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Today's Show: Friday, September 30, 2005

By Nazanin Rafsanjani

So so so so so wrong...

"Hey little Turkish child, which one of these four doesn't belong in this picture?"

UNDERBELLY:
Bush Administration specialty: dumb contracting:

Very expensive, totally useless deal with Carnival Cruise Lines.

Operation Blue Roof:
"The government is paying contractors an average of $2,480 for less than two hours of work to cover each damaged roof — even though it's also giving them endless supplies of blue sheeting for free."

Mississippi classrooms contracts in question...

FEMA signs a $2 billion dollar contract for temporary housing...only 109 families have moved in...

Bush cabinet prediction: A white New Orleans

FRONT PAGE:
Judge orders release of more Abu Ghraib, prisoner abuse photos.

Troops serving in Iraq had to purchase their own body armor....now, the Pentagon can't figure out how to reimburse them.

You can get paid if you don't kill endangered animals! The House's plans for The Endangered Species Act...

PET STORY:
Mayor...cell phone...underage girls...

EXTRA CREDIT:
How bad is your pronunciation? Probably, not nearly as bad as my spelling!

Karen Hughes: Bin Laden's Little Helper

 

Karen Hughes: Bin Laden's Little Helper
by Sidney Blumenthal

 

... Hughes appeared as one of the pilgrims satirized by Mark Twain in his 1869 book Innocents Abroad, on his trip on the Grand Holy Land Pleasure Excursion. "None of us had ever been anywhere before; we all hailed from the interior; travel was a wild novelty... We always took care to make it understood that we were Americans - Americans!" .... 

 

...Hughes has provided the exact proofs for Bin Laden's claims about American motives. "It is stunning to the extent Hughes is helping bin Laden," says Robert Pape, a University of Chicago political scientist who has conducted extensive research into the motives of suicide terrorists and is the author of Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. "If you set out to help bin Laden," he says, "you could not have done it better than Hughes." ...

 

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:aar: - la revolución no será televisada

By citizensteveSeptember 30, 2005 - 5:24pm