Monastery of the Remarkable English Martyrs: Creator and Redeemer of All the Worlds Someone is already pondering it… much as I suspected.
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Annals of Law: Poll Position: The New Yorker So much tasty goodness in this old article from the New Yorker in 2004, in the evil days when Ashcroft stalked the land. There’s a reference to the Attorney General’s Honors Program, which is back in the news these days due to the big scandal at DOJ over (tags: Ashcroft DOJ AttorneyGeneral Honors) Visit by Anglican Bishop Draws Episcopal Anger – New York Times Remember: the dissidents who’re forming this breakaway from the Episcopal Church are a tiny minority of the total number of Episcopalians. (tags: Akinola Anglican Poaching)
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The Lead "Illiberal winds are blowing pernicious policy and polity changes our way," the Rev. Canon Marilyn McCord Adams, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University says. "…The Communiqué from the Tanzanian Primates’ meeting brought the intentions of those who dictated its content more fully out of the closet." What delicious use of irony – those intentions are meant to force gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered persons back into the closet, at least in the Anglican church. Must read this more carefully tomorrow. And I like that term "illiberal." It's time we defined the opposition in terms of what they…
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Operation Eagle Eye | Campaign for America's Future I didn't have time to go digging for juicy citations, but Campaign for America's Future did.
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Rebuilt Iraq Projects Found Crumbling – New York Times In a troubling sign for the American-financed rebuilding program in Iraq, inspectors for a federal oversight agency have found that in a sampling of eight projects that the United States had declared successes, seven were no longer operating as designed because of plumbing and electrical failures, lack of proper maintenance, apparent looting and expensive equipment that lay idle. Good GOD, when will the horrific, politically embarassing scandals cease coming down the pike? January, 2008 can't come too fast for this country (or this Administration).
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Crooks and Liars » Stewart and McCain debate Iraq on The Daily Show: It gets heated…. My friend Jen recommends this, so I'll watch it later when David isn't intent on an old Star Trek: DS9 rerun.
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Vacuum Cat – Yahoo! Video Actually, with a title like that in mind, it makes the video a tad risque when the cat's owner does the neat trick with the tail. Washington insiders have resigned for less.
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Ah, nuts. I finally counted up how long I’ve been dealing with this damn irritating persistent cough and found that it’s been eleven weeks. That’s it; no more neglecting my own health. I got in to see the doctor again yesterday, complaining that since my previous visit, I’m still coughing and it had worsened again in spite of taking prescription meds for a couple of weeks. Thursday night was the worst, and I didn’tsleep at all – sat up coughing my head off until 330am, then dragged myself upstairs and disturbed David and Riley with my hacking, hacking, hacking cough…
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Crooks and Liars » Sen. Durbin Drops Bombshells on the Senate Floor Sworn to secrecy as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-IL knew the American public was being fed lies in the run-up to the Iraq war, because he was hearing the true secret evidence in a room not far from the Senate chamber, and had to sit and listen to debates in the Senate that he knew were shored up by lies, damn lies, and statistics. And he couldn't say a word about what he knew, and was mighty angry about that. He's coming…
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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,…