davidl on May 1st, 2008

Paul Duggan and Allison Klein, Washington Post

Deborah Jeane Palfrey, convicted last month of running a high-end prostitution service in Washington, hanged herself today in a shed outside her mother’s mobile home in Florida, officials said.

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Eric Florack on May 1st, 2008
  • Sorry to see Billy isn’t feeling so well. It’s shameful I’ve not been to see a Coots gig, but our financial situation is getting a bit better, now,so perhaps I’ll get the time and the money this summer to run

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Eric Florack on May 1st, 2008

HMM: “I think it is obvious that the superdelegates will pick Obama. They have their own self-interest to consider, not to mention the long-term interest of the party. The choice for Obama is clear  and it would be clear even

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davidl on May 1st, 2008

Professional demagogues, that to say, politicians, say the disproportionate number of blacks involved in the criminal justice system shows that the system is racist.  That is, we only lock-up a disproportionately high number of blacks for crimes say murder because

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Eric Florack on May 1st, 2008

MANHATTAN, Kan. —(AP) CIA Director Michael Hayden said Wednesday that Iranian policy, at the highest government level, is to help kill Americans in Iraq, the boldest pronouncement of Iranian involvement by a U.S. official to date.

Hayden made the statement

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I think I’ve just figured out why the world wide food crisis: The UN is working it.

Of course, they want not more food, but more money.

BERN, Switzerland — The U.N. will set up a top-level task force to

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