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Covert operations on our allies.Remember how DC squeals when someone does that on us?"The kidnapping of Abu Omar was not only a serious crime against Italian sovereignty and human rights, but it also seriously damaged counterterrorism efforts in Italy and Europe," said Armando Spataro, the lead prosecutor in Milan. "In fact, if Abu Omar had not been kidnapped, he would now be in prison, subject

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The organization that bribed Duke Cunningham was not performing a necessary service according to the Defense Department. It seems the main reason for the organization was to funnel defense department money to Repbulcan coffers from the stand point of the Congressmen involved and to make a lot of money from the point of view of owner Brent Wilkes.The Congress Act FEMA BushOther Congressional

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Ms. Propaganda specialist (Cheney's can you imagine a personality so twisted that he or she* is Cheney's propagandist?) Mary Matlin says as long as the stories are accurate it's okay. This from the the most administration with the worst record on accuracy in since the teapot dome incident.But now I guess we can see their thinking. Once school somewhere was rebuilt and the story on that can be

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(They're full of loopholes.)Dist Congress Act FEMA Ext.TxCts Let Go Abysmal GPA Flaunt New Rules Williams Noted Excerpt of London Times Article:CONDOLEEZZA RICE, pausing at Andrews Air Force Base before boarding her flight to Europe, told Europe bluntly it should be grateful for the US’s tough methods in the War on Terror, even if that included controversial CIA techniques.DeLay Dorgan Season

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Or Kanye West even better!I lost my business. I lost my home. We need everything," said Steven Reed, 37, a graphics designer who was commuting seven hours from Tyler, in East Texas, where he was living with his family at the Baptist Church of Gresham."I keep having to bring them more paperwork," Mr. Reed said. "They ask for paperwork. But the paper is at the house. And the house was under eight

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That's what he told us 11 days ago.Don't worry he had a plan.And they printed a book that was less of a plan than a hopeful scenario.But did he really say he had a plan? IIRC he did, and the signs that were all over the stage when he spoke repeated the assertion over and over.It's called "misinformation". In fact the government just got it together recently to put up a web page offering over a

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Three months after disaster, talk about federal help for the beleagured city is mostly that.Tribes Have All the LuckWrongful Imprisonment: Anatomy of a CIA MistakeAnd even the small aid offered evacuees will be withdrawn in the near future.Blanco RecordsFor Alito, a Tricky QuestionCunningham BriberyExcerpt: But the risks that individual New Orleanians must shoulder in such an on-your-own recovery

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35% more deaths with our Big War Machine over the other major brandsLook for the blood red box at your grocer's today!Excerpt of SFGate article:Breaking with the Clinton administration's advocacy for a cooperative, rules-based international economy...the Bush administration has fashioned a new model of imperial globalization, aggressive and unilateralist. This agenda, at best, benefits a narrow

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Looks like a city after the Bush regime's own heart.Excerpt:The Hong Kong government has denied the existence of any blacklist.But the South China Morning Post reported police had used pictures of protesters at last month's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum in the South Korean city of Pusan to help them build such a list.Recent reports have suggested some 3000 Korean farmers may

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Nagin, the New Orleans Mayor, begged displaced people in Atlanta who had gathered at Morehouse College to come home.Excerpt:"I miss y'all," Mayor C. Ray Nagin told more than 2,200 people temporarily living in the Atlanta area. "I want y'all back in the city of New Orleans. Red beans and rice just ain't the same without you. I want you back."But in a three-hour session marked by tears and

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Transcript of the strangest newscast I ever saw. There was this lady wearing a hat so big you couldn't see her face and she's saying:Decline in Support for War Worries GOPDean Hammers Bush On War, ImmigrationCunningham Friends Baffled By His Blunder Into BriberyAmazing how our Darling President Bush's superior brain power has solved the problems in the economy in the last few months isn't it?

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That's what it reads like to me.Ridge said his old department should name regional chiefs to work closely with governors, mayors and state homeland security officials in each section of the country to prevent the breakdowns that hampered Brown, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D) and New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin before and after the storm.Yep, I was reading on the DHS site and that was

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How dare they?Just because right wingers were laughing on the day that Katrina hit.Chortling about the numbers of .. er.. minority folks were going to die.Just because the federal government has shown it basically wanted the whole area bulldozed and buildings that would make rich folk richer built there.Just because so many died there due to neglect and some think even possible intentional

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The big problem, Mr. Kurtz, is that the middle class is being hammered by actions of the government and business. It was the middle class that gave the massive numbers needed to subscribe to newspapers to keep you guys afloat. But you served the real middle class very poorly. I mean those of us not making over 200k a year. I know people above that are considered middle class and they can buy

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USAID Chief Natsios ResignsMuted Support for GOP Change GrowsMilitary Says It Paid Iraq Papers for NewsGonzales Defends Approval of Texas Redistricting by Justice From article:Natsios said the offer from Georgetown, where he and his son attended, was "too tempting for me."Democratic Lawmakers Splinter on IraqSon says "No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"Feb. 4 Elections In New Orleans Are

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The authorities of McLennan County, Texas, will have to wait a little bit longer before juror number 286 reports for service.Verizon to Offer Service for Cell Phones Interactive Mobile TV Test Is Planned County officials posted a jury summons to President George W Bush at 43 Chapel Ranch Road, the address of his Texas ranch, last month.Intel to Build Second Plant in Israel But the White House

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In his last piece for NiemanWatchdog.org, retired Gen. William Odom argued that all the terrible things the Bush administration says would happen if we pulled our troops out of Iraq are happening already. In a new postscript, Odom writes that the converse is true as well: Bush says he wants to bring democracy and stability to the greater Middle East -- but in fact the only way to achieve that

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This articlearticle is linked to the GAO reportand another analysis on the capabilities for and possible experiences of fraud with electronic voting machines.

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Well, said Mr. Kinsley Corruption and politiciansPapers Energize Alito's Critics No Special Break for TookieAnonymous Sources And a Known QuantityA Pox on Both PartiesU.S. Builds Stockpile of Vaccine for Flu PandemicThe Abortion Argument We MissedNo that's not possible. The Republicans in the US Congress assured us that no one would make Flu vaccine for the newly deadly bird flu unless

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We've seen it before: an embattled president so swathed in his inner circle that he completely loses touch with the public and wanders around among small knots of people who agree with him. There was Lyndon Johnson in the 1960's, Richard Nixon in the 1970's, and George H. W. Bush in the 1990's. Now it's his son's turn.It has been obvious for months that Americans don't believe the war is going

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President Bush has a happy start to his Christmas with Little House on the Prairie actor (and former pro football player) Merlin Olsen playing Santa for him. Picture: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque Yeah, laughing all the way at the poor shmucks out in the cold and in danger of dying while Bush and his supporters are comfortable at home.Washington Post

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People react and hold symbolic yellow Gerberas during a central Sydney vigil December 2, 2005, held at the same time as Singapore's execution of convicted Australian drug trafficker Nguyen Tuong Van. Nguyen, 25, from Melbourne, was hanged in Singapore's Changi Prison shortly before dawn. REUTERS/Will Burgess The right wing administration of the Australian government wouldn't do much but

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To continue Bush's campaign to drag his poll numbers up General Peter Pace, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told us that the reason we don't worship at the feet of our president is because we just don't know what is going on.And he isn't even going to tell us. Not unlike the pathetic paid right wing message boarders he calls us ignorant and then won't prove what we are supposedly

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LOL. I'd call it a "dossier". It should be discredited as Tony Blair made the word, which once endowed the filthy intelligence that the US and UK used to justify the attack on a small nation that they had weakened for 12 years through sanctions.Steroids Detected In Dietary TabletsRogers Stays Cool In His Trial by FireBush's ..er.... Rumsfeld's and Cheney's 'Strategy for Victory' suddenly finds

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The right calls him "Benedict Arnold."Report on FBI Tool Is DisputedSchwarzenegger Promotes a DemocratTranscript: Bush's SpeechGov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) on Wednesday took the first step to shaking up his administration after his resounding special election failure, appointing a longtime Democratic activist as his chief of staff.Bishop Says Edict Allows Some Gay PriestsLacking Transfers,

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Badtux has a good analysis.An Offering of Detail But No New SubstanceBewilder Thy Father and MotherJustices Ponder Abortion CaseMay I point out that the times of "can do", were times before tax cuts for the wealthy seemed to be the ultimate purpose of the US government?

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Howard Kurtz shows he got his conference call this morning.Rice's Rising StarFoolish FencesHe tries to equate big time entrenched, indicted, and convicted scandals on the GOP side with some old news, and one "under investigation" on the Dem side.Hurricane Recovery: A Forgotten Priority?It makes one wonder if he's got a special tube running from Karl or Karen to his office.A Pox on Both

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Poor little Bushie. He had a dream that he was FDR, but we are the purveyors of aggressive war this time. And now we are subverting the democracy that we pretend to build. (Of course that 'democratic' puppet regime is allowed to hold people without charges and to torture, but hey, it's democracy if we say it is.)Virginia Man Among Iraq HostagesBush Releases Detailed Strategy PlanApparently

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Excerpt of LA Times article: # Troops write articles presented as news reports. Some officers object to the practice.By Mark Mazzetti and Borzou Daragahi, Times Staff WritersWASHINGTON — As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq.The

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Analysis: Temporary isn't going to happen. By the time the guest workers are here for 6 years, they will have children--or more children and will not be returning home but will be forced into an even worse situation and immigrant numbers will explode with Bush's plan to offer every American job to people across the border.In fact, since every baby born in the US is an American citizen and having

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Brace yourself for a mind-bog of sheer cynicism. The discombobulation begins Wednesday, when President George W. Bush is expected to proclaim, in a major speech at the U.S. Naval Academy, that the Iraqi security forces—which only a few months ago were said to have just one battalion capable of fighting on its own—have suddenly made uncanny progress in combat readiness. Expect soon after (if not

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First they sent the most money for counterterrorism to red areas that were least likely to see it, now they've stopped the air Marshall program because of cost.What is another hijacking going to cost this nation?Efforts to train thousands of federal agents to protect commercial flights during heightened terror alerts were quietly abandoned more than a year ago because Congress objected to the

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There's a good analysis at New York TimesSupreme Court Hears First Abortion Case in 5 YearsBig Easy's Musicians Move Their Acts to AustinBishop Says Edict Allows Some Gay PriestsCompany To Suspend Production Of Eye DropsSecond E-pinionDown the Hatch, Then What?U.S. Builds Stockpile of Vaccine for Flu Pandemic

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Marble Falls From Supreme Court Building's Facade, Spurring Theories of SymbolismDid anyone ask the building whom it wanted inside?After all the new Chief Justice has only a few years of judicial experience, himself.A Growing Wariness About Money in PoliticsExcerpt:For several years now, corporations and other wealthy interests have made ever-larger campaign contributions, gifts and sponsored

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I've been thinking about the report on the 'suicide' of Ted Westhusing. (His family doubts that his death was a suicide. He was staying in the camp run by the private firm that he oversaw, and was having problems with.The Security firm is about USIS a Virginia company, but the cases sound almost like the one Custer Battles another Virginia company is embroiled in. Custer Battles is facing

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A group of suspected illegal immigrants, which were apprehended by Border Patrol agents, await processing as they sit on a road in the Otay Mesa Mountain Range, near Dulzura, Calif., Oct. 12, 2005. (AP Photo/Sandy Huffaker) "We will not be able to effectively enforce our immigration laws until we create a temporary worker program," the president said.No sir, in fact, it is you who will

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Excerpt: ...[Our] deception is furthered by our armed forces’ belief that we can just enter ancient Mesopotamia and tell the locals about the benefits of a legislative assembly. While our European ancestors were hanging from trees, these ancient people were writing algebra and solving quadratic equations. Now we feel compelled to strong-arm them into accepting the spoils of capitalism and “

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Boswell may have the facts on coaching and the team, but there may be more to it than that.Redskins Haunted By Ghosts of Coaches PastAccording to Thomas Boswell.Funny that Tom would say: We've gone through the looking glass. Because I think he accidently hit on the real haunters.For one.Looking Glass, war chief of the east Washington State renegade Nez Perce' Indians that refused to stay on the

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Fired Up! Anerica has the facts on the way the AP downgraded the type of airship that Chief of Staff AndrewCard jockeys around in.

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See interactive graphic at BBC.Types of slavery:It is defined as work which is exacted under the menace of a penalty and undertaken involuntarily. Forced labour can be imposed by the state or private agents and takes different forms, including debt bondage, chattel slavery and prison labour.Emphasis mine.Debt bondage. You mean where your credit card company can unilaterally raise your interest

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Excerpt:...he has never forgotten where he came from. Long before he retired as a colonel, he had been an enlisted man. He knows that the most important people in the U.S. military are not the generals with their drivers and their fawning attaches, but the sergeants and the junior officers to whom he has always talked directly and whose cause, and their families', he has made his own.I like him

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Excerpt from LA Times article: A note found in his trailer seemed to offer clues. Written in what the Army determined was his handwriting, the colonel appeared to be struggling with a final question.How is honor possible in a war like the one in Iraq?...The Army would conclude that he committed suicide with his service pistol. At the time, he was the highest-ranking officer to die in Iraq....

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"People are doing the same as (in) Saddam Hussein's time and worse," Mr Allawi told the [UK Observer]."It is an appropriate comparison. People are remembering the days of Saddam."These were the precise reasons that we fought Saddam Hussein, and now we are seeing the same things."Militias are operating within the Shia-led government, torturing and killing in secret bunkers, he said.Mr Allawi - who

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No excerpts from article (link at bottom)in this post. It is free of popups, registration, and major advertising.And the reason that Paul Volker overlooked that 9 billion? The US took it. The US government. Spent it. Blew it. Tossed it to the wind--er--well to the the Bush administration's favored "rebuilders". Bremer flew up to the Kurds and dropped 1.4 billion in their lap just before he

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One Woman's ChoiceThe line of anti-abortion bloggers on this article's page is very interesting.Why do people have so much time to obsess on this cause?Have you ever wondered about that?Maybe you are pro-life and berated yourself about the people that go out everyday and yell at women going into clinics. Maybe you tell yourself you should be doing that. What are you doing going to work or

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Are you ready for more of this? Article excerpts: Do the People of the United States Care Enough to Stop Him?BILL CHRISTISONFormer CIA analystIn this his time of troubles, Bush seems to be moving deliberately and rapidly toward new wars of aggression in an unforgivable gamble to overcome his troubles. His speech on Veterans' Day, November 11, 2005 at the Tobyhanna Army Depot in

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Lest one fear that he might be saying that, Cheney immediately added, "I'm unwilling to say that" -- "that" being what he had just said. He generously granted critics the right to criticize (as did the president this week). Then he resumed hurling adjectives like an ape hurling coconuts at unwanted visitors. "Dishonest." "Reprehensible." "Corrupt." "Shameless." President Bush and others joined in

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Though the Washington Post article made it seem that "Richardson was caught trying to maintain a lie by the "Albuquerque Journal", their own report showed that Richardson had left the claim out of his biography published earlier this month.Since that book needed to be written even earlier than the publication date, apparently Richardson had dropped any mention of being drafted.He seems to have

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Hey, what can I say? All 'men' are equal, but some are more equal than others. How much more of a political neanderthal can this man be?In 1985, when Alito was applying for a political appointment in the Reagan administration, he wrote that he disagreed with decisions by the Warren Court in the 1960s involving "reapportionment." Those rulings required electoral districts to have equal

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Excerpt from Post article:Ariston Johnson has a huge paper due Monday: 60 pages of legal analysis with a fat binder full of supporting documents. After he turns it in to his professor at the College of William and Mary School of Law, his research will be sent to Iraq, flown to Baghdad and sped down the often-bombed highway to the fortified Green Zone.There, in an ornate former palace compound,

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Okay, when you are finished rolling on the floor, you can read the excerpt:Former FEMA Director Michael Brown, heavily criticized for his agency's slow response to Hurricane Katrina, is starting a disaster preparedness consulting firm to help clients avoid the sort of errors that cost him his job."If I can help people focus on preparedness, how to be better prepared in their homes and better

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Sheehan began her talk by discussing how the holiday season will be a sad time for many families in the United States and Iraq due to the loss of loved ones in the war. She went on to share her opinion of the war in Iraq, saying the Bush administration has done a careless job of directing the military, using unethical approaches throughout the war. The Bush administration, in Sheehan’s opinion,

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History repeats itselfGonzales and PadillaChange the SubjectHow Terrorist are madeWalking pointThanksgiving in the land of plentyThankfulThe InsiderWhat shall I do?Natural SelectionCorneredCell MatesIntelligent Design?Rewriting HistoryBush MagicHe Knows WarYes, VirginiaThe Emperor's ClothesGotta go!Don't look now!Swift boatsBeep BeepThree more years!Is it done yet?I wasn't there!A Winnable PlanM

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by Robert H. Frank, co-author, with Ben S. Bernanke, of "Principles of Microeconomics."Excerpt:On the cost side of the ledger, the federal budget deficits created by the recent tax cuts have had serious consequences, even for the wealthy. These deficits will exceed $300 billion for each of the next six years, according to projections by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The most widely

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Two blogs have collected links, and/or fair use excerpts on a number of articles on whether prewar intelligence was given some heat by the Bush administration.(Pretty cool sentence there, don't you think? I'm practicing mainstream journo-English. Gotta learn how to keep it as vague as possible. Don't want to get any possible advertisers mad, especially rich and/or right wing ones.) The blogs

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Excerpt: On Friday, freshman Republican Rep. "Mean Jean" Schmidt mounted one of the fiercest, most personal assaults Congress has witnessed since Preston Brooks caned Charles Sumner to a bloody pulp in 1856. The target of Schmidt's attack was Rep. John Murtha, a Vietnam vet who had just introduced a resolution calling for a withdrawal of US troops from Iraq within 6 months (which included several

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A few excerpts (Their order has been rearranged to make get the data in a line I consider the most rapidly understandable, though, of course, the original writing shows a much more professional touch):Rendon is a leader in the strategic field known as "perception management," manipulating information -- and, by extension, the news media -- to achieve the desired result. His firm, the Rendon Group

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A cloning pioneer regarded as a hero in his South Korean homeland has resigned and apologised for using human eggs from his own researchers....International medical standards warn against using eggs from researchers who may be vulnerable to pressure.However, the health ministry in Seoul insists that he is not guilty of any moral or legal wrongdoing, as the eggs were given voluntarily, without the

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Excerpt from news report:Forty years have passed since cigarettes were first linked to cancer. Yet there is still no federal law to require the cigarette industry to reveal what chemicals and additives are mixed in with the tobacco."Tobacco remains the least regulated product that Americans consume," said Matt Myers of the National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids....It has been 11 years since the

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A must read

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Washington Post article includes:A large deficit in NASA's troubled shuttle program threatens to seriously delay and possibly cripple President Bush's space exploration initiative unless the number of planned flights is cut virtually in half or the White House agrees to add billions of dollars to the human spaceflight budget.Sources familiar with ongoing negotiations between NASA and the White

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And if the Bush administration was not an emasculated puppy, pretty well incapable of doing anything besides wetting on the rug or sending the military off to kill 100k+ civilians of a country that was not a threat to the US, you would probably have to worry about an Email from the FBI.But in this case the email is a phony.The FBI is not after you. It's a virus and a pretty bad one.Yes, Sony can

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Also see: What did they know, and when did they know it? PreWar Intelligence--a review of current articlesIndented portions are excerpts from the news reports linked.US to end 'catch and release' at Mexican borderBut, as always with the Bush administration, it's going to take a looooooonnnnnnnnngggggg time. This needs to be stopped ASAP! Last year Chechens with ties to terrorists slipped

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First:Important points on prewar intelligence from current report on CurveballExcerpts from How U.S. Fell Under the Spell of 'Curveball'Also see: Codename 'Curveball'. Note: Drawings above were presented to UNSC on Feb 5, 2005 as evidence of Mobile labs making biological weapons. (Most of the world noticed that they were just drawings. The American news media played up Powell's masterful

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Little SquirtCue WW of W musicHave a Nice HolidayExit StrategyA Little too EagerCut and Run?FantasylandMisfedTarredChalaib's WebOur Friend GenghisKeep it DownNew MedicareTorture?GougedDisremembering the pastOld vs NewWhat goes around comes around.Invite Chaos?Home to RoostHieroglyphicsGeorge's ThanksgivingRIPMiracle pillOur Exit StrategyCommander Chickenhawk]Man in Black

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Upgrade now!Well, if this means something else, let me know:According to the Microsoft security advisory, "the vulnerability could allow an attacker to levy a denial of service attack of limited duration" on Windows XP SP1 if the attacker has valid log-on credentials.Although the flaw cannot be exploited remotely by an anonymous user, the company said that the affected component is available

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His interest group ratings.Abramoff partner pleads guilty, will testify against ---wait for it--- Rep. Ney of Ohio.Music dies.What? What about Tom Delay? (Wind whispers in the sage.)The plea agreement lists gifts Ney was offered or received, including a golf trip to Scotland in 2002, $4,000 to his campaign committee, $10,000 to the National Republican Campaign Committee made with credit to Ney,

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By Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post.Leaves me with one thing to say.You've outdone yourself in covering right wing talking points this time, Howie.Now you get a puppy bisquit.Journalists Who Won't Give Up

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So says Washington Post article, Parents' Effect on Achievement ShakyAnd all I can say is: "Well, finally".After hearing from every burned out teacher and administrator that the problems with students come from the parents, it is good news that this is being brought up.I agree. There are problems with schools, but don't blame the parents. The school is the school. The teacher is the

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Pvt. Christopher Alcozer, 21, a Fort Wainwright soldier, shown in this photo provided by the U.S. Army, died in an ambush in the northern Iraq city of Mosul, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2005. Excerpt from Slate article: As he did with the prewar intelligence, Cheney told no outright lies, but he exaggerated the case, picked only evidence he liked, and ignored the caveats. Here's how he did it:

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Toon

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What's with those bottom teeth?Cheney Accuses Iraq Critics of Shameless RevisionismWhat did the Bush administration know that the Congress did not know?Well, for one thing, that their prime witness "Curveball" was a crazy drunk that did not work in the field he claimed to work in at the time he claimed to work there. That the German government who held him told the CIA that he was very

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Murtha Says Americans Back Iraq PulloutMurtha:"We cannot win this militarily. Our tactics themselves keep us from winning," Murtha said at a scheduled news conference after a speech to a civic group in his hometown of Johnstown, about 60 miles east of Pittsburgh.House Republicans on Friday pushed for a vote on a nonbinding resolution to pull out the troops after Murtha's comments. It was rejected

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Excerpt from article:U.S. officials said Monday that they do not believe Abu Musab Zarqawi, the Jordanian insurgent leader, was among those killed in a gunfight in northern Iraq Sunday."I do not believe that we got him," said Zelmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq. "But his days are numbered. We're closer to that goal but unfortunately we didn't get him in Mosul."U.S. Officials Believe

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From the speech given by the president of the United States in Mongolia (according to whitehouse.gov): Like the ideology of communism, Islamic radicalism teaches the innocent can be murdered to serve their brutal aims.Sir, there's 100,000 ghosts in Iraq that would like to speak to you about that statement.

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Should U.S. troops begin an immediate withdrawal from Iraq? * 14346 responses Yes 74% No 22% I don't know 5%

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The New Fear -- Migrating birdsWhy does Europe have flu vaccine, and patients' rights? Republicans in Congress assure us it can't be done. The U.S. is unprepared for the next flu pandemic, lacking the manufacturing capacity to provide 300 million doses of a vaccine for three to five more years, Health and Human Services SecretaryMike Leavitt said Sunday."What we all learned from (

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From the BBCFluorescent patches on the wings of African swallowtail butterflies work in a very similar way to high emission light emitting diodes (LEDs).These high emission LEDs are an efficient variation on the diodes used in electronic equipment and displays.The University of Exeter, UK, research appears in the journal Science.In 2001, Alexei Erchak and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute

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As 'Explainer' at Slate, the online magazine, reminds us you can call Rove a 'senior administration official' without getting your face slapped.And he hasn't come out saying he wasn't Woodward's source.Hadley's playing a game--'maybe I am, maybe I'm not'--possibly to distract the news media.It's amazing the amount of effort the Bush people will go to in hiding something that will come out anyway

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Bush Attends Beijing Church, Promoting Religious FreedomHo Hum another symbolic bit of BS from Bush.What was it that Jefferson said?Oh yeah, There is no freedom of religion without freedom from religion.Also: Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.-Thomas Jefferson to James Smith,

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Iranian women sit in front of a model of the White House (sic) before joining thousands of locals to create a human chain around the Natanz uranium enrichment facility during a rally to show support for the country's nuclear programme, in Natanz, 350km (217 miles) south of the captial Tehran, November 18, 2005. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl On the one hand, it's funny to know that another

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by Jimmy Carter 39th president of the United States. newExcerpt: IN RECENT YEARS, I have become increasingly concerned by a host of radical government policies that now threaten many basic principles espoused by all previous administrations, Democratic and Republican.These include the rudimentary American commitment to peace, economic and social justice, civil liberties, our environment and human

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Ratings have fallen big time on right wing talk (aka hate) radio.Spinmasters swear it's just because it's an off election year. Yeah, nothing's happened this year of interest to say--right? LOLI mean come on who do you know that could tell you that the only time they listen regularly to Rush Limbaugh and his friends is during a presidential campaign season?Michael Harrison editor and publisher

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Rep. John P. Murtha, D-Pa., shown in this Oct. 28, 2003, photo on Capitol Hill in Washington, and fellow-lawmaker, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., (not shown) are leading efforts to ban abusive treatment of foreign prisoners. Both the behind-the-scenes House Democrat and the high-profile Senate Republican are national security authorities, Iraq war supporters, and Vietnam veterans; McCain was

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If Congressional elections were held today, would you vote for a Democratic or Republican candidate? * 84389 responses Democrat 82% Republican 14% Not sure 4%

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My thoughts:The man who revealed to American's 'moral majority' (as it was called by Nixon's and Agnew's versions of Karl and Karen) how very immoral the people they had placed in power were has, this time, sheltered the criminals in the oval office.The man that brought out the details of a corrupt administration that kept us in a war and even sought to expand to other nations though they

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Too much access? How Dare They? Attack of Mothra! The bill goes to the baby Exit Strategy Pardoning the Turkey The Liar Run for your Lives! Please Wait to be Seated Too much access? We've done our share. Starry Night Chicken Little Deja Vu

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Lying, no--really? Not our military. Maybe someone else's military.I know! Syria's military is lying about our recruitment. Lets go get 'em. Bush isn't lying either. It's some other president that's lying. Okay, I'll behave. Excerpt: Both the Army and the Marines, for instance, fell short of their goals for hiring roadside bomb defusers by about 20 percent in each of the last two

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Today Josh Marshall of Talking Point Memo notes:There's one point that's important to remember about the White House's pushback to cover up its collective dishonesty about Iraq. We've noted before that in scandals or political nominations the decisive issue is not the number of opponents, the intensity of their opposition or even the quality of their arguments. The decisive issue is most often

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House Approves Spending ReductionsApparently "Great Expectations" and the dumping of ANWR overcame the moderate Republicans' objections to the bill in the "early morning hours'.When I write late at night, which the early morning hours certainly are, I have to check my work in the morning. (I feel sorry for the EST morning readers.)A certain fuzz takes over the brain that makes it hard to think

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Some nice people from a farming community in a 19th century type culture that some naysayers apparently want to return to in the US. Terrorists could help them make their dreams come true. (The Guatemalans are trying to sell items to French tourists.) A right wing blogger linking to Terrorism Insurance Progresses says that Peoria shouldn't have to pay for terrorism insurance because

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Such evil things that unionized teachers do. They should be teaching these kids that God created the world in 6 days! Instead:Clown Karen McCarty, left, escorts Daniel M. and Siama P. , two hearing impaired kindergartners from Hackensack New Jersey's Union School for the Deaf into the 'Circus of the Senses,' Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2005, in New York for Big Apple Circus's once a year-special

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WoodshedReady to EatAlito the cheerleaderSo it does help?Leaving the ShipThe Piano Player--The Player PianoBush and O'ConnorLibby found innocent by Bob WoodwardI like GloomRobertson doing the weather now?Meet the new boss, same as the old bossPlague of FrogsYes, Virginia, There is torture.Leaving Kansas

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Poor boy is out of touch with mainstream Republicanism.If they would get back in touch with him, maybe they'd have a chance in November of 2006.Or, George, there is another party you know. It really looks like you are dissatisfied with the one you're in now. The conservative coalition, which is coming unglued for many reasons, will rapidly disintegrate if limited-government conservatives become

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They must be sneakier than those WMDs that Saddam 'had'.How many times have military officers been proven to be lying just in the course of this latest war, yet they still incist on being accepted as honest.What is the old (since the Vietnam war) proverb? Oh Yeah. The first casualty of war is the truth. The Iraq war is a prime example of this. Before 8,500 U.S. and Iraqi soldiers methodically

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The lawmakers suggested that Alito has largely forfeited a third option that helped some of his predecessors sidestep questions about their legal views and deny opponents a hook for claiming that their future court rulings were predictable. Clarence Thomas, for example, said at his 1991 confirmation hearing that he had barely given a thought to Roe , even though he became an outspoken critic of

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Senate Passes Bill to Require Full Funding of Private PensionsWhy is stuff like this hidden in the business section. This is of vital interest, like the article about vaccine funding to all Americans.Congress Arrives at A Deal on Patriot Act Scr@#ed againScr@#ed againThank God Almighty, we're Scr@#ed again!And not in a good wayRep. Davis Warns of Backlash if Roe v. Wade Is Overturned Again

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The Foreign Office document 'Iraq in the Medium Term' referred to "heavy handed" tactics in Falluja and Najaf.Its contents were reported in the Sunday Times in May last year.Ex civil servant David Keogh and ex MP's researcher Leo O'Connor, both from Northampton, will appear before Bow Street magistrates on 29 November.Political researcherMr Keogh, 49, is a former Cabinet Office communications

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Note to Washington Post. Writer Jeffrey H. Birnbaum needs to be put on the Op Ed page. If a person is truly an objective writer, he or she would not lead with RNC talking points tainting the other side of the argument before it's even presented. In fact, even Birnbaum's tone shows he's hankering after a Rush Limbaugh like radio gig. This piece in the Washington Post is disgusting yellow

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Miguel Romero of Honduras cleans his hands with the water from a tanker truck amongst the discarded desks and school busses that were ruined during Hurricane Katrina at the Arabi Elementary School in Arabi, Louisiana on November 15, 2005. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson Would you like to guess who's behind it?Okay just one clue. The company's name starts with an "H".Pandagon's great comments on

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