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AP Newsbreak: SC Governor ‘Crossed Lines’ with Women Tamara Lush & Evan Berland, AP, June 30, 2009. Criminal Probe Darkens Sanford’s Political Prospects Patrick Jonsson, Christian Science Monitor, June 30, 2009. Sanford Admits to More Contact with Mistress Chris Cillizza, The Fix, Washington Post, June 30, 2009. GOP’s Coleman Concedes, Sending Franken to Senate Brain Bakst, AP, June 30, 2009.
Herd About It? by Ana Grarian I’ve been reading an article in Harper’s magazine (June 2009) about feeding the almost 1 billion starving people of the world (Let Them Eat Cash by Frederick Kaufman). I was struck by one paragraph “..almost none of the food riots had emerged from a lack of food. There was plenty of food. The riots had been generated by a lack of money to buy food, and therein lay what may have distinguished today’s hunger from the hunger of years past.” The world produces enough food to feed the world twice over.
“Davis lives in St. Charles County, one of the wealthiest districts in Missouri. If she doesnt see hunger and poverty where she lives, in her mind it doesnt exist.” – ChattahBox, “Republican Missouri Rep. Derides Gov. Spending to Feed Hungry Children: They can Get Free Food at Church or Get a Job!” June 22, 2009. “Davis is correct, hunger can be a motivator. One hopes it ‘motivates’ folks to replace her next election, those that hunger for better leadership in Missouri.” – Comment by garyro on June 23rd, 2009 8:39 am at ChattahBox.com.
Although kept secret, Scribe’s spy fly on the wall recorded the results of an investigation… “Wait, ‘assistant’ means you ‘assist.’ Why don’t you have his clothes off yet?” “I… just… couldn’t…” “Big fan?” “No, I just found him CREEPY.”
Found this at BC. It was so good: couldn’t resist. I think someone could have a lot of fun with another idea I heard on Thom Hartmann’s show. A caller suggested someone do a spoof on the old 70′s show and call it Sanford and Hon. How does a guy wind up getting a girlfriend way the hell down in Argentina, anyway? Do Right Wingers make such connections while visiting old Nazis, or what?
There’s Justice for the Mark Sanford’s and Then There’s Justice for the Rest of Us “The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.” – Lady Marguerite Blessington The Tattlesnake isn’t quite as forgiving as was Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter on Keith Olbermann’s Countdown June 26. Alter said he felt sorry for Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) and concluded he was a ‘nice guy.’ Sanford’s having an extramarital affair is really none of our business, and even his lying about it, to an extent, is understandable, but there are some other dimensions to the lurid Sanford saga that display a ‘public servant’ who is considerably less than what most would consider a ‘nice guy,’ aside from his towering hypocrisy. First there was his attempt to deny $700 million in federal financial aid to South Carolina’s schoolchildren and unemployed, merely to score political points with the GOP base with an eye to a 2012 presidential nomination. That doesn’t sound very ‘nice’ to me. Then there’s the fact that, after all of the soap-opera revelations regarding his affair with a married Argentinean woman, and outrageous lies concerning his whereabouts as he disappeared for…
To provide my own dull wit to a word, why is it whenever I hear “Ockham,” I want to say “bless you?” From answers.com… Ockham’s Razor: (Note: apparently, according to Answers, both “Occam” and “Ockham” work. I had always spelled it “Occam,” and found out after I had changed it to “Ockham” my correction fetish doesn’t always serve me well when editing.) A rule in science and philosophy stating that entities should not be multiplied needlessly. This rule is interpreted to mean that the simplest of two or more competing theories is preferable and that an explanation for unknown phenomena should first be attempted in terms of what is already known. Also called law of parsimony. I am here, typing this now, to argue with a certain interpretation of the Razor, and maybe even whether it is true at all. How many times have you heard “Occam’s Razor proves?” Occam’s Razor proves nothing. It suggests. I even argue with that suggestion. I suppose it boils down to this question… how many real simple answers are there? Occam’s Razor is often used for 9/11.
The Sharpest Knife in the Drawer
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