Salt Lake Tribune – Hatch: Ethics bill all wrong WASHINGTON – Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch cast one of only two votes against an ethics reform bill that supporters are saying would be the most sweeping reform of congressional rules since Watergate. The bill to ban gifts, meals and travel funded by lobbyists and to force lawmakers to identify which special-interest funding they inserted in bills passed the Senate late Thursday 96-2, with Hatch and Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., opposing it. Hatch says he was making a “protest vote” because the bill – which was co-managed by fellow Utah Republican Sen.…
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YouTube – Chord Hat – Jim & Fred Yes, everyone else is linking to this, but it's funny and the music is great, dammit.
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SCI FI Wire | The News Service of the SCI FI Channel SCI FI Channel has added two movies to its 2007 production slate, including one starring Highlanders Adrian Paul, and given the green light to another three for development as part of the new Saturday-night programming block called "SCI FI Saturday: The Most Dangerous Night of Television." The following films are scheduled to premiere in 2007: The Lost Colony, starring Paul, about the age-old mystery surrounding the lost colony of Roanoke, and King Arthur & The Order of the Dragon, written by Tim Cox and Brook Durham Mammoth and…
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Get Fuzzy is particularly funny today. Sometimes, the payoff is in the second panel, and what happens in the third panel is mostly left to the imagination.
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firstamendmentcenter.org: news Voting against the bill were Republicans Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Orrin Hatch of Utah. Sens. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and Tim Johnson, D-S.D., did not vote. The bill in question: S.1, the ethics and lobbying bill.
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My husband David did one load. The rest of the mountain of laundry is awaiting us upstairs, in the bedroom/laundry dump. Now that we’re both working out (at sundry health clubs) there’s even more laundry to be done, and critically stinky laundry at that. Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons. Jason Mraz: Geek In the Pink: Mr. A-Z [3:55] Fitness, Laundry, We Blog Cartoons
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NPR : White House Retreats on Divisive Issues He'll have to make a compelling case for them next week, when he delivers his State of the Union address Tuesday to the first Democratic Congress in more than a decade. Oh boy! I wonder if Adam Felber will have a new drinking game for this year's SOTU address?? [tags]NPR, Adam Felber, SOTU, Drinking Game[/tags]
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BBC NEWS | Americas | Republican Ney sentenced to jail Before the Abramoff scandal erupted, Ney was perhaps best known internationally for his role in renaming French fries "freedom fries" in the Congressional cafeteria due to US anger at Pariss refusal to support the invasion of Iraq. Ney's going to prison, the first Congresscritter convicted in connection with the Abramoff scandal. No word on what kind of prison job he'll take once inside Club Fed, but I'm hoping he'll be working the prison grill line.
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Sleepy City | urban photography The photos are monstrous good and eerily beautiful. The backlit shots are especially haunting. Should be BoingBoinged but I can't read them from work.
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Losing Weight–Start By Counting Calories (tags: calories)