I wonder if this school benefits from Federal tax dollars because their policies seem to be skirting the edge of the Bill of Rights.–DBp
Baptist school ousts gay student
LAFAYETTE GRAD’S WEB PAGE UPSETS UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS
By Art Jester
HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER
A Lafayette High School graduate has been kicked out of the University of the Cumberlands in […]

NEW YORK TIMES

April 7, 2006
In Notification of Military Deaths, More Pain
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ
After Neil Santorello heard the news that his son, a tank commander, had been killed in Iraq, from the officer in his living room, he walked out his front door and removed the American flag from its pole. Then, in tears, he tore […]

TIME MAGAZINE
Sunday, Apr. 09, 2006
“Why I Think Rumsfeld Must Go”
A military insider sounds off against the war and the “zealots” who pushed it
By LIEUT. GENERAL GREG NEWBOLD (RET.)

Two senior military officers are known to have challenged Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on the planning of the Iraq war. […]

Leak reveals official story of London bombings
· Al-Qaeda not linked, says government
· Internet used to plan 7/7 attack
Mark Townsend, crime correspondent
Sunday April 9, 2006

The Observer
The official inquiry into the 7 July London bombings will say the attack was planned on a shoestring budget from information on the […]

The Bushes: A Hereditary Trait For Treason? Surely Not!
Tony Hendra in THE HUFFINGTON POST
Three case studies:
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Prescott Bush (Senator (R) Conn. 1952-1963)
Like many US and UK bankers, Prescott Sheldon Bush, patriarch of the Bush clan, and partner in Brown Brothers Harriman, self-described as ‘the world’s largest private bank’, grew rich in the 1930s, profiteering […]

Whistle-Blower Outs NSA Spy Room
By Ryan Singel| Also by this reporter
11:15 AM Apr, 07, 2006
AT&T provided National Security Agency eavesdroppers with full access to its customers’ phone calls, and shunted its customers’ internet traffic to data-mining equipment installed in a secret room in its San Francisco switching center, according to a […]

A ‘Concerted Effort’ to Discredit Bush Critic
Prosecutor Describes Cheney, Libby as Key Voices Pitching Iraq-Niger Story
By Barton Gellman and Dafna Linzer
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, April 9, 2006; A01

As he drew back the curtain this week on the evidence against Vice President Cheney’s former top aide, Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald for the first time described […]

NEW YORK TIMES
April 9, 2006
U.S. Study Paints Somber Portrait of Iraqi Discord
By RIC SCHMITT and EDWARD WONG
WASHINGTON, April 8 — An internal staff report by the United States Embassy and the military command in Baghdad provides a sobering province-by-province snapshot of Iraq’s political, economic and security situation, rating the overall stability of 6 of […]

…the president believes he must do “what no Democrat or Republican, if elected in the future, would have the courage to do,” and “that saving Iran is going to be his legacy.”

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from Dr. Strangelove via smokebox.com
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Robert McNamara[Recounting the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis]in the documentary:
FOG OF WAR

Robert McNamara: My deputy […]

Cover Girl Eva Longoria Graces Nevada

April 6, 2007 - For air travelers flying over southern Nevada this week, the view offers more than miles of dusty desert.
A giant, bikini-clad Hollywood star perched on the desert sands isn’t a mirage, but a recreation of a Maxim magazine cover.
The cover is made of a vinyl-mesh screen and […]

Polyester fabric neutralizes stun gun jolt
By Michael Kanellos
Wed Apr 05 04:00:22 PDT 2006
A consulting firm with a background in lightning warning systems has come up with a fabric that takes the powerful sting out of being hit with a stun gun or a cattle prod.
Thor Shield is a polyester fabric bonded to a conducted material […]

Prosecutors tried to seize gold caps from drug suspects’ teeth
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Two drug suspects in Washington state nearly had some unwanted dental work.Government lawyers tried to confiscate the gold tooth caps from the mouths of the two men, saying the dental work qualified as seizable assets.
The two were in a vehicle on the […]

The Truth About Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s Statements to the Grand Jury Claiming the President Authorized a Leak of Classified Information:
The President and Vice President Are Not In the Clear Yet
John E. Dean
Friday, Apr. 07, 2006

Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has now revealed in court filings bombshell information that I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby told the grand jury […]

New York Times
April 7, 2006
Gonzalez Suggests Legal Basis for Domestic Eavesdropping
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
WASHINGTON, April 6 — Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales suggested on Thursday for the first time that the president might have the legal authority to order wiretapping without a warrant on communications between Americans that occur exclusively within the United States.
“I’m […]

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Page Sick! It’s another N.Y. Post exclusive!

Daily News Exclusive
A Post Page Six staffer solicited $220,000 from a high-profile billionaire in return for a year’s “protection” against inaccurate and unflattering items about him in the gossip page, the News has learned. And it was all a sting - monitored by law enforcement.

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I found this at one of my favorite sites–CROOKS AND LIARS.
Harry Taylor Blasts Bush

Taylor was at the North Carolina event today and said he’s never felt more ashamed of the leadership of his country.
[…]

Rumsfeld Challenges Rice on ‘Tactical Errors’ in Iraq
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Images: cnn.com; gino.slinder.com; AP
By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 6, 2006; A21

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said he did not know what Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was talking about when she said last week that the United States had made thousands of “tactical errors” in handling […]

Prosecutor says county fudged recount

Prosecutor says Cuyahoga skirted rules
Thursday, April 06, 2006
Joan Mazzolini
Plain Dealer Reporter
After the 2004 presidential election, Cuyahoga County election workers secretly skirted rules designed to make sure all votes were counted correctly, a special prosecutor charges.
While there is no evidence of vote fraud, the prosecutor said their efforts were aimed at […]

White House Press Corps Fails to Ask McClellan About Bush’s Authorization of Leak

Yesterday, Patrick Fitzgerald submitted a court filing which revealed that, according to Scooter Libby, he was authorized to leak classified information by President Bush. This morning, it was reported by the New York Sun, the National Journal and many other publications.
When the White […]

Bush Approved Leak of Iraq Arms Intelligence, Libby Testified
April 6 (Bloomberg) — President George W. Bush authorized disclosure of classified information on Iraq’s weapons program to rebut war critics, a former top administration aide told a grand jury, according to documents filed in federal court.
The documents don’t allege the president approved the identification of […]

When Cleveland Indians pitcher C.C. Sabathia went on the disabled list yesterday, it may mean the first time the Cleveland franchise does not have an African-American available for play since July, 1947. Is this possible? I may be mistaken, but it seems true.
Of the twenty-four other roster spaces at the Major League level, 16 are […]

BBC 7:57 UK
April 6, 2006

Amnesty seeks NI rendition probe

Aircraft are said to have been hired by the CIA

Amnesty International is calling for a public inquiry into alleged Northern Ireland involvement in CIA prisoner transfer flights. The human rights group says it has new evidence that planes taking prisoners to illegal […]

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Image thanks to BP; turbosquid.com (Gerzi 2004); crusaderammunition.com

Protesters take to the streets again in France
By Meg Bortin and Katrin Bennhold International Herald Tribune
TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 2006Paris-French students and union activists demonstrated massively Tuesday for the second week in a row to protest a new labor law, but fewer workers honored a strike call and there was less disruption of daily life.Chanting students […]

‘War on Satan’ general pushed for top post
Tuesday, April 4, 2006
By LIZ SIDOTI
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — A Senate Republican wants an Army general who drew criticism for church speeches casting the war on terrorism in religious terms to lead the U.S. special operations command.
In a letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Sen. George Allen, R-Va., […]

Delay Announces Plan to End Career in Congress
By Richard Simon, Janet Hook and Mary Curtius
Times Staff Writers
9:18 AM PDT, April 4, 2006
WASHINGTON — Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), once one of the most influential Republicans in Congress, announced today that he will soon step down from Congress, ending a tumultuous congressional career.
In a […]

Wow!!–DBp
April 4, 2006

By Lawrence K. Altman
Bladders created in the laboratory from a patient’s own cells and then implanted in seven young people have achieved good long-term results in all of them, a team of researchers reported yesterday in a medical journal.
It takes about two months to grow the new bladder on a scaffold outside the […]

John & Jerry

By Paul Krugman

April 3, 2006
Op-Ed Columnist

Well, I’ll be damned. At least, that’s what the Rev. Jerry Falwell says. Last month Mr. Falwell issued a statement explaining that, in his view, Jews can’t go to heaven unless they convert to Christianity. And what Mr. Falwell says matters — maybe not in heaven, but here […]

The Tragic Irony of John McCain’s Faustian Bargain
Arianna Huffington
April 3, 2006
A lot of people are angry at John McCain — and with good reason. His contemptible performance on this week’s Meet the Press was enough to make any sentient person’s blood boil.
For a dose of this ire, check out georgia10 at Kos who proclaims “the […]

INSIGHT ON THE NEWS Issue Date: April 3-9, 2006, Posted On: 4/3/2006 Libby lawyers finger top State Dept. leaders for CIA leak

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell (Lawrence Jackson/AP)

Attorneys for former Vice President Chief of Staff Lewis “Scooter” Libby say one of three senior State Department officials was the source of a leak […]

Like most professional sports, it has venality at every level, but–unlike the other sports–baseball has the beauty of the game as a means to shield itself from the self-destruction its participants so frequently appear to desire.
It’s 2006. How long will the season go before there appears the first blemish?
Sorry, you lose.
The fourth inning […]

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THE HIMALAYAN TIMES
KATHMANDU, APRIL 04, 2005, Chaitra 22, 2062
Ice Age Freezes Stone’s Instincts Sequel
Not even her vaunted ice pick could save Sharon Stone from the Ice Age onslaught.Ice Age: The Meltdown put the deep freeze on the multiplex competition by sweeping up a truly mammoth $70.5 million over the weekend.
That left slim pickings for the […]

MEDICAL NEWS TODAY
American Children Getting Too Fat For Car Safety Seats-MNT
Article Date: 03 Apr 2006 - 15:00pm (UK)
Over 250,000 American children under the age of 6 are too heavy for car-safety seats designed for their age-group. Makers of car-safety seats are having to make sturdier models to ensure levels of safety for these seriously […]

Fitzgerald Knew Identity of Leaker From Start
By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | Report
Monday 03 April 2006
The special counsel appointed in late December 2003 to investigate the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson found out the identity of the Bush administration official who disclosed her undercover status to syndicated […]

Government in secret talks about strike against Iran

By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent
(Filed: 02/04/2006)

The Government is to hold secret talks with defence chiefs tomorrow to discuss possible military strikes against Iran.

A high-level meeting will take place in the Ministry of Defence at which senior defence chiefs and government officials will consider the consequences of an […]

Stern curses out fans who aren’t on Sirius - Radio

Updated: 4:06 p.m. ET March 31, 2006
NEW YORK - Howard Stern is angry more fans haven’t followed him to satellite radio.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the 52-year-old shock jock lashes out at those of his fan base who haven’t made the transition to Sirius Satellite […]

Media Matters for America has an the perfect method of demonstrating how the major media loads our metal trays of news drivel with just the right dose of valium. Depending on the outlet, it can be as crude as a braying radio host’s fighting words or as subtle as a sanitized phrase.
Just click here if […]

ABC Suspends Producer Over Bush-Bashing E-Mail

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, April 1, 2006; Page C01
ABC News suspended the executive producer of the weekend edition of “Good Morning America” yesterday over a pair of leaked e-mails in which he used inflammatory language to slam President Bush and Madeleine Albright.
John Green, whose unpaid suspension will […]

I had intended not to post on April Fools Day because radio and the internet treat the day with the same gusto occasional drinkers use to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and Kentucky Derby Saturday. While on the subject, isn’t it fun to watch hip non-cigar smokers’ holding the rolled tobacco with the tips of their […]

Plans for Massive Blast in Nev. Draw Fire
Plans to Detonate 700 Tons of Explosives in the Nevada Desert Draw Criticism
By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY
The Associated Press
Las Vegas-March 31, 2006–Plans for a Pentagon-led experiment that involves detonating 700 tons of explosives in the desert drew criticism from state leaders and a disarmament activist.
The explosion scheduled for June 2 […]