January 5, 2007

THE THINKING SPOT

Bush to Replace Generals Who Opposed Escalation of War - Bush Who Became President Through a Supreme Court Coup Now Conducts a Soviet-Style Pentagon Coup, Purging Dissenters from His Sociopathological War from the Ranks of Generals. Here is a Loser Who Spent the Vietnam War Snorting Coke, Womanizing, and Being AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard Second Guessing the Military. Madness.

DUMB BUSHISM

"Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere!" —President George W. Bush, joking about his administration's failure to find WMDs in Iraq as he narrated a comic slideshow during the Radio & TV Correspondents' Association dinner, Washington, D.C., March 24, 2004

PONDER THIS

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

POLITICS

Dazed, Confused, and Out of Ideas. Can Republicans Regroup by 2008?
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SCANDAL

In an instant, retirement savings vanish
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DID YOU KNOW
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle:...... Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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-Pelosi Delivers "Toughest Congressional Ethics Reform in History"

-French President Chirac Slams Iraq War as Boost to Terrorism

-Bush to Name Zalmay Khalilzad to Replace Bolton

-Biden: Bush Pushing War Loss to Next President

-Iraq Postpones Execution of Saddam Aides

-Hurricane Center Chief Issues Final Warning

-Only 11% of Americans support an excalation of troop levels in Iraq

-Iraq Vets Left in Physical and Mental Agony

-US Health Care System: Paying More, Getting Less

-Faiths Seeing Wider Spectrum of Female Clergy

-Exxon Mobil's Biggest Oil Spill? Look in Brooklyn, Not Alaska

-Wal-Mart Has Worst Holiday Sales Performance in Six Years

-Peanuts Kill More Americans Than Terrorists

-Iran-If threatened, we will use nuclear weapons

-White House Seals Visitor Logs After Abramoff Lobbying Scandal

-Bush Names Mike McConnell As National Intelligence Director

-Paper: Time Inc. may fire 150 employees

-Thousands of cattle dead in US snow storms

-US stocks slide after labour market report

CONGRESS
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“So let us regard this as settled: what is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
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Senator Tim Johnson to Lead Spending Subcommittee - Senator Tim Johnson won a coveted chairmanship of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee Thursday, even though he is still in critical condition after emergency brain surgery last month.
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RELIGIOUS ITEMS
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself: Jane Addams
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US Church offers abuse settlement - A Roman Catholic diocese in the US state of Washington has agreed to pay at least $48m (£24.7m) as compensation to people abused by priests.
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INTERNATIONAL
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"We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.': Desmond Tutu
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New UN Chief Calls for Resignations of 30 UN Officials - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday asked more than 30 top officials to offer their resignations so he can move quickly to take control of the world body's bureaucracy.
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MEDIA AND JOURNALISM
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"Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation." -- Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980), U. S. Supreme Court Justice Source: We, The Judges, 1956
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Free Press Takes on Corporate Ownership
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