Take your pick tonight! Enjoy!!

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This is getting realllllllllly bad!
From Raw Story:

It was revealed last week that firefighters are being trained to not only keep an eye out for illegal materials in the course of their duties, but even to report back any expression of discontent with the government.
A year ago, Homeland Security gave security clearances to nine [...]

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John Edwards talks with Keith Olbermann about the debate, the economy, and Iraq.
Edwards: In regards to the Iraq war, they sound like Bush on steroids.

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I’ve been reading a lot lately from various web blogs that many people are stating their belief that, whether Republican or Democrat, they’re all one and the same any more. That, regardless of what their stance may be on any given issue, that all the major political players within the beltway are owned by corporate [...]

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As you’re all probably aware by now, during the GOP debate Wednesday night, openly gay Retired Brig. Gen. Keith Kerr asked the candidates why they “think that American men and women in uniform are not professional enough to serve with gays and lesbians.”
Pat Buchanan’s response:

[...] And who obviously did not have the courage, frankly, when [...]

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Think what he could do with a federal budget!
Well before it was publicly known he was seeing her, then-married New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani provided a police driver and city car for his mistress Judith Nathan, former senior city officials tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com.
“She used the PD as her personal taxi service,” [...]

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“Coming two hours before this debate, I kind of got the idea that it was not a legitimate story.”
Kinda got the idea? You were there, don’t you remember? Not a legitimate story? Ahhhhh facts are facts Rudith! Oh how Republicans hate facts!
From CNN:
Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani [...]

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Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings — “100 Days, 100 Nights”
Here’s a nice retro video from this contemporary “old-school funk and soul band.” Here’s their Wiki entry and their Fresh Air interview. (The Dap Kings have also backed Amy Winehouse.)

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Good one, but where are you going from here? Good check…..now get to CHECKMATE!

WASHINGTON (AP) - A Senate chairman acknowledged explicitly on Thursday that President Bush was not involved in the firings of U.S. attorneys last winter and therefore ruled illegal the president’s executive privilege claims protecting his chief of staff, John Bolten, [...]

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Of course you didn’t, Rudy… we believe you! Just like we believe you’ve always maintained a strict anti-illegal immigration stance, have always been a big proponent of the flat tax, and that you’ve NEVER wavered in your opposition to public funding for abortions.
Hell, I’m beginning to believe you’ve never posed for this ridiculous photo either!
What [...]

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Breaking:
Prominent former Illinois congressman Henry Hyde has died.
Update:
Wiki puts the time of death around 3:00am. More information still not available though, at this time.
…[A] gallant champion of the weak and forgotten, and a fearless defender of life in all its seasons.
President Chimperz, when presenting Hyde with the Presidential Medal of Freedom

The congressman was a “powerful [...]

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My head hurts. I can’t seem to justify this:

U.S. economic growth fastest in four years
GDP for third quarter steamed ahead at revised 4.9 percent rate
[...] The Commerce Department’s new reading of the gross domestic product from July through September, released Thursday, was even better than the government’s initial estimate of a brisk 3.9 percent growth [...]

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