Daily Kos: Incriminating Goodling email found This is actually a "catch" from Anonymous Liberal at FireDogLake: As a litigator, I can tell you, that's a real no-no. You never instruct people to delete documents that are relevant to a pending investigation. Never. That's true even when the investigating body hasn't yet got around to requesting those documents. It smacks of obstruction. Indeed, the Obstruction of Congress statute, 18 U.S.C § 1505, specifically prohibits any attempts to obstruct "the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which any inquiry or investigation is being had by either House,…
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Via: Flickr Title: Zzz By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 28 Apr ’07, 4.06pm CDT PST
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I'm IMing with an old friend and thought I'd send her a visual. Via: Flickr Title: Hi jen! By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 28 Apr '07, 2.37pm CDT PST
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Via: Flickr Title: Meow By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 28 Apr ’07, 2.34pm CDT PST
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***Dave over at DDtB says this video hiliarious, but is even funnier if you have kids. YouTube – Voted Best Commercial in Europe I respectfully beg to differ; it's even funnier if you don't. I can't watch it without going into a convulsive fit of laughing that brings on a coughing jag. On a less "neener neener" note, it's refreshingly candid and aimed straight at the target market that most needs to get this message.
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Expect this true story to turn up on CSI:Miami next season. How very bizarre; this occurred right after our return. It's not a pretty story, and there's been very little more reported since this story from early April: Millionaire Found Dead In Miami Hotel – News Story – WPLG Miami MIAMI — It's not the place one would expect a millionaire to turn up dead. But that's what happened to Daniel Richard Burke inside room No. 209 at the Biscayne Inn. In an area of Biscayne Boulevard long known for prostitution and drug use, Burke's death came as a surprise…
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This just makes me cry and laugh with happiness. What a tremendous thrill! What a huge smile! Reportedly, he communicates the word "Yes" by raising an eyebrow, so I wonder if he's saying "Yes! YES! Yesyesyes!"? Also, how many people can say "we took Stephen Hawking out for a spin"? Zero gravity a blast for Hawking – Travel – theage.com.au Cosmologist Stephen Hawking soared into weightlessness on Thursday on a zero gravity flight that allowed the leading expert on gravity to briefly escape from his wheelchair. "It was amazing … I could have gone on and on,'' Hawking,…
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If the three of you that content yourselves with reading this mess of a blog via a feed reader or something haven't actually visited in a while, you'll be surprised if you click through to look at the place. I got tired of the pretty pretty colors colors colors that I had overlaid on what started out to be a nice clean layout, and switched themes to WP-Andreas01 1.5. It's not as easy to customize as vanilla Tiga was, and having stuck my head under the hood to add my beloved drop shadows to the style sheet, I realized that…
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It's not quite Fitzmas, and it's a different agency that's investigating, but there may be a new holiday to celebrate if this inquiry goes where I think it's going: Political Briefings At Agencies Disclosed – washingtonpost.com Such coercion is prohibited under a federal law, known as the Hatch Act, meant to insulate virtually all federal workers from partisan politics. In addition to forbidding workplace pressures meant to influence an election outcome, the law bars the use of federal resources — including office buildings, phones and computers — for partisan purposes. The administration maintains that the previously undisclosed meetings were appropriate.…
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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | New 'super-Earth' found in space The Gliese 581 super-Earth is in what scientists call the "Goldilocks Zone" where temperatures "are just right" for life to have a chance to exist. Commenting on the discovery, Alison Boyle, the curator of astronomy at London's Science Museum, said: "Of all the planets we've found around other stars, this is the one that looks as though it might have the right ingredients for life. "It's 20 light-years away and so we won't be going there anytime soon, but with new kinds of propulsion technology that could change in the…