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Knoxville Man Shot Churchgoers Because He Didn't Like Their Liberal Views

I imagine what the NRA must think
But can't dare say out loud;
What Jim D. Adkisson did makes all
Of them so very ... proud.

GOP Candidate Has Growth Removed

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The dramatic hearing on presidential crimes and abuses of power held on Friday by the House Judiciary Committee was both a staged farce, and at the same time, a powerful demonstration of the power of a grassroots movement in defense of the Constitution. It was at once both testimony to the cowardice and self-inflicted impotence of Congress and of the Democratic Party that technically controls that body, and to the enormity of the damage that has been wrought to the nation's democracy by two aspiring tyrants in the White House.

As Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), chairman of the committee, made clear more than once during the six-hour session, this was "not an impeachment hearing, however much many in the audience might wish it to be." He might well have added that he himself was not the fierce defender of the Constitution and of the authority of Congress that he once was before gaining control of the Judiciary Committee, however much his constituents, his wife, and Americans across the country might wish him to be.

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His sister Pam works in a shop
She never stops, she's a go-getter
Takes him out to look at the queen
Only place that he's ever been
Always shouts out something obscene

-- Mean Mr. Mustard, John Lennon/Paul McCartney, 1969

In the Beatles song, "Mean Mr. Mustard," he never really seemed that mean. The above lyric was the meanest thing in the song.

If you were to write a parody song about John McCain, you couldn't help but borrow from this song. After all, we know McCain has a temper and has showed it in far too many fashions. If voters wanted to have a beer with Bush, they would be afraid to try and retrieve the tennis ball that went over McCain's fence.

David Letterman has for months poked fun at McCain's age, portraying him as the guy who yells at kids to get off his lawn. Whether that is literally true, McCain has now morphed into Letterman's perception.
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BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE

“By labeling them contractors, Blackwater and its affiliates qualified for federal small-business contracts worth nearly $110 million.” Somehow, 110 million dollars doesn’t seem to equate with “small business”! It seems to me, logic would tell us ONE HUNDRED AND TEN MILLION DOLLARS is a BIG BUSINESS DEAL! But then this is the Bush administration, and we all know that TRILLIONS of DOLLARS don’t seem to faze them at all!!!

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A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT
by Meg White

The politicization of the Justice Department is back in the news, thanks to a new report from the department's inspector general.

Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine testified Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee in connection with the report on the politicization of hiring and firing at the Department of Justice under the purview of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

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A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT
by Amy Weiss

Defense Department officials and a senior employee from defense contractor KBR testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Wednesday about the electrocution deaths of 16 soldiers in Iraq due to shoddy, unstable electrical systems on military facilities, many of which still exist from the Saddam Hussein regime.

Staff Sergeant Ryan Maseth, one of the soldiers killed, was electrocuted in the shower on January 2, 2008 at his residence at the Radwaniyah Palace Complex (RPC) in Baghdad. Sergeant Justin Hummer was stationed in the same room and used the same shower as Sgt. Maseth from June to October 2007, before Sgt. Maseth moved in. During that time, Sgt. Hummer was shocked in the shower four or five times and once used

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A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
by Christine Bowman

Frank Rich's "How Obama Became Acting President" is a column for the history books -- totally on-target, with original and astute observations.

Barack Obama is our new "acting president," as Rich says -- or the presumptive president, or president in waiting, however observers might choose to put it -- because the current occupant has been entirely discredited and rejected, both at home and abroad. "The opening for a successor arrived prematurely, and the vacuum had been waiting to be filled."

The inadequacy of the sitting president demands that America leave him behind -- and the sooner, the better. That means before January 20, 2009. And before November 4, 2008. Americans and our allies are desperate for change. Even though the campaigns and voters must continue to work through the legally-mandated electoral process step by step, we already have passed a threshold psychologically and have begun our process of reconstruction.

Change is not just a campaign promise. It's not a filmy dream, or something out there on the horizon. It has come.

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Subject: Here They Go Again

A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll is reporting that John McCain is now +4 points over Senator Obama among "likely" voters, a 10 point swing. Don't buy it for a minute.

The State Media are trying to set us up for more Vote Fraud by falsifying McCain's popularity. They're having to censor him so heavily to hide his mental decrepitude that the few snippets they do show make McCain only appear, well, strange. Stranger than most, as a matter of fact. Creepy enough to be a character in a Stephen King novel. I don't think even a V.P. Romney with his bouffant a-sparklin' could counter the rattling of chains and the blast of stale, cold air that follows McCain around as he makes his tour of America.

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