It’s my birthday- so probably not much more blogging from me.
You might like to check out these lovely gift items.
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It’s my birthday- so probably not much more blogging from me.
You might like to check out these lovely gift items.
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Congrats, Mr. Affleck:
If his movie career fizzles, Ben Affleck may have a fallback that pays pretty well.
He’s won more than 356-thousand dollars playing poker in California.
The actor outlasted a field of 90 players at the three-day tournament in Commerce that ended Sunday. Fellow actor Tobey Maguire went out on the first day.
Affleck’s win also earns him a 25-thousand dollar seat at the World Poker Tour Championship next April in Las Vegas.
If poker is your thing, make sureyou hit the Fat Guy’s and check out his long list of Poker Bloggers.
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And we needn’t imagine that Mr. Ashcroft was deeply concerned about protecting the public’s privacy. After all, a few months ago he took the unprecedented step of subpoenaing the hospital records of women who have had late-term abortions.
Otherwise, Krugman had valid points- and why wasn’t the Noonday plot bigger news. But then he goes and shits the bed with this out and out lie.
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When I say the lies and distortions from the NY times and her cronies are less than helpful, I am not exaggerating. Now the Chicoms are seizing on the election year politicking of the Times and the Democrats:
The United States should face the truth instead of playing around with the reality over the issue ofIraqi war, said China’s English-language newspaper China Daily in a signed article Friday.
“The United States would do itself and the world a huge favor by establishing a closer relationship with reality rather than wrestling with its own version of the truth, as the international credibility of American military intelligence is simply of zero value,” said the article.
“The truth is the United States used the threat of Iraqi WMD (weapons of mass destruction) and a connection to al-Qaida as justification for launching the war against the regime of Saddam Hussein,” it stressed.
According to a report Wednesday by a US commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, no credible evidence has been found that former Iraqi President Saddam Husseinaided al-Qaida attempts to target the United States.
“We have no credible evidence that Iraq and al-Qaida cooperatedon attacks against the United States,” said the report, issued by the bipartisan commission after two days of public hearings into the Sept. 11 attacks.
Meanwhile, the Bush administration so far still could not collect enough evidence that Saddam Hussein would give whatever WMD he possessed to terrorists, although it treated as a proven fact, said the article.
As the US government did not get support from the report for waging war in Iraq, “it is likely the Bush team will face more backlash both at home and abroad,” the article added.
Thanks.
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The NY Times continues spinning, without even flinching.
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Go read the whole thing, in all of its savage glory, as Hitchens destroys Michael Moore:
I leave you with this tasty morsel:
If Michael Moore had had his way, Slobodan Milosevic would still be the big man in a starved and tyrannical Serbia. Bosnia and Kosovo would have been cleansed and annexed. If Michael Moore had been listened to, Afghanistan would still be under Taliban rule, and Kuwait would have remained part of Iraq. And Iraq itself would still be the personal property of a psychopathic crime family, bargaining covertly with the slave state of North Korea for WMD. You might hope that a retrospective awareness of this kind would induce a little modesty. To the contrary, it is employed to pump air into one of the great sagging blimps of our sorry, mediocre, celeb-rotten culture. Rock the vote, indeed.
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Can’t wait to see the spin from Atrios on this one:
Most Americans say that Ronald Reagan, who died this month, will be remembered as a better president than Bill Clinton, who is trying to improve his image with a new autobiography, according to an Associated Press poll.
Seven in 10 say history will judge Reagan superior, based on the survey conducted one week after the Republican icon’s state funeral and nonstop media coverage focused not only on the ceremonies marking his death at age 93 but a lifetime of achievements from Hollywood to the White House.
Out of office just 3 1/2 years, Clinton recently returned to the limelight with a primetime interview to publicize his memoir, “My Life,” which goes on sale Tuesday. The expectation long before the 957-page book reached the stores was a tome that would provide insights into the sexual scandal with a White House intern and impeachment