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Pearl Bailey, Ella Fitzgerald, and Sarah Vaughn
The ladies do a medley. The video ain’t pristine, and the band’s too loud for the voices, but there ain’t nothin’ that can hide that these ladies rock!

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Dana Perino White House press briefing for October 4, 2007: Torture Edition!
As David Kurts points out over at TPM, “Dana Perino bobs, dodges, and weaves” her way through the press briefing, which mainly covered the NYT report on the collusion of the Alberto Gonzales Justice Department with the White House and Office of Vice President [...]

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Republicans are gonna pay BIG TIME next November!
National Guard Troops Denied Benefits After Longest Deployment Of Iraq War
MINNEAPOLIS, MN (NBC) — When they came home from Iraq, 2,600 members of the Minnesota National Guard had been deployed longer than any other ground combat unit. The tour lasted 22 months and had been extended as part [...]

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And I must say… very fitting!

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And I say good for him! Gosh it must be tough being a member of the Christian-right these days.
Craig vows to stay despite court loss
Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho
WASHINGTON - Idaho Sen. Larry Craig defiantly vowed to serve out his term in office on Thursday despite losing a court attempt to rescind his guilty plea in [...]

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by Jim Swanson
Blue Herald.com
I don-t think there are too many people (at least Progressives) that believe the propoganda that’s coming out of Ari Fleischer’s “Freedom’s Watch” organization.
My calculated guess tells me that somebody at the White House has their puppet hand up Ari’s arse and telling him what to say and how to say it.
But [...]

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We’re most definitely too old for this shit. Today…..we move the big stuff. Like the boyfriend’s “other girlfriend.” The one I call “Black Beauty”. Oh yes I curse the day that bitch came into our lives. From that day forward, it was her buttons he was pushing, not mine. It [...]

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By Aung Hla Tun
Reuters
YANGON (Reuters) - Despite gradually easing its iron grip on Myanmar’s main city on Thursday, the junta continued to round up scores of people and grill hundreds more arrested during and after a ruthless crackdown on pro-democracy marches.
Although most are too terrified to talk, the monks and civilians slowly being freed [...]

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Iraq has ordered $100 million worth of light military equipment from China for its police force, contending that the United States was unable to provide the materiel and is too slow to deliver arms shipments, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said yesterday.
The China deal, not previously made public, has alarmed military analysts who note that [...]

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Wouldn’t you like to use a little of that torture on the assholes who endorsed it? This is the administration of liars, bullies and criminals.
When the Justice Department publicly declared torture “abhorrent” in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited presidential authority [...]

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