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BREAKING NEWS Paris, France - Officials of the famed annual bicycle race, The Tour D'France, have announced that American racer, Lance Armstrong, is to be stripped of his July, 2004 title as winner of the race. According to inside sources, it has now been proven that Lance Amrstrong used several substances banned in France including soap and deodorant.

<p>As part of an ambitious effort to identify genes that cause disease in dogs and humans, scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle analyzed DNA collected from 414 dogs representing 85 breeds, including some of the most popular. The findings have sent reverberations though the ranks of dog fanciers, who primp and preen their beloved companions for shows and take great pride in their pedigrees.</p>

Hollywood Boycott List...Updated And Alphabetized.

They are simply hysterical defending Kennedy's statements! Try calling for a good laugh.

I posted this diary yesterday on the topic of developing "headline" themes for the Kerry campaign and methods for disseminating those themes into our marketplace of voters. There were many great ideas floated by DKos denizens, and should the subject be given front page status (since the diaries just go whizzing by), I am sure we would generate dozens more great ideas for the DNC. As noted in that diary, Rove and Gillespie have done an excellent job of disseminating their key talking points for any given day/week and making suer they have Party mouthpieces in place to drive...

<p>I've been loyal republican for 10 years now, but I can't believe how backwards the people in the Bush Administration are, it just seems like they keep peddling backwards all the time just so it makes it seem ilke what they say is accurate. I saw this video with Rumsfeld and I've decided that I cannot anymore support an organization that will be dishonest to me. I'm going to change to independent and then vote kerry.</p>

'Lame duck' Khatami concedes defeat to Iran's hardliners By Behzad Farsian, in Teheran and Robin Gedye (Filed: 18/03/2004) The reformist President Mohammad Khatami of Iran conceded that he had reached the limits of his powers and would be a lame duck head of state until his term ends next year. He said he was withdrawing two bills that sought to limit the power of the ruling conservative hardliners "so that the few powers that the president still has are not eliminated. "I have met with defeat," he said. President Khatami: powerless One of the bills was intended to increase presidential...

<p>As if 600-year-old redwoods give a damn for your politics.</p> <p>As if struggling salmon care a whit for the Catholic Church's sneering homophobic stance on gay marriage. Like Alaskan elk think your viewpoints on war are far too lopsided to hold sway in the national dialogue.</p>

Somebody I know created this image and donated it to the public domain anonymously.

I happen to live in the once great city of Nashua, NH (It was great before all the 'Mass-holes' moved in) and tonight we had a Kerry 'Chili feed' at the local fire station.I figured I'd poke my balding noggin' in just to see what was going on,and perhaps snag a free bowl of chili.I was nervous parking my Beetle out front since it bears a Bush/Cheney bumper sticker. But I didn't need to worry much, as there weren't more than perhaps 50 or 60 people there. I did get a glimpse of His Royal Highness A.K.A. "The King of...

In My World: O'Reilly Factor Transcript - Interview with Donald Rumsfeld Bill O'Reilly: Next up on the Factor is Secretary of the Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Donald Rumsfeld: Where the hell are you? What is this? O'Reilly: It's a satellite hook-up. Secretary. Rumsfeld: Then how am I supposed to strangle you if you enrage me? O'Reilly: (laughs) I guess you'll just have to come over here. Rumsfeld: I will. Start your questions! O'Reilly: So what is your opinion of how things are going in Iraq? Rumsfeld: Excellent. Our enemies are being slaughtered in mass numbers. O'Reilly: But there are many...

WASHINGTON — I'm not sure I should use the poor schlub's name. ESPN has used it, and The Chicago Sun-Times. But given all the Cubs fans who hurled beer and debris and bleeped epithets at the guy and screamed, "Kill him!" and, "You can tell we're better than Boston or he'd be dead already!" it might be as dangerous to print the name of the accursed 26-year-old who fouled up with that foul ball as it would be to print the name of a C.I.A. spy.You had to feel sorry for the terrified persona-non-Cubbie when his own dad refused to...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Extending rock music's recent reign over the U.S. pop charts, Metallica (news - web sites) grabbed the No. 1 spot with the debut of "St. Anger," its first studio album in more than five years. On the verge of splintering a few years ago, the veteran heavy metal act's recent moves to get in touch with its vulnerable side appear to have paid off. "St. Anger," produced after fractious band members hired a therapist to help them work better as a team, sold a whopping 418,000 copies during the sales week ended Sunday, according to retail...

The Daredevil star is following in the footsteps of girlfriend Jennifer Lopez, scooping a lucrative contract as the face of cosmetics firm L'Oreal 27 MAY 2003 Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are inseparable both on an off-screen, having teamed up for J Lo's sexy Jenny From The Block video as well as two upcoming films. And now, Ben has signed a lucrative contract as the new face of L'Oreal, five years after his famous fiancée did the same. The clean-cut Daredevil actor has scored a £1 million-plus to deal promote men's grooming products for the firm. "Ben embodies a...

Posted Mar. 06, 2003 Eric Klister column: Look for musicians to turn up volume on anti-war stanceThe bombs are about to fall, troops are set to be deployed and tanks are ready to roll, or so it appears. I wonder what Bruce Springsteen and Madonna are thinking. As sure as it appears that a war with Iraq is imminent, you also can bet that musicians are ready to launch their own attack in the form of protest songs, speeches and advertisements. Curiously, the music industry so far has turned down the volume on anti-war sentiments. At this year’s Grammys, hardly...

Charles Schumer is rambling idiocy now about how ideology MUST be used in determining judges. Schumer laughably calls himself a moderate.

HP-Lindows tussle clouds desktop Linux show By Stephen Shankland Special to ZDNet News January 21, 2003, 4:56 AM PT Hewlett-Packard and other participants have withdrawn from a February conference on the use of Linux on desktop computers, casting a shadow on the show's debut. At the root of the spat are objections to the main sponsor's prominence in the Desktop Linux Summit. News site DesktopLinux.com had been a sponsor, and open-source advocate Bruce Perens was scheduled to deliver the show's opening keynote speech. But both pulled out after the conference's sponsor and organizer Lindows decided its chief executive, Michael...