Oh, happy, happy, joy joy! I am just busting with glee over the spoilers in the link below to the SciFi channel site. It concerns: season 2, which is airing in Britain but won’t air here for a long time, and major characters. I will only say, DO NOT CLICK on the link unless you want to be spoiled about next season, and in particular about one specific episode next season. I’m not even going to hint. Sci Fi Wire — The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel I will just say, though, that I’m a long-time fan, and……
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Salt Lake Tribune – Salt Lake Tribune Home Page The prominent conservative Protestant figures included leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination, as well as the president of conservative Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and a handful of Episcopal bishops. That would be the dissident conservative Episcopal bishops who want to either force the Episcopal church much farther to the right, or completely destroy it, or loot the property (but more likely all of the above). Yeah, they’re not the mainstream. But they are lending a spurious appearance of it to this collection of extremists. And of course, it’s…
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Illinois General Assembly has Impeachment Resolution introduced | ImpeachPAC State Rep. Karen Yarbrough (D-Maywood) introduces HJR0125 in the Illinois General Assembly, utilizing the Sec. 603 procedure and calling for the impeachment of George W. Bush! WHEREAS, Section 603 of Jefferson’s Manual of the Rules of the United States House of Representatives allows federal impeachment proceedings to be initiated by joint resolution of a state legislature; and WHEREAS, President Bush has publicly admitted to ordering the National Security Agency to violate provisions of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a felony, specifically authorizing the Agency to spy on American citizens without…
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Oh, I might just have to have this. Amazon.com: Law and Order: 20th Anniversary Edition: Music: The Crazy 8’s Because the Crazy 8’s were my favorite, favorite, dripping wet with sweat favorite dance/party band in college and after. I was first introduced to their infectious brand of funky saxy ska at a show in… Springfield, OR at a place that was called “Edison’s Bar and Grill.” It was a funky place with books and boyhood memoriabilia that was nailed or glued or screwed down so bar patrons couldn’t swipe it, but it had a big stage and a big dance…
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‘RESPECTFUL’ W. HEARS A HU, while Cheney kept watch from the rear. Safety note: never disturb a sleeping veep. He may awaken suddenly, guns blazing. That’s Rummy over there on the right, looking like he’s pretending not to notice.
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Ex-CIA agent says WMD intelligence ignored�|�Reuters.com CBS said the CIA’s intelligence source was former Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri and that former CIA Director George Tenet delivered the information personally to US President George W Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other top White House officials in September 2002. They rebuffed the CIA three days later. “The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy,” the former CIA agent told CBS. US allegations that Saddam had WMD and posed a threat to international security was a main justification…
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My wacky British chum Mrs Blubridge has been very quiet of late, but now she’ll be completely full of herself. My copy of GUS OPENSHAW’S WHALE-KILLING JOURNAL : A Novel finally arrived, and in the acknowledgements section at the back is this little item: This book wouldn’t have left the dock without Gus Openshaw’s digital shipmates, the bloggers who took part in the hunt via the internet, offering support, advice, navigational aid, and in one case, access to NASA satellite feed to help locate the blubbery bastard. They are: Annie, Bard Sinister, Bastardess, Blueberry, Mrs. Blubridge, JCanuck, Trish Cavendish, Edna,…
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AP Wire | 04/20/2006 | Legendary pilot Scott Crossfield killed in small plane crash RANGER, Ga. – Legendary test pilot Scott Crossfield, the first person to fly at twice the speed of sound, was found dead Thursday in the wreckage of a single-engine plane in the mountains of northern Georgia, his son-in-law said. Searchers with the Civil Air Patrol and others discovered the wreckage of the plane Thursday afternoon but didn’t immediately identify the body inside. In the 1950s, Crossfield flew numerous experimental planes at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., and was a key figure in the development of the…
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Mayor Overrules 2 Aides Seeking Food Stamp Shift – New York Times Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg took the rare step yesterday of overruling his own top two social service officials, deciding not to pursue a federal waiver that would make it easier for able-bodied childless adults to receive food stamps. Well, crap. It seems the left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing (or vice versa).
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Through the power of the Internet, I’ve been able to get a copy of a picture of a lovely young thing named Marella Stockdale. She’s the second from the left – that’s my mama. I will be working on this image a bit to clean up the edges – but I wanted to get this up. When I called Mom tonight we were talking about old friends and long-ago family memories. She told me the tale of the allegedly “hot” turkey that wandered up the alley behind the family home in Colorado Springs, and how she and her sister Ginny…