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Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (L) and former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris look at each other as Blagojevich announces Burris as his choice to fill the vacant U.S. Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama during a news conference in Chicago, Illinois December 30, 2008. |
12/30/08 News Photo «The Legel Report» | Bristol Palin, the teenage daughter seen here in November 2008, of Republican former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has given birth to a baby boy, People magazine reported on its website Monday. |
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Israeli soldiers light candles for the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah near Kibbutz Mefalsim, just outside the northern Gaza Strip December 28, 2008. Israel pounded Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip from the air on Sunday for a second day and prepared for a possible invasion after killing nearly 290 Palestinians in the opening rounds of a fierce offensive. Despite the assault, militants fired some 80 rockets into Israel, emergency services said. |
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A Palestinian Hamas policeman inspects the destroyed former office of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas. The United States urged Israel Saturday to avoid civilian casualties as it pounded Hamas targets in Gaza, but warned the Islamist movement must halt its rocket attacks “if the violence is to stop.” |
12/27/08 News Photo «The Legel Report» | Eartha Kitt, the versatile US singer and actress whose sultry voice and sensuality made her an international star, has died aged 81. Her career spanned six decades. |
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Hieroglyphic inscriptions are seen on a wall in a recently discovered tombs in Saqqara, December 22, 2008. Egyptian archaeologists have found the tombs of two court officials, in charge of music and pyramid building, in a 4,000 year old cemetery from the reign of Pharaoh Unas. The tombs were found buried in the sands south of Cairo and could shed light on the fifth and the sixth dynasties of the Old Kingdom, said Egypt’s antiquities chief Zahi Hawass. |
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People visit a giant Santa Claus ice sculpture for the upcoming 25th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival at a park in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province December 24, 2008. China’s freezing northern city of Harbin is building what organisers say is the world’s largest Santa Claus ice sculpture. |
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Archaeological volunteer Nadine Ross of the United Kingdom displays a handful of 7th century Byzantine-period coins that she discovered at an excavation site outside the Old City of Jerusalem, Monday, Dec. 22, 2008. Israeli archaeologists say they unearthed more than 250 gold coins from the seventh century in excavations on the edge of Jerusalem’s walled Old City. Israel’s Antiquities Authority says the Byzantine-period hoard was discovered among the ruins of a building where a 2,000-year-old gold earring from the Roman era was dug up last month. |
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The wreckage of a 737 Continental plane sits at Denver International Airport on Sunday, Dec. 21, 2008. The plane, bound for Houston, skidded off the runway during takeoff on Saturday evening injuring 38 of 110 passengers. |
12/22/08 News Photo «The Legel Report» | About 1,900 people gathered at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England to celebrate the shortest day of the year. Druids, pagans and tourists gathered at 0800 GMT to see the sun rise. The pagan tradition is also known as Yule and is one of the oldest winter celebrations. The Druids (Celtic priests) would cut the mistletoe that grew on the oak tree and give it as a blessing. |
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This undated photo released by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office in Orlando, Fla. on Friday, July 18, 2008, shows Caylee Marie Anthony. Orlando authorities said Friday, Dec. 19, 2008, that DNA tests confirm the skeletal remains recently found in the woods belong to missing toddler Caylee Anthony. |
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Former FBI official Mark Felt stands with his daughter Joan Felt, May 2005 in Santa Rosa, California. Felt, the secret informant Deep Throat in the Watergate scandal that led to the downfall of president Richard Nixon in 1974, has died, the Washington Post said Friday. He was 95. |
12/19/08 News Photo «The Legel Report» | Peoria Republican congressman Ray TheHood has been asked to be Transportation Secretary for the Obama Administration, a Republican source said Wednesday. |
12/18/08 News Photo «The Legel Report» | U.S. President-elect Barack Obama was named “Person of the Year” by Time magazine, which said he “suspended our politics, shattered decades of conventional wisdom and overcame centuries of the social pecking order.” |
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A Palestinian boy holds a shoe with the word ‘Bush’ on it during a demonstration calling for the release of the Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zeidi in Gaza City, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008. Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zeidi threw his shoes at President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad on Sunday, while yelling in Arabic: ‘This is a farewell kiss, you dog, this is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq.’ |
12/16/08 News Photo «The Legel Report» | Van Johnson, the popular Hollywood star in the ‘40s and ‘50s with films such as “30 Seconds over Tokyo,” “A Guy Named Joe” and “The Caine Mutiny,” died on Friday, December 12, 2008. Van Johnson’s death was of natural causes. He was 92 years old. The handsome red-headed star ran off with his best friend’s wife and married her on the very day of her divorce. He eventually left her for a chorus boy. |
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The full moon rises over Fayetteville, N.C. on Friday, Dec. 12, 2008. Friday night’s full moon was the closest full moon of 2008, appearing larger and brighter than any full moon this year. |
12/14/08 News Photo «The Legel Report» | Pekin Mayor Dave Tebben died early Friday afternoon at Methodist Medical Center not long after doctors had placed him in a medically-induced coma after a sudden change after doing well while recovering from two heart surgeries. Tebben was elected and served as mayor from 1995 to 2003, then was re-elected to the city’s top decision making post last year. Tebben is credited with the construction of the new City Hall and luring Hanna Steel to Riverway Business Park and his work on Veterans Drive, an ongoing ring road project that, when finished, will connect Interstate 474 south to Illinois Route 29. |
This undated photo provided Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008 by CMG Worldwide shows Bettie Page. Page, the 1950s secretary-turned-model whose controverisal photographs in skimpy attire or none at all helped set the stage for the 1960s sexual revolution, died Thursday. She was 85. |
Al Gore receives an Honorary Doctorate from professor Bronislaw Marciniak (L) at the Poznan University December 11, 2008. |
In this Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008 file photo Gov. Rod Blagojevich discusses his plans for filling President-elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat in Chicago. Blagojevich was arrested Tuesday Dec. 9, 2008 on charges of conspiring to get financial benefits through his authority to appoint a U.S. senator to fill the vacancy left by Barack Obama’s election as president. |
Ceramic figurines called ‘caganers’ of US President-elect Barack Obama are seen at the Santa Llucia Fair, on December 2, in Barcelona. Statuettes of well-known people defecating are a strong Christmas tradition in Catalonia, dating back to the 18th century. |
The 2009 Dog Poop Calendar is featured on the list of top 10 ‘stupidest’ holiday gifts for 2008. |
 | In this undated photo released by Cenegenics Medical Institute on Oct. 8, 2008, is Dr. Jeffry Life when he was 67, after being on the Cenegenics program for about two years. Life, the chief medical officer at Cenegenics, will be 70 this Christmas day. |
This Cambridge University press office(CUPO) handout shows two of the four teddy bears that were lauched to the edge of space. Four teddy bears, fully decked out in custom-made spacesuits, were launched to the edge of space this week as part of a British university experiment. |
O.J. Simpson listens as District Court Judge Jackie Glass (not in photo) reads his sentence at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Nevada December 5, 2008. Simpson and co-defendant Clarence “C.J.” Stewart were sentenced to at least 15 years on 12 charges, including felony kidnapping, armed robbery and conspiracy related to a 2007 confrontation with sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas hotel. |
 | Odetta, widely honored as the “Voice of the Civil Rights Movement” died Tuesday, Dec. 2 at age 77. Odetta Holmes was born in Birmingham, Ala., on Dec. 31, 1930, in the depths of the Depression. The music of that time and place -- particularly prison songs and work songs recorded in the fields of the Deep South -- shaped her life.
Odetta Holmes was also the name of a character in the Dark Tower book series authored by Stephen King. Perhaps some insight into Mr. King’s belief in civil rights and those who helped proclaim them. |
President-elect Barack Obama(L) introduces New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson as his commerce secretary during a press conference in Chicago, Illinois. Obama made a couple jokes about Richardson’s missing beard saying among other things: “I thought that whole western rugged look was really working for him.” |
 | A rare positioning of planets Venus (top left) and Jupiter (top right) and the crescent moon of the Earth provides a ‘smiley’ effect that captivated Asia Monday night Dec. 2, 2008. |
Nominees to U.S. President-elect Barack Obama’s adminstration are seen in this combination photograph taken between 2006-2008. Clockwise from top left: Secretary of State nominee Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense nominee Robert Gates, Treasury Secretary nominee Timothy F. Geithner, Ambassador to the United Nations nominee Susan Rice, Secretary of Homeland Security nominee Janet Napolitano and Attorney General nominee Eric Holder. |
 | A photo provided by the Florence and Laurence Family Foundation shows a sample of a card that was handed out to employees of the Waukegan, Ill.-based Peer Bearing Co., from the Spungen family with thank-you bonus checks after the family sold the company. The bonuses totaled $6.6 million to be shared by just 230 employees. Amounts varied and were based on years of service. Seen in the photo at lower right are Florence and Laurence Spungen in the front row and Danny, Carol, Debbi and Glenn Spungen in the back row.
I thought this was a great story amid the wreackage of companies laying off and ripping off their employees. The Spungen family should be praised long and loud for remembering all the workers with such generosity! |
Veronica Lewis, bows as she reacts to seeing President-elect Barack Obama, and his family, from left, Michelle Obama, daughters Sasha, 7, (hidden) Malia, 10, distributing the Thanksgiving turkeys at the food bank at St. Columbanus Catholic Church on the South Side of Chicago, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008. |
The Smurf balloon makes its way through Columbus circle during the The Macy’s Thanksgiving day parade in New York, November 27, 2008. |
People read a newspaper carrying reports of the shootings in Mumbai, in the northeastern Indian city of Siliguri November 28, 2008. Indian commandos took control of Mumbai’s Trident-Oberoi hotel on Friday, but battles raged on with militants who were still holed up in another luxury hotel and a Jewish centre with about half a dozen foreign hostages. |
“Pumpkin”, the National Thanksgiving Turkey, awaits his pardon from US President George W. Bush during ceremonies in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. Bush Wednesday pardoned his last national Thanksgiving turkey, which will now fly first-class to Disneyland in California instead of ending up on a dinner table. |
Grinning onions : Characters made with onions are displayed during the traditional one-day Zibelemarit (onion market), which starts on the fourth Monday of November in Bern. |
Big Dream : Gregory Dunham from California, USA, poses at the wheel of his motorbike “Big Dream” during a photocall ahead of the Essen Motor Show on the fair grounds in Essen, western Germany. |
 | The Vatican’s daily newspaper marked the 40th anniversary of the “White Album” by dismissing as a “quip” John Lennon’s, seen here in 1971, notorious claim that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus Christ.
I find it hard to imagine an international religion could be so intimidated by a pot smoking rock star. Perhaps there was some truth in the “quip” after all? |
The next generation of drones, called Micro Aerial Vehicles, or MAVs. The MAVs could be as tiny as bumblebees and capable of flying undetected into buildings, where they could photograph, record, and even attack insurgents and terrorists. U.S. military engineers are trying to design flying robots disguised as insects that could one day spy on enemies and conduct dangerous missions without risking lives. |
Joints containing different types of cannabis are seen in their jars at a coffee shop in the southern Dutch city of Bergen op Zoom November 18, 2008. |
Top level Honda personnel talk near Honda’s new FC Sport fuel cell concept car at the Los Angeles Auto Show. A grim cloud of despair may be enveloping the US auto industry but it has contained a silver lining for makers of compact fuel-efficient cars, according to exhibitors at the Los Angeles Auto Show. |
“Meh”, a word which indicates a lack of interest or enthusiasm, became the latest addition to the Collins English Dictionary. Its origins are somewhat unclear, but one of its first known uses was in a 2001 episode of The Simpsons in which Homer suggests a day trip to Bart and Lisa, whereupon they simply shrug and say “Meh” in unison before going back to watching TV. |
 | Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., makes a statement on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008, after meeting with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. Lieberman appears likely to hold onto his prized chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee despite lingering hard feelings over his vocal support for GOP nominee John McCain during this year’s presidential campaign.
Once again the Democrats play politics instead of doing the right thing. Lieberman should have been drummed out of any leadership and the caucus altogether because he has proven that his personal gain is his only goal. |
 | PDSA veterinary nurse Jennie Keen with Tinks, a 13-year-old cat from Gillingham. His current weight of 9.8kg (21.6 lb.) makes him around 96 percent overweight. |
 | The new Metro M2 passes under the bridge Pont Bessiere in front of the in blue illuminated cathedral in Lausanne, Switzerland, to mark World Diabetes Day on Friday, Nov. 14, 2008. The cathedral is one of 18 monuments in Switzerland and 989 monuments worldwide taking part in the International Diabetes Federation’s Monument Challenge. |
 | In this undated file photo, President Abraham Lincoln poses with his son Tad. As a youngster in the White House, Tad once hitched two goats to a chair and drove it into a sitting room where his unamused mother was giving a tour. |
U.S. President George W. Bush, standing, centre right, welcomes world leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House for the start of the Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy in Washington, Friday, Nov. 14, 2008
As if any of these world leaders really want to break bread with a lame-duck idiot who presides over the country that caused the global economic calamity in the first place. They know this entire process is a waste of time and would much rather meet with Obama. |
 | President-elect Barack Obama plays basketball on a school court in Elkhart, Indiana. Richard Nixon had a bowling alley installed at the White House; Gerald Ford, a swimming pool; and now, the residence of US presidents could house a basketball court to cater to the sporting talents of Obama. |
President-elect Barack Obama and Baby.
Jana Kohl reached out to Barack Obama as far back as 2005 regarding dog adoption and her larger campaign to end puppy mills. It was then Barack Obama promised Dr. Kohl that he would indeed adopt if he was to get a dog for his children. Obama is featured in a compelling and stunning portrait with Baby (who is hypoallergenic), Kohl’s 3-legged rescue dog and puppy mill survivor, in the book A Rare Breed of Love.
Baby, who was rescued from a puppy-mill after nine years of confinement in a cage, cannot bark because her vocal chords were cut and also lost a limb due to maltreatment. Since being rescued and subsequently adopted by Dr. Kohl, Baby spends her time advocating for other abused dogs and animals. |
A four-month-old puppy called ‘Machu Picchu’ is seen in Lima, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008. The owners of the animal, a Peruvian Hairless Dog, have offered it to U.S. President-elect Barack Obama. Obama has promised his daughters a new pet for the White House but one of them is allergic to most breeds. The owners of the Peruvian Hairless Dog say it is perfect for kids who are sensitive to dogs. |
Edith Shain, the nurse in the famous photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt of a sailor kissing a nurse in New York’s Times Square on V-J Day, tries to imitate the photo’s embrace with Nick Mayo, foreground left, a member of the cast of the musical South Pacific as they pose with other South Pacific cast members at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in New York, Sunday Nov. 9, 2008. Shain, 90, is in New York to serve as the grand marshal of the 2008 New York City Veterans Day parade. |
 | An oval pencil drawing of Winnie-the-Pooh, Tigger, and Piglet, by E. H. Shepard, is seen in this undated handout photograph, received in London on November 4, 2008. |
In this Aug. 13, 2008, file photo, now President-elect Barack Obama walks down steps with his children and friends at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii. As the first family prepares to move to Washington, Malia Obama, second from left, is looking forward to decorating her new room and already there’s talk of sleepovers at the White House. Sasha Obama, center, holds hands with two unidentified friends. |
 | A squirrel pauses at attention as it tries to take some of the material from a U.S. flag Thursday Nov 6, 2008 in Omaha, Neb. |
Obama has appointed Illinois congressman Rahm Emanuel, seen here in September, as his chief of staff, the first senior official to join the next administration. |
 | Writer Michael Crichton, seen in 2005, presents an award onstage at the 16th Annual Producers Guild Awards at Culver Studios in Culver City, California. Crichton, author of more than a dozen best-sellers including “Jurassic Park” and “The Andromeda Strain,” has died of cancer in Los Angeles, aged 66, his website and reports said Wednesday. |
 | President-elect Senator Barack Obama speaks to the crowd on stage during his election night rally in Chicago November 4, 2008. |
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., sheds tears as he talks about his grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, at a rally in Charlotte, N.C., Monday, Nov. 3, 2008. Obama’s grandmother, who helped raise him, died peaceably in her sleep Obama announced Monday, one day before the presidential election. She was 86. |
Bruce Springsteen entertains the crowd at a rally for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama in Cleveland, Ohio. Obama stood on the threshold of history Monday as polls gave the Democrat a sharp edge over John McCain on the last day of campaigning for the most dramatic presidential vote in a generation. |
A Quebec comedy duo notorious for pulling prank calls on celebrities have struck again. This time, comedian Marc Antoine Audette and Sebastian Trudel Audette, known as the Masked Avengers, tricked Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin into believing that she was speaking to French President Nicolas Sarkozy. |
 | Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) steps off his campaign plane carrying a Halloween pumpkin, at Chicago Midway Airport, October 31, 2008. |
Halloween, celebrated on Oct. 31, is believed to have its origins in an ancient Celtic festivity which celebrated the end of the harvest season and marked the boundary between the alive and the deceased. Halloween is also the eve of All Saints Day, a Roman Catholic celebration. |
U.S. Democratic Presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) is pictured with former President Bill Clinton (R) during a campaign rally in Kissimme, Florida, October 29, 2008. Obama and Clinton appeared on stage for the first time together before the November 4 presidential election. |
Two Halloween pumpkins carved with the image of Democratic presidential candidate Illinois Senator Barack Obama. |
 | Republican Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska was found guilty on Monday on 7 corruption charges, a verdict that could endanger the powerful Republican’s political future and help Democrats expand their control of the Senate in the Nov. 4 election. |
Democratic presidential nominee US Sen. Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally at Civic Center Park in Denver, Colorado. Obama, before a record 100,000-plus crowd Sunday, rebuked his Republican rival John McCain for saying he shared the same “philosophy” as unpopular President George W. Bush. |
Contestants relax in between rounds during a U.S. Republican vice-presidential nominee Alaska Governor Sarah Palin look-alike stripper contest at a strip club in Las Vegas, Nevada October 23, 2008. Contestants competed for $10,000 in prize money and a trip to Washington D.C. for the presidential inauguration. |
Ashley Todd, a 20-year-old college student from College Station, Texas, had told police that she was robbed at knife point, knocked to the ground by a black assailant who scratched a backward letter ‘B’ into her face with a dull knife, told investigators on Friday she had made up the story, police said.
Todd originally told police a man “punched her in the back of the head, knocking her to the ground, and he continued to punch and kick her while threatening to teach her a lesson for being a McCain supporter,” according to a police statement.
The woman also told police her attacker “called her a lot of names and stated that ‘You are going to be a Barack supporter,’ at which time she states he sat on her chest, pinning both her hands down with his knees, and scratched into her face a backward letter ‘B’ on the right side of her face using what she believed to be a very dull knife.” |
 | Reproduction released by the Meta Lottery department, central Colombia, shows a lottery ticket depicting the portrait of US presidential candidate Barack Obama.
I can’t wait to see what the Republican wingnuts try to make out of this! Just the fact somebody bothered to provide the picture to the Associated Press is enough to make you wonder. |
WARNING: Halloween Eye Wear Accessory May Permanently Damage Eyes! |
 | Image from June 1974 showing a series of strange lights racing over the skies of Barcelona, Spain. The Ministry of Defence has made public secret files on UFO sightings, with the dossier including a range of reports from a close encounter with a UFO over Kent. |
Barack Obama with his grandparents, Stanley Armour Dunham and Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham in New York City, during a visit with Obama, who was a student at Columbia University. Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama is canceling nearly all his campaign events Thursday and Friday, Oct. 23 and 24, 2008 to fly to Hawaii to visit his suddenly ill 86-year-old grandmother. |
The Hubble Space Telescope is backdropped against black space. NASA engineers said they know how to fix the broken Hubble Space Telescope: They have to wake up a backup data-handling system that hasn’t been turned on since the telescope launched in 1990. On Wednesday Oct. 15, 2008 NASA started a complicated remote-control fix of a major glitch that stopped the telescope from capturing and beaming down pictures, but a new round of problems has set back NASA’s effort to get the Hubble Space Telescope running again, space agency officials said Friday. Officials at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., said it could take several days for engineers to find the source of the latest difficulties. |
Democratic presidential nominee US Senator Barack Obama speaks during a campaign event at the Gateway arch in the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St Louis, Missouri. Addressing a sea of 100,000 supporters Saturday, Obama fired back against White House rival John McCain on taxes and toxic campaign messages 17 days out from election day.
Obama continues to draw huge record breaking crowds even amid growing concerns that the GOP will steal a third election in a row with the Justice Dept. allowing them to question and disallow hundreds of thousands of ballots in many key Democratic states as they did in 2000 and 2004. |
In this image released by Lionsgate Pictures, actors, from left, Richard Dreyfuss portraying Dick Cheney, Josh Brolin portraying George W. Bush, Toby Jones portraying Karl Rove, Rob Corddry portraying Ari Fleischer and Thandie Newton portraying Condoleezza Rice are shown in a scene from the film, ‘W.’
How amazing that a U.S. President could be so inept and bumbling that a satire of him and his administration could be so successful while still in office. I don’t think history will ever be able to match the pain and suffering caused by these buffoons. |
Joe Wurzelbacher talks on his phone as he walks to a neighbor’s house followed by reporters in Holland, Ohio on Thursday afternoon, Oct. 16, 2008. Wurzelbacher is better known as ‘Joe the Plumber,’ the nickname Republican John McCain bestowed on him during Wednesday’s presidential debate with Democrat Barack Obama.
His name is actually Sam, he is not a plumber, and he is probably a GOP plant so McSame could waste a newsday making a big deal about a real nobody. In fact the guy has no plans to buy his own business, was already all over right-wing radio talk shows and is in deep debt to Ohio for back taxes he refuses to pay. How is that for a plant! |
US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama (left) smiles as Republican John McCain makes a point during the final presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, on October 15.
The last debate and it was a hoot! Obama was actually laughing and shaking his head at the ridiculous lies of McSame. |
The U.S. Mint released this detailed photograph of the Hawaii Commemorative quarter that was struck during ceremonies at the U.S. Mint in Denver on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008. Hawaii’s quarter is the 50th and final quarter minted in the U.S. Mint’s 50 State Quarters Program. |
 | Oscar winning actor Tim Robbins poses after unveiling his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood.
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 | An Asian small-clawed river otter carries a jack o’lantern that was filled with food at Sea World San Diego. |
The IceBar in Orlando, thought to be the first of its kind in the United States, allows guests to experience 45 minutes in 27-degree temperatures, while sitting on fur-lined ice furniture and enjoying vodka drinks in glassware, also made of ice. |
Republican vice presidential nominee Alaska Governor Sarah Pale attends a rally in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania October 8, 2008. An Alaska ethics inquiry found that Pale abused the power of her office by dismissing the state’s public safety commissioner, a report released on Friday said. |
An electronic price board at New York Stock Exchange indicates the 678.81 point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average after the trading session October 9, 2008. Most of the world markets took a 7% drop on average with Japanese markets lowest since 1987. The Dow down 7 straight days to a 5 year low. |
 | Artist Laura Gilberts’ print ‘The Zero Dollar’ protesting the breakdown of the American economy. Gilbert distributed 10,000 of the fake greenbacks in front of the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008 to call attention to the economic crisis gripping the nation. |
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McSame, R-Ariz., leers as Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., answers a question during a town hall-style presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008.
In typical serial liar style McSame would spew a series of lies and then sit back and leer while Obama spent valuable debate time correcting the lies. I do not think McSame did any good with his lies or his rude behavior ... at one point calling Obama - That Guy. |
 | Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, October 6, 2008. Stocks slid for a fourth straight day on Monday, leaving the Dow below 10,000 for the first time in four years, on fears the global economy was hurtling into recession despite government efforts to contain the fast-spreading financial crisis. |
 | Democratic presidential candidate Illinois Senator Barack Obama smells flowers he bought at Penny’s Flowers in Glenside, Pennsylvania. Obama brought his motorcade to a halt Friday to dash out and buy a dozen white roses on his 16th wedding anniversary prior to a “romantic dinner” with wife Michelle. |
O.J. Simpson (R) embraces his lawyer Yale Galanter after he was convicted on all charges in his Las Vegas kidnapping and robbery trial at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas October 3, 2008. Simpson, the former football star who was famously cleared of murder in the 1990s ‘Trial of the Century’, was convicted along with co-defendant Clarence ‘C.J.’ Stewart on the 13th anniversary of his controversial 1995 acquittal, was ordered jailed by Clark County District Court Judge Jackie Glass immediately after the verdict. Simpson and Stewart face sentences of up to life in prison when they are sentenced on Dec. 5.
So they have finally nailed Simpson for something and can throw him in jail. Maybe we can finally be done with this guy. I am so sick of seeing him on the TV! We will still have the media attention when he is sentenced and then again when he is killed in prison. |
 | Republican vice presidential candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin winks as she speaks during her vice presidential debate against Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008.
This photo sums it up. Winkin’, Blinkin’, Noddin’ and a Shout-Out to some grade school class to prove she is the comical caricature of a vice-presidential candidate. She might have pulled it off had any of it seemed the least bit sincere. All the winkin’ reminded me of the wallflowers at the local bar trying to entice some guy into buying them a drink or take them home. Sleazy. |
Democratic vice presidential nominee Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) and Republican vice presidential nominee Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (R) appear onstage during the vice presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, October 2, 2008.
Pale didn’t fall flat on her face ... but mainly because she simply delivered canned speeches and attacks. Much of what she had to say was in error or flat out lies. She tried to quote the military commander in Afghanistan and got the name wrong and lied about the quote. She refused to answer most of the questions and simply sailed off into her own prepared tirades which had nothing to do with most of the policy questions. Not once did she refute the ties between McSame and Duh-bya policies with any actual facts. The scariest part was her saying she would expand the vice-president’s role into the legislature which is expressly forbidden in the Constitution. All in all a very strange performance from Pale. |
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid speaks at a news conference in Washington, DC on October 1. The US Senate has resoundingly passed a sweetened 700-billion-dollar Wall Street bailout, spurring hopes the House of Representatives would follow suit after killing an earlier bid to avert a world financial meltdown.
Sweetened! I should say so ... they tacked on $100 billion in tax break extensions along with many earmarks and amendments to give pork out freely. Amazing that the GOP wouldn’t pass it the first time because of costs but are now considering after ADDING more than a HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS in taxpayer costs? |
In this image released by NBC, Tina Fey portrays Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, left, and Amy Poehler portrays CBS news correspondent Katie Couric in a scene from NBC’s ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008, in New York. |
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) (C) talks with reporters about the failure of a bill to provide a bailout for the current financial and banking crisis, at the US Capitol in Washington, September 29, 2008.
It is clear the House Republicans are responsible for voting down this first bailout bill. What is not so clear as yet is whether they have a better plan for all Americans, a better plan for only the richest Americans, or they just didn’t like this one and have no plan of their own. In the meantime the world markets are crashing and there is plenty of pain to go around. |
Protesters hold signs at a Hold Palin Accountable rally organized by Alaskans For Truth, in Anchorage, Alaska Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008. Hundreds of people showed up to demand Alaska Gov. Sarah Pale, Sen. John McSame’s GOP running mate, uphold her promise to cooperate with the state Legislature’s investigation into her firing of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan. |
Legendary film star Paul Newman, whose brilliant blue eyes, good looks and talent made him one of Hollywood’s top actors over six decades, has died, a spokesman said on September 27, 2008. He was 83 and had been battling cancer. |
Republican presidential nominee Senator John McSame (R-AZ) (L) and Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) stand together onstage after the first U.S. presidential debate in Oxford, Mississippi, September 26, 2008.
After all the BS hoopla about not attending the debate McSame showed up anyway and got his ass kicked. The strutting, pugnacious liar immediately went on the personal attack spouting nonsense from the past two decades rather than address the problems of today. Almost every post debate poll pegged McSame as a LOSER by a good margin. |
Republican presidential nominee Senator John McSame makes a statement in New York announcing he is suspending his campaign because of the economic crisis, September 24, 2008.
Good Lord what a load of horse apples! This bozo goes strolling into Washington and has the Monkey-Man Duh-bya set up a press conference in the White House so he can look like the conquering hero and proceeds to help the House Republicans blow up a week’s worth of negotiations. Now he acts as if he wants to hold tonight’s debate with Obama hostage to these talks. I hope he does not show up! |
Monkey-Man President Duh-bya warned in a television address to the US public that “our entire economy is in danger.”
Yes and the lying sack of manure blamed the whole mess on the common people who didn’t repay their loans, etc. I think it is disgusting this chimp and his buddies are trying to ram another $700 billion of our tax dollars through Congress to give away to the Wall St. fat cats who really caused all this grief. |
Afghan President Hamid Karzai (R) meets with Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Pale (L) in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
If this wasn’t so deadly damn serious it would be hilarious. They trot Pale around to meet with a couple puppet dictators the GOP has enthroned and then she sits with Dr. Strangelove (Henry Kissinger) for a couple minutes ... all the while getting her picture taken discussing inane topics and SUDDENLY -- she has foreign policy experience! |
Duh-bya speaks about the economy next to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson in the Rose Garden of the White House, September 19, 2008.
The mental midget and a GOP banker want the U.S. taxpayer to pay Wall St. cronies nearly a trillion dollars to bail the country out of a financial mess. And all this with NO OVERSIGHT. Hopefully Congress will not allow this ... again. |
"Laugh-In" cast members Jo-Anne Worley, Lily Tomlin, Ruth Buzzi and Gary Owens (L-R) present the award for outstanding variety, music or comedy series at the 60th annual Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles September 21, 2008.
I thought we could all use a break in the dead serious chaos of failed banks and crooked politicians. Anyone old enough to remember "Laugh-In" ought to get a smile out of this picture. |
 | Cindy McCain, wife of Republican presidential nominee, is pictured on September 4, 2008. Fashion analysts say American women voters often often look to the wives of the US president for fashion cues, and this year are presented with two radically different style alternatives in Michelle Obama, the wife of Democrat Barack Obama and McCain.
I just can’t imagine many women of quality would go for the millionaire look of a peroxide blonde adultress with the vacant stare of a Vicodin addict. But then stranger things have happened I guess ... Duh-bya got re-elected so anything is possible in America. |
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (4th L) and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke (3rd L) attend a closed meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (3rd R) and other congressional leaders on Capitol Hill, September 18, 2008.
Just look at all those grins and smiles around that table. To look at them you would never know the US (maybe even the world) financial system was on the brink of disaster. They are busy yukking it up as they find ways for the taxpayers to socialize the nearly trillion dollars in bad debt the banks and insurance companies have lost. Just where did all that money go? Good question? |
 | General Motors trucks are lined up for delivery at the assembly plant in Pontiac, Michigan in 2006. Struggling General Motors Corp. is talking to Isuzu Motors about selling its truck business, in what would mark the first Japanese takeover of a business from the US Big Three, the Nikkei business newspaper has said.
If you don’t think this country is in trouble you better look at this. One of our last few remaining industries going under and it isn’t even on the front page of the paper because the bank crooks are grabbing all the attention. |
A man looks at an electronic board displaying a graph of Japan’s Nikkei share average in Tokyo September 16, 2008. |
US Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson at the White House in Washington, DC. In a move aimed at averting a new global economic shock, the US Federal Reserve agreed an unprecedented 85-billion-dollar rescue loan for American International Group.
Isn’t that just Special! So now when AIG renegs on this loan taxpayers will foot that bill as well the original loss of their insurance premiums and investments. And still not a single word about PUNISHING the idiots who have been running the investment scams! All of Wall Street will be lining up at the trough if they keep up this nonsense. |
Elizabeth Rose, a specialist with Lehman Brothers MarketMakers, works her post on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Sept. 15, 2008. A stunning reshaping of the Wall Street landscape sent stocks down sharply Monday, but the pullback appeared relatively orderly — perhaps because investors were unsurprised by the demise of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and relieved by a takeover of Merrill Lynch & Co.
This may be the most outright bullshit propaganda the AP has ever tried to pass off. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 500 points, or 4.4 percent ... its worst point drop since September 11, 2001. 5,000 Lehman employees lost their jobs immediately yesterday. Markets around the world are staggering over the losses causing concern of a global financial crisis. Those people aren’t calm and orderly ... they are stunned into silent panic! |
Heavy equipment starts to move boats and other debris off of Rt.45 in Galveston, Texas. US President George W. Bush was set to meet with his top disaster relief aides to discuss assistance to victims of Hurricane Ike.
Duh-bya is a day late and a dime short ... as usual. The fool knew the hurricane was going to destroy the area a week ago according to forecasts and he is just now “discussing assistance”. So that means another week before they GET assistance. Complete incompetence. |
Vehicles flooded by a tidal surge from Hurricane Ike sit along a street in Galveston, Texas. Hurricane Ike made landfall early Saturday on Galveston Island, Texas, driving a huge ocean surge over coastal areas where tens of thousands of people remained holed up, the US National Hurricane Center announced.
The “For Sale” sign caught my eye in this photo. Anybody want a bargain on some southern vehicles? Only hit twice by hurricanes and floods! |
Pakistani Islamists torch an effigy of the US President George W. Bush and a US flag during a protest in Multan on September 10. Bush has secretly approved orders allowing US forces to conduct ground operations in Pakistan without that government’s prior approval, a report said Wednesday citing senior US officials.
Gosh! I wonder what would cause Duh-bya to suddenly decide to invade Pakistan? OH! That’s right! Osama is supposed to be hiding there isn’t he!? So why all of a sudden do we go after him after all these years? Could it be the upcoming election? Oh No! Our GOP government would never do something that obvious ... or would they? |
Two powerful beams of lights are tested from the World Trade Center on the eve of the seventh anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. On right, the annual “Tribute in Lights” is tested in Manhattan as a moon rises in the evening sky, seen from Hoboken, New Jersey, September 10, 2008. |
Harley-Davidson motorcycle riders and motorcycle enthusiasts gather at the Summerfest Grounds in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 29, 2008. People are gathering at several locations in Milwaukee for a five-day event celebrating the 105th anniversary of Harley Davidson.
And I bet none of them crashed their bikes and mashed their toe! |
Fire destroys the Mackinaw IGA Wednesday, Sept. 3, the only grocery store in the Tazewell County town of Mackinaw. |
Boeing machinists picket outside the company’s Renton, Washington plant September 6, 2008. |
John McCain, Republican presidential nominee, acknowledges the audience during his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention 2008 at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 04, 2008. Staff at a California school were scratching their heads on Friday after their facility mysteriously appeared as a backdrop during John McCain’s Republican Convention speech.
A giant image of Walter Reed Middle School in the Los Angeles suburb of North Hollywood was one of several pictures projected onto a backdrop at the Republican Convention on Thursday as McCain addressed delegates.
“It has been brought to the school’s attention that a picture of the front of our school, Walter Reed Middle School, was used as a backdrop at the Republican National Convention,” Tobin said.
“Permission to use the front of our school for the Republican National Convention was not given by our school nor is the use of our school’s picture an endorsement of any political party or view.”
Walter Reed hospital was at the center of a national scandal in 2007 after revelations of negligent patient care at the facility.
Reports revealed how wounded soldiers convalescing at the hospital were often lost in a bureaucratic morass as outpatients, or housed in rooms with moldy walls, holes in the ceiling and infestations of rodents and cockroaches.
My first impression when I saw McSame in the convention photos was that a mortician had done his makeup. Nasty! He had so much makeup on to hide his wrinkles and scars ... he looked like he had just climbed out of a coffin! And the whole deal with Walter Reed hospital eventually culminated in legislation from Obama to fix the problems. |
A video presentation shows Republican Vice President candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin with an animal she shot while hunting in Alaska at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St Paul, Minnesota September 4, 2008.
Oddly enough I can understand why the Republicans would be proud of this picture ... it is one of the few real accomplishments they can be proud of in Palin. The ability to shoot defenseless animals, hockey mom, wanting to make Alaska a separate country and not raising her children right are about the extent of her qualifications. Unless you also want to count helping to collect federal dollars for the Bridge to Nowhere? |
UPS driver Brent Boyd poses with his truck on Friday, Aug. 29, 2008 in Palestine, Texas. Brent Boyd on Thursday surpassed one million miles on his UPS delivery van, the same vehicle he’s driven for 22 years with the company. |
 | Singer and actor Jerry Reed, best known as ‘The Guitar Man’ of country music, is seen in this undated handout. Reed died at age 71 from complications from emphysema September 1, 2008, according to Country Music Television in Nashville. |
Mascots representing the Republican party (L) and the Democratic party (R) ride around on Segway personal transporters at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota September 2, 2008. |
This aerial photo released by the U.S. Coast Guard shows the tidal surge and flooding from Hurricane Gustav around the bridge across the Rigolets in eastern New Orleans La., Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. The Rigolets is one of two passes that connect Lake Pontchartrain with the Gulf of Mexico and a key conduit of storm surge into the New Orleans area. |
Shane Hillard of Marquette Heights carries a flag with other Caterpillar workers Monday afternoon during the annual Labor Day Parade in downtown Peoria. “You can’t stimulate the economy making 10 bucks an hour,” he said when asked why the labor movement is important to him. |
 | Alaska Governor Sarah Palin speaks after being chosen the Republican vice presidential running mate for U.S. Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain.
A totally unqualified candidate, she is owned by the gas and oil industry of Alaska. Considering McSame’s age she could easily end up in the Oval Office if elected and that is a VERY scary possibility! |
Hydrox cookies, the first creme-filled chocolate sandwich cookie, began returning to grocery stores nationwide in late August for a limited time. This unprecedented reintroduction on the part of Kellogg Company, in response to impassioned consumer demand, comes in honor of the cookie’s 100th anniversary. |
 | Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia, 10, lower left, and Sasha, 7, are joined by Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., and wife, Jill, rear after Obama’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. |
US Democratic vice presidential candidate Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) addresses the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, August 27, 2008. U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) is expected to accept the Democratic presidential nomination at the convention on August 28. |
Senator Hillarity Clintoon addresses the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, August 26, 2008.
With any luck at all this will be last time we have to listen to her screeching! |
 | Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and daughters Malia, left, 10, and Sasha, right, 7, wave to the audience at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Monday, Aug. 25, 2008. |
John Walsh gives a thumbs up as President Bush looks on during a signing ceremony for the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act in the Rose Garden at the White House in this July 27, 2006 file photo. Nevada and other states are adopting laws that publicize the names of sex offenders on the Internet. But sex offenders say they have rights, too, and argue it’s wrong to lump those guilty of minor offenses with the worst offenders. Some are challenging the laws.
Now there are two of the most shallow people on the planet ... Bush for thinking he is a President, and Walsh for using the gruesome death of his son to make himself rich and famous. |
In a Feb. 27, 1997 file photo, the Spinners from left, John Edwards, Bobby Smith, Henry Fambrough, Pervis Jackson and Billy Henderson pose for photographers during a Rhythm & Blues Foundation news conference in New York. Jackson died Monday morning, Aug. 18, 2008, at Detroit Sinai-Grace Hospital after being diagnosed with brain and liver cancer, his wife said. He was 70. |
 | Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama early Saturday named Senator Joseph Biden, pictured, as his vice presidential running mate, according to a cellphone text message sent by his campaign to supporters. |
Debris is scattered in the crash area of Spanair’s Flight JK5022, an MD-82 jet bound for Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, which crashed on takeoff and burst into flames at Madrid airport on Wednesday, killing 153 of the people on board, in this video grab released August 21, 2008. |
The body of deceased Angel Pantoja Medina, left, stands leaning against a wall during his wake as unidentified people attend his wake in his mother’s home in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, Aug. 18, 2008. The last wish of Medina, 24, who was found dead on Aug. 15, 2008 underneath a bridge in the capital, was to be standing at his own wake, and was embalmed for the occasion.
How sick is that!? Why not make a lamp out of him and leave him standing in the parlor. Sheesh even! |
An ABC TV framegrab shows a baby humpback whale trying to suckle from an yacht near Sydney. Fears are growing for the survival chances of a lost baby humpback whale who tried to suckle from an Australian yacht in the belief it was its mother.
Here we go ... proof positive of my “water skiing monkeys” theory of Main Stream Media. A cute filler with absolutely no value to the average viewer. Meanwhile REAL news is neglected. |
 | In this photo released by the the National Park Service (NPS), a stranded rafter is lowered to shore by an NPS employee after being short hauled across the Colorado River Sunday Aug. 17, 2008 in the Grand Canyon. An earthen dam broke near the Grand Canyon early Sunday after heavy rains that forced officials to pluck hundreds of residents and campers from the gorge by helicopter. A private boating party of 16 people was stranded on a ledge at the confluence of Havasu Creek and the Colorado River after flood waters carried their rafts away. The boaters were found uninjured and were being rescued from the canyon, whose floor is unreachable in many places except by helicopter. |
Combination of eight pictures showing Michael Phelps of the US displaying the eight gold medals he won during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. From L to R, top: men's 4 x 100m medley, 100m butterfly, men's 200m individual medley, men's 4 x 200m freestyle relay. From L to R, bottom: men's 200m butterfly, men's 200m freestyle, men's 4X100m freestyle relay, men's 400m individual medley. |
This photograph obtained August 15, 2008 from www.searchingforbogfoot.com shows what is purported to be the body of “Bigfoot,” the legendary ape-like creature that has been the subject of decades of hoaxes and dubious sightings. Two US men on Friday claimed to have found the body of “Bigfoot.” |
 | The world's tallest woman Sandy Allen (L) is seen in 1996 with Stephen Day, president of the Guinness World of Records' Taiwan museum. Allen, 53, who grew to be more than seven feet, seven inches tall died Wednesday at a nursing home in Shelbyville, Indiana. |
Julia Child explains ‘with a little practice’ you can do everything with the flare of a gourmet. She is shown in 1967 file photo during a scene from ‘The French Chef’. Child shared a secret with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg and Chicago White Sox catcher Moe Berg at a time when the Nazis threatened the world. They served in an international spy ring managed by the Office of Strategic Services, an early version of the CIA created in World War II by President Franklin Roosevelt. The secret comes out Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008, all of the names and previously classified files identifying nearly 24,000 spies who formed the U.S.’s first centralized intelligence effort. The National Archives will make available for the first time all 750,000 pages identifying the vast spy network of military and civilian operatives. |
In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, Lin Miaoke, the nine-year-old Chinese girl at right who performed at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics on Aug. 8, 2008. At left is Yang Peiyi, a 7-year-old Chinese girl whose face was not suitable for the Olympics opening ceremony, so Lin lip-synched Ode to the Motherland, the latest example of the lengths Beijing took for a perfect start to the Summer Games. |
This undated image provided by the National Parks Service shows the Wall Arch prior to it’s collapse Monday Aug, 4, 2008. One of the largest and most visible arches in Arches National Park collapsed according to park officials. Paul Henderson, the park’s chief of interpretation, said Wall Arch collapsed sometime late Monday or early Tuesday. The arch is along Devils Garden Trail, one of the most popular in the park. For years, the arch has been a favorite stopping point for photographers. Henderson said the arch was claimed by forces that will eventually destroy others in the park: gravity and erosion. |
 | American funk-soul legend and Academy Award-award winning musician Isaac Hayes, pictured in 2005, the pioneering singer, songwriter and musician whose relentless ‘Theme From Shaft’ won Academy and Grammy awards died Sunday Aug. 10, 2008. He was 65. |
 | Actor Bernie Mac arrives for the 60th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California in this January 19, 2003 file photo. The award-winning actor-comedian has died at age 50 from complications of pneumonia, his publicist said Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008. |
 | Former U.S. Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has admitted to having had an extramarital affair with a woman he met in a New York City bar in 2006, ABC News reported on August 8, 2008.
I’ve never liked this smarmy used car salesman from the beginning. I always thought he was just another pretty boy who thought his bowel movements didn’t stink. An awful lot like John McSame |
Russian military vehicles are moving towards the breakaway South Ossetia republic’s capital, Tskhinvali, on Friday, Aug. 8, 2008. Russia’s Defense Ministry says it has sent reinforcements to its peacekeepers deployed to South Ossetia to help end bloodshed. Georgian officials confirmed that the Russian convoy had crossed the border and was advancing toward Tskhinvali. Georgia launched a massive attack Friday to regain control over South Ossetia, using heavy artillery, aircraft and armor. South Ossetian officials said at least 15 people were killed Friday and an unspecified number were wounded. |
 | Bruce E. Ivins, a biodefense researcher is seen in 2003, at Fort Detrick, Md. Ivins, the scientist who was developing a vaccine to combat anthrax, died Tuesday July 29, 2008, in an apparent suicide in a hospital in in Frederick, Md. U.S. prosecutors investigating the 2001 anthrax attacks were planning to indict and seek the death penalty for Ivins in connection with mailings of the deadly anthrax toxin that killed five people. |
 | Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman, seen here in January 2008, was on Tuesday recovering from surgery to repair injuries sustained in a serious car crash and looking forward to leaving hospital, a spokeswoman for the actor said. |
SPRINGFIELD, IL - Springfield may have had its first visit from a Beatle on Saturday afternoon, when someone who sure looked like Sir Paul McCartney strolled into the Circle K gas station/convenience store, 3261 Clear Lake Ave. The five friends who had their picture taken with the visitor say there’s no question it was McCartney. McCartney’s publicist in the United Kingdom has not been reachable this afternoon to confirm the singer’s whereabouts. |
In this photo taken in 2006 and released on Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008, by U.S. scientist S. Blair Hedges, an evolutionary biologist at Penn State University, the globe’s tiniest snake is shown curled up on a U.S. quarter. Hedges said Sunday he has discovered the globe’s tiniest species of snake in the easternmost Caribbean island of Barbados, with full-grown adults typically less than four inches (10 centimeters) long. He named the diminutive snake ‘Leptotyphlops carlae’ after his herpetologist wife, Carla Ann Hass. |
In this photo provided by the USGA, a black bear runs across the 13th fairway during the second round of the 2008 U.S. Senior Open Championship at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colo. on Friday, August 1, 2008. |
 | Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp. engineer Yoshihiro Kawarazaki arrives by Toyota’s new motorized ride ‘Winglet’ he has been developing during a press conference in Tokyo Friday, Aug. 1, 2008. Toyota will start testing the stand-up-and-ride contraption, that travels at up to 6 kph (3.7 mph), later this year at a Japanese airport and resort complex and next year at a shopping mall to get feedback from people. No plans are set to sell the Winglet as a commercial product.
Of course they will sell it as a commercial product, why bother to make it otherwise? Another great American idea stolen by the Far East! |
Wal-Mart said on Friday it has held meetings with U.S. store managers warning them of issues that could arise if Democrats win power and pass a law that would make it easier for workers to unionize, but stressed it was not telling workers how to vote.
What a load of horse manure! Workers are already complaining they have been threatened with their jobs if they show ANY support for the Employee Free Choice Act which would give workers easier access to unionize without corporate interference. |
Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, is surrounded by reporters as he leaves a committee meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 30, 2008. Stevens was indicted Tuesday on charges that he lied about gifts from an oil company on a Senate disclosure form.
This goofy jerk should have been indicted long ago for funding The Bridge To Nowhere! |
 | Signs in the front of a Starbucks coffee shop. The iconic US coffee chain has said it will shut most of its Australian stores within a week, having already taken the axe to hundreds of US outlets as an economic downturn bites.
The media will go to any length to avoid calling a recession (or depression) what it actually is. It is more than an “economic downturn” when people can’t afford a cup of coffee. |
 | The gaping hole that appeared in the belly of a Qantas Airways Boeing 747 en route from London to Melbourne. Metal fragments from an oxygen cylinder have been recovered from a Qantas jumbo jet after a mid-air explosion forced it to make an emergency landing in Manila. |
 | A handout image obtained July 28, 2008, shows the “priceless” oldest bottle of Veuve Cliquot champagne in existence which was found in a sideboard in a Scottish castle in 2004. Owner Chris James found the 1893 bottle at Torosay Castle on the Isle of Mull, off the western Scottish mainland. |
 | This image released by the Israeli newspaper Maariv friday July 25, 2008 and attributed to Democratic presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama shows a prayer the newspaper says Obama wrote and left in the stones of the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site, during a visit early Thursday, July 25, 2008. ‘Lord — Protect my family and me,’ the Democratic presidential candidate wrote in the note published in the Maariv daily. ‘Forgive me my sins, and help me guard against pride and despair. Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just. And make me an instrument of your will.’ |
The fossilised bones of a juvenile tarbosaurus, which is believed to have lived in the Cretaceous Period, 70 million years ago, is shown still embedded in the rock in which it was discovered in this undated handout photo distributed by the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Science in Okayama, western Japan July 23, 2008. A team of Japanese and Mongolian researchers discovered the nearly perfectly-preserved fossil of a young dinosaur in the Gobi desert in 2006 and unveiled it in Japan on Wednesday. |
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., waves as he arrives at the Victory Column in Berlin, Thursday, July 24, 2008.
The crowd was estimated to be in excess of 200,000 people, more than any visiting American dignitary or politician has ever attracted. Obviously the Europeans are ready for a change too. |
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., momentarily holds his microphone upside-down during a campaign stop at the Rochester Opera House in Rochester, N.H., Tuesday, July 22, 2008.
How can anyone seriously believe this senile old fart should be the next Leader of the Free World? |
Top war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic pictured in 1993 at left and current picture at right. Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb genocide suspect who was captured earlier this week, will defend himself before the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, his lawyer was reported as saying. |
Santas from all over the world take part in a parade on the first day of the annual World Santa Claus Congress in Copenhagen. |
Tracy Roberts, 33, of Rockville, Md. tests to see if the fish will be interested in her hand as well, as her toes are nibbled on by a type of carp called garra rufa, or doctor fish, during a fish pedicure treatment at Yvonne Hair and Nails salon in Alexandria, Va. on Thursday July 17, 2008. |
 | U.S Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama (R) and Afghan President Hamid Karzai walk at the presidential palace in Kabul July 20, 2008. Obama met Karzai in Kabul on Sunday, the second day of a visit to Afghanistan that is meant to bolster the senator’s foreign policy credentials.
The last part of the last sentence is a fine example of the AP insertion of editorial BS in the guise of news. The GOP claims this trip is an attempt to “bolster credentials” but when McSame does it ... it is an example of him “exercising foreign policy strength”. I am disgusted with the innuendo and sly attempts to sway the public. |
Diners have their meals on toilet seats at a toilet-themed restaurant in Hangzhou in Zhejiang province June 29, 2008. The restaurant, which opened on June 1, features toilet seats as dining chairs and food served in miniature bathtubs and toilet bowls. Picture taken June 29, 2008. |
Singer Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, performs during the Live Earth concert at the soccer arena in Hamburg, northern Germany, July 7, 2007. |
For years, mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac tenaciously worked to nurture, and then protect, their financial empires by invoking the political sacred cow of homeownership and fielding an army of lobbyists, power brokers and political contributors. Now, new attention is being focused on the bruised mortgage companies as the Bush administration presses its rescue plan to Congress.
Sure. They wanted nothing to do with our government or pesky regulations until the idiots lost the farm on bad investments ... now they expect the taxpayer to bail them out. And we will. Not because WE want to, but because our shyster government will take care of their own. |
Euro coins and a US dollar bill. The euro rose against the dollar after hitting a record high point one day earlier, as dealers braced for more comment from US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke and key US inflation data.
Our government is busy cranking out cash to bolster Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Bear-Stearns, and nearly every other major banking institution without any regard whatever to what this does to the value of the dollar on world markets. It is like pouring kerosene on a fire! Simply borrowing more money to pay off old debt is ludicrous. |
 | Wind turbines, part of an 18 tower wind farm located in Velva, North Dakota. Former oilman T. Boone Pickens this week unveiled his “Pickens Plan” that calls for reducing American dependence on oil and boosting wind energy to provide 20 percent of US electricity needs.
When a guy heavily invested in natural gas and wind power says the answer to our energy woes is natural gas and wind power, it’s hard not to smirk at his Texas-size gumption. |
 | Freestyle motocross rider Ronnie Renner attempts to establish the Guinness World Record for highest air ever attained on a motorcycle at the pier in Santa Monica, Calif., Friday, July 11, 2008. Renner set the record on his third jump at 59 feet, 3 inches on 25 feet tall, 64 feet wide custom-built quarter pipe. |
 | In this July 31, 2007 file photo, Tony Snow, then as White House Press Secretary, responds to a reporters question in the White House briefing room in Washington. Fox News is reporting Saturday July 12, 2008 that conservative commentator and former White House press secretary Tony Snow has died of cancer. He was 53.
I was raised to not speak ill of the dead ... and if you have nothing nice to say to say nothing at all ... so ... “Nothing!” |
 | Heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey of Houston addresses the press after returning from Egypt where he performed surgery on the deposed Shah of Iran. DeBakey said in this Thursday on April 3, 1980 file photo taken in Houston that the Shah was quite ill, but that the operation was a complete success. DeBakey, the world-famous cardiovascular surgeon who pioneered such now-common procedures as bypass surgery and invented a host of devices to help heart patients, died Friday night July 11, 2008 at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, officials announced. He was 99. |
Sand sculptures of a lion and a ‘Sand Rover’ car, are seen at a sand sculpture festival in Western-super-Mare, Somerset, England, Wednesday July 9, 2008. Dedicated sand-artists are at Weston-super-Mare in Somerset this week recreating the world’s best known-landmarks and faces on the famous beach. |
 | A Metro light rail train pulled into downtown for the first time during a test of the new regional commuter rail system Thursday, July 10, 2008, in Phoenix. The 20-mile line, expected to open for passenger traffic in December, stretches from the city’s northwestern neighborhoods through the heart of downtown Phoenix and east to Tempe and Mesa. |
In a handout picture released on the news website of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, four long and medium range missiles rise into the air after being test-fired at an undisclosed location in the Iranian desert. Iran test-fired a missile it said is capable of reaching Israel, angering the United States amid growing fears that the standoff over the contested Iranian nuclear drive could lead to war. |
 | Phil Thornhill, a global warming activist, marches along with other protesters, in Sapporo, Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, carrying a wanted sign with U.S. President George W. Bush’s face, Saturday, July 5, 2008. Leaders of G8 rich nations are expected to discuss about global warming and the food and oil crisis in Toyako, Hokkaido. |
Firefighter Brian Britton, of Ojai, Calif., throws flares unto a hillside during a backburn operation along Highway 1 in Big Sur, Calif., Sunday, July 6, 2008. Firefighters continue to fight the Basin Complex Fire in the Los Padres National Forest near Big Sur Sunday. Fires have burned more than 800 square miles of land and destroyed at least 69 homes throughout California in the past two weeks. |
A herd of elk graze in the meadows of Yellowstone National Park with the background Mt. Holmes, left, and Mt. Dome, in Wyoming. Government agencies killed more than 6,000 wild bison leaving Yellowstone National Park over the last two decades — the grisly result of efforts to contain a serious livestock disease carried by the animals. Thousands of elk in the region also carry the disease, brucellosis, but are not managed similarly. Transmission occurs mainly through direct contact with birthing matter, but state and federal officials have included hundreds of male bison in their slaughter, contending that males still present a risk. There has been no documented case of brucellosis transmission in the wild between cattle and bison. Another nonsense government policy against the environment that protects nobody. |
In this photo released by the official Xinhua news agency, members of China’s armed police demonstrate a rapid deployment during an anti-terrorist drill held in Jinan, east China, on Wednesday July 2, 2008, roughly one month ahead of the Beijing Olympic Games. They are actually more concerned about an outbreak of Democracy ... they live in deadly fear of this. |
United States Mint Diretor Ed Moy holds a prototype of the design of a commemorative coin to be issued in 2009 in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille following a National Federation of the Blind annual convention Wednesday, July 2, 2008, in Dallas. The Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver Dollar is the first U.S. Coin to contain legible Braille characters.
All this publicity for a Braille coin which will never be minted for the public to use. It is nice to acknowledge Mr. Braille, but why not actually help the blind by circulating Braille coins? |
The last element, weighing 100 tons, of the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) experiment is lowered into the cave at the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN (Centre Europeen de Recherche Nucleaire) in Meyrin, near Geneva, Switzerland. ATLAS is part of five experiments which, from mid 2008 on, will study what happens when beams of particles collide in the 27 km (16.8 miles) long underground ring LHC (Large Hadron Collider). ATLAS is one of the largest collaborative efforts ever attempted in the physical sciences. There are 2100 physicists (including 450 students) participating from more than 167 universities and laboratories in 37 countries. Theorists fear it will create a black hole which will swallow the Earth. We won’t know if it does because we will cease to exist! |
 | Retired U.S. Army General Wesley Clark, a former Democratic presidential candidate now supporting Barack Obama, said Sunday, June 29, 2008, John McCain’s military service does not automatically qualify him to be commander in chief. McCain immediately accused Clark and Obama of making ‘Swift Boat’ attacks against his military record. McCain graduated 894 out of 899 in Annapolis. The planes he was flying crashed twice and once collided with power lines. He was shot down and spent over 5 years in a POW camp. What part of that ‘experience’ qualifies him to be President? |
 | National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration staffers survey the damage left by the crash of two medical helicopters Monday, June 30, 2008, in Flagstaff, Ariz. The collision involved two helicopters that were arriving with patients Sunday at Flagstaff Medical Center. |
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, seen here in 1973 arrest record, spent his last day at the office last Friday. After decades of lawbreaking to insure Microsoft became the monopoly it is today, Gates turns his attention full time to the philanthropic Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation he established with his wife. He hopes to redeem his soul after ruining so many lives with his badly written and overpriced software. |
HAIPHONG, Vietnam - John McCain has an unusual endorsement — from the Vietnamese jailer who says he held him captive for about five years as a POW and now considers him a friend. “If I were an American voter, I would vote for Mr. John McCain,” Tran Trong Duyet said Friday. At the same time, he denies prisoners of war were tortured. Despite detailed POW accounts and physical wounds, Duyet claims the presumed Republican presidential nominee made up beatings and solitary confinement in an attempt to win votes. |
Shown is a three-dimensional image of speed bumps painted on a road in Philadelphia, Friday, June 20, 2008. |
 | The cooling tower at the Yongbyon nuclear complex, North Korea is seen in this December 18, 2007 file photo distributed by China’s official Xinhua News Agency. North Korea’s 60-foot-tall cooling tower at it’s main reactor complex is destroyed, Friday, June 27, 2008, in Yongbyon, North Korea. North Korea destroyed the most visible symbol of its nuclear weapons program Friday in a sign of its commitment to stop making plutonium for atomic bombs. |
 | An idol of Hindu God Hanuman, which will be sent to Barack Obama, is seen during a prayer ceremony in New Delhi, Tuesday, June 24, 2008. A dozen priests chanted around a sacred fire on Tuesday as a group of Indians offered prayers to Hanuman to grant victory to U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. |
In this photo released by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Blue Water Ventures diver Michael DeMar sips champagne form an ornate gold chalice with etched scrollwork Tuesday, June 24, 2008, after he found it searching for wreckage of the Spanish galleon Santa Margarita about 30 miles west of Key West, Fla. The Margarita sank during a 1622 hurricane and its wreckage has been the focus of a search by Blue Water in a joint-venture partnership with Mel Fisher’s Treasures. Salvors estimated the value of the chalice at at one million dollars or more. |
This photo provided by the Museum of the City of New York shows an original copy of the famous 1948 ‘Dewey Defeats Truman’ edition of the Chicago Tribune from the museum’s upcoming exhibit, ‘Campaigning for President: New York and the American Election,’ opening on Tuesday June 24, 2008, in New York. The exhibit dramatically traces the history of American presidential campaigns from George Washington to George W. Drawing on a vast collection of treasures and artifacts, the exhibit shows how the selection of U.S. presidents has evolved over two centuries. |
 | In this Jan. 21, 1987 file photo, comedian George Carlin poses with his daughter Kelly, left, and wife Brenda as he receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Carlin, 71, whose staunch defense of free speech in his most famous routine ‘Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television’ led to a key Supreme Court ruling on obscenity, died Sunday June 22, 2008. He went into St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica on Sunday complaining of chest pain and died later that evening, said his publicist, Jeff Abraham. |
In this Wednesday, June 18, 2008 hand out photo, nurses are seen, posing near a monument to enemas at Mashuk Akva-Term Sanatorium in the town of Zheleznovodsk, Russian Caucasus Mountains region. Alexander Kharchenko, director of the Russian spa says the world’s first monument to enema treatments has been unveiled at the spa in the southern city of Zheleznovodsk. The bronze syringe bulb, weighs 800 pounds and is held by three angels. |
 | Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks during a meeting of Democratic Governors at the Chicago History Museum in Chicago Friday, June 20, 2008. A new seal debuted on Obama’s podium Friday, sporting iconography used in the U.S. presidential seal, the blue background, the eagle clutching arrows on left and olive branch on right, but with symbolic differences. Instead of the Latin ‘E pluribus unum’ (Out of many, one), Obama’s says ‘Vero possumus’, rough Latin for ‘Yes, we can.’ Instead of ‘Seal of the President of the United States’, Obama’s Web site address is listed. And instead of a shield, Obama’s eagle wears his ‘O’ campaign logo with a rising sun representing hope ahead. |
 | This undated photo provided by the Center of Natural Sciences in Prato, Italy, Wednesday, June 11, 2008, shows a deer with a single horn in the center of its head. |
A huge tornado funnel cloud touches down in Orchard, Iowa, Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 9:04 p.m. The Globe Gazette and Mitchell County Press News reported that Lori Mehmen of Orchard, took the photo from outside her front door. Mehmen said the funnel cloud came near the ground and then went back up into the clouds. Besides tree and crop damage, no human injuries were reported. |
 | Actress Cyd Charisse, pictured in 2007, who found fame as the dance partner of legendary Hollywood figures such as Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, died at her home in Los Angeles, her agent said Tuesday. She was 87. |
A sign outside the Iowa Welcome Center is paritally submerged in flood water from the Mississippi River Sunday, June 15, 2008 in Burlington, Iowa. Receding water on Sunday revealed the widespread damage caused by a record flood crest, while other Iowa cities faced rivers that were still rising. Burlington is expecting a flood crest in the Mississippi River within the next couple of days. |
 | An undated handout photo of “Meet the Press” moderator and NBC News Senior Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert on the set his show. Russert, a leading U.S. political correspondent and host of the NBC television network’s long-running “Meet the Press” talk show, died on June 13, 2008 of a heart attack, the network said. He was 58. |
 | Actor Paul Newman, seen here in 2007, will not be able to direct a play that his theater company plans to show later this year due to health probems, his publicist announced Friday. |
The Brooklyn Bridge can be seen lit up during its 125th anniversary celebrations in New York May 22, 2008. This year marks the 125th anniversary of the bridge being built over the East River linking Manhattan to Brooklyn. |
A nuclear facility in Tonopah, Arizona. Nuclear energy is making a comeback as the new darling of the US “green” revolution -- as Americans embrace the idea of carbon-free power. |
 | In this Dec. 17, 2001 file photo, dark spots are visible on President Bushs cheeks and temple after it was disclosed that the president had four lesions removed from his face, including two that are pre-cancerous but not a threat to the presidents health. Woodrow Wilsons secret stroke. Grover Clevelands secret cancer surgery. Franklin D. Roosevelts secretly worsening heart disease at the world-changing Yalta Conference. Notice a lot of secrets? |
In this image released by Universal Orlando, fans wear Marge Simpsons wigs at the opening of The Simpsons Ride at Universal Orlando Resort on Thursday, May 15, 2008, in Orlando, Fla. |
This photograph by the U.S. Army, provided by the U.S. National Archives in College Park, Md., on Monday, May 5, 2008, is one of a series of declassified images depicting the summary execution of South Korean political prisoners by the South Korean military and police at Daejeon, South Korea, over several days in July 1950. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Korea is investigating this and similar mass killings in South Korea in 1950-51. A chief investigator estimates up to 7,000 were killed at Daejeon, and tens of thousands elsewhere.
You have to know the U.S. tacitly approved of this or they would not have been photographing it. We stood by and condoned war crimes. History repeats. |
Rescue workers walk next to a car destroyed by a boulder in the earthquake-affected Yingxiu town of Wenchuan county, Sichuan province. |
Bottle openers made of kangaroo scrotums sold as souvenirs in Sydney. |
 | Worlds smallest one-man helicopter, GEN H-4, is seen here flying in the city of Matsumoto, Nagano prefecture, central Japan. It will soon take flight in the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci, who is credited with having first thought of a vertical-flight machine, according to its developer. |
Daredevil Robbie Kaptain Knievel jumps over 24 delivery trucks, his longest gap ever of 200 feet, at Kings Island amusement park, Saturday, May 24, 2008 in Mason, Ohio. Thirty-three years agao, on Oct. 25, 1975, Robbies father, Evel Knievel made history when he successfully jumped 14 buses at Kings Island. A crowd of more than 40,000 people witnessed the jump. |
An old barn stands in a wheat field as a severe thunderstorm passes in the distance near Ogallah, Kan. Severe thunderstorms dropped tornadoes across much of northwest Kansas. |
George Hanamoto inspects some marijuana plants he is growing as his wife, Jean, right, looks on at their home in the Mendocino County community of Willits, Calif., Wednesday, May 28, 2008. Under a law passed in 2000, county residents may grow up to 25 marijuana plants for medical, recreational or personal use. A measure before county voters in the June 3 primary would scale back the law only allowing six plants to be grown. George Hanamoto, 74, who uses marijuana to relieve glaucoma and for back pain, said cutting plant limits would hurt people like him because growing conditions mean he can’t always get the maximum out of each plant. |
 | Actor Kirk Douglas tries-out a playground slide at Lillian Elementary School in Los Angeles Wednesday, May 28, 2008, after he and his wife donated their 400th playground renovation to schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The 91-year-old Douglas and his wife Anne have donated a renovation a week over an 11-year period beginning in 1997. The couple provides a grant of $25,000 per playground, with the school’s parents or supporters matching the amount in money or services. |
Members of an unknown Amazon Basin tribe and their dwellings are seen during a flight over the Brazilian state of Acre along the border with Peru in this May, 2008 photo distributed by FUNAI, the government agency for the protection of indigenous peoples. Survival International estimates that there are over 100 uncontacted tribes worldwide, and says that uncontacted tribes in the region are under increasing threat from illegal logging over the border in Peru. |
Delegates gather around a table at the Democratic National Committee Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting in Washington May 31, 2008. Michigan and Florida held primaries in January, earlier than party rules allowed, resulting in the disqualification of their delegates. In all, there were 368 delegates in limbo. The most widely discussed compromise envisioned granting seats to all the state’s delegates, but giving each one-half a vote. The number of delegates needed to clinch the nomination would rise from 2,026 to 2,118. That would satisfy Clintoon’s call for all to be seated without jeopardizing Obama’s lead. |
 | In this May 14, 1972 file photo Harvey Korman is shown with his Emmy award for outstanding achievement by a performer in a music or variety show in Los Angeles. Korman, the tall, versatile comedian who won four Emmys for his outrageously funny contributions to ‘The Carol Burnett Show’ and played a conniving politician to hilarious effect in ‘Blazing Saddles,’ died Thursday, May 29, 2008. He was 81. |
 | This Jan. 2003 image provided by NASA shows a view of the toilet compartment in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station. The space station’s Russian-built toilet has been acting up for the past week. The three male residents have temporarily bypassed the problem, which involves urine collection, not solid waste. NASA rushed Wednesday May 28, 2008 to get a special pump on board shuttle Discovery to fix a balky toilet at the international space station, as the launch countdown got under way. |
 | These handout images from Taiwan’s National Space Organization show before and after photos of a swelling lake created near the epicentre of the devastating Sichuan earthquake. China pressed on Wednesday with frantic efforts to drain water from a huge ‘quake lake’ threatening millions of people, as survivors of this month’s devastating tremor braced for more aftershocks. |
Producer-director Sydney Pollack during the 59th Cannes Film Festival in a May 2006 photo. Pollack, who earned an Oscar for the epic romance Out of Africa and also won praise as an occasional actor, died on Monday at age 73, after a battle with cancer, The New York Times reported. |
 | In this image released by Paramount Pictures, Harrison Ford is shown in a scene from the film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. |
 | Dick Martin, the comedian who along with Dan Rowan created the zany late-60s variety show Rowan and Martins Laugh-In, died Saturday, May 24, of respiratory complications. He was 86. The duo brought to the show the characters they had developed for their night-club comedy routines, with Martin playing a buffoon to Rowans annoyed straight man. Rowan died of cancer in 1987. |
Democratic presidential hopeful, Hillarity Rotten Clintoon, D-N.Y., steps away after a statement to the press at Sunshine Foods in Brandon, South Dakota Friday, May 23, 2008. She quickly apologized Friday after citing the June 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in defending her decision to keep running for the Democratic presidential nomination despite increasingly long odds. |
 | Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints mothers including Esther Jessop Barlow, left, and Monica Sue Jessop, right, each with five children in custody, smile as they leave the Tom Green County courthouse after hearing news of a court ruling in their favor in San Angelo, Texas, Thursday, May 22, 2008. An Austin, Texas, appeals court ruled that the state had no cause to take their children. |
This artist concept depicts NASAs Phoenix Mars Lander after its planned touchdown on the arctic plains of Mars. The spacecraft is scheduled for a May 25, 2008 landing. |
US President John F. Kennedy(R) and his brothers, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy(L), and Senator Edward Moore Kennedy posing outside the White House in 1963. Edward Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor, doctors said Tuesday, days after he was airlifted to a Boston hospital following a seizure. |
This 1979 file photo provided by the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., shows the presidential hopeful, Obama, in 1979 during his high school graduation in Hawaii with his maternal grandparents, Stanley Armour Dunham and his wife Madelyn Payne, both natives of Kansas. Growing up as a young man of mixed race, Obama benefited from the spirit of tolerance that defined Hawaii’s racial climate.
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 | Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., waves to supporters at Waterfront Park in Portland, Ore., Sunday, May 18, 2008. Fire officials estimated 65,000 packed into a riverside park for a spectacular afternoon rally at a sun-splashed scene on the banks of the Willamette River in Portland. They said an additional 15,000 were left outside and dozens of boaters could be seen floating in the river. 80,000 in attendence for the largest rally for Obama thus far. |
A massive sinkhole near Daisetta, Texas is seen Wednesday afternoon, May 7, 2008. A zigzagging hole believed to be as long as two football fields and up to 100 feet deep continued to widen late Wednesday, threatening to gobble up nearby tanks and other oilfield equipment. |
Senate Judiciary Committee member Edward Kennedy, D-MA, was rushed to a hospital in Massachusetts Saturday after an apparent seizure, his office said. |
Bo Hoshaw of San Francisco, right, and Richard Groves of Manchester, England, hug as they celebrate Californias supreme court decision on Castro Street in San Francisco, Thursday, May, 15, 2008. A huge crowd gathered in the Castro district to celebrate, after the California Supreme Court overturned a voter-approved ban on gay marriage Thursday, May 15, 2008 in a ruling that would allow same-sex couples in the nations biggest state to tie the knot. |
Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) shakes hands with former Democratic challenger John Edwards (R) at a rally with supporters in the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan May 14, 2008. Edwards endorsed Obama effectively taking the wind out the Hillarity Clintoon win in W. Virginia. |
 | Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., wears a U.S. flag pin as he is introduced at a town hall-style meeting at Thorngate Ltd., in Cape Girardeau, Mo., Tuesday, May 13, 2008.
Of course this is newsworthy ... wait a minute ... what is newsworthy about a lapel pin? Oh Yea! That is right. It is newsworthy because the GOP pundits said it was! |
The devastation is seen in earthquake-affected Beichuan County in Sichuan province, China. A massive earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 shook Wenchuan County in southwest Chinas Sichuan Province at 2:28 pm Monday, said the State Seismological Bureau. More than 300 aftershocks were registered after the quake, which rocked skyscrapers in Shanghai, hundreds of miles away. The shocks were reported as far away as Thailand and Vietnam. At least 8,533 people had died as a result of the earthquake by 10 pm Monday and thousands more are injured, said officials in Sichuan. In Beichuan, another county hit by the quake, the number of people dead is estimated at 5,000, and up to 10,000 people are injured. |
A newly discovered species of trapdoor spider has been named by biologist Jason Bond after his favourite musician, Neil Young, with a photograph of the spider, Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi, courtesy of ECU News Services. |
Lightning bolts appear above and around the Chaiten volcano as seen from Chana, some 30 kms (19 miles) north of the volcano, as it began its first eruption in thousands of years, in southern Chile May 2, 2008. Cases of electrical storms breaking out directly above erupting volcanoes are well documented, although scientists differ on what causes them. |
Villagers walk near a building damaged by Cyclone Nargis in Irrawaddy delta, Myanmar in this recently taken handout photograph. The first United Nations relief flights started to arrive on May 8, 2008, for victims of Cyclone Nargis in military-ruled Myanmar as a U.S. diplomat said that more than 100,000 people may have been killed. |
Polar bear and cub on iceberg, in Arctic islands.
I put this photo on my blog because it is likely in a few years these animals will be EXTINCT! |
 | Hugo Ott, 6-months-old, smiles at his home in the Brooklyn. Trips down memory lane are being bottled and are available at a fragrance counter near you. Perfumers are incorporating notes that might remind people of childhood, particularly the scent of a baby. However, the scent that reminds you of a baby probably might not be a babys natural smell at all. |
On left Actor Robert Downey Jr. arrives at the premiere of Paramounts Iron Man held at Graumans Chinese Theatre on April 30, 2008 in Hollywood, California. Marvel comics adaptation Iron Man strong-armed the box office and blasted into elite territory by becoming one of only 10 films ever to gross 100 million dollars in its opening weekend, industry data showed Sunday.
On right Stan Lee, creator of the fictional comic book super-hero Iron Man, gestures at the premiere of the film Iron Man at the Grauman Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California, April 30, 2008. |
 | The Tesla Roadster electric car sits in a showroom during an event to celebrate the opening of the first Tesla Flagship Store, Thursday, May 1, 2008, in Los Angeles. |
Dead bark beetles are displayed next to a penny in the Wyatt Williams lab at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho, in this Aug. 24,2006, file photo. As bark beetles ravage millions of trees across the West, U.S. Forest Service officials in Colorado and Wyoming have closed some popular campgrounds out of concern the infested trees will come crashing down on visitors. |
 | US actress and activist Mia Farrow speaks at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Hong Kong. Farrow Friday accused sponsors of the Beijing Olympics of bowing to greed and fear in failing to pressure China on its role in the conflict in Darfur. |
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama (right) and his wife Michelle speak to a group of supporters in Indianapolis, Indiana. With polls showing softening support for embattled Obama, Hillary Clinton Friday drives on in her relentless quest for a comeback, ahead of next weeks crunch White House nominating showdowns.
And Main Stream Media continues to support Hillarity Clintoon with the misleading polls and ridiculous attention they are showing her instead of treating her like the candidate who has been losing from the beginning primary in Iowa. |
A handful of corn is shown before it is processed at the Tall Corn Ethanol plant in Coon Rapids, Iowa. A reader-submitted question about crops used for biofuel is being answered as part of an Associated Press Q&A column called Ask AP.
The ethanol hoax may turn out to be the greatest misfortune of this decade. Epecially because Main Stream Media refuses to print the truth. Ethanol costs more to produce than gasoline. It is at least 20% less efficient. The process to make ethanol takes more energy and pollutes more than gasoline. The acres wasted on corn for ethanol could be growing food for people to eat. |
A cargo ship sits docked at the Port of Tacoma as normally bustling cargo handling lanes sit empty at left, Thursday, May 1, 2008 in Tacoma, Wash. The ports of Seattle and Tacoma were idle Thursday after longshore workers took the day off for May Day and to protest the war in Iraq. |
The Starbucks logo is seen outside a coffee-shop in New Yorks Times Square March 15, 2007. The company has plans to unveil two new drinks on Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported, as the Seattle company attempts to rejuvenate its coffee store business.
This is a fine example of how pathetic our main stream news has become when they give free media coverage to some coffee company offering a new flavor of the month. Sadly, nobody in America seems to notice the demise of real news and the substitution of this idiocy. |
Police block Chinese students rallying for their country as they try to scuffle with protesters after the start of the Olympic torch relay at the Seoul Olympic Park April 27, 2008. Thousands of Chinese students scuffled with protesters against Chinas human rights record in Tibet. |
U.S. actor Harrison Ford on the set of the new Indiana Jones film. Hollywood is gearing up for summers blockbuster movie season, with aging Indiana Jones making a big-budget comeback. |
U.S. Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard (Screaming) Dean speaks during a taping of Meet the Press in Washington, April 27, 2008. Dean appeared on the show to speak about the 2008 presidential race and the ongoing battle for the Democratic presidential nomination. It is hoped Dean will force the Super Delegates to grow some Balls courage to finally dump Hillarity Rotten Clintoon and can get on with the General Election. |
 | U.S. Senator and democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama (C) beats Devin Randle (L) and Kory McKay to a loose ball during a 3 on 3 basketball game during a campaign stop in Kokomo, Indiana April 25, 2008. |
This is the doddering fool, senile Republican Presidential candidate Senator John McCain. He is another war monger pretending to be a war hero. Look forward to another 100 years of war if this cheating politician is elected. |
US Army General David (BetrayUs) Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq, has been named to head US forces in the Middle East, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday. This will guarantee many more years of bloodshed and death in the region. |
Robertson Memorial Fieldhouse is being demolished on the campus of Bradley University in Peoria, IL. (Photo from Jonathon Ahl) |
This is the kind of picture we have all come to expect of the Clintoons. Bill with his mouth wide open and Chelsea with her lower lip hanging like it is full of snuff or something. All that is missing is Hillarity with bulging eyes and goofy grin. |
 | On this day in 1988 Noah Legel was born. Now, 20 years later, he is finally no longer a teenager! It has taken him forever to reach this exalted age! The whole world joins us in hoping he has another 100 birthdays! |
Journalists test drive a Smart Car ForTwo during a 50-city roadshow to promote the U.S. launch of the car next year in downtown Detroit, Michigan July 10, 2007. Daimler AG will sell its Smart small car in China from next year, head of sales and marketing Klaus Maier said on Saturday. |
 | Competitors in the Seven Mile Bridge Run in the Florida Keys traverse over the highest point of the bridge on April 19, 2008, near Marathon. The foot race over the longest of 43 bridges that comprise the Florida Keys Overseas Highway attracted more than 1,500 runners. |
Former President Jimmy Carter visits the grave of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah April 15, 2008. |
An unidentified man grieves at a memorial of 32 granite blocks representing each of the people killed by Cho Seung-Hui at Virginia Tech April 15, 2008 in Blacksburg, Virginia. Thousands of mourners wearing the universitys colors of maroon and orange Wednesday marked one year since 32 students and professors were brutally shot dead in the Virginia Tech massacre. |
Pope Benedict XVI and President George W. Bush attend the arrival ceremony for the pope on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, April 16, 2008
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Law enforcement officials assist members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints onto a school bus in Eldorado, Texas, Sunday, April 6, 2008. The group was relocated to San Angelo, Texas. Meanwhile, law enforcement agents continued their search of the compound built by followers of jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs. |
 | Elvis Presley performs at Madison Square Garden in this June 1972 photo provided by George Kalinsky. Kalinsky, who has been the official Garden photographer for more than 40 years, came across the never-before-seen photos while looking for images for a publicity campaign called Great Moments in New York.
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 | Three people protesting Chinas human rights record and the impending arrival of the Olympic torch climbed up the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Monday, April 7, 2008, and tied Tibetan flags and two banners to its cables. |
 | An anti-globalization activist protests in front of the World Bank headquarters in Washington during the International Monetary Fund-World Bank spring meeting April 12, 2008. |
The photo was taken after almost 12 hours of non-stop fighting during one of the bloodiest battles of the Iraq war, the battle of Fallouja. It was published on the front-page of over 150 newspapers and has been republished countless times. The soldier was Marine Lance Cpl. James Blake Miller and the effects of war were etched clearly on his face. Miller and his squad had just survived one of the longest nights of their lives, pinned down on a rooftop under heavy enemy fire. A year after the photo was taken The Marlboro Marine was honorably discharged after being diagnosed with a severe case of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). |
An advertisement created for Swedish Absolut Vodka by the Mexican advertising firm of Teran/TBWA, shows a map of North America as it existed before the Texas Revolution in 1836. The Absolut vodka company apologized for the ad campaign amid angry calls for a boycott by U.S. consumers. |
Since its debut in 1958 on Captain Kangaroo, more than 200 million Crayola 64 boxes have been sold. |
Reuters won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography on Monday for a picture of a Japanese videographer killed during a demonstration in Myanmar. Adrees Latif won for his dramatic photograph of the Japanese videographer, sprawled on the pavement, fatally wounded during a street demonstration in Myanmar, the Pulitzer Prize board said. Kenji Nagai of APF tries to take photographs as he lies injured after police and military officials fired upon and then charged at protesters in Yangon, September 27, 2007. |
Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr speaks south of Baghdad May 25, 2007. The movement of Sadr will be barred from taking part in the political process and elections unless it disbands its Mehdi Army militia, U.S. television network CNN quoted Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as saying.
As if either the U.S. or al-Maliki have any say or authority over al-Sadr. It would appear he is currently running the country.
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 | Charlton Heston passed away at the age of 84, his family said on April 5, 2008. |
Members of the Memphis Tennessee Beloved Community carry signs as they march to the former Lorraine Motel, now part of the National Civil Rights Museum, where Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, April 4, 2008. April 4 marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of the civil rights leader shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. |
Senator Hillarity Rotten Clintoon joked that she was delayed by sniper fire en route to the show, in a surprise revival of the Bosnia story that embarrassed her campaign last month. Proving beyond any shadow of a doubt that she has no respect for the American people when she can joke about her lies. |
A WestJet guest lies in an overhead cabin. Continuing its irregular tradition of April Fools Day press releases, WestJet Airlines Ltd offered passengers a small sleeper cabin in its planes overhead luggage bins on Tuesday, available for a modest extra charge of $12 (5.9 pounds). |
The team from Chivas Regal Scotland (orange shirt) fights for the ball with Anantara’s Visitor team (white shirt) during their elephant polo match at Golden Triangle in Thailand April 1, 2008.
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Marc Charney of Charney Real Estate shows where thieves have removed the copper plumbing from a sink in an empty, foreclosed home in Brockton, Massachusetts, March 25, 2008. Real estate brokers and local authorities say once-proud homes coast-to-coast are being stripped for copper, aluminium, and brass by thieves. Much of it ends up with scrap metal traders who say nearly all copper gets shipped overseas, much of it to China and India.
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 | Photojournalist Dith Pran, smiles during his assignment in New York in this file photo taken in 1980. Pran, whose harrowing experiences in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge were dramatized in the film The Killing Fields, died on Sunday at the age of 65. He died of pancreatic cancer at a New Brunswick, New Jersey, hospital, The New York Times said on its Web site. |
Michael O’Brien, founder of Q Tires, is shown pointing to studs on a Q Tire Tuesday, March 18, 2008, in Portland, Ore. Q Tires feature retractable studs that emerge when the driver flicks a switch inside the car. When the snow and ice melt, all it takes is another flip of the switch — and voila — the studs hide back under the treads and the tires are transformed again.
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A fly at rest. A man who found a dead fly in his bottled water is claiming before Canada’s high court that the incident ruined his sex life, hair salon business and even made it hard for him to shower.
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 | Demonstrators hold a placard of Geert Wilders during a protest against the Dutch politician and anti-Islam film-maker at Dam square in Amsterdam March 22, 2008. |
A man uses a public lavatory decorated with female mannequins at Sao Joao da Madeira shopping center in northern Portugal in this March 13, 2008 picture.
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Police charge protesting monks and others near the Chinese Embassy visa section office in Kathmandu, March 25, 2008.
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A two dollar bill is taped to the revolving door leading to the Bear Stearns global headquarters in New York March 17, 2008.
[MjL --> Significant because that is how low the stock value dropped before funded by the taxpayer and given to Chase Bank. Nobody seems to wonder where all that money and property went, only that we MUST save all these poor banks. No concern whatever for the people who have lost money and homes in these ridiculous shell games. <-- MjL]
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 | Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain’s ethics entanglement with a wealthy banker ultimately convicted of swindling investors was such a disturbing, formative experience in his political career that he compares the scandal in some ways to the five years he was tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
[MjL --> This is just the sort of sh*t resulting from the typical oral enema applied by the GOP ... repeat some absolute nonsense lie often enough and people will begin to believe it. The man was a crook, is a crook and will always be a ...CROOK! | | This makes it sound like he woke up in bed with this banker holding fists full of money (which he never repaid) and just couldn’t figure out how he got there. Must have been those darn aliens again? McCain is as phony as a 3 dollar bill. And senile to boot. <-- MjL] |
Truckers gather and listen to speakers during a truck drivers rally to protest high fuel prices at the Gables truck stop in Harrisburg, Pa., Saturday, March 22, 2008. |
Tibetan spiritual leader-in-exile the Dalai Lama (L) welcomes US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi as she arrives at his Palace Temple in Dharamsala. Pelosi slammed Chinese oppression in Tibet on Thursday as thousands of Tibetan exiles cheered her arrival in this Indian hill town to meet the Dalai Lama. |
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., right, smiles at a news conference with New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, Friday, March 21, 2008, in Portland, Ore., after a rally where Richardson announced his endorsement of Obama.
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A billboard in Detroit says ‘Call Mona’ in English and offers a number. Aside from the Army logo in the bottom right corner, the rest of the message is in Arabic, translating to, ‘In the land of different opportunities, this is one you might not have heard before: job opportunities with the U.S. Army.’ The Army says it’s meeting or exceeding goals for recruiting Arabic translators, many from this area that’s home to about 300,000 people who trace their roots to the Middle East. |
British-born science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, pictured in 2007, died at a hospital in Sri Lanka on Tuesday, 03/18, his aide Rohan de Silva told AFP. He was 90. |
Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), right, make their way across the flight line after landing on a CV-22 Osprey at Sather Air Base in Baghdad, March 16, 2008. McCain is wasting thousands of tax dollars on an all expense paid political junket for himself and groupies to obtain plenty of war video for political advertisements. |
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange March 17, 2008. U.S. stocks fell after JPMorgan Chase agreed to buy Bear Stearns at a bargain price and the Federal Reserve provided emergency cash to Wall Street as the global credit crisis worsened. |
Euro coins and one US dollar bill. The dollar’s plunge has made the eurozone the world’s biggest economy by one measure and has underscored shifts that are reorienting the 15-nation bloc towards Asia, Russia and oil-rich Gulf states, analysts say.
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 | Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, shown here with his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, March 10, 2005. Obama on Friday March 14, 2008 denounced inflammatory remarks from his pastor, who has railed against the United States and accused the country of bringing on the Sept. 11 attacks by spreading terrorism. |
 | Former Ohio Senator Howard Metzenbaum, an Ohio Democrat who was a feisty self-made millionaire, art collector and one-man roadblock against corporate tax breaks, has died. He was 90. His former chief of staff, Joel Johnson, says Metzenbaum died Wednesday night at his home near Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
[Back during the era of Bush I Senator Metzenbaum sponsored a national law to prevent the premanent replacement of strikers. We were on strike against Caterpillar at the time. It never got enough votes to make it veto proof.] |
Geraldine Ferraro quit Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign on Wednesday after making racist remarks about black Democratic rival Barack Obama. Hillary continues to be criticized for refusing to distance herself sufficiently from these racist statements. |
Dawn Wells, the actress who played ‘Mary Ann’ on Gilligan’s Island, was sentenced Feb. 29, 2008, to five days in jail, fined $410.50 and placed on probation in Idaho after pleading guilty to one count of reckless driving. The guilty plea came as part of an agreement with prosecutors in which three misdemeanor counts -- driving under the influence, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance (marijuana) stemming from an Oct. 18, traffic stop -- were dropped. |
New York State Gov. Eliot Spitzer makes a statement to reporters during a news conference Monday, March 10, 2008 in New York where he apologized to his family and the public after a report that he was involved in a prostitution ring.
[MjL --> Fortunately the Governor lives in a free society where one is innocent until proven guilty so he won’t have to resign or be condemned publicly until he has his day in court. Oh ... wait ... that was before and this is now ... never mind! Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.] |
Hollywood action star Chuck Norris (L) poses for a picture with Staff Sergeant Amy Forsythe during his visit to Camp Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad in this November 2, 2006 file photo. Norris, known for his martial arts prowess and tough-guy image, has become a cult figure among the U.S. military in Iraq and an unlikely hero for some in Iraq’s security forces. |
Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean delivers a guest lecture to a class in comparative politics at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., in this May file photo. Dean urged Florida and Michigan party officials to come up with plans to repeat their presidential nominating contests so that their delegates can be counted.AP Photo/Toby Talbot |
 | Protestors demonstrate the use of waterboarding on a volunteer in front of the Justice Department in Washington in this Nov. 5, 2007, file photo. President Bush is poised to veto legislation that would bar the CIA from using waterboarding - a technique that simulates drowning - and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta |
 | The image of Uncle Sam is seen behind shattered glass at the military recruitment center Thursday, March 6, 2008 in New York’s Times Square. New York City police say some kind of explosive device was set off near a military recruiting station in Times Square. Police say there were no injuries in the blast early Thursday morning. The recruiting center at 43rd Street near Broadway had a large hole in the front window. AP Photo/Mary Altaffer |
Water flows from the number one and two jet tubes at the Glen Canyon Dam Wednesday, March 5, 2008, in Page, Ariz. The Department of Interior is experimenting with high flows of water from the dam to help, in part, to rebuild beaches along the Colorado River that runs through the Grand Canyon.AP Photo/Paul Connors |
President Bush gestures while speaking in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2008, where he endorsed Republican nominee-in-waiting, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.AP Photo/Ron Edmonds |
Racing veteran Carroll Shelby’s 1966 Shelby Cobra ‘Super Snake’ sold for $5.5 million at the Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction. The auction, held on Jan. 20, 2007, in Scottsdale, Ariz., brought a packed house to its feet.Barrett-Jackson Auction Company |
 | California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, right, laughs with Ms. International winner Yaxeni Oriquen, of Brazil, after presenting her with the trophy Friday, Feb. 29, 2008, in Columbus, Ohio. Oriquen won her fourth Ms. International competition. AP Photo/Jay LaPrete
[MjL --> Silicone, Sinew and Suntan] |
The U.S. Navy ship New York is seen before the start of christening ceremonies in Avondale, La., Saturday, March 1, 2008. Approximately 7.5 tons of steel recovered from the World Trade Center are cast in the bow stem of the ship. The bow stem is the foremost section of the ship’s hull on the water line.AP Photo/Bill Haber |
 | President Bush reacts to a reporter’s question during a news conference at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008.
[MjL --> Now doesn’t that look like the face of a spoiled child about to have a temper tantrum because he can’t have his own way. Why has this cretin not been impeached?]AP Photo/Charles Dharapak |
 | Britain’s Prince Harry on patrol in Helmand province in Southern Afghanistan on January 2, 2008. Prince Harry will be withdrawn “immediately” from Afghanistan after a news blackout on his front-line deployment was broken, Britain’s Ministry of Defence said Friday.
[MjL --> The news blackout was broken by the GOP fool Drudge. This moron will make points at the expense of anybody.]<AFP/Pool/File/John Stillwell |
A row of 260-foot-tall wind turbines churn out power at the Smoky Hills wind farm near Lincoln, Kan., Jan. 25, 2008. A growing number of wind farms across the country is causing concern among wildlife officials that the huge towers may pose a danger to migrating flocks of endangered whooping cranes who are apparently too STUPID to fly around such massive structures which can be seen for miles!AP Photo/Charlie Riedel |
William F. Buckley Jr., the conservative pioneer and television ‘Firing Line’ host, responds to questions during an interview July 20, 2004 in New York. Buckley died Wednesday morning, Feb. 27, 2008.Frank Franklin II |
 | Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., right, is dressed as a Somali Elder by Sheikh Mahmed Hassan, left, during his visit to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya, near the borders with Somalia and Ethiopia in this file photo from Aug. 27, 2006. The garb was presented to Obama by elders in Wajir. Obama’s estranged late father was Kenyan and Obama visited the country in 2006, attracting thousands of well-wishers. AP Photo |
Raul Castro addresses the audience after being elected president of Cuba during a meeting of the National Assembly in Havana February 24, 2008.REUTERS/Enrique De La Osa |
An US Air Force B-2 bomber. The US military was investigating after a B-2 stealth bomber crashed on take-off from the Pacific island of Guam, the first such incident involving the futuristic craft.(AFP/DoD/File) |
 | A US Navy cruiser hit a defunct US spy satellite with a single missile late Wednesday in a successful interception 133 nautical miles in space over the Pacific, the US Defense Department said. (AFP/US Navy/File) |
 | Bug-eyed Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillarity responds to a question while losing a Democratic presidential debate in Austin, Texas, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008.
(AP Photo/LM Otero) |
The front page of the Thursday Feb. 21, 2008, edition of the New York Times featuring a story about presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-AZ, is shown in this photo in New York, Thursday Feb. 21, 2008. McCain denied a romantic relationship with a female telecommunications lobbyist and said a report by the paper suggesting favoritism for her clients is ‘not true.’(AP Photo/Richard Drew) |
Artist Tim Patch (L), who calls himself “Pricasso”, paints a picture of Olga Braude (R) using his penis at the Sexpo in Johannesburg, September 28, 2007. (REUTERS/Antony Kaminju) |
 | Ailing Cuban leader Castro said on February 19, 2008 that he will not return to lead the country, retiring as head of state 49 years after he seized power in an armed revolution. (REUTERS/Claudia Daut/) |
 | Chelsea Clinton smiles at supporters while attending a sports expo at the Blaisdell Center, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2008 in Honolulu. Chelsea Clinton is in Hawaii gathering support for her mother’s presidential bid before next week’s caucus vote in Hawaii. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)
[MjL --> Chelsea is very fortunate to be the daughter of rich and famous parents because she unfortunately inherited her parents ugly genes. And what is with the wide eyes thing? Her and her Mom both look like toads about to snap up a fly with those bulging eyes! | | I think it is time the media took the gloves off and started making Chelsea answer some adult questions. She wants to be a big girl now and shill for her mother’s campaign ... she should be answering questions too. Not just allowed to make blank assertions without backing them up.] |
This recent picture released by Swiss car maker Rinspeed shows people aboard Rinspeed’s new model, the sQuba, the world’s first real submersible car that will be presented at the 2008 Geneva car show in March. The zero-emission electric sports car, with power supplied by rechargeable Lithium-Ion batteries, can perform a submerged stabile flight at a depth of 10 meters.(AFP/RINSPEED-HO) |
Close up image shows a pair of entangled fibers that make up a microfiber nanogenerator in this undated handout photo. U.S. scientists have developed a microfiber fabric that generates its own electricity, making enough current to recharge a cell phone or ensure that a small MP3 music player never runs out of power. If made into a shirt, the fabric could harness power from its wearer simply walking around or even from a slight breeze, they reported on Wednesday in the journal Nature.(REUTERS/Gary Meek) |
Rescue workers evacuate a victim of a shooting at a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill., Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008. A man dressed in black opened fire with a shotgun from a stage of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University on Thursday before he killed himself, the school’s president said.(AP Photo/daily-chronicle.com, Eric Sumberg) |
 | In a file photo FEMA trailers that are being used for housing for University of New Orleans students and faculty are shown early Monday Morning in New Orleans, Aug. 28, 2006. U.S. health officials Thursday Feb. 14, 2008, are urging that Gulf Coast hurricane victims be moved out of their government-issued trailers as quickly as possible after tests found toxic levels of formaldehyde fumes. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) |
 | Screenwriter Cynthia Carle, a member of the Writers Guild of America who writes for the Disney Channel, listens to a WGA board member address striking writers on the picket line at NBC studios in Burbank, February 8, 2008. The strike against the Hollywood studios is over after the union members voted in favor of ending the 3-month long strike at Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills, Calif., Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008. The Writers Guild of America said its members voted Tuesday to end their devastating, three-month strike that brought the entertainment industry to a standstill. (Fred Prouser/Reuters) |
 | In this file photo a Chinese woman wearing a masks against SARS walks past a “Don’t Spit” campaign poster in Shanghai May 16, 2003. Less spitting, better queuing and cleaner streets show Beijing has become more “civilized,” but the city still has to fine-tune its etiquette to attain Olympic standards, Xinhua news agency said Friday, citing a new study. (REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV) |
 | Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s then campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle, poses for a photo in her office, in this May 8, 2007, file photo, in Arlington, Va. Clinton replaced Doyle with longtime aide Maggie Williams on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2008, engineering a shake-up in a presidential campaign struggling to overcome rival Barack Obama’s financial and political strengths. (AP Photo/Chris Greenberg) |
A road sign points the way to nearby towns Clinton and Prosperity in Newberry, South Carolina, January 25, 2008. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst) |
US Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney pauses during pauses while speaking at the Conservative Political Action Committee convention, in Washington. Republican John McCain saw his path to the White House suddenly cleared Thursday as rival Romney dropped out, while Democrat Hillary Clinton fought to match Barack Obama’s money-making machine.((AFP/Getty Images/Jonathan Ernst) |
Kyson Stowell, 11 months, is shown in a hospital in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008. Kyson was found in a field, about a hundred yards away from a house, after a severe storm went through Castalian Springs, Tenn., Tuesday, Feb. 5. His mother, Kerri Stowell, was killed.(AP Photo/Mark Humphrey |
A U.S. Army International Truck Maxxpro is seen at the Chicago Auto Show February 6, 2008.(REUTERS/John Gress) |
 | Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a guru to the Beatles who introduced the West to transcendental meditation, died Tuesday at his home in the Dutch town Vlodrop. (THE ASSOCAITED PRESS/ APTN) |
 | A writer participates at a demonstration in front of the Fox studio in Los Angeles, California, in 2007. Oscars nominees welcomed news of a breakthrough in negotiations over the Hollywood writer’s strike Monday as organizers of the prestigious film awards vowed this year’s show would go on. (AFP/File/Gabriel Gouys) |
California’s first lady Maria Shriver (C) waves to the crowd after being introduced by Michelle Obama (R), as Caroline Kennedy (L) watches, during a rally for Democratic presidential candidate US Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, California February 3, 2008.(REUTERS/Danny Moloshok) |
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama in Los Angeles, California. White House hopefuls have launched a frantic blitz for votes heading into “Super Tuesday” and the home stretch of the costliest US election campaign in history.(AFP/Emmanuel Dunand) |
 | John Griffiths, one of the handlers of weather predicting groundhog Punxsutawney Phil, holds Phil on Ground Hog’s Day in Punxsutawney, Pa. on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008. The Groundhog Club said Phil saw his shadow and predicted six more weeks of winter. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) |
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang (L) and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates in a composite image. Microsoft on Friday said it had offered to acquire Yahoo in a proposed cash and stock deal valued at $44.6 billion.(File/Reuters) |
 | Democrat John Edwards gestures during a speech announcing he would withdraw his candidacy for US president in New Orleans, Louisiana January 30, 2008. (Lee Celano/Reuters) |
 | Republican presidential candidate and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani talks to his supporters after conceding the Florida primary in Orlando, Florida January 29, 2008. (Kevin Kolczynski/Reuters) |
 | U.S. President George W. Bush makes a point as he delivers the final State of the Union address of his presidency to a joint session of Congress in front of Vice President Dick Cheney at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington January 28, 2008.
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Senator Edward Kennedy in a file photo. Kennedy, who bears one of the most famous names in politics and is a leading liberal voice in the Congress, will endorse Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign on Monday, Democratic sources said.(REUTERS/Handout) |
 | This 2002 file photo shows Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, daughter of the late Democratic president John F.Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy, during a press conference in Paris. US presidential hopeful Barack Obama won a glowing comparison to the late Democratic hero John F. Kennedy Saturday, in an endorsement for his campaign by the revered president’s daughter. (AFP/File/Jean-Pierre Muller) |
A radio-frequency identification chip, known as RFID that can be used in many applications, such as identification tags, is seen on display at the RFID convention at the Coronado Springs Resort and Convention Center in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Tuesday, May 1, 2007.(AP Photo/John Raoux) |
Willie Nelson performs during the 2007 ‘Farm Aid’ concert in New York September 9, 2007.(Lucas Jackson/Reuters) |
Mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles (MRAP), produced by Navistar International, are loaded onto an airplane at the Charleston Air Force Base in North Charleston, S.C. in this Nov. 28, 2007, file photo. The military is buying thousands of MRAPs to guard troops in Iraq and Afghanistan from deadly roadside bombs. These hulking machines — at about $450,000 a pop — rely on their heft and creative design to bull their way through blasts that can cripple Humvees.(AP Photos/Alice Keeney, File) |
This image provided by Columbia Pictures shows actor Heath Ledger portraying the character William Thatcher in the movie ‘A Knight’s Tale.’ Ledger, the talented 28-year-old actor who gravitated toward dark, brooding roles that defied his leading-man looks, was found dead Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008 in a Manhattan apartment. The Australian-born actor was 28.(AP Photo/Columbia Pictures, Egon Endrenyi) |
Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton (L) and Barack Obama engage in a heated debate at the Palace Theatre January 21 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Clinton and Obama roasted President George W. Bush on the economy Monday, as world stock markets plummeted for a second day on fears of a US recession(AFP/Getty Images/Eric Thayer) |
A Romanian farmer shows genetically modified soybeans in the village of Varasti (130km southeast of Bucharest) in this May 21, 2004 file picture. European Commission lawyers have stopped Poland’s move to ban trade and plantings of genetically modified (GMO) seeds, saying it had no scientific justification, the EU’s Official Journal said on Monday.(Bogdan Cristel/Reuters) |
Jeff Jerome, curator of the Poe House and Museum, walks away from original grave of Edgar Allen Poe with a bottle of cognac and roses left by a mysterious visitor, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008, in Baltimore. Since 1949 someone has marked Poe’s birthday by mysteriously leaving the items by the writer’s grave.(AP Photo/Rob Carr)font> |
A Greenpeace inflatable boat is seen next to Japan’s whaling fleet’s factory ship Nisshin Maru and hunter vessel Yushin Maru No 2 in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary January 18, 2008. Greenpeace said its protest ship, Esperanza, had successfully stopped Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean after intercepting the fleet’s factory processing ship, the Nisshin Maru, at the weekend and chasing it north through heavy seas.(Greenpeace/Jiri Rezac/Handout/Reuters)font> |
 | Omar Osama bin Laden is seen during an interview with the Associated Press in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 11, 2008. The 26-year-old son of the al-Qaida leader does not renounce his father in an interview with The Associated Press, but says there is a better way to defend Islam: Omar wants to be an ‘ambassador for peace’ between Muslims and the West. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser) |
Visitors to the Johnston Ridge Observatory watch as steam rises from the crater of Mount St. Helens in this March 9, 2005 file photo in Mount St. Helens, Wash. Steam seeping from a fracture atop the lava dome in Mount St. Helens’ crater and the mountain’s first noteworthy seismic activity since 2004 have caught scientists’ attention this week as signs that something is moving inside it. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, file)font> |
In this photo released by the Cuban government, Cuba’s President Fidel Castro, right, speaks to Brazil’s President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva during a meeting in Havana, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008. Fidel Castro met with Brazil’s president on Tuesday and the Cuban leader looked frail but alert in a series of official photographs from the meeting, the first images released of him in months.(AP Photo/Cuban government) |
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in an undated image courtesy of the agency. The United States expects to deport more than 200,000 immigrants this year who are serving time in prisons and jails across the country, the top U.S. immigration enforcement official said.(REUTERS/ICE/Handout) |
Protesters calling for automakers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and invigorate green manufacturing demonstrate outside the 2008 North American International Auto Show in Detroit January 13, 2008.(REUTERS/ Mike Cassese UNITED STATES) |
Entertainment journalist Mary Hart announces winners at the 65th annual Golden Globe Awards news conference at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, January 13, 2008.(REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni) |
Tata Company Chairman Ratan Tata announces the newly launched Tata Nano at the 9th Auto Expo in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2008. India’s Tata Motors unveiled its much anticipated US$2,500 car, an ultracheap price tag that suddenly brings car ownership into the reach of tens of millions of people across the world. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das |
Explorers Sardar Tenzing Norgay of Nepal, left, and Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand who conquered Mount Everest in 1953, are in this 1953 handout photo. Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest to win renown as one of the 20th century’s greatest adventurers, has died, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Friday, Jan. 11, 2008. He was 88. (AP Photo/NZPA,Penguin Books, HO) |
 | Former CBS news anchor Dan Rather gestures during an interview on the Fox News Channel in this June 12, 2007 file photo. A judge said Wednesday that he was leaning toward allowing Rather’s $70 million lawsuit over his being fired by the network to proceed. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) |
Rocket propelled grenade launchers and mortar rockets, believed by the U.S. military to be Iranian-made, are seen on display during a news conference at a U.S. military base in Baghdad, February 26, 2007. The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on an Iranian general from the elite Qods force as well as three Iraqis living in exile in Syria and Iran for fomenting violence in Iraq. (REUTERS/Ali Jasim) |
 | Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., is hugged by her husband, former President Clinton during a rally in Manchester, N.H., Monday, Jan. 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) |
A surfer rides a wave churned by a winter storm underneath the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge Friday, Jan. 4, 2008, in the San Francisco Bay. A fierce arctic storm pounded California on Friday, threatening to soak mudslide-prone canyons already charred by wildfires and to paralyze the mountains with deep snow. (AP Photo/Ben Margot) |
 | Volunteer Roberta Allen, from San Jose, Calif., wears American flag contact lenses as she waits for people to sign a list seeing if they are caucusing for Republican Presidential hopeful former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson, Thursday, during a campaign stop in West Des Moines, Iowa. (Photo/Jeff Chiu) |
 | People try to shield themselves from high winds and driving rain as they wait at a bus stop in San Francisco, Friday, Jan. 4, 2008. A fierce arctic storm pounded California on Friday, threatening to soak mudslide-prone canyons already charred by wildfires and to paralyze the mountains with deep snow. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) |
Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) is cheered by supporters after he won the Democratic Iowa caucuses in Des Moines, Iowa January 3, 2008. Obama’s wife Michelle (R) and daughters Malia (L) and Sasha are seen with him. (Keith Bedford/Reuters). |
 | Host David Letterman appears on ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’ on the CBS Television Network in New York January 2, 2008. The January 2 episode is the first original show taping since the start of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike. (John Paul Filo/CBS) |
Protesters advocating impeachment of U.S. President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney carry a giant copy of the Constitution as they follow at the end of the 119th annual Rose Parade in Pasadena, CA, January 1, 2008. REUTERS/Mark Avery (UNITED STATES) |
 | Fireworks explode and lights are lit at midnight at Times Square during New Year festivities in New York January 1, 2008. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES) |
 | A Meishan pig photographed at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin on Friday, Dec. 28, 2007. The zoo presented the Meishan Pig family as the good luck pig for the new year 2008. In Germany the pig is a traditional symbol of good luck at the beginning of a new year. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) |
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