Monthly Archives: June 2007 «

 

Chief Justice Roberts suffers seizure

Posted by: Sister Toldjah on June 30, 2007 at 7:21 pm » 7 Comments

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Via AP:
Chief Justice John Roberts suffered a seizure at his summer home in Maine on Monday, causing a fall that resulted in minor scrapes, Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said.
He will remain in a hospital in Maine overnight.
Roberts, 52, was taken by ambulance to the Penobscot Bay Medical Center, where he underwent a “thorough neurological [...]

 

Weekend open thread

Posted by: Sister Toldjah on June 30, 2007 at 10:02 am » 10 Comments

It’s been a bit of a rough week for me, culminating in yet another fall in the parking lot at work on Friday (told you I was freak-accident prone). Not only that, but blogging this week has taken a lot out of me emotionally, considering the highly-charged atmosphere surrounding the immigration issue, and I’m [...]

 

Hamas and Mickey Mouse: Art imitates life

Posted by: Sister Toldjah on June 29, 2007 at 3:16 pm » 6 Comments

Via AP:
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A Mickey Mouse lookalike who preached Islamic domination on a Hamas-affiliated children’s television program was beaten to death in the show’s final episode Friday.
In the final skit, “Farfour” was killed by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfour’s land. At one point, the mouse called [...]

 

GOP to start their own version of “MoveOn.org”?

Posted by: Sister Toldjah on June 29, 2007 at 11:11 am » 1 Comment

According the Mike Allen at the Politico, the answer is “yes”:
Veteran Republicans say they have quietly raised millions of dollars for a pair of nonprofit organizations that will launch this fall with the ambitious aim of providing a conservative counterweight to the liberal MoveOn.org, Politico.com has learned.
The issues and education group, which has a plan [...]

 

Pelosi: Bush not “worth impeaching”

Posted by: Sister Toldjah on June 29, 2007 at 10:35 am » 5 Comments

LOL! Jules Crittenden has the post of the day after Pelosi’s announcement to a group of hungry liberal bloggers that the President is not worth impeaching:
But let me get this straight. Bush and his “junta” are a gang of criminals who have hijacked the United States and trampled on the Constitution, sent U.S. soldiers to [...]

 

Last night’s Democratic presidential candidates debate

Posted by: Sister Toldjah on June 29, 2007 at 9:33 am » 4 Comments

I didn’t watch it, but The Politico’s Roger Simon did, and here’s his take on the winners and losers, highlights and lowlights of it.
The debate was held at Howard University, a prestigious black college, so the pandering mode was in full effect, as you can see from the WaPo recap (I haven’t been able [...]

 

Er, bad move, Sarko

Posted by: Sister Toldjah on June 29, 2007 at 9:14 am » 2 Comments

As I’ve written here before, I believe conservative French president Nicolas Sarkozy is a breath of fresh air for France – but not when he’s giving distinguished awards to liberal moonbats like Babs Streisand:
(AP) Barbra Streisand performed her first-ever concert in France this week – and was rewarded with a medal of the Legion of [...]

 

A victory for free speech

Posted by: Sister Toldjah on June 29, 2007 at 8:42 am » 2 Comments

Alexander Bolton at The Hill reports that true lovers and defenders of free speech have something to smile about after yesterday:
The House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from using taxpayer dollars to impose the Fairness Doctrine on broadcasters who feature conservative radio hosts such as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. [...]

 

Explosive device defused in central London (MORE: 2ND CAR CONFIRMED TO HAVE “MASSIVE” CAR BOMB)

Posted by: Sister Toldjah on June 29, 2007 at 6:27 am » 12 Comments

Via the AP:
LONDON — Police defused an explosive device found in a parked car in central London on Friday, and the new government called an emergency meeting of senior security chiefs to investigate what many feared could have been a planned terror attack.
Police said the car — parked near busy Piccadilly Circus — contained [...]

 

Pet peeves (Thursday/Friday open thread)

Posted by: Sister Toldjah on June 28, 2007 at 8:28 pm » 13 Comments

I need to take a break from the “issues” for the rest of the night, and instead wanted to start a thread where we could rant about non-political stuff, like pet peeves. I know you’ve got a few. Here are some of mine:
— Someone chewing bubble gum with their mouth open: Recently at [...]