Archive for 5/09
WICHITA, Kan. — George Tiller, a Wichita doctor who was one of the few doctors in the nation to perform late-term abortions, was shot to death on Sunday as he attended church, city officials in Wichita said.
Authorities in Wichita Johnson County are believed to have a suspect in custody. Condolences to the Tiller family and friends.
As if the Tysons Corner/Reston/Dulles Metro project didn’t have enough red tape, construction crews have just discovered that there’s one utility cable in particular that they really don’t want to hit:
This part happens all the time: A construction crew putting up an office building in the heart of Tysons Corner a few years ago hit a fiber optic cable no one knew was there.
This part doesn’t: Within moments, three black sport-utility vehicles drove up, a half-dozen men in suits jumped out and one said, “You just hit our line.”
Whose line, you may ask? The guys in suits didn’t say, recalled Aaron Georgelas, whose company, the Georgelas Group, was developing the Greensboro Corporate Center on Spring Hill Road. But Georgelas assumed that he was dealing with the federal government and that the cable in question was “black” wire — a secure communications line used for some of the nation’s most secretive intelligence-gathering operations.
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Black wire is one of the looming perils of the massive construction that has come to Tysons, where miles and miles of secure lines are thought to serve such nearby agencies as the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the National Counterterrorism Center and, a few miles away in McLean, the Central Intelligence Agency. After decades spent cutting through red tape to begin work on a Metrorail extension and the widening of the Capital Beltway, crews are now stirring up tons of dirt where the black lines are located.
Is “slammin’ and rammin’” really the only phrase you could come up with to describe what many Republicans are doing to Sonia Sotomayor?
When will the GOPers ask for Sonia Sotomayor’s birth certificate? Sure, she says she was born in New York, but how can we be sure?
Well I was starting to worry that maybe I wouldn’t get a job after college, but worry no more! Clearly the nation needs more history majors:
A Pennsylvania newspaper is apologizing for running an ad calling for the assassination of President Obama.
In the Thursday edition of The Warren Times Observer, the paper ran a personal ad that read, “May Obama follow in the steps of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy.” Each of those presidents was assassinated.
The publisher of the paper told the Associated Press that the paper didn’t originally realize the meaning of the ad, and the Times Observer apologized for the oversight in Friday’s edition.
The Secret Service is reportedly investigating the incident.
Well, let’s be honest. It was only a matter of time before conservatives got tired of insulting Sonia Sotomayor for being Hispanic. Fortunately for them, conservative pundit convicted felon G. Gordon Liddy has found something new for them to pick on: her gender!
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LIDDY: I understand that they found out today that Miss Sotomayor is a member of La Raza, which means in illegal alien, “the race.” [ed.: Nope] And that should not surprise anyone because she’s already on record with a number of racist comments.
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LIDDY: Let’s hope that the key conferences aren’t when she’s menstruating or something, or just before she’s going to menstruate. That would really be bad. Lord knows what we would get then.
And as if calling the Spanish language “illegal alien” and insinuating that women are incapable of making decisions because they menstruate wasn’t bad enough, Liddy then had this to say about the composition of the highest court in the land:
LIDDY: And everybody is cheering because Hispanics and females have been, quote, underrepresented, unquote. And as you pointed out, which I thought was quite insightful, the Supreme Court is not designed to be and should not be a representative body.
Yes, what problem could anyone possibly have with nine white men making decisions for a country which is not primarily made up of white men?
As John Cornyn demonstrated earlier today, Republican lawmakers–i.e. the people who actually have a say in Sotomayor’s confirmation–are trying to distance themselves from nutbars like Liddy, El Rushbo, and Tom Tancredo. Still, I hope the GOPers who are attacking her based solely on her race and/or gender stay on the TV and radio for the next day. Should be able to get a few good clips for Democratic campaign ads in 2010 and beyond. Let’s see if the GOP can win elections without women or Latinos.
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Update: Wonkette lady-editor, Sara K. Smith:
Ha ha, joke’s on him! At age 54, Sotomayor is probably very close to, or past, menopause. SEXISM PROBLEM SOLVED.
Poor George W. Bush and Bill Clinton! Now that we have a black president, it seems that nobody cares about our white ex-presidents:
David Bester is a man willing to go to great lengths for a spectacular show. Indie rock band The Hold Steady is worth it, he says. U.S. Presidents numbers 42 and 43 are not.
So he’s selling the two tickets he purchased to tomorrow afternoon’s “conversation” between George W. Bush and Bill Clinton at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre for less than their $189 face value.
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Organizer Christian Darbyshire yesterday said “400 or 500″ tickets were still available from a total of 6,000.A call to the ticket hotline confirmed that general admission tickets are still available at $229, but anyone willing to ask around can probably get their hands on discounted seats.Ryerson alumni recently received an unsolicited e-mail offering tickets for $189, as did other organizations, after the company co-ordinating the event, Power Within, hawked a discount offer in a bid to extend publicity.
Why is Canada being such a “reverse racist” by not spending just 200 CanadaBucks on our former Leaders of the Free World, who could barely put together gas money for the drive up to Toronto because of the recession and/or socialism?
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