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It's still August 29th in Mississippi but I see that's now August 30th in Australia. Today, in Mississippi, marks the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. I put together another video. This one shows the hope that I and others share for the future of our hometowns.
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It is now presumed that Richard Armitage, former Deputy Secretary of State (2001-2005) is the Valerie Plame "leaker." Armitage comes from the Colin Powell era and did the Whitehouse no favors if he, in fact, did leak Plame's name to columnist Robert Novak.
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in January. Only 1 in 10 people in the country voted for the party he left behind — but since the next most popular party only pulled in 1 out of 14, it was good enough to make Ehud Olmert prime minister.
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On Monday, Mr. Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney gave separate speeches to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Reno, Nev. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke to the American Legion Auxiliary on Tuesday and President Bush is to address veterans later this week.
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What is it about old men and Scarlett Johanssen? Or is that obvious. She's Woody Allen's most recent muse, starring in his last two movies, and now she's the subject of the faux'50s home-movie footage in the video that supports Bob Dylan's first single, "When the Deal Goes Down," off his wryly named Modern Times album. Watch it here.
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Poor Jess has lost or voice, but also has a new man. Yup, that ’ s right. The poor Jessica Simpson has laryngitis but also has John Mayer. Lucky gal she is. From one singer to another. (and by the way, are you kidding me with that picture?? Who is she anymore?)
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TPM Muckraker has uncovered an Aug. 18 article in the Fort Smith (Ark.) Times Record which had somehow slipped under the radar before. The article reports that Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) accused Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) of placing the secret hold. TPM Muckraker ’ s comments:
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Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, the only writer in Arabic to win the Nobel Prize for literature, died on Wednesday in Cairo aged 94, doctors said...
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Esteban Loaiza and Kirk Saarloos beat the Red Sox on consecutive nights. I don't think anyone can say they didn't deserve their wins because they weren't facing David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez.
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The deadline set by the UN Security Council for Iran to cease uranium enrichment expires tonight. Iran will not comply, that much is clear. The rest is, well, foggy. Is it the fog of impending war, or fog of some...
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John Mark Karr, center, formerly a suspect in the decade-old Jonbenet Ramsey murder, is transported back to the Boulder County Jail after charges against him were dropped by the district attorney Monday, Aug. 28, 2006, in Boulder, Colo. Prosecutors abruptly dropped their case against John Mark Karr in the slaying of Jonbenet Ramsey, saying DNA tests failed to put him at the crime scene despite his repeated insistence he killed the 6-year-old beauty queen. At left is MSNBC correspondent Rita Cosby.
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TOM Cruise and Katie Holmes have yet to show their baby daughter off in public, but eager fans were given an unusual preview today with what's claimed to be a bronze cast depicting her first solid stool.
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On Aug. 8, Connecticut businessman Ned Lamont defeated U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman in the Democratic primary, a triumph widely credited to the rah-rah racket produced by pro-lamont armies stationed along the Internet.
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Work at the moment is mayhem. Krisha, our production manager, has deserted us for the “ glamour ” of tech to become a Junior Developer, Ben, my newbie is on training and Neil, the mafuta boss has been working from home. This makes me the general point of contact, for well, more or less everything. Let ’ s just say I are tired! I don ’ t really have an excuse for being so grumpy and exhausted after a month off back home, a week off with the dad and a completely relaxed bank holiday weekend just gone … but I still feel like I need a serious break! I guess it ’ s just been a really tough year!
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There is this fallacy of sorts stating if the United States were to directly engage Iran all would end up roses. What part of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ’ s letter to Bush did these people read? My call to the Carter Center was not immediately returned.
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· World Trade Center: Directed by Oliver Stone With Nicolas Cage, Maria Bello, Maggie Gyllenhaal. Ann Coulter See The Film Swallow Your Venomous Tongue And Shut Your Mouth.
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"The United States'median household income rose slightly faster than inflation last year for the first time in six years, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday." Of course,
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Washington D.C. - The United States intelligence officials require more access to airline passenger information to prevent terror strikes, Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff said in an article published Tuesday.
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"In a move that has been termed'positively Orwellian'by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Executive Director Jeff Ruch, George W. Bush is ending public access to research materials at EPA regional libraries without Congressional consent. This all-out effort to impede research and public access is a [loosely] covert operation to close down 26 technical libraries under the guise of budgetary constraint. Scientists are protesting, but at least 15 of the libraries will be closed by Sept. 30, 2006."
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist sat for an interview with bloggers Captain Ed and Powerline's John Hinderaker and Scott Johnson. Sen. Frist gave many notable answers, but the most notable, by far, was his
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Democracy Now! interviews Congressmember John Murtha (D – PA) about his position on the Iraq war, the Haditha massacre and Sen. Hillary Clinton ’ s refusal to endorse his troop withdrawal plan. On Clinton, Murtha says, “ I ’ m disappointed. I ’ m not sure why that ’ s happened … I don ’ t know what the reason is she ’ s decided not to endorse my position. [includes rush transcript]
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday the world faces “ a new type of fascism'’ and likened critics of the Bush administration ’ s war strategy to those who tried to appease the Nazis in the 1930s. In unusually explicit terms, Rumsfeld portrayed the administration ’ s critics as suffering from “ moral or intellectual confusion'’ about what threatens the nation ’ s security.
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The agreement marks a clear break with the Bush administration and puts California on a path to reducing its emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by an estimated 25 percent by 2020.
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The 63rd Venice Film Festival kicks off with Scarlett Johansson steaming up the silver screen in "The Black Dahlia." It is said to be one of the heavy hitters of the year and up for the Golden Lion. With sex, murder, and beautiful actresses it is a recipe for box office gold. The fact that it is based on James Ellroy's novel surrounding the real murder of Elizabeth Short doesn't hurt either.
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the saving grace of the day is that starsky and hutch is on fx tonight. no. i haven ’ t seen before. don ’ t look at me like that. i ’ ve been busy. and, i don ’ t think anyone told me owen wilson was in it. (re: i love him!) or, for that matter, that vince vaughn and ben stiller are hilarious in it, or that will pharell plays a minor but ridiculous role as well. and while i don ’ t know if it was the little nap i took when i got home, the nice dinner garrett made me to feel better, or the laughter induced adrenaline, but i think i am feeling better … i think it might be starsky and hutch related …
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2006. Iran's hard-line president on Tuesday challenged the authority of the U.N. Security Council, saying no one can prevent his country from having a nuclear program. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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Mr. Rumsfeld is also personally confused, morally or intellectually, about his own standing in this matter. From Iraq to Katrina, to the entire “ Fog of Fear ” which continues to envelop this nation, he, Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney, and their cronies have — inadvertently or intentionally — profited and benefited, both personally, and politically.
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When I was younger I always made it a point to finish any book I started, but as I grew-up I realized life is too darn short to be wasting time on substandard reads. As a result, The World According to Garp (by John Irving) is off the list as I started it and just could not get into it. Angles and Demons (by Dan Brown) is also off the list as I'm on of those people who really didn't like The Da Vinci Code, for writing style versus religious reasons. Note: The Da Vinci Code came in # 1, so one might question why I'm reading this list;) Finally, I'm not going to try and read the bible, and will just hope the good parts will be read to me at some point.
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Kenneth Tomlinson was put on the board of the Broadcasting Board of Governors in 2001, and Pres. Bush nominated him to serve as Chairman in 2004. He also served on the board for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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The most bizarre element of the two weeks of captivity suffered by Fox News reporter Steve Centanni and photographer Olaf Wiig at the hands of Gaza ’ s Holy Jihad Brigade was the video that surfaced depicting their conversion to Islam. Even before the journalists revealed that their conversions had been coerced, there were disturbing indications that they were not acting freely. While reading a statement he himself had ostensibly written, Centanni stumbled over words, appeared to puzzle over the handwriting, and seemed to grimace after pronouncing the words “ peace be upon him ” after the name of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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According to the new book by David Corn and Michael Isikoff, Mr. Armitage never did tell the White House or the President, that he was the leaker. In October 2003 he told then Secretary of State Colin Powell, who told the State Department general counsel, who in turn told the Justice Department but gave the White House Counsel only the sketchiest overview of what he'd learned and didn't mention Mr. Armitage's name.
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In Florida's U.S. Senate race, a new Strategic Vision (R) poll shows Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) absolutely crushing Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL), 63% to 20% with 17% still undecided. Key finding: When all respondents were asked if they have had a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Harris, 17% said favorable; 61% said unfavorable; and 22% were undecided.
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One was a nude Belloc and one was Herman Leonard's photo of Frank Sinatra at Monte Carlo in 1959, which hangs over my staircase in between Nat Fine's Babe Ruth and Lynn Goldsmith's Bruce Springsteen. Leonard's site is here. Oh, and kudos to my friends at Nonesuch Records for their $1 million donation, raised through sales of the benefit album Our New Orleans, to Habitat for Humanity International to build homes for musicians in New Orleans. Check out the record here and Habitat, here, though ignore that distasteful photo at the top.
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I can't claim to have conducted a scientific analysis of the issue, but it seems to me that, "Mr. Bush" has become a rather common title for our current President from some media sources (this linked -- and very biased -- Washington Times article is actually by Ian James of Associated Press. As an aside, I should note that characters like Hugo Chavez -- a subject in the linked article -- are often described as, "left-leaning," though that's not the case in this particular article. While some Republicans are often referred to as "extreme" or "far right" wing, the major news agencies haven't yet figured out that Chavez is a full-blown communist like his idol, Fidel Castro. Maybe he's just, communist "leaning").
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He said, for example, that more media attention was given to U.S. soldiers ’ abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib than to the fact that Sgt. 1st Class Paul Ray Smith received the Medal of Honor.
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SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 29 — Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday that critics of the war in Iraq and the campaign against terror groups “ seem not to have learned history ’ s lessons, ” and he alluded to those in the 1930 ’ s who advocated appeasing Nazi Germany.
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Football star Matt Leinart is going to be a father. The Arizona Cardinals quarterback and USC women's basketball player Brynn Cameron are expecting a baby in the fall.
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Ryan Howard continued on his MVP caliber season last night by tying Mike Schmidt's single season Phillies HR record at 48. Phillies fans have been in awe of Howard all season. Schmidty's accolades towards Howard are something I didn't really expect to hear. I love hearing great players talk about great players:
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Former Whitewater special counsel Kenneth Starr petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to take up Alaska ’ s “ Bong Hits 4 Jesus ” case, a dispute involving a high school student, a banner and a tough school policy.
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For a convention I didn't go to, I certainly have a lot to say about it .... There's been some talk about an event at the con here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. If you don't know (or don't want to click on an assload of links) apparently Harlan Ellison groped Connie Willis during the Hugo Ceremony. I won't bother to rehash all the things that people have said on the above
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A bolt of randomness or something more sinister? That ’ s the question asked by NYT Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse in her article today on the sudden drop in female Supreme Court clerks.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 — State Department investigators have concluded that Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, the head of the federal agency that oversees most government broadcasts to foreign countries, improperly hired a friend on the public payroll for nearly $250,000 over two and a half years, according to a summary of their report made public this afternoon by Democratic Congressional staff members.
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Andre Agassi, in his last game before retirement, vs. James Blake, No. 1 in the United States. And they fought to the bitter, tiebreaking end; tonight, they both had their first fifth-set tiebreakers, and the crowd was standing up for the majority of the time, cheering them both on (chants of "Andre! Andre!" and "Blake! Blake!" rang throughout the auditorium without ceasing). Agassi won, but at the very last match point (# 2). I quote the USA Network commentators'memorable statements within the last 5 minutes of the match: Commentator A: "Does anyone have to lose?" Commentator B: "I hope not."
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Now that Texas Gov. Rick Perry has ordered there be two elections on Nov. 7 in the district of former House Majority Leader Tom Delay -- one "special" election to fill the seat until January and also the long-scheduled general election -- there's a debate over what his announcement will mean for the battle to replace the man known as "The Hammer."
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last week at Cineleisure. Go watch it for Anne Hathaway's mesmerizing saucer eyes, Meryl Streep's magnificent performance as Miranda Priestly, and the gorgeous, gorgeouussss clothes. Why can't Singapore have 4 seasons so we can all dress up in such splendid luxe fashion garb... much more fun playing dress up in winter dontcha think :)
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California would become the first state to impose a limit on all greenhouse gas emissions, including those from industrial plants, under a landmark deal reached Wednesday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative Democrats.
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This week Wictory Wednesday is highlighting the candidacy of Michael Steele for the Maryland Senate. It is a closely watched race that is in contention for a GOP and conservative pickup in the Senate. Currently there are two main contenders for the Democratic nomination, Kweisi Mfume and Ben Cardin.
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The case against Lieberman as not only a traitor to the Democratic Party, but as an active agent of the Republican Party, is overwhelming. The only counterargument is his promise to caucus with the Democratic Party should he win reelection under the Connecticut for Lieberman Party banner. Chuck Schumer appears to give credence to that promise, but there are serious reasons to question his judgment in this matter: 1) the Hartford Courant article mentions the dangling threat that the Lieberman campaign is holding against the DC Democrats to caucus with the Republicans if he is not treated well during the campaign; 2) Tony Blankley, editor of the
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Vladimir Guerrero, who hits a baseball harder than anyone we've ever seen, laced a line drive off of Mariners pitcher Rafael Soriano's skull in the 8th inning of last night's 6-4 Mariner win. Greg Bishop of the Times on Soriano's condition:
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Standing in his path could be a familiar rival in Andy Roddick. After struggling for much of the season, the ninth seeded American has hit his stride by making one final this summer and winning in Cincinnati recently to capture his first title of the year. Coached by his brother John, Roddick has also been working with former U.S. Open favorite Jimmy Connors. There has been a marked improvement in his game.
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While Agassi will try to give New Yorkers one last thrill, men's world number one Roger Federer is aiming for a three-peat. The recently turned 25 year-old Swiss Maestro has continued to be the most dominant player in the game - having captured two more slams (Australian, Wimbledon) and fallen to Rafael Nadal at the French Open final.
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Joseph Stefano, 84, a scriptwriter who influenced Alfred Hitchcock's revolutionary plot twist in "Psycho" and wrote for the science fiction television series "The Outer Limits," died Aug. 25 at Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, Calif., after a heart attack.
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Democracy Now! interviews Congressmember Anthony Weiner (D-NY) about his attempt to bar the Palestinian delegation at the United Nations. In May, Weiner infamously stated the delegation “ should start packing their little Palestinian terrorist bags. ” Weiner says Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas does not represent the PLO and that the group is listed as a terrorist organization by the US State Department. Author and Professor Norman Finkelstein says he ’ s wrong on both counts.
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