President Bush, who was asked about the Jena case during a Thursday news conference, said he understood the emotions and that the FBI is monitoring the legal proceedings. "The events in Louisiana have saddened me," he said. "All of us in America want there to be, you know, fairness when it comes to justice."

Mysterious crater in Peru.

OpenCongress.org

email blog from NOLA -- with a biting title for one post ... Nation-building over there so we don't have to do it over here

Don't tase me, bro!

The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site, effective at midnight tonight

The move comes two years to the day after The Times began the subscription program, TimesSelect, which has charged $49.95 a year, or $7.95 a month, for online access to the work of its columnists and to the newspaper’s archives. TimesSelect has been free to print subscribers to The Times and to some students and educators.

In addition to opening the entire site to all readers, The Times will also make available its archives from 1987 to the present without charge, as well as those from 1851 to 1922, which are in the public domain. There will be charges for some material from the period 1923 to 1986, and some will be free.

concrete tv

I have one leg that was chewed on, shaved and sewed up. And one that got popped out of it's socket, popped back in and taped to my side for the next 2 weeks. At least I'm on pain killers.

who am i?

With the moderating, centrist voice of Sandra Day O'Connor now gone from the Supreme Court, a conservative counterrevolution that had been stymied for 20 years has now begun.

So says Jeffrey Toobin in his new book The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court. His book is about how this counterrevolution developed. It's also a behind-the-scenes look at the court, its recent decisions and the personalities of the justices behind them.

The Nine is based on interviews with justices and their law clerks that were given on a not-for-attribution basis — meaning, in plain language, that Toobin heard stories, opinions and analyses directly from the horses' mouths, but isn't allowed to reveal who said what.

Toobin is senior legal analyst for CNN, staff writer at The New Yorker and a former Assistant U.S. Attorney.

this is a heavy listen!

spicy meatball

Liver Flush #3

Started the apple juice and vegan food diet Sunday, I am looking forward to #3 as I feel that I am ready to really purge the toxin's......
#1 was better than #2 to me, but my body feels ready to get let go....

Liver Flush #4 will be 4 weeks after followed by 2 Master Clease's #3/4 (as my last one failed so I will not count that) in Nov/Dec....

So 8 programs in 2007, maybe I will meet my grandkids.....

The Flexitarian Table @ 171 East Broadway

Ron Castellano and Joel Barkley’s new restaurant inspired from chef Peter Berley’s “The Flexitarian Table” cookbook. The dishes from the book appeal to a sophisticated palate that may or may not want a meat free dinner (think mix and match meat). Slated to open October 2007

Just returned from a picnic gathering of friends to watch the Vaux Swifts enter the chimney of Chapman School tonight

The Audobon Society of Portland claims that Chapman School houses the largest known roost of migrating swifts in the world.

brewpubs and pa

the rains and flloods of august 2007 will impact wisconsin and minnesota organic produce farmers for quite some time.

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linda is prob rite but i hope not.....
can woman play in MLB, or is mens only?

McCain in South Carolina: I'm a B-word!

Perpetual State of Emergency

Notice: Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Certain Terrorist Attacks

Consistent with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency I declared on September 14, 2001, in Proclamation 7463, with respect to the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, New York, New York, the Pentagon, and aboard United Airlines flight 93, and the continuing and immediate threat of further attacks on the United States.

Because the terrorist threat continues, the national emergency declared on September 14, 2001, last extended on September 5, 2006, and the powers and authorities adopted to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond September 14, 2007. Therefore, I am continuing in effect for an additional year the national emergency I declared on September 14, 2001, with respect to the terrorist threat.

This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and transmitted to the Congress.

GEORGE W. BUSH

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I guess this is a couple months old, but I just saw a story on CNN and that's the first I heard of it: Grant Achatz diagnosed with cancer of the tongue. Traditional surgical methods would most likely result in the loss of his palette, so he's trying some other things first. Achatz founded the Chicago molecular gastronomic restaurant Alinea, often named as the top restaurant in the U.S.

Greenspan Book
Criticizes Bush
And Republicans
'They Deserved to Lose';
Former Fed Chief Defends
Pre-Bubble Rate Cuts

Why Rudy might win

25 more minutes of Katrina

'Monk' raised in the Garden State

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