I am taking a day or two off (which will prbably turn out to be about 12 hours again), but a day or two is my intention. I leave you with this:
Provide your own caption in the comments. Try to stay somewhat decent.
My entry:
“Haulin’ Ass”
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I am taking a day or two off (which will prbably turn out to be about 12 hours again), but a day or two is my intention. I leave you with this:
Provide your own caption in the comments. Try to stay somewhat decent.
My entry:
“Haulin’ Ass”
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This post is in: Domestic Politics
From Olbermann:
OLBERMANN: And there was one more statement from the attorney for Terri Schiavo
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Boortz on Schiavo:
I cannot relate to those who wanted to use artificial means to prolong the life functions of this otherwise useless body for decades more, but I can understand their dedication to life. Yesterday on the show we heard from some people who, in light of the autopsy findings, have changed their minds. They now understand that allowing her body to continue the process of dying was the humane and right thing to do. Others are not emotionally strong enough to accept this reality, and they’ll now focus their efforts on Michael Schiavo. They’ll now concentrate on trying to prove that he was abusive, though there is no evidence to support that claim.
In Michael Schiavo’s favor, the autopsy report also casts doubt on the Schindler family’s long-held view that a 1991 bone scan indicated traumatic injury. The report notes that Terri had severe osteoporosis and that the bone scan findings might have also reflected “the aftermath of remote intense CPR, infection, bone turnover, artifact or intense physical therapy. In summary, any rib fractures, leg fractures, skull fractures or spine fractures that occurred concurrent with Mrs. Schiavo’s original collapse would almost certainly ahve been diagnosed in February 1990 especially with the number of phsyical exams, radiographs, and other evaluations she received in the early evolution of her care…”
However, the report notes this caveat: “Without the orginal bone scan and radiographs from that period, no other conclusions can [be] reasonably made.”
Sean Hannity, just now as I was driving home from the grocery store (4:58 EST):
I want everything investigated- Michael Schiavo’s statements the night she collapse, her brother’s statements the night she collapsed. I haven’t come to a conclusion, but I have my suspicions…
Everybody keeps talking about strangulation, but no one brings up the word suffocation.
Unfair and unbalanced.
*** Update ***
Dear Patterico fans. Note the time of the post, and the time the Hannity quote came up. Notice a several hour difference? Good. “Unfair and Unbalanced” was for Sean Hannity- who, just so happens to work for a network whose slogan is, coincidentally, ‘Fair and Balanced.’
But, you might ask yourself, since you are here, why Michelle might choose that one line as one of the few she quoted from a 30 page report. Might it have something to do with the bolded aspect of the Boortz quote above? You don’t have to read between the lines, as Patterico writes:
I doubt it. More likely, he will encourage us all to
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Patriot Act II in trouble:
Advocates of rewriting the USA Patriot Act are claiming momentum after the House, despite a White House veto threat, voted to restrict investigators from using the anti-terrorism law to peek at library records and bookstore sales slips.
Wednesday’s 238-187 vote came as lawmakers ramped up efforts to extend the Patriot Act, which was passed quickly in the emotional aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. When Congress passed the law, it included a sunset provision under which 15 of the its provisions are to expire at the end of this year.
White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Thursday that weakening of the act could draw a veto from President Bush, who pressured Congress to renew all provisions of the law during a visit with Ohio police in Columbus last week.
“There’s still a long way to go in the legislative process and as he indicated last week, the president is going to continue urging Congress to renew and make permanent all provisions of the Patriot Act,” McClellan said. “They are all vital tools in our efforts to protect the American people and disrupt plots from happening.”
A veto for the Patriot Act and stem cell research. You gotta have priorities.
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This streaming video of what happens when 30 hornets find a bee colony is just, well, cool. Put this in IMAX, please.
BTW- Loved the helicoptor sound effects- would it have been too over the top to have the Ride of the Valkyries playing in the background, ala Apocalypse Now?
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New York superagent Judith Regan has bought the rights to the life stories of runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks and her fiance after offering them $500,000 for a package that — in an unusual twist — included the first news interview with the couple.
NBC anchor Katie Couric interviewed the couple last weekend for an hour-long prime-time special to air Tuesday, but the network’s news and entertainment divisions say NBC isn’t paying Wilbanks and John Mason a dime. A deal memo to the couple’s spokesman, written by a Regan staffer, specified that an interview would be part of the agreement.
That is approximately $4200.00 an hour for the 120 hours community service she was sentenced to perform.