"We stand for broccoli. For Pilates. And dental floss. We believe in the treadmill and its siblings," one of the print ads reports. "... We stand for seat belts and stopping HIV. And we believe fruit makes a wonderful dessert."

The jury returned its verdict today:  not guilty as to all defendants and all counts.

"There once was a lady from Sparta
Who was a phenomenal farter.
She could fart anything
From God Save the King
To Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

She would fart a gavotte for a starter
Then a bit of the Christmas Cantata.
She could boom from her ass
Bach's B-minor mass
And counterpoint La Traviata."

Top Religious Right Group: We Won't Oppose Gay SCOTUS Pick

In a move that will surprise gay activists and liberals, a spokesperson for Focus on the Family, a top religious right group, tells me that his organization has no problem with GOP Senator Jeff Sessions` claim today that he's open to a Supreme Court nominee with "gay tendencies."

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I also believe that I have somehow offended Mother Nature and she is punishing me by making the weekend weather less than ideal for a round of golf.  

Sincerely,

As the host for this July's All-Star game, the stadium has already undergone a major sprucing up. Now it has a black eye, its safety record questioned by yet another ugly incident at a Royals-White Sox game.

Did some errands - card and a couple of little things for my Mom, groceries - then spent most of the afternoon on the deck, finally finishing Wally Lamb's The Hour I First Believed.  Was quite a book - stories within stories within stories, and blending actual events with fiction.  Very moving in many places.

Now looking like a thunderstorm might be in the offing...but it was great while it lasted!

Carrie Prejean couldn't make it, but we already know what she believes. What do you believe?

the woman is almost totally incoherent, making it somewhat difficult to ascertain exactly what, if anything, she believes.

i believe one of two things:

1. she saw this as a means of getting publicity (and, hopefully, paying gigs) that she ordinarily never would have received, and it just blew up in her face. or,

2. she's terminally stupid.

He is expected to visit Berlin, Dresden and the former concentration camp in the Buchenwald area, the one his great uncle (IIRC) helped liberate, then travel on to France to take part in the 65th anniversary commemorations of D-Day.

Interestingly enough, German radio (the one I listen to is in Leipzig) has been spending a lot of time this year on the 20th anniversary of "Die Wende" (the Turn) a/k/a "Die Friedliche Revolution von 1989" (the Peaceful Revolution of 1989).

This weekend marks the anniversary of an important triggering event in that - a stolen municipal election in Leipzig.  TPTB back then went further than stuffing the ballot boxes - it came out, that Berlin had sent the local authorities a document telling them what the results would be, about a week before the election.

There had been a bunch of (their equivalent of) DFH Bloggers who'd been fed up with the candidates the machine had put up and had elected with 97.22 (or whatever) percentage of the vote and had actually gone to the trouble of reading the election law and challenging various parts of it.

When the fraud was revealed, it "tore the facade off" the then-existing system and led, pretty directly, to the summer of Germans going on a Hungarian vacation and slipping across into Austria, or holing up in embassies in Prague, and then the Monday demonstrations in August-September, which led to the Wall coming down in the Fall.

Well, well, well the Ed show had Lawrence O'Donnell hosting. He has an understanding all the while drilling deep and heavy. Very comparable to the infamous Chris Mathews. O'Donnell knows he is right and shows it, the more Cheney and friends defend torture they look as the Constitution defines "Cruel and Unusual". Ladies and gentleman if we treated animals like dogs and cats or horses like these descriptions perpetuated, the human owners highly and likely would go to jail or at least be convicted and fined. In some states is it not a felony to treat animals like this stuff of torture...    

These guys who say torture will get you every where and then turn one hundred and eighty degrees and say it is bad but we should not do it, Is funny. This is what makes American culture a dark mystery as those evil as anyone of that axis of evil Bush talked about, his legacy. Sheesh

Sheesh.  That's kind of like Amadinajab saying there are no gays in Iran.  Right, `cause you killed most of them and the rest are in hiding.