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Alleged drunken, drugged Oregon Mayor arrested after head-on crash

The Mayor of Monument was arrested on several charges, including DUII, on Saturday after crashing his pickup head-on into an oncoming car and then fleeing the scene.

 

Oregon State Police troopers from the John Day worksite are continuing the investigation into Saturday evening's three-vehicle injury crash on State Highway 402 near the small eastern Oregon community of Monument. The alleged impaired-related driving crash sent 3 people to the hospital, including a 2-year old child, and led to the arrest of Monument's mayor on multiple charges.

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When George Met Jack

Read this Time article that suggests that George just might be in bed with lobbyists ha ha ha, you don't say...

White House aides deny the President knew lobbyist Abramoff, but unpublished photos shown to TIME suggest there's more to the story

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Loose Change 9-11 Alex Jones Conspiracy

Very interesting video... what do you think?  Thanks Anarchy-X

Letterman to O'Reilly: "60% of what you say is crap"

Letterman to O'Reilly: "60% of what you say is crap"

Bill joined David on the Late Show and found that Letterman wasn't buying his phony war on Christmas deal. David also wasn't happy about his attacking Cindy Sheehan, the Iraq war and a lot of what Bill has to say in general.

      

Bush has personally authorized secretive eavesdropping in U.S. more than 3 dozen times...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush has personally authorized a secretive eavesdropping program in the United States more than three dozen times since October 2001, a senior intelligence official said Friday night.

The disclosure follows angry demands by lawmakers earlier in the day for congressional inquiries into whether the monitoring by the highly secretive National Security Agency violated civil liberties.  READ MORE

White house propoganda? Never...

White House 'Concerned' About Paid Stories

Thursday December 1, 2005 11:46 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) - Demands for details from the White House and Congress were building Thursday over a U.S. military program whose multimillion-dollar contracts include money for paying Iraqi newspapers and journalists to plant favorable stories about the war and rebuilding effort.

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The New DayQuil (and NyQuil) Blows ... A Lot

I'm sure you've noticed that for the past year (perhaps even longer), grocery stores and pharmacies have been keeping cold products in glass cases, requiring you to hunt down someone with a key that can get the product for you. The problem is that many of the popular over-the-counter cold medications contained a decongestant called pseudoephedrine, and it was a high-theft item because of it's ability to be used to create crystal meth. READ MORE

Tell me this is a joke...

Is the startup being funded by bush, too??

Brown to start emergency planning consulting business

Thursday, November 24, 2005; Posted: 9:01 p.m. EST (02:01 GMT)

DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- Former FEMA Director Michael Brown, heavily criticized for his agency's slow response to Hurricane Katrina, is starting a disaster preparedness consulting firm to help clients avoid the sort of errors that cost him his job.

"If I can help people focus on preparedness, how to be better prepared in their homes and better prepared in their businesses -- because that goes straight to the bottom line -- then I hope I can help the country in some way," Brown told the Rocky Mountain News for its Thursday editions.

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Bush Attempts Escape

This guy just keeps giving us comedy.  I say we keep him forever.  The cost has to out weigh the free comedy that comes day after day.  Bush's Escape Foiled

Long-Awaited Beer With Bush Really Awkward, Voter Reports

WARREN, PA—Although respondents to a Pew poll taken prior to the 2004 presidential election characterized Bush as "the candidate they'd most like to sit down and have a beer with," Chris Reinard lived the hypothetical scenario Sunday afternoon, and characterized it as "really uncomfortable and awkward." 

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