Roberts Confirmation Hearings Set
September 16 the final date for a Judicial Committee Hearing on Bush nominee for the supreme court-John Roberts.
Democrats, ahem, are demanding more documents beyond the document dump already given by the Bush administration.
Everyone out there who thinks these congress critters are actually going to read all these boring documents, raise their hands.
Sees no hands raised. Not even under their New England apple trees?
No hands raised.
How many think the Dems will demand documents until doomsday just to delay the nomination?
Oh my. See many hands raised.
These jerks are just so unbelievable.
From Yahoo.com
WASHINGTON - Confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee John Roberts will begin the day after Labor Day, but Senate Democrats said Friday the White House will have to release more documents to ensure he's wearing a justice's black robes before the new term begins in October.
"There is no reason why the date cannot be met, but we need the full cooperation of the administration," said top Senate Judiciary Committee Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont.
President Bush officially nominated Roberts as the replacement for retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on Friday, and Senate Republicans later announced that confirmation hearings would begin Sept. 6.
The announcement, however, did not come until after Democrats agreed not to hold up Roberts' nomination in committee and not to block the confirmation process through procedural maneuvers from the Senate floor.
Judiciary Democrats also agreed to let Judiciary chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., call for a final committee vote Sept. 15, a little more than a week after the hearings begin. However, Democrats have refused to guarantee that a Roberts vote will happen in committee on that day.
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All Four London Bombers Caught and Arrested!
I sat mesmerized in front of the television as the episodes unfolded across the sea. Witnesses included residents of the buildings occupied by the hapless bombers who tried to set up dud bombs on London subways on 7/21.
One bomber was arrested in Italy.
We hear that these guys are really talking.
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Discovery Shuttle Sidelined
Amidst much speculation that new environmental regulations regarding the foam protected tiles on the shuttle are causing the problem, NASA announced that the Discovery missions will be sidelined until the problem is solved.
Well duh.
What, three years and they haven’t solved the problem?
Back to the drawing board, NASA. This time get a waiver on that foam and freon thing.
From Spaceflightnow.com:
NASA's shuttle program manager says the spaceship won't fly again until the agency understands why a large section of foam peeled away from Discovery's external fuel tank during yesterday's launch. Discovery's mission is the first shuttle flight since Columbia was lost in 2003 after being struck by falling foam. A NASA news conference is underway.
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Bad Week for the Boy Scouts
It was a tragedy of unforeseen consequences.
Four adults killed when a pole from a tent they were erecting hit a power line.
It seems like such a simple thing. Don’t let your tent pole hit the power line.
All four adults were electrocuted. One child is still in serious condition.
To add to the boy scout bad week, Dubya was scheduled to speak the following day. Almost three hundred scouts suffered heat illness as the event occurred directly in the middle of this past week’s horrific heat wave. The President’s address had to be postponed.
From Apnews:
BOWLING GREEN, Va. (AP) - They were deeply devoted to the Boy Scouts, traveling thousands of miles to the woods of northern Virginia for 10 fun-filled days of fishing, archery and storytelling beside the campfire. One of their first tasks: Set up a large tent.
But the task went terribly awry when they lost control of a giant tent pole and it hit some nearby power lines, killing four Scout leaders as horrified youngsters looked on, said Bill Haines, a Scout executive in Alaska.
Karl Holfeld said his 15-year-old son Taylor, witnessed the accident and was on his cell phone to his mother back home in Alaska when the electrocutions occurred.
The boys "all started screaming," Holfeld told the Anchorage Daily News. "He said, 'Oh my God, oh my God, the tent is on fire, they're being burned!'"
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Political Cartoon of the Week
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Prior Weeks Just Passed HERE
Ann Coulter Hits a Bingo
SEND IN THE CLOWN
"The real story about Joseph C. Wilson IV was not that Bush lied about Saddam seeking uranium in Africa; the story was Clown Wilson and his paper-pusher wife, Valerie Plame. By foisting their fantasies of themselves on the country, these two have instigated a massive criminal investigation, the result of which is: The only person who has demonstrably lied and possibly broken the law is Joseph Wilson. So the obvious solution is to fire Karl Rove."
- Columnist Ann Coulter
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Muslim Justice in Action
WHERE ARE THE NOW-GALS WHEN YOU NEED 'EM?
"Hard-line Islamic clerics in a northern Indian village have declared that a woman's 10-year-old marriage was nullified when her father-in-law raped her -- and ordered the mother of five to marry the rapist. . . . The fatwa ordered Imrana Ilahi, 28, to separate from her husband and treat him as her son because she had sex with his father. 'She had a physical relationship with her father-in-law, and it nullifies her marriage,' said Mohammad Masood Madani, a cleric at the theological school. He said it made no difference whether the sex was consensual or forced. The village council then decreed that Mrs. Ilahi would have to marry her father-in-law."
- Washington Times, 7/19/05
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More Notable/Quotables HERE
Amazing Pics of Hummingbird Nest
Below is the first pic of an odyssey documented by pictures on this web site of the week.
Be sure to click on NEXT
PAGE at the bottom of each page; there are 5 pages in all. A lady found a
hummingbird nest and got pictures all the way from the egg to leaving the
nest. Took 24 days from birth to flight. Because you'll probably never in
your lifetime see this again, enjoy; and please share.
Watch Birth of Baby Hummers HERE
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