Cream Tangerine

Satellite photos of the Indonesian mud disaster. That continues to fascinate me.

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So, it looks like Dennis Hastert is going to have a scandal of truly monumental proportions blow up in his face a month before the elections. This should be fun to watch.

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Whilst looking at Halloween decorations, I learned that cheesecloth which has had holes poked in it becomes 'cobwebs', and is more costly than undamaged cheesecloth. Strange but true!

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There seem to be an unusual number of maniacs lately.

He was goin' down the grade, doin' 90 miles an hour...

Okay, you Brits who wish ill upon the Republicans, now's your time to gloat! I'm not sure the European media has really grasped the enormity of the catastrophe that Foley has uncorked on his fellows, a scant month before the election. While I'm a Republican, I also love a good political trainwreck, and this bids fair to be one of the truly memorable ones.

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*snerk* One of Joe Negron's advisers (the replacement candidate for Foley) was apparently overheard this morning describing the Republican candidacy as 'completely doomed'.

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Hastert's apparently determined not to resign. He intends to be found in the wreck with his hand on the throttle.

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Foley's lawyer makes the interesting statement "Mark Foley has never, ever had inappropriate sexual contact with a minor in his life". Presumably he's trying to leave himself some room to argue that there are appropriate forms of sexual contact with minors, in case he has to use that wiggle room later.