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Here's a fun email someone forwarded to me today: For those of you who are not aware, North Dakota and southwestern Montana got hit with their first blizzard of the season a couple of weeks ago. The following text is...
Game Of Their Lives

I was reading and hammering together the Nebraska blogs post, so while the game has been burbling in the background all night I haven't been posting on it. Why not? No idea, other than I wanted to see a good...
More Opposition to Pres from Conservative Base

Leaders on right call for new pick

Here's yet more erosion of the GOP base from support for the SCOTUS appointment of Harriet Miers.

Phyllis Schlafley, and Richard Viguerie both long-standing spear carriers for the conservative wing of the GOP, have joined with others in organizing a PAC group, WithdrawMiers.org, calling for a different nominee for the open SCOTUS seat, and acting as an opposition information clearinghouse.

I guess more and more conservative folks are discovering that in many cases "the Emperor has no clothes", and that his domestic policies seem more like FDR than Ronald Reagan.

Fitzgerald let Harkin off the hook

From NewsMax: A little more than a year before he was tapped to head the special counsel probe into allegations that the Bush administration outed CIA employee Valerie Plame, then-U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald abruptly dropped a wiretapping probe into Sen....
SD Farmers

A reader commented on the recent votes of Tim Johnson and Stephanie Herseth, both of which regarded the high cost of gasoline. Johnson's refusal to open up ANWR for drilling and Herseth's nay vote on the establishment of new refineries...
The Baseball Body Blow

I still can't get last night's NLCS game out of my mind. Albert Pujols inflicted more damage on the Houston baseball psyche than the law ought to allow. The sound of that stadium when that bomb he hit ricocheted off...
USA Today With Creative Use of Photoshop!

MSM Caught Demon-eyes-ing Administration Again

H/T to Michelle Malkin on this one -

Another case of the MSM (USA Today this time) doctoring content to try to make someone (Condi Rice in this case) look somewhat evil.

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Condi Rice a la Anne Rice?

What happened this time was that they tweaked a photo to make her look like she has the evil eye, but got caught in the act. Apparently when they got noticed in the blogosphere, some vestige of journalistic ethics was belatedly called into action, and the picture was revised in their archive, with an editorial comment.

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The real deal!

Editor's note: The photo of Condoleezza Rice that originally accompanied this story was altered in a manner that did not meet USA TODAY's editorial standards. The photo has been replaced by a properly adjusted copy. Photos published online are routinely cropped for size and adjusted for brightness and sharpness to optimize their appearance. In this case, after sharpening the photo for clarity, the editor brightened a portion of Rice's face, giving her eyes an unnatural appearance. This resulted in a distortion of the original not in keeping with our editorial standards.

In other words, now that we got busted, we had better try to do some damage control! The Chief suggests you can believe as much of THAT explanation as you want to.

And the MSM still expresses worry about "editorial control" in the blogosphere! The question is, who in the MSM watches the watchers? At least the blogosphere has the feedback mechanism so succinctly stated on the Captain's Quarters site: "Thus every blogger in his kind, is bit by him who comes behind." It seems to work better than MSM "editorial control" does.

News/Sports Round-Up

There's a few Sunday morning posts below.Dave Kranz is discussing George McGovern's fight against hunger in his Sunday column. Tim Johnson is seeking intern applicants if anybody is interested. My Broncos go into their game 5-1--five consecutive wins--against the Giants...

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