And here I thought they nailed that bastard, but, read the bold print.

he told his audience that he had a new name for Senator Chuck Hagel: "Senator Betrayus."

Hm, let's see about that.

On September 10, MoveOn.org's much-discussed advertisement headlined "General Petraeus or General Betray Us?" critical of Gen. David Petraeus, appeared in The New York Times. On the September 11 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh called the advertisement "contemptible" and "indecent." However, months earlier, on his radio show, he told his audience that he had a new name for Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE): "Senator Betrayus." On the January 25 broadcast (subscription required) of his radio show, Limbaugh broke from his commentary on an interview of Vice President Dick Cheney on the January 24 edition of CNN's The Situation Room to say: "By the way, we had a caller call, couldn't stay on the air, got a new name for Senator Hagel in Nebraska, we got General Petraeus and we got Senator Betrayus, new name for Senator Hagel." A day earlier, Hagel had sided with Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in voting to approve a nonbinding resolution declaring that Bush's escalation in Iraq was against "the national interest."

See, it was a caller to the show that called Hagel "Senator Betrayus." It wasn't Rush Limbaugh who came up with the name.

Of course, when did facts get in the way of Media Matters?

I found this at Kos, by the way, but I decided not to link that insane asylum.

Okay, I've changed my mind, so you can enjoy the juicy comments. more...

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Tsk, tsk, tsk. I don't suppose the enviros have been fibbing to us? No, not possible. Can't believe that.

...Rapeseed and maize biodiesels were calculated to produce up to 70 per cent and 50 per cent more greenhouse gases respectively than fossil fuels. The concerns were raised over the levels of emissions of nitrous oxide, which is 296 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. ...

H/T AJ

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Sadly, yes. I haven’t been this disappointed since, well, ever.

The book publisher for Maureen McCormick, who played Marcia Brady on the 1970s sitcom "The Brady Bunch," is shooting down rumors that she had a lesbian on-set affair with co-star Eve Plumb, who played her younger sister Jan.

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"We are verifying that it is not true," said Debbie Styer, senior vice president of group publicity at William Morrow, the book's publisher. "The real story of what happened in [McCormick's] life and behind the scenes of the show will all come out when the book comes out."

Oh well, we’ll all still have those magical fantasies. With that, I’ll be heading to my bunk.

h/t Hot Air Headlines

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Sadly, yes. I havenÂ’t been this disappointed since, well, ever.

The book publisher for Maureen McCormick, who played Marcia Brady on the 1970s sitcom "The Brady Bunch," is shooting down rumors that she had a lesbian on-set affair with co-star Eve Plumb, who played her younger sister Jan.

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"We are verifying that it is not true," said Debbie Styer, senior vice president of group publicity at William Morrow, the book's publisher. "The real story of what happened in [McCormick's] life and behind the scenes of the show will all come out when the book comes out."

Oh well, weÂ’ll all still have those magical fantasies. With that, IÂ’ll be heading to my bunk.

h/t Hot Air Headlines

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I'm not real clear on the criteria, but anyway she won by some measure of something or other. I don't think I'm getting it beyond the headline...

Still, she's cute. Way cuter than Tom Jones.

Compare.

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Oh, sorry...that was the line the esteemed Mr. Hansen was pitching back in 1971.

...On July 9, 1971, the Post published a story headlined "U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming." It told of a prediction by NASA and Columbia University scientist S.I. Rasool. The culprit: man's use of fossil fuels.

The Post reported that Rasool, writing in Science, argued that in "the next 50 years" fine dust that humans discharge into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuel will screen out so much of the sun's rays that the Earth's average temperature could fall by six degrees.

Sustained emissions over five to 10 years, Rasool claimed, "could be sufficient to trigger an ice age."

Aiding Rasool's research, the Post reported, was a "computer program developed by Dr. James Hansen," who was, according to his resume, a Columbia University research associate at the time...

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The incredible saga of Specialist Channing Moss and how he came to remain among the living is one you won't soon forget. "Protocol" would have had him being left for dead.

Spc. Channing Moss should be dead by all accounts. And those who saved his life did so knowing they might have died with him...

...Protocol, as far as Oh [the surgeon] knew, dictated that someone in Moss’s condition be placed in a sandbagged bunker and listed as “expectant,” which means he would be expected to die because nothing could be done for him.

But Oh believed something could be done for the wounded soldier before him.

He “was still talking to me,” Oh recalled. He choked back tears as he explained: “When he comes in like that, there’s no way you can give up at that point.”

After the EOD team arrived, Oh warned the volunteers one last time that the surgery could cost everyone their lives.

The operating room crew prepped Moss for surgery...

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...Even if you say you flossed!

Convergence: the penal system & Dr. Seuss.

(cross-posted from some random blog)

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Last week I posted about Dave Warwak, the wacky moonbat teacher who was suspended for preaching veganism and the horrors of meat in his classroom.

Those wacky moonbats

An art teacher removed from the classroom for encouraging pupils not to eat meat vowed Monday not to return to Fox River Grove Middle School until it eliminates milk and all other animal products from the lunch menu.

Well, wacky does not describe this guy well enough. Scary is more like it.

He sent me an e-mail yesterday with the title, Vegan America -- Revolt!

Not content with his little fiasco at the middle school, he's taking his fight directly to the children.

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I used to like Taco Bell back when I was in high school and college. But since I met my wife, she is too demanding and wants to eat at *gasp* real restaraunts. That, and my stomach can no longer withstand the assault it endures from the Circus Animal Meat and Government Cheese a Run To The Border involves.

Well, I have just found another reason to avoid Taco Bell. more...

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