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20+ dead in ‘honor killing’ reprisal
CNN Video: May 30, 2007:
Hugh Riminton of CNN reports on the ‘honor killing’ investigation and retaliatory massacre.
Twenty random Yezidi men have been murdered in retaliation for the April ‘honor killing’ in Bashika, Iraq, where over 2000 people flocked to watch a teenage Yezidi girl being […]
Written on May 31, 2007 | Posted in
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The market-oriented & the center-right
In Jeffery Goldberg’s headlining New Yorker article, Party Unfaithful - The Republican implosion, Karl Rove interprets technological and religious “societal trends” as positive indicators for the future of the Republican Party:
Rove thinks that more voters now are being influenced by technology and religion. “There are two or three societal trends […]
Written on May 29, 2007 | Posted in
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Democratic leaders display a history of backing down
I am reminded this Memorial Day of the following video run on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee website in the early summer of last year. An excellent campaign video, it was quickly lambasted by Republicans for a brief image of flag-draped coffins.
http://garlinggauge.com/videos/backbone.flv
By the DCCC exposing the true toll […]
Written on May 28, 2007 | Posted in
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Doug Giles is the center of his own universe
Giles asserts Christianity is the center of atheist morality
In the May 26th, 2007 article by Doug Giles, Hey Atheists … Get Your Own Moral Code, Giles argues that atheists can not have a strong moral code in which God and the Bible are irrelevant, and […]
Written on May 27, 2007 | Posted in
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Slate hosts a slide-show of lolcats and takeoffs
Slate’s article by Michael Agger
Jump to the slide-show
Lolcats To Lolpolitics
Written on May 26, 2007 | Posted in
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Tucker Carlson & George Pataki display a shallow depth of thought
On the May 24th, 2007 airing of MSNBC’s The Situation with Tucker Carlson, Tucker Carlson hosted a discussion about Bob Shrum’s memoir on John Edwards with guests former Gov. George Pataki and Democratic strategist Stephanie Cutter.
See MSNBC Video: Beginning of the end […]
http://www.sfgate.com
Sigh, and I was about to let it go.
In her latest unnecessary article on former Sen. John Edwards making money, San Francisco Chronicle writer Carla Marinucci includes her own blog post as the latest in a “pileup of headlines” supposedly undercutting the Edwards’ campaign theme:
“The problem now facing the Democratic presidential candidate is whether […]
Paula in pain & otters in love
Paula Abdul has broken her nose while stepping over a Chihuahua. At almost the exact moment in time a video of otters holding hands was released on YouTube.
How do these two diverse events balance the universe?
I have no idea, but somehow it does.
And I thought everything […]
Written on May 22, 2007 | Posted in
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SFGate writer Carla Marinucci helps keep poverty taboo
Oh it is going to be a long campaign…
As if an immigration debate, a battle in Lebanon, and Bill Richardson announcing his Presidential run wasn’t enough for the day, San Francisco Chronicle writer Carla Marinucci had to bring fruitcake to the party.
In her SFGate.com blog, Marinucci highlights that […]
Written on May 22, 2007 | Posted in
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD9eO7qToTk
Rep. Ron Paul: Snubbed for saying it like it is
In analyzing the so called ’second-tier’ Republican candidates, Jonathan Martin’s Blog on the Politico.com mentions Ron Paul last, with a single, dismissive sentence:
“Anybody who thinks Paul would be allowed in the building, let alone on stage, with the other candidates were it not for […]