(Pimping great, but mistitled, diary that just ran off the page.)
Humorous and very dangerous stuff. Short teaser here. Hal C.

"He said he pummeled his face; he didn't say what with. He scraped his head against a brick wall [and] broke the bottle ... over his head," (...) referring to a glass Orangina bottle with which Nava  had initially said his assailants beat him during the attack. "It certainly was enough to merit treatment by doctors,"

Francisco Nava '09 said his falsification of threatening emails to prominent campus conservatives and subsequent assault on himself stemmed from a belief that his actions would draw attention to the pro-chastity cause

The Iowa Co-chair of the Clinton campaign that switched to Obama has refused to use any Burlington money to light an alternate baseball field for a Babe Ruth League that was evicted from its own field due to a massive commercial development in which city money was used to relocate other tenants of the property.

After the local community college offered its unlit facilities to the newly homeless Babe Ruth League, Councilman and ex-Clinton co-chair Garry Thomas denounced efforts to provide the necessary lighting to the field despite the city having shelled out a whopping 5.16 million for the commercial development for which the Babe Ruth League was evicted, mouthing only empty platitudes of regret.

What does it say about Clinton and Obama when they are fighting over the endorsement of someone who takes ball fields away from kids?

Hal C.
[Article from the Hawkeye below the fold.]

Later, with Wicke out of the way, it was claimed that Yushchenko had the second highest dioxin level ever reported.

His diary is here.

He concludes:

So when you see a tribute to Frank Perdue, remember this story.  I'm sure nobody else will.

This is a powerful case study of union organizing in the South and should not be missed.
Hal C.

Part I:
Forget the filibuster, the US-allied Ecuadoran government has found a novel method to block unwanted legislation.

The pro-government Congress in Ecuador saw a bloc of lawmakers switch to the opposition giving it a majority.  The congress president immediately closed the session and ordered the lawmakers home to prevent unwanted legislation.

However, the opposition lawmakers refused to leave.

So the electricity was cut off.

They still refused to leave.

So police gassed the congressional chambers.

Coroner Robert Lyons said his office had been swamped with calls. "It's unusual in a suicide case to have two shots."

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A boot from the pro-Western organisation 'Pora' stamps on its de-humanized opponents
--British Helsinki Human Rights Group
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In some opposition posters, Yanukovych's forces are shown as a boot crushing an insect.
--Washington Post
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While not overtly political, it attests to the inferior and slothful quality of mainstream western reporting emanating from "free" Iraq.

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[C]hildren no longer buy the talk of their teachers, promising them a bright and promising future in the days to come...

Ali Mashaal Salem, an eight-year-old boy, is pacing up and down an alley on maximum alert with his small plastic rifle.

"I'm waiting for the Americans to kill any of whom who dares cross my borders," he courageously told IOL, referring to his peers playing the enemy.

This independent exit poll from the Lancaster New Era newspaper appeared at 1 pm EST election day and applies to Lancaster County PA, the heart of the generally conservative Pennsylvania Deutsch region.

I post this Lancaster New Era exit poll here solely to preserve the evidence.

Hal C.

The flyer wouldn't have been so offensive had it used the words prairie dog instead of just dog. Also inside the flyer the sentence: ''No wonder the varmints are heading to the polls to vote for him.''

The problem for Indian country originated decades ago when many stores in the state displayed signs that said, ''No Dogs or Indians allowed.''

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