Wiggle, Albo Pest Control, Tom DeLay's Pledge Pin, Osama Rodriguez Bin Laden
TOM DELAY WAS SMART and debonair yesterday as he displayed a huge friendly non-Hammer non-Leona Helmsley like smile while wearing a suit and his little House Of Representatives PLEDGE PIN ("Is that a Pledge Pin on YOUR UNIFORM?) in his very suave yearbook/arrest shot. I was expecting the usual scowl but Tom knew better. Now he'll be known as that handsome middle aged man who's pledging Delta Hammer Omega.
Here's ALBO PEST CONTROL owner and Hammer Man-Helmsley Man Tom Delay's photo from the Houston Chronicle. Notice that DeLay, unlike pulled skin Katherine Harris, is not complaining about his makeup being altered. With Tom DeLay, we will not have a Katherine Harris style Cosmetics-Gate. ("I know Katherine Harris. Katherine Harris s a friend of mine. Tom DeLay - you're no Katherine Harris.")
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3406663
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ON THIS DAY IN 2004, Red Sox nation was in shock and awe over having beaten the New York Yankees 4 games in a row enabling the Red Sox to go to the 2004 World Series. New York Yankees fans were in a polar opposite shock and awe but were still not at the point of wanting to ship A-Rod to live in the same cave as his second cousin very removed, Osama Rodriguez Bin Laden.
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ON THIS DAY IN 1959, President Dwight Eisenhower, the two-term Republican President that Republicans hate to mention, signed an Executive Order transferring Werner von Braun and his team of scientists from the U. S. Army to the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration. And I know the granddaughter of one of those scientists. I wonder if she read this?
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ON THIS DAY IN 1797, the U. S. S. Constitution, "Old Ironsides," was launched in Boston, Massachusetts. I don't know anyone or anyone's relative who was there that day.
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Is Carnival Cruise LInes gouging the federal government with their pricing and housing of Katrina victims? I didn't know that Carnival Crusie Lines was a subsidiary of Halliburton. http://www.halliburton.com/
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MSNBC is making noise about a possible Bush Administration wiggle out of nominating Harriett Miers. My advice to President Bush - please don't do it! Nominate her - these hearings will make for such great sport and many TiVO's are already set. Don't back down, damn it!
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Will there be big political news this afternoon? Some large bombs get dropped on Friday afternoons, especially if they occur before three-day weekends. But still, Friday afternoons can be rich for exposing crime. We could hear about the futures of
Scooter Libby
Karl Rove
Tom DeLay
Bill "I Never voted until I ran for Senate" Frist
Harriet Miers
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ANIMAL HOUSE trivia quiz:
1. What is the fictitious college where Animal House is filmed? __________
2. What is its slogan? (Harvard's is "Veritas") _______________