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"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ" --Gandhi
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -Theodore Roosevelt
"A little revolution, now and then, is a good thing." -Thomas Jefferson-
"In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in 12 years, we'll be voting for plants." -Lewis Black-
"When you're born in the world you're given a ticket to the freakshow; when you're born in America you're given a front-row seat. And some of us in the front row have notebooks and pencils." -George Carlin |
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Sheehan Arrested During Anti-War Protest - Yahoo! News |
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2:33 pm EDT, Sep 26, 2005 |
"I would like to say to Cindy Sheehan and her supporters don't be a group of unthinking lemmings. It's not pretty," said Mitzy Kenny of Ridgeley, W.Va., whose husband died in Iraq last year. The anti-war demonstrations "can affect the war in a really negative way. It gives the enemy hope."
I would say the fact that they're winning gives them hope, but that would be a totally different point. Sheehan Arrested During Anti-War Protest - Yahoo! News |
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'Intelligent Design' Court Battle Begins - Yahoo! News |
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2:29 pm EDT, Sep 26, 2005 |
"All the Dover school board did was allow students to get a glimpse of a controversy that is really boiling over in the scientific community," Thompson said.
The controversy is how anyone could be stupid enough to but into the idea that ID is science in any way shape or form. But I guess teaching ID in school is exactly how that happens. 'Intelligent Design' Court Battle Begins - Yahoo! News |
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Offer of buses fell between the cracks |
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6:52 pm EDT, Sep 23, 2005 |
Pantuso, whose members include some of the nation's largest motor coach companies, including Greyhound and Coach USA, eventually learned that the job of extracting tens of thousands of residents from flooded New Orleans wasn't being handled by FEMA at all. Instead the agency had farmed the work out to a trucking logistics firm, Landstar Express America, which in turn hired a limousine company, which in turn engaged a travel management company.
Excuse me? FEMA farmed out their response? Guys, delegation is good and all that, but isn't this delegating your job? Offer of buses fell between the cracks |
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FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford Resigns |
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6:46 pm EDT, Sep 23, 2005 |
His three-year tenure at FDA was marked by increasing criticism and a particularly rocky final 12 months. The painkiller
Vioxx was pulled off the market for safety problems, FDA was embarrassed last fall when its British counterparts shut down a supplier of U.S. flu vaccine for tainted shots, and over the summer recalls of malfunctioning heart devices mounted. Finally last month, morale at the agency plummeted when Crawford indefinitely postponed nonprescription sales of emergency contraception over the objections of staff scientists who had declared the pill safe. FDA's women's health chief resigned in protest.
Good riddance. FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford Resigns |
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Recruits Sought for FBI Anti-Porn Squad |
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1:09 am EDT, Sep 22, 2005 |
Public corruption, officially, is fourth on the FBI's priority list, after protecting the United States from terrorist attack, foreign espionage and cyber-based attacks. Just below those priorities are civil rights, organized crime, white-collar crime and "significant violent crime." The guidance from headquarters does not mention where pornography fits in.
Porn is worse than screwing people out of the vote, organized crime, assholes like Ken Lay screwing people out of billions, and murder and kidnapping??? These people need a swift kick in the ass. Recruits Sought for FBI Anti-Porn Squad |
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Bush Official Arrested in Corruption Probe |
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1:04 am EDT, Sep 22, 2005 |
The Bush administration's top federal procurement official resigned Friday and was arrested yesterday, accused of lying and obstructing a criminal investigation into Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff's dealings with the federal government. It was the first criminal complaint filed against a government official in the ongoing corruption probe related to Abramoff's activities in Washington.
Think we will ever hear a final official number for how many tax payer dollars were misappropriated due to this guy? Why trim the pork when you can just get rid of the pigs? Haw haw haw.. [I wonder, are we seeing the dominos start to fall or is Karl Rove going to manage to make this turn into a tree falling in an empty forest? I'm sure there will be more to come...] Bush Official Arrested in Corruption Probe |
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8:34 pm EDT, Sep 21, 2005 |
This is going on RIGHT NOW Okay, it's over, but... If you didn't see this, you will on the news or somewhere. Hands down this is one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. I zapped the link because it was dead after the incident, I'll see if I can find footage of it. I found footage! The link now goes to it! Jet Blue Emergency |
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Blood Vessels Show Effects of Fat in Teens |
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8:13 pm EDT, Sep 21, 2005 |
The study found that excess fat was even more strongly linked to stiffer blood vessels than cholesterol levels.
Work out and eat reasonably and you're in a better base state. Don't, and well... Blood Vessels Show Effects of Fat in Teens |
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