Today’s TPMMUCKRAKER has some funny stories about Indiana’s Republican Attorney General’s suing
the latest life form of the swift boaters–The Economic Freedom Fund, bank-rolled by Bob Perry–for harassing voters with automatic calls to cast their ballot for a republican on the ticket.
Also, Halliburton had offered a medal to a wounded employee top keep him from suing […]

According to RAW STORY, ROLL CALL is reporting that Georgia Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss stated:
‘“We need better intelligence. If we had better intelligence in the Civil War we’d be quoting Jefferson Davis, not Lincoln.”
A spokesperson for Chambliss said the story wasn’t correct and that what the Senator actually said said was, “If Gen. JEB […]

Today, a London Times story reports that an Iraqi Al-Qaeda organization is considering a jihad to massacre Christians in response to Benedict XVI’s quote of a 14th century emperor’s belief that Islam may have had a violent side.
May I say this entire sad affair from Pope to Muslim to Right-wing Christian to Scientologist is why […]

The Los Angeles Times shares a very frightening story of another example of
America For Sale.
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Please find the article here.

“To pass muster with O’Beirne, a political appointee who screens prospective political appointees for Defense Department posts, applicants didn’t need to be experts in the Middle East or in post-conflict reconstruction. What seemed most important was loyalty to the Bush administration.

Adapted from “Imperial Life in the Emerald City,” by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, copyright Knopf 2006″
Please find […]

My goodness. The control of free speech is the most problem we have. After all, does free speech allow one to scream “Katie Couric” anywhere near a real news sudio?
Please find the amusing story here. 

The hypocricy of W and his blood-thirsty band of Pharisees knows no limits. Personally, I don’t think churches should be tax exampt. Ask Boston archdiocese parishoners whose churches are sold to the highest bidder. Why should the 700 Club be tax exempt? Is it not more important that children attend safe public schools? If God […]

which is anexcuse for negative ads. Thanks Bob Perry–Texas Builder and friend of Karl Rove!
Please find the story here.

For you reading enjoyment I present an article from the Washington Post and the Congressional Quarterly transcript of the entire press conference which quickly degenerated into the President’s statements that he owned the bats, the balls and the yard and if the rest of America wanted to play, they had to givem him 8 strikes, […]

This latest comes from Brad’s Blog. It is well worth reading.
Please find the story here.

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The EAT THE PRESS portion of the Huffington Post has an interesting look at Nancy Grace and her seemingly callous view of the suicide which followed one of her cross examinations.
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This is what I see when I watch her program on Headline News for more than 15 seconds. I literally feel as if I am […]

A pal in Chicago stated  Pope Benedict did not seem to be a person who would say something without fore-thought. Still, I would have expected the Pontiff to pull a Billy Bats from GOODFELLAS when after a brief calm settled over a very tense confrontation with Joe Pesci’s ‘Tommy,’ Billy Bats had to turn the […]

Senator Lindsay Graham reported that the White House had kept military legal personnel in room for five hours in order to have them sign a letter stating how they agreed with W’s wish to deep-six Article III of the Geneva Accords. Apparently, they didn’t break.

Please find the story here.

The reason for the question centers on the Associated Press report that Senator Bill Frist(R-TN) used military spending bill as a vehicle to carry his wish to ban the use of credit cards to pay on-line gambling debts. The story pointed out that the ban is favored by the NFL, anti-gambling and  conservative sectors. The […]

The top photograph accompanied the article.

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Original Photgraph by Fred R. Conrad/New York Times
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Please find the real article here.

A Princeton University Computer Science professor and two grad students hack a Diebold voting machine.
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Please find the article here.

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Raw Story has just posted a story that Republican Montana Senator Conrad Burns flew first class while his wife had to sit in coach.
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Real Photo by Michael Temchine for The Washington Post
Please find the article here.

Montana mosquito season is extended

The Class A Mosquitos were finally able to advance in the play-offs by defeating the Idhao Bar Flies 3 games to 2 in the first round. The past three years must have been frustrating for the Mosquitos because of first round eliminations by the Not-South-Dakota Bottle Flies in ‘05, the Caspar […]

His recall of the conversation he had with former deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage differs from what the latter has recently maintained.
Since I believe none of the players, I shall let the reader decide. 
Please find the hard-hittin’ column here. 

I hope Dick ‘n W ‘n Rummy ‘n Condo make a good A & R team, because they’ve accidentally  created a real hard sell to the American ear.

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Please find the article here.
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The Senate Judiciary committee votes along party lines to back the bill proposed by the administration to get around the Supreme Court ruling.

Please find the article here.

‘The polite phrase for how so many of us were duped into supporting a war, on the false premise that it had ’something to do’ with 9/11 is “lying by implication.”
The impolite phrase is “impeachable offense.”‘
Please find Keith Olbermann’s entire 9/11 special comment here.

When Branch Rickey was General Manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, Ralph Kiner asked for a raise after he had hit 50 some homers for the dreadful Pirate team. Said the GM, “We finished last with you and we can finish last without you.”
Katie, don’t demand any perks for a few days.
“They Came, Saw, […]

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I’m not making this up. According to RAW STORY Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean has sent a letter protesting these Republican-sponsored university events to RNC chairman Ken Mehlman.
It seems an intern, hired to make Republicans appealing to college folk, has organized a pastime using bbb guns and paintball guns to shoot at paper cut-outs […]

Geographic and economic factors play a role in our ability to survive. Stop the %^%$#@! presses!
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For the sake of shaking up the obvious conclusion, I checked to see the old Red-Blue State comparison and used the AP arrticle’s states’ life expectancy rankings for proof.

This map is based on the Washington Post 2004 election results. It […]

Are Stingrays turning up in the trunks of cars, left on street corners and drowned with concrete blocks tied to their tails? Not necessarily, but ten dead rays–some tortured–are frightening conservationists and people who fear brainless reprisals. A spokesray for the Stingray Benevolent Society took off thegloves and snarled, “This is a reef thing and […]

“Major Metzger vanished in civilian clothes while on an off-duty shopping trip with co-workers at a department store in central Bishkek.”–New York Times

This is the most disturbing line from the Times story about the 3-day-abduction of an Air Force Major for whom the military is conducting an investigation. I had felt a twinge of jingoism–not […]

CNN…Poll: More Americans blame Bush for 9/11
8:26 a.m. EDT, September 11, 2006

For whatever it’s worth, I have blocked the ABC and the Disney Channels on our televsion. They have joined the diamonique, real estate and snake-handler, faith-healing channels as no-shows. Now, I’ll only have about 150 channels from which to pollute whatever remains of my […]

Has the White House finally become completely dysfunctional by lying to the point of insanity? D’uh?

Please find the stories here and here.

Read John Dean’s new book–Conservatives Without Conscience–to see a worthy overview of the “Go ____ Yourself” veep.
Please find the Washington Post article here. 

Why should we have such incompetent leadership?

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Please find the entire article here.

According to the Associated Press, a whistleblower is suing KBR–a subsidiary of Halliburton–because they used food ear-marked for a GI Super Bowl party and kept it form itself. The suit claims their are countless false invoices for which the taxpayer must cough up the moolah. The whistleeblower claims that huge tubs of chicken wings, cheese […]

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Here are links to pieces which one should read about DISNEY/ABC.
Richard Clarke. 
Make your revulsion known.
Historian write letter.
Follow the  money. 
This site synthesizes much of the information.