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WASHINGTON, D.C.- As outgoing President George W. Bush exited the White House for the last time on Monday, taking one final load of high school baseball trophies out to the moving van, witnesses say the swinging door malfunctioned, smacking the Texan hard enough to knock him down onto the icy pavement. When asked to describe the location of the injury, paramedics were reluctant to reply at first, citing HIPAA privacy regulations. Pressed for an answer, they hinted that the door had hit him in the general area of "where the good Lord split him."

"I should have seen this coming," said Bush. "Just in the last week, I was warned several times about this potentiality and admonished to not let it happen."

The injuries sustained in the incident were not critical, say doctors, but there is a strong likelihood that he will feel the need to affect a limp for a month or two in order to save face and generate sympathy. If his approval numbers don't turn around by the spring, however, it's possible that he may have the limp for the rest of his life. In addition, Bush may have suffered minor cranial trauma when the door made contact with his buttocks. According to his medical records, it had been stuck up there since the fall of 2001.

Although initial reports seem to indicate that the episode was nothing more than an accident, outgoing Bush appointees in the departments of Justice and Homeland Security are taking no chances. Secret Service agents quickly apprehended the door and are currently holding it for questioning, but so far no amount of harsh interrogation has managed to glean any information from the alleged assailant.

Unnamed sources tell us that intelligence officers are using their soon-to-expire permission to torture to the fullest extent but to no avail. Agents hung the door outside in the sub zero cold for more than two hours with no results. Later, they poured water over the door to simulate drowning but apparently its ingenious screen caused the water to flow right through it. To the great frustration of investigators, the door was similarly unaffected by loud music and barking dogs.

The primary question on their minds at the moment is whether the door acted alone or if it had an accomplice. For many of the agents working on the case, the plot seems far too complex for an inanimate object to pull off without help of some kind. Then again, they certainly don't want to fall into the trap of underestimating an assailant just because it doesn't happen to have a brain or consciousness of any kind. We can all recall the embarrassment in 2002 when officials failed to vet a pretzel that attempted to choke the President to death just a few yards away from on-duty Secret Service agents.

"I think this incident is a testament to my legacy as President," said Bush from his hospital bed. "I may not have 'protected' the country or abided by the 'Constitution', but hey, at least I managed to escape this job with my life- and in the grand scheme of things, I think that's enough of an accomplishment for any President. So, at least on that front, I come off looking better than Lincoln or Roosevelt. I can live with that

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 11:07 AM

FARK.... you kidding... don't they have a section devoted strictly to boobies....??

that's not news - cute, but not news....

call me old fashioned, but i still pick up a Dallas Morning Newspaper every morning - most of it isn't worth lining the birdcage with, but since it's a daily routine, i suppose it is my favorite...

Broadcast media would be PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer

eta: still check Huffington Post each day - it was better when it was just news and politics - but still some good stuff there

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 11:26 AM

PENGUIN

Piratenews!

King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 11:27 AM

i gotta go with the old guy.
Sometimes guardian.co.uk, fox, seattle pi.
I surf around a lot though, news not all that reliable. Everyone has a bias.
Fox has the advantage that I already know the bias, same for seattle pi

[edit] I always with I were quicker on the draw, I gonna go wid da penguin

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 11:32 AM

BLUESUNCOMPANYMAN

Talk Radio

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:47 PM

WHOZIT

www.zap2it.com is a great source for entertainment info. www.summer-glau.net is a great source for everything Summer

I'm going to microwave a bagel and have sex with it - Peter Griffin

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:52 PM

RUE

I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!

The internet: Drudge, WashPost, NYTimes, Yahoo, Salon.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 1:30 PM

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www.summer-glau.net is a great source for everything Summer

I'm going to use a microwave radio and get a TOK715 modelled after Allison from Palmdale over here and have sex with it. Then laugh at the whozit :)

Blue Sun, if you want information, you might want to try a different source. IMHO, talk radio is all opinion, and advertiser supported opinion. A regular neocon rag is probably more objective. Jes saying.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 1:41 PM

KIRKULES

I get a lot of my news from Yahoo News which is mostly AP stuff. These stories get me searching the Internet and I just go wherever Goggle takes me. I also listen to the radio during my 1/2 hour commute to work, Bill Bennett in the morning and Micheal Medved in the afternoon.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 7:30 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

All of 'em.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:53 PM

Bratz Dolls May Give Young Girls Unrealistic Expectations Of Head Size

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/bratz_dolls_may_give_young_girls

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:16 PM

Onion, Fox, Rush, bootsandsabers.com, Michelle Malkin.
For money, Bob Brinker (Market timer) is all that's needed.
For entertainment, Joe Bob Briggs.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:33 PM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

CNN.com is my home page.

I also read the Yahoo editorials ( or is it called Opinion? ) page every day, it features print editorials from The Christian Science Monitor ( which has always had a good rep in international affairs); The Weekly Standard ( right wing!); Huffington Post ( way left wing !); The Nation, which is liberal leaning; and Real Clear Politics, which is right leaning but pretty objective.

I also buy and read the L A Times every work day, and share it with my co-workers. At least one of them buys the Orange County Register every work day, which is way right wing.

Truth to tell, the Editorial pages of both newspapers are more interesting than the news pages. I love to read analysis, spin, and people arguing, even the folks I disagree with.

And one source I miss: I don't see George Will's column often enough. Neither of those papers carry him, and I respect his intelligence and arguments, even if I disagree with his conclusions.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 11:27 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
CNN.com is my home page.

At least one of them buys the Orange County Register every work day, which is way right wing.

Orange County Register is not right wing. Just because it's right of you does not mean any centered person would view it right. Heavily anti-military, which is not a right position.

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Thursday, January 22, 2009 4:47 AM

PIZMOBEACH

... fully loaded, safety off...

I don't trust any of them completely.

TheWeek.com is a collection of left and right opinions, as decent a balance as one can expect.

NYTimes, CNN

Say what you will about MSM, Richard Engle's (sp) piece last night on NBC about the rebuilding of tunnels from Egypt to Gaza that's already re-started (!), was great journalism.

Considering recent changes, I'm actually going to start checking out this site:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/

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Thursday, January 22, 2009 5:38 AM

PIRATECAT

Well back in the day Firing Line with William F Buckley, The McLaughlin Group, and even Tony Brown's Journal. Today Jerry O'Doyle, Dennis Miller, Raleigh James, Kim Komando, Coast to Coast am radio, and all local only sport shows. NRA mag called Freedom First. I use Mike's Radio World on the net to pick up citytalk fm 105.9 out of Liverpool, midwest radio out of county Mayo Ire, KDKA 1020 am out of Pittsburgh, WFNZ 610 am out of Charlotte NC, any Nevada radio, and 1290 am out of Tucson AZ. But I will check out alot of the sites on this thread, cool.

"Battle of Serenity, Mal. Besides Zoe here, how many-" "I'm talkin at you! How many men in your platoon came out of their alive".

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Thursday, January 22, 2009 6:06 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by pizmobeach:
Considering recent changes, I'm actually going to start checking out this site:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/

good call - this is the former www.change.gov site

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Thursday, January 22, 2009 7:39 AM

JOSSISAGOD

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
All of 'em.

Then after, you get a glimmer of half truth.

Fe'nos Tol
JOSSIS(Most Definitely)AGOD

Self appointed Forsaken! Been on the list for a while now!

98% of teens have smoked pot, if you are one of the 2% that haven't, copy this into your signature.
"Look at me, I'm STUPID!" The Doctor.

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Thursday, January 22, 2009 8:29 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
All of 'em.

channeling Sarah Palin..... ??

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Thursday, January 22, 2009 8:44 AM

CHRISISALL

Quote:
Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:
Rush,

Well, my days of takin' you seriously have certainly come to a middle.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Thursday, January 22, 2009 8:47 AM

KWICKO

Quote:
Originally posted by deadlockvictim:
Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
All of 'em.

channeling Sarah Palin..... ??

Man, took ya long enough!

[sarcasm]

And yes, if you thought that asking Sarah Palin that question was "gotcha journalism", then you can have no issue whatsoever with my answer. If I say I read "all of 'em" then you have to accept that; to question it at all, or to ask me to name one, would be an attack on me personally.

[/sarcasm]

Mike

"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."

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Thursday, January 22, 2009 9:20 AM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

The interns and webmasters at these sites do a great job trolling through the international wire services every day (left, right, middle), so I don't have to:

www.rense.com
www.infowars.com RSS
www.truthnews.us RSS
www.propagandamatrix.com RSS
www.thepowerhour.com
www.wnd.com (#1 NoBama) RSS
www.theinternationalforecaster.com (economic) RSS

Rense Radio throws a few UFO articles in for entertainment, like its competitors Art Bell & George Noory, but the rest is hardcore. And it has the funniest political art on the web, banned by the US State Dept.

For police state news focus: www.thenewspaper.com RSS

If you want my own RSS of major news stories and original news:

http://piratenews-tv.blogspot.com/
http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/piratenewsrss/messages
www.myspace.com/piratenewsctv
www.piratenews.org/weblog.html

www.theonion.com (RSS) is also more accurate than many news corporations.

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Thursday, January 22, 2009 9:31 AM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

Quote:
Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:

Orange County Register is not right wing. Just because it's right of you does not mean any centered person would view it right. Heavily anti-military, which is not a right position.

The Hell it's not. Just because it doesn't march in lockstep with you on ONE ISSUE doesn't mean it isn't. It's from Orange County, California, the right wing capital of the Universe. I read its editorial page often. Every day, almost every word there favors a right wing cause or issue. It constantly attacks middle of the road pragmatists as far out lefties, making no distinction about folks who really are far out lefties.

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Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:29 AM

FREMDFIRMA

Btw, despite the source, and the fact that as even PN admits, some of those folks coverage is just plain bullshit - those are some pretty good resources as a beginning.

Just make double-damn sure to cross-confirm anything you see there, sturgeons law certainly applies and whatnot.

But you *do* find some slam-bang stuff in there, especially if you're lookin for political dirt.

These days, the way "news" is - well, there's no such thing, it's people telling you stuff that maybe happened today that THEY want to pin your attention to, giving you THEIR perception of it, in an attempt to manipulate public opinion to be more favorable of their own causes and sponsors products.

That ain't news - used to be AP wire from the press side wasn't too bad (the cut-down just the facts plainwire prior to local color and spin) but they dumped that a couple years ago, and non newsies didn't have access anyhow.

These days news is what YOU go looking for cause it interests you - and for most folk that means seeking someone who already agrees with them and tells them what they wanna hear, rather than informing them of anything, so it's just more ego-stroke than information, and both far ends of the political spectrum love it cause they don't have to investigate, or even start with the truth, they can just make shit up, and the adoring masses will gobble it.

I will however add Indymedia and Pravda to this list, the latter cause despite not taking themselves at all seriously, there's occasionally a damn good journalistic piece by americans who dare not try to get it run here.

-Frem

PS - and shame, shame on you PN for forgetting
http://whatreallyhappened.com/
and
http://www.thememoryhole.org/
No preztels for YOU!

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Thursday, January 22, 2009 12:56 PM

I get my news from RWED :)

I have a friend who keeps sending me links from http://www.americanfreepress.net/, any thoughts? She says it was pretty balanced and lately is getting a nazi infiltration. Her take is that this is done deliberately to discredit something...

Every serious conspiracy theorist I know either works for, or worked for the govt., usually somewhere high up

No pretzels, but possibly a bagel

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Thursday, January 22, 2009 2:20 PM

FREMDFIRMA

My only comment to that would be...

"Lately" ?

Seriously, the freepers have a well deserved horrific rep once you start looking past the heavily censored and sanitized front they put off.

If you want someone libertarian-right who isn't afraid to buck party lines I'd say go with Will Grigg, who runs a blog after a rather nasty blowup which involved him selecting principle over party.
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/

Don't always agree with the guy, but he makes his points damn solidly.

-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

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Thursday, January 22, 2009 2:30 PM

RUE

I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!

Oh - btw - I forgot to mention that I also like to dig up original reports. The things the MSM says those reports say is often not what they really say. And sometimes you can use orginal documents to find out what happened, such as during the Microsoft trial which was mis-reported from start to finish.

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Thursday, January 22, 2009 3:44 PM

Quote:

My only comment to that would be...

"Lately" ?

Seriously, the freepers have a well deserved horrific rep once you start looking past the heavily censored and sanitized front they put off.

If you want someone libertarian-right who isn't afraid to buck party lines I'd say go with Will Grigg, who runs a blog after a rather nasty blowup which involved him selecting principle over party.
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/

Don't always agree with the guy, but he makes his points damn solidly.

I hadn't really looked into it. I barely read a lot of the stuff that I get sent (eg. huffington post) So, being somewhat lazy, I thought someone else would have already done so.

I recall Pravda as being pretty heavily Nazi at some point. I'm not sure if nazis are something you attract by putting a certain spin on things, or something you can get invaded by, like Buchananites.

Quote:

RUE
Drudge, WashPost, NYTimes, Yahoo, Salon.

Erg. Sorry. I de-liberal you. So dubbed. Minus Salon.

Contrary to conservative thing, NYT isn't liberal, it's more sort of some strange kind of neocon. Yahoo and Drudge are battling Fox for conservative sludgefest, and the Post is sort of middlish, imho.

Ironically, some of the right had some odd picks too. I put up the seattle pi, i want to add the new yorker to that, sometimes. I thought Al jazeera was a good pick. I go there sometimes. Need that different perspective. Like the people's daily. It's surprising how up front they are about policy. Also, a lot of distractions, pictures of hot chicks. I know you care

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Thursday, January 22, 2009 4:42 PM

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/index.html
...bout the National Security Archive at George Washington University.

This is an independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University, the Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

The Archive obtains its materials through a variety of methods, including the Freedom of Information act, Mandatory Declassification Review, presidential paper collections, congressional records, and court testimony. Archive staff members systematically track U.S. government agencies and federal records repositories for documents that either have never been released before, or that help to shed light on the decision-making process of the U.S. government and provide the historical context underlying those decisions.

....sign up for email alerts whenever new documents are made available

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Friday, January 23, 2009 12:39 AM

Old saying from Russia, where there were 2 "news" sources, Pravda and Tass. One was Government propaganda, and one was government censored "information" - one translates to "news" and the other translates to "truth". The saying was that there is no Pravda in Tass, and there is no Tass in Pravda.

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Friday, January 23, 2009 12:41 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
Quote:
Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:

Orange County Register is not right wing. Just because it's right of you does not mean any centered person would view it right. Heavily anti-military, which is not a right position.

The Hell it's not. Just because it doesn't march in lockstep with you on ONE ISSUE doesn't mean it isn't. It's from Orange County, California, the right wing capital of the Universe. I read its editorial page often. Every day, almost every word there favors a right wing cause or issue. It constantly attacks middle of the road pragmatists as far out lefties, making no distinction about folks who really are far out lefties.

I mentioned merely one issue, that was not the entirety of their content.

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Friday, January 23, 2009 2:38 AM

FREMDFIRMA

Well one reason I find Pravda so amusing is that given it's history - the irony of often finding better journalism there than in the american mainstream media over the past six years cannot be denied.

That and they keep a light, goofy tone without ever taking themselves so seriously, they know and admit that they are entertainment and rather than try to hide it behind a front, glorify in it instead.

I do like my news with a side order of nutty flavor, cause you get to taking anything too seriously, you'll wind up even crazier!

-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

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Friday, January 23, 2009 4:02 AM

Quote:
Old saying from Russia, where there were 2 "news" sources, Pravda and Tass. One was Government propaganda, and one was government censored "information" - one translates to "news" and the other translates to "truth". The saying was that there is no Pravda in Tass, and there is no Tass in Pravda.

Известия

That would be Izvestia you're meant to say. TASS is an acronym, not a Russian word, and was not a paper, it was the soviet news agency, the equivalent of our AP. Правда has been a tabloid for the last 15 years or so.

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Saturday, August 24, 2024 11:39 AM

when TheOnion went too leftwing

https://notthebee.com/

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Saturday, August 24, 2024 1:39 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Now I go to Zerohedge, and here* first.
Then, wherever a topic takes me.

* Gotta get my daily dose of neocon talking points!

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Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

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