Should the Democratic Party place its future in her hands? Let there not be another Clinton or Bush in the White House until we recover from their families’ combined insults to the American system.
We are now in our 26th consecutive year of Republican and Trompe L’Oeil Democratic rule. The middle class is reeling, […]
Source: JAMA and Archives Journals
Date: February 28, 2007
Use Of Some Antioxidant Supplements May Increase Mortality Risk
Science Daily — Contradicting claims of disease prevention, an analysis of previous studies indicates that the antioxidant supplements beta carotene, vitamin A, and vitamin E may increase the risk of death, […]
Governors Told Not To Ask Questions About Iraq Troop Withdrawal
The Huffington Post | Melinda Henneberger | Posted February 27, 2007 11:48 AM
Before their Iraq briefing at the White House yesterday, the nation’s governors were instructed that they were not to ask any pesky questions about a timetable for […]
the Democrats almost provide the logic behind Nader’s ridiculous spoiler runs.
Democratic leaders revamp anti-war plan1 hour, 9 minutes ago
House Democratic leaders are developing an anti-war proposal that wouldn’t cut off money for U.S. troops in Iraq but would require President Bush to acknowledge problems with an overburdened military.
The plan could draw bipartisan support but is […]
This is a Naomi Campbell photo-phree site.
Supermodel Naomi Campbell regrets hitting maid with phone
AP
(2/28/07 - NEW YORK) - Naomi Campbell says she very much regrets losing her temper and hitting her maid with a cell phone over a pair of missing jeans last year. “I felt very remorseful for having thrown the phone at […]
After having read the New York Times op-ed piece about the purloined piano pieces recorded before the death of Ms. Joyce Hatto, Joe Masi, a pal in D.C., sent me this short note…
“She made several uncannily expert vocal recordings, too:
Joyce Hatto and Basie Live at the Sands
Chances Are it’s Joyce Hatto (Odds Are It Ain’t)
White […]
Study: College students more narcissistic
By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer Tue Feb 27, 12:32 AM ET
NEW YORK - Today’s college students are more narcissistic and self-centered than their predecessors, according to a comprehensive new study by five psychologists who worry that the trend could be harmful to personal relationships and American society.
Please find the story […]
sometimes laid it on thick, take a gander at this op-ed piece in today’s New York Times.
February 26, 2007
Op-Ed Contributor
Shoot the Piano Player
By DENIS DUTTON
Christchurch, New Zealand
IT seemed almost too good to be true, and in the end it was. A conscientious pianist who had enjoyed an active if undistinguished career in London falls […]
like Billy Sol Hurok on SCTV!”
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CNN LATE EDITION with WOLF BLITZER FEBRUARY 25, 2007
INTERVIEW WITH SEYMOUR HERSH
About his article in New Yorker Magazine
(excerpt from transcript)
BLITZER: Explain what you were hearing, because that’s obviously a very explosive charge.
HERSH: Yes, it’s probably the single most explosive, if you will, or depressing or distressing sort of thing […]
POLL: Americans Strongly Support Murtha’s Iraq Plan
The Washington Post editorial board — which four years ago called President Bush’s plan for war in Iraq “an operation essential to American security” — is now harshly attacking Rep. John Murtha’s (D-PA) effort to increase support for the overstretched U.S. military and restrain Bush’s Iraq escalation.
The Post claims […]
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Claims about Jesus’ ‘lost tomb’ stir up tempest
Experts blast suggestions that his bones were found in 1980
By Marshall Thompson
JERUSALEM - Archaeologists and clergymen in the Holy Land derided claims in a new documentary produced by James Cameron that contradict major Christian tenets, but the Oscar-winning director said the evidence was based on sound statistics.
“The Lost […]
because they realize the war is wrong, the war is a strategic and tactical disaster and that further useless surges will only further weaken our war on the terrorists which will be a constant threat. Nevertheless, many of the Democrats tremble in the amorphously gigantic shadow of Dick!
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War Critic Faces Test on Iraq Spending Bill
By […]
Where was the following article published?
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Critics: Army holding down disability ratings
By Kelly Kennedy - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Feb 25, 2007 9:04:49 EST
The Army is deliberately shortchanging troops on their disability retirement ratings to hold down costs, according to veterans’ advocates, lawyers and services members, and the Inspector General has identified 87 problems in the […]
The Sunday Times
February 25, 2007
US generals ‘will quit’ if Bush orders Iran attack
Michael Smith and Sarah Baxter, Washington
SOME of America’s most senior military commanders are prepared to resign if the White House orders a military strike against Iran, according to highly placed defence and intelligence sources.
Tension in the Gulf region has raised fears that an […]
Last year, I blogged about the ever increasing girth of Listerine. To refresh…
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As a life-long dilettante of package design(In lieu of joining the Cub Scouts,I had considered forming a Raymond Loewy Fan Club), I have often tried to peer into the murky future of the art.
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Why anyone would go out of their way to be humiliated is beyond me. Then again, Greencastle, Indiana may not offer the cultural opportunities of say–Muncie.
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February 25, 2007
Sorority Evictions Raise Issue of Looks and Bias
By SAM DILLON
GREENCASTLE, Ind. — When a psychology professor at DePauw University here surveyed students, they described one sorority as […]
THE NEW YORK SUN
February 24, 2007 Edition
Romney and Polygamy
BY JENNIFER DOBNER - Associated Press
February 24, 2007
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - While former Governor Romney of Massachusetts condemns polygamy and its prior practice by his Mormon church, the Republican presidential candidate’s great-grandfather had five wives and at least one of his great-great grandfathers had 12.
Polygamy was […]
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Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi, Iranian Deputy Ambassador to United Nations, speaks at a Security Council Meeting at U.N. Headquarters in New York Friday, Feb. 23, 2007.
(AP Photo/David Karp)
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Mehdi recently purchased an Iranian best-seller at Tehran’s
Ann Dvorak International Airport.
Entitled, HOW TO POKE A STICK IN THE EYE OF A MEAN-SPIRITED, DELUSIONAL GORILLA & CAUSE DAYGLO MUSHROOM CLOUDS […]
which gushes over the excesses of mega-corporations, this latest insult to the American system is a mere trifle.
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(From Dr. Pepper Contest website–with added ideas not contained in original.)
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New promo campaign angers Boston
1 hour, 7 minutes ago
BOSTON - Less than a month after highways and bridges were shut down during a bomb scare touched off by […]
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A Lebanese man holds a cluster bomb. Dozens of countries pushing for a worldwide ban on cluster bombs met in Oslo on Thursday for two days of talks, but key nations Israel and the United States were noticeable by their absence.(AFP/File/Ramzi Haidar)
46 of 49 nations OK ban on cluster bombs
By DOUG MELLGREN, Associated Press Writer […]
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Brendan Smialowski / Getty Images file (MSNBC)
Speaker Pelosi–Smarter, Tougher, Better.
Cheney won’t take back Pelosi comment
Fri Feb 23, 9:41 AM ET
WASHINGTON - Vice President
Dick Cheney refused Friday to take back his charge that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record)’s opposition to President Bush’s Iraq war buildup is playing into the hands of the al-Qaida […]
Forgive the cheap one-liner.
Seriously, Folks. In a male-centric world, logic and fact usually takes the back seat to chest-pounding. Why would not the following theory be true?
Women may have invented weapons
* Mark Henderson
* February 24, 2007
THE survival techniques of West African chimpanzees have revealed that the first human weapons may have been developed by […]
US intelligence on Iran proves ‘unfounded’
MUCH of the intelligence on Iran’s nuclear facilities provided to UN inspectors by American spy agencies has turned out to be unfounded, according to diplomatic sources in Vienna.
The claims come as the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany, prepare to draft a second sanctions resolution on […]
Clooney: I’ve had plastic surgery
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George Clooney has admitted that he has had cosmetic surgery.
The 45-year-old actor, who holds the title of sexiest man alive, revealed his surgery secret to actress friend Julia Roberts in a TV interview.
Asked what had been the last biggest change in his life, he told her: “I had my eyes done. […]
“Capt. Christopher Heathscott, a spokesman for the Arkansas National Guard, said the state’s 39th Brigade Combat Team was 600 rifles short for its 3,500 soldiers and also lacked its full arsenal of mortars and howitzers.”
–National Guard May Undertake Iraq Duty Early
By DAVID S. CLOUD, The New York Times, February 22, 2007
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Please view this Robert Greenwald Brave New Films piece
FOX ATTACKS OBAMA
here.
Spitting on the Sidewalk, Pulling Labels from Furniture Cushions, D & D, B & E and Crossing State Lines for the Purpose of Avoiding Prosecution.
Book ‘em, Danno!
Audit finds that immigration, fraud, drug cases counted among U.S. anti-terror statistics
The Associated Press
Published: February 20, 2007
WASHINGTON: Federal prosecutors counted immigration violations, marriage fraud and drug trafficking among […]
Maybe we can use urea formaldehyde as hair gel and men can finally buy that asbestos formalwear which had been off the market too many years. Tris is for kids and the little tykes will finally be able to purchase all the lead Halloween face paint they’ll ever need. Hooray!!!
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Here is a nice summary of Tony Snow’s latest incomparable bouncing around White House incompetence and deceit– from our pals at Think Progress.
‘In today’s press briefing, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Tony Snow about the Washington Post’s two-part series over the weekend, highlighting the Walter Reed hospital’s dilapidated conditions. Snow stated that […]
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New York Times
February 20, 2007
Trial Spotlights Cheney’s Power as an Infighter
By JIM RUTENBERG
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 — A picture taking shape from hours of testimony and reams of documents in the trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr. shatters any notion that the White House was operating as a model of cohesion throughout President Bush’s first term.
The […]
seventy-two-year-old, lesbian, African-Hispanic American woman who doesn’t believe in a god, but over the course of three marriages had decided to try the off-shoot religion of ‘Jews for Joe Smith.’
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“While Americans overwhelmingly say they would vote for a black, woman, Catholic, or Hispanic president, they are less likely to say they would support a […]
a Herbert Hoover P.R. bonanza compared to what follows. These may be the most obscene examples of W’s ‘Sportin’ the Troops!!
Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration At Army’s Top Medical Facility
By Dana Priest and Anne Hull
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, February 18, 2007; A01
Behind the door of Army Spec. Jeremy Duncan’s room, part of the wall is torn […]
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I think it happened when the food giant decided to corner the market on popcorn, margarine and processed snack meats.
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Where’s the Accountability?
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Friday, February 16, 2007; 12:52 PM
It seems almost inconceivable: The White House actually invites the press corps to hold […]
Happy Birthday, Abe: Gallup Finds Lincoln Now Tops Reagan as All-Time Best Prez
By E&P Staff
Published: February 19, 2007 10:15 PM ET
NEW YORK Just in time for President’s Day, a new Gallup poll finds Abraham Lincoln now topping Ronald Reagan as the public’s idea of the greatest U.S. president ever.
Honest Abe—18%
Ronnie——–16
JFK———–14
Bubba——–13
FDR———–9
Father of the Country
Give ‘Em Hell […]