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Suicide car bomber kills 35 at Afghan clinic
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Physical altercation(s) alleged between 'deliberating' Wisconsin state supreme court justices
This was apparently part of the recent split decision by the court to allow the state of Wisconsin to carry through on recently legislated severe limitation of state/public union relationships. Details so far available are the usual he said/she said b.s. Unfortunately 6 of the 7 state justices were present for the incident, which means there will be 14 or so bits of testimony to sort through. If we're lucky, someone one the scene made a video, but I doubt it. The initial 'leak' was to Wisconsin Public Radio and the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism in a typical back door media smear operation. Of course no charges have been filed nor have police reports been made. Read article for details.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/27/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Blagojevich: Guilty on 17 counts
Prosecutors wanted the verdict to be announced although the jury hadn't reached a verdict on two counts, and the judge agreed.
Headline changed from "Blagojevich jurors agree on 18 counts" @ 15:20
Guilty on 17 counts -- that's about 20 hours of community service in Chicago.
Posted by: ryuge || 06/27/2011 13:02 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  “I’ve got this thing and it’s fucking golden, and, uh, uh, I’m just not giving it up for fuckin’ nothing. I’m not gonna do it. And, and I can always use it. I can parachute me there.”

not so much, now, Hair-Helmet-Boy?
Posted by: Frank G || 06/27/2011 16:57 Comments || Top||

#2  SOB will be extorting the prison librarian in 3 months, you watch. He'll thrive.
Posted by: S || 06/27/2011 17:29 Comments || Top||

#3  King Rat, elect.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 06/27/2011 17:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Tell me again why repealing the 17th Amendment is such a good idea? This is what you'll go back to, hack appoints without any chance of choice.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/27/2011 18:39 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe he'll get John Edwards as a roommate. They can trade hair care tips.
Posted by: CincinnatusChili || 06/27/2011 19:41 Comments || Top||


Government to sell SuperFerries needed by Navy
Posted by: Water Modem || 06/27/2011 01:50 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Feds plan stealth calls to doctor's offices
Obama administration officials are recruiting a team of “mystery shoppers” to pose as patients, call doctors’ offices and request appointments.

According to government documents obtained from Obama administration officials, the mystery shoppers will call medical practices and ask if doctors are accepting new patients and, if so, how long the wait would be. The government is eager to know whether doctors give different answers to callers depending on whether they have public insurance, like Medicaid, or private insurance, like Blue Cross and Blue Shield.

Dr. George J. Petruncio, a family doctor in Turnersville, N.J., said: “This is not a way to build trust in government. Why should I trust someone who does not correctly identify himself?”
Doctor's office need to screen the callers better, ask every one "Are you working for the government? Are you a genuine patient or a stealth caller?" Ever since the Emancipation Proclamation, it's been hard to get good cheap help. The Mass. Med. Society found a slight majority of internists & family physicians not accepting new patients. This new Obama initiative should push that figure much higher.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/27/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Doctor's office need to screen the callers better...

Watching COPS etc, the first question out of a working girl's mouth is "Are you law enforcement?". We're certainly in the proverbial toilet when our medical practitioners have to ask the same question. So much for 'consenting adults'. /sarc
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/27/2011 9:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Is this even a question?

I had a full meal deal at one point, dentist couldn't wait to see me, got charged out the enamal. I would bet my jaw that out of all the people in the waiting room I was the only one not only with insurance but who would pay. No wonder in my mind why I got the red carpet and experimental techniques, had to make up that lost revenue.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/27/2011 14:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Doctors have time to talk to strangers about medical procedures over the phone?

Picking a fight with the folks who run the medical system sounds like a winning strategy.
Posted by: Skunky Glin**** || 06/27/2011 15:48 Comments || Top||

#4  got charged out the enamal Must be a combination of dental & medical procedures that are anatomically impossible.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/27/2011 16:18 Comments || Top||


Obama Administration Passes DREAM ACT by Executive Memo
H/T HotAir

“A new enforcement memo handed down by the director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week has some accusing the White House of running around Congress to implement the DREAM Act – and consequent amnesty for some illegal immigrants – by executive fiat.

The new memo, penned by ICE Director John Morton, directs ICE agents, attorneys and directors to exercise “prosecutorial discretion” – meaning less likelihood of deportation – for illegal aliens who have been students in the U.S., who have been in the country since childhood or who have served in the American military.”

Posted by: Sherry || 06/27/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  First the gun running, then this.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/27/2011 0:37 Comments || Top||

#2  This should be an impeachable offense. Obama, no matter who he thinks he is, does not have the right to pick an choose which laws he is sworn to uphold. He should be compelled to enforce the law and if he doesn't he should be compelled to resign.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/27/2011 0:48 Comments || Top||

#3  ...or who have served in the American military."

That's already been provided for. Another example of hiding behind a popular phrase to cover other criminal acts of betrayal.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/27/2011 8:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, he's gonna need their votes in 2012.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/27/2011 12:00 Comments || Top||

#5  He is acting more and more like a Roman emperor with a Senate that isn't willing to put a check on his power.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/27/2011 15:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Next thing you know he will try dispaching his stormtroopers (SEIU) to polling places to insure that there are no Identification or Registration checks - and that everybody gets the necessary 'assistance' to vote [the correct way].
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/27/2011 15:35 Comments || Top||

#7  CF,

Been there...done that only it was the Black Panthers along with SEIU.

The idiot has even lost Oprah's endorsement...how low can you go? He's toast but like any cornered animal..he can do a lot of damage on the way down...not that he hasn't already...
Posted by: Warthog || 06/27/2011 17:58 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Byrd flys the bounds of earth at 92.
Robert Byrd dead at 92.
While he vexed me to no end, I wish his family sympathy for their grief.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/27/2011 15:16 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hey Darth! that query failed. Thought you might want to know.
Posted by: Dale || 06/27/2011 16:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Okay, so he's been punchin' chunks in the hereafter for a year now. Back on Earth it will still be a hundred years before his name is finally stricken off all the innumerable federal temples, backhouses and knocking shops on which it is inscribed.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 06/27/2011 16:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Ummm, Darth? That's kinda old news.

Might want to look into Ted Kennedy, though - he's getting up there. ;-p

/meow
Posted by: Barbara || 06/27/2011 16:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Yep, dead. The stake is place and the garlic reaks.
The Crucifix and Mogen David are intact on the lid.

Posted by: S || 06/27/2011 17:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Gah!
Sorry. I saw it on a banner as breaking news on a website.

Well, he is still dead Jim.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/27/2011 21:18 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2011-06-27
  Suicide car bomber kills 35 at Afghan clinic
Sun 2011-06-26
  25 killed in beer garden attack in Nigeria
Sat 2011-06-25
  60 dead in Afghanistan hospital bombing
Fri 2011-06-24
  Syrian Army Enters Village Bordering Turkey, Hundreds Flee
Thu 2011-06-23
  AL chief slams NATO bombing in Libya
Wed 2011-06-22
  Obama Opts for Faster Afghan Pullout
Tue 2011-06-21
  Assad holds hard line on unrest
Mon 2011-06-20
  Syrian dissidents set up 'national council'
Sun 2011-06-19
  Yemeni Government, Opposition Meet in Europe as Unrest Continues
Sat 2011-06-18
  Nigeria's Islamists Claim Suicide Bombing
Fri 2011-06-17
  Abu Bakr Bashir gets 15 years
Thu 2011-06-16
  Pakistan army denies major's arrest for CIA links
Wed 2011-06-15
  Pakistan Arrests C.I.A. Informants in Bin Laden Raid
Tue 2011-06-14
  Germany recognises rebels as representing Libya
Mon 2011-06-13
  Syrian Army Attacks Jisr al-Shughour


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