Sen. Tim Johnson has returned to his residence outside Washington, more than four months after he suffered a brain hemorrhage, his office said Monday.
“It is wonderful to take this next step with family and friends,” Johnson’s office quoted the South Dakota Democrat as saying. “As I continue with my therapy, I also get more and more work from the office.”
Johnson since February has been receiving treatment at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington. The attending physician at the hospital, Dr. Michael Yochelson, said Johnson continues to show significant progress, with gait training playing a more central role in his rehabilitation.
Courtney Love, widow of Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, says she plans to sell most of his belongings.
“I’m going to have a Christie’s auction,” Love, 42, tells AOL music Web site Spinner.com. “(My house) is like a mausoleum.”
Love and Cobain wed in 1992 and had a daughter, Frances Bean, that year. Cobain committed suicide in 1994.
“My daughter doesn’t need to inherit a giant … bag full of flannel … shirts,” says Love, former frontwoman of the rock band Hole. “A sweater, a guitar and the lyrics to `(Smells Like) Teen Spirit’ — that’s what my daughter gets. And the rest of it we’ll just … sell.”
Uh, Courtney…most people just donate those old flannel shirts to goodwill rather than trying to get rich off them. But I guess it’s like PT BArnum says…a sucker born every minute.
Friends, family and lovers of the books of late novelist Carol Shields — winner of the Pulitzer, Orange and Governor-General’s awards for fiction — will gather today in Winnipeg’s King’s Park for the official groundbreaking of an amazing literary tribute: the Carol Shields Memorial Labyrinth.
Shields and her husband Don had been fascinated by mazes ever since they visited England’s Hampton Court Maze in 1956; the author paid tribute to them in her 1997 novel Larry’s Party, in which Winnipegger Larry Weller, designer of garden mazes, gets lost in the strange turnings and dead ends of his own life.
Comment of Senator Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.,
Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee
On Reports of Confidential Memo Granting Sweeping Hiring/Firing Authority To DOJ Political Officials
April 30, 2007
“It is disturbing to learn that the Attorney General was granting extraordinary and sweeping authority to the same political operatives who were plotting with the White House to dilute our system of checks and balances in the confirmation of U.S. Attorneys.
“This development is highly troubling in what it seems to reveal about White House politicization of key appointees in the Department of Justice. The mass firing of U.S. attorneys appeared to be part of a systematic scheme to inject political influence into the hiring and firing decisions of key justice employees. This secret order would seem to be evidence of an effort to hardwire control over law enforcement by White House political operatives.
“This memorandum should have been turned over to Senate and House committees as part of requests made in ongoing investigations. I expect the Department of Justice to immediately provide Congress with full information about this troubling decision as well as any other related documents they have failed to turn over to date.”
No wonder Goodling wanted immunity for what they were about to find out she had done…
the undisputed master of the one liner / malapropism…
The 2008 election, explained by Yogi Berra
Everything you need to know about the presidential race has already been predicted by baseball’s greatest sage.
By Rick Ridder and Walter Shapiro
April 23, 2007 | Ever since 16th century pollsters and media consultants discovered Machiavelli, political handlers have been searching for the right strategic thinker to guide them in wooing voters. Sun Tzu on “The Art of War” has often been in vogue, especially among hawkish Republican operatives.
But for pure political insight — now more than ever with the wide-open presidential races in both parties — there is no one to match Yogi Berra, Hall of Fame catcher for the New York Yankees and reigning philosopher of baseball. Here is how selected Yogi-isms can explain contemporary politics:
“I wish I had an answer to that, because I’m tired of answering that question.”
World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz attempted to fight his way out of trouble last night – but hinted that he may be prepared to resign if the charges against him of breaking the bank’s rules were dropped.
Addressing a special board meeting investigating his alleged favouritism in engineering a generous pay package for his girlfriend, Mr Wolfowitz declared he had acted in good faith, and that any criticism would be “unjust and hypocritical.”
[what an ass]
Mr Wolfowitz’s account was immediately attacked by senior bank officials involved, with one accusing him of damaging the bank’s reputation and another saying Mr Wolfowitz appeared to be trying to deceive the bank and the public.
Elsewhere, behind the scenes activity suggested a deal may be reached between Mr Wolfowitz and his US backers, and the European member states and opponents within the bank who are seeking his resignation.
These eight, who may never meet and know one another, are part of a coalescence comprising hundreds of thousands of organizations with no center, codified beliefs, or charismatic leader. The movement grows and spreads in every city and country. Virtually every tribe, culture, language, and religion is part of it, from Mongolians to Uzbeks to Tamils. It is comprised of families in India, students in Australia, farmers in France, the landless in Brazil, the bananeras of Honduras, the “poors” of Durban, villagers in Irian Jaya, indigenous tribes of Bolivia, and housewives in Japan. Its leaders are farmers, zoologists, shoemakers, and poets.
The movement can’t be divided because it is atomized — small pieces loosely joined. It forms, gathers, and dissipates quickly. Many inside and out dismiss it as powerless, but it has been known to bring down governments, companies, and leaders through witnessing, informing, and massing.
Isn’t evolution beautiful?
The promise of this unnamed movement is to offer solutions to what appear to be insoluble dilemmas: poverty, global climate change, terrorism, ecological degradation, polarization of income, loss of culture. It is not burdened with a syndrome of trying to save the world; it is trying to remake the world.
There is fierceness here. There is no other explanation for the raw courage and heart seen over and again in the people who march, speak, create, resist, and build. It is the fierceness of what it means to know we are human and want to survive.
This movement is relentless and unafraid. It cannot be mollified, pacified, or suppressed. There can be no Berlin Wall moment, no treaty-signing, no morning to awaken when the superpowers agree to stand down. The movement will continue to take myriad forms. It will not rest. There will be no Marx, Alexander, or Kennedy. No book can explain it, no person can represent it, no words can encompass it, because the movement is the breathing, sentient testament of the living world.
Just go read it, feels like we’re getting somewhere.
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese tourism authorities are seeking investment to build a novel concept attraction — the world’s first “women’s town”, where men get punished for disobedience, an official said on Thursday.
The 2.3-square-km Longshuihu village in the Shuangqiao district of Chongqing municipality, also known as “women’s town”, was based on the local traditional concept of “women rule and men obey”, a tourism official told Reuters.
ms. rices’ reign at State appears to be unravelling…
A top human rights adviser to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced his resignation Monday, the latest in a string of senior State Department officials to quit as the administration of President George W. Bush winds to a close.
Barry Lowenkron, assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor, will leave within weeks to become a vice president with the MacArthur Foundation, a private grant-making enterprise, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.
The departure of Lowenkron, who notably oversaw the State Department’s annual human rights report, was announced just three days after the surprise resignation…of foreign aid director Randall Tobias.
[…]
Rice has lost a string of senior aides in recent months…
Robert Zoellick…
Philip Zelikow…
Stephen Krasner…
[…]
A senior State Department official indicated that the spate of resignations could continue as Bush nears the end of his mandate [?!] in January 2009.
“It’s only natural as you get towards the end of the second term that people are going to be moving on,” he said. “The secretary understands.”
News Corp. has made an estimated $5 billion bid to buy Dow Jones & Co. Inc., owner of the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones said on Tuesday, in a deal that would make media mogul Rupert Murdoch a major player in global financial news.
[…]
He aims to replicate the success News Corp. has had with its Fox [sic] cable news, which remains the top rated cable news channel.
“This gives him instant credibility, instant content, instant brand name,” Benchmark Co. analyst Ed Atorino said.
Tim Johnson goes home: AP/ABC News
mother-of-all-yard sales? AP/Yahoo
Uh, Courtney…most people just donate those old flannel shirts to goodwill rather than trying to get rich off them. But I guess it’s like PT BArnum says…a sucker born every minute.
Winnipeggers will be able to get lost in Shields maze
Very cool.
I really enjoyed that novel — initially picked it up b/c of the neato cover and was drawn in by the maze concept (this one).
Time for Gonzo and his boss to go.
Link to Murray Waas’ original story.
From the first link:
No wonder Goodling wanted immunity for what they were about to find out she had done…
Whatever happened to wisdom?
He’s just full of them, isn’t he? 🙂
(ps – CBtY is number 8 on his Little League team)
the undisputed master of the one liner / malapropism…
enjoy
Wolfowitz hints he may be prepared to resign
His departure can’t be soon enough!
Arctic melt faster than forecast
By Paul Hawken from Alternet.org
Isn’t evolution beautiful?
Just go read it, feels like we’re getting somewhere.
China “women’s town” to put men in their place
OK guys, do women rule and men obey?
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese tourism authorities are seeking investment to build a novel concept attraction — the world’s first “women’s town”, where men get punished for disobedience, an official said on Thursday.
The 2.3-square-km Longshuihu village in the Shuangqiao district of Chongqing municipality, also known as “women’s town”, was based on the local traditional concept of “women rule and men obey”, a tourism official told Reuters.
ms. rices’ reign at State appears to be unravelling…
“The secretary understands.“
l wouldn’t bet on that…wonder if she’s had more success negotiating with Stanford than she has with regard to her efforts in the ME and Asia.
just what the neo-con doctor ordered…
money doesn’t talk, it swears
any questions?
one answer: ITMF’sA