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(Copper rolls) fcx.com
Please find the article here.
“Did Nancy Pelosi Get the Message?
She followed up her victory with a self-defeating blunder. Now people are asking, Is Pelosi up to the job?”
Time Online November 19, 2006
Many journalists seemed to have thought W was up for the job under which he has turned the USA into a debtor nation, has allowed nuclear arms to […]
“President Bush and other APEC leaders line up for complimentary haircuts in Hanoi this Sunday, Nov 19.”
Actual caption…
Dressed in traditional ‘ao dai,’ leaders of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) walk to a garden of at the National Convention Center for a group photo session in Hanoi Sunday, Nov. 19, 2006. From front: Peruvian Vice […]
The New York Times
November 19, 2006
Reporters’ Notebook
Unlike Clinton, Bush Sees Hanoi in Bit of a Hurry
By DAVID E. SANGER and HELENE COOPER
HANOI, Vietnam, Sunday, Nov. 19 — President Bush likes speed golf and speed tourism — this is the man who did the treasures of Red Square in less than 20 minutes — but here […]
Democrats warned not to block Bush’s judicial nominees
November 18, 2006 01:37 EST
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate’s next Republican leader has issued a veiled threat to block legislation if Democrats refuse to allow confirmation votes on President Bush’s troubled judicial nominations.
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Please find the story here.
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft, left, talks with artist John Howard Sanden, right, after the unveiling ceremony of Ashcroft’s official portrait at the Justice Department in Washington, Friday, Nov. 17, 2006. Ashcroft, a former governor of Missouri and a U.S. senator, served as President George W. Bush’s attorney general from February 2001 to February 2005. […]
O.J. sewer leads right to Murdoch
Tim Rutten:
Regarding Media
The Los Angeles Times
November 18, 2006
AMERICA’S popular culture lost its sense of shame so long ago that it’s a little hard to recall precisely what that emotion felt like.
Every once in a while, though, a small shiver of compunction runs through our collective nervous system, like phantom pain […]
In three other matches, Harriet the Lariat soundly thrashed Rover Boy on each occasion. The Cow Palace match was by far the most humiliating for Rover as the Lariat toyed with him by refusing to pin him. Instead she maintained a barrage of drop kicks, rope jumps and even two sleeper holds to show her […]
I saw this intriguing headline at Huffington Post:
“Parents Try to Censor Gay Penguin Book”
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Please the real story here.
BLOWIN’ in the WIND
sbc.senate.gov
This is from Media Matters by Howard Kurtz…
The press–especially a NYT piece by Mark Leibovich–has played up the angle that Joe Lieberman’s Democratic friends walked away from him when he ran as an independent and now are gingerly welcoming him back to the fold (and praying he doesn’t bolt to […]
Putting the bull’s-eye back in Xmas…
“1 shot in Conn. Playstation waiting line”
“In other states, customers pushed and shoved their way to the shelves to get at the limited supply…”
“…in Kentucky, four people were grazed by BBs fired from a passing vehicle as they waited for a Best Buy store to open.”
“In Palmdale, Calif., authorities shut […]
“Unleash the Shiites?
The U.S. may be forced to choose sides in Iraq’s civil strife.
By Laura Rozen,
LAURA ROZEN, a senior correspondent for the American Prospect, writes about foreign policy issues from Washington.
November 16, 2006
AS SECTARIAN violence rises in Iraq and the White House comes under increasing pressure to revamp its strategy there, a debate is emerging […]
‘Thursday, November 16, 2006
Alito headlines Federalist Society convention
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and a half dozen other federal judges nominated by President Bush are taking part in the Federalist Society’s annual convention that began Thursday, a measure of the conservative organization’s influence in the nation’s legal system.
Solicitor General Paul Clement, the Bush […]
‘”BEIJING, Nov. 12 — Some 2,000 people mobbed and ransacked a hospital in southwestern China on Friday in a dispute over medical fees and shoddy health care practices, a human rights group said Sunday.”‘
Please find the New York Times story here.
‘On the November 14 edition of his CNN Headline News program, Glenn Beck interviewed Rep.-elect Keith Ellison (D-MN), who became the first Muslim ever elected to Congress on November 7, and asked Ellison if he could “have five minutes here where we’re just politically incorrect and I play the cards up on the table.” After […]
From each of the five lists below, find the name or term
which does not belong with the the rest.
1—York…Brighton…Hollywood…Manchester…Columbia
2—Steven…Richard…David…Prince…Gregory
3—J Lo…Jessica Simpson…Britney Spears…Paris Hilton…Santana
4—French Connection…Paris Blues…Rampage…Psycho…Impulse
5—wolverine…pony…badger…lizard…caterpillar
“Manatees may be smarter than we think”
AP headline on Yahoo.com–November 11, 2006
“Apropos of the Haggard business, the U.S. has too many
mega-churches. With so many clergymen running around, scandals like
this invariably happen. We need to cut down on the number of
congregations — consolidate them. What we need are a handful of
giga-churches — so America can maximize the reach of the few
remaining clergy of impeccable heterosexual credentials. The […]
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Images: (Office) Susana Rabb for the New York Times; (Walk) Pool photo by David Hume Kennerly in the New York Times