"At a press conference somebody finally stood up to Bush: a bird shit on him. Here's what is wrong with this man: he looked at it, and then wiped it off with his bare hand. And this is the guy who doubts that he descended from an ape." ---Bill Maher, via Daily...

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Rudy Giuliani's mistress (may...

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Smart Kid

Oldest daughter was in the bathroom. The 3-year-old--will turn 4 in September--was jumping up and down on the scale. She turned to her mother and said, "You know, when you jump up and down you get a higher score!"Like I said, smart k...

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Bush's detention facilities Houston-based KBR, formerly the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton Co., has a contingency contract in place with the Department of Homeland Security to construct detention facilities in the event of a national emergency. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, spokeswoman Jamie Zuieback confirmed yesterday in a telephone interview that the KBR contract for $385 million was awarded initially in January 2006 for a one-year base period with four one-year options. It has been extended into 2007....

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New Everest Records That Are NOT From The Highest Point On Earth ...

In this photo released by Japanese mountain guide Hiroyuki Kuraoka, 71-year-old Japanese mountain climber Katsusuke Yanagisawa, foreground, climbs towards the summit of Mount Everest to become the oldest person to scale it, on Tuesday, May 22, 2007. Yanagisawa, a retired junior high school teacher from central Japan, was 71 years, 2 months and 2 days...

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Fitzgerald says Valerie Plame was CovertIn January, 2002, she was working for the agency “as an operations officer” in the Directorate of Operations’s Counterproliferation Division (CPD) and serving as “chief” of a unit with responsibility for weapons proliferation issues related to Iraq. In that capacity, he added, she traveled overseas in an undercover capacity.“She traveled at least seven times to more than 10 countries,” the document states. “When traveling overseas, Ms. Wilson always traveled under a cover identity….At the time of the initial...

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Iran: The Drums of War are getting louderNorman Podhoretz: The Case for Bombing Iran In short, the plain and brutal truth is that if Iran is to be prevented from developing a nuclear arsenal, there is no alternative to the actual use of military force—any more than there was an alternative to force if Hitler was to be stopped in 1938.It now remains to be seen whether this President, battered more mercilessly and with less justification than any other in living memory, and weakened politically by the enemies of his policy in the Middle East in general...

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You Want Me To Wear What?

We are leaving in the morning for another road trip--this time we are going to see 'The Lion King.' (YAY!!!) And, once again, I don't have a clue as to what I am going to wear. Okay, before you start screaming 'JUST BUY SOME CLOTHES ALREADY,' I have to tell you the story.I have been looking through the catalogs for months--since we got the tickets--trying to decide what I wanted to buy. Finally, about three months ago I found the cutest top and pants imaginable and figured those were what I was going to get. A month ago I put in the order--I...

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Falcon Update

On May 9, I posted about the peregrine falcon nest's K's company has at their power plants. And I posted this picture:Today I went to the site to look at the pictures and here is what they look like:Amazing how big they have grown in such a short period. They look as if they are very close to taking flight for the first ti...

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U.S. SPACE FIRST STRIKE PROGRAM WELL UNDERWAY Disguised as "missile defense" the Pentagon's Star Wars program is all about offense and global control and domination. The planned deployments in Europe are just one more piece in the military space architecture that would give the U.S. "full spectrum dominance."In a recent article Conn Hallinan, an analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus, writes "Anti-ballistic missile systems (ABM) have a dark secret: They are not supposed to stop all-out missile attacks, just mop up the few retaliatory enemy missiles...

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So the season for the Red Wings is over but there is always next year. My predictions were a little off but I don't care. It was kind of fun trying to keep up with the Red Wings. I wonder who are we going to get and or who we are going to get rid of next season.Pavel will still be around and hopefully I'll be back to type about ...

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Universe Prediction Suggests A 'Cosmic Humility'

The Milky Way in infrared as it is seen today. In 3 trillion years, physicist Lawrence Krauss and Robert J. Scherrer predict that only "an island universe" made from the Milky Way and its nearby galactic Local Group neighbors will be perceivable in an overwhelmingly dark void. Image Credit: E. L. Wright (UCLA), The COBE Project, DIRBE, NASAUniverse...

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Awesome

Jack Bruce has said that he has agreed to get together with Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker to do one or more concerts later this year. Cream together again--how awesome is that! Even K looked interested. I don't think I would have much of a problem getting him to go to the concert, but I doubt if they will be anywhere close to us. And that is if...

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Muqtada al Sadre appears publicly in Iraq, denouncing the United States and insisting we leave.Juan Cole notes He preached in his kafan, or burial shroud, a sign of defiance and willingness to be martyr...

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U.S. funding Mexico's wiretaps Mexico is expanding its ability to tap telephone calls and e-mail using money from the U.S. government, a move that underlines how the country's conservative government is increasingly willing to cooperate with U.S. on law enforcement.The expansion comes as President Felipe Calderon is pushing to amend Mexico's constitution...

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Bird poops on President Bush (from Raw Story - I understand there's vid...

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Heat, Kittens, Pregnancy...AND a Little Hockey

Damn but is it hot! This is the third day we have had temps in the 80s and I am not a happy camper. I am hot--in more ways than one. K came home from work early yesterday to put in at least one of the a/c units--we have three--and I will give you three guesses as to how many he took care of. And your first two guesses don't count. You got it, he didn't put in any. We are well on the way to a record temp for the day--something that thrills me to no end. At least I have tomorrow to look forward to: temps are supposed to be in the 60s and...

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Cheney clearing path to bomb Iran Multiple sources have reported that a senior aide on Vice President Cheney's national security team has been meeting with policy hands of the American Enterprise Institute, one other think tank, and more than one national security consulting house and explicitly stating that Vice President Cheney does not support President Bush's tack towards Condoleezza Rice's diplomatic efforts and fears that the President is taking diplomacy with Iran too seriously.This White House official has stated to several Washington insiders...

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WASHINGTON – A powerful think tank chaired by former Sen. Sam Nunn and guided by trustees including Richard Armitage, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Harold Brown, William Cohen and Henry Kissinger, is in the final stages of preparing a report to the White House and U.S. Congress on the benefits of integrating the U.S., Mexico and Canada into one political, economic and security bloc....

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WHAT Life?

I had to chuckle to myself as I was looking over this blog. On the sidebar I noticed there are 189 posts labeled 'my life.' There are 117 labeled 'hockey.' As the title says, 'WHAT life?' ...

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Mister Rogers

I didn't appreciate Mister Rogers when he was alive, but my girls liked him when they were very young. I think his quiet ways were very soothing to them. Since his death, I have read different things about him that make me realize how truly a good man he was. mental_floss did a really nice 'tribute' to him today and I thought I would share it. Here is where the original post can be found.The following are 15 things everyone should know about Fred Rogers:1. Even Koko the Gorilla loved himMost people have heard of Koko, the Stanford-educated...

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Claims of 9/11 conspiracy have suspect running scaredA former Federal Emergency Management Agency videographer accused of killing his wife in Denver is seeking political asylum in Argentina, claiming the U.S. government wants him silenced for what he saw in the smoldering ruins of the Twin Towers after 9/11.In other interviews with Argentine media, Sonnenfeld is quoted as saying, "What I saw (at 9/11) leads me to the terrible conclusion that there was foreknowledge of what was going to happen - the precautions that were taken to save certain things...

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Introducing the iGasmCOMPUTER giants Apple are really worked up—over an Ann Summers sex toy that hooks up to your iPod.The neon-pink ads feature a curvaceous girl with wires coming OUT of her MP3 player and INTO her knickers. And it's definitely turned ...

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Our breaking news from Nathans Restaurant Q&A with the “DC Madam” this afternoon:Montgomery Blair Sibley, the civil lawyer for Deborah Jeane Palfrey, told a packed house that he could not confirm, nor deny, that Dick Cheney’s phone numbers from when he was the CEO of Halliburton are included in Palfrey’s 10,000 escort service records....

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NOT Real Excited--And Here Is The Reason

Last night I announced that my oldest is pregnant. Those of you who have read this blog for any length of time probably understand why I'm not terribly excited, but for those who think I am horrid, I will now give my explanation.Before I continue I have to say this: I don't care how many children my girls decide they want. How many kids they can take care of and handle is their own decision. If they each want 24 kids, so be it--they won't be MY problem, I won't have to take care of them. God knew I could only handle having two kids, but that...

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An interview with Sibel EdmondsSibel names names. Grossman, Feith, Perle, Hastert.My case has been known to a certain degree because of the activities that I have been engaging in, in terms of going to courts, going to Congress, etc. There are similar cases we are not hearing about. For example, the Larry Franklin case, with the espionage case that they pursued with AIPAC. And what the American public doesn’t know is the fact that there were other counter-intelligence operations within the FBI that obtained far more information not only limited...

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It Is Finished

The Wings are done. And to top it all off, they lost to a team named after a Disney movie! I am not only disappointed, I am more than a little bitter.That being said, I could go on and on with 'coulda, shoulda, woulda,' but there is no reason. Others that are much more knowledgeable than I am will do all of the analyzing--and it will be to no avail....

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The Red Wings have to win it tonight, or obviously they are finished.I don't see it happening we are going to game 7.I picked Cleary to be the player of the game?My Brother in Laws Brother Ray, picked Datsyuk with 2 goals 2 assists?Prediction? 4-1 Red Win...

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Iran's secret plan for summer offensive to force US out of Iraq According to senior US officials that is. If they had any actual evidence of this it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country."Iran is fighting a proxy war in Iraq and it's a very dangerous course for them to be following. They are already committing daily acts of war against US and British forces," a senior US official in Baghdad warned.Any US decision to retaliate against Iran on its own territory could be taken only at the highest political level in Washington,...

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It’s A Small World For Death Valley Pupfish

A male and female pair of Devils Hole Pupfish swim together in Devils Hole, Nevada is this undated US Fish and Wildlife handout photo received 18 May 2007. For 60,000 years, they have withstood the bone-chilling extremes of the Ice Age, the blistering temperatures of the desert and an ever-shrinking habitat. Image Credit: AFP/US Fish and Wildlife-HO...

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No Title

C called me earlier today to tell me she's pregnant. I can't even talk about it--I have to digest this news before I can even comme...

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Cold Hearted SOB Award

Can you say 'cold hearted bastard?' Well, here is a local story that defines that term: A Menominee County landlord faces up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine for evicting the wife of a U.S. serviceman. It happened back in December of 2004, but it's just reached the federal court system. Randall McLeod, Sr. pled guilty to a charge of unlawful...

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Bats In The Belfry? Not Exactly.

Considering we don't have a belfry--what is that, by the way?--we don't have any bats in it. BUT, we DO have other wildlife living in our space. And so begins another summer.The other night I could hear something chewing/digging in the ceiling of the pantry. This ceiling is right under the space occupied by the basement entrance. So, I took the...

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Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan & 9/11: foreknowledge of an attack?According to the former prison guard at Corcoran, Sirhan Sihan, did something in the months before 9/11 he had not done at any other time during his decades of incarceration – he ordered a television set for his cell. Interestingly, he showed no interest in watching television, only to occasionally check to make sure that the TV worked.Then, on September 10, 2001, Sirhan Sirhan did something else he had not done before – he shaved his head. Although he was always a “clean cut”...

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Anaheim 2, Detroit 1

Today I may have seen the play that helped end the Wings' season: Anaheim's tying goal with less than one minute left in regulation. Very pessimistically, I had no sense that Detroit would win in overtime. The Wings would need to win the next two (final) games in order to win the series and move on to the Cup finals. While Detroit COULD win the...

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Second Period still 0-0.But here's a video of Pavel to watch.4 minutes 45 secLet's Go Red Wings!!!Lilja scores the first goal...At the end of the 3rd it's 1-1. Anaheim scored because of a weak call against Datsyuk and they pulled their goalie.Going into overtime?Sudden Death!Salanne scores to win for Anaheim.That's two games in a row the Red Wings out played Anaheim and lo...

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NBC Screwed Up--Big Time

Okay, so the world doesn't revolve around hockey. I get it. And I really don't care if someone doesn't like the sport--you can't please everyone. But today, NBC screwed with a significant portion of the population and THEY. ARE. PISSED. I do believe there are enough hockey fans around to cause NBC a bit of grief.The NHL, in their infinite wisdom, contracted with NBC to air hockey games. Not ALL hockey games, just the ones that NBC wants to carry. AND NBC can determine what time these games air--at their convenience. So, you have Saturday...

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What Did I Do?

My daughters have a complete and total lack of respect for me and I don't know what it is I did to deserve this. Here is the story.The other night, I needed to stop at Shopko to pick up a few things. Not much, but enough to be a little unwieldy just to carry. As I passed the Coke coolers, I decided to pick up a couple of bottles to go along with dinner. I couldn't carry any more stuff, so I went to get myself a shopping cart. I guess I must have been struggling with the cart I was trying to extract from the rest, because a young girl--late...

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Vicious rumors about George W...the photo ops with black children were curtailed because his handlers felt he showed inappropriate sexual interest in these children and appeared on videotapes with them making inappropriate and weirdly adult remarks...So says blogger Valdron who ought to be ashamed of his or her self. Put up or shut up Valdron. Let's...

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Messiah mystery follows death of mystical rabbiRevered Israeli apocalyptic kabbalah leader shocks Jews, Christians with name 'Yeshua'A controversy is raging in Israel, in evangelical circles in the U.S. and on kabbalah web forums worldwide following the posthumous release of what a revered Sephardic rabbi claimed to be the name of the Messiah.When Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri died in February 2006, somewhere between the age of 106 and 117, 300,000 attended his funeral in Jerusalem.The Baghdad-born kabbalist had gained notoriety around the world for issuing...

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“Are they making a monkey out of you?”This is the question being asked by a Minn.-based Christian organization that just launched a billboard campaign attempting to point to holes in evolutionary thoug...

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Ducks 5-Wings 3

Don't REALLY want to talk about it. The Wings SHOULD have won tonight, there is nothing else to say. (The final score looks worse than it was because Anaheim got an empty-net goal just at the end.) Now it's back to Detroit on Sunday--they still have to win two in order to go to the finals. It's now the best of three--with home ice advantage. I still have fai...

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Scientists cast doubt on Kennedy bullet analysis: Multiple shooters possible, study says In a collision of 21st-century science and decades-old conspiracy theories, a research team that includes a former top FBI scientist is challenging the bullet analysis used by the government to conclude that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy in 1963.The "evidence used to rule out a second assassin is fundamentally flawed," concludes a new article in the Annals of Applied Statistics written by former FBI lab metallurgist...

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Why Do I Blog?

So, burg tagged me with a meme: Why Do I Blog? I am supposed to list five reasons and then tag five people to do the same. As usual, I won't tag anyone--just invite anyone who wants, to participate!1) I need to talk. If I had enough people to talk to during the day, I probably wouldn't blog, but since I am a stay-at-home, I don't talk to that many people on a daily basis. Thus, I blog and read other people's blogs.2) I have always wanted to write. While I have thought--in the past--that I am a decent writer, I now realize I am just passable....

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One Game?

So, for that horrid hit Pronger made on Holmstrom last night, he got suspended one game. I guess it was better than nothing--I actually expected them to let him get away with it. I do believe one of the reasons--besides the fact that this is Pronger we're talking about--that he didn't get a longer suspension was the fact that Homer took 13 stitches to the face and CAME BACK TO PLAY THE REST OF THE GAME! Way to go Homer! If Holmstrom would have been sent to the hospital, maybe the suspension would have been longer. One can only hope.I still...

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That was great! 5-0 Wings win.3minutes 23 secI went to my bother-in-laws house, because I don't have the VS channel to watch the game.He was skeptical about the Red Wings?So I instantly tried to explain, that the Red Wings seemed to be the better of the two.But after a win like this! He saw their potential and may have changed his mind about how...

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Admiral William Fallon, then President George W. Bush's nominee to head the Central Command (CENTCOM), expressed strong opposition in February to an administration plan to increase the number of carrier strike groups in the Persian Gulf from two to three and vowed privately there would be no war against Iran as long as he was chief of CENTCOM, according to sources with access to his thinking. Fallon's refusal to support a further naval buildup in the Gulf reflected his firm opposition to an attack on Iran and an apparent readiness to put his career...

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