If at first you don’t succeed:
An 86-year-old US woman arrested for incessantly calling emergency services to complain about a pizza parlour has spent two nights behind bars.
Dorothy Densmore of Charlotte, North Carolina, called the emergency 911 service 20 times in 38 minutes.
Angry she could not get the meal delivered to her home, she [...]

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Hey, have you checked out HomeGoods, our new advertiser? They’re really, really cheap - if I’m saying it, you know it’s true. Outdoor teak folding chairs for $39? A steal. Alternative down comforters at prices I haven’t seen anywhere else… Go look around, I can’t believe some of the prices.

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Did you know Rick Santorum takes money from baby killers? From the DSCC:
Senator Rick Santorum this week re-emphasized his opposition to stem cell research, stating that he was “disheartened� to learn that the House of Representatives voted to expand stem cell research and that he does “not support taxpayer funding for scientific research that involves [...]

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Remember, it’s about cheap, disposable labor. Everything they do is geared to de-stabilize the workforce:
One of our favorite Congressmen, Charlie Norwood (R-GA), Chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, held a hearing last week on voluntary safety programs and contracting out OSHA third-party safety and health audits, where, [...]

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This gives me that warm, fuzzy feeling:
MIAMI (AP) — A voters’ rights group said Wednesday its audit of November’s presidential election ballots in Miami-Dade County showed counting problems - and an unintentional but worrisome instance of a number of votes being counted three times.
A report released by the Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition said during the [...]

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Why aren’t we helping?
PALIANG, Sudan (Reuters) - Mothers in southern Sudan are feeding their children leaves to stop them starving to death after rich countries failed to heed months of appeals to prevent the region’s worst food crisis in seven years.
Young women on Thursday crushed foliage torn from trees then boiled it over fires outside [...]

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This is what we created in Iraq:
FORT HOOD, TEXAS - Minutes after fatally shooting an unarmed and cooperative Iraqi civilian, an Army squad leader urged a fellow soldier to falsely declare that the killing was in self-defense, court-martial witnesses said Wednesday.
Spc. Charles Pannell, who complied by initially misleading investigators, was recommended by the squad leader [...]

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“Non-mainstream” religion? Unbelievable:
An Indianapolis father is appealing a Marion County judge’s unusual order that prohibits him and his ex-wife from exposing their child to “non-mainstream religious beliefs and rituals.” The parents practice Wicca, a contemporary pagan religion that emphasizes a balance in nature and reverence for the earth.
Cale J. Bradford, chief judge of the Marion [...]

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Look, just because the state of Ohio spent $50 million of the taxpayers’ money on rare coins and collectibles to the benefit of a rare coin dealer who happens to be a prominent GOP contributor, doesn’t mean they’re crooked - or that they stoop to stealing an election.
It just makes it much more likely.

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Dad looks pretty good for someone who just had his insides rearranged. He’s upset because he can’t have anything to eat or drink for the next few days, but he’s doing okay. The ICU nurse says she can’t believe how well he’s doing the day after major surgery.
And I saw the cardiologist today, too. Good [...]

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They just confirmed Owens. Arghhh….

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From an email from Philly for Change:
As early as Thursday, the full Senate will vote on John Bolton and I need you to contact Senator Specter’s office and ask him to vote “No” on Bolton.
PLEASE go to http://www.stopbolton.org/activist to get instructions on how to call and/or email Senator Specter along with a [...]

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From the DSCC:
Yesterday Republican Senator Rick Santorum said he was pleased by President Bush’s threat to veto a House bill to loosen restrictions on stem cell research. Too bad he’s already said that the president should defer to Congress on the stem cell issue:
Yesterday, following the House’s Approval of Loosening Restrictions on Stem [...]

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Buncha damned Commies:
Amnesty International branded the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay a human rights failure Wednesday, calling it “the gulag of our time” as it released a report that offers stinging criticism of the United States and its detention centers around the world.
The 308-page report accused the United States of shirking its responsibility to [...]

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Just go read Miss Molly, the whole thing.

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Still looking for a wireless laptop for the Take Back America conference. If you have one to lend, let me know. It’s close to $200 to rent one for three days…

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It really kills me, how Bush takes credit for helping the international AIDS effort when all he did was use it as cover for Big Pharma:
More than 78,000 Guatemalans are currently living with HIV/AIDS , according to Doctors Without Borders (also called Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF). Approximately 13,500 of them are in urgent need [...]

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Sounds like Warren’s thinking about running:
In the last few months, [Warren] Beatty, the star of and force behind such seminal films as “Shampoo” and “Bonnie and Clyde,” has become the first big name to break the entertainment community’s unofficial speak-no-evil toward Schwarzenegger and his wife, Shriver.
Over the weekend, Beatty, 68, gave his first commencement speech [...]

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It can’t keep flowing forever:
The first drops of crude will snake their way along a pipeline that traverses some of the most unstable and war-ravaged countries on earth. This is the oil flow that was meant to save the West, and this morning the taps were turned on.
Only 42 inches wide, the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan was supposed [...]

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Who says the Republicans aren’t generating jobs?
Ten years ago, with all the flourishes that attend political scandal in Washington, an independent counsel was appointed to investigate the case of Henry Cisneros, the former housing secretary. After four years of investigation, Mr. Cisneros pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and paid a $10,000 fine for lying about [...]

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So much for the afterglow:
WASHINGTON - In the afterglow of the bipartisan accord announced Monday night to avert a Senate showdown on changing the filibuster rule, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist emphasized Tuesday that he wasn’t a party to the deal and would quickly try to implement the rule change if Democrats resumed use of [...]

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Thanks for nothing:
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government will begin sending out millions of applications this week to poor Medicare beneficiaries who may qualify for extra help next year paying for prescription drugs.
But the neediest and most vulnerable senior citizens may be scared away by the six-page application that requires details of their finances and [...]

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Life is so much better since we got rid of Saddam:
BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 25, 2005 (ENS) - Cholera is spreading in Baghdad’s impoverished al-Amil quarter where overcrowding and contaminated water are leading to fears of an epidemic. City officials blame insurgent attacks on infrastructure for the outbreak in southwest Baghdad.
Children have so far been [...]

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I’ll bet somebody’s going to be looking for another job soon:
WASHINGTON — PBS President Pat Mitchell said Tuesday that the taxpayer-supported network is independent and free of political bias, rejecting Republican arguments that there is a need for more conservative programming to balance the content of public television.
In her first public response to criticism that [...]

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You know that big story about the guy from Pennsylvania making bombs for Al-qaeda?
Nope. The guy was just a whack job. Will has the details.

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My dad made it through surgery and when I left the hospital tonight, he was doing remarkably well. Despite an exhausting seven-hour procedure, he was even making jokes when they finally wheeled him back into the ICU at 7:30. (Like father, like daughter.)
The surgeon thinks he got all of the tumor. It’ll be a [...]

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This is war:
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — Maryland’s largest school district is scrapping sex education materials that have come under fire for implying that homosexuality is a biological trait and for demonstrating how to put on a condom.
The Montgomery County school board voted Monday to rethink its curriculum, weeks after a federal lawsuit was filed by [...]

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Mark Kleiman on Clarence Thomas:
If a state law called for shoving a red-hot poker up the defendant’s rectum immediately after indictment, Thomas (George Bush’s ideal Justice) would point out that the precedent of Richard II showed that such a practice was not “unusual,” and that in any case it wasn’t covered by the Eighth Amendment [...]

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I’m sure we can fix this with some more tax cuts:
WASHINGTON Residents at a historic retirement home for war veterans are accusing the Pentagon of violating the law by making harmful cutbacks in medical services.
The Armed Forces Retirement Home in Washington was established in 1851. A draft complaint says its nearly one-thousand residents are being [...]

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Kos has lots of stuff on the Senate compromise deal. He seems happy with it.

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