Ted, I don’t think you’re talking to the right guy about displaced persons. Quick! What’s the population of New Orleans?
We Can’t Ignore Iraq’s Refugees
By Edward M. Kennedy
Saturday, December 30, 2006; Page A21
With the nation still at war in Iraq, each of us is deeply grateful to the brave men and women in our armed forces […]
W is napping.
Down on the war
Poll: More troops unhappy with Bush’s course in Iraq
By Robert Hodierne
Senior managing editor
The American military — once a staunch supporter of President Bush and the Iraq war — has grown in creasingly pessimistic about chances for victory.
For the first time, more troops disapprove of the president’s han dling of the […]
How can this be true?
Noah’s flood etched the Grand Canyon?
Dinosaurs and man were coevals?
December 30th, 2006
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‘“Grand Canyon National Park is not permitted to give an official estimate of the geologic age of its principal feature, due to pressure from Bush administration appointees. Despite promising a prompt review of its approval for […]
Sunday: “Why I oughta…”
Wednesday: “Anything you say, Mr. President. Should I squeak louder?”
On any given Sunday morning interview program, Senator Specter (R-PA) appears like this to growl at the White House about topics which boil his blood.
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Yet, by Wednesday he transforms into Aunt Bee with a severe agoraphobia affliction.
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Please find the video and story […]
That Dick ‘n Don were close will really make it easy
for Condi’s new found power.
Rice still struggling for success after two years as top US diplomat
by David Millikin Thu Dec 28, 7:41 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) -
Condoleezza Rice wraps up her first two years as secretary of state with few diplomatic successes to show for her […]
Snakes’ strange behavior may predict earthquakes
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Thu Dec 28, 9:42 AM ET
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has come up with an earthquake prediction system which relies on the behavior of snakes, state media said Thursday, two days after two quakes struck off neighboring Taiwan.
Please find the story here.
Images: (ford cobra) dealsonwheels.com; (real cobra) formosanfattire.com (suitcases) ginisty.typepad.com;(cooler) antiquemystique.com; […]
Report: Apple executives faked stock option documents
Apple’s probe into its stock options backdating mess has determined that documents were falsified, according to report.
By Tom Krazit
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: December 27, 2006, 1:57 PM PST
Last modified: December 27, 2006, 9:02 AM PST
Tell us what you think about this storyTalkBack E-mail this story to a friendE-mail View […]
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Images: unionarena.org; rc-airplane-world.com
It seems as if Bob Woodward didn’t want too bring down heat
by sitting on news stories until a book was ready.
Ford Disagreed With Bush About Invading Iraq
By Bob Woodward
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 28, 2006; Page A01
Former president Gerald R. Ford said in an embargoed interview in July 2004 that the Iraq war was not […]
Ohio Gov. Taft reprimanded over ethics
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, Associated Press Writer Wed Dec 27, 5:10 PM ET
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The state Supreme Court on Wednesday publicly reprimanded Ohio Gov. Bob Taft for his ethics violations in office, a black mark that will stay on his permanent record as an attorney.
Taft, 64, a Republican and great-grandson […]
“Thailand tree apes use song as warning
By MICHAEL CASEY, AP Environmental Writer 1 hour, 3 minutes ago
BANGKOK, Thailand - Wah, wow, hoo! Turns out humans aren’t the only primates using songs to warn of life’s dangers and travails. White-handed gibbons in Thailand’s forests have been found to communicate threats from predators by singing — the […]
Is that the same Louis Freeh who oversaw non-action before 9/11,
then wrote a book which bit the hand that had fed him?
DaimlerChrysler hires ex-FBI head Freeh amid probe
Tue Dec 26, 11:04 AM ET
DaimlerChrysler AG (DCXGn.DE) (NYSE:DCX - news) has hired former FBI Director Louis Freeh to serve as an independent monitor as it concludes […]
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Image: nosferatu(wikipedia); (bush) AP via nos.n
from the front page of the New York Times–below the fold.
“Hey, kids! It’s the Bonus Army–2006 edition.”
“December 25, 2006
Wall St. Bonuses: So Much Money, Too Few Ferraris
By JENNY ANDERSON
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For Wall Street’s elite, the sky may well be the limit.
In recent weeks, immense riches have been rained upon the top bankers and traders. […]
Most of you may not remember this, but Ronnie Reagan’s widow,
Nancy, and James Whitmore starred in a 1950 epic entitled
THE NEXT VOICE YOU HEAR.
In that film, God spoke over AM radio
instead of being channeled through notes
from airline passengers.
“Fox: Threatening ‘note from God’ grounds plane at NY airport
RAW STORY
Published: Sunday December 24, 2006
FOX News Channel is […]
Don’t we have a enough problems for the moment?
The Muslims are taking over the Congress and
will steal all the white Christian women for chrissakes!
“Fla. Lawmaker Acknowledges Castro Remark
Dec 23, 7:04 PM (ET)
MIAMI (AP) - A Florida congresswoman acknowledged Saturday calling for Fidel Castro’s assassination after earlier claiming a video clip of her making the comments […]
I wonder if he were doing some last minute shopping which has been a main story on CNN,, FOX and MSNBC all day.
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This undated photo, which has been handed out by the U.S military shows Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Osmani. A top Taliban military commander described as a close associate of Osama bin Laden and […]
Hadn’t that Turkmenibashi fellow banned Global Warming
along with the Hippocratic Oath?
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The British INDEPENDENT reports that some bears have stopped hibernating because of global warming. The article also mentions other freakish occurrences because of the world’s head-in-the-sand attitude toward this catastrophe waiting to explode.
Meanwhile, the extra, waking, leisure time allowed by not hibernating has caused social […]
Take a gander at Dan Froomkin’s White House Briefing column is an overview of W’s year.
Please find the column at the Washington Post.
In more genteel days, people would pay to watch side-show workers
bite the heads off live chickens.
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Media Matters for America listed what they considered the radically conservative side’s “most outrageous comments of 2006.” Remember, these were not found on secret tapes or overheard in the locker room of an ‘exclusive’ country club, but burst onto the […]
The quotes are telling, but the scrapbook photographs
round out the personality.
December 21, 2006
Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmen Leader, Dies at 66
By C. J. CHIVERS
MOSCOW, Dec. 21 — Saparmurat Niyazov, the authoritarian president of Turkmenistan, died unexpectedly today, the Turkmen government said, raising questions about succession and stability in a nation that is an essential supplier of energy […]
Goodness! It’s another grotesque example of corporate welfare.
The Teapot Dome was nothing when placed against W’s transgressions.
December 22, 2006
“Incentives on Oil Barely Help U.S., Study Suggests
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
New York Times
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 — The United States offers some of the most lucrative incentives in the world to companies that drill for oil in publicly […]
If Southern Methodist University
decides to forego
the $500,000,000 W library and
reputation-rehabilitation factory,
I have a possible repository
for W’s presidential papers.
The University of Phoenix may want them.
The SIMPSONS did this ten years ago
in an episode entitled HOMER’S PHOBIA.
N.J. Gov to Make Gay Unions Official
Thursday, December 21, 2006 4:46 AM EST
The Associated Press
By TOM HESTER Jr.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP)
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I must say that when I was a United Steelworkers’ Union member
under I. W. Abel, the rank-and-file certainly played it close to the vest. […]
How dare anyone think it had anything to do with disagreeing with our favorite sneering rich kid?!
Top general in Mideast to retire
Abizaid opposed calls for more troops in Iraq. His departure could clear way for a more aggressive strategy.
By Peter Spiegel, Times Staff Writer
“December 20, 2006
WASHINGTON — Army Gen. John P. Abizaid, commander of […]
All of ‘em went to Tennessee, Abdul.
‘In Letter, GOP Rep Fears Influx of Muslims
By Paul Kiel - December 19, 2006, 4:29 PM
In a letter sent out to select supporters earlier this month reacting to the controversy (among certain extreme conservatives, at least) over Muslim representative-elect Keith Ellison’s (D-MN) decision to be sworn in on the […]
Ah, yes. Here’s another example of form following function. While I had not realized Edinburgh had a Carnaby Street, someone solved the problem by using only 40% of the cloth on the new kilts.
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“Scottish troops must share scarce kilts
By BEN McCONVILLE Mon Dec 18, 3:40 PM ET
LONDON - Great Scot! A shortage of ceremonial kilts […]
‘French troops had bin Laden in sights: documentary
By Francois Murphy Tue Dec 19, 1:55 PM ET
PARIS (Reuters) - A documentary says French special forces had
Osama bin Laden in their sights twice about three years ago but their U.S. superiors never ordered them to fire.
The French military, however, said that the incidents never happened and the […]