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    Tit for Tat: As Ye Ambush, So Shall Ye Be Ambushed

    June 10, 2008 - By 

    Check it out: a producer for FOX’s Bill O’Reilly attempts to beard the dragon in his den, and ambushes Bill Moyers at the National Conference for Media Reform. He tried the “repeat the question, repeat the question” badgering tactic, asking Moyers about his political affiliation, with the obvious implication that the conference is a nest of disloyal, pinko leftists. But Bill turns the tables on him, attempting to engage him, upbraiding him for acting as a shill for a man he calls “not a journalist, but a pugilist,” and challenges him to go back to his boss with an offer…

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    A Rest Stop Development: Nekkid Man at Scenic Viewpoint

    June 9, 2008 - By 

    Here’s a way to get yourself noticed: strip and jump in front of cars. In remote eastern Utah. On a Sunday. Honk! Scenic view included nude man, police say – Salt Lake Tribune Police in eastern Utah arrested a naked man they say was jumping in front of cars on a highway. About 11:50 p.m. Sunday, Uintah County Sheriffs deputies and a Vernal officer found the naked 24-year-old from Austin, Colo., at a scenic viewing spot along U.S. Highway 40. Sheriffs Lt. John Laursen said motorists reported the man was jumping in front of their vehicles and as deputies arrived…

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    Greasing The Tracks The Wrong Way

    June 6, 2008 - By 

    Animal fat leak halts Metra trains — chicagotribune.com Commuter rail service on Metra/s Union Pacific West Line has been halted indefinitely at the height of the afternoon rush hour because a stalled freight train is leaking animal fat onto the tracks, Metra officials said Friday afternoon. It’s a sticky situation: high winds and high humidity and high temperatures, plus an unGodly amount of spilled animal fat that’s forced all the roads that cross the tracks in a long section of the Metra West Line to be closed, except for IL-83 and York Road, which cross via underpasses. Also, I-355 and…

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    Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s Obscene Refusal of Food Aid

    June 3, 2008 - By 

    Zimbabwe dicator-for-an-indeteriminate-period-of-time Robert Mugabe is in Rome at an international food conference; his presence there has been called “obscene” by the UK and Austrailian delegations, because his “land reform” (ie., crony land-bribes) policies are putting his people in danger of mass starvation. Also, his thugs are in the habit of burning food supplies in areas thought to support the opposition MDC. He has also refused food aid in the past, because he wants total control over food supplies to “opposition” areas. BBC NEWS | Africa | Zimbabwe blocks political aid “Zimbabwe’s government has banned at least one international aid group…

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    I Am A Demographic Anomaly

    June 1, 2008 - By 

    This is one of the top stories of the day: Democrats Agree to Compromise on Delegates : NPR I’ve heard or read dozens of stories in the lead-up to this decision, listened with only passing attention to soundbites, and frankly, I’m tired of being lumped in with the wrong demographic group. I am a white, middle-aged suburban woman. I am a Democrat. I am NOT a Hillary Clinton supporter – in fact, I’ve never liked her, although I gave her grudging props during her husband’s term for trying to get her health policies through a hostile Congress. When she insisted…

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    Lincoln Memorial

    May 30, 2008 - By 

    Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should…