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Signs of the Times for Fri, 29 Dec 2006

Where did the New Signs Page Go?!

Since we switched to the new-and-improved Signs page, you may have noticed a few performance issues with all the traffic we've had.

We've been tweaking the new system and it's getting better, but we needed to take it down for a few days while we make some final adjustments that would have resulted in a lot of "You've Wandered into the Fire Swamp" messages.

Well, the world doesn't stop because we're busy tweaking. This way, we can get the new system super-speedy while still getting the news out - without all the annoying time-outs and error messages.

Check back tomorrow for a new Signs page with all the great news and commentary you expect, and we'll get the new system ready to rock and roll!!

Gerald Ford Should Have Listened to Tim McGraw

Cenk Uygur
29 Dec 06

Actually, I'm more bitter that the man wasted his life away being a good sport after his presidency. Do something man! You're not an average schlep. You're an ex-President.

Do you know how many different interesting things he could have done with the power that comes from that title? He didn't have to save the world, but he could have at least tried to do something slightly relevant...

I'm sure I am overgeneralizing, and maybe the guy just liked to drink ice tea on his front porch, but it seems like he's been falling down the same stairs on for the last thirty years. I wish he would have gotten up and done something.

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And divided we laugh: the year in humor

PAUL LEWIS
The Boston Globe
December 29, 2006

FROM THE RISE of Stephen Colbert to the fall of Michael Richards, from the use of racial stereotypes in campaign ads to the recycling of botched jokes on YouTube, 2006 was a year in which provocative humor driven by hardball politics and new media convulsed America.

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Gerald Ford Dead at 93: President Bush Mourns Loss of Innovative Bestower of Felony-Erasing Pardons

whitehouse.org
27 Dec 06

THE PRESIDENT: Today, I am deeply saddened by the loss of Gerald R. Ford, 38th President of the United States.

(Sniffs.)

The American people will always admire President Ford for his duty, his personal character, his masterful practice of the physical comedy arts, and his lifelong battle with terminal cancer of the personality. I personally mourn Gerry's passing, if for no other reason than it's lonely at the bottom of history's barrel.

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A Bad Year for US Empire

Washington, Dec 28 (Prensa Latina)
Jim Lobe
IPS

For those who believed that the precise and overwhelming demonstration of US military power in Afghanistan and Iraq would "shock and awe" the rest of the world, 2006 was not a good year, said Jim Lobe, staff writer of IPS.

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Lawyer Ends Up Dead After Taking On Rove

December 27th 2006
Kurt Nimmo

It's fishy as hell.

Paul Sanford, a prominent Aptos, California, attorney, who accused Karl Rove of treason in the Plame outing case, took a leap from the Embassy Suites Hotel in Monterey Bay on Christmas Eve. Police describe it as "probable" suicide, even though it appears Sanford was not depressed.

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