political nonsense

there is no news today.
we are all giving each other underwear
or being trampled to death in the last minute
i like presents.

70.6 percent of husbands are obese.

Bush declared of Rumsfeld, “I know Secretary Rumsfeld’s heart. He’s a good, decent man.”

Upon his retirement from Now, Moyers told the Associated Press,

“I’m going out telling the story that I think is the biggest story of our time: how the right-wing media has become a partisan propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee.”

He went on to say,

“We have an ideological press that’s interested in the election of Republicans, and a mainstream press that’s interested in the bottom line. Therefore, we don’t have a vigilant, independent press whose interest is the American people.”

When asked whether he thought Bin Laden was trying to taunt the United States and Saudi Arabia, Powell replied, “He’s a terrorist. That’s what terrorists do. He’s a criminal, he’s a terrorist, he’s a murderer.

While exercising, you should feel hot and sweat slightly, but still be able to have a conversation.

Bloggers have their own Web sites, on which they write frequently updated posts, almost like online diaries. The postings are about current events, culture, technology or their own lives. Many of their postings contain links to relevant sites.

relevant site

the next reality show

From April to September, the cameras traveled from hand to hand through every region of the country. What eventually came back to the three Americans was 450 hours of raw video; edited down to a 80 minutes. (not one frame of it influenced by an outside director or crew)

Things are looking up in Iraq, as the Iraqis themselves will be happy to tell you. All someone had to do was ask.

Heroin and cocaine are really cheap right now.

The Canadian Supreme Court approved legislation allowing for gay marriage.

Last week President Bush took a trip to Canada and was coerced to eat local beef, announcing afterwards that he was “still standing.”

Specialist Thomas Wilson, a scout with a Tennessee National Guard unit scheduled to roll into Iraq this week, said soldiers had to scrounge through local landfills here for pieces of rusty scrap metal and bulletproof glass – what they called “hillbilly armor” – A senior officer in Specialist Wilson’s unit, Col. John Zimmerman, said later that 95 percent of the unit’s more than 300 trucks had insufficient armor.

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told troops today that “you go to war with the Army you have.”

“I’m a soldier and I’ll do this on a bicycle if I have to, but we need help,” said Specialist Wilson, 31. Colonel Zimmerman said

A classified cable sent by the Central Intelligence Agency’s station chief in Baghdad has warned that the situation in Iraq is deteriorating and may not rebound anytime soon, according to government officials. They also said its basic conclusions had been echoed in briefings presented by a senior CIA official who recently visited Iraq.

Rumsfeld says we might be out in four years.

more than a decade ago, Wal-Mart set its sights on conquering the globe with a mix of cheaply produced goods, discount prices and aggressive store growth.

John C. Danforth resigned as the United States ambassador to the United Nations…”In November,” Mr. Grenell said, “he said to me that there are many people who can be United States ambassador to the U.N., but there is only one person who can be Sally Danforth’s husband.”

Christmas is coming up. just ignore it.

The man charged with murdering six other hunters and wounding two in Wisconsin last week is a Hmong shaman who has called on the spirit world in trances that last up to three hours, his friends and family say…

“He danced on a small table for about two hours,” said Mr. Xiong, an employee of an audio technology business in nearby Bloomington. “He was calling out the whole time, not to people in the room, but to the other world. My job was to sit near the table to make sure he did not fall off.”

What Makes People Happy? TV and Solitude, Study Says

Mr. Ridge, best known to the public as the official who announced changes to the color-coded terrorism alert system resigned…after 22 years in public service, including more than three in which he presumably spent nearly every waking moment contemplating the possibility of another attack.