As I stated
here - "I believe this circus the Democrats are creating over Tom Delay is going to cost them dearly" -- here we go... GOP calls Nancy Pelosi's ethics stance hypocritical.
House Republicans called Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi a hypocrite yesterday for not demanding investigations into new ethics questions that have arisen about the travel of her fellow Democrats.
"She demanded an investigation into [Majority Leader] Tom DeLay, but hasn't said a word about these Democrats who have done the same thing," said Rep. Patrick T. McHenry, North Carolina Republican. "If she doesn't call for investigations into her fellow Democrats, then it's clear she's being a hypocrite." [Read more here]
CNN.com - Pakistan-seizes top terror suspect
More good news on the battle against terrorism.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Abu Farraj al-Libbi, a senior al Qaeda suspect wanted in two attempts to assassinate President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, has been arrested in Pakistan, the government said Wednesday.
Al-Libbi, a native of Libya with a $1 million bounty on his head, was arrested earlier this week, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told The Associated Press.
USATODAY.com - Forces in Iraq recover letter believed for al-ZarqawiA letter believed to be intended for Zarqawi gives a little insight to possible problems within the insurrgency... Also, it covers jihad of course.
But it also described low morale, weakening support for the insurgency and the incompetence of many militant leaders, the statement said. The author also reportedly admonishes the 'the sheik' for abandoning his followers since Fallujah - an insurgent stronghold that was the subject of a major U.S.-led assault in November.
Bush Gets B+ for Honesty, Even Courage, on Social SecurityMr. Kinsley may loose his key to the executive(liberal) bathroom at the LA Times building... Nonetheless, he is on the semi-right track...
Above all, Bush was honest and even courageous about Social Security. Social Security is about writing checks: Money goes in, money goes out. As Bush has discovered in the last few months, there are no shadows to hide in while you fiddle with it. The problem is fewer and fewer workers supporting more and more retirees, and there are only two possible solutions: Someone has to pay more in, and/or someone has to take less out.
On Thursday, Bush didn't exactly go from explicitly denying this to explicitly admitting it. But he went from implicitly suggesting that his privatization scheme is a pain-free solution to implicitly endorsing a plan for serious benefit cuts. For a politician, that's an admirable difference.
Hat tip:
Michelle Malkin
USATODAY.com - Despite hardships of war, many soldiers reenlist
Stories like this just drives liberals crazy -- we are so blessed as a nation to have men and women like this. Also, it speaks volumes for how it "really" is in Iraq for the soldiers.
SANTA ROSA, Calif. - In Iraq, there were the days that ran together in a never-ending stream of patrols, mission after mission that left him cursing the superiors who sent him out into the teeth of the insurgency. There were the nights when mortars crashed nearby, close enough to smell the sulfur. And there was the question that went unanswered every time a friend was ripped by shrapnel or cut down in an ambush: Why are we fighting this war?
Yet when the time came for Sgt. Jason Waits to decide what he would do when his tour in the Army National Guard ended, he barely paused. Before he even left Iraq, Sergeant Waits reenlisted. And if he is sent back, he 'won't have a problem."
CNN.com - Customer finds employee's finger in frozen custard
I used to like stopping and "grabbing something" on the way home. However, with all the "cut fingers" being discovered I may have to rethink that.
WILMINGTON, North Carolina (AP) -- A man who ordered a pint of frozen chocolate custard in a dessert shop got a nasty surprise inside -- a piece of severed finger lost by an employee in an accident.
Unlike a recent incident at a Wendy's restaurant in California, no questions of truth have been raised about the finger served up to go at Kohl's Frozen Custard and found later at home by Clarence Stowers.
Top News Article | Reuters.com
Well duh - no kidding it was not intentional... This is was an unfortunate wartime incident and as with all unfortunate incidents, wartime or peacetime, hindsight will be 20/20.
ROME (Reuters) - Italy on Monday said the killing of an Italian agent by U.S. soldiers in Baghdad was not intentional, but a government report criticized the U.S. military for the way it organized the roadblock where the shooting took place.
DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2005Well the Dems are quilting too -- I believe this circus the Democrats are creating over Tom Delay is going to cost them dearly... Don't get me wrong if rules were broken they must be held accountable, but universal accountability must be enforced.
The controversy over lobbyist-funded Congressional travel has brushed yet another Member. Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.) took a five-day jaunt to Miami in February. The original travel disclosure Dicks' office filed with the House Clerk listed the sponsor as the Spectrum Group, a defense lobbying firm in Alexandria, Va.
That would be a violation of House Rules, ROLL CALL reports on Monday.
And in recent days, Dicks' office has appended two "corrections" to its initial filing.
The LA Times runs a story by Reuters, which you can
read here, ending their piece with:
A team of 18 forensic scientists will begin an examination of the Toyota Corolla in which the Italians were traveling.
Now the whole article released by Reuters, which you can
read here, continues with the following conveniently left out by the LA Times article.
A U.S. Army official earlier this week said Italy was disputing two factual issues in the report: the car's speed as it approached the checkpoint and the nature of communications between the Italians and U.S. forces before the incident.
The army official said one of the "trip wires" in the incident was that "there was, in fact, poor communications between the Italians and the Americans."
Italy's government has said the Italians had been driving slowly, received no warning and had advised U.S. authorities of their mission to evacuate Sgrena from Iraq.
CBS news has reported that a U.S. satellite had filmed the shooting and that it had been established the car carrying Calipari was traveling at more than 60 miles per hour as it approached the U.S. checkpoint in Baghdad.
The Italians say they are unaware of any recording of the incident.
Why would the LA Times leave this portion out? The speed of the vehicle is one of the
major disagreements and this after all sourced to CBS News of all things (you think they think it a conservative news network)... No, they had their motives or I guess it could be simply lazy reporting -- but either way it is proof you never trust one source and especially the LA Times.
Blair saw legal caveats a year before invasionDoes anyone else find it odd or comical that the same tactics are deployed against Mr. Blair of Britain that were used against Mr. Bush of America? I mean didn't we hear or don't we hear how everything was planned in advance Bush knew everything before and lied about it -- deja vu Mr. Blair has the same powers.
Mr Blair has always maintained he was not aware of any ambiguity in his legal right to go to war. But today we reveal that he saw Foreign Office caveats a year before the Attorney General's infamous advice that has put his reputation in the balance this week. Raymond Whitaker reports.
UPDATE: More from
Reuters.
The New York Times > Health > 19 on H.I.V. Drugs After Needle Prick
These are children, children -- haven't we heard there is nothing to be fearful from individuals with HIV... Well maybe not for adults but that obviously doesn't apply to children. How would you feel if one of these children were yours?
PHILADELPHIA, April 30 (AP) - Nineteen elementary schoolchildren who were pricked with a diabetes-testing needle by another student are taking strong drugs to fight H.I.V. after one of the children tested positive for the virus, officials said.
The authorities have ruled out the possibility that the child who tested positive for the virus, which causes AIDS, could have been infected by the needle prick.
Beware How You Google
Be careful and make sure you updates are current.
A simple misspelling of Google's domain name could lead to a Web surfer's worst nightmare.
In a new twist to the old practice of 'typosquatting,' virus writers have registered a slight variation of Google Inc.'s popular search-engine site to take advantage of any users who botch the spelling of the google.com URL.
7 men sue Florida City Denny's after being called 'bin Ladens': South Florida Sun-SentinelIf this is true -- Denny's simply needs to give up or increase their hiring standards - their employees simply can't get this racial thing down. How many law suits is that now? I hate law suits; however, Denny's has become a joke
Seven men of Middle Eastern descent have sued a Denny's restaurant in Florida City, claiming the restaurant refused to serve them.
Ehab Albarabi, Nabil Arafat, Usama El-A-Baidy, Esam Hessein, Mohammad Natour, Usama Mohamed and Ehab Mohamed, all of Boca Raton, filed the civil rights suit April 22 in Miami-Dade Circuit Court. They seek $4 million each from the owner and a former manager of the restaurant.
[...]
After waiting more than one hour, Albarabi asked manager Eduardo Ascano about the delay. According to the suit, Ascano called the men "Bin Ladens," referring to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
My Way News - Woman Fabricated Kidnap Story
This is unfortunate for the family who seemed to trust the women an felt she was happy -- evidently she seems to have experienced the mother of "cold feet" syndrome.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A Georgia bride-to-be who vanished just days before her wedding has admitted that she lied about being abducted, police said Saturday.
Jennifer Wilbanks, 32, called her fiance from a pay phone late Friday in New Mexico and told him that she had been kidnapped, police said. She had vanished Tuesday.
'She was in discussion with detectives and agents and she decided that she needed to do the right thing and tell the right story,' said Ray Schultz, the police chief in Albuquerque.
UPDATE: More information
here.
BBC NEWS | Americas | Ex-N Korea envoy 'broke UN rules'
Well this big - let's forget the nuclear issues; failure of North Korea to answer and follow UN nuclear guidelines or refusal to participate in the talks -- this is much bigger, give me a break.
The UN's former North Korea envoy, who is being investigated over the Iraq oil-for-food scandal, employed a relative in breach of UN staff rules.
A UN spokesman said Canadian Maurice Strong recruited stepdaughter Christina Mayo to work for him in February 2003.
The violation was discovered during an examination of Mr Strong's employment file as part of the UN's oil-for-food programme inquiry.
U.S. military releases photos of soldiers' coffins - U.S. News - MSNBC.com
Well the Department of Defense caves to pressure. I really disagree with this, period -- maybe if the families want to release photos, OK, but they and they alone should be allowed to make that choice -- certainly not the ghoulish media.
WASHINGTON - The Defense Department, under pressure from open-government advocates, released hundreds of images Thursday of flag-draped coffins of American soldiers.
The department had previously refused to release such images, which were taken by military photographers. Nor has it allowed the news media to photograph ceremonies of soldiers’ coffins arriving in the United States, saying it is enforcing a policy installed in 1991 to respect the privacy of families of dead soldiers.
Oil-for-food probe has not cleared Annan, Volcker says
I didn't think so but it is nice someone actually publishes the fact that Annan hasn't the authority to clear himself.
Former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker says his investigation into the scandal-plagued oil-for-food program has not cleared U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan of wrongdoing, despite Mr. Annan's claims to the contrary.
My Way News - Bush to Propose Oil Refineries at Ex-Military Bases
This is a new one to me and at first glance sounds pretty good -- what do you think?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Under pressure over high energy prices, President Bush on Wednesday will propose tackling the root causes of the problem by encouraging new oil refineries be built at closed military bases and jumpstarting construction of new nuclear power plants.
In a speech, Bush will also propose giving federal regulators the lead authority to decide where to locate terminals for processing imported natural gas. States have increasingly been taking the lead on this issue.
