Slow News Day

U.S. Democratic Party, Bill Maher,
The Washington Post had an article Sunday about John Eaves, the Democrat who's challenging Haley Barbour in the Mississippi governor's race. Crazy, isn't it: there are two people in the world who want to be the governor of Mississippi. But this isn't your standard-issue Democrat, this guy is a pro-life, pro prayer-in-schools born-again nut who brags in his radio ads about how he baptized all three of his sons in the Jordan River.
The Jordan River. Personally, I'd take my kid to Disney World for a vacation, but hey, the Dead Sea is nice, too.
The Democratic Party is cultivating more of these weirdos because they think that's the only way they can win in the South. And maybe they're right. But isn't one of the main selling points of the Democratic Party that it's relatively nut-free? I know we're all about big tents these days, but a tent that covers both this guy and Nancy Pelosi? There's not enough canvas in the world to make a tent that big.
Besides, southerners didn't embrace the Republican party because of religion, they embraced the Republican party because they don't kowtow to the blacks like the Democrats do
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WASHINGTON -- Democrat-turned-independent Sen. Joe Lieberman said Monday a third-party candidate could emerge to shake things up in the 2008 presidential race unless the two major parties tackle the growing problem of "partisan polarization" that alienates many voters.
"I think the public is fed up," he said at a forum on civility and politics on Capitol Hill. "If the two major parties don't hear this going into '08, there is a real chance of an independent third-party candidacy -- and watch out if that happens."
Extremists in both parties are driving debate in the 2008 primary contests, said Lieberman, who was the Democrats' vice presidential nominee in 2000 and unsuccessful candidate for the party's 2004 presidential nomination.
The fastest growing political party in America, he said, is "no party."
Hmm and Independent like Lieberman would be the third party candidate. Me thinks this guys ego is as big as Texas where he really would feel at home.
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White House Asks Press Corps To Wear Yellow "Tony Snow" Cancer Bracelets
US Officials: Al-Qaeda In Iraq "Senior Minister Of Information" Killed
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Audio: Giuliani Yells At Man For "Sick" Decision To Have Pet Ferrets

Dodd Attacks Edwards On Iraq Timetable
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From the Gaurdian London
Butterflies make early appearance
By Lesley Richardson
Published: 04 May 2007
The hottest April on record has meant butterflies are hatching up to two months early.
The charity Butterfly Conservation said butterflies had been emerging an average of half a day earlier each year from the mid-Seventies until last year. But Richard Fox, surveys manager for the charity, said: "This year has blown all that away. We have had lots of species coming out two weeks earlier than last year, some a month or two months early. It's really a very dramatic situation."
The Lulworth Skipper was spotted in its native Dorset on 26 April this year, compared with first sightings of mid-June in previous years.
The Meadow Brown, right, Britain's most abundant native butterfly, was also reported on 30 April as far north as County Antrim.
"It's just astonishing. It's a dramatic jump and that's because we have had a very mild winter and an exceptionally hot April and the butterflies are responding to that," said Mr Fox. "The warmer the weather, the faster caterpillars can grow and develop and turn into butterflies."
Migrant butterflies, which would usually breed over the winter in hotter Mediterranean countries, have also started to survive the winter in the UK. "The most dramatic example is the Red Admiral," said Mr Fox. "20 or 30 years ago it would have appeared as a visitor in the summer but now they are surviving in huge numbers
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Published Friday, May 4, 2007
Rice, Iran Official Have Little ContactBy ANNE GEARAN and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRAAssociated Press Writers

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives at the Expanded Ministerial Conference for the Neighbors of Iraq on the second day session of the Iraq conference at the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt Friday, May 4, 2007. Iraq's neighbors negotiated a declaration Friday that would pledge support for Iraq's embattled Shiite-led government in return for more inclusion of Sunni Arabs in the political process. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti

SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt Iran's foreign minister walked out of a dinner of diplomats where he was seated directly across from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on the pretext that the female violinist entertaining the gathering was dressed too revealingly."I don't know which woman he was afraid of, the woman in the red dress or the secretary of state," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Friday, regarding the actions of Iran's Manouchehr Mottaki.The dinner episode Thursday night amid a major regional conference on Iraq perfectly revealed how hard it was to bring together the top diplomats of the two rival nations.