What A Sad Little Man Bush Is

 And deluded.

Worth reading.

Bush began his talk by comparing himself to President Harry S Truman, who launched the Truman Doctrine to fight communism, got bogged down in the Korean War and left office unpopular.

Bush said that "in years to come they realized he was right and then his doctrine became the standard for America," recalled Senate Majority Whip-elect Richard Durbin, D-Ill. "He's trying to position himself in history and to justify those who continue to stand by him, saying sometimes if you're right you're unpopular, and be prepared for criticism."

Durbin said he challenged Bush's analogy, reminding him that Truman had the NATO alliance behind him and negotiated with his enemies at the United Nations. Durbin said that's what the Iraq Study Group is recommending that Bush do now - work more with allies and negotiate with adversaries on Iraq.

Bush, Durbin said, "reacted very strongly. He got very animated in his response" and emphasized that he is "the commander in chief."

Source: McClatchy Washington Bureau | 12/08/2006 | Democrats frustrated by Bush's reaction to Iraq report

 

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Music For Non Music Lovers

This is great! A web radio site that makes it so easy for the non musically inclined to enjoy music.

Pick the genre, or different genres of music that you would like to sample from the left sidebar, and then pick a mood. You'll like it I'm sure. 

Link to Musicovery : interactive webRadio

 

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Hey Lard-Ass!.... Whatcha cookin' There?

 Lard, The New health food.

In response to the news that New York City's health commissioner had asked local restaurants to stop using cooking oils containing trans fats, comparing them to such hazards as lead and asbestos, Kummer proposed that we bring back lard, "the great misunderstood fat." Lard, he cheerfully reported, contains just 40 percent saturated fat (compared with nearly 60 percent for butter). Its level of monounsaturated fat (the "good" fat) is "a very respectable 45 percent," he noted, "double butter's paltry 23 or so percent." Kummer hinted that if I wanted to appreciate the virtues of this health food, I needed to fry shoestring potatoes or a chicken drumstick.

What did I know about lard? Bupkes. To my generation, the phrase deep fried in pure lard is shorthand for morbid obesity. Born in the '60s and raised in New England, I had consumed as much lard as a resident of Mecca. Okay, I exaggerate. I had eaten a pie crust made with lard and seen the way it flaked under a fork. But I'd eaten nothing fried in lard. "It is absolutely the best for frying," says Fran McCullough, author of The Good Fat Cookbook, an impassioned defense of butter, fish oil and other natural sources of fat. "Nothing crisps food quite as well as lard. Hands down, there's no better fried chicken."

Source: Lard: The New Health Food? | Food & Wine

 

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Want To Know If Your Cell Phone Is Bugged?

 Be sure to read the story from the link below, if you really want to know.

(ooh, a rhyme!)

This discussion doesn't only relate to "legal" bugs but also to the use of such techniques by illegal clandestine operations, and applies to physically unmodified cell phone hardware (not phones that might have had separate, specialized bugs physically installed within them by third parties).

There is no magic in cell phones. From a transmitting standpoint, they are either on or off. It is true that many phones have an alarm feature that permits them to "wake up" from a seemingly "off" state. However, this is not a universal functionality, even in advanced phones such as PDA cell phones, which now often have a "totally off" mode available as well.

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Another clue that a phone may have been transmitting without your permission is if it seems unexpectedly warm. You've probably noticed how most cell phones heat up, especially on longer calls. This is normal, but if you haven't been on any calls for a while and your cell phone is warm as if long calls were in progress, you have another red flag indication of something odd perhaps going on.

Source: Lauren Weinstein's Blog: How To Tell If Your Cell Phone Is Bugged

 

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Is This Really A Joke?

This is a report in the Washington Post by Dana Milbank, a regular guest of Keith Olbermann. So It's possible he was just being humorous. 

Minutes after the Iraq Study Group placed an improvised explosive device beneath the Bush administration's Iraq policy yesterday, panel member Lawrence Eagleburger was asked how President Bush reacted to the recommendations.

"His reaction was, 'Where's my drink?' " the former secretary of state cracked after the commission's White House visit and Capitol Hill news conference. Reaching for his own cola, Eagleburger continued: "He was a little loaded. It was early in the morning, too, you know."

Source: Dana Milbank - In Theater of War, It's Iraq Study Group's Turn to Take the Stage - washingtonpost.com

 

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Gone With the Spin (Wind)

 This will put a smile on your Leftist Commie face...That is if you follow the link at the bottom.

Title Screen: There was a land of Profiteers and Oil Fields called the New South... Here in this petty world, Fealty killed its last sow... Here was the last ever to be seen of individual rights and their basest scares, of disasters that would enslave... Look for it only in neo-con texts, for it is no more than a scheme dismembered. A Machination gone with the spin...

Source: My Left Wing :: Gone With the Spin

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Is Homophobia Associated With Homosexual Arousal?

So true! 

The authors investigated the role of homosexual arousal in exclusively heterosexual men who ad-

mitted negative affect toward homosexual individuals. Participants consisted of a group of homo-

phobic men (n = 35) and a group of nonhomophobic men (n = 29); they were assigned to groups

on the basis of their scores on the Index of Homophobia (W. W. Hudson & W. A. Ricketts, 1980).

The men were exposed to sexually explicit erotic stimuli consisting of heterosexual, male homosex-

ual, and lesbian videotapes, and changes in penile circumference were monitored. They also com-

pleted an Aggression Questionnaire (A. H. Buss & M. Perry, 1992 ). Both groups exhibited increases

in penile circumference to the heterosexual and female homosexual videos. Only the homophobic

men showed an increase in penile erection to male homosexual stimuli. The groups did not differ in

aggression. Homophobia is apparently associated with homosexual arousal that the homophobic

individual is either unaware of or denies.

Source: Is Homophobia Associated With Homosexual Arousal?

 

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Cause' The Bible Tells Me So

Here's a list of the top ten verses that you will never hear preached about in church. 

2. Judges 3:19-25 ESV

And Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly. And the hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not pull the sword out of his belly; and the dung came out.

Comments: Apparently the sword pierced all the way through and something unexpected came out the other side. The author felt this was a necessary detail to include.

Source: Ten Verses Never Preached On at Church Hopping

 

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Carter plays Hardball with Israel

 A video for you.

Jimmy Carter will go down in history as the only American president EVER to call the israeli occupation what it is - HORRENDOUS and APARTHEID.

Source: Carter plays Hardball with Israel | Wake Up From Your Slumber

 

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I Think I Want To Eat... This

Simple chart of food cravings and what you may be missing from your diet.

Here's a short selection, lots more after the jump. 

If you crave this...
What you really need is...
And here are healthy foods that have it:

Chocolate
Magnesium
Raw nuts and seeds, legumes, fruits

Sweets
Chromium
Broccoli, grapes, cheese, dried beans, calves liver, chicken

Carbon
Fresh fruits

Phosphorus
Chicken, beef, liver, poultry, fish, eggs, dairy, nuts, legumes, grains

Sulfur
Cranberries, horseradish, cruciferous vegetables, kale, cabbage

Tryptophan
Cheese, liver, lamb, raisins, sweet potato, spinach

Bread, toast
Nitrogen
High protein foods: fish, meat, nuts, beans

Source: Naturopathyworks - food cravings...

 

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