American businesses faced the biggest annual jump in wholesale prices in 27 years last month, just as the stumbling economy caused consumer spending to drop.
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Barack Obama is for the rest of us
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He just seems to be the perfect (meaning liberal) counterpoint to McCain, with a lot more experience and knowledge than McCain in foreign policy matters. Howard Fineman argued Biden's case at MSNBC a couple hours ago: Within the last few...
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Apparently, Chris Kattan's marriage is a not-ready-for-prime-time player. The former Saturday Night Live star and his wife, model Sunshine Tutt, have split just eight weeks after their wedding. "They...
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Note that in the furor over McCain's absence from the supposed "cone of silence" at the Saddleback forum last Saturday night, the McCain campaign is repeatedly stating that McCain did not hear any of the proceedings... but they aren't saying he wasn't coached or fed the questions by someone who did hear the broadcast, are they...?
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During Saturday night's forum in Saddleback, Senator John McCain was asked what income level constituted "rich" - and he answered $5 million or more. Other millionaires ($2 million... $3 million,... $4 million...) aren't rich, in McCain's view, and shouldn't be taxed as if they were... It makes you wonder just how out of touch John McCain is with most of Americans. So does this video...
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Depends on the suspect.
KSM, yes. OBL, yes. Some random guy caught on the field of battle, no. (And there'd likely be no reason to waterboard the random guy for info.)
1. Posted by Peter F. | July 3, 2008 10:48 PM
Posted on July 3, 2008 22:48
That he willingly submitted himself to it gives us an idea of how tortuous this torture is on the torture scale. I await Hitch's first hand comparison to having bamboo shoved in orifices, knuckles broken under screws and toe nail pulled by pliers.
Somewhere higher on the scale than Cardinal Biggles Comfy Chair, but well below any of the above examples. I am not sure where a John Tesh and Kenny G double billing would rate... I personally would take a water boarding session of the same duration and severity (and the same knowledge that no, they aren't really hostile to me) that Hitch endured, over the adult contemporary session.
2. Posted by SCSIwuzzy | July 5, 2008 8:55 AM
Posted on July 5, 2008 08:55
I didn't know there was a torture scale, SCSI. I just thought torture was morally reprehensible and that our military didn't practice it.
3. Posted by Ryan | July 7, 2008 2:41 AM
Posted on July 7, 2008 02:41