Thanks to Emma for passing this nugget along…Turned on the telly and indeed, Ms. Miers has withdrawn her name. The President ‘reluctantly’ accepted.

It’s interesting (as CNN says) that the President refused to turnover papers that were undeniably not privileged prior to this…Perhaps setting the stage for her exit?

At best, this is a win for the centrists/leftists…At worst, I can only guess as to how right wing the next nominee will be…

There’s a rumor that there’s a story running RIGHT NOW on CNN that Harriet Miers has withdrawn her name …..  Do you have cable tv access from the COUCH in your office?

Emma

This guy, Chavez, is seriously off his rocker. The U.S. military doesn’t have the ability to wage wars in Afghanistan (remember that place?), Iraq, Africa and Venezuela.

He’ll know when we’re ready to invade; Some U.S. Marine will be knocking on his door.

PARIS, France (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that his government is preparing for a possible U.S. invasion, and he warned that such “aggression” would send gasoline prices in the United States soaring.

 

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Pooh Bear said it right…’Bother’… 

We’ve had so many hurricanes this season that with Wilma, NOAA has officially run out of names for them. We’ve had two enormous earthquakes, one unleashing an awesomely destructive Tsunami. We have Avian Flu migrating across Europe. What if Pat Robertson is right? A while back he wondered aloud on CNN if this seemingly endless stream of apocalypses was actually The Apocalypse, the End of Days. Now the closest I get to organized religion is Zen Buddhism, so for me everything is ultimately illusory, yet a part of me can’t help but wonder, what the hell is going on out there? What’s next? Would we really be so surprised if next week it starts raining frogs? Today’s headlines make me pine for the good ol’ days when all we had to worry about was nuclear annihilation.

Maybe the Bush Administration knows something the rest of us don’t. Former mining lobbyist and current Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton is said to be a member of a minority sect of evangelical Christians who believes that the Rapture is coming within our lifetime. This Christian Eschatology, as it’s called, says that sometime very soon Jesus Christ is returning to earth to escort the saved up to heaven while the rest of us are melted into a screaming vat of human fondue. No wonder she allowed snowmobiling in our National Parks. If I truly believed the earth only had another couple of years left I’d lunch every day at the Cold Stone Creamery and pass out free cigarettes at the local junior high.

Dick Cheney is another one who seems to act as if the earth isn’t going to be under him all that much longer. In his case it might be his own personal health. If I knew I had only a few years to go who knows? I might invade a country, take their oil and shovel billions of dollars worth of contracts to my friends and I. Who cares if it spread misery to thousands, further destabilized a region and trained a new generation of terrorists to be unleashed throughout the world ? I might be so pissed off that I won’t be around much longer that I’d be willing to take everyone else along with me.

Maybe this explains Bush’s other corporate cronies, raiding their employees’ pension funds and sucking the rest of the corporate assets into their bloated bonuses. What is it that Scarlett O’Hara said in Gone With the Wind? “Tomorrow is another day.” These guys don’t seem to think so.

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Just so funny, I have no comment… 

For entertainment purposes only…

Indeed funny [:D]

Watch Microsoft We Share Your Pain project Video

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Because Mr. DeLay’s not above the law, he is the law…

I have the feeling that this will get ugly and ugly. Guess who’s going to lose the most? That’s right, folks. You and me…

A Texas court on Wednesday issued a warrant for former House Majority Leader
Tom DeLay’s arrest, and set an initial $10,000 bail as a routine step before his first court appearance on conspiracy and state money laundering charges.

Travis County court officials said DeLay was ordered to appear at the Fort Bend County, Texas, jail for booking, where he’d likely be fingerprinted and photographed. DeLay’s lawyers had hoped to avoid such a spectacle.

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 Holy crikey…In three months the Earth has had earthquakes, hurricanes and floods. There are existing droughts in the American Midwest, Central Africa and Middle Eastern areas. There has been melting at the polar ice caps.

We’re the lucky recipients of some civilization ending coincidences, global warming (and the resulting climactic chaos) is real or it’s the ‘End of the World as We Know It’ (thank you, REM.)

MIAMI (Reuters) - Hurricane Wilma became the most powerful Atlantic hurricane on record on Wednesday as it churned toward western Cuba and Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula on a track toward Florida, having already killed 10 people in Haiti.

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I just don’t even know what to say…

David Copperfield says he plans to impregnate a girl on stage - without even touching her.

Speaking to German magazine Galore, the illusionist rejected the theory that there were only seven different kinds of magic tricks.

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I’ve watched many of the White House briefings, on internet and on CSPAN and I try to read the transcripts if I don’t. Mr. McClellan’s attitude towards reporters has become increasingly hostile, quite similarly to the President’s attitude towards anyone questioning him or his policies. It’s the ‘you’re with US or you’re with THEM’ argument and I don’t think that’s the way it should be. Many media outlets do have bias. In fact, I’d bet that most of them are biased one way or another. Mr. McClellan’s current mood is only serving to further alienate the White House and the President from the media and the people…

When CBS correspondent John Roberts asked about the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet E. Miers at a White House briefing last week, he expected a boilerplate answer.

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Seriously, this is insane. What’s next? Cellular telephone penis implants? Actually, that’s not a half bad…. 

Computer chips that store music could soon be built into a woman’s breast implants.

One boob could hold an MP3 player and the other the person’s whole music collection.

BT futurology, who have developed the idea, say it could be available within 15 years.

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Too cool! And I was just talking about this type of thing the other day…

The dream of setting your mobile phone, PDA or other mobile device on a charging pad has been out there for years.  Imagine the freedom from power adapters and cords, just drop your phone on the pad and it will recharge the battery.  Splashpower demonstrated just such pads at the CEATEC 2005 show in Japan recently.  The products demonstrated are the Multi-SplashPad which charges more than one device at a time, the Single SplashPad which charges a single device, and receiver modules that OEMs place in their mobile products so they can be used with the SplashPads.  Splashpower is in negotiation with several OEMs to incorporate the receivers in future products.  We’re getting closer.

(via Sumocat’s Scribbles)

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