Archive for February, 2009

Why the hell would you want to see that anyways?

It’s called turning into gold. In other words, “how do we make him look good when he was just bad?” The solution is called propaganda, certainly not journalism. Also, notice how the stated opinion about Bush is just dropped like an iron fact. From an earlier story: The White House said Saturday that Obama remains [...]

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican, bowing to the growing furor over Pope Benedict VXI’s decision to accept a return to the church of a prelate who denied the Holocaust, made a dramatic turnaround Wednesday and demanded the bishop recant. The Vatican sought to distance the pope from the controversy by saying he did not know [...]

Fox News: Democrats in Congress have declared war on prayer, say conservative groups who object to a provision in the stimulus bill that was passed by the House of Representatives last week. The provision bans money designated for school renovation from being spent on facilities that allow “religious worship.” It has ignited a fury among [...]

TOKYO – Resource-poor Japan just discovered a new source of mineral wealth — sewage. A sewage treatment facility in central Japan has recorded a higher gold yield from sludge than can be found at some of the world’s best mines. An official in Nagano prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, said the high percentage of gold found [...]

Politico: Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a “high probability” that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama administration’s policies will make it more likely the attempt will succeed. In an interview Tuesday with Politico, Cheney unyieldingly defended the Bush administration’s [...]

Click here for the link to “Pat Dollard’s Jihadi Killer Hour” home page. Click on any of the shows on the player below to listen. The Betrayal: The New Hampshire state legislature took an unbelievably bold step Monday by introducing a resolution to declare certain actions by the federal government to completely totally void and [...]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Republicans on Tuesday offered their own, cheaper economic stimulus plans focused on tax cuts, pushing back against a nearly $900 billion Democratic plan they say encourages too much new spending. As the Democratic-controlled Senate began thrashing out possible changes to the rescue package President Barack Obama has sought, Republicans indicated they [...]

WASHINGTON – Researchers who tried to use mouse, cow and rabbit eggs to make human clones said on Monday the effort failed to produce workable embryos but added that they showed human cloning should work in principle. Mixing human and animal cells does not appear to program the egg properly, said Dr. Robert Lanza of [...]

BEIJING – Millions of migrant workers may be out of a job and China’s once booming economy may be locked in a downward spiral as the global economic crisis bites, but for a particular Chinese brand of humor it’s been a boon. Many of the jokes have been circulating online, or via text message in [...]

WASHINGTON – Barack Obama on Tuesday abruptly abandoned his nomination fight for Tom Daschle and a second major appointee who failed to pay all their taxes, fearing a lingering ethics dispute would undercut his claims to moral high ground and cripple his presidency in just its second week. “I screwed up,” Obama declared. “It’s important [...]

I personally am not a sports fan by any means. Not even the fact that my home state’s team played their first Super Bowl EVER was enough to keep me from leaving town on Sunday. I did however, regret not being able to see the ads. Cliche as it sounds(everyone has a friend who watches [...]

POLITICO: When the book is written on Nancy Pelosi’s reign as speaker of the House, the thinnest chapter just might turn out to be: “Bipartisanship and the 111th Congress.” To hear her aides and associates tell it, Pelosi entered last week on her best bipartisan behavior, hoping that billions in tax cuts would be enough [...]