"President Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney gave speeches on torture. Now, is it me or have we seen more of Dick Cheney in the last week than we did in the past eight years? Anyway, the President spoke out against torture, while Cheney's speech was more of a how-to discussion." --Jay Leno
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It is
worth remembering today that guys like Colin Powell, Morris High '54, put their
own lives on the line. Cheney always did it with somebody else's. -
Mike Lupica, sportswriter Bush Update
And there I was, former President of the United States of America, with a plastic bag on my hand, he recalled. Life is returning back to normal.
Disturbing News I Wonder What The Pope Thinks Of This?
ROME Premier Silvio Berlusconi has promised to further explain his relationship with an 18-year-old woman at the heart of a political and personal scandal.
Republican-Shenanigans News
566,000 Have Died In Combat
From the Civil War through Vietnam, some 566,000 U.S. service personnel died in combat, more than half of them in World War II. Across the U.S., there are 23.5 million veterans of the armed forces. You can find these and more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at www.census.gov .
Cheney favors invading North Korea. - Grant "Bud" Gerver
Rock-The-Voter News Pelosi In China
U.S. House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi, long a fierce critic of Beijing, toured China's financial capital on
Monday but stayed clear of human rights issues, though her presence emboldened
protesters.
"Well, a
bankruptcy judge has denied a chapter 11 proposal submitted by former NFL star,
Michael Vick, after he filed a bankruptcy plan that allowed him to keep three
cars and two houses. The judge argued you can't keep three cars and two houses
if you're really bankrupt. And several AIG executives said, 'Oh, yeah?'"
--Jay Leno Lest we forget
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Biz-Tech News
"Economy's
so bad, I saw an illegal immigrant deport himself. That's how bad it's gotten."
--Jay Leno Right Wing University Update
Tim Kaine, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, issued the following statement in response to Liberty University's recent decision to revoke recognition of the school's Democratic club.
"Liberty University's decision to revoke its recognition of the Liberty University College Democrats is unfortunate for all parties involved. I urge the leadership of Liberty University to reverse this attack on the liberty of its students and allow the College Democrats to have the same rights on campus as their counterparts, the College Republicans."
Bush-Prison-Torture News
"In
competing speeches today, President Obama said the U.S. went off course with
practices like waterboarding. Cheney retaliated by saying he doesn't regret any
of the decisions he made, and if he had to do it all over again, he would order
President Bush to do exactly the same thing. And then he ate a baby."
--Jimmy Kimmel Go-F**k-Yourself News
In case you missed it
In its
tireless effort to provide news and giggles for its readers, All Hat No Cattle
offers this Monday glimpse back at the previous week with an emphasis on the
weekend dump. (We mean the time preferred by government officials, politicians
and titans of industry to release unsavory news in the hope it receives less
media coverage not the bathroom activity.) Witnesses said the fight erupted after a dispute over the sermon, given by a man identified by the Austria Press Agency as Shri Guru Ravidas Sabha. Police said at least six men, one wielding a gun and the others knives, attacked the preacher. Others rushed to his aid, resulting in the melee.
Chen fell 26 feet (8 meters) onto a partially inflated emergency air cushion laid out by authorities and survived, suffering spine and elbow injuries, the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday. The passer-by, 66-year-old Lai Jiansheng, had been fed up with what he called Chen's "selfish activity," Xinhua said. Traffic around the Haizhu bridge in the city of Guangzhou had been backed up for five hours and police had cordoned off the area.
Britain's Advertising Standards Authority received more than 300 complaints about the ad, a promotion for the Israeli Red Sea resort town of Eilat, according to the agency's spokesman Matt Wilson. The Syrian Embassy and pro-Palestinian groups complained about it because the featured map appeared to show the territories Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights within the borders of the Jewish state, according to the Israeli Tourism Ministry and the British standards authority.
Thurs., 5-21-09 In his address to the American Enterprise Institute , a conservative policy organization in Washington , Cheney said that the techniques the Bush administration approved, including waterboarding simulated drowning that's considered a form of torture forced nakedness and sleep deprivation, were "legal" and produced information that "prevented the violent death of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of innocent people."
The 2,600-page report painted the most detailed and damning portrait yet of church-administered abuse in a country grown weary of revelations about child molestation by priests. The investigation of the tax-supported schools uncovered previously secret Vatican records that demonstrated church knowledge of pedophiles in their ranks all the way back to the 1930s.
The appeals court in Washington ruled that the White House Office of Administration is not an agency subject to the Freedom of Information Act, allowing the White House to keep secret documents about an e-mail system that has been plagued with problems.
During its first term, the Bush White House failed to install electronic
record-keeping for e-mail when it switched to a new system, resulting in
millions of messages that could not be found. The Bush White House discovered
the problem in 2005 and rejected a proposed solution.
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Apa Sherpa displays a Nepali flag at the summit of Mount Everest May 21, 2009. The 49-year-old Nepali sherpa carrying a banner reading "Stop Climate Change" climbed Mount Everest for a record 19th time last Thursday, improving his own record set last year, officials said. Photo/Asian Trekking
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