April 21, 2008
Even Santorum canÂ’t stay away
Posted April 21st, 2008 at 2:42 pm

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Oh, Rick. You were supposed to be the lone holdout. All of those other
far-right Republicans swallowed hard and endorsed John McCain, but not
Rick Santorum. You wouldnÂ’t even consider it. No sirreebob.

You called the prospects of a McCain presidency “very dangerous.” Just
last month, even after McCain had wrapped up the nomination, you still
said there was just no way you could support the guy.

“The only one I wouldn’t support is McCain,” Santorum said during
an interview in his office at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in
Washington, where he is a senior fellow.

“I don’t agree with him on hardly any issues,” Santorum said. “I
donÂ’t think he has the temperament and leadership ability to move the
country in the right direction.”

And today, those strong-willed principles suddenly mattered a little
less.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/24/black-congressman-denounces-b-clintons...

[Zeppnote: an article like this was unthinkable three months ago.
Clinton was indisputably the best friend African-Americans had in the
oval office]

Black Congressman Denounces Bill ClintonÂ’s Remarks

By Mark Leibovich

The third-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives and one of
the countryÂ’s most influential African-America leaders sharply
criticized former President Bill Clinton this afternoon for what he
called the former president’s “bizarre” conduct during the Democratic
primary campaign.

Representative James E. Clyburn, an undeclared superdelegate from
South Carolina who is the Democratic whip in the House, said that
“black people are incensed over all of this,” referring to a series of
statements that Mr. Clinton has made in the course of the heated race
between his wife, Senator Hillary Clinton, and Senator Barack Obama.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/25/usa.nuclear

US claims North Korea helped build Syria reactor plant

· Damascus dismisses video of unit bombed by Israel
· Congress told site was set up to produce plutonium

* Ewen MacAskill in Washington
This article appeared in the Guardian on Friday April 25 2008 on p2 of
the Top stories section. It was last updated at 00:51 on April 25
2008.

The mystery over the Israeli bombing of Syrian territory last year
took a new twist yesterday when US intelligence agencies showed a
video claiming to prove that the target was a covert nuclear plant
being built with North Korean help. The White House described the
alleged reactor as "a dangerous and potentially destabilising
development for the region and the world".

After seven months of silence and evasion from the Bush
administration, the CIA director, Michael Hayden, briefed members of
the Senate and House armed services, intelligence and foreign affairs
committees, saying his weapons specialists found the evidence
compelling.

The cause of both crashes were under investigation.

(Yeah, right. They'll start calling as many deaths as possble "accidents"
to keep the combat death toll numbers lower.)

3 US soldiers killed in vehicle accidents in Iraq, Kuwait

Thu Apr 24, 4:24 AM ET

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military says two of its soldiers in Iraq died when their
vehicle rolled onto its side north of Baghdad.

A third American soldier died in a road accident in neighboring Kuwait.

The two soldiers died Wednesday in Iraq's Salahuddin province. The military
said in a statement released Thursday that another soldier and an
interpreter also were injured.

The military says the highway accident in Kuwait involved a single vehicle
and that another soldier was injured.

The cause of both crashes were under investigation.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080424/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_casualties;_ylt=Ar0RB...

New Zealand's largest glacier will disappear: scientists

Thu Apr 24, 2:55 AM ET

WELLINGTON (AFP) - New Zealand's largest glacier is shrinking fast due to
climate change and will eventually disappear altogether, scientists said
Thursday.

The 23-kilometre (14.3 mile) long glacier in the South Island's Southern
Alps is likely to shrink at a rate of between 500 and 820 metres a year,
said Martin Brook, a physical geography lecturer at Massey University.

"In the last 10 years the glacier has receded a hell of a lot," Brook said
on the university website.

"It's just too warm for a glacier to be sustained at such a low altitude --
730 metres above sea level -- so it melts rapidly and it is going to
disappear altogether."

The rapid melting has seen a lake seven kilometres long and two kilometres
wide form at the base of the glacier. Thirty-five years ago, the lake did
not exist.

"The last major survey was in the 1990s and since then the glacier has
retreated back 180 metres a year on average," Brook said.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/24/60minutes/main4040290.shtml

[Zeppnote: Scaly apparently doesn't know that the first party in a
case name is the plaintiff...]

Scalia On Bush v. Gore: Get Over It!
Supreme Court Justice Tells 60 Minutes ItÂ’s Nonsense To Say The
Decision Was Politically Motivated
Answers.com

(CBS) People who believe the U.S. Supreme CourtÂ’s decision giving the
2000 presidential election to George W. Bush was politically motivated
should just get over it, says Justice Antonin Scalia.

Scalia denies that the controversial decision was political and
discusses other aspects of his public and private life in a remarkably
candid interview with 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl, this
Sunday, April 27, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/science/25dino.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

[Zeppnote: this will come as a shock to Intelligent Design avocates,
who will now have to deny the existence of birds]

Tests Confirm T. Rex Kinship With Birds

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Olbermann's Countdown: Worst Persons 4/22 - John McCain, John Ashcroft

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufsMgn8S5GE

McCain's insane. Is it so hard to see? He's a phony from Baloneyville.

Experts say US sex abstinence program doesn't work

Last Updated: 2008-04-23 16:23:26 -0400 (Reuters Health)

By Will Dunham

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Programs teaching U.S. schoolchildren to abstain from
sex have not cut teen pregnancies or sexually transmitted diseases or
delayed the age at which sex begins, health groups told Congress on
Wednesday.

The Bush administration, however, voiced continuing support for such
programs during a hearing before a House of Representatives panel even as
many Democrats called for cutting off federal money for so-called
abstinence-only instruction.

"Vast sums of federal monies continue to be directed toward these programs.
And, in fact, there is evidence to suggest that some of these programs are
even harmful and have negative consequences by not providing adequate
information for those teens who do become sexually active," Dr. Margaret
Blythe of the American Academy of Pediatrics told the committee.

Snipes Awaits Sentence On Tax Conviction

Arguments are under way in the sentencing hearing for actor Wesley Snipes,
who was convicted in February of failure to file tax returns. More Details
http://www.ktvu.com/entertainment/15977425/detail.html?treets=fran&tid=2656305714813&tml...

After Snipes is sentenced can we watch Cheney get sentenced on that
'deferred' Halliburton-Iraq billions he stole?