Cheney moves to Denver

As the first stimulus money flowed into Colorado, it was doled out to shovel-ready transportation projects — and some of Gov. Bill Ritter's former law partners.

Ritter hired the politically connected firm of Hogan & Hartson three months ago to work on issues surrounding the state's disbursement of federal stimulus funds. The firm has been paid $40,000 through June and is expected to file monthly bills.

The state attorney general's office deemed the no-bid contract acceptable, according to the governor's office, which said the state needed to move quickly to get legal opinions on stimulus money.

How Halliburtonesque of them....

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Muslims rebels behead 7 Christians in Somalia

Rumor has it that the beheadees were offerred the choice of being water boarded instead and screamed they couldn't stand the torture..

The heheaders were happy to give them their choice.

Somalia's hard-line Islamist rebels beheaded seven people on Friday for being "Christians" and "spies" in the latest implementation of strict Sharia law by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab movement, witnesses said.

Though al-Shabaab has carried out such punishments before in regions it controled, the beheadings on Friday were thought to be their largest number of executions at one time, Somalis said.

"Al-Shabaab told us that they were beheaded for reasons they described as being Christian followers and spies," said one relative, who gave his name only as Aden, after the executions in the south-central town of Baidoa.

The group beheaded three people in the region last month.

Al-Shabaab, which means "Youth" in Arabic, have vowed to rule the majority Muslim nation by a hardline interpretation of Islamic law. The group has dug up Sufi graves, forced women to wear veils and amputated limbs for theft.

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A Christian fundamentalist believes the world was created in seven days and that Moses parted the Red Sea. H e insists that his children study the Bible as part of their education. He may well consider dancing, alcohol consumption, and pre-marital sex to be sinful.

A Muslim fundamentalist beheads Christians.

Christian fundamentalists, Muslim fundamentalists — same thing, right?

Hat tip to Gates of Vienna."

"Argentia? Now I understand what hit Sanford between the eyes.."

The media is just so in the tank.... Look at this picture..


Now, what does ABC's "Political Punch" say?

On first glance, the snapshot appears to show President Obama caught in a moment of less than lofty analysis. But upon looking at the video, the moment seems to appear quite innocent -- one of those times when a picture can be misleading. The president was on a higher step and was stepping down -- so he looked down to assure his footing as the woman was walking up the stairs.

Judge for yourself.

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I did, and he almost fell down looking..... I think this song was written for Obamie and Sarkozy.

Supermax Prsion bans Obama's books

FLORENCE —The federal government's most secure prison has determined two books written by President Barack Obama contain material "potentially detrimental to national security" and rejected an inmate's request to read them.

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali is serving a 30-year sentence at the federal supermax prison in Florence for joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate then-President George W. Bush. Last year, Abu Ali requested two books written by Obama: "Dreams from My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope."

But prison officials, citing guidance from the FBI, determined that passages in both books contain information that could damage national security.

A prison spokeswoman referred questions to the FBI.

Who didn't know that??

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Illegal aliens ????? try to rob jewelry salesman

Just before 3 p.m. Wednesday, Joel Hobson heard three loud pops right outside his second-floor office. One floor below him, Nancy Dumas heard the same thing.

Those pops were gunfire, a signal that an attempted jewelry heist in East Memphis had gone awry. Four men, all described as speaking Spanish, had pounced on a traveling jewelry salesman, trying to take his merchandise.

Instead, 62-year-old Stephen Fleischman pulled his weapon and shot two of the suspects, leaving them bleeding in the parking lot as the others fled, Memphis police said. At least two of the suspects were armed.

Hey, two for four isn't bad but too bad he didn't get the other two.

Now. Are they illegal?? Nope, just snuck out of a JC Spanish class and were practicing their newly acquired skills.



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Posted by crushert on July 8, 2009 at 3:41 p.m.
A gun in the hand is worth a squad of police on the cell phone.

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Record lows in Prince Edward Island

Temperatures dropped to a record low in Prince Edward Island overnight Tuesday, with reports of frost throughout the province.

An official record low of 3.8 C was set early Wednesday morning at Charlottetown airport.

The previous record for that date was 5.1 C, set in 2005.

Bob Robichaud, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, said that to his knowledge, frost has never been reported before in July in P.E.I.

“That 3.8 we got last night kind of sticks out as being lower than some of the other records for anytime in early July,” Robichaud told CBC News on Wednesday.

“So we’re looking at a significant event,” he said.

Repeat after me.

It is getting warmer. It is getting warmer... Pay no attention to that frost bitten man and reduced crop yields..

Can anyone say famine?

Muslim honor killing in German.

The canary was used for centuries to warn miners of deadly invisible gas. Europe is our canary. We should be watching what happens there very closely.

German police charged Thursday that the grisly death of a 20-year-old ethnic Kurdish woman had been an 'honour killing,' and that her brother had confessed to the crime.

Germans have been outraged at a recent series of execution-style honour killings of young women by immigrant families.



Prosecutors said Gulsum was lured by a false story to the side road near the small town of Rees on March 2. Her sibling, who was also a triplet to Gulsum, allegedly choked her unconscious with a clothes line. She was then clubbed to death.

The brother admitted to the killing, but the father denied the charge of joint murder, police said.

Police said the family had attempted to force Gulsum into a planned marriage and then discovered she was not a virgin and had undergone one or more abortions.

Gulsum had left home last year with the help of welfare officials and moved to a safe house, but then returned home to Rees.

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Let's don't get so bound up with our economy and the walking disaster that Obamie is and forget why Muslim immigration can be a nightmare if the immigrants don't assimilate into their new country's culture. This again argues for greatly limited immigration by Muslims, if not the complete shut down until it can be seen that the current immigrants don't bring things like this with them.