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Archive for March 8th, 2007

08 Mar

Club Blue

Batocchio 11:59 pm (Club Blue)

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Iron and Wine - “Naked as We Came”
Another song from Sam Beam. This is one of his best known. This video is also done in one shot, and I imagine Sam shot it himself.

08 Mar

Valerie Plame to Testify Next Week at House Committee Hearing

QuestionGirl 6:23 pm (Plame)

WASHINGTON - Valerie Plame, the CIA operative exposed after her husband criticized President Bush’s march to war, will testify next week before lawmakers probing how the White House dealt with her identity, the chairman of the panel said Thursday.
Also invited [...]

08 Mar

FAA To Cut Air Traffic Controllers

QuestionGirl 5:45 pm (More Dumb Shit)

The Federal Aviation Administration issued new staffing targets for air traffic controllers at U.S. airports and control facilities yesterday that, in many cases, open the door to significant reductions even as flights increase.
Under the guidelines, Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport could operate with as few as 22 air traffic controllers - down from a staffing [...]

08 Mar

Homeland Security Testing Super Snoop System

QuestionGirl 4:54 pm (Homeland Security)

WASHINGTON, March 8 (UPI) — Lawmakers are concerned about a Department of Homeland Security computer system that mines personal information about U.S. citizens as it looks for terrorists.
The U.S. Homeland Security Department is testing the ADVISE — for Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement — system, which the Government Accountability Office is investigating [...]

08 Mar

Thousands Protest Bush Visit in Brazil

QuestionGirl 4:34 pm (Bush, Latin America)

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters marched through Brazil’s largest city on Thursday calling President Bush a warmonger and planet polluter as he started a tour aimed at winning friends in Latin America.
“No. 1 Enemy of Humanity” and “Get out Bush!” read signs carried by workers, students, peasants and other activists.
To the beat of [...]

08 Mar

Senate Dems Announce Joint Resolution to Transition Mission in Iraq

QuestionGirl 4:28 pm (Congress)

WASHINGTON, March 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today joined Assistant Democratic Leader Dick Durbin, Democratic Conference Vice Chairman Charles Schumer, Democratic Conference Secretary Patty Murray, Senator Russ Feingold, and Senator Evan Bayh to announce a new Joint Resolution to revise U.S. policy on Iraq. Iraq has fallen into a bloody civil war, [...]

08 Mar

Time to do the Dishes

QuestionGirl 3:46 pm (Miscellaneous)

A little cuteness to brighten the day!

08 Mar

Subpoenas to be Issued to Justice Dept. Officials

QuestionGirl 3:34 pm (Judicial, Justice)

Couple questions……1. If Domenici and Wilson didn’t intend to intimidate Iglesias, why were those calls made? 2. Is it ok for them to make such calls? 3. If it is, then why does Domenici feel the need to retain an attorney?
Senate Democrats said yesterday they are preparing to subpoena [...]

08 Mar

Bush Down South

QuestionGirl 2:49 pm (Bush, Latin America)

SAO PAULO - US President George W Bush - biting the dust in Iraq, contested at home, despised around the world - is taking a break and heading south on a five’stop tour of Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico. He is not visiting the 100,000-hectare family ranch his daughter Barbara bought last autumn in [...]

08 Mar

Senators Want CIA 9/11 Report

QuestionGirl 2:40 pm (9/11, CIA, Congress)

WASHINGTON, March 8 (UPI) — U.S. Senators are proposing legislation to force the CIA to provide a declassified version of the final report into the failure to stop the Sept. 11 hijackers.
Sens. Christopher “Kit” Bond, R-Mo., the ranking member on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., proposed an amendment Wednesday [...]