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This morning:
Bombs continue to pound the territory as Israel continues its offensive for a 14th day. Israel says it launched 50 strikes overnight. Palestinian medics say at least 12 people were killed.
The main UN agency working in Gaza, Unrwa, continues its suspension of aid deliveries after one of its drivers was killed.
At least six Palestinians are reported killed in Beit Lahiya after their house was struck by Israeli fire.
Gaza City: Witnesses tell the UN that about 30 Palestinians were killed earlier this week when Israeli forces shelled a house into which Israeli soldiers had earlier moved about 100 people, many of them children.
Palestinian death toll: 780; Israeli: 6
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Bush is leaving office in the popularity basement, but his checklist of accomplishments is full. Bush has "succeeded in radically changing nearly every facet of government, and always with the help of the Democratic Party." Even when at his nadir in the polls, Bush managed to transfer $700 billion dollars into the pockets of his high-roller banking friends. He has implicated so many Democrats in torture, the party has little choice but to give him and themselves immunity. "It is hard to see how Bush can be considered a failure when the so-called opposition aided him every step of the way."
"I think all of that's been pretty dramatically overdone," the vice president said. "I'm actually a warm, lovable sort."Cheney also insisted that his influence within the Bush administration was overstated throughout the past eight years. "The notion that somehow I was pulling strings or making presidential-level decisions. I was not," he said.
"There was never any question about who was in charge. It was George Bush. And that's the way we operated. This whole notion that somehow I exceeded my authority here, was usurping his authority, is simply not true. It's an urban legend, never happened."
"By the way, school choice was only open to rich people up until No Child Left Behind. It's hard for a lot of parents to be able to afford to go to any other kind of school but their neighborhood school. Now, under this system, if your public school is failing, you'll have the option of transferring to another public school or charter school. And it's — I view that as liberation. I view that as empowerment."
Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating.Israel is so scrupulous about civilian life that, risking the element of surprise, it contacts enemy noncombatants in advance to warn them of approaching danger.
When rescue workers from the Red Cross and the Palestinian Red Crescent arrived at the site, they found 12 corpses lying on mattresses in one home, along with four young children lying next to their dead mothers, the Red Cross said. The children were too weak to stand and were rushed to a hospital, the agency said.
Of the ten states with the highest rate of teen births, eight were carried by anti-abortion, anti-family planning candidate John McCain. Mississippi has no programs aimed at preventing teen births, and it took the grand prize for the most pregnancies.
I think we need more Abstinence Only programs.
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William Rivers Pitt in a letter to Bush about his legacy: "May you live forever, you son of a bitch"
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Whatever the reason, this is totally lame
Howard Dean led the charge on the 50-state strategy that paved the way for Obama to take the election. So why wasn't he welcome at the event introducing new DNC chair Tim Kaine?
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Cheney during an interview (sharpening his horn) in which he said:
....that he sees no reason for Bush to pre-emptively pardon anyone at the CIA involved in torture, because "I don't have any reason to believe that anybody in the agency did anything illegal."
He also said that Bush didn't need to apologize for not foreseeing the economic crisis because "I don't think anybody saw it coming."
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Bernie's Mini-Me
I wonder how many guys like this are out there?
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Torture Boy claims he still can't find a job because of the "rough economy"
I'm sure that's it, the economy. It can't have anything to do with the fact that he is an incompetent criminal hack and a pariah.
The rough economy isn't affecting the Bushies. Check out Laura's new $493,000 china:
Good times.
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Richard Perle washes his hands of Iraq: "I was not an architect of that war, neocons had no influence" http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/08/perle-iraq-architect/
Hilarity ensued.
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Fun fact:
When Bush Sr. left office, the unemployment rate was 7.4%.
When Clinton left office, it was 4.2%.
Today, as George Jr. is (thankfully) leaving, it's back up to 7.2%.
Like father, like son.
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