Month: April 2007
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Ken Burns Ignores Latinos in WWII
Gus Chavez, a retired university administrator from San Diego who participated in a recent meeting with PBS execs, echoed her fighting words. The War documents a “major national experience and we’re not part of it and we don’t want it to be shown until it’s corrected,” said Chavez. “We are not going to sit still […]
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Mitt Romney Has a Secret Plan to End the War – Just Like Nixon
Speaking on ABC’s Good Morning America, former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) said that he supports setting a timeline for withdrawal from Iraq — but only if it’s a secret time line. Richard Nixon “campaigned in 1968 by saying he had a secret plan to end the war in Vietnam.” His Defense Secretary Melvin Laird later […]
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Is Pelosi Interfering by Going to Syria? Ask Hastert.
President Bush yesterday said Speaker Pelosi’s bipartisan delegation to Syria sends “mixed signals,” implying that Pelosi overstepped her bounds by merely visiting Syria. … In 1997, Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) led a delegation to Colombia at a time when U.S. officials were trying to attach human rights conditions to U.S. security assistance programs. Hastert specifically […]
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McCain Campaign Finance Chair Fred Malek Killed, Skinned, Cooked a Dog and Counted Jews for Nixon
Grab the BBQ: In 1959: One of the men arrested in the incident, in which a dog was killed, skinned, gutted and barbecued on a spit, was Frederick V. Malek, 22, of Berwyn, Ill. Plus this guy was a Jew-counter for Nixon: Nixon summoned the White House personnel chief, Fred Malek, to his office to […]
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Blood Pressure and Heart Rate
We were screwing around at CVS and did that automatic heart rate thingy by the pharmacy: My bp 129/69. Heart rate is 60. That’s right: I’m a ticking clock. Ron’s bp was high and his heart rate was 93, 50% higher than mine.
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Illinois Moves to Tracking all HIV/AIDs Patients By Name
The names of people infected with HIV will be tracked in all 50 states by the end of 2007, marking a victory for federal health officials and a quiet defeat for AIDS advocates who wanted to keep patients’ names out of state databases. … “I have patients who are very high-profile individuals — physicians in […]
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Chicago Archidocese to Abuse Vicims: Stop Suing Us
The Chicago archdiocese is trying to stop a measure designed to help victims of childhood sexual abuse. The bill allows abuse victims to sue those who harmed them — even decades after the fact. Protests from church leaders prompted state lawmakers to gut the measure, and now legislators are now working on a compromise bill.
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3rd Videotape of Chicago Police Bar Beating Surfaces
Sweet jesus: For the third time this year, surveillance videotape has surfaced of an off-duty Chicago police officer involved in a bar fight, authorities said. The latest incident became public one day after Police Superintendent Philip J. Cline announced he would retire early. The department has been struggling with the fallout from the previous tapes […]
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Laura Bush Advocates for Non-Violence
I heard she actually vomited blood as she spoke: Mrs. Bush made her comments during a violence prevention summit in Chicago. She said when young people have jobs, it gives them the self-respect to stay out of gangs. “Local businesses provided hundreds of CeaseFire clients with meaningful employment. One CeaseFire outreach worker, Xavier, said that […]