Now the government is targeting unmarried adults up to age 29 as part of its abstinence-only programs, which include millions of dollars in federal money that will be available to the states under revised federal grant guidelines for 2007. ~USA Today
The only way Bill Nelson could lose this is if he got himself in a drug-induced stupor and ran naked down the main street of his home town.
But for goodness' sake, as Abramowitz was smart enough to demonstrate, people who live in Bethesda, Chevy Chase, and Manhattan should understand that in much of red America, Rove is beloved and respected, and they should ask themselves why that is
No political subdivision of the state may regulate hunting, trapping, or fishing by local ordinance; provided, however, that a local government shall not be prohibited from exercising its management rights over real property owned or leased by it for purposes of prohibiting hunting, fishing, or trapping upon the property or for purposes of setting times when access to the property for purposes of hunting, fishing, or trapping in accordance with this title may be permitted. Nothing contained in this Code section shall prohibit municipalities or counties, by ordinance, resolution, or other enactment, from reasonably limiting or prohibiting the discharge of firearms within the boundaries of the political subdivision for purposes of public safety. ~O.C.G.A. 27-1-3
Rovers vs West Ham and it's on FSC. YAY!
Falcons at Cincy
The city team trivia championship.
And wrapping up with a podcast party.
My brain is not used to this much activity on a Sunday.
Mr. Crist's optimism and his undisputed reputation as a very decent man and good judge of character are strong selling points in this important race, and we recommend him as a solid choice for temperate voters of both parties.
In September, police in the Georgia towns of Perry and Americus were investigating incidents probably involving the same unnamed man, who provided an additional dimension to the typical foot-fetishist: religion. An 80-year-old Wal-Mart shopper in Perry reported that the man was sitting on the floor of an aisle and asked her for help with his "religious" ritual. The lady accommodated him by stepping on his hands and then spitting on him, but when he began to lick her feet, she called for help.
Ken Mehlman just said on CNN that Jim Talent supports stem cell research but he just doesn't think the government should pay for it. ~thus sayeth Digby
Denying committed same-sex couples the financial and social benefits and privileges given to their married heterosexual counterparts bears no substantial relationship to a legitimate governmental purpose. The Court holds that under the equal protection guarantee of Article I, Paragraph 1 of the New Jersey Constitution, committed same-sex couples must be afforded on equal terms the same rights and benefits enjoyed by opposite-sex couples under the civil marriage statutes.
Jodi is "a great Army wife," Brad adds. But they both worry about how they will adjust to life as a family again. "He may think I've used bad judgment but I have to make decisions," says Jodi. "He isn't here, so it's too bad. I've been alone for over a year and in some ways we are mourning someone who is gone and have to get on with our lives. They need to come home. This needs to come to an end because it's tearing families apart."... The 172nd Stryker Brigade is scheduled to return home in December. But at a recent meeting with families of the 4-23 at their base in Alaska, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he couldn't promise that would happen. For Jodi, the uncertain wait can only be adding to the strain.
In Vietnam and Korea, the average soldier spent less than a year overseas..The grunts who fought in the 1991 Gulf War rejoined their families after a few months in the desert. In Iraq, much of the burden has fallen on older reservists and National Guardsmen, many of whom have gone back for second or third tours.
It's ain't real! True butter comes from a cow!
I think gay marriage should be allowed if there's a ceremony kind of thing if you want to call it that. I don't have any problem with that...I think private ceremonies are fine. I do not think gay marriage should be legal.
Fishing and hunting. The tradition of fishing and hunting and the taking of fish and wildlife shall be preserved for the people and shall be managed by law and regulation for the public good
We literally do not know a single Iraqi family that has not seen the violent death of a first or second-degree relative these last three years. Abductions, militias, sectarian violence, revenge killings, assassinations, car-bombs, suicide bombers, American military strikes, Iraqi military raids, death squads, extremists, armed robberies, executions, detentions, secret prisons, torture, mysterious weapons – with so many different ways to die, is the number so far fetched?
As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else," Santorum said, describing the tool the evil Lord Sauron used in search of the magical ring that would consolidate his power over Middle Earth. "It's being drawn to Iraq and it's not being drawn to the U.S.," Santorum continued. "You now what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the Eye to come back here to the United States.
"I am even selling my home," Harris told the Sentinel's Ludmilla Lelis before aspeech in Daytona Beach. "I'm committed."
“You travel around the state and talk to any of the growers, whether it’s here, whether it’s in Ft. Valley in the peaches or in onion fields in Vidalia. There’s huge issues with labor,” he said. Immigration for one, he said: The labor department under current Commissioner Mike Thurmond often sends out illegal workers to farmers.
If dumb Congress members were the X-Men, Harris would be their Wolverine—a mutant possessing fearsome skills, the product of a demented government experiment gone horribly wrong.
Just look at all the wasteful things the federal government does with taxpayers' money, he tells them. "The National Endowment for the Arts, for example, funds art involving people doing offensive things ... things that are absolutely ridiculous." One student asks, "Like what?" "Buttf*cking," replies the great scourge of obscenity and instructor of youth.
It's innate in me to be a Democrat — a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There's not a lot of those anymore," McGraw tells Time magazine in its Oct. 23 issue. "The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and
the poor in our country. The chasm is getting larger between haves and have-nots, and that's something we need to close down a little bit,"
I had weird dreams last night including ones of football. Not good old fashioned American football but English football. I guess my recent re-reading of Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby is in competition with my couch slug ten hours of NFL watching sunday ways.
Having just read again about Hillsborough, I shouldn't find the following funny, but I do admit to snickering a bit as I read the Rovers website tips for fans travelling to Krakow, Poland for the next UEFA match.
You will not be allowed to enter the stadium if you have drunk alcohol or if you are under the influence of alcohol...You must NOT: Drink alcohol in the place and time of mass gatherings, in the streets, squares, parks, enter the stadium with alcoholic beverages...If you are drunk you will not be allowed to enter the stadium!!!
I would think one warning would be enough. Maybe even two. But three punctuated by three exclamation points? Then again, I've had nightmares of ending up in the Atlanta drunk pokey. Could you imagine the nightmare of ending up in the Krakow drunk pokey?
Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy -- almost impenetrable forests of marijuana plants 10 feet tall.
Three lethal school shootings in a single week. Seven innocents dead, including five little girls in an Amish schoolhouse. Several more incidents around the country of children bringing guns to school, the latest a seventh- grader who brought and fired an assault weapon in his Missouri school on Monday...That is the reality of unfettered gun access in America ~Maureen Downey, Atlanta Journal Constitution
The State Board of Education on Tuesday approved public school curriculum guidelines that support the teaching of evolution in science classes — but not intelligent design...Intelligent design instruction could be left for other classes in Michigan schools, but it doesn't belong in science class, according to the unanimously adopted guidelines.
That spells crazy!
Katherine Harris staff actually issued a press release that she was ahead of Bill Nelson in a particular poll. You might want to question the veracity of that poll as it cost 25 bucks to vote and age apparently was not a limitation.
M-O-O-N!
A slightly more scientific poll has Nelson up by 28 points.
M-O-O-N!
South again. This time to the wilds of south Georgia. There are accountants to see, banks to talk to and grass to cut."You just knew it would be good. You knew it would be irresistible. But this has every f*cking thing. Sex, drugs, corruption. And none of it--none of it, Henry, My man-is clear-cut venality. It's all kind of human and awful and sad."
Daddy Earl was wearing what appeared to be a "flagger" hat with the logo "SONNY LIED!".
Life is weird.
UPDATE: You can watch the video HERE.
It's too late for the Democrats to forge coherent positions on Iraq or tax policy before the November elections. But fortune has presented them with a mission that can be summed up in a simple sentence: They must be the party of accountability and reform.
Harris noted those e-mails were not explicit and stressed that the St. Petersburg Times saw the same ones..."You all knew about it as well, and apparently it wasn't enough to go forward. I still find that creepy, but (not) sexually explicit," Harris said. "If any news organization knew about (lurid messages) and did not inform the authorities...then I hope they get prosecuted
....the Miami Herald and the St. Petersburg Times had that same email,
they decided they couldn't run with it, they decided it was innocuous...
Republicans in Florida do not plan to spend any money to defend the seat once held by Mr. Foley, effectively conceding it to the Democratic challenger, Tim Mahoney.
In an interview published by a Christian news service, Harris said that incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson "claims to be a Christian" but supports policies completely contrary to what we say we believe."
Nelson issued a statement this week, saying, "My faith is the essence of my being. But it is a part of my life I don't feel I should try to take advantage of in the public square."
"I'm not going to take a lecture on morality from a party that took hush money from a child predator."
But editors at The Miami Herald and The St. Petersburg Times apparently had the same e-mails others did last year and thought them not worth pursuing.
Opinions, even of a hyperbolic nature, are to be expected in the editorial pages. Blatant falsehoods are not. Unlike some in the new media, traditional media sources such as print still exercise editorial filters and restraint. The St. Pete Times appropriately chose to exercise restraint. Something as a career newpaperman Jim Wooten should understand.
I am following up with an email to AJC Public Editor Angela Tuck since I for one want to understand how something like this would happen and will there be consequences.
Tyson Vivyan, 26, of Buckhead said Foley began sending him instant messages about a month or two after his nine-month stint as a page ended in June 1997.
"Clinton commuted the sentence of Mel Reynolds, a convicted sex offender, where was the outrage then?"
Harris: We are going to be very interested to find out who in the media or on the other side of the aisle knew about this and kept it from the public interest because our children were at stake.
Democrat response: The scandal surrounding Mark Foley's sexually explicit emails have forced many in the House of Representatives to begin donating money their campaigns received from Foley to charity - but apparently not Katherine Harris. The Republican Congresswoman is holding on to $2,000 in campaign contributions she got from the disgraced Congressman.
Several state law enforcement officers came out Saturday supporting gubernatorial candidate Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor at a Democratic function at the Colquitt Tower but wouldn’t release their names to The Moultrie Observer, saying they were afraid Gov. Sonny Perdue would fire them.
The difference in myself and Gov. Perdue is that I’m willing to invest in the criminal justice system. I would not have gone four years as governor without building a prison. I would not have allowed the state patrol, the GBI and the corrections system to be devastated by personnel cuts. I’m not going to just talk the talk like a bunch of them do in Atlanta, I’m going to walk the walk.”
A review of White House records has determined that George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, did brief Condoleezza Rice and other top officials on July 10, 2001, about the looming threat from Al Qaeda, a State Department spokesman said Monday....Now, after several days, both current and former Bush administration officials have confirmed parts of Mr. Woodward’s account.
"[I]t's not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill. And there have been other scandals, as you know, that have been more than simply naughty e-mails.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan guerrilla war can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Taliban and their supporters into the Afghan government.... The Tennessee
Republican said he had learned from briefings that Taliban fighters were too numerous and had too much popular support to be defeated by military means
"This election is not about Mark Foley. Mark Foley is not an issue in this election,'' Joe Negron optimistically declared moments after his campaign for Foley's seat began...
A TV reporter asked the second question: "Mr. Foley - er, Mr.
Negron""
Organizers of the group, Scientists and Engineers for America, said it would be nonpartisan, but in interviews several said Bush administration science policies had led them to act.Scientists have been working in the grass roots for years fighting ignorance and failing science standards. It's rare they band together to present a coordinated defense. Generally, most would rather have a nail driven through their left eye than get into the political arena (unless they are fighting for funding of course). A notable exception has been the NCSE in the evolution battles.
Matthew Loraditch, a page in the 2001-2002 class, told ABC News he and
other pages were warned about Foley by a supervisor.
Bush had eight months but Clinton had eight years.
"Shoot, we're on welfare," said Houston, the Miller County cotton farmer. "We're no different than people driving up to the welfare center and getting food stamps."It's not simple issue. Subsidies do create artifically low market prices. So even if on principle you disagree with subsisdies, are you prepraed to pay $8 for a jar of peanut butter?
