Gideon Welles served Abraham Lincoln as Secretary of the Navy. On the night of April 14, he was awakened with the news that Lincoln had been shot. Together with Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, he rushed to Ford's Theater. They found the area packed with an excited crowd and learned that Lincoln had been taken to a house across the street. Clamoring up the stairs, Welles asked a doctor he recognized about Lincoln's condition. The physician replied that the President might live another three hours. We pick up his story as he enters the room where Lincoln lay: (Lincoln died April 15, 1865)Jackie Robinson
Sixty years ago today, Jackie Robinson overcame seemingly insurmountable odds to become the first African American ever to play Major League Baseball. He changed the game — and the country — in the process. NPR Let me guess
75,000 voter registration cards found in trash bin
The Georgia Secretary of State's office has begun an investigation into who threw more than 75,000 Fulton County voter registration cards into a trash bin. The cards contained a voter's full name, address and Social Security number. A random sampling showed many of the cards were for active voters, the office said.
From Media Matters
With Rush Limbaugh ranting about "femi-nazis" and Don Imus calling people "hos" and Ann Coulter calling people "faggots," few speak out when three separate CNN reporters -- including Emmy Award-winners Wolf Blitzer and Tom Forman -- describe the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House by referring to the Girls Gone Wild video series. Or when Chris Matthews compares Hillary Clinton to a stripper and refers to her as an "uppity" woman. Or when he says she looks "witchy." Read more
Fuck that.... I'll walk
The M-V-22 Ospreys is going into combat for the first time. But they have been in development for two decades, and past crashes have killed more than a dozen Marines.And he spends like a Republican
Ted Stevens becomes the longest-serving Republican senator in history on Friday. He's been there for more than 38 years, and he isn't finished. The 83-year-old Alaska Republican was feted on the Senate floor Thursday on the eve of eclipsing Strom Thurmond's 13,989-day (38 years, 3 months) tenure as a GOP senator. Stevens has already announced he'll
run for a seventh full term next year. Alaskans, keep your morons home.
More Fair & Balance from Fox
The entire quote is: "I think that nobody wants to play chicken with our troops on the ground." Why would FOX leave out the first four words? crooks&liarsAnd these goddamn crybabies whine when the Democrats refuse to debate on their network.
We need a real czar-in-chief
Four years after the fall of Baghdad, the White House is once again struggling to solve an old problem: Who is in charge of carrying out policy in Iraq? Once again President Bush and his top aides are searching for a high-level coordinator capable of cutting through military, political and reconstruction strategies that have never operated in sync, in Washington or in Baghdad. And the sheep wonder why we need to send bi-partisan Congressional delegations to the Middle East. You assholes are incompetent and you can't lead!
That's what I just said, Conan
"The White House says it wants to appoint a high-powered official to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and issue directions to the Pentagon and the State Department. This person would be called 'the president of the United States.'" --Conan O'Brien
But he's our terrorist
Relatives of 73 Cubans killed in a 1976 airline bombing blamed on Cuban-born former CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles have denounced a US court ruling to release him from jail on bond. Posada was arrested in Venezuela a few days after the jetliner bombing but escaped from prison in 1985 before a civilian trial in the case was completed. He is still wanted in that country and in Cuba, which also accuses him of plotting a series of Havana hotel bombings in 1997. This creep killed 73 men, women and children and we're thinking about releasing him on bond because he was against Fidel Castro?Give me a BIG hug
Researchers have found a gene which can trigger obesity. DNA samples from more than 38,500 people across the UK and Finland revealed a strong link between a particular variation of a gene called FTO and obesity. It was long believed that junk food and a lack of exercise are the cause of obesity, but the results of this study show that genetics may contribute to the problem more than previously thought.Still getting drunk with Washington
After a nearly 200-year hiatus, George Washington's still is bubbling again, churning out the same sort of rye whiskey that made the Founding Father the nation's most successful whiskey producer in the years after his presidency. Washington's Mount Vernon estate on March 30 officially opened a $2.1 million reconstruction of Washington's original distillery on the exact site where it was located in 1799, a few miles down the road from his famous mansion overlooking the Potomac River.
15 Tons of $100 bills
Did you get a kiss?
Because you sure got fucked!
Then-top US official in Iraq Paul Bremer ordered the transfer by three U.S. military helicopters of $1.4 billion in 100 dollar bills to Kurdistan—his calculation of the Kurds’ share of Oil-for-Food funds; but the Kurds and their advocates believe they are owed a few billion more. It was so much cash—15 tons’ worth—the paper further reported, that no bank could be found in which to deposit it.
An expensive piece of ass
Paul Wolfowitz, the country’s Deputy Defense Secretary until 2005, personally directed the World Bank’s head of human resources to offer his girlfriend, Shaha Riza, a huge pay increase and promotion that drew attention because it was more than double allowed under staff rules. In a written memorandum Wolfowitz specifically ordered Riza’s promotion to a senior position with a lucrative salary of $193,000 free of tax.
George Bush gave Wolfowitz a huge vote of confidence this week, saying that Wolfie had done a good job with corruption at the World Bank. This was after Wolfowitz admitted his guilt. Only a fucking criminal like George Bush could say that.
Rove wouldn't do that
Karl Rove's lawyer on Friday dismissed the notion that President Bush's chief political adviser intentionally deleted his own e-mails from a Republican-sponsored server, saying Rove believed the communications were being preserved in accordance with the law. (Rose Mary Woods)The Limbaugh/HD Award
This week's winner of the Limbaugh/HD Award is none other than, the worst president in the history of the United States, George W. Bush
Another week, another draining experience for the committee to choose a liar who is worthy of such an award as the Limbaugh/HD Award.
This week was tough not because there were so many liars as with last week, but because it was sort of a slow week for liars. Must have been the Easter recess.
You had Paul Wolfowitz giving his 'ho' an extra $61,000 for some pootang. You had Don Imus lying about the Rutgers Lady's basketball team who weren't 'nappy headed' or weren't 'hos'. And you had Mike Nifong lying for some lying 'ho' in an effort to convict three innocent 'white boys'. But those lies are insignificant - especially when you compare them to the lie(s) of our lying commander-in-chief, George W. Bush.
As I pointed out earlier this week, Bush went before the American Legion and said;
"The bottom line is this: Congress's failure to fund our troops will mean that some of our military families could wait longer for their loved ones to return from the front lines...Others could see their loved ones headed back to war sooner than anticipated. This is unacceptable."Bush told that egregious lie on Tuesday. The very next day, Secretary of War, Robert Gates announced that he and Bush were extending all tours in Iraq from 12 months to 15 months.
The Liar-in-Chief tells the nation that if Congress doesn't fund the troops (Congress has funded the troops-all the idiot has to do is sign it) they might have to stay in Iraq longer and then announces the next day that they will have to stay in Iraq longer.
And of course, as for the other half of Bush's statement that "Others could see their loved ones headed back to war sooner than anticipated"? We already know that he's been sending our troops to Iraq without the proper training for quite some time. It's always been 'acceptable' to him since he couldn't care less.
Now, I know there is still about 30% of this country that still backs this loser. About 20%, or two thirds of that 30%, are just sheep who follow - Limbaugh and HD are in this category - girly-like chickenhawks themselves who don't have the integrity to admit they were duped - and the other 10% are just fucking stupid hayseeds.
But even these lower forms of life would have to admit that lying to our military and their families one day, while knowing that the very next day you would be extending their tours in that fucking hellhole, is beyond deplorable - even for them.
I won't rehash all the lies that Bush told to get us into his quagmire in Iraq and his direct involvement in the needless deaths of 3,300 Americans or the almost 25,000 wounded. The 70% already know it, and the 30% don't care. But Bush's most recent lie is beyond the pale.
Congratulations Bush, the two namesakes of this award - two of your biggest backers and a couple of the pathetic little lambs who swallowed when you told them to - are very proud of you winning this prestigious, but infamous, award.
Past winners of the prestigious, but infamous,
Limbaugh/HD Award
Lying Chickenhawk VP - Dick Cheney - 4/8/07
Mr. Straight Talk - John McCain - 4/1/07
Attorney General - Alberto Gonzales - 3/25/07
Fox mouthpieces Sean Hannity and
Victoria Toensing - 3/18/07
Fox News guy - Brit Hume - 3/11/07
VA Secretary - Jim Nicholson - 3/4/07
Rep. Michele Bachmann - (R-MN) - 2/25/07
