The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
- Hillary Clinton is a lying DNC scum who will galvanize the Republicans to come out and vote.
- John Edwards is an angry preening jerk who had the Republicans walk all over him in 2004.
- Barack Obama is an arrogant inexperienced newcomer who will be eaten alive by the Republicans.
Now MSNBC is saying that Representative Jim Kolbe, who is retiring this year, is under investigation from the Justice Investigation for a camping trip that he took in 1996.
Progress with regard to the War on Terror is occuring.
Not the faux 'war on terror' declared by Commander Cuckoo Bananas, but a true terrorist war, declared in 1975 when Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh, and orchestrated the destruction of 1/4 of the population of Cambodia.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
A year ago the day after Christmas, we all watched in horror as the news broadcast footage of the tsunami that was caused by a massive earthquake off the coast of Indonesia.
This was truly a worldwide disaster, as European tourists, Tamil fishermen, Indonesian villagers and even supermodels and Thai royalty were caught up in the devestation (the grandson of His Royal Highness, King Phumiphon was killed in Phuket province). 200,000 people of dozens of nationalities were killed in over a dozen countries.
Many of these deaths could have been prevented, had there been a warning system in place.
UNESCO has announced that a warning system in the Indian Ocean basin is up and running.
Here it is - Game 2 for both England and the surprise star Trinidad and Tobago. As you all know, T&T surprised everyone by ending in a draw against heavily favored Sweden - and with only 10 men on the pitch for the last half of the game.
Final Score England 2-0 Trinidad and Tobago
90 min Liverpool 2 - 0 Trinidad & Tobago Shaka Hislop must be sick of the sight of Steven Gerrard who turns Wise 30 yards out and... well, just picture the last minute of this year's FA Cup final, and there you have it. What an amazing goal. What an amazingly flattering result.
I won't retract my prediction, but I don't think they are going to do it. Kudos for T&T so far.
"THE LAPDOG"
A Chimp lookalike is walking to a chair. Under his feet is a Shi Tzu dog walking back and forth. Chimp sits down.
Chimp: Calm down, Congress. ('Congress' the dog, calms down. Chimp sits on the chair).
Chimp: Congress, sit on my lap. (the dog jumps onto Chimp's lap. Meanwhile, the camera pans to a newspaper, obviously unread, with the headlines "Another Mine Explosion...", "Atlantic Seaboard not Ready for Hurricane Season", "Interest Rate Hike for Student Loans".
The dog whines.
Chimp: Do you need to go potty. Here you go. (as he pulls the front page of the paper on the ground. The dog 'Congress' pees on the "Another Mine Explosion" headline.)
I just read this story on CNN's website, and it is a bit disconcerting, at least for those of us with student loans.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - If you've borrowed money from Uncle Sam to finance your education or your child's, you might be able to save yourself thousands of dollars.
The trick: consolidating your federally guaranteed, variable-rate loans between now and June 30.
Here's why: your payments will be going up on July 1 due to an increase in loan rates. Those rates are reset every year based on what the 3-month Treasury yield is at the end of May.
Since this time last year, that yield has risen nearly 2 percentage points. And it may not go down much between now and May 30, even with the recent bond market rally.
But seriously, folks, has Congress become something of a joke?
Are these toothless lawmakers no longer capable of passing anything with bite?
Folks on the Hill were desperate to demonstrate their deep concern about gas prices. So Republicans-- Republicans !--said maybe they'd pop the oil industry with a new tax. Then the industry howled. Never mind.
then I read halfway down his column to read this:
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) took on a rare role yesterday as a defender of President Bush.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that non-resident couples who are ineligible to marry in their home states are ineligible to marry in Massachusetts, based on a 1913 law intended to prohibit interracial marriages.
The United States Peace Corps is celebrating its 45th anniversary today, and that should be a cause for celebration. Over 182,000 Americans, from every walk of life, have served as Peace Corps Volunteers in over 138 countries.
The roots of the Peace Corps date back to the early part of the 20th century. In 1904, William James thought that Americans could be drafted into a sort of peace force, instead of an army. One of Franklin Roosevelt's shining achievements was the Civilian Conservation Corps, which did similar projects to what the Peace Corps would do overseas, and what AmeriCorps does today. In the late 1950s, President Eisenhower contemplated an organization where young Americans could serve overseas, and in 1960 Congressman Henry Reuss and Senator Herbert Humphrey both sponsored legislation that would establish such an organization.
Sir Elton John and his partner, David Furnish, were "married" as the first same-sex civil partnership ceremonies took place in England and Wales today.
The singer and the Canadian film-maker travelled from their home in Berkshire in a black car, arriving at the Windsor guildhall to be greeted by crowds of fans. Wearing dark suits, they posed on the terrace of the building.
Sir Elton blew kisses to the crowd as his partner joined him briefly before they went inside the guildhall, where the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall were married earlier this year, for the 11am ceremony.
TimesSelect, the recently enacted subscription service from the New York Times, was apparently, designed to produce revenue for The Grey Lady. Whether or not she has been making money is not the point of this digest, but what it is doing to the reputations of the various regular columnists has been made frighteningly clear this evening.
I have seen excerpts of various commentator's columns being taken out of context on this blog and on other blogs. Everyone has their own axe to grind, and I accept that, and these columnists should have the means to be able to allow the words they actually write be seen in the context that they were actually written.
I flipped over to "The O'Reilly Factor" a little while ago, and O'Reilly went after Nicholas Kristof's Sunday column. Kristof, who has been commentating on the genocide in Darfur, but has taken on O'Reilly's self-declared War on Christmas, by taking to task these histrionics rather talking about the real 'talking points'.
I was thinking of naming this diary "Torture doesn't work", but I guess if you want to use any means necessary to bring up the blood lust of a country then by all means, use torture.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 - The Bush administration based a crucial prewar assertion about ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda on detailed statements made by a prisoner while in Egyptian custody who later said he had fabricated them to escape harsh treatment, according to current and former government officials.
