WaPo prints pic of intelligent "intelligent design" judge... why?

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Tuesday December 20, 2005 · 10:31 AM PST

2005/12/20 · 10:31

How in its editors' right minds, with Rethugs and other cracked-pot fundies reaching ever-greater heights of violent lunacy, would a major paper print the image of a judge who struck down one of the loonies' sacred calves? They shoot judges, don't they? With encourgement from various Rethug congressional leaders?

I would be suing them for reckless endangerment (and would lose) just to make a point. Read More

Wedding Crashers - a juxtaposition

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Thursday November 10, 2005 · 11:19 AM PST

2005/11/10 · 11:19

NOW:

Bush Says Jordan Bombings Show Terrorists as Ruthless (Update1)
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- --
...``The bombing should remind all of us that there's an enemy in the world that is willing to kill innocent people, willing to bomb a wedding celebration in order to advance their cause,'' Bush said.

and THEN:

Civilian catastrophe as US bombs Afghan wedding

250 civilians reported dead or injured
Witnesses say attack lasted 2 hours
Pentagon: 'One bomb went astray'

Guardian Staff and agencies
Monday July 1, 2002

rest of latter article below the fold...
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WaPo - per pet: $317, per poor person: $6.30

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Monday July 11, 2005 · 9:37 AM PDT

2005/07/11 · 09:37

i've no clue of the formatting techniques for this site, so bear with me...

"Puppy Love, at a Price
Affluent Owners Find More Ways to Pamper Their Pets
By Jenalia Moreno
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 11, 2005; Page D01

Last year, pet owners across the country spent plenty of pennies -- $34.4 billion -- caring for their pets, more than double the $17 billion a year spent a decade earlier..."

j'extrapolate on de flipside...
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the Ahmadinejad kerfuffle

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Thursday June 30, 2005 · 12:18 PM PDT

2005/06/30 · 12:18

From the CBC:

"Former hostage William Daugherty said he's convinced Ahmadinejad was among a group of ringleaders escorting a Vatican representative during a visit in the early days of the hostage crisis.

""It's impossible to forget a guy like that," Daugherty told the Associated Press. "Clearly the way he acted, the fact he gave orders, that he was older, most certainly he was one of the ringleaders."

"Daugherty said the revelations put the Bush administration in an interesting position.

""You know how he said, 'You're either for us or you're for the terrorists.' Well, now the leader of Iran is a terrorist.""

...and the Shah wasn't? the U.S. was harbouring the Iranian dictator wanted for trial in his home country... more below the fold... Read More

(clap, grunt) mmm Bobo make funny!

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Sunday April 24, 2005 · 3:55 AM PDT

2005/04/24 · 03:55

from his Apologia Corpus in Sunday's NYT:

"In reality, life is perverse and human beings don't get what they deserve. The people with the worst grades start the most successful businesses. The shallowest people end up blissfully happy and they are so vapid they don't even realize how vapid they are because vapidity is the only trait that comes with its own impermeable obliviousness system."

which is a fine and funny piece of writing until you tie it to a statement a few paragraphs earlier: " I can't tell you how happy this makes me. Since I read about this report a few days ago, I haven't been able to stop grinning."

je rofl!

'obliviousness system' intact, bobo keeps on truckin'...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/24/opinion/24brooks.html

a battle of headlines for John Paul II

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Saturday April 02, 2005 · 7:08 PM PST

2005/04/02 · 19:08

Americans Mourn Pope as Leader and Moral Model vs. Women Critics Say Pope Never Understood Them - these capped the U.S. and Canada's respective Google headline pages as of 9:45pm EST. both are over the top - "Moral Model?" true, not in a good way.

JPII left a legacy of accomplished writings both theological and on the subject of a strikingly secular sort of social psychology (http://www.papalencyclicals.net/all.htm , start with "Fides et ratio"); his was a big brain in possession of some equally big blindspots.

he made headway in the struggle against poverty while shooting his own efforts in both feet by not supporting any realistic effort to stem birth rates or to advance the status of women toward equality, great leaps forward a Pope of his reknown could have made manifest for m(b?)illions.

he was, of course, a slave to the politics of the Vatican, as is any world leader to their respective gatekeepers and power brokers.

may he dissolve in peace, not to be politicized by disreputable news editors of major websites or by hypocritical bloggers like me. oh, sh*t...

AFA selling "Remember Terri" bumper stickers!

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Thursday March 31, 2005 · 8:54 AM PST

2005/03/31 · 08:54

from the "so idiotic i couldn't even make this shit up" file... Can Wildmon's group get ANY more grotesque? i haven't seen this many assholes trying so blatantly to make money off any dead person since, well, Jesus!

"Remember Terri - 25
SKU: TER25

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Take a stand for life. Order enough to give one to each family in your church.

Rear Window/Bumper Stickers. Printed on weather-proof, laminate, vinyl stock. 11 1/2 by 3 inches.

All prices include shipping.

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Price: $15.00"

https://store.afa.net/productcart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=34

Former prosecutor tapped by Ashcroft does assisted River Phoenix

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Monday March 21, 2005 · 8:27 AM PST

2005/03/21 · 08:27

je quote: "Two housemates are accused of being his judge and jury, condemning (David) Masters for owing three weeks of rent and making passes at a woman with whom he lived. When the woman pulled out a gun, court papers say, Masters said he'd rather die from drugs -- so the father of seven was injected with syringe after syringe of cocaine."

"Masters came to Macon in 1990, when then-Gov. John Ashcroft tapped him to be the county's prosecutor."

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intra-condi mental ballistics

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Sunday March 20, 2005 · 6:27 PM PST

2005/03/20 · 18:27

so let me get this straight... Ms. Rice says recently: "hey you Frenchies and Krauts, don't you start selling guns to the Chinese just in case we Yanks have to shoot them someday," and now today, as reported by the NYT, she's actually asking for China's help re: North Korea? were she a Picasso your rep couldn't be more two-faced.

the American uproar over the potential lifting of the EU's China arms embargo is ridiculous - how many times has the U.S. itself sold weapons to be used on its own soldiers? maybe the admin is just trying to corner a potential market, as i'm sure the two great stupids will come to blows eventually, if only, like cowards, via yet another abysmally unfortunate proxy nation.

the unfiltered double-talk and diplomatic backstabbing perpetrated by this woman is astonishing in its scope. is she totally inept or is she just plum loco?

NYT did; so don't get suckered, kids!

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Sunday March 13, 2005 · 3:20 PM PST

2005/03/13 · 15:20

RE: Looting at Weapons Plants Was Systematic, Iraqi Says By JAMES GLANZ and WILLIAM J. BROAD

oh, well, gosh, Jonboy, that explains where them durn WMDs went... DON'T FALL FOR IT, Kosavarians!

this NYT story is not injurious to the admin, it supports their cause for going to war.

karl's prescription: if suffering from conspicuously absent physical proof of extant weapons progs, trot out an Iraqi underling to say: "well, that's not because Saddam didn't have any, that's because some mysterious individuals dismantled it and absconded with it post-invasion. we think they were probably Persian..."

Rumsfeld's a goner, anyways... Bush alluded to it at that recent annual Press Club roast/circle jerk... the event's name escapes me (Gridiron -ed.). for cheese zeus' sake, the dude's a septugenarian!

don't let the scent of Rumsfeld's blood, aromatic as it may be, allow you to be sucked into "admitting" that Saddam had weapons programs.

we need PROOF, PROOF, PROOF.

and the al-Qaqaa RDX doesn't count.

David Brooks fellates Wolfowitz in the NYT

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Tuesday March 08, 2005 · 11:08 AM PST

2005/03/08 · 11:08

i wrote him a letter about his column (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/08/opinion/08brooks.html?hp) which i'm sure will never get past his secretary:

My side aches...

...of raucous laughter.

I've enjoyed your columns for many years, even when I've disagreed with you (which was almost every time) but you have now, in my opinion, gone off a deep end of Mariana proportions. Read More

Bev Harris has lost it

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Tuesday December 14, 2004 · 3:29 PM PST

2004/12/14 · 15:29

anyone else hear Randi Rhodes just now? bev harris called in and sounded out of her mind - that wasn't just me, right?

any ideas, conspiracy theories, etc.? i haven't been following that particular drama but i'm feeling for those who pumped money into that lady... she doesn't seem to know anything about her own organization; she doesn't even check her messages - from AAR and Congress members, no less. then she doesn't show for the ohio hearings but won't say why...

yikes!

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