You know, maybe there’s something to this intelligent design thing after all.
Bush seems to be drinking heavily, Cheney has a heart aneurysm (don’t let the knee talk fool you), Frist being investigated by the SEC, DeLay indicted and who knows how many others to fall once Abramoff spills the beans - that knocks out most […]

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This is a dangerous drug, anyway:
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 28 (HealthDay News) — U.S. health officials have issued a warning about possible birth defects in infants born to women who take the antidepressant Paxil during the first trimester of pregnancy.
A study sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline, the drug’s maker, suggested that infants born to women taking Paxil were at […]

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Book ‘im, Dano:
AUSTIN, Texas - The next step in the criminal proceedings against Republican leader Tom DeLay is a trip to Austin to be fingerprinted and photographed.
“What we’re trying to avoid is Ronnie Earle having him taken down in handcuffs, and fingerprinted and photographed. That’s uncalled for and I don’t think that’s going to happen,” […]

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Oh. I guess he thinks this is an accident:
Reuters has told the US government that American forces’ conduct towards journalists in Iraq is “spiralling out of control” and preventing full coverage of the war reaching the public.
The detention and accidental shootings of journalists is limiting how journalists can operate, wrote David Schlesinger, the Reuters global […]

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The Daily DeLay has lots of good stuff on the Congressman from Phillip Morris, new House Majority Leader Roy Blunt.

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It seems David Dreirer got pushed out as majority leaders because, well, um, he’s a little too “out” there to please the right Christian wingnuts of the GOP.
But I thought hypocrisy was a virtue now?

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Bill “Moral Compass” Bennett (aka “S&M Bill,” aka “Snake Eyes” Bennett) told his talk radio audience if you aborted every black baby in America, the crime rate would go down.
You can’t make this shit up.
[Via Somegirl at All Spin Zone.]

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Will Bunch looks into his crystal ball and predicts who the next Supreme Court nominee will be - and why. (If you guessed it has to do with BushCo dirty laundry, you are correct, sir!)

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Ahnold has fired all six members of his flood control board because they (not unreasonably) decided they should take a second look at development near levees after they saw what happened in the Gulf storms.
Oops. You didn’t think a Republican would let anything stop developers, did you?

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Get these bastards out before it’s too late:
The area covered by sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk for a fourth consecutive year, according to new data released by US scientists.
They say that this month sees the lowest extent of ice cover for more than a century. The Arctic climate varies naturally, but the […]

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Tom DeLay found the one law about fundraising in Texas and broke it.
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Josh Marshall:
Timothy Flanigan is set to become Deputy Attorney General of the United States. He is the General Counsel of Tyco, one of the most scandal-plagued corporations in the country. He is directly connected to the Abramoff scandal. As GC at Tyco he hired Abramoff to protect Tyco’s ability to avoid paying taxes through […]

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You can’t give an SUV away these days. I live near a lot of used car lots, and the big boats are just sitting there:
John Mathews of Universal Toyota in San Antonio has witnessed the day that auto industry executives in Detroit said would never come.
“We are seeing people who are driving $40,000 Suburbans trading […]

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I often say, “People are complicated,” and I think this proves it:
Ashley Smith, who was held hostage in her apartment in March by the man now charged with murder in the Atlanta courthouse shootings, was hailed as a hero after she disclosed how she had persuaded her captor to surrender, partly by reading to him […]

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They’ve been pretty consistently shifting the blame to the bottom. Why wouldn’t they blame the whistleblowers?
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 - An Army captain who reported new allegations of detainee abuse in Iraq said Tuesday that Army investigators seemed more concerned about tracking down young soldiers who reported misconduct than in following up the accusations and investigating […]

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Not like that corrupt, Democratic state next door, of course:
PORT ARTHUR, Texas (AP) — Nearly four days after Hurricane Rita hit, many of the storm’s sweltering victims along the Texas Gulf Coast were still waiting for electricity, gasoline, water and other relief Tuesday, prompting one top emergency official to complain that people are ”living like […]

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“Less than perfect character.” Oh, I think I can agree with that:
WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after castigating the federal government’s ousted disaster chief, a House panel will hear pledges from government auditors that they will closely examine millions of dollars in contracts the Bush administration awarded to politically connected companies for Hurricane Katrina relief.
The […]

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Miss Molly:
With billions being allocated to clean up after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, you can already smell the corruption — fat contracts awarded without competitive bidding. The New York Times reports, “More than 80 percent of the $1.5 billion in contracts signed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency alone were awarded without bidding or with […]

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Rumors all over the place that Tom DeLay will be indicted today.
Oh happy day.

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Oddly enough, no candidates at DL last night. But we did have some nice new faces, including Jen and Hannah from Philly for Change; Erin, a nursing student from Penn and Al, the thoughtful bagel shop owner from South Jersey who brought me a birthdaycard! (As did the lovely Mrs. Atrios.) Oh, and Jeremy was […]

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Rick Perlstein via Duncan on the Katrina rumors. Absolutely right.

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Here, go read him to Whom We Dare Not Link.

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Jo Fish points out that compassionate conservatism is something that only seems to kick into gear when a Bush family friend needs a job. Never mind whether the person can do the job - if he’s in the inner circle, he’s in.
And not just Michael “Drownie” Brown, either. How about the new part-time head of […]

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Wondering what Jeff Gannon’s been up to?

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Time to pay the piper, as this writer points out:
Let’s be clear about the source of these problems. It is not that America does not have the money to spend. We remain the richest country in the world. The problem is the relentless efforts by Republicans to cut taxes and reduce spending. For years, Republican […]

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