Well here are even more antics from the traveling circus known as Sarah Palin. You have got to the love the Thrilla' from Wasilla! She does not disappoint.

Video of Ron Paul supporters in New Hampshire chasing after that spineless, scumbag, weasel Sean Hannity. Notice all the friendly references to Faux News being chanted in support of a "great" news channel. I love it!

I saw this documentary today and I must recommend it to anyone and everyone to check out. This documentary is about the war in Iraq and how the politicians in Washington have handcuffed the U.S. military. It also demonstrates how the people running the war, who have little to no military experience and/or background, have cost the military so many soldiers lives and how they sent the country (Iraq) into chaos. I can't recommend it enough. If you see it or have seen it please let me know what you thought.

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It is nice to see the country progressively moving forward in regards to race relations. Thinking back to the Civil Rights movement and now we have elected an African-American President – it truly speaks volumes about how far we as a society have come. But for all the good....there is bad. Thanks Mississippi.

A controversy has erupted at a Mississippi junior high school over allegations that a bus driver and a coach threatened students with punishment for saying Barack Obama's name.

The incidents became public when outraged parents called the studios of WAPT news in Pearl, Miss. Some said their children were threatened by a bus driver with being written up and taken to the principal's office, others that their children were told by a girls' basketball coach they would be suspended.

Reginald Simpson, a student at Pearl Junior High, explained that when students on the bus started saying, "Obama is our president," the bus driver told them she didn't want to hear his name. One kid said, "This is history woman," and according to Simpson, "She pulled over and kicked me and the kid off the bus." They were left waiting at the high school and later taken to their own school.

This is a funny spoof on why you should vote Republican.

A pickup truck thief lost his purloined Chevy Silverado to an armed carjacker during a 7-Eleven stop. Police Cmdr. Kelly McMillin said "you couldn't make up something stranger than this."

A 33-year-old man told police he stole the pickup Saturday then, while sitting outside a convenience store, a man with a gun hopped in and ordered him to start driving.

The pickup ran out of gas and the gunman ordered him to get out and push, but the man managed to run away and call police.

Police spotted the pickup on Sunday and the gunman was arrested after a brief chase and crash.

If this isn't charma coming back to bite you, I don't know what is. The funny part is the guy admitting to the police that the vehicle he had stolen was stolen from him.

Political rap-rock giants Rage Against the Machine will give a rare performance at Target Center in Minneapolis on Sept. 3, which not so coincidentally is the same week as the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. Tickets go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. for $60.

Target Center's news release for the concert makes no mention of any political overtones, but fans know to expect plenty of verbal fireworks. Rage guitarist Tom Morello has already committed to perform with country-rocker Steve Earle at a union rally Sept. 1 at St. Paul's Harriet Island, the first day of the convention. The band has lashed out at the Bush administration at other shows this year, including last weekend's Lollapalooza festival in Chicago. Morello expressed interest this summer in performing during both party conventions.

Now this will makes things in St. Paul very interesting. Rage does have a tendancy to douse a fire with gasoline so I am sure they will only fuel the protests that will be taking place.

If only we had listened to Jimmy Carter.

Flash back to 1973. Motorists were lined up for blocks at gas stations thanks to an oil embargo in the Middle East. Americans were frustrated and angry. The crisis passed, but the problem did not go away.

In April 1977, newly elected President Carter told the nation, "The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly."

Carter ordered a government-wide review to determine how best to marshal the tools of the government to hasten the day when solar and renewable sources of energy would become our primary energy sources.

In 1979 he issued a Presidential Message to the Congress, charting a path to increased reliance on solar energy, renewable resources and conservation, and setting a goal: 20 percent of our energy needs were to be met by solar and renewable resources by the year 2000.

The message envisioned a broad range of measures to reduce the nation's oil dependency. Among them were developing and applying technologies to reduce energy consumption in industry and in the home; wind-generated electricity; biomass fuel sources; and environmentally safe ways to burn and use coal.

If we let cheap oil lull us into inactivity, Carter warned, "we could endanger our freedom as a sovereign nation to act in foreign affairs." He saw our oil addiction as a threat to our national security, and he urged the nation to break free of it.

Carter saw solar power as a key to America's energy independence. Energy from the sun would be clean and safe, and would provide a non-polluting insurance policy against the rising cost of imported oil.

As a demonstration of his commitment, Carter directed that solar collectors be installed on the roof of the White House.

He proposed the creation of a Solar Bank to provide capital at subsidized rates for the development and application of solar technologies.

Congress responded by passing legislation to create the bank.

In 1981, Ronald Reagan moved into the White House. The solar collectors were removed. The Solar Bank was abandoned; when asked when its board of directors would meet, a high administration official said, "Never."

Say what you will about Jimmy Carter but what he had to say then paints a picture of what is happening today in our society.

The saddest part of all of this is that we will be entering into our fifth administration since Carter was in office and now you are seeing the presidential candidates pushing to re-implement what measures Jimmy Carter had already established.

Imagine how much better off we could be today had Reagan continued Carter's plan on energy independence.

John McCain's campaign accused Barack Obama on Thursday of playing racial politics a day after the Democratic candidate predicted Republicans would try to scare voters by pointing out "he doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."

Obama "played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck," McCain campaign manager Rick Davis said in a statement. He called Obama's remarks "divisive, negative, shameful and wrong."

While Obama was meeting with victims of this summer's flooding here, his aides were initially dismissive of the McCain broadside. "We're not in the habit of reacting every time they put out a statement," spokesman Robert Gibbs said.

The first black candidate with a shot at winning the White House, Obama argued while stumping in Missouri on Wednesday that President Bush and McCain will resort to scare tactics to maintain their hold on the White House because they have little else to offer voters.

In response to these accusations of Senator Obama playing racial politics, John McCain has launched his own ad campaign to show voters how much street cred the 71 year old Arizona Senator possesses.



This is just another sad and pathetic attempt for John McCain to try and take the spotlight away from Senator Obama. I find it interesting that none of the attacks by the McCain camp are sticking and Obama never seems to be phased by the ignorant statements that McCain is making.

Leave it to the "Fair & Balanced" folks at Faux News to switch a politicians political affiliation when troubles arise.



You mean Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska isn't a registered Democrat.

Hmmm...NO. Not at all.

You can learn more about "Bridge to Nowhere" Teddy on his own website.

Did I read that correctly? Did that last paragraph say "the longest-serving Senator in the history of the Republican Party."

Wow…and Faux News has the nerve to call themselves the most "Trusted Name in News."

Once again another piece of evidence supporting that Global Warming is happening has surfaced, or better yet is currently floating away, as we speak. Dare we say anymore that this is some Liberal conspiracy.

A four-square-kilometre chunk has broken off Ward Hunt Ice Shelf - the largest remaining ice shelf in the Arctic - threatening the future of the giant frozen mass that northern explorers have used for years as the starting point for their treks.

Scientists say the break, the largest on record since 2005, is the latest indication that climate change is forcing the drastic reshaping of the Arctic coastline, where 9,000 square kilometres of ice have been whittled down to less than 1,000 over the past century, and are only showing signs of decreasing further.

"Once you unleash this process by cracking the ice shelf in multiple spots, of course we're going to see this continuing," said Derek Mueller, a leading expert on the North who discovered the ice shelf's first major crack in 2002.

This is what cracks me up. How many facts and figures do leading scientists from around the world have to provide before people wake up and realize that our climate is on the rise due to the increased release of carbon dioxide and other air pollution that is collecting in the atmosphere like a thickening blanket, trapping the sun's heat and causing the planet to warm up.

Influential former Pentagon official Richard Perle has been exploring going into the oil business in Iraq and Kazakhstan, according to people with knowledge of the matter and documents outlining possible deals. A neoconservative architect of President Bush's Iraq occupation could be preparing to personally reap the spoils of war, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Documents suggest that Richard Perle, top aide to former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, has been in talks with government officials and its Washington envoy, and Turkish AG Group International, over a plan to drill for oil near the Kurdish city of Erbil. Perle is also in talks with the oil-rich nation of Kazakhstan, whose ruler, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has been involved in a US oil bribery investigation.

"Mr. Perle has publicly lauded President Nazarbayev as a 'visionary and wise,'" the Journal added.

Mr. Perle, one of a group of security experts who began pushing the case for toppling Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein about a decade ago, has been discussing a possible deal with officials of northern Iraq's Kurdistan regional government, including its Washington envoy, according to these people and the documents.

The Christopher and Dana Reeve Act, named for the actor who was made famous by his portrayal of Superman and later became a champion of the disabled, along with his late wife, is part of a broad package created by Democrats which lumps together 36 bills.

It would have allocated $25 million for research on spinal cord injuries, rehabilitation and measures to improve the quality of life for paralyzed Americans. The effort is backed by the Paralyzed Veterans of America, which claims 19,000 members. Some 200,000 Americans suffer spinal cord-related injuries.

“We have a war with many veterans who suffer some from spinal cord injuries or paralysis,” said Lee Page, associate advocacy director for Paralyzed Veterans for America told the Navy Times Tuesday.

The overall bill, dubbed the Advancing America’s Priorities Act, was blocked by a 50-42 vote, short of the 60 votes need to overcome a filibuster. It was created in an effort to draw attention to Sen. Tom Coburn, a stalwart crusader for tightening the pursestrings of government.

You would have to be a very cold person to vote against a bill that would allocate more funding to improving the quality of life for both Americans and veterans who suffer from spinal cord injuries. Here's to hoping that none of the Senators who voted against the bill never suffer a serious spinal injury themselves.

Would anyone like to comment on why they voted against the bill?

"They're using every trick to get us away from dealing with high gas prices," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

That is intellectual superiority at it's finest! With sharp thinkers like that running our country is it any wonder why our economy is in the shape it is.

This is one of the funniest cartoons I have ever seen!

Increases in ticket prices...
Paying for each piece of luggage...
Paying for water and soft drinks...
Flight delays and cancellations...
Turbulance...
Security lines…
Fear of falling out of the sky at 30,000 feet....

As if I didn't already have a laundry list of reasons I don't like to fly, there is another reason I am adding to my growing list:

July 18 (Bloomberg) -- AMR Corp.'s American Airlines, the world's largest carrier, will cut 1,300 mechanic and maintenance jobs, accounting for almost 20 percent of the positions it plans to eliminate this year.

An additional 200 management and support jobs in those operations also will be dropped, spokeswoman Tami McLallen said today in an interview. The hourly employees are among 25,000 at Fort Worth, Texas-based American in the Transport Workers Union, the airline's biggest labor group.

American disclosed the numbers after AMR posted a second- quarter net loss of $1.45 billion this week as it reduced the value of its jet fleet. American has said it will slash about 6,840 jobs and ground 103 planes to blunt record fuel bills.

Yeah…that makes me feel a whole heck of a lot more secure about flying. Let me get this straight, you are going to keep flying airplanes and instead of cutting big, fat, overinflated executive corporate salaries, you are going to cut the jobs of the people who make sure the aircraft functions properly.

FREAKING BRILLIANT IDEA!!!!!

The last time I checked if your engines go out at 30,000 feet you can’t exactly pull over and call AAA for a tow.

Well if you are a flyer like me who sits with sweaty palms and white knuckles you may want to consider alternative means of transportation.

And if you are puffing your chest up and saying that this is only American Airlines that is doing this you may want to take a look around because I can almost guarantee EVERY other airline is following suite.

Yes folks the Reverend hath spoken, and again.... his message is, well, less than admirable.

The one man wrecking crew, who is an active advocate of improving civil rights for African-Americans, has found himself in hot water for making even more disparaging remarks against Senator Barack Obama.

Last week the Reverend made a comment while still on the air that he (Jesse Jackson) wanted to… (well to keep it clean) castrate Senator Obama.

Nice work Jesse!

Well there was even more fallout from this interview in which Jesse said that Obama was "talking down to black people," and referred to blacks with the N-word when he said Obama was telling them "how to behave" in an interview with the Faux News Channel.

So here I am pondering the question of how do we as a society, move forward with equality and separate ourselves from racism if the people who are leading the charge are doing nothing more than advocating racism.

Sorry Jesse but racism is racism regardless of whom it is against. And this isn’t Burger King; you can’t have it your way!

Hello trusted bloggers,
After a little hiatus to let my brain recoup, I have decided that it is time to dust off the old keyboard, grab my trusty notepad and break in a new Bic pen as I get back to the grind of hitting up the blog circuit. A lot has happened since my last entry but now it is time to get back to business. Thanks for all your hits and I hope to see you on the comment page.

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Today, the Senate brought the Intelligence Authorization Bill to the floor, which contained a provision from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) establishing one interrogation standard across the government. The bill requires the intelligence community to abide by the same standards as articulated in the Army Field Manual and bans waterboarding.

Just hours ago, the Senate voted in favor of the bill, 51-45.

Earlier today, ThinkProgress noted that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), a former prisoner of war, has spoken strongly in favor of implementing the Army Field Manual standard. When confronted today with the decision of whether to stick with his conscience or cave to the right wing, McCain chose to ditch his principles and instead vote to preserve waterboarding:

Mr. McCain, a former prisoner of war, has consistently voiced opposition to waterboarding and other methods that critics say is a form torture. But the Republicans, confident of a White House veto, did not mount the challenge. Mr. McCain voted “no” on Wednesday afternoon.

From maverick to minion John McCain is roaming the country in the "BS" Express.

As John McCain was a former POW, I have NO respect for someone who has experienced the hell someone faces of being tortured and then votes in favor of torturing other prisoners of war .

I guess your morals and values went out the door when you decided to run for president. Don't give me any lines about keeping us safe from terror either because that line is almost as old as you are John.

The people of this country are being stripped daily of our civil rights in the name of "preventing" terrorists from attacking us again but at what point does the government become as ruthless as the people they are "protecting" us from.

Hey Johnny boy, do everyone a favor and give up on using your story about being in a Vietnamese torture camp to win people over. Your voting in favor of water boarding only validates you being tortuted in Vietnam. Sorry McFly but torture is torture.

By the way McFly nobody is buying your overnight transformation into a mainstream conservative and if they are I can probably sell them some beachfront property in Las Vegas.

It appears as if the honeymoon is officially over after the Mitchell reporter exposes all the dirty little secrets behind the relationship of Andy Pettite and Roger Clemens. The two men who pitched together and possibly injected together, as they were Yankees turned Astros and then Yankees again, now have their reputations tarnished by allegations of using performance enhancing drugs. Where one went the other one followed and it seemed as if these two were an inseparable pair but it makes you wonder how much of a strain on their relationship the Mitchell report will have.

Roger Clemens will be confronted with a new and damaging affidavit from Andy Pettitte when he appears before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Wednesday to testify about allegations that he used performance-enhancing drugs, two lawyers familiar with the matter said late Tuesday.

Clemens made final preparations Tuesday to testify that he never took performance-enhancing drugs.

Clemens will also be asked about corroborating information that committee staff members developed on their own that ties Clemens to such drugs, the lawyers said. That information, they said, stands separate and apart from the assertions made about Clemens by his former personal trainer, Brian McNamee, who contends that he injected Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone from 1998 to 2001.

The two lawyers familiar with what may be confronting Clemens at the hearing spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. They would not reveal details of the new Pettitte affidavit or of the new information obtained apart from McNamee’s assertions.

“The committee is not messing around and has other damaging evidence against Roger,” one of the lawyers said.

The other lawyer said, “Andy said enough to really hurt Roger.”

It is great watching Roger Clemens squirm as he is being grilled during the congressional witch-hunt about steriod use in baseball.

Right now Clemens has two strikes against him. Both Andy Pettite and Chuck Knoblauch, both former Yankees, have confirmed the story of Brian McNamee.

Roger Clemens struggled to find the right words under questioning during a congressional hearing Wednesday and denied new accounts of drug use made against him by former teammate and close friend Andy Pettitte.

Using words like “misremembered” and mispronouncing the last name of his chief accuser, Brian McNamee, Clemens rambled and stumbled during his early remarks on Capitol Hill.

Clemens’ reputation and legacy were on the line, and there was the possibility that criminal charges could follow after the seven-time Cy Young winner testified.

How bad is Faux News you ask, well let's ask the front running Democrats in the Presidential race Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and.......uhhh, wait, I'm sorry, that can't be right... John McCain.



Woops, that must have been a simple typo.



Wait a minute it happened again.
Maybe Senator Lamar Alexander needs to update his website. He seems to be listed all over it as a member of the Republican party.

Oh no....it seems to have happened again!



Wow Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is a registered Democrat and former US Senator Lincoln Chafee is a registered Republican.



And again! Mark Foley....you guessed it. Not a Democrat. Yep, a registered Republican.



And again with Mark Foley not listed on-screen as a Republican but as a Democrat.



And oddly enough, Mark Foley, is still not a Republican...again!

I guess I should be screaming "Don't Fox on me" at this point but would you expect higher standards from a "news" organization that puts the likes of real American heroes on the air like: Mark Fuhrman (SEE O.J. TRIAL), Oliver North (SEE IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR) and Karl Rove (SEE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION FOR LIST OF SCANDALS).

The only TV these scum bags should be on is America's Most Wanted.

Is anyone still in denial that insurance companies are ruining the state of healthcare in the United States. Maybe this will help you retool your thinking about how much your insurance company is really looking out for what's in your "best" interests.

The state's largest for-profit health insurer is asking California physicians to look for conditions it can use to cancel their new patients' medical coverage.

Blue Cross of California is sending physicians copies of health insurance applications filled out by new patients, along with a letter advising them that the company has a right to drop members who fail to disclose "material medical history," including "pre-existing pregnancies."

"Any condition not listed on the application that is discovered to be pre-existing should be reported to Blue Cross immediately," the letters say. The Times obtained a copy of a letter that was aimed at physicians in large medical groups.
The letter wasn't going down well with physicians.

"We're outraged that they are asking doctors to violate the sacred trust of patients to rat them out for medical information that patients would expect their doctors to handle with the utmost secrecy and confidentiality," said Dr. Richard Frankenstein, president of the California Medical Assn.

Patients "will stop telling their doctors anything they think might be a problem for their insurance and they don't think matters for their current health situation," he said. "But they didn't go to medical school, and there are all kinds of obscure things that could be very helpful to a doctor."

WellPoint Inc., the Indianapolis-based company that operates Blue Cross of California, said Monday that it was sending out the letters in an effort to hold down costs.

SHOCKER...an insurance provider looking to screw over it's clients.

It is so refreshing to hear that WellPoint Inc. is only trying to hold down costs.

So if you are covered under their plan it will make you all feel better if you are hospitalized and after your stay you receive a bill that will take you a lifetime to pay off because your claim was denied, but hey look at the bright side....they are helping to keep costs down.

Any wonder how Humana Health Insurance made record profits last year, anyone...ok let me break it down really simple....increased insurance premiums, followed up with decreased coverage amounts and increased denial of claims = RECORD PROFITS!!!!

Let's take the power out of the bean counters hands at the insurance companies and put it back in the doctor's hands. I really am uneasy about an accountant telling my doctor what is in my "best" interest.

Click here to read letter from BlueCross

Faux News Anchor Shepard Smith has an on-camera meltdown when the credibility of his uncredible "news" organization was challenged.

Hey Shep, reality check time...it's no secret that their is no "fair & balanced" (opinion-based) reporting on your station.

"Don't you Fox on me," anchor Shepard Smith snapped at a guest after what seemed a fairly innocuous barb about Fox News fired him up.

Afternoon anchor Smith briefly lost his cool Wednesday during an interview with Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America. A Republican talking head also appeared on Smith's show.

Wolf observed that Democrats didn't have to "hold our nose and walk into the [voting] booth," and as she tried to finish her answer Smith jumped in.

"So you were holding your nose walking into the booth with John Kerry, the last time? You were holding your nose walking into the booth with Bill Clinton?" he asked, as GOP strategist Kellyanne Conway laughed in the background. "When was the nose-holding exactly, if you could pin it down for me?"

Wolf began to explain, without explicitly bad-mouthing Clinton or Kerry, and Smith returned to the subject at hand. "You said, the nose-holding; I just want to know when the nose-holding was."

"This is why I love Fox News," Wolf said sarcastically.

That, apparently was too much for Smith.

"No, no, no. That is unfair. You said it, I didn’t say it! You said you were holding your nose when you went in the booth, and I asked you when," Smith said, wagging his finger at the camera. "That’s fair. And anybody who doesn’t ask you that is not being fair. I’d like an answer please. You did it. Don’t you ‘Fox’ on me. Ever."



Wolf explained that she was glad about the historic prospects in this election, where for the first time the Democratic nominee will be a woman or a black man.

Later in the program, Smith apologized for his outburst.

"I want to apologize to you for pointing my finger at you. I just get tired of people like you saying every time you're challenged on something that you say that it's something about Fox," he said. "It's not something about Fox. I don't have a horse in this race and for you to suggest such a thing is both inaccurate and insulting."

Here is more proof that working for Fax News requires that a person must be completely subservient and have an I.Q. of 30. Shep proves what a freaking putz he is with such completely ridiculous statements. And then to cry little a little girl over his beloved Faux News. This just proves how awful of a "news" organization that Faux News is and will always be.
By the way Shep, not that it is any real secret to anyone with half a brain, but would you clarify your statement on "Don't ever Fox on me!"
That sums it all up!

I just wanted to let our friends at the CIA know this blog is terrorist free!

With rapidly advancing technology spreading across the globe, US spies are shifting their focus from surreptitiously photographing secret Soviet documents to trolling the Internet for what could be the next key nugget of foreign intelligence.

Among the most valuable sources, one top spook says, are blogs, MySpace and other Web 2.0 hallmarks.

"We're looking now at YouTube, which carries some unique and honest-to-goodness intelligence," Doug Naquin, director of the CIA's Open Source Center said in a recent speech to CIA retirees.

The speech was posted this week on SecrecyNews, the blog of the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy.

McCarthyism is back and instead of a witch-hunt looking for Communists we are on a witch-hunt for Terrorists.

Isn't it odd how history is repeating itself again.

Let's start of by looking at a few definitions.

TORTURE – the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.

Now let's define:

WATER BOARDING – a form of torture that consists of immobilizing a person on his or her back, with the head inclined downward, and pouring water over the face and into the breathing passages. Through forced suffocation and inhalation of water, the subject experiences the process of drowning in a controlled environment and is made to believe that death is imminent.

Now that we have those items defined, lets ask the President what he thinks about the U.S., torturing prisoners of war, excuse me I meant to call them "detainees".

President Bush strongly defended U.S. interrogation practices for detainees held in the war on terrorism Monday, insisting, We do not torture."

Thank you Mr. President for clarifying that issue. I know that the United States would follow the guidelines of the Geneva convention when it comes to the ethical treatment of prisoners of war, excuse me again, I meant to call them "detainees".

Oh I'm sorry Mr. Cheney you had something to add to what the President was saying.

The Bush administration has proposed exempting employees of the Central Intelligence Agency from a legislative measure endorsed earlier this month by 90 members of the Senate that would bar cruel and degrading treatment of any prisoners in U.S. custody.

The proposal, which two sources said Vice President Cheney handed last Thursday to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in the company of CIA Director Porter J. Goss, states that the measure barring inhumane treatment shall not apply to counterterrorism operations conducted abroad or to operations conducted by "an element of the United States government" other than the Defense Department.

Now I am confused...according to the President we don't torture but the Vice-President wants exemptions for members of the CIA.

Wait a minute, I am sorry it looks like CIA director Michael Hayden would like to chime in.

The CIA has for the first time publicly admitted using the controversial method of "waterboarding" on terror suspects.

CIA head Michael Hayden told Congress it had only been used on three people, and not for the past five years.

He said the technique had been used on high-profile al-Qaeda detainees including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Waterboarding, condemned as torture by rights groups and many governments, is an interrogation method that puts the the detainee in fear of drowning.

Wait this can't be. We are the United States...we are a super power, spreading democracy, liberating Iraqis and setting a great example for others.

DICK you wanted to chime in again on the use of torture.

Cheney said that he supported President Bush's national security decisions, which included the approval of waterboarding along with other harsh interrogation tactics. "I've been proud to stand by [Bush], by the decisions he's made," said Cheney, who then asked aloud, "Would I support those decisions today?"

"You're damn right I would," he answered.

Finally we will go to CIA Director Michael Hayden one more time for some clarity on this issue.

Mr. Hayden what are your thoughts on torturing prisoners of war (oops…again I meant to call them by their politically correct name "detainees") using the technique that was banned by the CIA known as water boarding

Waterboarding is necessary though probably not legal, CIA Director Michael Hayden told Congress Thursday as Attorney General Michael Mukasey said he would not open a criminal investigation into the CIA's use of the technique.

Strapping a person to a surface, covering their face with cloth and pouring water on their face to imitate the sensation of drowning could be used if "an unlawful combatant is possessing information that would help us prevent catastrophic loss of life of Americans or their allies," said Hayden.

"In my own view, the view of my lawyers and the Department of Justice, it is not certain that that technique would be considered lawful under current statute," he told the House Intelligence Committee after publicly disclosing that the CIA had used waterboarding on three of the enemy combatants.

Well now that I am officially confused and my brain feels like it is going to explode I can summarize by saying that Yes the United States has tortured using water boarding and supposedly the CIA has banned it but would like to use it even though it may be illegal. Also our President who says the U.S. does not torture, authorized the use of torture according to the V.P. And the V.P. wants exemptions for those who do torture.

So there you have it. Draw your own conclusions from it and just be thankful you aren't in Gitmo!

In learning today that he was the last person standing in John McCain's way to officially winning the GOP nomination, Mike Huckabee has decided to bring out the big guns in his dramatic reenactment of Custer's Last Stand!

Here's hoping it works Mike, otherwise I think that Huck-A-Mania may have lost its steam.

In a really surprising move (not really) Mitt Romney has decided to suspend his campaign for the White House (even though in reality he had NO shot).

Mitt decided to take the high road in his concession speech and tried making it seem as his stepping down was doing his party a favor. Ha Ha!!! Which is a laughable point!

Romney said in his concession speech, "If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win. And in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign, be a part of aiding a surrender to terror."

Oh Mitt, you for one didn't have a shot and it is a shame it has taken you this long to realize that simple fact. Secondly, you act as if the current administration has done such a spectacular job on the war on terror just shows how completely out of it you really must be.

See ya Mitters!

Hey folks remember Ted Haggard?

Well, if not, he is the former spiritual advisor to President Bush who claims to not be gay or a methamphetamine user but was removed from his position as leader of the National Association of Evangelicals after allegations of homosexual sex and drug abuse were made by Mike Jones, a former prostitute. (Ironic...don't you think?)

Oh…you mean that Rev. Ted Haggard! Now I remember.

Well for those of you who have been waiting with bated breath for an update on the health and well-being of Reverened Teddy...here's your scoop!

Colorado Springs Gazette:

New Life Church said Tuesday that former pastor Ted Haggard has prematurely ended a “spiritual restoration” process begun when he was fired for sexual misconduct.

Haggard was fired from New Life Church and resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals in November 2006 after a former male prostitute alleged they had a cash-for-sex relationship. The man also said he saw Haggard use methamphetamine.

Haggard confessed to undisclosed “sexual immorality” and said he bought meth but didn’t use it.

New Life said in a written statement that “the process of restoring Ted Haggard is incomplete and (New Life) maintains its original stance that he should not return to vocational ministry.”

Uh Oh Teddy looks like your stint in "Spiritual" rehab didn't quite work out that well for you. The process of restoring you Ted was incomplete. Looks like someone just can't shake those "tendancies".

Maybe you can set up a support group with Mark Foley and Larry Craig and the three of you can work out your "issues".

*WINK *WINK

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Now this is a great story. After reading this story you will see what takes top priority when you are living trailer fabulous!

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — A woman pulled over for allegedly running a red light had a 24-pack of beer strapped in with a seat belt but had a 16-month-old girl unrestrained in the back seat of her car with the toddler's mother, authorities said.

Tina D. Williams, 46, was arrested Sunday after she was pulled over in St. Augustine. She was charged with driving under the influence, child abuse, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving without a valid license, a jail official said. Williams remained in the St. Johns County jail Tuesday after bail was set at $31,000. The jail did not have the name of her attorney.

A 24-pack of Busch beer was strapped in the passenger-side seat belt, according to an arrest report.

This is a fine example of what Redneck living is all about! Strap in the beer we're heading home.

The most disturbing fact is that she felt the need to strap in a 24-pack of Busch. Talk about some crappy beer.

What a shootout that game turned out not to be. Yawn! I couldn't figure out what was worse: the second, third and 3/4 of the fourth quarters or the commercials. What an awful game that was to watch. There were times in the game where I had to pry my eyes open with a crow bar. That was almost as bad as watching the Seahawks-Steelers Super Bowl from a few years ago. 7-3 for 3/4 of the game with nothing happening.

I sit here and think that one play determined the outcome of the game. And no I am not talking about the sack Eli squirmed out of and then completed the pass downfield to David Tyree. I am talking about New Englands decision to go for it on fourth down rather than kicking the field goal. Had they kicked that one field goal then the touchdown pass to Burress would have only sent the game into O.T. So once again the Giants didn't win as much as the Patriots blew it.

Being an Eagles fan it pains me ever more to see the Giants walk off the field with the Lombardi trophy. UHHHH!!! And worse than that was seeing "Little Eric Lindros" Eli Manning winning a Super Bowl. Let's not forget the draft day antics of one Eli Manning as he boo-hoo'ed that he didn't want to play for the Chargers. WAAAAAHHH!!!! Eli, revel in the fact that the Eagles passed on Plaxico as a free agent (another showing of Andy Reid's inability to pick up a decent receiver). Now I have to listen to Giants fans gloat about winning the Super Bowl. This also means that in the past 20 years every current team in the NFC East has won the Super Bowl minus the Eagles.

Well now the season is officially over and I can now focus my attention on all the pitching moves that the Phillies have yet to make as the Mets bolster their lineup with a Cy Young Award winner in Johan Santana.

How long until pitcher and cathers report? Let's Go Phillies!!!

I almost forgot, congrats Charlie! As an Giants-Eagles fan you must be proud. And yes I am eating crow at this point. I didn't and still won't give Eli enough credit!

BUFFALO, N.Y. - A collection agency tried to collect a $16.96 debt with an letter that addressed its recipient with a four-letter word for excrement. "Dear S---," began the letter, attempting to collect from an old record club membership. The word was spelled out in the letter, which arrived in an envelope addressed to "S--- Face."

"I've never seen anything quite so brazen," said attorney Kenneth Hiller.

He said his client plans to sue Nationwide Collections Inc. of Fort Pierce, Florida, next week.

Under U.S. law, debt collectors are not allowed to use profanity to collect a debt, Hiller said, nor are they supposed to threaten legal action over such a small amount.

Nationwide President Phillip McGarvey said the October 2007 letter was automatically generated after his company bought about 350,000 Columbia House accounts. "S--- Face" is the name under which the account was opened and the way the coupon to start the club was filled out, he said.

This story is freaking hilarious! Is that a show of the times when a collection agency is sending out collections notices addressed to Mr. S Face over $16.96. I wish I could get a letter from a collection agency to me addressed that way. I knew there was a downside to paying my bills on time.
The even funnier part is that the company never questioned the fact that they had an account for S Face? Nobody found that a little odd when authorizing this account. Then again predatory lending practices are one of the major reasons for our economic woes right now. Good job Nationwide Collections! Keep up the good work.

Are you angry about the war in Iraq? Do you feel betrayed by your own government? Do you want to see change? Well if so you may enjoy reading this piece about how a town in Vermont has taken action.

A town petition making President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney subject to arrest for crimes against the Constitution has triggered a barrage of criticism from people who say residents are "wackjobs" and "nuts."

In e-mail messages, voicemail messages and telephone calls, outraged people are calling the measure the equivalent of treason and vowing never to visit Vermont.

"Has everyone up there been out in the cold too long?" said one.

"I would like to know how I could get some water from your town," said another. "It's obvious that there is something special in it."

The petition — with more than 436 signatures, or at least the 5 percent of voters necessary to be considered — was submitted Thursday and the town Select Board voted 3-2 Friday to put it on the ballot. It goes to a town-wide vote March 4.

It reads: "Shall the Selectboard instruct the Town Attorney to draft indictments against President Bush and Vice President Cheney for crimes against our Constitution, and publish said indictments for consideration by other authorities and shall it be the law of the Town of Brattleboro that the Brattleboro Police, pursuant to the above-mentioned indictments, arrest and detain George Bush and Richard Cheney in Brattleboro if they are not duly impeached, and prosecute or extradite them to other authorities that may reasonably contend to prosecute them?"

If you agree or disagree with what the people in Vermont have done is your own opinion but the true beauty of what has been accomplished is the fact that they did it. That is one of the great things about this country. I have to admit I got a chuckle out of this story. The petition wont hold water but it is good to see people using their civil liberties to take action for a cause they believe in.

Looks like the ad campaign from Chick-Fil-A was dead-on accurate as well as a precursor of things to come! Wow...some truth in advertising!

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Meat and milk products of offspring from the 600 cloned animals in the United States most likely have not entered the nation's food supply, an official with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday, as the agency downplayed the long-term impact of cloning.

The FDA last week said meat and milk from cloned cattle, swine and goats and their offspring were as safe to eat as products obtained from traditional animals. Before then, farmers and ranchers had followed a voluntary moratorium that prevented the sale of clones and their offspring.

"There is no feeling that this will ever become a way of mass producing animals," Stephen Sundlof, director of FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied nutrition, told reporters.

He noted that another reproductive technique used in agriculture, in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer, has been used to create only a small portion of the millions of animals on U.S. farms.

It could take four or five years before consumers are able to buy clone-derived food on a wide scale as animals need to be cloned, mature and give birth. So far, several major food companies including Tyson Foods Inc, the largest U.S. meat company, and Smithfield Foods Inc have said they would avoid using cloned animals.

I am officially not eating beef products anymore. I don't care what the FDA tells me about how safe eating test tube cattle is....I am not buying it.

Let's not forget this is the same FDA that told you that children's cough medications and Vioxx were safe also. OOPS...sorry folks we seemed to have made a mistake....those products aren't actually safe. Now they are telling me that eating Dr. Frankenstein's remake of 'Old Bessy' is perfectly safe. Right!

I have already switched my daughter over to organic milk and called the company who manufactures the milk to ask them if the milk they produce is from cloned cattle. When I heard the answer of "abolutely not", I replied, "congratulations you just made a sale!"

Sorry folks but I have little faith when the federal government tells me something is really safe. Asks the Hurricane Katrina victims how they feel about living in toxic trash cans that leak formaldehyde fumes.

OOOPS again....looks like FEMA dropped the ball on that one. Sorry your house was destroyed, but until we figure out what to do with you we want you to live in this nice trailer. If you develop any odd illnesses or unexplained diseases remember it's not from the formaldehyde used in manufacturing your home.

I know a lot of people love a great steak or burger but to me eating some lab experiment beef is not my thing!

Halliburton, the world's second-largest oil-field services company, said fourth-quarter profits increased 4.9 percent as it continued to expand in fast-growing regions outside North America.

Net income rose to $690 million, or 75 cents a share, from $658 million, or 64 cents, a year earlier, Halliburton — with maintains headquarters in Houston and Dubai — said in a statement today. Revenues jumped 19 percent to $4.2 billion for the October-December period.

"Our international growth is providing the strength to offset the challenging North American market, with over 55 percent of our fourth quarter revenue coming from outside North America," said Dave Lesar, Halliburton's chairman and chief executive.

Analysts, on average, expected Halliburton to earn 69 cents per share on revenue of $4.06 billion during the fourth quarter, according to a survey by Thomson Financial.

Wow...this story is starting to sound like a country song that goes "I've got friends in high places." I swear Halliburton has to be the luckiest company on the face of the Earth.
Regions outside North America....could we be speaking of Iraq and possibly next Iran?
I am sure DICK had nothing to do with the increasing profit margins that Halliburton is pulling in.
Ohh Nooo! What am I thinking.
Government influence to help influence the profitability of a company to which the Vice-President is the former CEO. Could DICK still be tied to Halliburton through stock options. No. He is a straight shooter. (EXCEPT WHEN QUAIL HUNTING!!!)
Shame on me for thinking that Washington could someone be linked to Halliburtons no-bid contracts on running the oil ministries in Iraq or running the mess halls for the soldiers.
Do the words "war profiteering" come to anyone else's mind.

Is "Canadian" the new black? Perhaps – that is if you're a racist speaking in code.

Recent revelations that the term "Canadian" is being used to replace racist names for black people have got a Texas assistant district attorney into trouble and have left others wondering what exactly it means to be labelled a Canadian in the American south.

Long derogated as weak-kneed liberals with lax laws and funny monopoly money, Canadians have carried a negative connotation in certain regions of America – but not as a replacement for the N-word.

Earlier this week a columnist with the Houston Chronicle uncovered an email from Harris County assistant district attorney Mike Trent who, in a congratulatory note to a junior prosecutor, used the word "Canadians" to describe blacks on a jury.

Trent wrote of the prosecutor in a 2003 email: "He overcame a subversively good defence by Matt Hennessey that had some Canadians on the jury feeling sorry for the defendant and forced them to do the right thing."

Trent's email remained unchallenged by colleagues who received the email, despite there being no actual Canadians on the jury.

It's nice to see that the "stars at night don't really shine too bright deep in the heart of Texas." There is nothing I can say here because the story alone proves how much of a moron this Assistant District Attorney truely is. Did he think he was being clever when he referred to these people as 'Canadians'. Did he think that nobody would question as to which jurors were Canadians in a U.S. Court of law? It is nice to see that things in Texas don't actually progress they just regress.

OK...lets start with the obvious in that "Brokeback Mountain" is a FICTIONAL movie (that means not real) and Heath Ledger pretended to be a gay cowboy.

The reality here is that Heath Ledger was straight, there is no mountain known as Brokeback and finally if you attend Westboro Baptist "Church" you are probably are biggot!

You are going to protest Heath Ledger's funeral. What should they not bury him? What do you hope to accomplish by protesting his funeral. The man is dead, let him and his family be.

I love how these people feel the need to pass judgement as if they are the Almighty themselves. These people must have nothing better to do in Kansas. Instead of worrying about Heath Ledger why don't you go count corn stalks.

The is a fine example of what is wrong with organized religion and also shows the stupidity of some people in our country.

How much more evidence is needed that our economy is sliding into a recession. A federal bail out of the mortgage industry and now a plan to hand out money in hopes people will just go out and spend it. These are temporary fixes to much larger problems and instead of worrying about policing the world or investigating steroid scandals maybe our government should start paying closer attention to matters at home.

Wall Street resumed its downward trek Friday as skittish investors, unable to hold on to much optimism about the economy, drew little comfort from President Bush's stimulus plan.

Investors had already pulled back from a big early gain, with the major indexes trading mixed as Bush began to speak. By the time the president finished announcing a plan for about $145 billion worth of tax relief, the indexes were well into negative territory.

4 teams left…2 games to go! This Sunday I will be glued to my television as I first watch the Chargers take on the Patriots and then the Packers take on the Giants.
Here are my predictions for this weekends games:

Chargers at Patriots: Norv Turner stinks as a head coach, both LT & Philip Rivers are banged up for the Bolts and they are headed into Foxboro for the Patriots final game before a trip to the Super Bowl as an undefeated team. Tom Brady is playing out this world and Randy Moss will prove he doesn't need to hit any woman because he is going to beat on San Diego. The cards are really stacked in the Patriots favor and considering they have not lost a game my instincts tells me that they will still be undefeated after this game on Sunday. This game will be a landslide in the Patriots favor.

Giant at Packers: Let's see the weather will be really cold and Brett Favre has been really hot. The Giants are headed into historic Lambeau Field where history and weather are favoring the Packers. The only thing that will be uncertain for Sundays game is which team Eli decides to throw too. (Here's a hint Eli...the team with the G on the helmet doesn't mean Giant). The Packers will be one win away from a possible rematch of the Super Bowl of 1996 where Brett Favre defeated the Patriots in New Orleans. I am taking the Packers to give a good beat down to Tom "Choking" Coughlin and Eli "Not Anywhere Near As Good As Peyton" Manning. Oh by the way Charlie....Eli is sooooooooooo overrated!

Let me start off by saying how proud I am of the American government for taking my tax dollars, rolling them up into a tight-wound ball and then flushing them down the toilet right in front of my eyes. What could I be speaking about? How about the Congressional investigation into steroid use in baseball.

This witch hunt that the federal government has decided to spearhead serves what purpose to the everyday citizens in our country.
The correct answer is NONE!

WOW...we can learn that Barry Bonds used performance enhacing drugs. There's a real SHOCKER!!! I couldn't look at a photo of him when he first came into the league and look at him now and see a slight difference in his build. NOPE! I needed Senator "GET MY NAME IN THE RECORD BOOKS" George Mitchell to tell me that.

What do I really care if some multi-millionaire, who happens to play baseball for a living, gets juiced up for work. I don't at all. This makes no difference in my life what so ever! I will wake up and go to work just the same. If some ball player is all juiced up it does not affect the food I eat, how my bills are paid or the cost of a gallon of gas.

What will the real outcome of this investigation be? Well for starters a lot of tax dollars will have been needlessly wasted. Some almost out of the league baseball player gets a slap on the wrist for lying under oath. OOOOHHH!!! Some smuck of a Senator pawns a few book deals (Get your very own copy of "The Mitchell Report" My life as a Senator who investigated steroid use in baseball by George Mitchell next week at Barnes & Noble). Some players names are tarnished but their names remain in the record books (without an asterik I may add). Oops, lets not forget that Bud Selig gets a contract extension.

With all that is happening in this country right now (2 wars, an economy teetering on a recession, global climate change, unemployment on the rise, etc) why is the government wasting its time and U.S. tax dollars investigating steroid use in baseball. I mean in all seriousness – WHO CARES! It doesn't really matter.

As a fan I am disappointed to hear that players I enjoyed watching play ball were cheating. The institution of baseball has been cheapened by this investigation. The 2 people that deserve the blame for the steriod problem in baseball are Donald Fehr and Bud Selig!

Fox News host Megyn Kelly teamed up with one of the network's "legal analysts" to bash John Edwards and others who are criticizing an insurance company for dragging its feet in approving a potentially life-saving liver transplant for a now-dead California teen.

The segment also featured a defense attorney, who defended Edwards and the family of 17-year-old Nataline Sarkisyan, but the segment was heavily slanted towards defending insurance company Cigna and tying the Democratic presidential candidate to ambulance-chasing trial lawyers.

Defense attorney Rachel Kugel spoke for about 50 seconds of the five-and-a-half minute segment, according to a rough estimate. Fox News Legal Analyst Mercedes Colwin received more than twice as much talk-time to admonish Edwards and stick up for the poor, demonized insurance company.

"How irresponsible of Edwards to exploit this situation for his own political gain," scolded Colwin. "Cigna did their due diligence."

Kugel pointed out that the company eventually relented, amid heavy protests from nurses unions, and agreed to pay for a transplant for Sarkisian, whose liver had failed due to treatments for relapsed leukemia. The company's decision came too late, though, and Sarkisian died late last year.

Here is just another example of how unbalanced Fox News is in reality. I could care less that they are bashing John Edwards. That to me is irrelavent because would you expect higher standards from an ultra right wing opinion outlet. Folks...I call it Faux News for a reason. A true journalist does not inject their opinions in a story such as Megyn Kelly does here. Not to mention I can't believe that anyone would have the audacity to defend an insurance company as if they are really looking out for the patient. Right! How many times do people get screwed over by the insurance companies....multiple times every day! The whole fact that a 17 year old girl is dead because an insurance company drug their feet and refused treatment to a patient. That makes me feel good about the state of health care in this country when accountants are telling our doctors how to practice medicine. Lets not worry about whats in the patients best interest lets only worry about the bottom line. I am so in favor of universal health care. It seems to work elsewhere in the world. I don't hear people in Europe screaming that they need to have Cigna covering them.

DURHAM, N.C. - In some situations, it pays to watch your step.

Josue Herrios-Coronilla, 18, drove his black Camaro on the wrong side of the road Wednesday and crashed into the yard of man who owns four dogs, police said.

Investigating officers found crushed bushes, a damaged fence, an inoperable car — and a fresh shoeprint in a pile of dog feces.

Following an odoriferous trail down the street, Sgt. Dale Gunter noticed a white van driving toward him. When he asked the passenger to step out, he noticed the smell of alcohol on the man's breath and evidence all over his shoes.

Herrios-Coronilla was charged with driving while impaired and drinking underage and released on $1,500 bail. He could not immediately be reached for comment.

That was probably the most expensive dog poop that Josue will ever step in. Does the dog who created the pile get a reward or medal of honor in helping the police solve a crime?

BERLIN (Reuters) - A Hamburg newspaper that reported last week on a computer company manager who said he fired three non-smokers because they had threatened disruptions after asking for a smoke-free environment said on Monday the
story was a hoax.

Stephanie Lamprecht, a journalist at the Hamburger Morgenpost, said Thomas Joschko first told her he had fired the three from his 10-person staff because they were causing a disruption with their non-smoking but later admitted it was a hoax.

Lamprecht, whose story was published widely in the German and international media last week, said: "He said it was a joke and worth the trouble. He said he's a chain-smoker himself and said he was tired of smokers being hassled so much."

First of all let me say thank you so much to cccmells who pointed out on my original post that the story was a hoax. Secondly I would like to personally apologize to those of you, who like myself, read the story thinking it to be true. Unfortunately the reporter who originally wrote the story did not check their facts or sources and a "story" that was just a hoax was published in print and online.
Since reading that the story was completely false, I have removed the posting from my blog.
Again I want to say thanks to whomever cccmells is and again I apologize to the readers.
Thanks!

Have you ever wondered exactly what causes your clothes to be "Snuggle Fresh" or have that special "Bounce" to them? Once you read this story you may want to just throw a pack of cigarettes in the dryer because that dryer sheet comes with a powerful punch.

Dryer sheets contain a veritable who’s-who of nasty chemicals, like: Benzyl Acetate: Linked to pancreatic cancer, Benzyl Alcohol: an Upper respiratory tract irritant, Ethanol: On the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Hazardous Waste list and can cause central nervous system disorders, Ethyl Acetate: A narcotic on the EPA’s Hazardous Waste list, and Chloroform: Neurotoxic, anesthetic and carcinogenic. In addition, most of the fragrances in dryer sheets are petroleum-based! These chemicals are heated in the dryer and released into the air through your dryer’s vents. Ew! The chemical coating on dryer sheets make them a landfill favorite, since they take a long time to biodegrade. The sexiest thing to do is to skip dryer sheets and substitute by adding baking soda during the rinse cycle or white vinegar during the wash cycle to soften clothes and combat static. If scent is what you’re aiming for, toss a reusable sachet of lavender in the dryer with your clothes. When the sachet is ready for retirement, you can dump the contents onto your carpet and vacuum it up, leaving your room smelling as yummy as your clothes.

It is good to know that large corporations are only looking out for what is best for profit......I mean the consumer.

BAYOU LA BATRE, Alabama (AP) -- A day after reporting his four young children were missing, a shrimp fisherman broke down and confessed that he threw them off an 80-foot-high bridge to their deaths, authorities said Wednesday.

Lam Luong, 37, was charged with four counts of capital murder, and divers searched the murky waters for the bodies of the youngsters, who ranged in age from a few months to 3 years.

Authorities said they believe Luong then drove on Monday to the two-lane Dauphin Island bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway, stopped at the highest part of the span and threw the youngsters over the side.

I can't truly express how disgusted I am after reading this. I can't think of any punishment that would equal the horror that this piece of crap inflicted on his own kids. What in the hell is wrong with people. Tossing your kids off an 80 foot bridge as if they were nothing. How can this guy sleep at night. Throwing them aside with no care because you were angry at your girlfriend. Again a steaming pile of dog poo is about the nicest thing I am allowed to say about this person.

A 10-year-old Mexican boy glued his hand to his bed to avoid going back to school after the Christmas break, authorities said Monday.

"I thought if I was glued to the bed, they couldn't make me go to school," the boy, Diego, told AFP. "I didn't want to go, the holidays were so much fun."

"I remembered my mom had bought a very strong glue," he said of the industrial strength shoe glue he used to stick his hand to the bed's metal headboard, where he stayed stuck for two hours.

His mother Sandra Palacios was unable to free him and called paramedics and police to help. Diego watched cartoons while they worked to unglue him, eventually using a spray to dissolve the chemical adhesive.

"I don't know why this happened. He is a very good boy," said his mother.

Diego eventually made it school a few hours late.

Diego I have to applaud you for your creative thinking. I thought I had every excuse in the book down pat but NEVER would I ever have thought of glueing myself to the bed to prevent having to go to school. I can't say that I think it is the smartest thing to do but a very crafty plan none the less.

Another chapter in "My Life As A Drunken, White Trash, Trailer Park Superstar" has been written for the often troubled Pop Star Britney Spears.

Last night Spears was whisked away in an ambulance after six police cars, two ambulances and a fire truck were called to the Spears residence. At around 8 p.m. Los Angeles police responded to a call over a custody dispute between Spears and ex-husband (back-up dancer/nobody in reality) Kevin Federline over their sons, 2-year-old Sean Preston and 1-year-old Jayden James.
Spears turned over the children at around 10:50 p.m. and was then taken to to a hospital for tests to see if she was under the influence of alcohol or drugs and for a psychological evaluation. Officer Jason Lee of the Los Angeles Police Department told City News Service that Spears appeared to be under the influence of an unknown substance.

And to this I say congratulations to Lynne Spears. You as a parent should be applauded for tossing not one, but both of your kids into the limelight (for your own financial gain) and having them both end up train wrecks for the whole world to watch. What did Lynne Spears expect to happen when she threw Britney to the Mickey Mouse Club and then into Pop Star status. I know people make their own choices but please don't try and make it sound as if Mama Spears had NO influence over her kids becoming stars. What do kids learn from having tons of money thrown at them at such a young age. And after watching the rise and fall of Britney you repeat this with your younger daughter Jamie Lynn as she played the lead role on Zoey 101.
So you have Britney, who is a few more outrageous breakdowns from Liza Minelli status and 16 year-old Jamie Lynne who is 3 months pregnant. GOOD JOB MOM! And you think you are fit to write a parenting book. The only advise you should be giving is how to make sure your kids end up as fodder for comedic punchlines.

I am not your local travel expert but I do have a passion for traveling. This coming from a person who hates flying and whose wife can't bare the thought of boarding an airplace with me due to my extreme anxiety of flying. I sit here on this very frigid day thinking about a warmer place that has a special place in my heart. That little piece of Southern Harmony is known as Gulf Shores, Alabama.
Gulf Shores is located about 30 minutes from the Florida state line at the southern most point of Alabama. Yes folks, there are beaches in Alabama.
Gulf Shores is a wonderful beach town that boasts lots of family friendly activities. If you are an avid golfer you should check out all the golf courses that are available for public play. Gulf Shores also has a water park, zoo and go-cart tracks. There are so many activities offered in Gulf Shores that you may have to remember to get down to the beach.
If you ever get the chance to spend a day laying out on the sugar white sand beaches staring into the emerald green waters of the Gulf of Mexico you may find your own little piece of heaven.
One thing that most beach towns are famous for is seafood. Gulf Shores offers some of the freshest and most succulent shrimp you will ever sink your teeth into. Ever seen a Royal Red? Imagine a shrimp that looks like a minature lobster.
And the people are the greatest. I don't know if you have ever experienced Southern Hospitality before but you would think that most of these people have known you for life. The people are so open and friendly and make you feel welcome.
I can speak from experience on this little beach town as Gulf Shores was a place I called home at one time.
If you make your way down there stop by Crico's Pizza right on Highway 59 about 2 blocks from the beach and ask for Mike. Tell him Wes sent you!
If you do make you way down or have ever been please share your thoughts and experiences.

"We need to apply twenty-first century information technology to the healthcare field. We need to have our medical records put on the I.T."

– Collinsville, Illinois, January 2005

"I want to thank you for taking time out of our day to come and witness my hanging."

– Austin, Texas, January 4, 2002, at the dedication of his gubernatorial portrait

"Not over my dead body will they raise your taxes."

– Ontario, California January 5, 2002

"The best way to defeat the totalitarian of hate is with an ideology of hope – an ideology of hate – excuse me – with and ideology of hope."

– Benning, Georgia, January, 2007

"It's about past seven in the evening here so we're actually in different time lines."

– Washington, D.C., January 2001

For all of his tough talk, Sean Hannity has proven that he is just that…ALL TALK! The right-wing extremist war loving, kill all the "terrorists" showed how tough he was when he ran into some Ron Paul supporters.

In New Hampshire Sean Hannity flees from Ron Paul supporters after being chased out of a resturant because Congressman Paul was banned from the FOX New Hampshire Debate.

I don't know a lot about Ron Paul but anyone whose supporters can run off the "fearless" Sean Hannity makes me smile.
I wonder if Sean ran over to Ann Coulters house to protect him. I can see him curling up in the fetal position sitting in Ann's lap crying "Mommy...Sean scared!"
You're a true punk Hannity.

I hope you also enjoy the pic of "Mr. Ultra Conservative" Sean Hannity hanging at the Bunny Ranch. That's a fine establishment wouldn't you say Sean. I didn't think that prostitution was apart of Hannity's America....then again look at who talks tough on the tv & radio but flees when being confronted.

Old Johnny Boy doesn't really know what to think anymore and he proves it daily as the race for the White House heats up. I am surprised that McCain doesn't cry foul against himself for his own questionable ethics. I love how politicians can stand for both sides of an issue. DJ M.C. Cain's newest album "Diary of a Flip Flop Icon" drops Tuesday in New Hampshire.

It is common for politicians to court big money during a campaign. But private schmooze sessions such as the gathering in Utah pose a particular dilemma for McCain, who has spent a long career decrying "special interests" and politicians who offer special access to them in order to raise money. As a presidential candidate this year, McCain has found himself assiduously courting both lobbyists and their wealthy clients, offering them private audiences as part of his fundraising. He also counts more than 30 lobbyists among his chief fundraisers, more than any other presidential contender.


McCain has consistently fought in the Senate against pork-barrel spending from such interests and championed laws to restrict their lobbying and political donations. But his aides bridle at the notion that he might favor his big contributors. "There's never been anybody who's done more to rein in special interests and lobbyists than John McCain," Davis said. "If you give to him, you know there's no quid pro quo. People give to him because they want him to be president of the United States. They can't be motivated by any other reason."

McCain began his anti-special-interest drive two decades ago after he and four other senators were accused of trying to influence bank regulators on behalf of donor Charles Keating, a savings and loan financier later convicted of securities fraud. The Senate ethics committee said McCain had used "poor judgment" but also said his actions "were not improper" and did not merit punishment.

Ever since, McCain has made high ethical standards a hallmark of his public persona. In his 2002 memoir, he wrote that "money does buy access in Washington, and access increases influence that often results in benefiting the few at the expense of the many." Just this month in Detroit, he told reporters that he had "never done any favors for anybody -- lobbyist or special interest group -- that's a clear, 24-year record."

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