C.I.A. as Polonius

mirror mirror on the wall, who's the greatest/smartest/most magnificent leader of them all?


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November 19, 2004

A window, not a mirror: President needs truth-tellers, not sycophants
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where they store the dead bodies

Hmmmn. Now we know why so many people use storage units... (well that and the way CSI had them being used on last night's show.)


Authorities confirm woman's deathbed murder confession
By Jay Lindsay, Associated Press, 11/19/2004 16:36
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The case shows how easily people can be forgotten in a fast-moving society, Coakley said.

''The reality of it is ... people go missing all the time,'' she said. ''We see it. It's not that difficult to make people disappear in a transient society.''

Fiscally Unsound Policy

That's right folks, our beloved Dubya is preparing to utilize that "mandate" of the people to sink us into an even DEEPER hole. And wouldn't ya know it, he snuck it in on a Friday evening... AGAIN! Way to go. ::rolls eyes::

Bush signs bill to raise US government's debt ceiling

www.chinaview.cn 2004-11-20 04:56:33

    WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- US President George W. Bush on Friday signed a legislation raising the US debt ceiling by 800 billion dollars, allowing the US government to borrow more money to cover the soaring spending.

    On his way to a economic summit meetings in Chile, Bush signed the legislation raising the government's debt limit to nearly 8.2 trillion dollars, according to local news report.

    The decision on raising the government's debt ceiling was approved with a vote of 52 to 44 in the Senate on Wednesday and passed the US House of Representative on Thursday.

    The US Treasury Department had told the US congress that it needed the approval by Thursday to avoid a government default.

    It was the third increase of US government's debt ceiling sincePresident Bush took office nearly four years ago and there was a federal surplus of 237 billion dollar in 2000 before Bush became the US president.

    The federal deficit of the US government continued to rise in the past three years and surged to a record high of 413 billion dollars in fiscal year of 2004 which ended on September 30. Enditem

EVIDENCE MOUNTS

the horse and rides off into the sunset with the election...

sorry folks, I'm on an overdose of "I can't believe any of this is happening" whirlwind and am posting like mad. Leave angry comments about taking up a majority of your friends page. Heh.

Berkeley Daily Planet
Edition Date: Friday, November 19, 2004

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Crusty Barnacles!

Yay for the Sponge! Long live the Sponge! (anyone ever wonder if he is a displaced kitchen sponge, being square?) We LOVE the Sponge!


Absorbency Plus Frivolity, a Blend the World Needs
By A. O. SCOTT


In the wake of the recent election, there's been some talk of healing, but until today no single figure has emerged with the capacity to repair the deep fissures in the body politic. We are so hung up on blue states and red states that our only hope may lie in the primary color that has been left off the map. We need something - or someone - yellow, and also absorbent and porous enough to soak up the ill will and scrub away the lingering bad feelings.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Watch the movie that this links to... laugh your heiney off... be assured, you too can survive.
"This too shall pass." -Eeyore

http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/fiore/2004/11/11_201.html