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‘Sen. Craig visited me’ says escort who claimed relationship with Haggard

DENVER - The gay escort whose allegations forced the resignation of nationally renowned evangelist Ted Haggard now says he was also visited by Idaho Sen. Larry Craig.

Craig is the Republican senator who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct charges earlier this year after his arrest in a Minneapolis airport bathroom for propositioning an undercover police officer.
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Jones was promoting his book on the Haggard affair on the “Bulldog Bill Feingold Show” broadcast on KNWQ-AM when the show went into a commercial break.

It was during that commercial break Wednesday night that Jones made an accusation that Craig had visited him in Denver in February 2005.
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Feingold reportedly asked Jones if Craig met him in a hotel room.

Jones responded, “No, he came to see me.”

Jones did not reveal if he had sexual contact with Craig.

Jeffrey Wolf , Web Producer
Nicole Vap , Executive Producer Investigative
Paula Woodward , 9Wants to Know Investigative Reporter

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I read a very interesting theory about this airstrike a few weeks back. Here it is in a nutshell. Syria, according to this article, possesses the most crowded anti aircraft system in the world following its continued purchase of Russian weapon systems. Dayr az-Zawr, where the F15/16 attack took place, is not just a tip toe across the Syrian border. The Israelis would have had to fly deep into Syria to get there. And what happened with Syria’s super dooper anti aircraft system? Nothing. No evidence of enemy aircraft in Syrian airspace. The Israelis, with a little technical assistance from their good ole friends in the USA, were able to totally blind the Russian anti-aircraft system. Hence, the silence on the part of Syria when this happened. They thought they were totally protected and ended up naked. Also, this served as a warning to Iran as to what we’re capable of doing. Just a theory….. an interesting one.
Today this is the story:

The September Israeli airstrike on a suspected nuclear site in Syria had been in the works for months, ABC News has learned, and was delayed only at the strong urging of the United States.

In early July the Israelis presented the United States with satellite imagery that they said showed a nuclear facility in Syria. They had additional evidence that they said showed that some of the technology was supplied by North Korea.

Read more at ABCNews

Bush fearmonger
Dr. Stout asks; “Is our president a scaremonger?”, and proceeds to answer that question by listing ten behaviors observable historically in leaders who have used fear to keep people in line.

How did dear leader rate? Read the article!

Paul Slansky, over at The Huffington Post, tests his readers’ knowledge in Bush’speak: “Say What?: The Bush Speaks Quiz”

How well were you paying attention to what President Bush said in Pennsylvania this week?

1) Complete George W. Bush’s statement: “One way to love your neighbor is _____________”
a) the food bank.
b) to mow his lawn.
c) use the Heimlich maneuver if he or she is choking on something.

2) What did George W. Bush say his wife Laura “cares deeply about”?
a) Drunk driving, abortion and cigarettes in movies.
b) Global warming, Darfur and steroids.
c) Women in Afghanistan, literacy and malaria.

ANSWERS: 1) a, 2) c

Take the rest of Paul’s quiz here

Note: Paul Slansky’s quizzes will be a regular feature on 23/6, the new satiric news site coming soon to a computer screen near you.

While we’ve had our eye on Iraq, what’s going on in Afghanistan? R.I.P. Army Spc. Ciara Durkin. I hope your family gets the answers they so rightly deserve.

Three things that stink about this:

1.) Canavan told the Quincy, Mass., Patriot Ledger on Wednesday that when her sister was home three weeks ago, she told her about something she had come across that raised some concern with her: “She was in the finance unit and she said, ‘I discovered some things I don-t like and I made some enemies because of it.’”

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2.) The family is also wondering whether Durkin’s sexual orientation — she was gay — played a role in her death.

3.) Initially the Pentagon reported that Durkin, part of a finance unit deployed to Afghanistan in November 2006, had been killed in action, but then revised its statement to read she had died of injuries “suffered from a non-combat related incident” at Bagram Airfield. The statement had no specifics and said the circumstances are under investigation.

Full story at AOL News

Why didn’t anyone think of this 4 years ago? Oh that’s right…..this administration has no thinkers. And when they do think, they can’t recall what they thought anyway. Too little too late baby. How many Iraqis are dead because of Blackwater? Oh and b the way, did NO ONE in Congress, prior to this incident, think there should be a little oversight? Oh that’s right, that’s why they’re under the umbrella of the state department….so there would be no oversight.

The State Department, seeking to retain its relationship with Blackwater USA while trying to bring the company’s armed guards under tighter control, said Friday that it would now send its own personnel as monitors on all Blackwater security convoys in and around Baghdad.

The department will also install video cameras in Blackwater armored vehicles to produce a record of all operations that could be used in investigations of the use of force by private security contractors. The State Department will also save recordings of all radio transmissions between Blackwater convoys and military and civilian agencies supervising them in Iraq.

In outlining the measures announced Friday, a State Department spokesman said they had been approved by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice based on the initial recommendations of Patrick F. Kennedy, the department’s director of management policy. Mr. Kennedy is the leader of a team Ms. Rice appointed to look at the way Blackwater and other private security contractors operate in Iraq.

More at the NY Times