I Did Eliot Spitzer

>>For Ashley Dupre........
Maybe it's her parents fault for giving her a name straight out of Gone With The Wind.

I Did Eliot Spitzer

She gets money for her story, and maybe some celebrity, but he has to quit. Something doesn't compute.

I don't know why but I loved this sentence

Maybe it's the wine.

Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - theatre: Noises off: What has Ken done for the West End?:
"'We have a church hall, a cafe, some black-out curtains and a couple of lanterns and we're going to change the world.' With passion like his, I can quite believe it."

I Blew A Speaker Listening To The Kings Of Leon

Well they gave many years of good service and they went for a good cause.
The Kings of Leon rock!!!

RIP Bose 501s

Insurance Fears Lead Many to Shun DNA Tests - New York Times

I wouldn't trust the bastards as far as I could throw their corporate headquarters.

Insurance Fears Lead Many to Shun DNA Tests - New York Times

Insurers say they do not ask prospective customers about genetic test results, or require testing. “It’s an anecdotal fear,” said Mohit M. Ghose, a spokesman for America’s Health Insurance Plans, whose members provide benefits for 200 million Americans. “Our industry is not interested in any way, shape or form in discriminating based on a genetic marker.”

Still, a recent study by the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute found otherwise. In 7 of 92 underwriting decisions, insurance providers evaluating hypothetical applicants said they would deny coverage, charge more for premiums or exclude certain conditions from coverage based on genetic test results.

Mitt Spits The Bit - Romney Run "Suspended"

Too moderate for some, too conservative for others, too phony for me. That's what happens when you talk out of both sides of your mouth Mitt.

Romney Drops Presidential Bid, Cedes Floor to McCain at CPAC - You Decide 08!

Good News Out Of Florida - Crist Spurns Romney

The Swamp:

It's official: Florida Gov. Crist goes for John McCain: "In a surprise announcement with major implications for the Republican primary, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist threw his weight behind Sen. John McCain for president at the Pinnelas County Lincoln Day Dinner here calling him 'a true American hero.'

'I think the world of him,' Crist said."

The Club of Queer Trades, by Gilbert K. Chesterton;

The Club of Queer Trades, by Gilbert K. Chesterton; The Eccentric Seclusion of the Old Lady Page 15:

"How we ate that dinner I have no idea. In the common way I am a person particularly prone to enjoy the long luxuriance of the club dinner. But on this occasion it seemed a hopeless and endless string of courses. Hors-d'oeuvre sardines seemed as big as herrings, soup seemed a sort of ocean, larks were ducks, ducks were ostriches until that dinner was over. The cheese course was maddening. I had often heard of the moon being made of green cheese. That night I thought the green cheese was made of the moon. And all the time Basil Grant went on laughing and eating and drinking, and never threw one glance at us to tell us why he was there, the king of these capering idiots."

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

From Wikipedia

* Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
o This statement was used as a motto on the title page of An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania. (1759) which was attributed to Franklin in the edition of 1812, but in a letter of September 27, 1760 to David Hume, he states that he published this book and denies that he wrote it, other than a few remarks that were credited to the Pennsylvania Assembly, in which he served. The phrase itself was first used in a letter from that Assembly dated November 11, 1755 to the Governor of Pennsylvania. An article on the origins of this statement here includes a scan that indicates the original typography of the 1759 document, which uses an archaic form of "s": "Thoſe who would give up Essential Liberty to purchaſe a little Temporary Safety, deſerve neither Liberty nor Safety." Researchers now believe that a fellow diplomat by the name of Richard Jackson is the primary author of the book. With the information thus far available the issue of authorship of the statement is not yet definitely resolved, but the evidence indicates it was very likely Franklin, who in the Poor Richard's Almanack of 1738 is known to have written a similar proverb: "Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power."
o Many paraphrased variants derived from this saying have arisen and have usually been incorrectly attributed to Franklin:

C.I.A. Sees Qaeda Link in the Death of Bhutto

From The New York Times:

WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency has concluded that the assassins of Benazir Bhutto, the former Pakistani prime minister, were directed by Baitullah Mehsud, a Pakistani militant leader in hiding, and that some of them had ties to Al Qaeda.


The C.I.A.’s judgment is the first formal assessment by the American government about who was responsible for Ms. Bhutto’s Dec. 27 assassination, which took place during a political rally in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.

“There are powerful reasons to believe that terror networks around Baitullah Mehsud were responsible,” said one American intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.

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Some friends and supporters of Ms. Bhutto questioned the C.I.A. conclusions, especially since the former leader was buried before a full forensic investigation had been conducted. The British government has since sent a team from Scotland Yard to participate in the investigation into the assassination.

“The C.I.A. appears too eager to bail out its liaison services in Pakistan, who are being blamed by most Pakistanis,” said Husain Haqqani, a former adviser to Ms. Bhutto and a professor at Boston University.

“Given the division inside Pakistan on this issue, it might be better to have an international investigation under the aegis of the U.N.,” Mr. Haqqani said.