible the accused had requested to named Consumer Affairs Advisor?
Saturday, March 11th, 2006President Shocked by Arrest of Former Adviser
Wants to know what became of Laura’s Diebold Vacuum Cleaner
Read about W’s shock here.
Archive for March, 2006
Hunger? Territory? I heard the best deal he could get would be Involuntary Canis Lupislaughter.
Saturday, March 11th, 2006Michigan Wolves’ Violent Crime Rate Spikes
Read the story here.
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This man may have been the administration’s most honest member. Fraudulently returning a toaster to Target may be a felony, but what does one call letting no bid contracts to Halliburton with its propensity to charge taxpayers millions of dollars in undelivered goods and services.
Friday, March 10th, 2006Former Bush Aide Charged in Felony Theft -
Claude Allen had recently resigned as White House domestic-policy adviser.
Read it at SLATE here.
This is a moment of sensitivity from the man and administration which gave us “Axis of Evil,” “That’s Old Europe,” “Freedom Fries,” “Heckuva job, Brownie,” and a host of enemies which used to be friends. The difference? I don’t know, but Daddy B. may have had something to do with the Dubai deal. Naaahhhh!
Friday, March 10th, 2006Bush Concerned Collapse of Ports Deal May Hurt U.S.
Get this: “…in our war on terrorism.”
Read it at VOA News here.
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The telephoto lens did no justice to this photo.
I certainly hope I can find my way back to the Lord worshipped by the Pharisees, but I am Unworthy!
Friday, March 10th, 2006FOCUS ON THE FAMILY IN DENIAL ABOUT NORTON & ABRAMOFF
E-MAILS SEEM TO SHOW OTHERWISE
Raw Story has a nice story here.
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James C. Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family,
says he wants “strict constructionist” justices.
(Photo: Mark J. Terrill / Associated Press)
While the ‘youngsters’ in Congress, the statehouses and the news media play a tiresome game, the older generation displays the courage which lifted this nation. Justice O’Connor and Representative Murtha expose the weasels who seem intent on leading us to perdition.
Friday, March 10th, 2006None other than ultra-leftist Sandra Day O’Connor warns of ‘beginnings” of dictatorship on NPR.
Thanks for the heads up from the Huffingtonpost.
Read here.
I had said this may be 2008’s Republican smoke-screen issue as Gay Marriage was in 2004.
Friday, March 10th, 2006 Catholic Charities of Boston Archdiocese Is Pulling the Chain on Their Adoption Policy
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Read here at the Boston Globe.
Well, they are correct. I just found it in the Gospel According to Santorum the Elder:
‘…and Jesus gathered his Apostles in the garage of Midasius the Mufflerian and said to them,
“The ninth Corporal Work of Mercy […]
Here is news from two of our coalition allies in one story.
Friday, March 10th, 2006Italian Prosecutors Request Berlusconi Faces Trial
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Read it here at Forbes.com
Christine Keeler certainly forced me to consider the flip side of Catholic schoolboy aesthetics.
Friday, March 10th, 2006JOHN PROFUMO, DIES AT 91
Read it here at Guardian Unlimited. The Machester Evening Standard obituary speaks of Mr. Profumo’s many good works for which his post-scandal life was known.
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John Profumo (left), a former
British Cabinet minister whose
liaison with Christine Keeler (right)
nearly brought down a government,
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The Manchester Evening-Standard displayed this
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Enough, already! Our Goddess of Health Care served on the Wal-Mart board of directors for six years while hubby percolated plans to slash welfare. If morality isn’t your cup of tea, then condider this: Can she win? She’ll be a Republican’s businessman’s lunch. The Democrats have more capable female candidates with consistent track records.
Friday, March 10th, 2006Hillary Clinton adds mortar to the dictum that ‘you can run, but you can’t hide!’
Read it here.
THE DEMOCRATS SHOULD WEIGH THESE PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT A HILLARY CANDIDACY
She’s a carpetbagger.
She served six years on the board of a company which has helped cost communties jobs, and health care expense–thus placing the giant company on a par […]
He has a loud, annoying voice and he is able to interrupt his guests while they try to answer the questions he asks during his previous interruption. If the following story is true, could it be another reason to love Chris Matthews?
Thursday, March 9th, 2006Report posits that Chris Matthews has accepted hefty speaking fees from conservative groups
Read it at Raw Story.
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Congress: Do not let our fearless leader fall for this!!!
Thursday, March 9th, 2006Following paragraph is from a FORBES.com article on the Dubai Ports World offer. Remember, Forbes is not called ‘Captitalist Tool’ because it supports the Wobblies. If Forbes doesn’t trust this offer, I would tend to follow their lead. Insurasnce companies don’t tell you to wear seat belts because they like you.
“In a statement, first read […]
If this story is accurate, why am I not surprised? Only time will determine the fate of Donald, Daisy, Huey, Louie and Dewey.
Thursday, March 9th, 2006Disneyland accused of hiding dead swan in panic
- Read it in Irish Independent
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Swan at Eurodisney Paris Adventureland fidella.com
Airplane display from eurocontrol.fr
The Republicans of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence abandoned their responsibility in a way that would have caused the most malleable Tammany hack to grimace!
Thursday, March 9th, 2006The Death of the Intelligence Panel
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Senators Snowe & Hagel: CNN file photos //Shilohpostcards.com//Celestialheavens.com
Only an unreconstructed arrogance would doubt the exactness of these scientific measurements. Therefore, I must conclude these people were not present for the highest temperature recorded on earth. Had they shared my roomette on the Baltimore & Ohio Capitol Limited on a return trip to Washington, DC many years ago; they would have conceded the roomette’s temperature fluctuated wildly between Absolute Zero and 4.2 billion degrees. What is more perplexing is the quotidian nature of the phenomenon.
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006I just saw this story referenced at WHAT REALLY HAPPENED.com.
Record Set for Hottest Temperature on Earth: 3.6 Billion Degrees in Lab
Now, don’t panic! If you had heard Joint Chief’s Chairman, General Pace on Meet The Press, you know this story is probably slanted. The Iraq situation only needs reporters to show how well it is going.
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006Fifty-50–count ‘em–50 Iraqi security forces kidnapped in one swoop.
Read about it.
John the XXIII was the Vatican’s most rabid prize-fighting fan. In 1959, he arranged for Don King to leave the Ohio State Penitentiary for a discussion about Gene Fullmer and Carmen Basilio.
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We knew he would be on the ‘big bucks’ speakers’ circuit, but who would have guessed this?
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006Tipper Gore would like his music better if he cleaned up the language, but his biggest fan is Jack Murtha of the Pennsylvania 12th.
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I didn’t know one could garner Der Blaue Max without leaving Texas.
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1968
Former US President George Bush, then a US Congressman from Houston, smiles proudly as he pins Der Blaue Max on his son. The Blue Max represented George W. Bush’s entry as a fighter ace for having shot down 38 enemy aircraft.
(AFP Photo)
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Images: (Video) Geizhals.at; (bushes) via boston.com (Blue Max) mooremilitia.com; (Wayne) High & the Mighty […]
Remember the “Silent Majority?” I believe they may still exist and are becoming tired of the constant invocation of God’s name by evildoers whose capacity for avarice and spilled blood is matched only by their unbridled hypocricy. Does the president think his apparent unconcern for the people of the Gulf Coast can be hidden in the shadow of the cross? Remember folks, Tom Delay held prayer sessions in his office. I do wish these guys could just settle for run-of-the-mill sins committed by ordinary people like us. You read about Trent Lott’s cutesy remark that Global Warming would keep the poor from cold. I wonder if his insurance company paid to rebuild his house.
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RAW STORY psted the Executive Order someone at THE DAILY KOS found on the White House site:
Executive Order: Responsibilities of the Department of Homeland Security with Respect to Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to […]
Roy Bean wasn’t a Federal judge, but courtroom security has to be tighter. Where in God’s name did he get the shank?
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006These may be doctored pictures, but Star Chamber TV noted that Kenneth “Kenny Boy” Lay was not too pleased to hear Mr. Fastow’s testimony. He ran from the court room, but was quickly apprehended by National Guardsmen on the sidewalk. They turned him over to the marshals inside the Billy Sol Estes Federal Courthouse.
Read the […]
The excitement of last autumn’s USC-Notre Dame game apparently caused the tens of thousands of fans to miss what may be the most incredible occurrence in the fabled history of the South Bend campus.
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006Had not Henry Stanislaus Trblinkski not been paying attention before landing his Piper Boll Wevil-25 at Sounth Bend airport, he would have not seen these two massive UFOs hovering over the sell-out crowd. He grabbed a camera shot the picture and within an hour of landing was taken into custody
whence he has not been seen.
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While theories abound regarding underground canals, microscopic organisms and even a full-fledged air force of invaders, this Mars Rover photograph represents the first definitive proof of life on our neighboring planet.
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The reason Ronald Reagan is not on Mount Rushmore.
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006Though republicans lobbied long and passionately to have President Reagan immortalized on Mount Rushmore, it could have never happened. In his will, Lincoln Borglum, the sculptor of this wonder of the modern world, had stipulated that if any other president were to be carved along with the original four, the Borgum estate would have a […]
Art Fleming, the consummate professional, seldomly missed a show…
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006but on those few occasions he could not be at the filming, a young announcer filled in for the master. The sub went by the name of Cheyne Richards and staffers say the show never missed a beat.
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Cognoscenti knew well that had he lived, Yasser Arafat had wasted whatever political capital he had collected.
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006Pacific-All Rish Insurance is the source of this photograph taken during intermission at the East Gaza Bijou theatre during a triple feature of Sandra Dee films. The snapshot never had to be used
because of Arafat’s demise, but Hamas had been ready.
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Events of the past weeks have kept me from my avocation–presenting history as it was.
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006This un-retouched photograph shows the reason President Wilson sent General Pershing into Mexico. Apparently, the Mexican nationalist had developed the very first nuclear weapon in 1916. Pershing’s troops had been able to surround the adobe hut in which “el muchacho” had been hiddeen. Twenty-nine years later, American scientists had finally discovered how to ignite the […]
It must be another Halliburton. That’s it–the adventure writer from Princeton. Wait, he died in ‘39.
Monday, March 6th, 2006Dubai & Dubya in dash for lifeboat
Bush team urges firm to get a U.S. partner
BY THOMAS T. DeFRANK and KENNETH R. BAZINET
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON - The White House is quietly pushing a Dubai company to “significantly restructure” and partner up with a U.S. outfit to keep the port deal from sinking, sources told the […]
First, it’s 6. Then, it’s 21. Now, it’s 23. By the end of the forty-five day cooling down period, Dubai Ports World will own UPS asnd AT&T ballpark.
Monday, March 6th, 2006Deal gives Dubai firm control of 23 U.S. ports– Buffalo News
By DOUGLAS TURNER
News Washington Bureau Chief
3/4/2006
WASHINGTON - A Dubai-owned company will control 23 American ports - not six - as a result of the deal approved by a Bush administration panel in January.The takeover of the British company Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation […]
Can it be true that our president was a history major at Yale?
Monday, March 6th, 2006Bob Herbert in the New York Times writes on the Indian fiasco.
‘The key to understanding the Bush administration and its policies is contained in the widely cited New York Times Magazine article, “Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush,” by Ron Suskind.
That’s the article in which Mr. Suskind described how a senior Bush […]
Maybe Trent is angry about the estimates for rebuilding his house.
Monday, March 6th, 2006Thanks to RAW STORY for this reference to bobgeiger.blogspot about the entertaining coldness of Trent Lott who said–in effect–that poor people can use global warming to stay comfortable.
While universities must abide by the Supreme Court decision in order to maintain government funding, they can still make an important point.
Monday, March 6th, 2006 Money Talks, Civil Rights Walk.
Read here about the Supreme Court decision which found that colleges and universities must accept recruiters on campus if government money finds its way to the institutions. That the institution may have a standing policy against discrimination against gays whom the armed services accept only on a ‘don’t ask, don’t […]
The president may have experienced jet lag.
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The photograph graced the front page of the Friday, New York Times.
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(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
One of the truly refreshing aspects about being an unsaved reprobate is the prospect of not having to spend eternity with these folks.
Sunday, March 5th, 2006I just saw this Los Angeles Times story referenced in the Huffington Post.
Dark Portrait of a Painter of Light
Christian-themed artist Thomas Kinkade is accused of ruthless tactics and seamy personal conduct. He disputes the allegations.
By Kim Christensen, Times Staff Writer
March 5, 2006
Thomas Kinkade is famous for his luminous landscapes and street scenes, those dreamy, deliberately […]
All of us know how much sleep the administration loses over worries about the poor!
Sunday, March 5th, 2006The Washington Post reported that the Census Bureau’s data trawling is not always appreciated.
Get this, one of the reasons the Bureau is concerned centers on–
Possible Loss of Data on Needy Protested
Why don’t the grab the information the old-fashioned way? Tap our phones and open our mail!
Is there another “Bring ‘em on!” in our future?
Sunday, March 5th, 2006The world becomes more dangerous by the day, and after attacking a country without a thriving nuclear program, we suddenly are confronted by the country that does have one. Meanwhile, we want to make sure neclear proliferation continues at brisk pace on the sub-continent. Add this to the fact that our present Secretary of State […]
Someone other than Lou Dobbs is finally speaking of China.
Sunday, March 5th, 2006Murtha: The ‘Only People Who Want Us in Iraq’ are Iran, al Qaeda, and China
Thanks to
CBS’s FACE THE NATION
THINK PROGRESS
CROOKS & LIARS
HUFFINGTON POST
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The brutality of war reaches from the battlefield to affect us in dark ways. It has always been thus and is the reason only a sadist or a fool would welcome the onset of carnage while alternatives may still exist.
Sunday, March 5th, 2006Torture and Death of Jew Deepen Fears in France - New York Times
“Don’t make a federal case out it!” has a new, 180 degree opposite meaning.
Sunday, March 5th, 2006Sealed Federal Cases have Doubled since 2003
By Michael J. Sniffen and John Solomon, Associated Press
The Associated Press must have figured they would put their two best men on a story involving secrecy and law.
People have to feel angst about something. It’s only fitting that the downside of smugness is fear of pre-school rejection and co-op board nastiness. Just kick the doorman to feel better.
Sunday, March 5th, 2006In Baby Boomlet, Preschool Derby Is the Fiercest Yet - New York Times
I didn’t post this yesterday, because the first three paragraphs of the story threw me into a swoon, but as a public service I weathered the storm and read the entire article. That’s the headline. One cannot be cute with articles like […]
Who can blame them…but the Ganges?
Sunday, March 5th, 2006Priests Purify Shrine After Bush Visit
Sunday, March 5, 2006 6:27 AM EST
The Associated Press
NEW DELHI (AP) […]
“Fifty States. Fifty Official Religions!” It doesn’t have the cache of “Diamonds Are Forever,” or the ardor of another numerical slogan–”Fifty-four Forty Or Fight!” When it’s up against “One Man, One Vote;” Forgeddaboutit!
Sunday, March 5th, 2006The Huffington Post referred to this story today. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch says the proposed bill is angering some.
Christianity is far too broad an umbrella of faith to have everyone abide. That is why I have come up with a list of religions which will fill the land with glad tidings.
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If you thought ‘casual flying’ meant a 747 to the corner saloon or a 737 to the post office, think again.
Saturday, March 4th, 2006LONELY PLANET and ROUGH travel guides join to discourage ‘casual flying’.
Their books will carry warnings.
What will happen if the Professor were to marry someone with a hyphenated name?
Saturday, March 4th, 2006What did the Bard look Like?
By Alan Riding - The New York Times
Published: March 4, 2006
LONDON, March 1 — The first painting donated in 1856 to the new National Portrait Gallery here was of William Shakespeare, already well enshrined as the nation’s literary idol. For the gallery, the oil recorded as NPG 1 seemed like […]
Okay, Mr. Horowitz. If you recite all 50,000 terrorist-sympathizing professors’ names without taking a breath, we’ll believe you. Just consider it a Quiz by Ordeal.
Saturday, March 4th, 2006David Horowitz: “There are 50,000 professors … [who] identify with the terrorists”
Please read about it at Media Matters.
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Congress and the president outdo themselves by severely weakening the labeling laws–just in time for the 100th anniversary of Upton Sinclair’s Jungle.
Friday, March 3rd, 2006The Abusive New Federalism - New York Times
This editorial in yesterday’s times is quite despressing because it shoves our faces into what has become of the government–a perpetual motion macjine of unbridled avarice with nary a feeling for
the people and the future of our nation.
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Obviously, John Bolton’s punctuality is what attracted W. and his “bidness-style” of running a government. That’s why the prez can leave at five or six every night. Sadly, the business he chose as a model was Enron with a moderate sprinkling of mob enforcer.
Friday, March 3rd, 2006W. can really pick ‘em.
This is truly a “through the looking glass” administration. Where do they find these people?
I have an image of Bolton’s stopping in mid-sentence and waiting as a mortified diplomat must slink to his chair while everyone snickers. Then, our ambassador would slam his book closed at the lectern and yell, “Quiet […]
Global warming now affects clothes dryers.
Friday, March 3rd, 2006The Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Shrinking
Why do I believe my inane heading probably demonstrates more concern than our president’s view?
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eurekalert.net, carving.on.ca, happycamper
Though side-tracked after first seeing the story, I comment because of the way contemporary news media handles the event.
Friday, March 3rd, 2006Boy, 12 Sticks Gum on $1.5M Painting
There was a time when the artist’s name or priceless would have substituted for a dollar amount so prevalent in today’s arts-related headlines. It is hard to imagine that the news outlets would assume the public had at least a working knowledge of art or–at the very minimum–a […]
I report this story only because of a life-long aversion to ‘down on the farm” aphorisms about dirt’s salutory powers. These many statements were paeans to bacteria. The idea of sitting in a public hot tub, whirlpool, steam room or sauna is anathema. For a world beyond anathema, there is always the mud bath.
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006I have taken heat for my ‘off-the-wall’ contentions of how humans needlessly place themselves at risk vis-a-vis rampaging microbes. Each year, my beliefs are borne out my modern research. Stories like this remind be of those great illustrators at MAD Magazine. Mort Drucker and Jack Davis had a knack for drawing pizzas from which live […]