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Thursday edition - November 13, 2008
On Veterans Day John McCain laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Plumber. - David Letterman
The-World-Will-Be-A-Safer-Place-Without George W. Bush
Anthrax Update
Two newspapers asked a federal judge Wednesday to make public several documents relating to a former Army scientist who was named as a person of interest in the 2001 anthrax attacks and later exonerated...."The public has a right to know why he was targeted," said Jeanette Melendez Bead, lawyer for the newspapers.
Disturbing News
"You know
the Secret Service that follows the candidates around and stuff? They have
nicknames for the people that they work with. Like Barack Obama, his nickname,
the Secret Service called him 'Renegade.' John McCain, I think they called him
'Maverick.' President Bush's Secret Service nickname is 'Occupant.'" --David
Letterman Fooling The Media
MSNBC was the
victim of a hoax when it reported that an adviser to John McCain had identified
himself as the source of an embarrassing story about former vice presidential
candidate Sarah Palin, the network said Wednesday.
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Republican-Shenanigans News
Just Separate Church and State, Already!
The US Supreme Court
Wednesday took up the issue of freedom of speech and religion in a case in which
a small sect wants to place its own monument alongside one of the Ten
Commandments in a public park in Utah.
"In the
Senate, 90-year-old Robert Byrd will step down as Appropriations Committee
chair. He'll be replaced by Hawaiian Senator Daniel Inouye, who is 84. Finally
we're getting some young blood in there." --Jay Leno
Rock-The-Voter News
Fake New York Times
A group of pranksters handed
out more than 1.2 million fake New York Times newspapers mainly in New York City
and Los Angeles on Wednesday with a front page story declaring "Iraq War Ends."
Diagram This Sentence
Gah! Nothing specific right now. Sitting here in these chairs that I’m going to be proposing but in working with these governors who again on the front lines are forced to and it’s our privileged obligation to find solutions to the challenges facing our own states every day being held accountable, not being just one of many just casting votes or voting present every once in a while, we don’t get away with that.
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Biz-Tech News
Bailing Out Our Pockets
"It's a mess," said Eric M. Thorson, the Treasury Department's inspector general, who has been working to oversee the bailout program until the newly created position of special inspector general is filled. "I don't think anyone understands right now how we're going to do proper oversight of this thing."
Subject: Bailout of Banks
Lisa,
Henry Paulson learned this
Modus Operandi from Paul Bremer who handed out billions in cash in Iraq in order
to bypass the bureaucracy and speed up the rebuilding process.
Bob/Iowa
I doubt anyone in the Bush administration writes anything down.
Meanwhile Another 84,868 Foreclosed Last Month
As government and industry
scrambled to stem the housing crisis,
another 84,868 homes were lost to foreclosure in October, according to a
report released Thursday.
"Obama said his favorite part of the tour was when the president showed him the secret dial under his desk that he uses to control the price of gasoline." --Jimmy Kimmel
Bush-Prison-Torture News Valerie Plame Movie - But She's Not The Star
The long-awaited Rod Lurie, "Nothing But the Truth" -- loosely based on the Valerie Plame/CIA leak case and starring Kate Beckinsale as a Judy Miller character -- opens on December 17
Go-F**k-Yourself News
Valerie Plame Update
Two watchdog
organizations scored a legal victory this week when a federal court denied a
motion by the Bush Administration to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the White
House's failure to properly store and recover millions of e-mails.
RePUGlicans Rally The Base - YouTube
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Odd News
A virtual version of ancient Rome's Coliseum is shown in an animated map provided by Google Earth in Rome November 12, 2008. Chief Technology Advocate Michael T. Jones, co-founder of Google Earth and Maps, the service that lets users move through three-dimensional satellite images of city streets, was in Rome to launch a new facility providing virtual visits to ancient Rome, circa 320 AD. Based on virtual architecture of the ancient city created by U.S. and Italian academics, it now allows the 400 million people who visit Google Earth to enter the ancient Roman Forum "or go to the Circus Maximus and imagine you are Ben Hur", said Jones. Photo/Google
Earth
Peace.
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