Archive for July, 2007

Hillary’s Breasts

If we can talk about John Edwards’ hair and Mitt Romney’s face Sen. Hillary Clinton’s breasts are fair game. In a superficial, silly season way of course.
“WashPost Fashionista on Hillary Showing Cleavage: ‘No One Wants to See That’”

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Camping Out for Harry Potter

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If you’re going to a bookstore tonight (or today) to camp out for the final Harry Potter book don’t tell Brian Fraley. He’ll mock you.
I’m thinking about wandering to my nearest Barnes & Noble to watch the hoopla. Back when I sold books I endured a few of these midnight madness bashes. It is a […]

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“Marketing is the New Finance”

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Google has its own chief economist. Hal Varian is putting together a team of economists and statisticians in “marketing, in human resources, in strategy, in policy related stuff.” Varian loves it that the web now provides lots of data for mining, molding, and analyzing. He thinks “marketing is the new finance” with economics grad students […]

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Bush to Go Under While Cheney Rules Free World

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Bush bashing Lefties beware. Things could be worse:
President Bush will undergo a routine colonoscopy Saturday and temporarily hand presidential powers over to Vice President Dick Cheney, the White House said.
Press secretary Tony Snow told reporters Friday that Bush will have the procedure done at his Camp David, Md., mountaintop retreat.

Because the president will […]

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Justice Department Will Refuse to Prosecute Contempt Charges

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Last time I checked the President can’t pick and choose what laws he wants enforced. That’s what Bush administration lawyers are threatening to do with possible contempt of Congress charges:
Under federal law, a statutory contempt citation by the House or Senate must be submitted to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, “whose duty […]

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Yi Chooses His Own Destiny

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Sports fans put up with plenty of sports primadonas. They give them a long leash in exchange for watching them do amazing things. That leash is considerably shorter when you’re only 19 and haven’t played a minute in the major leagues.
Milwaukee Bucks first round draft pick Yi Jianlian told reporters in China he’s his […]

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Fred Thompson Was Big Supporter of McCain-Feingold

On abortion Fred Thompson has a history of mixed statements but a solid, pro-life voting record. If he and his staff would have explained himself better the flap over lobbying for an abortion group would have been settled for the three people who seem to care. There is another issue where Thompson cuts against most […]

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Chavo Guerrero Speaks about Chris Benoit

Chavo Guerrero appeared on Greta Van Sustern’s show last night talking about the last contact he had with Chris Benoit. Saturday, 06.23.07, Guerrero expected to meet Benoit at the airport but got a text message saying he missed his flight. Chavo talked to Chris and thought he sounded odd and not himself. Later, Benoit texted […]

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Plame-Wilson Lawsuit Dismissed

Filed under Politics, Law

A federal judge threw out Joe Wilson’s and Valarie Plame’s civil suit against Vice President Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby and other unnamed Bush administration officials:
U.S. District Judge John D. Bates dismissed the case on jurisdictional grounds and said he would not express an opinion on the constitutional arguments. Bates dismissed the case against […]

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500-Lb Man Wants to Lose Weight

A lesson is learned:
A 500-pound man who was hurt while drifting down a river on an innertube is grateful to the crews who saved him — but says he’d like to lose some weight.
Crews worked for 12 hours earlier this week to rescue 39-year-old Martin Rike. Because Rike was stranded in shallow water, rescuers […]

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The Forgotton Senate All-Nighter

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Pejman Yousefzadeh on the Senate’s all-nighter:
If anything, this all-nighter may have only served to solidify Republican support and make it that much harder for Democrats to pry Republicans away from the Bush Administration’s position. At the very least, we can say that the all-nighter had no effect one way or the other on the shape […]

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Fred Thompson Did Work for Pro-Abortion Group

The NY Times dims the glow surrounding Fred Thompson. They report he did do work for a pro-abortion group:
According to records from Arent Fox, the law firm based in Washington where Mr. Thompson worked part-time from 1991 to 1994, he charged the organization, the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, about $5,000 for work […]

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Newspapers Publish Harry Potter Reviews

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Harry Potter fans who want to know nothing about the concluding book before buying it Saturday should lock themselves in hermetically-sealed rooms. It’s getting very tough to avoid leaks.
Both the NY Times and the Baltimore Sun published reviews of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows two days before the book’s release. Neither newspaper gives away […]

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Wisconsin Congressmen Back Green Against Petty Kerry

Every single member of Wisconsin’s Congressional delegation supports making Mark Green ambassador to Tanzania. All eight House members, Democrats and Republicans, sent Sen. John Kerry a letter asking him to lift his hold. Senators Kohl and Feingold also support Green’s nomination, yet Kerry doesn’t budge. He holds to a black-and-white position that an ambassador must […]

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GOP National Assessment: Not So Good

Monday Morning Clacker linked to a WRS political analysis of the Republicans. WRS declares, “the national political environment continues to be a challenging one for Republican candidates.” As Clacker puts it, “In July of 2007 it’s looking ugly for Republicans in ‘08. Pig ugly.”
When your party’s leader, the President is stuck in an unpopular war […]

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