pods.swedesforobama.com

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Morale - Smorale

Clinton got rid of Dick Morris for seing a prostitute, will FOX News do the same?

"DC Madam Names Dick Morris As Client"
Newshounds

Dick Morris, the television commentator and former adviser to President Bill Clinton, who resigned in 1996 after reports that he was seeing a prostitute, was also a customer, (DC Madame) Ms. Palfrey’s lawyer has said in court.
Mr. Morris has denied the accusation.

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Everybody Loves Terrorism

"Annual terrorism report will show 29% rise in attacks" McClatchy Newspapers

A State Department report on terrorism due out next week will show a nearly 30 percent increase in terrorist attacks worldwide in 2006 to more than 14,000, almost all of the boost due to growing violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. officials said Friday.

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Don't mention the war

"Bush Doesn't Joke at WHCA Dinner Due to Virginia Tech Killings -- But Rich Little Says 'Nuts' " Editor and Publisher

What would the White House Correspondents Association dinner do for an encore on Saturday night in Washington following last year’s cotroversial Stephen Colbert routine?

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"The Top 15 Most Embarrassing Photos of George W. Bush" The Daily Background

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Brazil - babes, beaches, football and guns, lots of guns.

"20 die in Rio as drug
gangs battle police" CNN

Rio de Janeiro is one of the most violent cities in the world, with an annual homicide rate of about 50 per 100,000 residents.
Most of the killings have occurred in the city's more than 600 shantytowns, which are controlled primarily by heavily armed gangs.
On Monday, federal officials met with Rio de Janeiro Gov. Sergio Cabral to discuss deploying the army to fight violence in the city, which is to host the Pan American Games in July.

(nov 2005)
"As Brazil Votes to Ban Guns,
NRA Joins the Fight" The Nation

The NRA denies any direct funding of Brazilian groups, but activists say Brazilian gun control foes have directly translated NRA materials and used statistics and rhetoric that bear a striking resemblance to NRA's television infomercials aired in the United States.
In some cases, the translations were culturally clumsy. One TV spot refers to the "right" to own a gun (Brazilians have no such right) while another argues for gun ownership because "it can take up to seven minutes for police to respond to your call." Jessica Galeria, a former Fulbright scholar who coordinates research on women and armed violence for Viva Rio, a Brazilian gun control group, observed that the "seven minutes" reference was taken from American NRA materials. In Brazil, she said, "it would likely take much longer."

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Silver Ring-a-ding-ding

"US sex-abstinence classes queried"
BBC Americas

The findings show that those who attended first had sex at about the same age as their peers - at 14 years and nine months.

The Bush administration has warned against drawing sweeping conclusions from the study.

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Holy shit! Condoleezza Rice is a black woman!!

"Condoleezza Rice: I'm glad Imus was fired" Reuters

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday that radio host Don Imus' comments about the Rutgers University women's basketball team were "disgusting" and she was pleased he was fired.

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The Atheist's Post-Easter
YouTube Musical Medley

After a weekend with nothing but Jim Caviezel getting his ass kicked repeatedly on TV, you're probably in the need for some statue-rising tunes to cleanse your mind.
Christians, Jews, Muslims, Scientologists or Buddhists need not apply....

Human Behavior
Bjork

Instant Karma
John Lennon

I have forgiven Jesus
Morrissey

The Golden Path
Chemical Brothers ft. the Flaming Lips

Nightswimming
R.E.M.

Beethoven's 5th Symphony
Berlin Philharmonic

Born Secular
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins

I'm a believer
Micky Dolenz

Tour de France
Kraftwerk

Whatever
Noel Gallagher

Hot topic
Le Tigre

Going to Brazil
Motorhead

Mozart's Boy magic flute
Some kid

Jeremy
Pearl Jam

Killing an Arab
The Cure

He's so gay
Frank Zappa

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Nancy Pelosi is no Bill Clinton
...or how I learned to love fake outrage

"Paul Krugman: Sweet Little Lies"
Welcome to Pottersville

The Clinton years were a parade of fake scandals: Whitewater, Troopergate, Travelgate, Filegate, Christmas-card-gate. At the end, there were false claims that Clinton staff members trashed the White House on their way out.
...
Now there’s Ms. Pelosi’s fact-finding trip to Syria, which Dick Cheney denounced as “bad behavior” — unlike the visit to Syria by three Republican congressmen a few days earlier, or Newt Gingrich’s trip to China when he was speaker.

Ms. Pelosi has responded coolly, dismissing the administration’s reaction as a “tantrum.” But it’s more than that: the hysterical reaction to her trip is part of a political strategy, aided and abetted by news organizations that give little lies their time in the sun.

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The Liberal bias of God

"Slaughter" in Iraq and talking between the Palestinians and Israel!?! Maybe God doesn't get the RNC newsletter on the Middle East?

"Pope decries 'slaughter' in Iraq"
BBC Europe

Speaking from the balcony overlooking the square, Pope Benedict expressed his concern at the level of suffering in the world.

"Nothing positive comes from Iraq, torn apart by continual slaughter as the civil population flees," he said.

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Mitt Romney is no John Kerry

"Romney Aims Again to Explain Hunting"
Huffington Post

The former Massachusetts governor has called himself a lifelong hunter, yet his campaign acknowledged that he has been on just two hunting trips _ one when he was 15 and the other just last year.
...
He joined the National Rifle Association last August as a "Lifetime" member.

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"Fuck Bill O'Reilly"