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Wednesday, September 21, 2005
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Three years, ago, here's what our "president" was saying about Saddam:
Today this regime likely maintains stockpiles of chemical and
biological agents, and is improving and expanding facilities capable of
producing chemical and biological weapons. Today Saddam Hussein has
the scientists and infrastructure for a nuclear weapons program, and
has illicitly sought to purchase the equipment needed to enrich uranium
for a nuclear weapon. Should his regime acquire fissile material, it
would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year.
(Via Jim Lippard's Blog.)
11:21:58 PM 
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In today's San Francisco Chronicle, David Lazarus writes a good piece taking a skeptical look at three warm & fuzzy ads from the September 5 New Yorker. It's hard to tell what they're selling, except this is clear:
"Honest people don't tell you they're honest," Manning observed. "Cool
people don't say that they're cool. We should all be wondering why these guys
feel a burning need to tell us how good they are."
Good reading.
11:19:34 PM
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How convenient. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a potential presidential candidate in 2008, sold all his stock in his family's hospital corporation about two weeks before it issued a disappointing earnings report and the price fell nearly 15 percent. Frist held an undisclosed amount of stock in Hospital Corporation of America, based in Nashville, Tenn., the nation's largest for-profit hospital chain. On June 13, he instructed the trustee managing the assets to sell his HCA shares and those of his wife and children, said Amy Call, a spokeswoman for Frist.
(Via Daily Kos.)
8:34:19 PM
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 Last week, after “more than an hour of solemn ceremony” swearing in Rep. Marco Rubio (R-FL) as House speaker, Gov. Jeb Bush stepped to the podium to tell “a short story about ‘unleashing Chang,’ his ‘mystical warrior’ friend.”
Below, courtesy of the Gainesville Sun, are Bush’s words, “spoken before hundreds of lawmakers and politicians”:
“Chang is a mystical warrior. Chang is somebody who believes in conservative principles, believes in entrepreneurial capitalism, believes in moral values that underpin a free society.
“I rely on Chang with great regularity in my public life. He has been by my side and sometimes I let him down. But Chang, this mystical warrior, has never let me down.”
Bush then unsheathed a golden sword and gave it to Rubio as a gift.
‘’I'm going to bestow to you the sword of a great conservative warrior,'’ he said, as the crowd roared.
To find out more about Jeb’s condition, click here.
(Via Think Progress.)
8:34:11 PM
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Check out Lisa Rein's latest podcast, Songs from the Commons, on MondoGlobo.net:
This episode’s focus is the term of Copyright - How it started at 14
years, renewable once to 28 years, and how it ended up being 70 years
past the death of the creator/95 years past date of publication for
works for hire.
My take is that they always seem to extend the copyright just about the time Mickey Mouse would enter public domain.
10:42:53 AM
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