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“August 11, 2006
Pentagon Officials Quit at Agency Linked to Bribes
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
New York Times
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 — The two top officials of Counterintelligence Field Activity at the Defense Department resigned this week amid investigations into their agency’s classified contracts with a businessman who has pleaded guilty to bribing department officials and Representative Randy Cunningham.”
Please […]

“Unwed couple sues town over housing flap
Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:30 AM ET
Reuters
By Carey Gillam
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A Missouri couple who must get married, or move, in order to comply with a housing ordinance in Black Jack, Missouri, sued the town on Thursday, claiming rules prohibiting the unmarried couple and their children from […]

My God’s better than your god,
My God’s better than yours.
He’ll stomp Democrats
Make pollers ___’n their hats,
My God’s better than yours.
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My God’s talkin’ through me, now
My God’s talkin’ through me.
Who cares what he says,
Just so’s he wears no fez,
My God’s talkin’ through me.
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My God really loves rich folk,
My God’s rollin’ in green.
Let’s screw that little guy
Laugh […]

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“August 11, 2006
The Political Effects
Arrests Bolster G.O.P. as Election Nears
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
Republicans seized on the arrests of terrorism suspects in Britain yesterday to bolster a White House campaign to turn national security issues to their advantage this fall, arguing that the […]

“Frenchmen arrested for bringing ‘happy crashing’ to Spanish roads
Giles Tremlett in Madrid
Thursday August 10, 2006
The Guardian
You’re approaching a busy roundabout in a bustling Spanish city, minding your own business. Suddenly a rogue figure lurches out into the road and reels towards you. You swerve, skid, narrowly avoid collision, and go on your way, cursing perhaps. […]

“Think Progress
August 11, 2006
Mehlman Attacks Murtha With Report Retracted Six Weeks Ago
White House officials and surrogates have fanned out in a coordinated Rovian campaign to smear their opponents as “defeatists” and “cut-and-runners.” In a mass email yesterday, former Rove deputy Ken Mehlman turned his guns on Rep. John Murtha…”
Please find the story here.

Images: (ricky) nrlc.org; […]

“Big Katrina Contractors Win More FEMA Work
By Griff Witte and Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, August 10, 2006; D01
The four giant construction firms that received controversial no-bid contracts to house Hurricane Katrina evacuees last September will be earning up to $250 million apiece to do similar work after future disasters, the Federal Emergency Management […]

“THINK PROGRESS
August 10, 2006
Cheney: Lieberman Loss ‘Disturbing’ Because al Qaeda Is ‘Betting They Can Break The Will of The American People’
Cheney said that to “purge a man like Joe Lieberman” was “of concern, especially over the issue of Joe’s support with respect to national efforts in the global war on terror.”
Please the entire article here. […]

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Des Moines Register
“Physicist James Van Allen dies
Wed Aug 9, 2006 4:27 PM ET
CHICAGO (Reuters) - American physicist James Van Allen, who helped propel the United States into the space race and discovered the bands of radiation that surround the Earth that were later named for him, died on Wednesday, the University of Iowa said.
Van Allen, […]

“Bush Would Lose to Gore and Kerry Today
Angus Reid Consultants
August 9, 2006
- Adults in the United States would vote differently in a rerun of the last two presidential elections, according to a poll by Scripps Howard News Service released by Ohio University. 46 per cent of respondents would support Democrat John Kerry in a repeat […]

“War Crimes Act Changes Would Reduce Threat Of Prosecution
By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 9, 2006; A01
The Bush administration has drafted amendments to a war crimes law that would eliminate the risk of prosecution for political appointees, CIA officers and former military personnel for humiliating or degrading war prisoners, according to U.S. officials […]

‘ABC NEWS
The World Newser
August 09, 2006
George Stephanopoulos: Can Karl help Joe?
According to a close Lieberman adviser, the President’s political guru, Karl Rove, has reached out to the Lieberman camp with a message straight from the Oval Office: “The boss wants to help. Whatever we can do, we will do.”‘
Please find the story here.

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“August 7, 2006
15 States Expand Right to Shoot in Self-Defense
By ADAM LIPTAK
In the last year, 15 states have enacted laws that expand the right of self-defense, allowing crime victims to use deadly force in situations that might formerly have subjected them to prosecution for murder.
Supporters call them “stand your ground” laws. Opponents call them “shoot […]

“Embattled Rep. Ney Won’t Seek Reelection
Abramoff Ties Led GOP To Urge His Withdrawal
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 8, 2006; A01
House Majority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) met with Ney last week to urge him to step aside, reminding him that with a son in college and a daughter nearing college age, he will […]

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“The Times August 07, 2006
Critics taking aim at the Condi Rice show
By Tom Baldwin in Washington
Video: Times Online TV
CONDOLEEZZA RICE is coming under sustained criticism on several fronts.
Some, even within the White House, have started referring to the “Condi Rice show” — suggesting that the Secretary of […]

“Editorial: Murtha’s mind / Congress’s defense expert tells the truth on Iraq
Friday, August 04, 2006
Rep. John Murtha is a person who knows Washington, the military and America — and who, at 74, after 32 years in Congress, is prepared to speak out on these subjects, no matter what the political cost.”
Please find the editorial here. […]

“Governors bristle at Bush Guard proposal
By ROBERT TANNER, AP National Writer1 hour, 33 minutes ago
The nation’s governors are closing ranks in opposition to a proposal in Congress that would let the president take control of the National Guard in emergencies without consent of governors.”
Please find the article here.

“Host South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford takes questions […]

“The Constitution in Crisis Final Report Released
by Congressman John Conyers
Fri Aug 04, 2006 at 08:27:39 AM PDT
Final “Constitution in Crisis” Report
Six Years of Unchecked Abuses — Had Enough?
Cross Posted at Huffington Post
Today, I am releasing the final version of my report, the “Constitution in Crisis.” The report, which is some 350 pages in length and […]

State Sen. Nancy Riley announces Thursday at the state Capitol that she is switching her political affiliation from Republican to Democrat.
TY RUSSELL / Associated Press

“Senator bolts ‘abhorrent’ GOP
By BARBARA HOBEROCK AND MICK HINTON World Capitol Bureau
8/4/2006
Nancy Riley says bad treatment and a lack of support from Republicans induced her to switch to the Democrats.

OKLAHOMA CITY […]

“Raw Story acquires 91-page Republican playbook for ‘homestretch’ campaigning
RAW STORY
Published: Friday August 4, 2006
A massive, 91-page memo to Senate Republicans outlining strategies for “homestretch” campaigning during the August recess, has been acquired by RAW STORY.”
Please find the entire article and a link to PDF file of the memo here.

“Washington Post
Landis Fails 2nd Test; Title Likely Gone
By JEROME PUGMIRE
The Associated Press
Saturday, August 5, 2006; 10:58 AM
PARIS — Floyd Landis was fired by his team and the Tour de France no longer considered him its champion Saturday after his second doping sample tested positive for higher-than-allowable levels of testosterone. The samples contained synthetic testosterone, indicating […]

“Posted on Fri, Aug. 04, 2006
Iraqi civil war has already begun, U.S. troops say
By Tom Lasseter
McClatchy Newspapers
BAGHDAD, Iraq - While American politicians and generals in Washington debate the possibility of civil war in Iraq, many U.S. officers and enlisted men who patrol Baghdad say it has already begun.”
Please find the entire article here.

“AlterNet
Military Waste In Our Drinking Water
By Sunaura Taylor and Astra Taylor, AlterNet
Posted on August 4, 2006, Printed on August 4, 2006
In 1982 our family was living on the southside of Tucson, Ariz., in a primarily working class and Latino neighborhood not far from the airport. That year Sunaura was born with a congenital birth defect […]

“Jailing of reporters send powerful signal
By SCOTT LINDLAW, Associated Press WriterFri Aug 4, 3:52 AM ET
The jailing of a video journalist this week is turning up the heat on the growing list of reporters ordered to cough up information to federal grand juries. It also is sending a powerful signal: cooperate or face prison time.”
Please […]

“What’s the Motivation?
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Friday, August 4, 2006; 12:52 PM
President Bush often complains about lack of transparency in places like North Korea or, more recently, Cuba — and contrasts that with the United States.”
Allow me to butt in for a moment. After reading about the tears, any self-respecting agnostic would declare his or […]

“Ambassador claims shortly before invasion, Bush didn’t know there were two sects of Islam
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08/04/2006 @ 10:51 am
Filed by Christian Avard
RAW STORY
Former Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith is claiming President George W. Bush was unaware that there were two major sects of Islam just two months before the President ordered troops to invade Iraq, RAW STORY […]

I must warn you that I’ve spun most of this into a web of jokes and it is only for comedic purposes and has no relationship to the very good school.

In order to begin with a fresh attitude, I had sent for and received the school’s introduction package which included the application form from which […]

“By Stacy Bannerman
t r u t h o u t | Report
Thursday 03 August 2006
“Open the casket. We need to see what’s inside.”
Carlos Arredondo spends most of his days traveling up and down the East Coast with a flag-draped coffin. He takes it to parades and protests, schools and state fairs. Today it’s in front […]

“Richard Perle (Zuma Press photo) and Elliott Abrams (Reuters photo)
SALON
The neocons’ next war
y secretly providing NSA intelligence to Israel and undermining the hapless Condi Rice, hardliners in the Bush administration are trying to widen the Middle East conflict to Iran and Syria, not stop it.
By Sidney Blumenthal
Aug. 03, 2006 | The National Security Agency is […]

“Guantanamo detainees may remain indefinitely: Gonzalez

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, seen here in July 2006, said the US government could “indefinitely” hold foreign ‘enemy combatants’ at sites like the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.(AFP/File/Jim Watson) (I may have played with the photo-DBp)

Wed Aug 2, 10:06 PM ET
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said […]

“Against the advice, against the facts

“Tony Blair’s unthinking oversimplifications about the Middle East belong in an army recruitment pamphlet - not an adult conversation.”
Oliver Miles
August 3, 2006 10:09 AM
What are we to make of Tony Blair’s speech in Los Angeles on Tuesday about the struggles (or, as he would maintain struggle, in the singular) going […]

‘Michael Savage–mediamattersforamerica.com
MEDIA MATTERS
July 31, 2006
Savage suggested Voting Rights Act reauthorization will “put voting machines in crack houses”
On the July 27 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio program, Michael Savage suggested that the purpose of the recently passed 25-year extension of the Voting Rights Act is to “put voting machines in crack houses.” Acknowledging that “I […]

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August 2nd, 2006
“Democrats Scrambling To Organize Voter Turnout
By Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 2, 2006; A01
Top Democrats are increasingly concerned that they lack an effective plan to turn out voters this fall, creating tension among party leaders and prompting House Democrats to launch a fundraising effort aimed exclusively at mobilizing Democratic partisans.”
Please find the […]

“Media Firms Counted As Small Businesses
Tue Aug 1, 2006 4:34 PM EDT
Frank Bass, AP Writer
WASHINGTON — Some of the nation’s largest news media companies, including The Associated Press, were counted last year by the government as small businesses for contracting purposes, inflating the Bush administration’s record of help to small companies.”
Please find entire article here. […]

“‘Others say Mr. Bush cannot help looking at Israel through the prism of his Christian faith. “There is a religiously inspired connection to Israel in which he feels, as president, a responsibility for Israel’s survival,” said Martin S. Indyk, who was President Clinton’s ambassador to Israel and kept that post for several months under President […]

Army Guard units said not combat ready
By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 24 minutes ago
More than two-thirds of the Army National Guard’s 34 brigades are not combat ready, mostly because of equipment shortages that will cost up to $21 billion to correct, the top National Guard general said Tuesday.
Lt. Gen. H. Steven Blum […]

Vets set sights on Murtha
By SANDRA K. REABUCK
The Tribune-Democrat
— The “Swift Boat” veterans who grabbed national headlines in 2004 when they attacked John Kerry in his failed presidential bid now are turning their sights to Johnstown.
Their target is U.S. Rep. John Murtha, a critic of the Iraq war and a de facto spokesman on the […]

Scientists say Erie mirage could be real
Sun Jul 30, 5:59 PM ET
Scientists say it’s a mirage, but others swear that when the weather is right, Clevelanders can see across Lake Erie and spot Canadian trees and buildings 50 miles away.
Eyewitness accounts have long been part of the city’s history.
“The whole sweep of the Canadian shore […]

POPULATION (July,2006)
United States-298,444,215
Iraq————–26,783,383 8.97% of U.S. population: 11.14 multiple; round to 11.
Lebanon———3,874,050 1.29% of U.S. population: 77.03 multiple; round to 70.
Israel————–6,352,117 2.13% of U.S. population: 46.98 multiple; round to 47.
To find the comparative cost in human lives, the wars should be viewed this way.
A death in Iraq is the equivalent […]

Two penguins stand in a cage during their rehabilitation process from an oil spill in San Clemente del Tuyu, some 300 kilometers (186 miles) from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, July 31, 2006. Around 224 penguins were found in Santa Cruz province during the month of May, victims of oil spill. The 190 that survived were […]

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NPR.org, July 6, 2005 · Set in America’s gilded age at the end of the 1800s, this is the tale of the friendship between Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick. The two once worked together but had a falling out. On his deathbed, Carnegie askes to speak with Frick, who […]

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