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Friday, September 01, 2006
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Thursday, August 31, 2006
Republican crimestoppers. Osama bin Laden kills 3,000 people, no problem. Ken Lay steals millions from his employees and shareholders, no problem. Oil executives lie about their profit margins, no problem. Administration officials reveal the names of covert agents, no problem. Lobbying and government purchasing scandals engulf Congress and the White House, no problem.

Cindy Sheehan gets a traffic ticket.
Problem.
CRAWFORD -- Police tracked down war protester Cindy Sheehan at a vigil near President Bush's ranch for failing to pay a traffic ticket.

Officers from the Waco suburb of Woodway went to a roadblock near the ranch Tuesday night where Sheehan and other war protesters had gathered, said Sheehan's spokeswoman Tiffany Burns.

A Woodway police spokeswoman said the officers told Sheehan there were two outstanding warrants for her arrest, one for an unpaid traffic ticket and the other for failure to appear in court.
It's the priorities, stupid.
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006
August 30, 2005. This photo of one year ago today is worth 1,000 words, and at least as many human lives...

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Tuesday, August 29, 2006
The GOP's phony investments. Selling expensive things that don't exist is a Republican specialty. The story of the latest fraud-related hijinks comes courtesy of the Montana GOP and
Investment News:
State securities regulators charged Patrick Davison, a Billings, Mont. businessman and recently co-chairman of Montana Sen. Conrad Burns' re-election finance committee, with fraud while he was a broker at UBS PaineWebber.

Mr. Davison was a broker with UBS PaineWebber until 2003.

The state, in a complaint filed Friday, alleges that Mr. Davison convinced several investors to put $1.2 million into phony investments.

The year after Mr. Davison left UBS PaineWebber, the firm received "several customer complaints" against him, "resulting in over $500,000 in restitution being paid by the company," the state said.

Mr. Davison, a Republican who ran for governor in 2004, resigned as chair of Mr. Burn's re-election finance committee on July 27 for personal reasons, according to reports.
"Phony investments"? Who were the investors? More as I find it.
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