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Thursday, May 18, 2006
  Portrait of Mao to go under hammer and sickle

Portrait of Mao to go under hammer and sickle: "BEIJING (Reuters) - Mao Zedong, the founder of Communist China, is to fall victim to a distinctly capitalist tradition when his portrait goes up for auction next month.

The original model for the Mao painting that hung above Tiananmen Square, the symbolic heart of the China's Communist revolution, is expected to fetch 1 million to 1.2 million yuan ($120,000-$150,000) when it is sold through a Beijing auction house, the China Daily reported on Friday."
 
Monday, May 08, 2006
  ABC News: Baghdad Journal: May 7, 2006

ABC News: Baghdad Journal: May 7, 2006: "I survived Fallujah, but the treadmill nearly got me. If you have followed any news from Iraq, you know the power here is only on for about eight hours a day, and that is a good day. One grows quite used to the lights going on and off and on and off, and generators turning on and off, etc.

Nevertheless, I wasn't thinking about any of this as I was going for my morning run today on the treadmill (yes, wearing my hunky lilac sneakers). I was on about mile two when all of a sudden the power went out. The treadmill stopped, but I didn't. I launched myself forward in a manner so clumsy it defies imagination. Somehow I survived. "
 
  ABC News: Baghdad Journal: May 7, 2006

ABC News: Baghdad Journal: May 7, 2006: "I survived Fallujah, but the treadmill nearly got me. If you have followed any news from Iraq, you know the power here is only on for about eight hours a day, and that is a good day. One grows quite used to the lights going on and off and on and off, and generators turning on and off, etc.

Nevertheless, I wasn't thinking about any of this as I was going for my morning run today on the treadmill (yes, wearing my hunky lilac sneakers). I was on about mile two when all of a sudden the power went out. The treadmill stopped, but I didn't. I launched myself forward in a manner so clumsy it defies imagination. Somehow I survived. "
 
Thursday, May 04, 2006
  Patrick J. Kennedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nice, it's already made it to his Wikipedia entry...

Patrick J. Kennedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "On May 4, 2006, at approximately 2:45 a.m., Patrick Kennedy was operating a motor vehicle with its lights turned off in the darkness. He collided with a parked Capitol police cruiser before smashing into a security barricade at First and C streets Southeast at 3 a.m. The officer approached the driver who allegedly staggered out of his vehicle and stated that he was late for a vote even though Congress had adjourned three hours earlier. Capitol Police patrol officers reportedly did not perform field sobriety tests at the scene. Officers were ordered away by the Watch Commander and later drove Kennedy home. Currently the Capitol Police are investigating the accident."
 
  DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2006

Wow...how corrupt are these cops that they think they can cover up an incident like this? This is something out of another decade...and what is it with Kennedys and cars anyway? I'd never take a ride with any of them.

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2006?: "ROLL CALL reports: According to a letter sent by Officer Greg Baird, acting chairman of the USCP FOP, the wreck took place at approximately 2:45 a.m. Thursday when Kennedy's car, operating with its running lights turned off, narrowly missed colliding with a Capitol Police cruiser and smashed into a security barricade at First and C streets Southeast.

?The driver exited the vehicle and he was observed to be staggering,? Baird?s letter states. Officers approached the driver, who ?declared to them he was a Congressman and was late to a vote. The House had adjourned nearly three hours before this incident. It was Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy from Rhode Island.?

Baird wrote that Capitol Police Patrol Division units, who are trained in driving under the influence cases, were not allowed to perform basic field sobriety tests on the Congressman. Instead, two sergeants, who also responded to the accident, proceeded to confer with the Capitol Police watch commander on duty and then ?ordered all of the Patrol Division Units to leave the scene and that they were taking over.?"
 
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
  In the Roberts Court, More Room for Argument - New York Times

In the Roberts Court, More Room for Argument - New York Times: "While it is too soon for substantive appraisals of the first year of the Roberts court, it is not too soon for stylistic observations about what is clearly, in the view of lawyers who have appeared there this term, a different court.

'The tone has changed,' Prof. Richard J. Lazarus of the Georgetown University Law Center, where he runs the Supreme Court Institute and teaches a course on Supreme Court advocacy, said on Tuesday.

In common with every other Supreme Court specialist contacted for this article, Professor Lazarus listed several obvious changes. 'They're not stepping on each other,' he said of the justices. 'They take longer before someone asks the first question. They give the lawyers more time to answer.'"
 
  CNN.com - Killer executed the hard way - May 2, 2006

That a gruesome scene like this is even possible in our society is degrading to us all...

CNN.com - Killer executed the hard way - May 2, 2006: "COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) -- A double murderer was put to death in Ohio Tuesday but not until after one of his veins collapsed, causing the condemned man to sit up and tell his executioners, 'It's not working,' officials said."
 
Monday, May 01, 2006
  Anna Nicole Smith Wins Supreme Court Case - New York Times

Anna Nicole Smith Wins Supreme Court Case - New York Times: "The former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith was given a new chance by the Supreme Court today to try to get part of the vast fortune of her late husband, a Texas oil tycoon who was six decades her senior.
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The justices were unanimous in finding that Ms. Smith, who is also known as Vickie Lynn Marshall, could pursue her claim in federal court. The justices overturned a ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which had held that the case really belonged in Texas state probate court."
 

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