Daily Archives: August 20th, 2007 «

 

Mon/Tues open thread and informal survey

Posted by: ST on August 20, 2007 at 9:36 pm » 17 Comments

I was just settling in for the evening and reading one of my favorite women’s magazines (First), and I came across a reader survey they did, which asked: “When should married couples sleep apart?” Oh, and by sleep, they mean actually sleeping, not the other “sleeping”! The responses were: 88% say it’s alright to do [...]

 

Mexico braces for category five Hurricane Dean

Posted by: ST on August 20, 2007 at 9:09 pm » 3 Comments

Via MSNBC: TULUM, Mexico – Hurricane Dean became a “potentially catastrophic” Category 5 storm as it bore down on Mexico’s Caribbean coast Monday night, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. The center reported at 8:35 p.m. EDT that Dean had reached maximum sustained winds of 160 mph. Tens of thousands of tourists fled the beaches [...]

 

More Congressional war critics praising surge’s progress (MORE: HILLARY: SURGE IS “WORKING” – BUT IT’S TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE)

Posted by: ST on August 20, 2007 at 8:27 pm » 6 Comments

Praise from none other than Senators Carl Levin (D-MI) and John Warner (R-VA), noted critics of the Iraq war: WASHINGTON — After a brief trip to Iraq, Sen. Carl Levin said Monday that the Iraqi Parliament should vote no confidence in the government of Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki because of its sectarian nature and [...]

 

Dem Congressman charged with assault and battery at Dulles

Posted by: ST on August 20, 2007 at 7:20 pm » 12 Comments

But you wouldn’t have known it was California Dem Congressman Bob Filner in some of the early reporting on the story, which Mark Finkelstein discusses here. As ST reader sanity noted in the comments of the most recent open thread, had this guy been a Republican, it would have been one of the first things [...]

 

Breaking: Vick to plead guilty

Posted by: ST on August 20, 2007 at 2:41 pm » 8 Comments

All his friends were turning against him, so it looks like he realizes he’s run out of options: The lead attorney for pro football star Michael Vick said Monday that the Atlanta Falcons quarterback will plead guilty to dogfighting and related charges and will “accept full responsibility for his actions and the mistakes he has [...]

 

Quote of the day

Posted by: ST on August 20, 2007 at 1:48 pm » Comments Off

Via CNN: “Dying is not what scares me; it’s dying having had no impact. I know a lot of eyes are watching me suffer; and — win or lose — this is my time for impact.” — 18 year-old blogger Miles Levin, who died Sunday, 6 days before his 19th birthday, from a type of [...]

 

Pajamas Media: How TNR got “suckered” by Scott Thomas Beauchamp

Posted by: ST on August 20, 2007 at 11:16 am » 3 Comments

Pajamas Media’s Richard Miniter writes an in-depth report that takes a look at how The New Republic, in their words, got ‘suckered’ by Scott Thomas – their ‘military blogger’ – aka Scott Thomas Beauchamp. The teaser (emphasis added): Miniter spoke with several people involved in the extraordinary story, including the whistle-blower and a German woman [...]

 

Novak: Hillary supporters think Mark Warner would be better VP pick than Obama

Posted by: ST on August 20, 2007 at 9:12 am » 11 Comments

Robert Novak writes in todays Chicago Sun-Times: Anticipating that Sen. Hillary Clinton will clinch the Democratic presidential nomination, some supporters are beginning to argue against her choosing her principal rival — Sen. Barack Obama — for vice president. They maintain Obama provides no general election help for Clinton. As an African-American from Illinois, he represents [...]