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Despite a firestorm of criticism and the reality that it will have to absorb the entire $30 million cost of production without any recouping of cost from ad dollars, ABC will go ahead with its scheduled plans to air the five hour “docudrama” miniseries The Path to 9/11 on Sept. 10 and Sept. 11 in [...]

10 Sep

THE LEAST OF US

Mirth 4:15 pm ((Unspecified))

In their eloquent simplicity, some of the most beautiful words ever spoken are attributed to Jesus.
“Whatsoever ye do to the least of us, ye do unto me.”
Austin Wainwright, a worker with the Spanish Red Cross, describes helping African migrants who arrive in the Canary Islands after days at sea in small boats.
To get here [...]

10 Sep

FOOTBALL OPEN THREAD FOR BUCKNESS :-)

QuestionGirl 3:35 pm ((Unspecified))

Lambeau Field is such a cool stadium…… I’m torn. I love Da Bears…..but would love to see Favre have a good year.
By John Mullin
Tribune staff reporter
September 10, 2006
Too often in the storied Bears-Packers history, the “you can throw the records out the window” cliche could have been replaced by the suggestion that someone [...]

10 Sep

WEBB GAINS GROUND ON ALLEN

QuestionGirl 1:21 pm ((Unspecified))

Gee, I wonder why???

By BOB LEWIS
AP Political Writer
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Democratic Senate candidate Jim Webb has nearly erased a commanding lead Republican Sen. George Allen held six weeks ago, according to an independent statewide poll published Sunday.
In its first survey since Allen’s now-famous insult to a man of Indian descent a [...]

10 Sep

Gulf of Mexico Quake Rattles U.S. Gulf Coast

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By PHIL DAVIS
Associated Press Writer
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A magnitude 6.0 earthquake in the Gulf of Mexico sent shock waves through an area from Louisiana to southwest Florida on Sunday, but no damage was reported, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The earthquake, centered about 260 miles southwest of Tampa, was too small to [...]

10 Sep

RICE OUT THERE PITCHING THE SCHTICK, TOO

QuestionGirl 12:09 pm ((Unspecified))

I don’t think American’s are going to buy into their line of crap this time around. I certainly hope not!!!
Sunday September 10, 2006 4:46 PM
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By BEN FELLER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States is safer now than it was before the Sept. 11 attacks, but must not relent in [...]

10 Sep

CHENEY ON PRESS THE MEAT

QuestionGirl 11:59 am ((Unspecified))

Sunday September 10, 2006 4:46 PM
I think I dislike this guy even more than I dislike Bush and Rumsfeld. In the dictionary next to the word evil……there he is.
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By TOM RAUM
WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday defended his role as a leading advocate for invading Iraq, [...]

10 Sep

JOHN KERRY

QuestionGirl 11:55 am ((Unspecified))

(A message from John Kerry)
Dear Friend,
Thank you for your interest in reading my plan to achieve a more secure future for America.
As Democrats, we have to do more than oppose what has failed. We have to actively propose a new course that can clean up the disaster in Iraq, and defeat jihadist terrorism once and [...]