Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
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Images: (Top) nytimes.com via Manuscripts & Archives, Yale University Library/From ‘’The Chosen’’; (Bottom) AP Photo/Bush at Air Force Academy
Archive for May, 2008
Unfortunately, this is not the first time that chefs have strayed from American orthodoxy.
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Access Hollywood
Associated Press
May 29, 2008 12:59 PM
BOSTON, Mass. –Dunkin’ Donuts has pulled an online advertisement featuring Rachael Ray after complaints that a fringed black-and-white scarf that the celebrity chef wore in the ad offers symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism.—Critics, including conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, complained that the scarf wrapped around her looked like […]
Certainly, one must question the accuracy of the Chinese total, but do we have a figure of perished and missing from Katrina?
Saturday, May 31st, 2008 Google katrina missing dead for a fluid answer.
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The Economist
China quake toll rises to 68,977: report
31 May, 2008, 1347 hrs IST, AGENCIES
BEIJING: The death toll from China’s earthquake has reached 68,977, with another 17,974 missing, the State Council said on Saturday.
The confirmed death toll, sent in a statement to AFP, marked an increase of just […]
While Hillary was saying, “When I’m president,” Obama was doing his homework.
Friday, May 30th, 2008 It is for this reason that Bill and Hillary’s
charges of sexism, press bias and disrespectful behavior
are as pathetic as infantile tantrum-throwing.
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Obama used party rules to foil Clinton
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press Writer
Fri May 30, 3:48 PM ET
Unlike Hillary Rodham Clinton, rival Barack Obama planned for the long haul.
Clinton hinged her whole campaign […]
“Viagra Bob” Dole calls McClellan a ‘miserable creature’ who went for the fast buck.
Friday, May 30th, 2008May 30, 2008
The Plitico
Jonathan Martin
Bob Dole unloads on McClellan
Bob Dole yesterday sent a scalding e-mail to Scott McClellan, excoriating the former White House spokesman as a “miserable creature” who greedily betrayed his former patron for a fast buck.
In an extraordinary message obtained and authenticated by Politico, Dole uses his trademark biting wit to portray McClellan […]
In their own inimitable way, W, McCain and a Joint Chiefs’ Chairman s’port them troops…on Memorial Day…
Monday, May 26th, 2008May 26, 2008
The New York Times
Military Chief Warns Troops About Politics
By THOM SHANKER
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has written an unusual open letter to all those in uniform, warning them to stay out of politics as the nation approaches a presidential election in which the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan […]
Liz Trotta is a real card!
Monday, May 26th, 2008Fox News contributor jokes about assassinating Obama.
Today on Fox News, the former New York bureau chief of the Washington Times, Liz Trotta, discussed Sen. Hillary Clinton’s (D-NY) recent remarks about Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination. After mistakenly calling Obama “Osama,” Trotta joked that it would be nice to see them both killed:
TROTTA: And now we have […]
If they start playing Slim Whitman, we’re in trouble.
Monday, May 26th, 2008Phoenix makes picture-perfect Mars landing
After touchdown, first images show unfurled solar panels, arctic horizon
MSNBC staff and news service reports
updated 1:20 a.m. ET, Mon., May. 26, 2008
PASADENA, Calif. - NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander survived a risky plunge through the Red Planet’s atmosphere and touched down in Mars’ northern polar region on Sunday, sending back pictures of […]
If this is true, my hope for the future may be unjustified.
Monday, May 26th, 2008Mom says teacher let classmates vote autistic son out of class
By Colleen Wixon | Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers
2:31 PM EDT, May 25, 2008
PORT ST. LUCIE - Melissa Barton said she is considering legal action after her son’s kindergarten teacher led his classmates to vote him out of class.
After each classmate was allowed to say what […]
What’s new? Boss & Missy Clinton revert to form: “Ah gi’ yah two guesses who did it.”
Monday, May 26th, 2008*
Clinton Camp Stokes RFK Flap by Blaming Obama
The Washington Post
May 26, 2008
By Zachary A. Goldfarb
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign accused Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign of fanning a controversy over her describing the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy late in the 1968 Democratic primary as one reason she is continuing to run for the presidency.
“The Obama […]
Moveon.org offers these tidbits.
Sunday, May 25th, 200810 things you should know about John McCain (but probably don’t):
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1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has “evolved,” yet he’s continued to oppose key civil rights laws.1
2. According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, […]
The power behind the groan.
Sunday, May 25th, 2008*
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Images: McCain & Cindy) AP Photo; (barbecue) moneypit.com
When does religion cross the line into slapstick?
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Images: (Main) AP Photo via huffingtonpost.com; (Crime Story’s Luca) via epguides.com
Who says ‘progress is linear?’
Sunday, May 25th, 2008TV DECODER
New York Times
May 22, 2008, 7:24 pm
By Brian Stelter
The 2007-08 broadcast TV season came to a close on Wednesday, and Nielsen (and the networks) have been busy crunching the numbers since then.
Which reality shows, dramas and comedies can reliably boast of being top-rated? Here’s the top-20 TV ranker for the season. On top, […]
Jeesh, Hillary, have you no shame?
Friday, May 23rd, 2008Clinton regrets Kennedy assassination remark
By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writer
May 23, 2008
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton quickly apologized Friday after citing the June 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy as a reason to remain in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination despite increasingly long odds.
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“I regret that if my referencing that […]
Doug Thompson used this as his out-chorus.
Friday, May 23rd, 2008Time to end the soap opera
and focus on getting rid of
Bush, McCain and
the GOP criminal cabal
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May 19, 2008 - 8:19am
Capitol Hill Blue
By DOUG THOMPSON
Damn. I’m so tired of the Clinton-Obama soap opera that I’d welcome some news about the antics of Britney Spears, Paris Hilton or even Lindsey Lohan.
The Democratic primary season has turned into […]
Rick Santorum, the GOP’s Erasmus sez: “I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too?”
Friday, May 23rd, 2008Not really, Ricky. Depending on the physical ardor, they could be called respectively “open marriage,” “incest,” and “Jerry Springer material.”
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted on Thu, May. 22, 2008
The Elephant in the Room: A wake-up call on gay marriage after ‘03 alarm went unheeded
By Rick Santorum
Bigot! Hate-monger! Homophobe!
Those were just a few of the terms hurled my […]
As we fall further behind other modern industrialized nations in science, we can rest in the belief that come Rapture–WE’ll BE NUMBER ONE!!!
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008Many High School Biology Teachers Still Teach Creationism
By Brandon Keim Email
May 19, 2008 | 7:00:00 PM
One in eight U.S. high school teachers presents creationism as a valid alternative to evolution, says a poll published in the Public Library of Science Biology.
Of more than 900 teachers who responded to a poll conducted by Penn State University […]
“I’m talkin’ about friendship. I’m talkin’ about character. I’m talkin’ about - hell. Leo, I ain’t embarrassed to use the word - I’m talkin’ about ethics.”–Johnny Caspar, Miller’s Crossing
Monday, May 19th, 2008Huffington Post
Frank Schaeffer
The Cult of The Warrior –
Jack Kemp Was Right: McCain Would Be Too Dangerous as President
Posted May 18, 2008 | 10:01 PM (EST)
In 2000 Jack Kemp (former congressman and Bob Dole’s vice presidential candidate) told me, “McCain is a war maker, and I’m a peacemaker, so is George Bush. McCain would be too […]
Since the Tennessee Republican Party was able to squeak by the Democratic, African-American Senatorial candidate Harold Ford with the ever effective–”WHERE THE WHITE WOMEN AT…”
Monday, May 19th, 2008is it only using patriotism to soften up the public for the real push:
“You white ladies better lock up your husbands!”
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Obama tells Tenn.’s GOP: ‘Lay off my wife’
2 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Barack Obama has a message for Tennessee’s Republican Party: “Lay off my wife.”
Obama, his party’s presidential front-runner, and his wife, Michelle, […]
As can be seen by an 16-month-old New York Times article, it’s nothing new, folks.
Monday, May 19th, 2008The Australian
John McCain advisers going down like flies over lobbying ties
Geoff Elliott | May 20, 2008
JOHN McCain has stitched together a whirlwind campaign for president after overcoming steep odds to win the nomination for the Republican Party, but many senior staffers are falling like flies thanks to their ties with lobbyists.
Yesterday, his fifth campaign staffer […]
Roy Rogers would have simply asked Pat Brady to drive Nellybelle into a fountain.
Sunday, May 18th, 2008Mayor challenges pope during Genoa visit
18 May 2008 17:45:22 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Philip Pullella
GENOA, Italy, May 18 (Reuters) - The pro-abortion mayor of this large northwestern port city suggested to Pope Benedict in a public address on Sunday that the Church could not impose its views on the personal choices of citizens in a lay state.
Speaking […]
More than 32,000 confirmed fatalities, over two hundred thousand injured and countless missing; yet we have a story about three %$#@ pandas?!
Sunday, May 18th, 20083 pandas missing from reserve after China quake
May 18, 2008
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BEIJING - Three giant pandas are missing from the world’s most famous panda reserve after the earthquake and five staff members were killed, a Chinese official said Sunday.
All the pandas at the Wolong Nature Reserve were first reported safe Tuesday, but an official with the State […]
History is replete with tyrants who have done without candy for Lent.
Saturday, May 17th, 2008Bush: I quit golf over Iraq war
Tue May 13, 10:01 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush said in an interview out Tuesday that he quit playing golf in 2003 out of respect for the families of US soldiers killed in the conflict in Iraq, now in its sixth year.
“I think playing golf […]
Gubnah Mickey Yuckabee of the Algonquin Round Table…
Saturday, May 17th, 2008Political Ticker
May 16, 2008
Huckabee jokes about Obama ducking a gunman
Posted: 05:45 PM ETFrom CNN Associate Political Editor Rebecca Sinderbrand
(CNN) – During a speech before the National Rifle Association convention Friday afternoon in Louisville, Kentucky, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee — who has endorsed presumptive GOP nominee John McCain — joked that an unexpected offstage […]
This is dedicated to all those folks who had been told they were over-qualified during a job interview.
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008News Channel 5
NC5 Investigates: 911 Emergency
911 Operator: ‘I Don’t Give a S***t’
Nashville, TN
Posted: May 12, 2008 06:05 PM
911 Officials Say No Excuse for Response
2:08 p.m. — Sheila Jones calls for help
2:19 p.m. — Cable technician makes second call
2:39 p.m. — 911 operator tells Sheila officer diverted
2:42 p.m. — 911 operator tells Sheila help is on […]
Back in the U.S./back in the U.S./back in the U.S.S.R.
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 From the Washington Post series: CARELESS DETENTION
Some Detainees Are Drugged For Deportation
Immigrants Sedated Without Medical Reason
by Amy Goldstein and Dana Priest | Washington Post Staff Writers
Page A1; May 14, 2008
The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will to keep them sedated during the trip back […]