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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - Barack Obama is being endorsed by fellow Sen. John Kerry, the Democrats' 2004 presidential nominee who lost to George W. Bush that year and gave up his own plans for a 2008 run a year ago.[snip]Besides any potential help for Obama, Thursday's endorsement was a slap at Edwards, who was Kerry's running mate in the last election. The two had their differences during the campaign over strategy and spending. In post-mortem interviews, Edwards said he would have been more aggressive in challenging the unsubstantiated allegations of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the Vietnam War veterans...

Doctors' unions in Romania have criticised a decision to make a surgeon pay £100,000 in damages after he lost his temper and hacked off a patient's penis during surgery.

Bill and his latest date...

Post your favorite similes. Funny ones preferred. The best will be rewarded with my list of favorite Country/Western song titles...

I am tired of getting plowed in...I need your help.

File this under "Once in a Lifetime": there's an actual (albeit very small) picture of Michelle Malkin in Playboy. No, not like that, ya perv. In the annual The Year in Sex roundup (January '05), there is, not entirely unexpectedly, a marginally-raunchy picture of Jessica "Washingtonienne" Cutler, and to give credence to her particular transgressions, there's a clip from the Post (which Post, I couldn't say) with Ms Malkin's column, complete with standard photo of the columnist. The column, incidentally, was given the title "Slut on the Hill" by the Post.

Where's the snow...?!?

Today I received my share of the settlement in the Schwarz v. Citibank, et. al. class action lawsuit. Regarding all of us class members: "...all their claims stem the failure of Citibank and Universal to credit payments to the accounts of consumers as of the date on which they were received, unless the payments were received before 10:00 AM that day."The attorney's fee for bringing this huge financial institution to justice in this matter was $7.2 million. My award was $0.68.

Gray Davis shows off his hand, grotesquely swollen by his incessant signing of special interest legislation.Mullings.com

While other Americans spent the second anniversary of 9/11 remembering those who died, Patty Murray held a $1000 a plate breakfast.

Spokane, WA Doctrine divides Presbyterians Manito congregation to vote on severing ties with church Members of Manito Presbyterian Church will decide this weekend whether they still want to be Presbyterians. The pastors and the elders of the church have recommended that the congregation drop its affiliation with the Presbyterian Church (USA), saying, "the theological state of our denomination has deteriorated over the past 25 years." Many members of the Manito congregation differ with the national denomination over how to interpret scripture, including the acceptance of homosexual relationships. If they follow the recommendation, the congregation will become the first to leave ...

Philly Cheerleaders Allege Spying By Joann Loviglio Associated Press Writer Thursday, Aug. 9, 2001; 9:47 a.m. EDT PHILADELPHIA –– Two former Philadelphia Eagles cheerleaders filed a federal lawsuit claiming players from visiting teams repeatedly spied on the cheerleaders as they changed clothes. The cheerleaders' dressing room adjoins the visiting team's locker room, and a door connects the two. At various times, the suit filed Wednesday alleged, the players drilled holes through the door or scratched the paint off a small glass window to see through to the other side. According to the lawsuit, the women learned of the action in ...

Don Imus at the White House correspondents dinner that made him famous is on C-SPAN now.

OUTGOING President Bill Clinton is favourite to become the next Chancellor of Oxford University. There is huge support within the university for his appointment which would be a major international coup. The move would receive enthusiastic endorsement from Tony Blair while Mr Clinton himself, who leaves the White House next month, has fond memories of his Oxford student days in the sixties and would welcome the global prestige. Supporters of Mr Clinton's case say he has impeccable academic credentials and stature to do the job. They add he would "do wonders" for university fund-raising. But before Clinton can don the ...