headlines below the fold

Racism still exists...poor get less aggressive medical care in NYCity than the rich..

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What is it with Press secretaries?

First McClellan, and now DeeDeeMyers (her husband, actually) rips into Clinton the husband....

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Will Irish voters mess up the coming EUtopia?...LINK

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Jun Lozada has a blog...
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The inventor of the Pringles can intends to have his ashes interred...in a Pringles can...

Stuff below the fold

Article on Native American tribes trying to keep their language alive.
LINK is the Osage tribe language program website

WORD OF THE DAY

Mouth

More on the Osage/Ponca phonetic alphabet HERE.

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Was the "judas gospel" mistranslation due to secrecy and haste, because they wanted a scoop?

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The UKTelegraph reports ...

The row over the new EU Treaty meanwhile took a new turn yesterday after José Manuel Barroso, the Commission President, warned Irish voters that they will “pay” if they reject the document in a referendum next month.

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WTF article of the day: Mugabe isn't as bad as portrayed, since he did allow a free election.....but he won't make that mistake again, and the list of deaths grows...

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Another book blasting Bush ...same thing happened to Reagan in his last term...
And with things improving in Iraq, time may do a similar turn around on Bush...

Manolo does the Eurovision contest

Check link.

And you thought American Idol was bad...

The European union vs the Chihuahua

The Eurocrats have an old law that they are trying to make legal in all Europan states...forbidding about 40 breeds because they have

"anatomical, physiological and behavioural characteristics which are likely to put at risk the health and welfare of either the offspring or the female parent".
Yup...there goes Lassy, the English bull dog and Gidget from Tacobell...
List of breeds HERE