Archive for June, 2008

If the crown fits…

Monday, June 9th, 2008

 As can be seen by our present state of difficulty, the United States is not set up for dynasties. Further, these little court intrigues are obscene.
Bill, don’t do us any favors. Just keep getting richer.
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Bill Clinton may walk away mad and not campaign for Obama
Capitol Hill Blue
June 9, 2008
by Harrison Parker
An angry, defiant Bill Clinton […]

SHINE ON, HARVEST BOOM

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

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Houston Chronicle
“We Should Not Let Them Back into Polite Society” - Richard Clarke on GWB and His Cronies
Posted 6/6/2008 8:40 AM CDT
On Countdown last night, Keith went after GWB and his administration over the new Phase 2 Report on Iraq intelligence issued yesterday under chairman Jay Rockefeller. The conclusions reached by this report were […]

Versailles, Indiana wasn’t built in a day so the Little Rock dynasty of Bubba-Rodham may yet take its place next to Romanov, Bourbon and Saxe-Coburg.

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

June 8, 2008
The Long Road to a Clinton Exit
By PETER BAKER and JIM RUTENBERG
WASHINGTON — By the time the campaign tracked down the small-city Indiana mayor, Bill Clinton was in a lather. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton had lost the North Carolina primary that evening and was eager to offset it with a win in Indiana. […]

“I have said publicly, and I will again, that unless he proves me wrong, he (Obama) is a Marxist,” - Tom DeLay.

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Proves you wrong?!
Unlike most members of the cockroach family, this mean-spirited little Texan craves the spotlight. His former profession’s quarry were a step-up from the vermin with whom he caucused in the House.
No one owes him anything except a warm, moist place to sleep.

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The Delay quote is here.

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Images: (Tom) (AP Photo/Dennis Cook) […]

“The Clintons thrive on revenge,” says a former Clinton aide. “Payback will be a b*tch.”

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Capitol Hill Blue
June 6, 2006
Both Clintons bitter over loss
Failed Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton and her former President husband are bitter over her loss to Barack Obama and angry at Democratic leaders they feel abandoned her, party sources tell Capitol Hill Blue.
“She’s petulant, defiant and bitter,” says one senior Democratic strategist, who asked not […]

Why I don’t trust the elite news media: Would any reporter in a James Gleason movie own a comparably-priced home?

Friday, June 6th, 2008

New York Post
June 5, 2008
Gimme Shelter
Branden Keil
Chopping Koppel
TED Koppel could be the king of all price-slashers.
The former “Nightline” host has chopped the price of his suburban Washington, DC-area home by more than half since he first put it on the market in 2005 for $4.1 million.
He’s now asking $1.94 million for the nearly 9,000-square-foot spread […]

• Pakistani Authorities Arrest Three Suspected Suicide Bombers–Yahoo headline, June 5, 2008

Friday, June 6th, 2008

No comment!

And now, the baseball news…NEW YORK (AP) — “Joba Chamberlain struggled with his control, walked off the mound in the third inning and threw his glove in the dugout.”

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Witnesses claim he was aiming for the former bleachers. 
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Joba’s 1st start a bust as Blue Jays top Yanks 9-3
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 7:30 AM EDT
The Associated Press
By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Joba Chamberlain struggled with his control, walked off the mound in the third inning and threw his glove in the […]

Isn’t there another reason for Georgie’s changing of the subject. I had thought he was in Hillary’s pants suit pocket.

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

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Jason Linkins
The Huffington Post
DNC’s Brazile Says Clinton Camp Refused Obama ‘Olive Branch’
June 1, 2008 03:30 PM
On today’s This Week (with video), Donna Brazile, fresh from yesterday’s DNC Rules and Bylaws Tango at the Marriott Wardman Park, broke a little bit of a bombshell whilst paneling. According to Brazile, the Obama campaign had enough votes to […]

Water Pressure Blamed For Universal Studios Damage–AP headline, June 2, 2008

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

My guess would have been fire.

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By GREG RISLING, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 49 minutes ago
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. - Authorities will try to determine Monday whether the blaze that destroyed some of Hollywood’s most famous backdrops was made worse by low water pressure and an overwhelmed sprinkler system.

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Images: Photo Credits–#1 by Karen Tapia-Andersen/Los Angeles Times; […]

It never ends.

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Vanity Fair
Bubba Trouble
The Comeback Id
Old friends and longtime aides are wringing their hands over Bill Clinton’s post–White House escapades, from the dubious (and secretive) business associations to the media blowups that have bruised his wife’s campaign, to the private-jetting around with a skirt-chasing, scandal-tinged posse. Some point to Clinton’s medical traumas; others blame sheer selfishness, […]

“The Rev. Michael Pfleger…called the past few days ‘the most painful’ of his life.”

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

 That’s odd, I figured the last few days
would have been about average for him.
His sermon must have been out of character. 
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Chicago priest apologizes for Clinton comment
Chicago priest apologizes, says episode has been ‘painful,’ generated angry e-mail
DEANNA BELLANDI
AP News
Jun 01, 2008 13:21 EST
The Chicago priest whose comments mocking Hillary Rodham Clinton reignited the controversy over […]

From those wonderful folks at the place which gave us THE BODY PART PRICE IS RIGHT …

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

UCLA suspends its Willed Body Program
Johnson & Johnson admits buying tissue samples
Tuesday, March 9, 2004 Posted: 9:40 PM EST (0240 GMT)
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Boris Karloff, the director of UCLA’s Willed Body Program,
has been busy lately.
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Anyone concerned that parts of a family member’s donated body were sold should contact UCLA by phone at 866-317-6374 or by email at […]

Despite reports, the title refers to W’s first words after awakening from his performance as a Chickenhawk War President.

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

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June 1, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
Cult of Deception
By MAUREEN DOWD
WASHINGTON
They say that every president gets the psychoanalyst he deserves. And every Hamlet gets his Rosencrantz.
So now comes Scott McClellan, once the most loyal of the Texas Bushies, to reveal “What Happened,” as the title of his book promises, to turn W. from a genial, humble, bipartisan good […]