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| Hulk convicted: Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, was convicted on all seven charges of making false statements on Senate financial documents about gifts he received from contractor Bill Allen, oil services company VECO Corp., and others. Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty. I like the sound of that. How about you, Don Young? var wordpress_toolbar_urls = [];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/toolbar.php”;var wordpress_toolbar_oinw = “oinw”;var wordpress_toolbar_hash = “aHR0cDovL3d3dy5kZW1vY3JhY3lmb3J2YW5jb3V2ZXIub3JnL3JlcHVibGljYW5zL2h1bGstYmFkLzx3cHRiPmh1bGsgYmFkPHdwdGI%2BaHR0cDovL3d3dy5kZW1vY3JhY3lmb3J2YW5jb3V2ZXIub3JnPHdwdGI%2BRGVtb2NyYWN5IGZvciBWYW5jb3V2ZXI%3D”; Politico is reporting that the RNC paid for the Alaska Disasta’s $150,000 wardrobe since August. This is raising legal questions as normally items that are personal in nature cannot be purchased with campaign funds. Seems to me that since Cindy McCain grossed over $4.1 million last year (and over $6 million in 2006), John should have asked her to pick up this minor expenditure. After all [...] David Michael Green publishes another near perfect post about Palinology: Whoa and Woe: Living In Sarah Palin’s America (collapsible content, click to show/hide) I can’t tell you how despondent I’ve grown in the last weeks. Is there really no hope for this country, after all? It now appears so. In January of 2003, John Le Carre wrote that, “America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but [...] 10 Things You Need To Know About Sarah Palin 1. She is presently under investigation in Alaska for abuse of power I don’t watch much teevee, so my exposure to Sarah Palin has been largely audio. Every time I hear her speak, I’d swear it’s Julia Sweeney channeling Lynn Cheney. But really it’s just Tracy Flick, all grown up and ready to take over the world. Palin last night with Charlie Gibson (who at least from the transcript didn’t suck quite as much as I [...] Unfuckingbelievable. Under Mayor Palin, Wasilla, Alaska charged rape victims for the forensic tests known as “rape kits,” which are necessary to successful prosecution of rapists and which almost every other town in Alaska (and I assume in the country) pays for out of municipal funds. But Mayor Palin’s police chief didn’t want to burden taxpayers with $5,000 to $14,000 a year for the forensic exams at a [...] But then maybe it’s just god’s will: OTTAWA (AFP) — Two ice shelves in Canada’s far north have lost massive sections since August while a third ice shelf now is adrift in the Arctic Ocean, said researchers Wednesday who blamed climate change. The entire 50 square-kilometer (19 square-mile) Markham Ice Shelf off the coast of Ellesmere Island broke away in early August and is now adrift, while [...] | Available Streams 2    | ||||
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