Transplant surgeon charged with trying to hasten patient’s death
The physician faces felony counts alleging he tried to hasten a man’s demise to make use of his organs.
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ACCUSED: Dr. Hootan Roozrokh, 33, of San Francisco faces three felony charges.
(www.permanente.net)
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By Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, Times Staff Writers
July 31, 2007
A San Francisco transplant surgeon was criminally charged […]

“DAVE: AT LAST…A GENUINE REPUBLICAN APPROACH TO LABOR RELATIONS.”
Boss allegedly killed workers who wanted raises
Car dealer was having financial problems, allegedly killed 2 in pay dispute
Updated: 5:46 a.m. ET July 31, 2007
EAST POINT, Ga. - The owner of a car dealership has been accused of killing two employees because they kept asking for pay raises.
Rolandas […]

American gestapo
July 28, 2007 - 4:02am.
Abuse of power by National Park Service police
By DOUG THOMPSON
The last place you expect to run into a federal government goon squad is the Blue Ridge Parkway, the scenic highway that runs through Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee.
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For the last two years, the Park Service has brought in its “CIT” […]

Representative Cynthia McKinney’s run-in ignited a firestorm fed by the sulfur-breathing talking heads of cable news.

Could there be a difference between white and black anger?????
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Former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney Sues Newspaper for Libel
Published: July 30, 2007 11:10 AM ET
NEW YORK Former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney has filed a lawsuit against The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, claiming the […]

Arab princesses kicked off British Airways plane to jeers and whistles after refusing to sit next to male strangers
By RAY MASSEY
Last updated at 11:45am on 28th July 2007
The delayed plane sat on a baking Italian runway for almost three hours
Three Arab princesses were thrown off a packed British Airways flight after refusing to sit next […]

U.S. Intel Can’t Keep Up With New Technology
Newsweek
Aug. 6, 2007 issue - Six years after 9/11 , U.S. intel officials are complaining about the emergence of a major “gap” in their ability to secretly eavesdrop on suspected terrorist plotters.
In a series of increasingly anxious pleas to Congress, intel “czar” Mike McConnell has argued that the […]

Bush Aide Blocked Report
Global Health Draft In 2006 Rejected for Not Being Political
By Christopher Lee and Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, July 29, 2007; Page A01
A surgeon general’s report in 2006 that called on Americans to help tackle global health problems has been kept from the public by a Bush political appointee without any background […]

PBS
7.27.07
Voter Caging
Was there a White House plot to illegally suppress votes in 2004?
Is there a similar plan for the upcoming elections?
This week NOW examines documents and evidence that points to a Republican Party plan designed to keep Democrats from voting, allegedly by targeting people based on their race and ethnicity with key battleground states like […]

Mining of Data Prompted Fight Over Spying
Doug Mills/The New York Times
By SCOTT SHANE and DAVID JOHNSTON
Published: July 29, 2007
WASHINGTON, July 28 — A 2004 dispute over the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance program that led top Justice Department officials to threaten resignation involved computer searches through massive electronic databases, according to current and former officials […]

Dentist wins case over fake boar tusk implants
Insurer told to pay legal costs plus after practical joke went awry
Updated: 11:48 a.m. ET July 27, 2007
OLYMPIA, Wash. - An oral surgeon who temporarily implanted fake boar tusks in his assistant’s mouth as a practical joke and got sued for it has gotten the state’s high court […]

Bikers back Spindle
2,000 hit streets hoping to keep famed car stack standing
July 28, 2007
BY DAVE NEWBART AND NORMAN PARISH Staff Reporters/
Chanting “Save the Spindle,” about 2,000 bicyclists took to the streets Friday night to protest the proposed replacement of a Berwyn art piece — made famous in a “Wayne’s World” movie — with a Walgreens.
The […]

Come on, Charley. Why did they not dupe the rest of us? Stop whining. You simply blew it. You’re beginning to sound like a corporate welfare recipient.

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By Thomas Ferraro
Reuters
Friday, July 27, 2007; 6:14 PM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito “duped” the U.S. Senate into […]

Fewer See Balance in High Court Decisions
Growing Numbers In Poll Say Bench Is ‘Too Conservative’
By Robert Barnes and Jon Cohen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, July 29, 2007; Page A01
About half of the public thinks the Supreme Court is generally balanced in its decisions, but a growing number of Americans say the court has become “too conservative” […]

27 Jul 2007 // Washington, DC – Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released the most comprehensive matrix available to date detailing all offers of assistance from around the world in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
CREW’s matrix is based on 25,000 Department of State (DOS) documents it received as a […]

Thompson’s Race Hasn’t Begun, but Turmoil Has
By SUSAN SAULNY
Published: July 28, 2007
Former Senator Fred D. Thompson has yet to make a formal declaration that he is running for president, but already his noncampaign campaign has gone through its first shake-up.
A week of personnel turnover that extended from his campaign-manager-in-waiting down to volunteers raised questions about […]

This is another case of the Trickle Down Theory.
While ignorance and stupidity are also culprits, W’s lack of leadership ability plays more than a small role. “The rotting fish stinks from the head” is certainly an appropriate rationale when one consders the corruption and deceit which emanates from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue like toxic clouds.
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Posted on Thu, Jul. 26, 2007
Report: Astronauts drank before launch
By MARCIA DUNN
At least twice, astronauts were allowed to fly after flight surgeons and other astronauts warned they were so drunk they posed a flight-safety risk, an aviation weekly reported Thursday, citing a special panel studying astronaut health.
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The independent panel also found “heavy use of alcohol” […]

In light of the latest release of documents, I think back to the empathatically bone-headed quote of one of America’s finest…

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“When you die, I mean, there is supposedly a better life, right? Well, if you are an atheist and you don’t believe in anything, if you die, what is there to go to? Nothing. […]

Poll Finds Democrats Favored On War
But Bush, Congress Both Get Low Ratings on Iraq
By Jon Cohen and Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, July 24, 2007; A01
Most Americans see President Bush as intransigent on Iraq and prefer that the Democratic-controlled Congress make decisions about a possible withdrawal of U.S. forces, according to a new Washington Post-ABC […]

Welcome to Richistan, USA
The American Dream of riches for all is turning into a nightmare of inequality. But a backlash is brewing, reports Paul Harris in New York
Paul Harris in New York
Sunday July 22, 2007
Observer
On the surface, Mark Cain works for a time-share company. Members pay a one-off sum to join and an annual fee. […]

DeFazio asks, but he’s denied access
Classified info - The congressman wanted to see government plans for after a terror attack
Friday, July 20, 2007
JEFF KOSSEFF
The Oregonian Staff
WASHINGTON — Oregonians called Peter DeFazio’s office, worried there was a conspiracy buried in the classified portion of a White House plan for operating the government after a terrorist attack.
As […]

WANING INFLUENCE
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice finds that her star is fading
Joel Brinkley
San Francisco Chronicle
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Condoleezza Rice, at a meeting between heads of state, ha…
I remember the heady days for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
About 2 1/2 years ago, when she was new in office, I accompanied her on her first trip around […]

The Long Run
In a Volatile City, a Stern Line on Race and Politics
By MICHAEL POWELL
Published: July 22, 2007
Those were grim days for race relations in New York City, the early 1990s. There were nearly 2,000 murders each year, blacks and whites died in high-profile racial killings, and a riot held a divided Brooklyn neighborhood in […]

(Don’t get too excited, DBp condemns child-battering.)
While not uncommon in discount stores and on interstate motor coaches, this behavior is rare aboard airliners. Once could assume the contrarian position and conclude that the woman was concerned that her children’s talking and whining would be cause for banishment from the flight.
The story about the […]

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Archaeologists dig up Roman bath complex
By MARTA FALCONI, Associated Press Writer
ROME - Archaeologists said Thursday they have partly dug up a second-century bath complex believed to be part of the vast, luxurious residence of a wealthy Roman.
The two-story complex, which extends for at least 5 acres, includes exceptionally well-preserved decorated hot rooms, vaults, changing rooms, […]

Senate tied in knots by filibusters
By Margaret Talev | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Fri, July 20, 2007
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WASHINGTON — This year Senate Republicans are threatening filibusters to block more legislation than ever before, a pattern that’s rooted in — and could increase — the pettiness and dysfunction in Congress.
The trend has been evolving for 30 years. The […]

FEMA Knew Of Toxic Gas In Trailers
Hurricane Victims Reported Illnesses
By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 20, 2007; Page A01
The Federal Emergency Management Agency since early 2006 has suppressed warnings from its own field workers about health problems experienced by hurricane victims living in government-provided trailers with levels of a toxic chemical 75 times […]

Polish Priest Remarks on Jews Condemned
By RYAN LUCAS
The Associated Press
Thursday, July 19, 2007; 1:49 PM
WARSAW, Poland — More than 700 people in Poland, including a former prime minister and foreign minister, signed an open letter condemning statements about Jews by a right-wing Roman Catholic priest who runs a controversial radio station.
A magazine had reported that […]

Wal-Mart To Test Bible Action Figures In 425 Stores
Dow Jones
July 17, 2007: 12:11 PM EST
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) said Tuesday it will test sales in some stores of biblical action figures whose makers say they are aimed at Christian parents who prefer their children play with Samson, David or Noah rather than with a comic […]

Think Progress
Who Is John D. Bates?
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Yesterday, federal district Judge John D. Bates “dismissed a lawsuit filed by former CIA officer Valerie Plame and her husband [Joe Wilson] against Vice President Cheney and other top officials over the Bush administration’s” retaliatory leak of Plame’s identity. Bates’s decision yesterday is in line with a long record of […]

Yesterday I read at JoBlo.com via Huffington Post that “Nothing But the Truth,” a political thriller, Miller, would star Kate Beckinsale as the former New York Times reporter–Judith Miller.
The Huffington Post piece included this tandem photograph:
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Regretfully, one of my favorite all-around entertainers passed away last summer; otherwise, he have certainly read for the part.
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 Let’s take a look at the wild-eyed radical leftist who wrote this screed.
‘Zounds?!
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Paul Craig Roberts
was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration.
He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review.He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.
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July 16, 2007
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
Unless Congress […]

but I was filming a Buddy Trip movie without the camera, film or buddy.

Sexual abuse not just a Catholic problem: Vatican
By Philip Pullella
Reuters
Tuesday, July 17, 2007; 8:06 AM
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Sexual abuse of children is not just a Catholic Church problem and other institutions should take steps to acknowledge and deal with such “wickedness” within their own ranks, the Vatican said on Tuesday.
The Vatican’s chief spokesman, Father […]

On September 6, 2006, I had foreseen the realm of
KIDZ ‘n KILZ.
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July 17, 2007
Mascot for Hamas TV Show Is a Mouse No More
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
JERUSALEM, July 16 — Hamas television, which was criticized for a Mickey Mouse-like character named Farfur who spouted anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish nostrums at children, has replaced the mouse […]

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“Hundreds of guys depended on Paulie and he got a piece of everything they made. And it was tribute, just like in the old country, except they were doing it here in America. And all they got from Paulie was protection from other guys looking to rip them off. And that’s what it’s all about. […]