Big deal! Two women have written screeds about the Church of Bill Donohue who during more enlightened days of the Holy See would not have been allowed within a mile of a microphone. I’m sure they are not as radicalized as many retired nuns who had kept quiet for too many years.
Edwards Decision To Keep […]
The administration supports America’s Firefighters with the same verve used to “’sport the troops.”
Flaws found in firefighters’ last line of defense
U.S. waited 5 years to heed expert’s warning on ‘man down’ alarms
By Bill Dedman
Investigative reporter
An MSNBC Special Report
Updated: 1 hour, 42 minutes ago
Worn by a million firefighters in the U.S., the PASS device is […]
This can’t be! It’s completely out of character for the family. Not Uncle Bucky Bush! There must be some mistake.
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Bush’s uncle tangled in options probe: SEC
Wed Feb 7, 2007 5:30pm ET
By Tim McLaughlin
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President George W. Bush’s uncle, William H.T. “Bucky” Bush, was part of a group of outside directors at a […]
Since when is driving a Studebaker a fireable offense?
Justice Department Attorney Defends Firings
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 6, 2007; 4:06 PM
The Justice Department removed a prosecutor in Arkansas without cause in order to make room for a former aide to presidential adviser Karl Rove aide, a senior Justice official conceded in testimony […]
I hope this teaches the press about their cutesy little parties involving the presidents.
Russert Says He Didn’t Tell Libby About CIA Officer
Journalist Says He Learned Plame’s Role After Leak
By Carol D. Leonnig and Amy Goldstein
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, February 8, 2007; A04
Tim Russert, the Washington bureau chief for NBC News, yesterday swiftly and firmly rejected […]
I’ve never met Doug Thompson, but his rants always make me feel as if I follow the Aristotelean Mean.
Out of control and beyond reality
By DOUG THOMPSON
Let’s face the sad truth. The United States of America is a nation out of control, spiraling downward at an alarming rate, controlled by a cabal of manipulative political […]
This story reminds me of the tag-team staging of hapless professional wrestling referees.
Military: No Gitmo Guard Abuse Evident
U.S. military investigation reports no evidence guards beat Guantanamo detainees
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Feb. 7, 2007
By MICHAEL MELIA Associated Press Writer
(AP) An Army officer who investigated possible abuse at Guantanamo Bay after some guards purportedly bragged about beating […]
A friend in Chicago responds to the New York Times story found at the bottom of this post.
February 7th, 2007
In what has become almost a daily event — the breaking of a story of new evidence of perfidy or incompetence — you find this, a rather non-descript story about bureaucracy. It’s really the sort of […]
Wasn’t ‘Phallic Connotations’ the Hendrix album directly after’Axis Bold As Love?’
Prince’s halftime imagery questioned…had phallic connotations for some.
By JAKE COYLE, AP Entertainment Writer Tue Feb 6, 11:16 PM ET
NEW YORK - In the sensitive post-wardrobe malfunction world, some are questioning whether a guitar was just a guitar during Prince’s Super Bowl halftime show.
Prince’s acclaimed performance […]
Bremer Paid “Ghost Employees” To Avoid “Real Trouble”
The Huffington Post Melinda Henneberger Posted February 6, 2007 08:22 PM
Paul Bremer told members of Congress today that he was aware that nonexistent “ghost employees” were on America’s payroll when he was administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq in 2003 and 2004.
But because the real employees […]
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I always loved this photograph of the singer.
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1950s singer Frankie Laine dies at 93
February 6, 2007
LOS ANGELES - Frankie Laine, the big-voiced singer whose string of hits made him one of the most popular entertainers in the 1950s, died Tuesday. He was 93.
Laine died of heart failure at Mercy Hospital in San Diego, Jimmy Marino, […]
I hope no one has trouble with their Junior Wage Servant Lead Smelter.
985,000 Easy-Bake Ovens are recalled
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An Easy-Bake Oven is seen in an undated file photo. Hasbro Inc. agreed on Tuesday to voluntarily recall nearly 1 million of its toy Easy-Bake Ovens because children’s hands can get caught in the opening, the U.S. Consumer Product […]
”He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death”
–Thomas Paine at the grand opening of a Packard automobile dealership in Muncie, Indiana, 1952
The arrogance of asking billions of dollars for war and further tax cuts for the very wealthy […]
This is definitely a sad story one usually doesn’t see.
Astronaut charged with kidnap attempt
By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press Writer 4 minutes ago
ORLANDO, Fla. - An astronaut drove from Houston to Florida, donned a disguise and confronted a woman she believed was romantically involved with a space shuttle pilot she was in love with, police said. […]
Agence France Presses
Mon Feb 5, 10:50 AM ET
A French-led marine expedition has discovered thousands of new species of crustaceans and mollusks in waters around the central Philippines.
The discovery was made by the Panglao Marine Biodiversity Project, which has been conducting “an intensive inventory” of the complex coastal ecosystem off Panglao island for the past two […]
Periodically, you will see my references to North Dakota as “Not South Dakota” or East Hawaii. Here is the reason.
New Name ‘Dakota’ Gets a Cold Shoulder
AP
Published: March 26, 1989
LEAD: The Legislature has refused to call a referendum on dropping ‘’North’’ and renaming this state Dakota, deciding North Dakota will be just as cold by any […]
Ms. Miller had failed to realize that Curly’s best move was spinning on the floor by using his left arm as fulcrum while screaming, “Moe, Larry Cheese!”
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In a touching scene outside the Federal Courthouse in Washington, DC, a photographer caught Judith Miller’s reflection on the window of Scooter Libby’s limousine. In an attempt to bring […]
February 4, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
Why Dick Cheney Cracked Up
By FRANK RICH
IN the days since Dick Cheney lost it on CNN, our nation’s armchair shrinks have had a blast. The vice president who boasted of “enormous successes” in Iraq and barked “hogwash” at the congenitally mild Wolf Blitzer has been roundly judged delusional, pathologically dishonest or just […]
Why did it take so damned long to discover that like the rest of this regime, Ms. Rice is winging it.
Thanks in advance to
Petula Clark…
When you’re pawn
And life is treating you wrongly,
You can always go Midtown
When they’ve got querries,
All the news and the fury
Seems to sap, I know, Midtown
Just hasten to the retail of […]
At least she deserves credit for attempting to stop run-away performers’ salaries and for using the edgy title.
From PAGE SIX of the New York Post…
February 4, 2007 — BEYONCÉ, one of the highest-paid women in show business, doesn’t seem to have much sympathy for those still struggling to see their names in lights, according to […]
Yahoo News Page As of 10:28 a.m. EST
•’Mastodon tooth fossil found in Canada remains a mystery’
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Mastodon tooth fossil remains a mystery
By BLAKE NICHOLSON, Associated Press Writer Sat Feb 3, 8:33 AM ET
BISMARCK, N.D. - A mastodon tooth fossil found in an Ontario, Canada, attic remains a mystery, after a paleontologist concluded it does […]
His campaign is about to coalesce around professional thugs.
February 4, 2007
New McCain Team Made Attack Ads He Once Faulted
By JIM RUTENBERG
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 — Senator John McCain, intent on succeeding where his freewheeling presidential campaign of 2000 failed, is assembling a team of political bruisers for 2008. And it includes advisers who once sought to […]
I like the way Rush circles the litter like a dog before he finally settles on just the right spot.
Global warming sees polar bears stranded on melting ice
By BILL MOULAND - Last updated at 22:00pm on 1st February 2007
They cling precariously to the top of what is left of the ice floe, their fragile grip […]
Ordinarily, I bypass these ridiculous stories in order to discuss pressing topics like nuclear-powered toothbrushes and polar bears’ addiction to gummethamphetamines, but a term in the following article confused me.
The winner of the chicken wing-eating contest is a “professional competitive eater.” By whose authority and under which umbrella organization does this designation sprout? Is there […]
Paul Begala may be right. These guys would rather climb a tree to lie than stand on the ground and tell the truth.
Bush’s levee budget upsets Vitter
He says it undermines pledge of protection
Friday, February 02, 2007
By Bill Walsh
Washington bureau
WASHINGTON — President Bush is expected to shift $1.3 billion away from raising and armoring levees, installing […]
I may be missing the subtle logic, but something does not feel right about this one. I could more easily accept asssisted suicide for people who must live in Switzerland.
Swiss may expand assisted suicide law
1 hour, 50 minutes ago
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - A ruling by Switzerland’s highest court released Friday has opened up the possibility that […]
Last Updated: Friday, 2 February 2007, 11:31 GMT
Russia probes smelly orange snow
Russia has flown a team of chemical experts to a Siberian region to find out why smelly, coloured snow has been falling over several towns.
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Oily yellow and orange snowflakes fell over an area of more than 1,500sq km (570sq miles) in the Omsk region […]
“Punxsutawney Phil predicts early spring
Fri Feb 2, 7:34 AM ET
A new pair of hands pulled him from his stump this year, so it was only fitting that Punxsutawney Phil offered a new prediction.
The groundhog did not see his shadow Friday which, according to German folklore, means folks can expect an early spring instead of six […]
The French have a phrase for the immutability of life, it goes “Merde!!”
Wherever a Senator’s Question Leads, Kissinger Gamely Follows
By Dana Milbank
Thursday, February 1, 2007; A02
So now it can be told: President Bush has a secret plan to end the war in Iraq.
Henry Kissinger, who as Richard Nixon’s secretary of state learned something about secret […]
On the Don Imus program this morning, someone mentioned that Exxon-Mobil contributed nothing to the Iraq War Veterans’ rehabilitation hospital–Center for the Intrepid. I can only hope that was a mis-statement.
Exxon Mobil posts record annual profit
By JOHN PORRETTO, AP Business Writer 1 hour, 6 minutes ago
HOUSTON - Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. on Thursday posted […]
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from DefenseTech.org
Breaking: Double the Troops in “Surge” (Updated)
President Bush and his new military chiefs have been saying for nearly a month that they would “surge” an additional 21,500 troops to Iraq, in a last, grand push to quell the violence in Baghdad and in Anbar Province. But a new study by the non-partisan Congressional Budget […]
As a Roman Catholic of some ilk, I know from Holy Days. Nevertheless, I am beginning to feel that Islam may celebrate too many special religious days and–by observing newspaper reports over the past twenty years–all of the Holy Days seem to carry “most sacred” as a qualifier. When one considers the carnage which occurs, […]
I know. Mr. Thompson’s fears seem far-fetched, but what have we seen in the past six years? A friend in Boston uses the Martian analogy for problems like this. Had a Martian spent the last six years in this country, would the E.T. think Mr. Thompson off the mark?
Bush’s plan to destroy America
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