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Kiri te Kanawa - “O Mio Babbino Caro”
The copy ain’t great, but I was feeling like a little opera tonight, and this is one Dame Kiri’s signature songs, featured in A Room with a View.
The lyrics and a translation are here. The song itself comes from Giacomo Puccini’s Gianni [...]

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Here’s a little something you may want to read. It’ll give you a really good understanding of what the Iraqi Oil deal is all about and who it REALLY benefits. -JS
By BEN LANDO
UPI Energy Correspondent
WASHINGTON, June 14 (UPI) — A military leader fresh from Iraq is the latest U.S. government official to push a common [...]

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Here are a few fun websites to visit and waste some time, especially if you’re at work.
Enjoy!

Odd Timepieces (really weird, but functional watches)
You know those wonderful motivational posters? Here are the “Demotivators“!
Here’s a true but hilarious “New York City Subway Smell Map“. Just move your cursor over a subway station and you’ll see what smells [...]

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From “Dark Roasted Blend”

Here’s a prime trick on how some crooks can get both your ATM card AND your P.I.N. When you get to the page provided by the link HERE, scroll down just a little. You’ll see both pictures and text that explains how it’s done.

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By DEANNA BELLANDI, Associated Press Writer
from Yahoo! News
CHICAGO - Republican president candidate Mitt Romney, who denied every pardon or commutation during his term as Massachusetts governor, said Thursday a pardon for former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby deserves a close examination.
“I took a careful review during my term as governor of the people [...]

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By Matt Apuzzo
The Associated Press
Washington - The U.S. judge who oversaw the CIA leak trial of a former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney said Thursday that he received threatening letters and phone calls after sentencing I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby to prison.
“I received a number of angry, harassing mean’spirited phone calls and letters,” District Judge [...]

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By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press Writer
from YAHOO! NEWS
JACKSON, Miss. - A federal jury on Thursday convicted reputed Klansman James Ford Seale of kidnapping and conspiracy in the 1964 deaths of two black teenagers in southwest Mississippi.
Seale, 71, had pleaded not guilty to charges related to the deaths of Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah [...]

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JERUSALEM, June 14 — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas dissolved the Palestinian unity government Thursday and declared a state of emergency as the surging Islamic forces of the rival Hamas movement nearly completed their military conquest of the Gaza Strip.
In a presidential decree, Abbas fired Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas and suggested he would [...]

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Let’s hope the smirking jerk gets what he deserves…..jail time!!!!
From today’s Washington Post:
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
The Justice Department is investigating whether Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales sought to influence the testimony of a departing senior aide during a March meeting in Gonzales’s office, according to correspondence released today.
In a letter to the [...]

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Crossposted from The Nation Editorials:
In 2005, when the Washington Post caught the scent of CIA secret flights and “black site” prisons for terrorism suspects in Eastern Europe, the Bush Administration managed to intimidate the paper into keeping the names of the host countries out of its stories. Now, thanks to a report from the Council [...]

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