Archive for August, 2007
Sunday, August 26th, 2007
The day Katrina hit the coast. The day normal life ended on the gulf coast of our United States. The day BushCo fell down on the job and all hell began to break loose. The day BushCo’s biggest domestic fuck-up began. Need I say more? nah..
Obama is unveiling his plan ...
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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
The people in Iraq can’t even get electricity 24/7 or running clean water. Yet Petraeus and our elected representati ves are dining on lobster tortellini in Baghdad. This isn’t the worst of it however. That Petraeus would sit in a comfortable environment and lobby for the surge whilst eating this ...
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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
According to a NYT article the answer is yes. This is the first time since the fed’s started keeping track in 1950. A small blurb from the NYT writeup:
Economists say the decline, which could be foreshadowed in a widely followed government price index to be released this week, will probably ...
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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
From Jurist:
US Bankruptcy Judge Louise DeCarl Adler ordered 42 clergy sex abuse cases against the Catholic Diocese of San Diego to go to trial Friday, accepting arguments by plaintiffs lawyers that the move could push pressure on the diocese to settle the claims. The trials were suspended in February - ...
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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
The prisoner spent 97 days confined in the same American military prison that once held Saddam Hussein. He was bombarded with ear-splittin g “head-bang ing” music day in and day out, and his interrogator s kept shouting the same questions to him over and over. He and his assistant were ...
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
From Politico:
The Democratic Party has taken a swipe at the nation’s fourth biggest state, stripping Florida of all of its ‘08 delegates as punishment for jumping the gun with its primary, which is forcing other states to crowd Christmas in the quest to be first.
Under a vote taken moments ago ...
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Almost 20,000 people ended up, for whatever reason, in the govt’s terrorist database. That..is a lot of people wouldn’t you say?
Get this…the govt wants to ‘open up’ the list to private entities. You know, we contract so fucking much of our needs out these days, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that ...
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Everybody’s talking about the surge…is it succeeding…i s it a failure…will it allow the Iraqi government to turn the corner?
Some Democrats have been willing to acknowledge that the additional 30,000 troops has had a positive impact…which has led other Democrats to accuse them of capitulation . Simultaneous ly, these ...
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
From FindLaw we get the gist of Vick’s plea bargain:
Michael Vick, the Atlanta Falcon’s Quarterback, signed a guilty plea to federal dog-fighting charges.
In his Statement of Facts, Vick agreed to paying “approxima tely $34,000” for property located in Smithfield, Va. to train, breed, and house pit-bulls for dogfighting, and engage ...
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
From FindLaw:
(AP) - JACKSON, Miss.-James Ford Seale, a reputed Ku Klux Klansman, was sentenced Friday to three life terms for his role in the 1964 abduction and murder of two black teenagers in southwest Mississippi.
Seale, 72, was convicted in June on federal charges of kidnapping and conspiracy in the ...
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