Lady Be Good
Benny Goodman with Mel Torme. Also in the band are Jo Jones piano, Bobby Hackett trumpet, Zoot Sims tenor sax and Slam Stewart bass.

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I love Emmitt Smith……

Emmitt Smith, three-time Super Bowl champion, was named the winner of ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” Wednesday night.

The NFL’s all-time leading rusher beat out actor Mario Lopez.

The hunky, dimpled Lopez was generally regarded as the series most dynamic celebrity dancer, but the public’s vote, the deciding factor after the contestants had tied in the judges’ tally at Tuesday’s final dance-off, brought Smith the victory.

“It is awesome! It is awesome!” declared Smith, after hugging his professional dance partner Cheryl Burke. “We came a long way, we really have.”

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Bill Maher’s New Rules, including talk of Haggard and Mehlman

“Rev. Haggard’s plight led many to ask, is it genetic? I mean, can a man actually be born a hypocrite?”

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President George Bush has told senior advisers that the US and its allies must make “a last big push” to win the war in Iraq and that instead of beginning a troop withdrawal next year, he may increase US forces by up to 20,000 soldiers, according to sources familiar with the administration’s internal deliberations.
Mr Bush’s refusal to give ground, coming in the teeth of growing calls in the US and Britain for a radical rethink or a swift exit, is having a decisive impact on the policy review being conducted by the Iraq Study Group chaired by Bush family loyalist James Baker, the sources said.

Although the panel’s work is not complete, its recommendations are expected to be built around a four-point “victory strategy” developed by Pentagon officials advising the group. The strategy, along with other related proposals, is being circulated in draft form and has been discussed in separate closed sessions with Mr Baker and the vice-president Dick Cheney, an Iraq war hawk.

Full story at the Guardian Unlimited

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Borat on Jon Stewart

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Keith Olbermann reports on arrest of Right Wing Blogger in anthrax hoax.

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5 TOP IRAQI POLICE OFFICERS ARRESTED IN IRAQ KIDNAPPINGS

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MUST READ: The Carlyle White House

An excellent and timely article by William Rivers Pitt:
It was bad enough when the Carlyle Group bought Dunkin’ Donuts last year, forcing millions of conscientious caffeine addicts to look elsewhere for their daily fix. Now, it appears Carlyle has added 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to its formidable portfolio of acquisitions.

The Carlyle Group achieved national attention in the early days of the Iraq occupation, especially after Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11″ exposed the firm’s umbilical ties to the Bush family and the House of Saud. For the uninitiated, Carlyle is a privately-owned equity firm organized and run by former members of the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations.

Currently, Carlyle manages more than $44 billion in 42 different investment funds, which is an interesting fact in and of itself: Carlyle could lay claim to only a meager $12 billion in funds in December of 2001. Thanks to their ownership of United Defense Industries, a major military contractor that sells a whole galaxy of weapons systems to the Pentagon, Carlyle’s profits skyrocketed after the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Some notable present and former employees of Carlyle include former president George H.W. Bush, who resigned in 2003; James Baker III, Bush Sr.’s secretary of state and king fixer; and George W. Bush, who served on Carlyle’s board of directors until his run for the Texas governorship. One notable former client of Carlyle was the Saudi BinLaden Group, which sold its investment back to the firm a month after the September 11 attacks. Until the October 2001 sellout, Osama bin Laden himself had a financial interest in the same firm that employed the two presidents Bush.

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MARK FOLEY’S DAD DIES

STUDENT SUES SCHOOL BOARD OVER CLUB PROMOTING GAY TOLERENCE

ABRAMOFF BUH BYE EMAIL

LOTT RETURNS TO LEADERSHIP

PENSIONS AGENCY REPORTS $18.1 BILLION DEFICIT

IRAQI MINISTER QUITS OVER ABDUCTIONS

ORTEGA SIGNALS FREEDOM AND OPENNESS

GOP VOTER ID BILL DEAD

SARASOTA CO., FLORIDA TO DUMP TOUCH SCREEN VOTING

LEONID METEOR SHOWERS EXPECTED TO BE HEAVY THIS WEEKEND If you’ve never witnessed this, try to get a glimpse. One of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen.

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November 10, 2006 | Issue 42•46

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO-Evangelical leader Ted Haggard, who stepped down last week after confessing that he purchased methamphetamines and various services from a male prostitute, revealed Wednesday that he was repeatedly molested by an unnamed Republican congressman in the late 1990s. “We would communicate on the Internet and then meet in his Washington office to, I thought, discuss faith-based initiatives,” said Haggard in a tearful admission in which he asked for the forgiveness of God and his congregation. “Before long, he had progressed from praying alongside me to having me sit on his lap at his desk, and then to touching me in my bathing’suit area. I trusted the congressman, and he violated that trust.” Authorities have not acted on Haggard’s allegations, saying that Republicans are often accused of wrongdoings simply because so many of them lead secret gay or criminal lifestyles.

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Political Satire folks…..:-)

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Ok, a few questions. Who beat Abizaid and why does he look like he’s about to shit in his pants? Check it out on C-Span.

Abizaid, who is head of the U.S. Central Command, has just returned from a meeting in Baghdad with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to press him over how to halt the raging violence in Iraq and control the armed militias.

Did al-Maliki smack him around some? Just asking…….

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UPDATE: 41 US TROOPS KILLED THIS MONTH

11/15/06 oldham-chronicle: Royal Marine injured in Iraq
A TEENAGE Royal Marine from Shaw has been seriously injured in an explosion in Iraq which killed four servicemen. Jack Cooper had been in the country for only eight days when he suffered face, chest and abdominal injures in a makeshift bomb
11/15/06 MNF: 2 MND-B Soldiers killed by roadside bomb
Two Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldiers were killed at approximately 11:30 p.m. Nov. 14 when their vehicle was struck by an improvised-explosive device in northwest Baghdad while conducting combat operations.
11/15/06 Reuters: Traffic policeman killed in Kirkuk
Gunmen killed a traffic police officer in the northern oil city of Kirkuk, 255 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said
11/15/06 Reuters: British soldier wounded, Iraqi woman killed in Basra
British forces killed an insurgent when they came under fire from a house in Basra…said Captain Tane Dunlop, a spokesman for the British forces. He said a British soldier was wounded and an Iraqi woman was killed by the insurgent.
11/15/06 Reuters: Woman’s body retreived from Tigris river
Police retrieved the body of a woman from the Tigris river in Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. She had gunshot wounds in her head and was bound.
11/15/06 Reuters: U.S. forces detained 18 suspected insurgents
The U.S. military said U.S. forces detained 18 suspected insurgents in several raids in northern Baghdad province and Anbar. It said the targets of the raids were believed to have ties to al Qaeda in Iraq cells.
11/15/06 Reuters: 4 bodies, including 2 policemen received at Mosul morgue
The morgue in Mosul received the bodies of four people shot dead, including two policemen, hospital sources said.
11/15/06 Reuters: 12 brick factory workers abducted near Diwaniya
Gunmen abducted 12 workers at a brick factory on Tuesday in a town near Diwaniya, 180 km (112 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
11/15/06 Reuters: Gunman kill civilian in Jamiaa district of Baghdad
Gunmen attacked the convoy of Salama al-Khafagi, a former member of the governing Council, wounding a bodyguard and killing a passer-by in the western Jamiaa district of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.
11/15/06 Reuters: Suicide car bomb kills 3, wounds 15 in Baghdad
suicide car bomb exploded near a funeral in south Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least three people and wounding 15, police and Interior Ministry sources said.
11/15/06 Reuters: Ten bodies founded in Latifiya
Police found 10 bodies in the town of Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, and they were investigating whether they were those of 10 Shi’ite travellers kidnapped at the weekend, police said.
11/15/06 AP: Marine gets 6 months in comrade shooting
A Marine Corps reservist was sentenced to six months in military jail after pleading guilty to negligent homicide for the shooting death of a comrade in their Iraq barracks. Lance Cpl. Michael C. Fulcher, 21, was sentenced Tuesday…
11/15/06 NPR: Mass Baghdad Kidnapping Wrapped in Mystery
Nearly all of the men taken hostage Tuesday from the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education have been released. Details surrounding the raid remain unclear, including the number of people taken, the identity of the kidnappers and the reasons for their attack.
11/15/06 LATimes: U.S. troops become sleuths in Iraq slaying case
SOLDIERS of the U.S. Army’s Tomahawk Battalion had found witnesses to a mass kidnapping and killing that probably involved Iraqi police officers, but to get Iraqis to talk they would need a guide. They turned to a man who, until two years …
11/15/06 Reuters: Iraqi PM plays down kidnap as “militia dispute”
Iraq’s prime minister played down a mass kidnap of civil servants in which many may still be missing on Wednesday and which has put further strain on his government to disband militias involved in sectarian violence.
11/15/06 SFC: Education Ministry kidnappings reflect plight of Iraqi academics
The brazen kidnapping Tuesday of dozens of employees at a Higher Education Ministry building in Baghdad, experts and Iraqi officials say, provides evidence of an all-out assault on the Iraqi middle class, a worsening of sectarian violence…
11/15/06 AFP: US, Iraqi Forces Arrest Al-Qaeda Leader in Iraq
US and Iraqi security forces have arrested a leader of the terrorist group of Al Qaeda in Iraq during an operation overnight, AFP reported citing the Iraqi Interior Ministry.
11/15/06 guardian: Nine killed in Baghdad car bomb
A car bomb killed nine people and wounded 33 at a petrol station in central Baghdad today as violence continued to rage in Iraq. The explosion at a crowded petrol station occurred near the interior ministry - a frequent target…
11/15/06 Xinhua: Iraqi female journalist, her driver gunned down in Mosul
Gunmen shot dead an Iraqi female journalist working for a local newspaper in the northern city of Mosuliver…”Fadiyah Muhammad al-Taie, and her driver were killed by gunmen in the morning in the Zahraa neighborhood in eastern Mosul City,”
11/15/06 dpa: Forty kidnapped workers freed in Baghdad, fate of others unclear
More than 40 Iraqi government employees who were among around 100 kidnapped in a raid on a Baghdad research institute have been freed, reports said Wednesday amid conflicting accounts of exact events.
11/15/06 MNF: Three Marines, one Soldier killed in Al Anbar
One Soldier assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division and three Marines assigned to Regimental Combat Team 7 died Tuesday from wounds sustained due to enemy action while operating in Al Anbar Province.

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This is fucking disgusting……..

BY VERNE GAY
Newsday
Posted November 15 2006, 10:40 AM EST

LOS ANGELES — In what could well be the sleaziest — and certainly the strangest — documentary in the history of television, O.J. Simpson has agreed to a Fox interview in which he’ll discuss how he murdered Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman 12 years ago — if, that is, he had actually murdered them.

Done rubbing your eyes?

Good, because there’s more. Simpson will be interviewed by Judith Regan, the founder and chief executive of ReganBooks, which will publish Simpson’s “If I Did It” on Nov. 30. ReganBooks is an imprint of HarperCollins, owned by News Corp, parent of Fox.

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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said there was no connection between the dead end in the Israeli-Palesinian conflict and the goings-on in Iraq, Israel Radio reported Wednesday.

Rice rejected the words of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who said Tuesday that progress in the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians would help stabilize the situation in Iraq.

Rice also rejected proposals to promote talks with Syria and Iran.

Speaking to reporters in Germany on her way to Vietnam, she noted that Syria was associating itself with extremist elements and that there were no signs that Iran was prepared to contribute to the stabilization of Iraq.

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More on Tony Blairs take here

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One risk of putting career intelligence officer Robert Gates in charge of the Defense Department is that he has a secret - and controversial - history that might open him to pressure from foreign operatives, including some living in countries of U.S. military interest, such as Iran and Iraq.

Put more crudely, the 63-year-old Gates could become the target of pressure or even blackmail unless some of the troubling questions about his past are answered conclusively, not just cosmetically.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Gates benefited from half-hearted probes by the U.S. Congress and the Executive Branch into these mysteries. The investigators - some of whom were Gates’s friends - acted as if their goal was more to sweep incriminating evidence under the rug than to expose the facts to public scrutiny.

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