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An Outrage!

Montgomery Blair Sibley, Ms. Palfrey's lawyer in the civil case, said on Saturday that about five lawyers had called to ask if their clients' numbers were on the list. One lawyer asked if he could prevent the release of his client's name or number, he said. The answer, Mr. Sibley said, was no.

"We are not in the business of trying to sell protection," he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/us/29escort.html?_r=1&oref=slogin



$300 for 90 minutes and you have to provide your own protection.

How many pipe bombs might it take to end American democracy?

The Defense Authorization Act of 2006, passed on Sept. 30, empowers President George W. Bush to impose martial law in the event of a terrorist “incident,” if he or other federal officials perceive a shortfall of “public order,” or even in response to antiwar protests that get unruly as a result of government provocations.

http://amconmag.com/2007/2007_04_23/article4.html

Quack

George W Bush's presidency is effectively over on the home front two years before he is due to quit the White House, according to former aides and allies.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/08/wuspols08.xml

Elizabeth Edwards Remains Open, Upbeat

Not once did the shadow of fear cross her face. Elizabeth Edwards stood before the nation, a graceful fighter steeled for personal tragedy again. The cancer is back and in her bones, a lung and possibly elsewhere. The news seemed worse than bad. Yet Edwards conveyed no hint of being hobbled by an incurable cancer. Self-pity was nowhere on the scene.
"Is this a hardship for us? Yes, it's yet another hurdle," she said. "But I've seen people who are in real desperate shape who don't, first of all, have the wonderful support that I have and have no place to turn."

"If Barbara Lynn Terry wants to get married Friday morning, she'll have to swear to a judge she's a man. And so will her doctor. Marriage in Question

Otherwise, Wisconsin's same-sex marriage prohibition will keep Terry - who was born a man, lived as a woman for decades and has undergone treatment for sexual-reassignment surgery - from marrying Nicole Winstanley, despite the marriage license application the couple completed March 5.

Courthouse records indicate just how complicated their situation is: Terry, 58, who claims to have identified as a woman since childhood, was convicted of raping a woman in 1970; was denied a request to transfer to a woman's prison while serving the sentence; and legally petitioned for a name change from Ronald Francis Terry in 1980. And Winstanley, 22, claims Australian residency and had lived in Milwaukee County less than 30 days before signing the application.

But the question before the court is, simply, whether Terry is still man enough to marry a woman.

Watergate All Over Again??

Josh Marshall reports there is an 18-day gap -- first spotted by a commenter on the blog Talking Points Memo -- in the over 3,000 emails released by the Department of Justice pertaining to the attorney firing scandal.

The gap covers the days between November 15 and December 4, 2006. So far, only one email has been found dated within that 18 day period among those released in Monday night's document dump. The lone email, from November 29, 2006, was one forwarded by Justice official Michael Elston to a fellow staffer asking for an attached review document to be printed.

The gap, specifically because of its length, is an eerie reminder of the infamous eighteen-and-a-half minute gap in the Nixon tapes. As one blogger writes, "The Bush Administration is working overtime to make this attorney scandal look more and more like Watergate by the day."