The White House has refused to give Congress documents about the death of former NFL player Pat Tillman, with White House counsel Fred F. Fielding saying that certain papers relating to discussion of the friendly-fire shooting "implicate Executive Branch confidentiality interests."They're hiding the fact that Bush knew Tillman was killed by friendly fire for a full month before they bothered to tell his family. All the hype they were getting from their 'Poster Boy' was too good to pass up. Once Congress get's ahold of those documents you will see that Bush schemed to keep the truth from the Tillmans and the American public. They have no shame and they need to hide behind phony executive privilege.
F-Troop
CANON CITY, Colo. - A unit of 25 military paratroopers landed inside the perimeter of a state prison, but not to quell a riot or attempt some movie-script breakout. They just goofed.
Fucking yo-yo
Reward for Osama bin Laden increased to $50 million."I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02
As we now know, Bush has let bin Laden slip away twice - at Tora Bora and then again in 2005, so it's possible he meant what he said back on 3/13/02. And what's comical about all this is do you remember that farce, "The Path to 9/11", when they made up that phony scene of Madeleine Albright refusing to take out bin Laden so as not to upset Pakistan? Well, that never happened, but Bush has done that exact thing twice! Maybe we can get the producers of that farce to re-record it with the facts.
The one that better get away
Scientists don't know why the Gulf sturgeon jump while they summer in the cool waters of the Suwannee River. It is something to marvel at … as long as they don't hit you. The fish can be 8 feet long, and can weigh up to 300 pounds.That sounds fair
The Blackstone Group, the big buyout firm, has devised a way for its partners to effectively avoid paying taxes on $3.7 billion, the bulk of what it raised last month from selling shares to the public. Although they will initially pay $553 million in taxes, the partners will get that back, and about $200 million more, from the government over the long term.
Thought they were on our side?
In a rare battle between American and uniformed Iraqi forces, United States troops backed by fighter jets killed six Iraqi policemen and seven gunmen during a predawn raid in which they captured a rogue police lieutenant, the military said Friday.
Clinton's policy still working for U.S.
North Korea told the United States it shut down its nuclear reactor, the State Department said Saturday, hours after a ship cruised into port loaded with oil promised in return for the country's pledge to disarm.Thanks again, President Clinton. Even Bush couldn't fuck-up your Agreed Framework policy. Nice to see him re-instituting it after all that saber-rattling over the last 5 years.
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Advantage Rudy
Okay, finally the definitive story. Last night we were bringing you the latest on the proxy fight between the Giuliani and McCain campaigns over who could have the most prominent or outrageous campaign official involved in a prostitution scandal. Where we left things was whether Florida state Rep. Bob Allen (R), Florida co-chair of the McCain campaign, had offered to pay a Titusville plain clothes police officer for oral sex or whether he had asked to be paid for oral sex. The price, in either case, you'll remember was to be $20.
Well, mystery solved. Courtesy of TPM Reader VS we were able to track down the arrest report. As officer Kavanaugh explains in the arrest report "Allen engaged me in a conversation in which it was agreed that he would pay me $20.00 in order to perform a 'blow job' on me."
So, advantage Rudy.
Do you find business news confusing?
By Rik Kirkland, Fortune
July 12 2007: 9:46 AM EDT
(Fortune Magazine) -- Just how red-hot is the current worldwide expansion? "This is far and away the strongest global economy I've seen in my business lifetime," U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson declared on a recent visit to Fortune's offices.
Dollar Wavers Near All-Time Low
Friday July 13, 7:26 am ET
Economic Concerns Keep Dollar Near Record Lows Against Euro
BERLIN (AP) -- The dollar hovered close to its new all-time low against the Euro Friday as concerns persisted about the strength of the U.S. economy.
'Hounddog' admits he's a liar
Let's see, Hounddog Thompson has admitted he was a mole for Richard Nixon and now he's admitted that he's also a liar. Last week he denied he was a lobbyist for a pro-choice group, but sorry, yes he was. And this is the best the phony conservative party has to offer? I can't wait for this flip-flopping ugly bastard to win their nomination. He's going be more fun than Giuliani would be!And you say he's an actor? Well, give his sorry-looking ass a banjo and let's do a re-make of 'Deliverance'
Somebody? No, try at least four!
George W. Bush acknowledged publicly for the first time Thursday that "perhaps somebody in the administration did disclose the name" of then-CIA operative Valerie Plame, the wife of former ambassador Joseph Wilson. "I'm aware of the fact that perhaps somebody in the administration did disclose the name of that person," Bush told reporters Thursday
Court and grand jury records show at least four people in the administration, Libby, Armitage, Rove and Ari Fleischer disclosed "that person's" name, moron.
Good old Dad
When retired US school teacher Edward Sadlon died in 1993, his son apparently saw no reason to tell anyone, and allegedly continued to cash his father's pension checks for almost 10 years. Now, prosecutors in Connecticut, where the retired teacher had worked, have charged the son, William Sadlon, 58, with mail fraud, accusing him of paying the monthly checks into his own account from late 1993 until early 2003. Connecticut authorities are believed to have paid out more than 250,000 dollars in pension payments before realizing that Sadlon was in fact dead. The defendant, from the state of South Carolina, faces up to 20 years in jail if convicted.
Did Osama pick up the bar tab?
Omar bin Laden, the al-Qaida leader's fourth son, has married a British woman he met in Egypt last fall, British media and colleagues of the bride said Wednesday. Jane Felix-Browne, 51, of Moulton-Cheshire, in northwest England, was in Egypt for medical treatment of multiple sclerosis, the Times and Sun newspapers reported.
British secret weapon
British forces have denied rumours that they released a plague of ferocious badgers into the Iraqi city of Basra.Word spread among the populace that UK troops had introduced strange man-eating, bear-like beasts into the area to sow panic.
Limbaugh/HD Award
Gentlemen and ladies, this week's choice for the 'prestigious, but infamous', Limbaugh/HD Award, given here weekly at 'done that' to the biggest liar of the week, was a very easy decision.Initially when the 'blue ribbon' selection committee informed me of their choice I was a bit disappointed because I didn't want someone who had previously won the award to win this week since this is of course, a memorial winner, #20.
But then I quickly reasoned, who could be more 'memorial' than the Liar-in-Chief himself? Especially when he's won the award by telling the same egregious lie that took us needlessly into Iraq.
George W. Bush spoke before the press for almost an hour the other day and the most commonly used word to describe him after the press conference was, 'delusional'.
Of course Bush was his usual muttering, stuttering and embarrassing self and he told so many lies and delivered so much misinformation in that short one hour's time that even Roger Ailes and the puppets at Fox News couldn't spin it and defend him.
Bush told several lies Thursday - There was the one about al-Qaeda rebounding in strength to 9/11/01 levels - but, his big lie, the one as I said, was the same one he duped all the sheep with to go into Iraq, was when he said;
"The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq are the ones who attacked us on Sept. 11."Now ladies and gentlemen, there is not one reputable source in this entire country, or the world for that matter, that doesn't know that is a lie. And if you don't know that's a lie, you're either real stupid or you need to pull your head out of Bush's ass and get yourself some oxygen for your decomposing brain.
Congratulations asshole - You're #20.
Past winners of the prestigious, but infamous,
Limbaugh/HD Award
Freed Felon - Scooter Libby - 7/8/07
Mr. Overrated - Rudy Giuliani - 7/1/07
Crazy Lying Okie - James Inhofe - 6/24/07
Pro Liar - Tony 'Snowjob' Snow - 6/17/07
Mormon Moron - Mitt Romney - 6/10/07
Bye Week - 6/3/07
Commander Guy - George W. Bush - 5/27/07
Pat's Brother - Bay Buchanan - 5/20/07
Used Car Salesman - John Boehner - 5/13/07
Uncultured Wussy - Bill O'Reilly - 5/6/07
Mr. Overrated - Rudy Giuliani - 4/29/07
Turd Blossom - Karl Rove - 4/22/07
The Decider - George W. Bush - 4/15/07
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
