| BlogBite |
| http://www.livejournal.com/users/patsmor |
|
Coretta Scott King, widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., turned a life shattered by her husband's assassination into one devoted to enshrining his legacy of human rights and equality. She was 78. First, I was struck by how close this is to the death of Rosa Parks. Second, I wondered how the civil rights/Black rights movement will look with these two strong women, who were there at the seminal points in the history of the movement, gone. And then I felt some sadness that yet another face I respected is gone.
|
 |
| http://www.livejournal.com/users/samildanach |
|
Officially, Washington's two US Senators are members of the Democratic Party. Patty Murray, to her credit, signed on to support the minority filibuster against Judge Samuel Alito's confirmation to the Supreme Court. Maria Cantwell did not, though she's making noble statements about why she's voting against Judge Alito. This is an empty gesture; Supreme Court confirmation only requires a simple majority of the Senate, which the Republicans control. Alito's confirmation is essentially assured in the wake of today's cloture vote, which Senator Cantwell could have helped defeat. Cantwell has lost my support for her re-election bid.
|
|
| http://www.inthebullpen.com |
|
Is this the smoking gun the United Nations Security Council will need to impose sanctions upon Iran? If this isn ’ t, I don ’ t know what is short of a nuclear bomb itself.
|
|
| http://www.minutesaver.org |
|
Zulima Farber survived one final challenge to her nomination as the state's new attorney general. After being grilled by the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, Farber came under attack by Sen. Gerald Cardinale (R-bergen) yesterday when the full Senate considered her nomination.
|
|
| http://www.livejournal.com/users/albionrachizard |
|
Ohhh man. And now we come to Mr. Kanye West. Mr "You should all bow down to me because I allow you to hear my wonderful talent and don't forget to give me those 8 Grammy's!" Really. He makes MILLIONS of dollars to "rap" and yet has the audacity to freaking complain one of his songs didn't get nominated. Hey Kanye, could you by any chance pry your huge head out of your butt for just a momentary reality check? And that nice Rolling Stone cover... hmm.. Remember what has happened everytime someone has acclaimed to be greater than God? Let's have a history lesson, shall we?
|
|
| http://www.livejournal.com/users/makali |
|
The title music for Wizbit The name of the cat in the Smurfs The entire script of Monty Python and the Holy Grail .... and orange-white, orange, green-white, blue, blue-white, green, brown-white, brown.
|
|
| http://tdaxp.blogspirit.com |
|
By a 58-42 vote, Samuel Alito has become the 110th Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Alito is also the fifth Catholic judge currently sitting -- joining Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Anthony Kennedy, and Chief Justice John Roberts.
|
|
| http://www.theangryfag.com |
|
It never ceases to make me laugh when a company attempts to go out of its way to avoid controversy and finds itself hip deep in it. In its attempt to make Worlds of Warcraft politically correct, Blizzard Entertainment gave player Sara Andrews a warning for "harassment - sexual orientation". What did Sara do? She [...]
|
|
| http://www.yankeessuck.com |
|
With the addition of former Marlin, Alex Gonzalez (who has a career. 245 average) the Red Sox don't gain much of a bat. Instead, the Red Sox may gain something that they need far more: the ability to take a deep breath, let go of the wheel and just let things slide into place until March comes.
|
|
| http://www.livejournal.com/users/mr-dracomalfoy |
|
This morning news about additional casting for "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" reached our site. The role of Kingsley Shacklebolt will be played by George Harris and the role of a young James Potter will not be portrayed by Daniel but by young actor Robbie Jarvis.
|
|
| http://www.tax-dude.com |
|
President Bush will use tomorrow ’ s State of the Union address to promote “ health savings accounts ” as a solution to America ’ s health care crisis. Multiple studies have shown that Hsas are likely to increase the number of uninsured and increase health care costs, all while costing taxpayers tens of billions of dollars. In other words, President Bush is proposing to do for health care what he ’ s already tried with Social Security — placing more of the cost burden on individuals, while making the system more attractive to the wealthy but less effective for ordinary Americans who need health coverage most.
|
|
| http://www.livejournal.com/users/funkervogtbot |
|
Fo real, my old 1971 Ford Maverick was sitting on my cross street as i came home. Was nt too sure if it was my old one, but the license plate number and the remaining "Thursday" sticker prove it! i sold the clunker about 2 years ago for a meager sum... guess its still alive and kicking. My weekend went ok: the usual doses of Perversion and Das Bunker treated me well, with a jaunt to hollywood on saturday night to a friend's shindig with some interesting crap on the freeway on the way down (narrow evasion of a stopped vehicle in the fast lane of the 101 SE). Sunday i stayed home and enjoyed a good edition of the Royal Rumble. John cena got the title back and Rey Mysterio won the 30 man rumble. What a gas!
|
|
| http://www.notasearchengine.com/index.php?p=1 |
|
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Prosecutors accused former Enron Corp. chief executives Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling of lying to cover up their company's crumbling finances, but defense attorneys said crooked underlings destroyed the energy trading giant in opening arguments of the two men's criminal trial on Tuesday.
|
|
| http://www.themightymjd.com |
|
Again … these things happened, and are part of the reason that Seattle was the best team in the NFC. I don ’ t get your point, Skip. It ’ s like you ’ re asking, “ Hey, if all these things didn ’ t happen that made Seattle the best team in the NFC, would Seattle be the best team in the NFC? Hey, if Matt Hasselbeck woke up this morning and shoved a pineapple into his ass, wouldn ’ t he walk a little bit funny? And if Shaun Alexander decided at age 11 to become a ballerina, would he be in the Super Bowl right now? No. He wouldn ’ t. And that ’ s why this Super Bowl sucks. ”
|
|
| http://www.livejournal.com/users/stilldocked |
|
With the confirmation of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, President Bush and his anti-choice allies now have enough votes on the Court todismantle a woman's right to choose. And there are more than a few upcoming courtcases that the new anti-choice majority on the Supreme Court could use to underminereproductive freedom and privacy.
|
|
| http://popone.innocence.com |
|
Meanwhile, over on the other side of the aisle, the conservative blog community has decided to set up their own power-defining moment. The Republican members of the House vote for their floor leader on Thursday; it's a three way race between Roy Blunt, John Boehner, and John Shadegg. Shadegg is the reformer. Redstate wants Shadegg, Glenn Reynolds is making non-endorsement endorsements, and so on.
|
|
| http://www.wonkette.com |
|
With a vote on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel Alito scheduled to take place later this morning, today ’ s items will focus on players in the Alito nomination drama. They come from this delightfully gossipy article, Two Nominee Strategies — One Worked, by David D. Kirkpatrick of the New York Times (best known for his sinister-sounding exposés of the vast right-wing conspiracy, like this piece).
|
|
| http://www.livejournal.com/users/blakeley |
|
Chris Penn, the younger brother of Sean Penn, was found dead in his Santa Monica condominium yesterday. There were no obvious signs of foul play, but an autopsy is planned to determine the cause of death.http: // en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris _ Penn
|
|
| http://www.livejournal.com/users/green-queen |
|
tagged me. And since she recently bequeathed unto me's soul AND hand for an icon of Josh Holloway, I figured I should probably oblige. * g * Ground Rules: Name your Top 20 List Of Lust, in no particular order. Your neighbor or grade school teacher doesn't count. The list can be male, female or mixed. They can be real life celebrities or characters in a movie or TV show. For example, you might want to gag Mariska Hargitay, while still lusting after Butchy Mcfabulous Olivia Benson. Tag 5 people on your flist to do this meme.
|
|
