Last night word came down that a Tsunami might hit Cailfornia. I've been through two earthquakes and a hurricane already, so when I heard the news last night it was like " here we go again." Thankfully nothing happened. When I heard via phone call, I was watching the season finale of The Shield. Of course I had to wait until it was over to turn on the news. Glen Close was excellent.

Jim West: Petition to remove unethical mayor

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Ed Klein Rapes the National Discourse: God knows I’ve had plenty of disagreements with Hillary -- especially on Iraq. But what Klein is doing is disgusting. It has nothing to do with Hillary’s politics -- and everything to do with feeding the right-wing sleaze machine. This bears no relation to legitimate political reporting -- and should not be treated as such. In fact, if there’s a rape involved in this book, it’s Ed Klein’s attempted rape of the public discourse....read on

Arianna digs up the dirt on the moneychangers in this project. They are the ususal suspects and we expect no less from them. Kevin Drum had a great post describing these plebeians. Drudge's headlines about this book even turned off some of the most right wing loony bin bloggers out there.

Schiavo Autopsy Shows No Sign of Trauma/Will the Right apologize to Michael?

Terri Shciavo did not suffer any trauma prior to her 1990 collapse and her brain was about half of normal size when she died, according to results released Wednesday of an autopsy conducted on the severely brain-damaged woman. Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner Jon Thogmartin concluded that there was no evidence of strangulation or other trauma leading to her collapse."The brain weighed 615 grams, roughly half of the expected weight of a human brain. ... This damage was irreversible, and no amount of therapy or treatment would have regenerated the massive loss of neurons."

Well the evidence is in. Poor Terri was in PVS and had no hope of recovery. Violence by her husband Michael Schiavo was also ruled out as the cause for her injury. I hope this closes the book on this case, except of course for Mark Furman's, but how will all those who called Michael a murderer feel? Will Sean Hannity and Joe Scarborough go on the air today and concede they were wrong while embarrassing themselves in the process? Bill Frist's ability to diagose patients by video now has got to be called into question.<snark> Tom Delay's actions to have a bill passed for political gain becomes an even greater humiliation for him. Will the extreme religious right come out in full force and admit Terri's fate should have been left up to the courts? Will the Church that excommunicated Judge Greer allow him to return? ( although if I was he, I wouldn't go back there.) Will the sycophants return all the money they made off of Terri, including the infamous donation list? And remember all those ballon video tapes? That wasn't happening either. This also proves how screwed our media is. ( like we didn't already) All the isane people that braved their way across our TV screens for thirteen days, proclaiming the "truth" and never having their credentials questioned. Randle Terry and others were presented as normal, rational people.

: Gee What a surprise.. Remember, her father actually said that if she only had the right therapy she'd be a productive member of society. Then there was Dr. Frist and Dr. DeLay's diagnoses. Oops.

Atrios says: Fristed Again: "I question it based on a review of the video footage which I spent an hour or so looking at last night in my office,” he said in a lengthy speech in which he quoted medical texts and standards. “She certainly seems to respond to visual stimuli.” Schiavo, it turns out, was completely blind.'

John Cole says: The usual supects will try to spin this that the results are inconclusive, but they should be ignored. And keep in mind, when they try to spin their nonsense- these are the same folks that want to take over the science curriculum and infuse it with 'divine design' and other ascientific garbge. But hey- Tony Perkins and Randall Terry got some camera time and jammed a lot of money in their pockets, didn't they? So it wasn't a total loss.

Daily Kos says: Frist is a terrible doctor: Not that wingers have any respect to "science" and "reality", but Michael Schiavo has more ammunition to use against the hordes of idiots who viciously slandered him during the emotional battle. I still hope he sues all their asses.

Kevin Drum says: I JUST PLAY ONE IN THE SENATE....Yes, Terri Schiavo really was in a persistent vegetative state. No, she never would have recovered. Just like the doctors who actually examined her said.

Think Progress says:Frist’s Fraudulent Diagnosis: Which makes Dr. Frist’s expert “diagnosis” all the more outrageous.

All Spin Zone: No word yet on whether James Dobson is pressuring Frist to introduce the Corpse Reanimation Act of 2005

BlondeSense says: Vultures Do It Too: I couldn’t help but think of the vultures as the press moved in. Once the press had spotted the report and the facts, and the physicians had left, they felt safe to drag the report away.

Fablog says: An Even MORE Persistent Vegetative State: But as we now learn, Frist, Didion, the Schindlers (Terri's parents and brother), Randall Terry, Jesse Jackson the Bush Administration, both houses of Congress and the Catholic Church were, uh. . . mistaken Not that mere truth has ever stood in the way of anyone who refused to dealwith it:

Talk Left says: Schiavo Autopsy: The autopsy results on Terri Schiavo are in: No abuse was shown. She was blind. No evidence of an eating disorder was shown.

The un-equivocal Notion says: I Bet You All Feel Stupid Now...

Majikthise says: Schiavo autopsy vindicates husband, impugns Frist: No surprises here. Terri Schiavo was in a persistent vegetative state, Michael Schiavo didn't beat her, Nat Hentoff is a crackpot, and Bill Frist is a demagogic quack.

Republic of T.: Called it: In a post at LeanLeft, on the Schiavo autopsy, I gave the following comment in response to the question of how the Schindlers would “spin” the autopsy finding. Spin? It’s science. And we already know that ideology trumps science. They’ll wave it aside with “God can still work miracles,” and not miss a step. I’m saying here and now that I basically called it, upon reading reports on the Schindlers’ reaction.

There's not much from the right yet. Didn't mean to put John Cole with the left

Blogs for Terr says:Will Autopsy Report Make 'Outlandish' Claims? What I am most interested to see is whether or not, as Michael Schiavo and his attorney George Felos hope, the M.E. purports to draw any conclusions regarding whether Terri was in a PVS (Persistent Vegetative State).

He ain't crazy; he's just bothered

Duncan Hunter
Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee

Dear Rep. Hunter,

I always thought of Guantanamo Bay as a place of disgrace. A hideous example of what the United States of America stands for. But after seeing your heartfelt press conference yesterday, I realized that the many reports disseminated by the liberal elite media were nothing more than an attempt to demoralize our fine troops and condemn that great detention facility...read on

C&L

US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has acknowledged that security in Iraq has not improved statistically since Saddam Hussein's fall in 2003. Mr Rumsfeld told the BBC insurgents crossed Iraq's "porous" borders from Iran, Syria and elsewhere. But he said Iraq's military forces were growing in numbers and he was confident the insurgency would be defeated....read on

Tell us something we didn't already know! I heard MSNBC's military expert Jack Jacobs say after just coming back from Iraq that it was depressing and just as dangerous as it was a year ago.

You knew Jon Stewart would have a field day with 24/7 and the aftermath of the verdict.

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He doesn't disappoint as the usual cast of characters that covered the trial offered up monsterous amounts of idiocy as they raced to cover the verdict. Name your cable news program. Go ahead just name one. Oh...and of course there was Geraldo.

Talk Left has some other thoughts: The Last Word

via Booman: A Kansas preacher and gay rights foe whose congregation is protesting military funerals around the country said he's coming to Idaho tomorrow to picket the memorial for an Idaho National Guard soldier killed in Iraq.

A flier on the Web site of Pastor Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church claims God killed Cpl. Carrie French with an improvised explosive device in retaliation against the United States for a bombing at Phelps' church six years ago. "We're coming," Phelps said yesterday...read on

This is beyond sick. Don't let anyone say anything different. He represents what the extreme religious right is all about. They might put on a friendly face on 24/7, smile and giggle and seem harmless. Its all a ruse. I'll be posting video of the wingnut Roy Moore soon and you'll see what I mean.

Top 10 secrets revealed in Furhman's new book

Jesus General has the skinny on "OJ" Furman's- Terri Schiavo book

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