Archive for April, 2007

Yesterday, I made a compelling argument for Donald Trump L’Oeil hair…

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 […]

As usual, Froomkin’s column is worth a look.

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 […]

Remember the Air Force party scene from the LOVED ONE?

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 […]

Mirror, Mirror…On the wall…

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, […]

Here is another winner from Frank Rich.

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 […]

This is quite an essay about David Broder’s work.

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 […]

McCain is 7 for 33 in voting during the past month.

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 […]

Speaker Nancy Pelosi uses a deft touch for this one.

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 […]

Despite the River Demon’s lineup…

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 […]

This piece is a throwback to the NEW YORK MIRROR…

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 […]

You fill in the punch-line.

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.

At least he’s not guilty of designing Shea Stadium.

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 […]

This guy has guts.

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 […]

CBS never gave “Jimmy the Greek” a chance to explain.

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, […]

Lt. Col. Ralph Kauzlarich–Winner of the day’s…

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 […]

WHAT’S YOUR PRICE? Play the home version.

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, […]

It’s only going to get worse as the media giants…

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 […]

Milbank’s having a good time at Kucinich’s (country’s) expense…

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’ […]

I wager that Tinhorn couldn’t go to his left…

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 […]

While Reid & Cheney maintain a slight contrast in style…

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 […]

Looks are often deceiving. Ask Pluto.

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 […]

I wonder who talked.

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 […]

Newton Gingrich assigns new meaning to the phrase ‘outrageous misfortune.’

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 […]

Kute Karl thought…

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 […]

Pro Vietnam & Iraq Wars Cheney attacks Anti-Vietnam & Iraq Wars McGovern.

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 […]

The Toledo Blade distills the problem.

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 […]

I didn’t even need a secret decoder ring.

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Gonzales vows to stay on the job
By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent
1 hour, 31 minutes ago

One can imagine that the former Goldwater Girl has a problem keeping up with the Rap scene.

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 […]

“Dull-witted apparatchik” may be close to the mark…

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 […]