Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accepted an invitation to visit Iraq, but no date has been set, the Foreign Ministry announced here Jan. 23. It would be the first visit to Iraq by a top Iranian leader.
Deputy Foreign Minister Labeed Abawi said the invitation to the Iranian leader was extended by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd who has close relations with Iran's ruling clergy.
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Many of Iraq's senior Shiite politicians had lived in exile in Iran during the 35-year rule of Saddam's Baath party and continue to maintain ties to Iran's leadership.
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Iran says that, like the United States, it would like to see a stable and democratic Iraq.
Regardless of the outcome of various legal proceedings against Blackwater, the controversial security firm potentially faces a massive business setback this coming May. That's when its State Department contract to protect U.S. diplomats in Iraq comes up for renewal, and its hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for the company are no longer a sure thing in light of the legal and political repercussions of two recent incidents in which Blackwater guards allegedly killed Iraqis.
A Washington, D.C., grand jury is currently hearing evidence involving one of the episodes. And if the U.S. were to bring criminal indictments against Blackwater personnel, many observers believe it could jeopardize the contract's renewal and further undermine the company's already shaky status in Iraq.
You end the underground economy. Illegals, prostitutes, pimps, gamblers, drug dealers - everybody pays taxes.
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How I wish that Russell Feingold was the leader of the Senate rather than that spineless wonder Harry Reid. Here's a good piece from Sam Stein at HuffPoFeingold Says "I Really Do Disagree" With Reid on FISA, just to get you all fired up this morning.
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Last night during the Republinut debate, I was so shit-faced by the time they got around to asking each other questions - I was yelling a few choice questions at the TV, questions like "are you all f*ckin' nuts?" "What are you talking about?" "You don't really mean that we should be in Iraq for 100 years? Nevermind, I know that you are quite sincere and that is exactly what scares the bejesus out of me..."
Oh well, I didn't have any trouble getting to sleep last nightStaying asleep was an altogether other matter =(
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Wow! Everyone is here this morning! It's a friday Dance party!
Quote by Raine:Next time, feel free to blog! I was talking to a vaccuum on the blog last night...Quote by m-hadley: Everybody,
Last night during the Republinut debate, I was so shit-faced by the time they got around to asking each other questions - I was yelling a few choice questions at the TV, questions like "are you all f*ckin' nuts?" "What are you talking about?" "You don't really mean that we should be in Iraq for 100 years? Nevermind, I know that you are quite sincere and that is exactly what scares the bejesus out of me..."
Oh well, I didn't have any trouble getting to sleep last nightStaying asleep was an altogether other matter =(
I stuck with beer. I was tempted to take mondo's suggestion to wodka the night, but hell, I woulda been out in 15 minutes. Taxes, RayGun, Hillary would have done me in in no time flat.
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Gay Activists Blast Radio Host Who Mocked Ledger's Death
A U.S. radio host who mocked Heath Ledger's death live on air a few hours after his passing has been slammed by gay activists. During his Tuesday show, Fox News Radio presenter John Gibson played an audio clip from the movie Brokeback Mountain in which Jake Gyllenhaal's character says to Ledger's, "I wish I knew how to quit you." Gibson then told his listeners, "Well, he found out how to quit you." Later in the broadcast, Gibson played another Brokeback Mountain clip, this time of Ledger's character saying, "We're dead." The host then mockingly repeated, "We're dead," before playing the clip again. Gibson, who is on record as criticizing Brokeback Mountain as a "gay agenda movie," went on to label Ledger a "weirdo" who had "a serious drug problem" and speculated as to reasons why the actor may have taken his own life. Ledger, who was found dead in his New York apartment on Tuesday, is not thought to have committed suicide, according to authorities and his family. Rashad Robinson, a spokesman for The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), says, "Gibson's remarks are vulgar and disgusting. It's sickening that Gibson would exploit Heath Ledger's tragic death to promote such hurtful intolerance. And to do so at a time when family and friends are grieving shows a level of insensitivity that is beyond the pale." On his Wednesday show, Gibson refused to apologize for his comments, explaining they were just "a little Brokeback Mountain joke" and there is "no point in passing up a good joke."
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Barack Obama has a 13-point lead on rival Hillary Clinton but his support has eroded slightly on the eve of South Carolina's Democratic presidential primary, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Friday.
Obama's edge on Clinton slipped by two points overnight but remained in double digits, 38 percent to 25 percent, in the rolling poll, with John Edwards gaining two points to climb to 21 percent and inch closer to second place.
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Quote by Mondobubba: Suckabee's got Walker, Texas Ranger, MCain's got Rambo!
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I'm a skosh too hanged over to dance - but I love hangin' with y'all...
Cheers,
MFaye
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As for the Republicans, their slow civil war continues. The primary race itself is winnowing down and clarifying: It is John McCain versus Mitt Romney, period. At the same time the conservative journalistic world is convulsed by recrimination and attack. They're throwing each other out of the party. Republicans have become very good at that. David Brooks damns Rush Limbaugh who knocks Bill Kristol who anathematizes whoever is to be anathematized this week. This Web site opposes that magazine.
The rage is due to many things. A world is ending, the old world of conservative meaning, and ascendancy. Loss leads to resentment. (See Clinton, Bill.) Different pundits back different candidates. Some opportunistically discover new virtues in candidates who appear at the moment to be winning. Some feel they cannot be fully frank about causes and effects.
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Quote by Raine:And yet, I forgive my beloved Cyndi... :PQuote by wickedpam: It's because of Cyndi Lauper we have Wrestlemanias to this day. The first one was about that whole group from the Goonies video.
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I'm a skosh too hanged over to dance - but I love hangin' with y'all...
Cheers,
MFaye
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Ontario - Danny Glover has been convicted in Niagara Falls, Ontario, for trespassing in a hotel during a union rally in 2006.
Glover, who wasn't in court, was convicted Thursday along with UNITE HERE union representative Alex Dagg and Ontario Federation of Labour President Wayne Samuelson.
Canadian Niagara Hotels charged the three with trespassing at their Sheraton on the Falls property during a Sept. 16, 2006, protest.
The 60-year-old actor took part in the protest as part of a larger campaign that aims to increase salaries and improve working conditions for hotel workers in the U.S. and Canada.
Quote by starling310: Hmm....I am feeling tempted now to switch off Momma and listen to some Cyndi Lauper.
Quote by starling310: Hmm....I am feeling tempted now to switch off Momma and listen to some Cyndi Lauper.
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BTW, were you able to find a new stream at work?
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Quote by m-hadley: Just called in to wish Rebekah a happy Friday - the poor kid is working four (count'em 4) jobs, so she was sounding kinda down, but I love me some Rebekah. Send good thoughts her way - she does a helluva job![]()
Cheers,
MFaye
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I was dancing.....
Quote by Grumpymann:Peggy NoonanAs for the Republicans, their slow civil war continues. The primary race itself is winnowing down and clarifying: It is John McCain versus Mitt Romney, period. At the same time the conservative journalistic world is convulsed by recrimination and attack. They're throwing each other out of the party. Republicans have become very good at that. David Brooks damns Rush Limbaugh who knocks Bill Kristol who anathematizes whoever is to be anathematized this week. This Web site opposes that magazine.
The rage is due to many things. A world is ending, the old world of conservative meaning, and ascendancy. Loss leads to resentment. (See Clinton, Bill.) Different pundits back different candidates. Some opportunistically discover new virtues in candidates who appear at the moment to be winning. Some feel they cannot be fully frank about causes and effects.
Gee I wonder where she trying to go with this.............?
Quote by Raine:I didn't know that! I love that girl to death as well. But keeeerist, 4 jobs??? :::::hug:::::: to our fairQuote by m-hadley: Just called in to wish Rebekah a happy Friday - the poor kid is working four (count'em 4) jobs, so she was sounding kinda down, but I love me some Rebekah. Send good thoughts her way - she does a helluva job![]()
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HomeMADE
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I was dancing.....
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
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Someone is overheard coaching willard during the debate!
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Someone is overheard coaching willard during the debate!
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WTH??
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You know black folks can't dance!
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Hear Me Hair Helmeted Harpy of Headline News
Bring forth your bile and bat-wingèd monkeys, frieeeeend!
Immigration officials detaining, deporting American citizens
FLORENCE, Ariz. — Thomas Warziniack was born in Minnesota and grew up in Georgia, but immigration authorities pronounced him an illegal immigrant from Russia.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has held Warziniack for weeks in an Arizona detention facility with the aim of deporting him to a country he's never seen. His jailers shrugged off Warziniack's claims that he was an American citizen, even though they could have retrieved his Minnesota birth certificate in minutes and even though a Colorado court had concluded that he was a U.S. citizen a year before it shipped him to Arizona.
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FLORENCE, Ariz. — Thomas Warziniack was born in Minnesota and grew up in Georgia, but immigration authorities pronounced him an illegal immigrant from Russia.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has held Warziniack for weeks in an Arizona detention facility with the aim of deporting him to a country he's never seen. His jailers shrugged off Warziniack's claims that he was an American citizen, even though they could have retrieved his Minnesota birth certificate in minutes and even though a Colorado court had concluded that he was a U.S. citizen a year before it shipped him to Arizona.
I am f*cked.
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I read that this morning.
The really crazy thing is that ICE REFUSED to even look and see if this guy was even from the states and not Russia.
Paul D. Wolfowitz, who resigned as World Bank chief after serving as second-in-command at the Pentagon, has returned to the Bush administration, albeit in an advisory role. From a short news release put out this afternoon:
The Department of State is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Paul Wolfowitz as the Chairman of the Secretary of State’s International Security Advisory Board.
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I read that this morning.
The really crazy thing is that ICE REFUSED to even look and see if this guy was even from the states and not Russia.
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I read that this morning.
The really crazy thing is that ICE REFUSED to even look and see if this guy was even from the states and not Russia.
Like God, they're infallible, I guess... :rolleyes2:
"The immigration agents told me they never make mistakes," Warziniack said in a phone interview from jail. "All I know is that somebody dropped the ball."
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Your vile pie-hole, from which your hate spews
With shrieks and grating voice doth hate and foul distemper all o'erspread
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Your vile pie-hole, from which your hate spews
With shrieks and grating voice doth hate and foul distemper all o'erspread
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Your vile pie-hole, from which your hate spews
With shrieks and grating voice doth hate and foul distemper all o'erspread
Up to five lines!
Hear Me Hair Helmeted Harpy of Headline News
Bring forth your bile and bat-wingèd monkeys, frieeeeend!
Your vile pie-hole, from which your hate spews
With shrieks and grating voice doth hate and foul distemper all o'erspread
Your vaporous prattle taken from your Master's pustulent cues
Quote by Grumpymann:Wolfie is back!Paul D. Wolfowitz, who resigned as World Bank chief after serving as second-in-command at the Pentagon, has returned to the Bush administration, albeit in an advisory role. From a short news release put out this afternoon:
The Department of State is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Paul Wolfowitz as the Chairman of the Secretary of State’s International Security Advisory Board.
Quote by livingonli:Quote by Grumpymann:Wolfie is back!Paul D. Wolfowitz, who resigned as World Bank chief after serving as second-in-command at the Pentagon, has returned to the Bush administration, albeit in an advisory role. From a short news release put out this afternoon:
The Department of State is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Paul Wolfowitz as the Chairman of the Secretary of State’s International Security Advisory Board.
He's like a vampire. He needs a stake driven through his heart and his head cut off.
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Bring forth your bile and bat-wingèd monkeys, frieeeeend!
Your vile pie-hole, from which your hate spews
With shrieks and grating voice doth hate and foul distemper all o'erspread
Up to five lines!
Hear Me Hair Helmeted Harpy of Headline News
Bring forth your bile and bat-wingèd monkeys, frieeeeend!
Your vile pie-hole, from which your hate spews
With shrieks and grating voice doth hate and foul distemper all o'erspread
Your vaporous prattle taken from your Master's pustulent cues
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Hear Me Hair Helmeted Harpy of Headline News
Bring forth your bile and bat-wingèd monkeys, frieeeeend!
Your vile pie-hole, from which your hate spews
With shrieks and grating voice doth hate and foul distemper all o'erspread
Up to five lines!
Hear Me Hair Helmeted Harpy of Headline News
Bring forth your bile and bat-wingèd monkeys, frieeeeend!
Your vile pie-hole, from which your hate spews
With shrieks and grating voice doth hate and foul distemper all o'erspread
Your vaporous prattle taken from your Master's pustulent cues
Exclusive: After Obama Complaints, CNN Bans James Carville And Paul Begala From Appearing As Analysts Until Dem Primary Is Settled
January 24, 2008 -- 7:11 PM EST // //
Okay, this is interesting. I've just learned that CNN has told top Dem strategists James Carville, Paul Begala, and Robert Zimmerman -- who are CNN mainstays but are all Hillary supporters -- that they will not be doing any more political analysis on the network until the Democratic primary has reached a conclusion.
I'm also told that this move came after the Obama campaign repeatedly complained to high level officials at CNN about the presence of Carville and Begala on the network.
After I reached him today and pointed out that he hadn't been on CNN in some time, Carville confirmed to me that the network had told him that he wouldn't appear until the Dem primary is resolved.
Sam Feist, CNN's political director, also confirmed the decision to me. "As we got closer to the voting, we made a decision to make sure that all the analysts that are on are non-aligned," Feist said, adding that the decision had been made around the start of December. "Carville and Begala are two of the best analysts around and we look forward to seeing them on CNN plenty of times in the future, once the nominating process has ended."
Quote by Raine: I don't know if this is good or bad for Obama: It certainly is fair IMO, for CNN to do this.
Exclusive: After Obama Complaints, CNN Bans James Carville And Paul Begala From Appearing As Analysts Until Dem Primary Is Settled
January 24, 2008 -- 7:11 PM EST // //
Okay, this is interesting. I've just learned that CNN has told top Dem strategists James Carville, Paul Begala, and Robert Zimmerman -- who are CNN mainstays but are all Hillary supporters -- that they will not be doing any more political analysis on the network until the Democratic primary has reached a conclusion.
I'm also told that this move came after the Obama campaign repeatedly complained to high level officials at CNN about the presence of Carville and Begala on the network.
After I reached him today and pointed out that he hadn't been on CNN in some time, Carville confirmed to me that the network had told him that he wouldn't appear until the Dem primary is resolved.
Sam Feist, CNN's political director, also confirmed the decision to me. "As we got closer to the voting, we made a decision to make sure that all the analysts that are on are non-aligned," Feist said, adding that the decision had been made around the start of December. "Carville and Begala are two of the best analysts around and we look forward to seeing them on CNN plenty of times in the future, once the nominating process has ended."
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Hear Me Hair Helmeted Harpy of Headline News
Bring forth your bile and bat-wingèd monkeys, frieeeeend!
Your vile pie-hole, from which your hate spews
With shrieks and grating voice doth hate and foul distemper all o'erspread
Up to five lines!
Hear Me Hair Helmeted Harpy of Headline News
Bring forth your bile and bat-wingèd monkeys, frieeeeend!
Your vile pie-hole, from which your hate spews
With shrieks and grating voice doth hate and foul distemper all o'erspread
Your vaporous prattle taken from your Master's pustulent cues
Doth drain the souless mantle of thy estrogenless muse ... (?)....
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Bring forth your bile and bat-wingèd monkeys, frieeeeend!
Your vile pie-hole, from which your hate spews
With shrieks and grating voice doth hate and foul distemper all o'erspread
Your vaporous prattle taken from your Master's pustulent cues
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This video illustrates a letter sent to John Edwards by Martin L. King III, son of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. To see the letter, go to:
http://www.johnedwards.com/news/20080121-mlk-iii-letter.pdf
The letter is read in the video by J. Eddie Thornton III.
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Quote by BobR: I wonder if we'll see the Monte Carlo "pancake" like the WTC did? That certainly would take the air out of the 9/11 truthers, wouldn't it?
Wouldn't THAT be convenient?...
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I am wondering why the ballagio and NYNY were evacuated and not the others nearby.
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Up to five lines!
Hear Me Hair Helmeted Harpy of Headline News
Bring forth your bile and bat-wingèd monkeys, frieeeeend!
Your vile pie-hole, from which your hate spews
With shrieks and grating voice doth hate and foul distemper all o'erspread
Your vaporous prattle taken from your Master's pustulent cues
Cloaked beneath a cracked veneer of wisdom sage,
Doth drain the souless mantle of thy estrogenless muse ,...
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I am wondering why the ballagio and NYNY were evacuated and not the others nearby.
Maybe ya heard them wrong - CNN was saying that guest from the MOnte Carlo were evacuated too the Belliago and New York
Quote by Raine: Interesting Mala. MSNBC and Drudge reported that they were evacuated.
hmm...
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Bravo Bobber!:tosses roses:
Quote by wickedpam: It was Rick Blackburn who was reporting now they've changed to just people who have sent in pictures from their phones.
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Bravo Bobber!:tosses roses:
Please note that last line was by Raine; I merely included it so that it wasn't lost to the savages of time...
Quote by Raine: Good on the Las Vegas Fire department!!! They did an excellent job!