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Keith Olbermann makes it 13 times that the Bush administration used a suspiciously timed terror alert or arrest announcement to either negate unfavorable news, or neutralize positive news about political opponents.  Only thirteen times? But it’s linked at One Utah:
One Utah » Blog Archive » The Nexus of Politics and Terror (and Lying)

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Audio: Confessions: Online Only: The New Yorker
This week in the magazine, in an excerpt from her book “The Bishop’s Daughter,” Honor Moore writes about her father, the Episcopal bishop Paul Moore, his faith, and his secret. Here Moore talks about her father’s public service and private life.
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My friend Ellen’s husband runs a blog about archeology, and today it had an item about the Church of England’s current upheaval… no, not that upheaval, the one about the fancy bishop’s palaces going on the market because they’re perceived as an extravagance in an era when ordinary parish priests have trouble making ends meet.
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Did you watch the British detective series Bergerac? The building that was used as the police station used to be a children’s home. And now there’s a real mystery: child abuse and possibly murder, dating back decades, in that same building.
BBC NEWS | Europe | Jersey | Child’s body found at care home
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Since I was sick week before last, we canceled the regular twice-monthly housecleaning service and deferred it to this Wednesday. Which means that in addition to more than the usual amount of clutter, there was a lot of stuff on the carpet and dirt in the front hall and a huge number of dustbunny-type junk [...]

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