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Lieberman Flexing His Muscles
Mar 19 2007 12:00AM
http://sayanythingblog.com/index.php
The Senate in the Balance:
“I wouldn’t rule [a switch to the GOP] out,” Leiberman says to O’Donnell, adding that “my real hope here is to stay and fight for the kind of Democratic Party I joined when John F. Kennedy was president.” He also says that he could support […]
Washington Post, DC - Mar 19, 2007
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A bottlenose dolphin hitchhiking near El Paso.
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Images: (dolphin) weeksbay.org; (road) daveandtele.com; (sign) kohm.org
Please find this story from The Washington Post at Google News.
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White House offers interview with Rove
Associated Press
By PETE YOST
The White House offered Tuesday to make political strategist Karl Rove and former counsel Harriet Miers available for congressional interviews — but not testimony under oath — in the investigation of the firing of eight federal prosecutors.
Sen. Charles Schumer (news, bio, voting record), D-N.Y., said he would […]
Add the AP story to this Think Progress idea and one finds
NO ONE MESSES WITH DICK!
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Feinstein: Questions on firing of prosecutor in Cunningham case
By Erica Werner
ASSOCIATED PRESS
1:46 p.m. March 19, 2007
WASHINGTON – The day after then-U.S. Attorney Carol Lam in San Diego notified the Justice Department of warrants in a corruption case focused on […]
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Here are a few snippets from Frank Rich’s Iraq War Anniversary column.
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March 18, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
The Ides of March 2003
By FRANK RICH
March 5, 2003
“I took the Grey Poupon out of my cupboard.”
— Representative Duke Cunningham, Republican of California, on the floor of the House denouncing French opposition to the Iraq war.
[In November 2005, he resigned […]
Smithsonian Documents Detail Chief’s Expenses
Invoices Include Work on Home of Secretary Small
By James V. Grimaldi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, March 19, 2007; Page A01
Internal Smithsonian documents offer a glimpse into what one senator called the “Dom Perignon” lifestyle of the taxpayer-supported institution’s chief official, who turned in a $15,000 receipt for the replacement of French doors […]
Tim Russert should be ashamed
Written by Doug Thompson
Monday, 19 March 2007
I’m trying, and failing, to understand why Meet the Press gave an indicted former member of Congress, a corrupt politician who resigned in disgrace, a forum upon which to espouse hate and division Sunday as President George W. Bush’s illegal and immoral Iraq war enters […]
March 18, 2007
G.O.P. Anger in Swing State Eased Attorney’s Exit
By CHRISTOPHER DREW and ERIC LIPTON
ALBUQUERQUE, March 17 — The first whiff of something suspicious came when a 15-year-old boy received a voter registration card in the mail. Soon a second one arrived. Then his 13-year-old neighbor got one, too.
Neither boy had applied for the cards, […]
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“Now, Officer, whah dincha listen ta me inna furse place. The man on mah raht says ah’m ta practice law in Washington state. Whad ya hafta go ‘n make the l’il un cry inna back. We’uz jus’ lookin’ foh a place foh him ta take a leak.”
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Local News: Saturday, March 17, 2007
U.S. attorney […]
New Trend in Organ Donation Raises Questions
As Alternative Approach Becomes More Frequent, Doctors Worry That It Puts Donors at Risk
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“But, Doctor Massey. Wearing dark glasses doesn’t mean you are dead. Besides, I cannot extract his pancreas and spleen in a roomette on the Twentieth Century Limited. ”
By Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 18, […]
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III has taken responsibility for problems with the collection of records. He said that agents made mistakes in their use of “exigent circumstance letters” and that he has banned the use of such letters. Nevertheless, Bob refuses to allow his agents to wreck his Fizz.
camera works […]
LA CUMPARSITA
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Passengers stuck on grounded planes tell horror stories
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The stories would have probably been more frightening with a flashlight under the chin of the story teller.
POSTED: 8:24 p.m. EDT, March 17, 2007
Story Highlights
• Passengers say there seemed to be a shortage of deicing fluid at JFK airport
• One angry flyer says he sat on grounded […]
This is a portion of Think Progress’ coverage of the Valerie Plame Wilson hearing on Friday, March 16.
This morning, in her testimony under oath before the House Government and Oversight Committee, Valerie Plame Wilson asserted that she was in fact a covert officer at the time that columnist Robert Novak revealed her employment at the […]
The universe is a string-net liquid
* 15 March 2007
* From New Scientist Print Edition.
* Zeeya Merali
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(Image: Elmar Lackner/Mindat)
In 1998, just after he won a share of the Nobel prize for physics, Robert Laughlin of Stanford University in California was asked how his discovery of “particles” with fractional charge, now called quasi-particles, would affect the lives […]
“Trump has harsh words for Bush Administration
WASHINGTON (CNN) –
The business mogul didn’t hold back in criticizing the administration in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Friday, calling President Bush, “probably the worst president in the history of the United States.”
In an unconfirmed, rush transcript from his appearance on Wolf Blitzer’s Situation Room, the poof-aired real […]
‘Yahoo Betrayed My Husband’
Wired
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Yu Ling, 55, last visited her husband in a Beijing prison March 5th. She boarded a flight to the United States the next day, intent on holding Yahoo accountable for helping unmask him to the repressive Chinese government. Photo: China Information Center
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Yu Ling and her husband Wang Xiaoning are shown in a […]
n’ don’t be bleedin’ onna shag. Bleedin’ onna shag’s a naht inna box.”
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VIP ward at Walter Reed gets scrutiny
Posted 14h 25m ago
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No mice or mold in sight in one of the six VIP suites
at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. By Tim Dillon, USA TODAY
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By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY
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Disclosures of substandard housing for […]
The Wrath Of Tom DeLay
By Robert D. Novak
Thursday, March 15, 2007; A19
Newt Gingrich’s attempted phoenix-like rise from his own political ashes to a presidential candidacy will run next week into a harsh assessment by his former House Republican colleague Tom DeLay. The former majority leader’s forthcoming memoir assails Gingrich as an “ineffective” House speaker with […]
blame the woman…especially if she no longer works there.
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None of the Michael Keaton bits work on Harriet.
Could it be that she sees Elvis?
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ABC EXCLUSIVE: E-Mails Show Rove’s Role in U.S. Attorney Firings
White House Asserts E-Mails Are Consistent With Its Original Statements on the Controversy
By JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG
March 15, 2007 — - New unreleased emails […]
DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE
Internal Affairs
Aborted DOJ Probe Probably Would Have Targeted Gonzales
By Murray Waas, National Journal
© National Journal Group Inc.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Shortly before Attorney General Alberto Gonzales advised President Bush last year on whether to shut down a Justice Department inquiry regarding the administration’s warrantless domestic eavesdropping program, Gonzales learned that his own conduct would likely […]
Cisco agrees to buy Web conferencing company WebEx for $3.2 billion
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Please find the entire, thrilling episode at The International Herald Tribune.
We know this guy is a dog, but is he also an egomaniac? Or, is he a living proof of the futility of torture?
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In a file photo Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan Saturday March 1, 2003, in this photo obtained by […]
New leopard species found in Borneo
By VIJAY JOSHI, Associated Press Writer Thu Mar 15, 8:07 AM ET
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - The clouded leopard of Borneo — discovered to be an entirely new species — is the latest in a growing list of animals and plants unique to the Southeast Asian country’s rainforest and underscores the […]
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Alberto Gonzalez discusses his proposal that all adult males in the
United States must wear flag lapel pins. Size of the pin will be a
measure of one’s patriotism. President Bush’s brother-in-law,
Skeeter, owns a costume jewelry company in El Paso
and has successfully bid on the government contract
to produce 150,000,000 pins.
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This is a portion of yesterday’s […]
Simply find these two headlines in the sports section:
(Surname) MAKES CASE WITH HIS BAT
VISA ISSUES DELAY (Hispanic Surname)’s ARRIVAL.
Excerpted from BBC Interview…
‘House slaves’
Harry Belafonte at 80 still has a righteous, burning anger. After all, close friends of his have been killed for their beliefs. But has nothing changed, I asked him?
“A lot has changed. I can sit here in New York and talk with you, people of two different races, which when I […]
The Classic List
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World:
· Pyramids at Giza
· Colossus of Rhodes
· Hanging Gardens of Babylon
· Pharos (Lighthouse) of Alexandria
· Statue of Zeus at Olympia
· Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
· Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
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The Seven Wonders Reconsidered
Internet Campaign Draws Millions of Votes, Both Predictable and Puzzling
By John Ward Anderson
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, March 13, […]
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Editorial Pages Call for Axing Attorney General
By E&P Staff
Published: March 14, 2007 7:50 AM ET updated 10:40 AM ET
NEW YORK The New York Times got the editorial ball rolling on Monday, calling for the firing of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales due largely, if not completely, to the burgeoning scandal involving the forced departure of eight […]
by their failure to have ever noticed this body of water.
Wednesday, 14 March 2007, 09:51 GMT
Probe reveals seas on Saturn moon
By Paul Rincon
Science reporter, BBC News, Houston
Cassini radar image of the sea on Titan compared with image of Lake Superior
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Nasa’s Cassini probe has found evidence for seas, probably filled with liquid hydrocarbons, at […]
Upset Over Canceled Fox Debate, Kondracke Attacks ‘Left-Wing Liberals’ As ‘Junior-Grade Stalinists’
On Saturday night’s episode of Fox News’ Beltway Boys, co-host Mort Kondracke blasted the decision by the Nevada Democratic Party to pull out of a Fox News-sponsored presidential debate.
O’Reilly Compares Nevada Debate Opponents To Nazis
Tonight, Bill O’Reilly attacked the “radical movement” that […]
General regrets remarks on homosexuality
Pace says he focused too much on his own ‘moral views,’ won’t apologize
March 13: Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Peter Pace issues a statement on his anti-gay comments, saying he should have focused more on military policy and less on his personal views. NBC’s Patty Culhane reports.
MSNBC staff and news […]
Maia Szalavitz Maia Szalavitz
03.12.2007
Cruel and Disgusting: Pain Patient Appeal Denied
Florida’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Richard Paey, a wheelchair-using father of three who is currently serving a 25-year mandatory prison sentence for taking his own pain medication. In doing so, the court let stand a decision which […]
Iran outraged by Hollywood war epic
Tue Mar 13, 8:09 AM ET
TEHRAN (AFP) - War epic “300″, a smash hit in the United States for its gory portrayal of the Greco-Persian wars, has drawn the wrath of Iranians for showing their ancestors as bloodthirsty “savages”.
The press, officials and bloggers have united in denouncing the film as […]
Congressman Waxman is waiting for replies to more than ten letters.
Monday, March 12, 2007
Administration Oversight
Waxman Renews Niger Queries
Chairman Waxman asks Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to respond to a series of unanswered letters, including two letters raising questions about the President’s claim that Iraq sought uranium from Niger.
Documents and Links
* Letter to Secretary […]
FDA Unveils Voluntary Food Safety Rules
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By LIBBY QUAID
The Associated Press
Monday, March 12, 2007; 3:47 PM
WASHINGTON — The government has new rules for preventing food poisoning in fresh-cut produce, but companies don’t have to follow them.
Fruit and vegetable-related outbreaks of food poisoning are on the rise and in recent months have struck in spinach, tomatoes, lettuce […]
by vamoosing to Dubai. Have these people have no shame?!
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Senator calls on Treasury to investigate if Halliburton move to Dubai linked to Iran deals
Mike Sheehan
Published: Monday March 12, 2007
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Please find the entire article here.
Lieutenant General Kevin Kiley quoted by Dana Milbank at the Washington Post.
Army surgeon general forced to retire
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By PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The Army forced its surgeon general, Lt. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley, to retire, officials said Monday, the third high-level official to lose his job over poor outpatient treatment of wounded soldiers at […]
arises from the fact that their rural town is surrounded by hundreds of beautiful lakes to which they have no means of access. The nearest city is Shanghai.
Monday, 12 March 2007, 15:49 GMT
‘Thousands riot’ in China protest
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Partial BBC map
A protest staged by thousands of rural workers in central China ended in violent clashes last week, […]
extra marital sex; he can screw his brains out for all I care. What frightens me is his belief that “freedom of speech” may be overstated. Considering the current events, do we need a leader who questions that obscure freedom?
Analysis: Patriot woes weigh on Gonzales
By RON FOURNIER, Associated Press WriterFri Mar 9, 9:14 […]