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Roger Hedgecock was the mayor for part of the time I lived in San Diego, until he had to spend all of his time with the trial.

Joe Scarborough was my Congressman when he resigned from the House, and he was never charged of the death of the woman in his local office, he just wanted to spend more time with his family.

So, I’m sure that, since I have long since ceased being a constituent, Randy Cunningham needn’t be concerned about Federal agents conducting these searches.

FBI agents searched Cunningham’s $2.55 million mansion outside San Diego and a 42-foot yacht named Duke Stir, according to a bureau spokeswoman, who said agents from the Department of Defense and Internal Revenue Service assisted.

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A 19-year-old German tourist was bitten on the leg by a shark while standing in chest deep water near lighthouse on Gasparilla Island Beach. It is on the Gulf of Mexico, about a third of the way North of the Florida Straits. If you assume a pattern, a 23-year old tourist will be bitten in three days in Key West.

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La fête du
Canada
Day

Thank you for not yet building a fence along your southern or western border, and for brewing great beer.

Schedule of Ottawa events and some background.

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Susie Madrak at Suburban Guerrilla calls a post about parents going whacko over their children’s sports: Investment Counseling. Parents are trying to use sports to help get their kids into the “right university”.

Folks, rich or poor, the best move you can make is to send your child to a community college for the first two years and get the basics out of the way. The first two years are to prepare you for the real work in your major that normally starts in the junior year. Taking the general courses and getting an associate in arts degree at an accredited community college will help your child succeed when you have to pay the big bucks for major university courses. Let the child learn to read and write at the college level without incurring a huge debt load.

Among the many things he touches on in this post , Michael Bérubé tells you that university English departments use teaching assistants and adjuncts to teach the lower level courses, not the full-time faculty. That’s the system used by all of the big universities.

You can transfer after the first two years, and the institution on the bachelor’s degree will still be a major university.

Give your child a chance to figure out if they want to go for a higher degree, if they have the skills needed, and if they can adapt to the college environment at a much lower cost. It will also give you another couple of years to find the money.

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Capitol evacuated, Bush relocated in security scare.

If you would like one of the reasons that the 82^nd Airborne and Special Forces are less than impressed with their civilian leaders look no further than these “air raid drills”.

Gone are the days when the President actually commanded troops in the field, but the military would like to think the President has the courage displayed by the late Queen Mum during World War Two.

Their children don’t serve in the military and they run into holes when sparrows fly over. It’s embarrassing.

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Melanie at Just A Bump In The Beltway is absolutely right when she says:

By the way, NYT letter writer, it is not my job, nor any other commentator’s, to figure out how to win this war. Those of us who counseled against it in the first place were told that we were traitors. Bush got us into this mess, it is up to him and his minions to figure out how to get us out. The fact that he’s made a mess of it is a judgment on him, not on us.

Winning the war required doing a lot of things correctly from the first, not trying to “fake it” after you have boots on the ground.

You can’t undo all of the errors that were made. If the Busheviks had listened to the professionals who actually know how to do these things, they would have planned and manned for the worse case scenario, and hoped for the best.

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[™ Kevin Drum]

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Sox in Training

Hey, It’s hard to sleep with that flash going off!

[Edit: Sox is in training for the cat sleeping Olympics. He’s warming up with a 180° twist.]

Friday Ark

[Update: Sox is training for The Silly Sleeping Pose Olympics.]

[Update 2: He faces some stiff competition .]

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