This Monica revealed something hotter – much hotter – than a stained blue dress. In her opening testimony yesterday before the House Judiciary Committee, Monica Goodling, the blonde-ling underling to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Department of Justice Liaison to the White House, dropped The Big One…. And the Committee members didn’t even know it. Goodling testified that Gonzales’ Chief of Staff, Kyle Sampson, perjured himself, lying to the committee in earlier testimony. The lie: Sampson denied Monica had told him about Tim Griffin’s ‘involvement in ‘caging’ voters’ in 2004. Huh?? Tim Griffin? ‘Caging’??? The perplexed committee members hadn’t a clue – and asked no substantive questions about it thereafter. Karl Rove is still smiling. If the members had gotten the clue, and asked the right questions, they would have found ‘the keys to the kingdom,’ they thought they were looking for. They dangled right in front of their perplexed faces. The keys: the missing emails – and missing link – that could send Griffin and his boss, Rove, to the slammer for a long, long time. Kingdom enough for ya? But what’s ‘caging’ and why is it such a […]
A new power plant coming to Franklin County will create electricity out of something north Georgia has plenty off - chicken droppings. And Coweta-Fayette EMC customers will even be able to buy some of that power. Plant Carl is a 20-megawatt power plant that will run off a combination of chicken litter and ‘woody biomass’ - such as scrap wood, tree trunks, and the like. All 20 of those megawatts will be bought by Green Power EMC, a conglomeration of various electric membership cooperatives in Georgia that researches, develops, and buys alternative energy. This is the biggest project to date for Green Power EMC, said President and CEO Mike Whiteside, who is also president and CEO of Coweta-Fayette EMC. Green Power EMC currently has two projects which burn landfill gas to create electricity - including one in Fayette County, and the Tallasee Shoals low impact hydroelectric plant near Athens. EMC customers can purchase 150 kilowatt ‘blocks’ of green energy. Those blocks cost an additional $3 to $5, depending on location, Whiteside said. A half cent of each of those green power blocks goes into Green Power’s research and development funds. That money is […]
A new health scare erupted over soft drinks last night amid evidence they may cause serious cell damage. Research from a British university suggests a common preservative found in drinks such as Fanta and Pepsi Max has the ability to switch off vital parts of DNA. The problem – more usually associated with ageing and alcohol abuse – can eventually lead to cirrhosis of the liver and degenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s. The findings could have serious consequences for the hundreds of millions of people worldwide who consume fizzy drinks. They will also intensify the controversy about food additives, which have been linked to hyperactivity in children. Concerns centre on the safety of E211, known as sodium benzoate, a preservative used for decades by the £74bn global carbonated drinks industry. Sodium benzoate derives from benzoic acid. It occurs naturally in berries, but is used in large quantities to prevent mould in soft drinks such as Sprite, Oasis and Dr Pepper. It is also added to pickles and sauces. Sodium benzoate has already been the subject of concern about cancer because when mixed with the additive vitamin C in soft drinks, it causes benzene, a carcinogenic substance. […]
JERUSALEM — HAMAS’S armed wing yesterday warned Palestinian journalists against criticising its firing of rockets from Gaza into Israel after several opinion columns claimed the rockets harmed the Palestinians themselves. The warning made by Abu Obeida, the head of the Izzedin al-Qassam militia, which fires the rockets, came on the same day that an Israeli computer technician was killed by a rocket fired into the Israeli border town of Sderot. Both Israel and Hamas appear poised for further confrontation despite efforts by moderate Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to get them to agree to a ceasefire. Abu Obeida said in a statement carried by Hamas’s Palestine Information Centre: ‘The time has come for the strange voices and the yellow media to stop stabbing the resistance in the back and go back to the right way. If not, history and the people will not have mercy on any who collude with the enemy against their religion, people and nation.’ Yesterday, the Al-Ayyam newspaper, which is close to Mr Abbas, ran a column by Riyadh Malki, the director of the Panorama think-tank in Ramallah, arguing that the rockets brought harm to Gazans. He said the rockets enabled the Israelis […]
WASHINGTON — When the Army doctor walked into the musty hospital room, the patient, strapped in a neck brace, eyed his uniform, looking for the patch on the right shoulder that would signify that the doctor, too, had been in combat. But Dr. Brandon Goff doesn’t have one. He’s never been to war. War comes to him. Goff, a major, has spent this war in Wards 57 and 58 of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, where as director of patient rehabilitation he treats soldiers who’ve suffered amputations, traumatic brain injuries and spinal cord injuries. At 35, he’s an unintended historian of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He knows that improvised explosives in Iraq are bigger now because he’s seeing more patients with both legs blown off above the knee, not just one below the knee. He thinks that insurgents first acquired especially lethal explosively formed projectiles last spring, because that’s when he saw his first patient who’d been wounded in such an attack. And he thinks that brain trauma from explosions could be the cause of the abnormal bone growths that soldiers wounded in this war have around their amputated limbs. The phenomenon […]
Remote Viewing the Year 2060
