Archive for April, 2007
Monday, April 30th, 2007
Here are more examples.
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New York Daily News
Age-old answer
More New York celebrities get aged by computer whiz Dr. D’Lynn Waldron
Monday, April 30th 2007, 4:00 AM
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Computer whiz Dr. D’Lynn Waldron’s spectacular “age-processed” portraits of New York stars caused such a stir yesterday, we’re publishing more today.
These are the original digitally-aged pictures.
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Jose Reyes […]
Posted in Fashion, Computers, Celebrities |
Monday, April 30th, 2007
No Doubts, Then and Now
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Monday, April 30, 2007; 2:28 PM
As President Bush drove the country to what has turned out to be a disastrous war in Iraq, did he ever have any doubts about whether it was the right call? Did he ever even consider there might be another way?
The new […]
Posted in Bush, Iraq |
Monday, April 30th, 2007
“One day of praying, and six nights of fun.
Odds against getting to Heaven: six to one.”
Frankly, I’d check the Vatican Sports Book before betting these odds.-DBp
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D.C. Madam Wants Washington Clients to Testify
April 30, 2007 9:36 AM
Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz & Justin Rood Report:
The woman charged in a federal indictment with […]
Posted in News Media, Law, Movies, Books, Washington, S-E-X, Crime |
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Who Wears the Donald…Best of All?
Their (G)olden Age
Celebs get aged by computer whiz Dr. D’Lynn Waldron
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BY JANE RIDLEY
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Sunday, April 29th 2007, 4:00 AM
Looking at these amazing pictures could be hazardous to your health - especially if you’re Paris Hilton!
At 74.
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At 80.
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At 70
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The Daily News commissioned computer whiz Dr. D’Lynn Waldron, […]
Posted in Society, Fashion, Health, Computers, Celebrities |
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
TimesSelect All the President’s Press
By FRANK RICH
Published: April 29, 2007
SOMEHOW it’s hard to imagine David Halberstam yukking it up with Alberto Gonzales, Paul Wolfowitz and two discarded “American Idol” contestants at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. Before there was a Woodward and Bernstein, there was Halberstam, still not yet 30 in […]
Posted in News Media, Bush, Washington |
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Fri, Apr 27, 2007 9:05pm EST
“Media Matters”; by Jamison Foser
The “best of the best”?
(Excerpts)
Washington Post reporter and columnist David Broder is widely known as the “dean” of political journalists. He is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, has been named “Best Newspaper Political Reporter” by the Washington Journalism Review, and ranked as “Washington’s most highly […]
Posted in Newspapers, Politics |
Saturday, April 28th, 2007
Paul Kane
Capitol Briefing
Washington Post
McCain: Most absentee ‘08 Senator
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), missing another major vote on the Iraq war today in favor of presidential campaigning, has pulled far ahead of his 2008 rivals in at least one category: absenteeism.
McCain, who missed today’s vote while campaigning in South Carolina as part of another re-launch of his […]
Posted in John S. McCain III, Cong-SENATE, 2008 Presidential Campaign |
Saturday, April 28th, 2007
Major General at time of photograph
Image Credit: DOD, Photo By Russell Roederer 1983-04-08.
“Good morning, this is Lieutenant General William E. Odom, U.S. Army, retired.
Army Major General William E. Odom, USA.
Image Credit: DOD, Photo By Russell Roederer 1983-04-08.
I am not now nor have I ever been a Democrat or a Republican. Thus, I do not speak […]
Posted in Military, Bush, Iraq, Pentagon, N.S.A., Ronald Reagan |
Saturday, April 28th, 2007
the Cairo Papyrus Pushers still have the league’s best pitching.
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April 29, 2007
A Saudi Prince Tied to Bush Is Sounding Off-Key
By HELENE COOPER and JIM RUTENBERG
WASHINGTON, April 28 — No foreign diplomat has been closer or had more access to President Bush, his family, and his administration than the magnetic and fabulously wealthy Prince Bandar […]
Posted in Bush, Energy, Baseball, Bush 41, Prince Bandar, Saudi Arabia |
Saturday, April 28th, 2007
Give the Medal Back George
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Overheard while George Bush awarded George Tenet the Medal of Freedom
posted on February 13, 2007
(Doug Mills for The New York Times)
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By Larry Johnson
(excerpts)
Like the Titanic the Bush Administration is foundering. The latest rat heading overboard is former CIA chief George Tenet, who abandons for good the Bush Administration’s Ship of Fools […]
Posted in Bush, CIA, Pentagon, Cheney, Movies, Books, State Department, Wealth, Bush 41, Tenet |
Saturday, April 28th, 2007
Bush and Abe warn North Korea to fulfill pact
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Los Angeles Times - 9 hours ago
The visiting Japanese premier and the US president insist Pyongyang must freeze nuclear activity, or face more sanctions. By Maura Reynolds, Times Staff Writer.
Please find the entire story at the Los Angeles Times.
Posted in Bush, Nuclear Issues, North Korea, Abe |
Friday, April 27th, 2007
Guilty Plea Widens Baseball’s Steroids Scandal
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Shea Stadium
By JULIET MACUR
Published: April 28, 2007
A former Mets clubhouse assistant pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in San Francisco to distributing performance-enhancing drugs to dozens of former and current Major League Baseball players for a 10-year period, the latest blow to a sport that has been battered by the […]
Posted in Baseball |
Friday, April 27th, 2007
BBC
Friday, 27 April 2007, 16:46 GMT 17:46 UK
US officer condemns Iraq strategy
A senior serving US army officer has launched a scathing attack on the US military leadership in Iraq.
Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling said US generals had failed to prepare their troops properly and had misled Congress about the resources needed for the war.
Writing in the […]
Posted in administration, Military, Iraq, Pentagon |
Friday, April 27th, 2007
Ex-C.I.A. Chief, in Book, Assails Cheney on Iraq
Eric Draper/The White House
George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, foreground, in March 2003. Mr. Tenet now says there was never a “serious debate” about the Iraq threat.
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By SCOTT SHANE and MARK MAZZETTI
Published: April 27, 2007
NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON, […]
Posted in Bush, Iraq, CIA, Cheney, Books, Tenet |
Thursday, April 26th, 2007
S#!+ For Brains Award!!!
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The light colonel, an officer in Pat Tillman’s command believes atheism is causing the the fallen soldier’s family’s grief and anguish.
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Hal Brown at Capitol Hill Blue quoted the original statement Kauzlarich made to ESPN.
‘”When you die, I mean, there is supposedly a better life, right? Well, if you are an atheist […]
Posted in Military, Afghanistan, Religion, Pentagon, Pat & Kevin Tillman |
Thursday, April 26th, 2007
This is a game I’ve been playing with family and friends for my entire life.
The questions require a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer.
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1. For $10,000 (tax free), would you watch Nancy Grace re-runs from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m., five nights a week for one year? No reading, sleeping, or headphones are allowed. You may daydream, […]
Posted in Quiz |
Thursday, April 26th, 2007
stumble toward more power and profit. That big metropolitan newspapers lose readership may be a function of their becoming platforms from which to extol the sybaritic lifestyle at the expense of digging for truth.
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Bill Moyers’ Journal has videos, stills, transcripts and comments about this compelling television program for which David Yourgrau at Huffington Post wrote:
“Welcome […]
Posted in News Media, Iraq, Television |
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
surprises me. I think.
Maybe the representative is not as photogenic as a certain Cheshire cat whose mug appears nightly on Olbermann. The simple fact is that Cheney should be impeached, but it seems that many reporters want to maintain their front row seats to Rich Little and Rover Dance.
In case you’ve forgotten, watch Bill Moyers’ […]
Posted in News Media, Newspapers, Dennis Kucinich |
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
and Renzi was unable to put curve ball near the plate.
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Delays in Renzi Case Raise
More Gonzales Questions
By JOHN R. WILKE and EVAN PEREZ
April 25, 2007; Page A2
The Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON — As midterm elections approached last November, federal investigators in Arizona faced unexpected obstacles in getting needed Justice Department approvals to advance a […]
Posted in Cong-HOUSE, Gonzalez, Department of Justice, Rep. Rick Renzi |
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
Let’s hope they do not resort to this…
“Everyone knows Reid will wimp out!”
“Cheney is nothin’ but a hen-pecked pr**k!”
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Insults fly but U.S. lawmakers weigh Iraq compromise
By Richard Cowan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Harsh words flew on Tuesday among President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Democrats on funding the Iraq war as Congress inched […]
Posted in Congress, Iraq, Cheney, Democrats, Cong-SENATE, Harry Reid |
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
This artistic illustration released by the European Southern Observatory on Tuesday, April 24, 2007, shows the newly discovered planet Gliese 581 c orbiting the red dwarf star, Gliese 581. Astronomers believe that the newly discovered planet is potentially habitable. (AP Photo/European Southern Observatory)
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Potentially habitable planet found
By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer 2 hours, 31 minutes […]
Posted in Astronomy, NASA |
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Rare Sumatran rhino filmed for first time
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Tue Apr 24, 9:38 AM ET
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - One of the world’s most endangered animals, the Sumatran rhinoceros, has been filmed in the wild for the first time in a coup that could help save it from extinction, wildlife campaigners said Tuesday.
The night time footage from Borneo island […]
Posted in Law, Nature, Asia, Crime, South Pacific |
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Gingrich Blames Virginia Tech Tragedy On Liberalism »
In the wake of the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich laid the blame for the tragedy at the feet of liberals. Here’s what he said:
“I want to say to the elite of this country - the elite […]
Posted in Neo-Romanovs, Gingrich |
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
they were the Hatchet Act, Department of Rove and Me-mails.
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Low-key office launches high-profile inquiry
The Office of Special Counsel will investigate U.S. attorney firings and other political activities led by Karl Rove.
By Tom Hamburger, Times Staff Writer
April 24, 2007
WASHINGTON — Most of the time, an obscure federal investigative unit known as the Office of Special […]
Posted in Rove, Department of Justice, Hatch Act |
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Dick
“I had other priorities in the ’60s than military service”
Cheney
versus
George
“WWII, Distinguished Flying Cross-holding, 15th Air Force, B-24 Pilot”
McGovern
George McGovern: Cheney is wrong about me, wrong about war
The 1972 presidential nominee strikes back at the vice president for comparing today’s Democrats to the McGovern platform.
By George S. McGovern
GEORGE S. MCGOVERN, a former U.S. senator from South […]
Posted in Cheney, George McGovern |
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Editorial published Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Congress needs courage
IF AMERICA is to have a chance to bring the disastrous Iraq war toward an end, it is critical that Congress not lose its nerve in its struggle with President Bush.
The way it stands, Mr. Bush is asking for $100 billion more - on top of an already […]
Posted in Congress, Bush, Iraq |
Monday, April 23rd, 2007
Gonzales vows to stay on the job
By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent
1 hour, 31 minutes ago
Posted in Religion, Gonzalez, Department of Justice |
Saturday, April 21st, 2007
From Clinton, Hip-Hop Hypocrisy
By Colbert I. King
Saturday, April 21, 2007; A17
Put me in the camp of those who implore Sen. Hillary Clinton to give it back — “it” being the reported $800,000 that’s sitting in her presidential campaign coffers thanks to a fundraiser hosted in her honor March 31 in the Pinecrest, Fla., home of […]
Posted in Music, African-Americans, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Imus |
Friday, April 20th, 2007
but outside of the Communist Party, they’re known as bagmen.
Editorial
Gonzales v. Gonzales
Published: April 20, 2007
If Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had gone to the Senate yesterday to convince the world that he ought to be fired, it’s hard to imagine how he could have done a better job, short of simply admitting the obvious: that the […]
Posted in Cong-SENATE, Gonzalez, Department of Justice |