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Burn Ward. Spoke Neal Boudette, WSJ, Detroit Bureau Chief, re the detention and arraignment of the Flight 253 suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutullab. Earlier today, Neal Boudette called at the Ann Arbor hospital where the suspect is being held, in the burn ward. To some surprise, Neal Boudette was able to walk all the way into the ward and to the suspect's room. He reports the man was lying motionless in a darkened room, his head turned away from the door. No IV, no tent for burns. At that point, a Federal agent, likely FBI, asked Neal Boudette to leave the area. Later, a Federal judge arrived at the room and an AP and local TV reporters were invited to witness…By John Batchelor | December 26, 2009 9:22 PM
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Shoe Bomber II
Richard Reid Returns From Doom. Major news spin alert for the Obama administration on Christmas Day. Watching for the Homeland Security Team to do full pressers on Saturday 26, and for HomeSec Napolitano to get in front of the camera and repeat how the investiagtion is ongoing. The facts are…By John Batchelor | December 26, 2009 12:19 AM
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Warmist Self-Pity
Coke Generation. The new favorite because witty climate website, Watt's Up With That?, features the most strangely goofy and manipulative of Coca-Cola commercialsl, a drama of snow-sledding polar bears who overheat and need a sip of cool pop. Assume the Coke ad buy anticipated Copenhagen but not the crankiness, vagueness…By John Batchelor | December 25, 2009 12:15 AM
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Bad Cooking
"Back to the Drawing Board." Spoke Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan (R) re the surprise decision for Parker Griffith of Alabama to move from the Democratic caucus to the Republican caucus, and he was unhesitating in saying this is a big deal and a profound new source of energy. Also intriguing…By John Batchelor | December 24, 2009 12:14 AM
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Speaker in Doubt
Max Heated. Why is Max Baucus again struggling with his temper on the floor of the Senate during the second round of filibuster palaver between the GOP and the 60-vote-armed Senate? Why is Max heated? What does the GOP have to do with getting the bill sent from the…By John Batchelor | December 22, 2009 6:10 PM
(5)Politics at the Movies
Dubai World Bailey Savings and Loan
November 30, 2009 12:04 AM
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November 30, 2009 12:04 AM
(2)The most frightening scene in the epic Frank Capra film "It's a Wonderful Life," is the Bedford Falls bank run in the rain, when George (Jimmy Stewart) Bailey abandons his honeymoon and and struggles to hold off his neighbors who want their money, now, cash, now, from the humble Bailey Savings and Loan...
