Joe the Plumber gets a book publisher, promises substance. It’s an integrity thing.
“You know I will get behind something solid, but I won’t get behind fluff. I won’t cash in, and when people do read the book they will figure out that I didn’t cash in.”
Report: Indictment Drafted In Blackwater Shootings
Federal prosecutors have drafted an indictment against 6 guards working for Blackwater USA, who were involved in deadly shootings last year of 17 Baghdad civilians, according to the Associated Press.
But it’s not yet certain that charges will be filed.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/11/federal_prosecutors_have_draft.php
“The public may have misgivings about a silent and invisible weapon that would boil the body’s fluids before tearing it apart in a burst of vapour,”
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12502799
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In response to the allegations that she was ill-prepared for interviews and debate, Randy Scheunemann, an aide assigned to Palin, called her “brilliant” and said she has a “photographic memory.”
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/07/mccain.palin/?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail
Joe the Plumber has a website. Go. Drink deeply at this aquifer.
Remember that wonderful scene from The Life of Brian where he opens a window to find that huge crowd of unwelcome slavish devotees below, waiting to hear him speak and hanging on every syllable? “You are all individuals“, he exasperatedly shouts down to them. “We are all individuals”, they chant in union…except for one single voice, “I’m not.”
With Russian tanks only 30 miles from Tbilisi on August 12, Mr Sarkozy told Mr Putin that the world would not accept the overthrow of Georgia, Mr Levitte said.
“I am going to hang Saakashvili by the balls,” Mr Putin replied.
Mr Sarkozy responded: “Hang him?”
“Why not? The Americans hanged Saddam Hussein,” said Mr Putin.
Mr Sarkozy replied, using the familiar “tu”: “Yes but do you want to end up like (President) Bush?”
Mr Putin was briefly lost for words, then said: “Ah, you have scored a point there.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5147422.ece
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Coleman suit against Franken dismissed
By Michael O’Brien
Posted: 11/13/08 05:53 PM [ET]
A Minnesota judge threw out a lawsuit Thursday against Al Franken by Republican Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.), who claimed his Democratic opponent had defamed him in ads.Judge Barbara L. Neilson ruled claims by a watchdog group against Coleman referenced in the Franken ads are “substantially accurate, if not literally true.”
Coleman and Franken remain locked in a tight contest for the incumbent’s Senate seat that is headed for a recount. Final results might not be known until December.
Coleman’s suit centered on a claim in a Franken ad that Coleman is the “fourth most corrupt” Senator, attributed to the nonpartisan watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). Neilson ruled it did not meet the law’s standards for defamation.
“Because the statement made in the Franken advertisements accurately captures the ‘gist’ or ‘sting’ of Senator Coleman’s placement in the CREW listing…there is not probable cause to believe that a violation of the statute has occurred,” Neilson wrote. She also rejected claims by the Coleman campaign that CREW was not “bipartisan,” contrary to the organization’s claims. http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/judge-dimisses-coleman-lawsuit-2008-11-13.html
h/t TPM
My life is immeasurably richer because this madman.
(Apparently, these files might load much better via a direct link, so here it is…uh…maybe….Is there a Doctor of Computer Science in the house?…Governor Palin? Can you bring your vast knowledge base to bear here?…ok, it looks as if these files might load much more quickly using Firefox rather than IE…bernie’s growth continues apace)
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The brief interview took place in a meeting room at the Miami Intercontinental Hotel. I asked her [Palin] the question today because when Wolf Blitzer asked her a similar question yesterday, she struggled to give him an answer.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Weblogs/TWSFP/TWSFPView.asp#9592
It is…well, it’s inhuman really to just sit by and watch while a political figure is struggling, right out there in the open.
How white were the Israelites? Facial reconstruction may be surprising
By Ofri Ilani, Haaretz Correspondent
No one knows how the Israelites and the Judeans looked or which people they would most closely resemble today. Bible stories and historical essays from the Second Temple Period offer a relatively few descriptions of the Israelites’ physical appearance. Whatever descriptions do exist can be interpreted in countless ways. The skeletons uncovered at archaeological digs throughout Israel provide only partial information regarding the appearance of early Land of Israel residents.
The accepted assumption has been that early Hebrews resembled the people now living in the Middle East or the Mediterranean Basin. However, an Israeli anthropologist researching the question has now made a surprising claim: the subjects of the Kingdom of Judea in the Second Temple Period looked more like black Africans…
