IRAQ population = 26,074,906 According to latest Lancet study, 655,000 civilians have died since March, 2003 until July, 2006. That represents 2.5% of their population.
USA population = 295,734,134 The equivalent number would be 7,428,822. If 185,720 of our fellow Americans died from bullets and bombs each month for 3 1/3 years; I believe we […]
Reuters reports Swiss reasearchers find a 100,000-year-old, giant camel’s bones in Syria.
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(camel pack) en.wikipedia.com; (individual cigarettes) woodencigar.com
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The New York Times used the front page to graph the toxic fall-out from the Republican/Foley mess. The last graph is rather telling.
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Source: New York Times, October 10, 2006
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“I just don’t even find her attractive…”–Donald Trump
One would have assumed that a man whose hairdo is a paean toAmerican Lumnism , would have been a bit more circumspect about assigning his ideal of beauty.
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Images: (Trump) AP Photo via newsfeed.tcm.ie; (Painting) cover of Frederic Church by Howat-Yale Universirty Press/amazon.com
Please find the story and video here.
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I wonder if his father would be proud of this oinker.
“Allen’s Undisclosed Stock Options Were Worth Up to $1.1 Million
By Michael Forsythe and Miles Weiss
Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) — Stock options that Senator George Allen described as worthless were worth as much as $1.1 million at one point, according to a review of Senate disclosure forms […]
Thomas M. DeFrank, New York Daily News Washington Bureau Chief, writes that “… the political winds have turned bleaker for Republicans - and President Bush’s private mood has blackened accordingly.”
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His party is giving new meaning to corruption and he has careened from one mis-adventure to another. Who was the last president to lose a […]
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“R.I. pumpkin may be largest ever
Sun Oct 8, 2:39 PM ET
WARREN, R.I. - Despite heavy rains that stunted pumpkin growth, a Rhode Island farmer has set what could be a new record for the largest pumpkin in the world.”
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(Pumpkin)-AP Photo/Victoria Arocho; (Brown U.) brown.edu
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The Associated Press is reporting that “NATO’s top commander in Afghanistan warned on Sunday that a majority of Afghans would likely switch their allegiance to resurgent Taliban militants if their lives show no visible improvements in the next six months.”
This is a distressing statement for many reasons, but the fact that he is talking about […]
Five years of undisclosed stock options with companies he had favored while governor and help with an army deal for another company for which he held stock options are new allegations against George Allen and his crumbling campaign for a second senate term and ill-conceived ‘08 White House run. I think he’s a Christian, no?
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The New York Times begins a four part series on the perks coming to religious organizations in America. As we fall further behind the civilized world in education, scientific research and social justice, every two-bit preacher must feel a wave of confidence that the age of rationalism is quite dead.
Please find the story here.
“Experts warn of an accidental atomic war
Nuclear missile modified for conventional attack on Iran could set off alarm in Russia
- Eric Rosenberg, Hearst Newspapers
Friday, October 6, 2006
(10-06) 04:00 PDT Washington — A Pentagon project to modify its deadliest nuclear missile for use as a conventional weapon against targets such as North Korea and Iran could […]
Shape-Shifters With Microchips Walk the Runway
By CATHY HORYN
Published: October 7, 2006
PARIS, Oct. 6 — The other day before the Hussein Chalayan show, I skipped over to the Monoprix, which is France’s answer to Kmart, to buy a box of hair color (now only you and my hairdresser know for sure) when I saw my friend […]
“Russian Journalist Found Dead
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 7, 2006
Filed at 3:31 p.m. ET
MOSCOW (AP) — A journalist who chronicled Russian military abuses against civilians in Chechnya, garnering awards and accolades from around the world, was found shot to death Saturday in her apartment building. Prosecutors believe her killing could be connected to her investigative […]
“Prehistoric, short-necked plesiosaur was as large as a bus”
This article about the discovery of twenty-eight Jurassic behemoths mentioned that the plesiosaurs teeth were as big as cucumbers and its vertebrae were the size of dinner plates. I trust them, but their yardsticks no longer carry the same shock value. It is time for scientists to […]
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Certainly, we remember the former first lady Katrina victims donation which found its way into her son’s pocket first.
“Barbara Bush specified money be spent on son Neil’s products
Updated: 8:06 p.m. ET March 24, 2006
HOUSTON - Former first lady Barbara Bush gave relief money to a hurricane relief fund on the condition that it be spent […]
Now, I am concerned since others think the same thing. We find ourselves in one of those Steve Reeves’ movies from the late 1950s. The gruffly dubbed voices all sounded the same…a lot like Dick’s when he told Senator Pat Leahey to ‘go %$#@ himself.’‘
“I hadn’t really tuned into this incident, recounted here by American […]
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A Reuters/Zogby poll shows Democrats ahead in 11 of 15 races for seats held by Republicans.
The entire article and methodology is here.
“By MAUREEN DOWD
New York Times
Published: October 4, 2006
Tom Lehrer said that political satire was rendered obsolete when Henry Kissinger won a Nobel Peace Prize for prolonging the Vietnam War.
But even the inventive Lehrer could never have imagined that Dr. Strangelove would get a second chance to contribute to misleading the public about a military catastrophe […]
This post almost immediately answers my question from the previous post.
Editor & Publisher has a story about a lively meeting reagardng media conglomeration.
Please find the article here.
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The boss of Fox News Channel–possibly the propaganda arm of the W regime
and ultimately responsible for this shoddy screen graphic–is Roger Ailes.
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“‘If you don’t want to be criticized, die. Because when you die, everybody says
ice things, for some reason.’—Roger Ailes” (Quoted in NEW YORK OBSERVER)
One would not have expected such a reactionary-type, whose programming […]
The Associated Press wrote yesterday that a State Department spokesman confirmed the meetings with Condi who had claimed she would have remembered such an important threat had it been given. According to the story, the spokesman said she had told him to forward the report to Secretary of Defense Rumnsfeld and then Attorney General Ashcroft […]
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cigar-cult.at
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Ruling on Contributors’ Cases
“A New York Times analysis of decisions by the Ohio Supreme Court from 1994 to March 2006
found that the justices frequently decided in favor of their campaign contributors who appear
before the court, and rarely recuse themselves from those cases.”
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Terrence O’Donnell
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“His book - State of Denial - is also understood to say Tony Blair was angry at discovering that Washington was keeping key intelligence on Iraq from Britain - even classifying reports based partly on contributions from British operatives as off-limits. In some cases, British personnel flying US planes in Iraq were denied access to […]