Republican candidates. As long as the first string performs poorly and the backup is on the sideline, he is the fan favorite. When the fans see that he is a backup for a reason, they will abandon him like an empty beer cup.
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Thompson Links Reid To 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists, Claims He Is ‘Encouraging […]
Salon Magazine
June 19, 2007
Tim Grieve
War Room
The good news about George W. Bush
Asked today whether the Bush administration “feels any responsibility” for the split among Palestinians, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said that what reporters “really need to be thinking about” is that “the president of the United States did not bind people’s hands behind […]
BABES IN OY LAND SCUFFLE
APPLE’S ISRAELI CONSULATE IN BIKINI FLAP
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By ANDY SOLTIS
HOT STUFF: A sexy invite from the Israeli Consulate (above) promotes an event celebrating the July Maxim’s Israeli women photo spread.
June 19, 2007 — Israeli female legislators are baring their anger over what they call a “pornographic” tourism campaign - featuring a bikini-clad Israeli […]
Jeesh, Please keep us informed!!!! DBp
POINTING THE WAY FOR PROSECUTORS
Under fire, not in retreat
Gonzales’ plan for attorney reviews would further politicize process
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By Andrew Zajac, a national correspondent based in the Tribune’s Washington Bureau
June 17, 2007
Atty Gen. Alberto Gonzales so far has survived a political crisis over the firing of nine U.S. attorneys, a rare potential vote of no-confidence in the […]
…I don’t think it’ll happen here…Please don’t happen here…
Why is it happening here…
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Judge Orders FBI to Turn Over Thousands of Patriot Act Abuse Documents
By Ryan Singel June 15, 2007 | 3:52:04 PM
Just one day after a news that an internal audit found that FBI agents abused a Patriot Act power more than 1000 times, a […]
June 17, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
Scooter’s Sopranos Go to the Mattresses
By FRANK RICH
Excerpt…
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Mr. Libby’s lawyers argued that these letters should remain locked away on the hilarious grounds that they might be “discussed, even mocked, by bloggers.” And apparently many of the correspondents assumed that their missives would remain private, just like all other documents pertaining to Mr. […]
or is this another example of “Il pesce puzza dalla testa”?
Indeed, the rotting fish stinks from the head, but I see yet another layer of putrescence in this story. The brass seems to be telling their soldiers to stop complaining, quit while they’re ahead or they may find themselves branded as enemy combatants.
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Annals of National Security
The General’s Report
How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, became one of its casualties.
by Seymour M. Hersh June 25, 2007
On the afternoon of May 6, 2004, Army Major General Antonio M. Taguba was summoned to meet, for the first time, with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in his Pentagon conference […]
Sun 17 Jun 2007
Hamas wakes up to grim reality
ANNETTE YOUNG IN JERUSALEM
The Scotsman
“GAZA is becoming the Mogadishu of the Mediterranean,” said one Palestinian official who refused to be named. “People thrown off the rooftops of 10-storey buildings, Palestinians shooting other Palestinians at point blank, others shot in front of their families. So Hamas is in […]
MIDNIGHT EXPRESS hero must not be good at taking hints.–DBp
Sat Jun 16, 3:38 PM ET
ISTANBUL (AFP) - Billy Hayes, the American whose ordeal in a Turkish jail provided the basis for the 1978 classic “Midnight Express,” has returned to Turkey in a bid to mend fences over the damage the movie caused to the country’s […]
Thanks to the grace of the online edition of The Manchester Guardian and the illustrator Damien Rochford, I can present 24 of the 52 people who served Great Britain as Prime Minister. They are in correct order with years served and some have their historical nicknames. I have provided the reader with somewhat odd clues […]
Mike Elston chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty,arrives for a closed-door meeting with members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, in this March 30, 2007, file photo on Capitol Hill in Washington. Elston, a senior Justice Department official who helped carry out the dismissals of federal prosecutors said Friday, June 15, […]
After watching some 1950’s documentary on the Holocaust, I said to my Dad that I could understand an individual like Hitler, but where did he find all his henchmen. My Father replied that those people are always out there. They simply wait for the right person to use their uniquely sociopathic skills.
It certainly works for […]
would have been the one presidential candidate to steer clear of definitions of marriage. Obviously, he follows the “best defense is a good offense” rule of sophistry.
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WASHINGTON — More than 1 million of the popular “Thomas & Friends” wooden railway toys made in China are being voluntarily recalled because some may contain lead paint, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Wednesday.
Please find the entire article here.
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Counterfeit Colgate toothpaste recalled
Antifreeze chemical found in tubes in 4 states; no injuries reported
Updated: […]
Mueller Often Uses FBI Jet Bought for Counterterrorism
By John Solomon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 12, 2007; Page A03
When the FBI asked Congress this spring to provide $3.6 million in the war spending bill for its Gulfstream V jet, it said the money was needed to ensure that the aircraft, packed with state-of-the-art security and communications […]
This still image from NASA video shows US space shuttle Atlantis Mission Specialist Danny Olivas working outside the International Space Station. The International Space Station Tuesday spread its new solar wings after astronauts of the US shuttle Atlantis wired them up during a space walk, television pictures broadcast by NASA showed.(AFP/NASA-HO)
Thu Jun 14, 9:43 AM […]
Logically, this certainly explains the number of Priest-on-Boy attacks. No unwanted pregnancy.
Illogically, the support of Catholic pastors for W betrays a tacit acceptance of his ultra-late term abortion policy as practiced in the Texas penal system, Louisiana and Iraq.
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Vatican cardinal calls on Catholics to stop funding Amnesty ·
Group ‘betrayed mission’ over new abortion […]
AP
Theft Rising at U.S. Wal-Mart Stores
Wednesday June 13, 6:40 pm ET
By Anne D’Innocenzio and Marcus Kabel, AP Business Writers
Wal-Mart Struggling With Rising Loss From Shoplifting and Employee Theft at Its U.S. Stores
NEW YORK (AP) — Shoppers at Wal-Mart stores across America are loading carts with merchandise — maybe a flat-screen TV, a few DVDs and […]
Children who viewed “Watch Mr. Wizard” probably had a better grasp of environment science than the Faith-Braised W.
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NASA shelves climate satellites
Environmental science may suffer
By Beth Daley, Boston Globe Staff | June 9, 2006
NASA is canceling or delaying a number of satellites designed to give […]
it’s not your imagination. The crustacean is simply worried about the effect of the toxic dumping on real estate prices.
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DEEP-SEA NEWS
Posted on: June 11, 2007 1:42 PM, by CR McClain
It is no secret that the U.S. military has used the ocean as trashcan for munitions in the past. Peter discussed at the Old DSN […]
Posted on Tue, Jun. 12, 2007
Officials rebuked for disclosing Rove’s connection to firing of U.S. attorney
By Margaret Talev and Marisa Taylor
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON - The White House’s former political director was furious at Justice Department officials for disclosing to Congress that the administration had forced out the U.S. attorney in Little Rock, Ark., to make way […]
to make it more difficult for criminals and the mentally ill to purchase firearms!! That’s the courage we’ve learned to expect from the party of our youth. I realize that the NRA is a tough nut to crack and that the Republicans had done almost nothing about guns, but most sane societies would have already […]
that a mention of a BB gun sends him into a rage. Then again, maybe we should not trust an adult male named Mitt.
Gov. Romney held fast against pardons
STEVE LeBLANC
Associated Press Writer
BOSTON — Decorated Iraq war veteran Anthony Circosta seemed like an ideal candidate for a pardon from then-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for his boyhood […]
…the 1972 Disco Law allows Federal prosecutors to hold a suspect indefinitely if his or her hair is one-eighth of the total body weight.
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June 12, 2007
New York Times
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Judges Say U.S. Can’t Hold Man as ‘Combatant’
By ADAM LIPTAK
The federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled yesterday that the president may not declare civilians in this […]
June 11, 2007
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Majority of Republicans Doubt Theory of Evolution
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More Americans accept theory of creationism than evolution
by Frank Newport
GALLUP NEWS SERVICE
PRINCETON, NJ — The majority of Republicans in the United States do not believe the theory of evolution is true and do not believe that humans evolved over millions of years from less advanced forms of […]
This is not a spoiler, but a reaction to the unrestrained speculation about HBO’s series–The Sopranos. Because my agents have obtained the various endings filmed for the program, it is my duty to discuss them.
Wags had mentioned a NEWHART or MARY TYLER MOORE show ending. Although they were considered, I had quickly dismissed […]
Forgeddaboutit! That was the pilot’s mother’s name.
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BBC NEWS
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US military pondered love not war
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The US military investigated building a “gay bomb”, which would make enemy soldiers “sexually irresistible” to each other, government papers say.
Other weapons that never saw the light of day include one to make soldiers obvious by their bad breath.
The US defence department considered […]
Beluga moved to Tacoma, Wash., aquarium
Sun Jun 10, 9:57 PM ET
AP–A thousand-pound, 6-year-old beluga whale arrived at a Tacoma Aquarium early Sunday after a flight on a chartered military transport plane from Chicago.
Qannik, an Inuit name for snowflake, traveled tucked inside an enormous, foam-padded tank in the DC-8 plane for a cross-country flight that cost […]
Conflict of interest in Gingrich ‘think tank.’
“Newt Gingrich has promoted public policy positions that closely track the financial interests of companies that underwrite a think tank he founded,” an AP investigation has found. The Center for Health Transformation, part of “an elaborate consulting and communications empire” Gingrich has built since leaving Congress, offers views on […]
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Six Trading Cards
With Fun Facts
Plus a Piece of
Bubble Gum in the
Shape of a Rubber Chicken.
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Nuke’ em ’till they glow; shoot ‘em in the dark
June 11, 2007 - 5:47am.
Time to launch another war we can’t win?
By DOUG THOMPSON
Sen. Joe Lieberman wants to bomb Iran back into the Stone Age. Stupid idea. […]
Yahoo…
As of 10:08 p.m. EDT
• Studies say death penalty deters crime
• Atlantis docks with space station
• Iraq bridge collapse traps U.S. soldiers
• Mexico seeks more U.S. help to fight drug trafficking
• Belgium headed for new government after PM’s defeat
• Studies suggest U.S. death penalty deters crime
• English soccer fans pool cash in hopes of buying […]
Former Justice Official Blasts Gonzales
By Rebecca Carr | Saturday, June 9, 2007, 02:39 PM
As Senate Democrats press Republicans to support a no-confidence resolution against Attorney General Alberto Gonzales tomorrow, a former senior Justice Department official says the attorney general ran the department like “a political arm of the White House.”
Daniel J. Metcalfe, the former director […]
Colin Powell tries to balance his embarrassing capituation in the face of lesser men. Too little. Too late.
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Please find the story here.
Lieberman: Bomb Iran If It Doesn’t Stop
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June 10, 2007(CBS) The United States should launch military strikes against Iran if the government in Tehran does not stop supplying anti-American forces in Iraq, Sen. Joe Lieberman said Sunday on Face The Nation.
“I think we’ve got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to […]
David Broder’s Post column illuminiates the issue with a Caravaggio clarity.
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CNN’s RELIABLE SOURCES, Howard Kurtz’s Sunday morning showpiece at 10 a.m. EDT, may suffer more than the sing-song delivery of the host. It seems as if each week, Mr. Kurtz devotes a quarter of the program to a discussion of why the media spent so much time, money and correspondents in coverage of stories like […]
National Archives Uncovers Handwritten Note by Lincoln
By Michael E. Ruane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 7, 2007; 2:28 PM
The National Archives announced today that it has uncovered in its stacks a hand-written note sent by Abraham Lincoln to one of his top generals four days after the battle of Gettysburg, at the height of the Civil […]
President Bush meets with Pope Benedict XVI
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“It has a nice balance,” says the Pope when President Bush
presented him with a friendship gift–the Barret XM109 25 mm
sniper rifle.
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The pair discussed the pontiff’s deep worries that Christians in Iraq would not be embraced by the Muslim majority.
From the Associated Press
8:24 AM PDT, June 9, 2007
At […]