US Capitol

3:25 pm EST December 28th, 2007 | News | Comments Off



US Capitol, originally uploaded by owillis.

At least the Dems can’t sell us out this week. Sigh.

 

Robert Taft Memorial

3:22 pm EST December 28th, 2007 | News | 3 Comments



Robert Taft Memorial, originally uploaded by owillis.

This statue is right next to the Capitol, though I never noticed it
before. Has a loud bell in it that I found out by accident.

 

My Lunch @ Union Station

2:25 pm EST December 28th, 2007 | News | 6 Comments



My Lunch @ Union Station, originally uploaded by owillis.

 

Rudy Giuliani Shilled For Hillbilly Heroin (Oxycontin)

11:24 am EST December 28th, 2007 | News | 1 Comment

With Rudy, you just need to name a price. The ethics are negotiable.

A former top federal prosecutor, Mr. Giuliani participated in two meetings between Purdue officials and the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, the agency investigating the company. Giuliani Partners took on the job of monitoring security improvements at company facilities making OxyContin, an issue of concern to the D.E.A.

As a celebrity, Mr. Giuliani helped the company win several public relations battles, playing a role in an effort by Purdue to persuade an influential Pennsylvania congressman, Curt Weldon, not to blame it for OxyContin abuse.

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Dennis Lee, the Virginia state prosecutor for Tazewell County, an area hard hit by OxyContin abuse, said he was stunned several years ago to learn that Mr. Giuliani was working for Purdue. He had a favorable impression of Mr. Giuliani, he said, and a poor opinion of the company, which he said had played down and dissembled about its drug’s problem.

“I was shocked,” Mr. Lee said, “that he would basically become a mouthpiece for Purdue.”

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links for 2007-12-28

7:22 am EST December 28th, 2007 | News | 2 Comments

 

Our Long National Nightmare Has Just Begun

2:50 am EST December 28th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

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You know in a horror movie where the pretty girl goes to check out the dark basement and the audience yells “don’t go in there!”. It’s kind of like that.

Actress Jessica Alba, who is pregnant with her first child, is engaged to long-time boyfriend Cash Warren, Alba’s publicist said on Thursday.

Alba, 26, best known for her roles in the TV drama “Dark Angel” and “The Fantastic Four” movies, was pictured over the Christmas holiday with a huge diamond ring on her finger.

Publicist Brad Cafarelli said the couple were engaged but gave no details.

Cash Warren is clearly connected to the trilateral commission and the Bilderbergers as well as the Free Masons. That’s the only way to explain his power.

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When You Put It THAT Way…

11:16 pm EST December 27th, 2007 | News | 1 Comment

Ex-Redskin Doc Walker sums up the literal ups and downs of the Skins’ season to date in an unusually sympathetic Michael Wilbon column (Wilbon has it in for the ‘Skins).

Doc Walker, who played for Gibbs and who has covered his former coach as a member of the media, said: “I don’t want to be insensitive, but Atlanta lost one player, Michael Vick, and the entire program collapsed. Not only did the Redskins have a player die during a season, which is unthinkable, but look at all the other things that have happened that would derail most teams:

“They lost the guys who were supposed to be the right side of the offensive line, Jon Jansen and Randy Thomas, essentially for the entire season. Shawn Springs’s father is in a coma and he’s traveling back and forth to see his dad. You’ve got a free agent rookie [Stephon Heyer] starting at right guard. You’ve got the whole team flying to a funeral and playing the Bears three days later. You’ve got your franchise quarterback going down in that very game, then you’ve got the backup quarterback’s wife giving birth . . . on the eve of his first start in 10 years, then coming out and going 0 for 8 but steadying himself to win the game. It’s a movie. We can’t imagine how difficult it is to manage all that. But Joe knows how to manage in the chaos. Go all the way back to his 0-5 start in his very first season as head coach. That was so chaotic. But he believed. Even if you don’t believe initially, he does. And he just doesn’t waver.”

Win and they’re in. Win, and they’re in.

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Curioser And Curioser: Romney vs. McCain

11:04 pm EST December 27th, 2007 | News | Comments Off

I can’t shake the feeling that the next couple weeks are going to get Mitt Romney and his campaign staff reaching for some antacid. He’s already been flailing the last couple weeks and fighting off his made-up story about his father marching with Martin Luther King, and already has Huckabee’s surge in Iowa and McCain moving up in New Hampshire to deal with. Now McCain is coming back to Iowa where he was essentially DOA. If McCain makes even a third place finish there where he historically hasn’t done well that will overshadow a Romney win and eat into his lead in New Hampshire if not completely wipe it out. If there’s no Romnementum going into Feb. 5, what the heck does he do? He polls pretty badly outside of IA, NH, and MI and is woeful nationally. Can old lantern-jaw pull out a win?

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Sigh

11:03 pm EST December 27th, 2007 | News | Comments Off

Nope, still not there yet (Iowa).

Supporters of Barack Obama living on 25th Street reported a number of racial slurs and derogatory comments had been spray painted on their property. Further, the family’s Christmas presents were all stolen from a vehicle and a garage.

Chief Lon Walker confirms the police received the report Monday morning.

“We found vandalism to the house. When we got there, we found some racial things regarding presidential candidate Barack Obama,” he said.

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John Edwards & The Politics Of Yesteryear

3:08 pm EST December 27th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 11 Comments

Yesterday the Edwards campaign apparently sent out a memo to reporters with the following:

“We know that Senator Clinton will spend the week touting her national security credentials in a move that echoes George Bush’s 2004 campaign,” Mr. Prince wrote. “We believe Democrats will not be fooled by efforts to play on their fears.”

The Edwards campaign seems to be saying that to simply discuss national security is to buy into the Bush framing of the world. Because the rhetoric of Sen. Clinton in the campaign so far is the exact opposite of the Bush doctrine. I may have some differences with her past votes and whatnot (though we must remember that Sen. Edwards also voted to authorize the Iraq War) – but Edwards seems to believe that national security won’t be on the table in this election. If that’s what they think, they’re wrong. For our entire political system for the foreseeable future we will not be able to put foreign policy on the backburner like in the past. Today’s assasination underlines that notion. In the past a political killing in Pakistan would be bad in a global sense, but happening under the current global situation it has very real ripples right here to America. This reminds me of Sen. Edwards ill-fated attempt (as I said at the time) to redefine the meaning of terrorism, especially in the middle of a political campaign.

It sucks, but that’s talk of the past. We can’t go back to it, no matter how hard we try. The next president is going to be someone who understands that national security is at the front of the American people’s minds. If Sen. Edwards is not going to accept that, he won’t win.

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