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Last night on their News and Events page, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children had placed this statement:
Congressman Mark Foley’s resignation is a great loss to Florida and the nation. He has been a hard-working, dedicated and effective Congressman. He will be missed.
Now they have:
Congressman Mark Foley’s resignation is a loss [...]

Isn’t this just too damn perfect that Republican Rep. Mark Foley of Florida, founder and co-chair of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, has today resigned over sexually explicit internet messages he was sending to current and former congressional pages under the age of 18, making repeated references to sex organs and acts?
Foley [...]

The NY Times editorial Rushing Off a Cliff nutshells the new torture bill. Though it’s appalling what was voted through yesterday, it’s far from surprising, considering the paths not taken. A case where the fine and big print in the tea leaves was seen by too many as not a warning but a [...]

Check out Bag News Note for a comparison of Newsweek’s U.S.A. cover for the week, an article on Annie Leibovitz’ My Life in Pictures, with the European, Asian and Latin American covers, Losing Afghanistan. Bag News Note takes exception with Leibovitz, Newsweek and Random House for trading on Sontag’s privacy, memory and, in a [...]

I don’t know why, when trying to think of how to describe Sondra Prill, Alice puzzling over which side of the mushroom to eat comes to mind. Maybe it’s the uncertainty of whether fate will take you to the home for which you long or drop you in disaster’s lap.
Came upon the below at [...]

Jim Stratton’s Katherine Harris’ secret pal? which appears in the Orlando Sentinel’s political blog Sept 26, is about curious comments supporting Harris that have appeared on some blogss, the question being whether she was outsourcing to India for comment spamming.
I posted about receiving some of these comments on the 15th after [...]

Tuesday AM 9:14 and what are my browsers open to at the moment?
9/11 Mysteries via Suburban Guerilla, which I’ve not had an opportunity to look at yet but I doubt it will be anything I’ve not seen before.
Levis, because I’m badly in need of some jeans (I’ve got one Old Navy pair that I like, [...]

The film opens with credits running over trees bent with wind and rain, McCabe (Warren Beatty) covered in a heavy, head to toe bear fur coat, riding into the mountain mining wilderness town of Presbyterian Church. To the music of Leonard Cohen, “Stranger Song”, the first building encountered is a lone church [...]

Well, how do you like this piece of spam that shows up in my email box? The sender name is “Dead”, the title is “Democracy Action”, and the spam is one of those investment “opportunity” things.
Yeah, it’s just words to throw the spam filter off but it’s…well…that’s some combination of letters.

I’ve never applied stage make-up before and didn’t do a very good job of it. Had only a triangular sponge, no brushes, and I neglected to add setting powder. And it’s tough applying make-up to an 8-year-old boy who has never had make-up applied, who never stops moving, who keeps saying that tickles, [...]