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Milky Way is a Dangerous, Turbulent Place. After 15 years of observation, over the course of more than 1,000 nights, a European team of astronomers has collected the most thorough survey of our local stellar neighborhood. The team performed an analysis of more than 14,000 stars to calculate their distance, age, chemical analysis, velocity and orbit around the Milky Way. Each star was measured 4 times over the course of this period. It turns out that the motion of stars through the Milky Way is much more chaotic and turbulent than previously thought. [Universe Today]
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Buffalo Bill's. Buffalo Bill's
defunct
who used to
ride a watersmooth-silver
stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
Jesus
he was a handsome man
and what i want to know is
how do you like your blueeyed boy
Mister Death
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7:26:28 PM Permalink
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The 13 Bush Scandals. After reading John Dean's Worse Than Watergate, Dan Conley lists 13 scandals "that could wreck the Bush Presidency." Conley, a Democrat, says "these are the 13 issues for us to hammer on in the months ahead. Let the Kerry campaign stick to the issues and the high road, it's up... [Taegan Goddard's Political Wire]
Every one -- every one! -- of these scandal is worse that Monicagate which obsessed the Republicans for two years.
12:56:25 PM Permalink
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Another day, reports of another cover-up. Maybe there's a good spin for this, but I can't think of one. While working with Environmental Protection Agency officials to write regulations for coal-fired power plants over several recent months, White House staff members played down the toxic effects of mercury, hundreds of pages of documents and e-mail messages show. The staff members deleted or modified information on mercury that employees of the environmental agency say was drawn largely from a 2000 report by the National Academy of Sciences that Congress had commissioned to settle the scientific debate about... [The Carpetbagger Report]
11:59:50 AM Permalink
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What Scott McClellan said -- and what he didn't -- about Rice's testimony. In his March 9 press briefing last month, White House press secretary Scott McClellan was asked whether Condi Rice would be allowed to testify before the 9/11 Commission. McClellan insisted that the Commission hasn't fully appreciated or respected Rice's efforts to cooperate in the past. Dr. Rice sat down, was scheduled for I believe a two-hour interview -- sat down for I think it was more than four hours that she actually visited with the commission. She was more than happy to visit with the commission. Only five members actually... [The Carpetbagger Report]
10:09:42 AM Permalink
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No, no -- it's a secret speech. You know, like Kruschev's.. According to MSNBC, the 9/11 commission has asked the White House for the infamous speech
Condi Rice was to deliver on September 11, 2001. The White House says
it won't hand it over, because such "draft documents" are confidential.
Got that? The speech is confidential.
Josh Marshall comments:
Unless the argument is that we can't let our enemies know
the depth of the poor judgment displayed by the president's national
security team it is searchingly hard to fathom what possible national
security issue could be implicated by handing over the speech since it
was -- do we have to say it? -- a speech! A speech for public
consumption.
Like almost all the other restrictions the White House has placed
on the Commission, this is just so they won't be embarrassed
politically. They don't like the Commission. Again and again they
display open contempt for its work. They didn't want it created in the
first place. And they've tried to obstruct its work at almost every
turn.
All that's different here is that the political nature of the obstruction is undeniable. [Hit & Run]
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© Copyright 2004 Steve Michel.
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