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By Barton Gellman Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, September 14, 2008 This is the first of two stories adapted from "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency," to be published Tuesday by Penguin Press. Original source notes are denoted in [brackets] throughout. A burst of ferocity stunned the room...
Ladies and Gentlemen, it has been almost two months since I posted anything of my own. Those who know me know I'm currently in a round of studies which are, quite literally, kicking my behind. I will be in these studies until the culmination--a major exam September 27, 2008. That being said, I may...
...you officially have competition. Serious competition. Full remarks as prepared for delivery and provided by the McCain campaign of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as she accepts the 2008 Republican vice presidential nomination on Sept. 3, 2008, at the Xcel Energy Center in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota...
08:03 Pin drop silence when Huckabee talk about early racism:) Conviction in the house? # 08:04 @ugot2listen 4 is a high number. How many were not people already known though? # 08:06 @ifeelgod McCain's age & temperment puts him so far in the end of a bell curve that Palin would become POTUS in 2009...
http://www.oilempire.us/quotes.html Quotes, Wisdom and Perspective on War, Peace and Liberty Americans are smart at doing stupid things. -- comment of a Marshall Islander in the film HALF-LIFE, an Australian documentary about the US 1954 hydrogen bomb explosion in the Marshall Islands. When a man...
I Nizar Qabbani was a Syrian poet born in 1923, and died in 1998. When he was 15 his sister, then 25, committed suicide because she could not marry the man she loved. Hence his famous saying: "Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free." His second wife was killed in a...
This year's theme at Burning Man is "The American Dream", and on brief inspection, I'm finding that it seems to less than completely popular. Not that I'm surprised. Consider these passages out of a post entitled "[expletitive deleted] this theme" (profanity softened by me, not by the original...
Obama Wins Round One! But told not a Single Truth By JB Williams Monday, September 29, 2008 As has been the case for years now, the quest for political power is a winner-take-all business in which the end always justifies the means. Before politics became the brass ring of unparalleled wealth and...
Daily Afffirmations: Courtesy of Beckett, Shakespeare, Camus, Faulkner, the Greeks, Monty Python, Koheleth, and yours truly... Birth was the death of him. --Samuel Beckett Do I believe in God? But of course. The undeniable evidence of his insanity, his apathy, his impotence, his malevolence, and his...
The Free Market Economy is the Engine of Civilization: From Barter to Money. Money is a crucial feature to any advanced civilization, notwithstanding how much it is looked at negatively and portrayed as intrinsically a nasty thing in "progressive" culture. Now before man can attempt to answer...
Last night as we lay waiting for sleep, wife Rita suddenly asked if I missed the danger and excitement of the life I led before meeting her after September 11, 2001. It was strange that she asked when she did, because the first few days of September represent the anniversary of the time I first...
Our morning was spent at the University of the Western Cape, which was initially founded as a university for Coloured students (i.e. not black and not white). We visited the Education department, where we met with Zubeida Desai, Dean of the Education Faculty and an authority on the language of...
Lakeland Local /////////////////////////////////////////// Cat Carter Joins Lakeland Local Posted: 05 Sep 2008 02:59 AM CDT http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LakelandLocal/~3/384016111/ If you take a look over at the list of contributors, youll find another new name. Cat Carter has joined Lakeland...
BIDEN ON FOREIGN POLICY: OFTEN WRONG It is interesting that after extensive and thoughtful consideration of the field of choices for the nominee as Vice President, team Obama picked long time Senator and reputed foreign policy "expert" Joe Biden. To date, that pick remains one of the great mysteries...
PARTISAN POLITICS LED TO MARKET CHAOS It is time to cut to the chase. The root cause of the financial markets meltdown can be found in partisan political gamesmanship in the United States Congress, where virtually nothing is done that accrues to the benefit of the American people at large. Most...
Apparently, like millions of other Americans, you spend an inordinate amount of time getting your information about the world in the form of one-sided opinion delivered by marginally educated conservative entertainers who pose as journalists. These hucksters fill the media with their jaundiced,...
Crossposted from A Marines Story This is why most military will not vote for Obama, with every rule there is an exception but I personally know that the majority of the military will never vote for someone like him! Because he is too inexperienced, and unfit to be the commander in chief of the...
Occasionally I find myself at odds with the anti-war left. Let’s start with those who actually believe, despite the lessons of high school history, that “war-is-not-the-answer”. If you adorn your car bumper with this silly bromide, here’s a newsflash: sadly, war is occasionally the only...
08:34 @Soulrific ha ha ha! I'm sure that he won't be able to skate away this time:) # 09:12 I believe Google Chrome will be the death blow for Flock & Firefox 3 may be feeling like a sinking VP nod unvetted & unsure at a convention # 09:20 My personal estimate is that Palin will drop out before...
