Maybe they won’t notice when they’ve got one…
The word “scrotum” does not often appear in polite conversation. Or children’s literature, for that matter.
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Read original by DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK in The New York Times

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 — Back when Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was first lady, no one better embodied what she once called the “vast right-wing conspiracy” than Richard Mellon Scaife.

Mr. Scaife, reclusive heir to the Mellon banking fortune, spent more than $2 million investigating and publicizing accusations about the supposed involvement of Mrs. Clinton and former President Bill Clinton in corrupt land deals, sexual affairs, drug running and murder.

But now, as Mrs. Clinton is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, Mr. Scaife’s checkbook is staying in his pocket.

Christopher Ruddy, who once worked full-time for Mr. Scaife investigating the Clintons and now runs a conservative online publication he co-owns with Mr. Scaife, said, “Both of us have had a rethinking.”

“Clinton wasn’t such a bad president,” Mr. Ruddy said. “In fact, he was a pretty good president in a lot of ways, and Dick feels that way today.”

Cancer is not who you are – it’s what’s happening to you.
Go to original By David Twiddy,The Associated Press, in the Salt Lake Tribune

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Buying a greeting card for someone’s birthday, anniversary or if they’re feeling under the weather is pretty straightforward.

But what if they’re undergoing chemotherapy or struggling with depression?

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Joseph Longo’s Plasma Converter turns our most vile and toxic trash into clean energy—and promises to make a relic of the landfill.

It sounds as if someone just dropped a tricycle into a meat grinder. I’m sitting inside a narrow conference room at a research facility in Bristol, Connecticut, chatting with Joseph Longo, the founder and CEO of Startech Environmental Corporation.

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She’s too polarizing and her negatives too high, her fellow Democrats say. She’s too cold and calculating. The right-wing attack machine will grind her up. Nonsense.
Go to original by ADAM C. SMITH in the St. Petersburg Times.

Why wait until 2008? Impeach Bush and make a Democrat president now.

Let’s give Bush and Cheney an eviction notice to remove them as derelict squatters.

Then, let’s move Nancy Pelosi (third in line in succession) into another House, the White House!

Sweet dreams as you wear this button proudly: “Nancy Pelosi for President in 2007.”
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“She had to go that entire night with her ear infection with no medicine because he has his policy,” Tasha Childress said.
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Spider web, Cancun, photograph by Anita Brown
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“I didn’t see any harm in toughening them up”
–A defendant
Go to original on BBC.A jury at Plymouth Magistrates’ Court was shown the footage Footage of four women goading toddlers to fight has “stunned” police and social services in Devon. The seven-minute footage, filmed at a house by one woman, was shown in a case at Plymouth Magistrates’ Court.

In the clip, a boy wearing a nappy was called a “wimp” for not hitting a girl back after she struck him in the face. Four women admitted child cruelty charges and were released on bail on Wednesday. Det Sgt Andy Kings said the police had been “shocked” by the case.

An associate municipal court judge in Lafayette, Colo., resigned Monday in protest of stiffer penalties for marijuana possession in the city.
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A psychedelic British rock festival called Bestival, scheduled for September, had been encouraging attendees to dress as clowns, just for fun. But too many people protested they would be freaked out, and the festival canceled the plan, according to the Bestival Web site.

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More than one in six dollars charged by U.S. contractors were questionable or unsupported.
Go to original by HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON – About $10 billion has been squandered by the U.S. government on
Iraq reconstruction aid because of contractor overcharges and unsupported expenses, and federal investigators warned Thursday that significantly more taxpayer money is at risk.

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