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Convicted terrorism conspirator Jose Padilla, once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to blow up a radioactive "dirty bomb" in a major city, was sentenced Tuesday 17 years and four months in prison on charges that don't mention those initial allegations.

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Perhaps thinking that we would all be too preoccupied with last night's debate to pay much attention to him, President Bush last night announced five nominees to fill the positions at the Department of Justice previously occupied by a bunch of fanatic crooks.

Here's the announcement

A WaPo article posted a couple hours ago tells us John Conyers isn't quite dead yet.

You may remember, long ago when we lived in a free country, someone ran for the presidency and claimed that there was "not a dime's worth of difference" between Republicans and Democrats.

Please take the O'Malley bumper sticker off of your car.

By James Grimaldi and Steno Sue Schmidt in the Washington Post.

I could swear I've read this somewhere before.

We are at the endgame for housing. Until recently our national motto has been "In real estate we trust." Just last week the Census Bureau reported that median home prices after inflation rose 32 percent from 2000 to 2005. In some places, the gains were huge: 127 percent in San Diego, 110 percent in Los Angeles and 79 percent in New York. But real estate -- which has acted as a national piggy bank, with homeowners borrowing and spending against rising house prices -- no longer looks so trustworthy. On this, more than on falling oil prices or a record Dow, hangs the economy's immediate fate.

We're into the stretch.  

39 days until November 7th.  Get out the vote.  Call, write, walk the precincts, talk to everyone you meet.  Work, work, work the vote.

Here's my nag.  Take care of yourselves.  You cannot persuade people if you're a physical wreck.  You can't make it to the polling places if you're in the hospital.

Richard Baker (R-LA), J. Gresham Barrett (R-SC), Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), Joe Barton (R-TX), Jo Bonner (R-AL), Dan Burton (R-IN), John Campbell (R-CA), Mike Conaway (R-TX), Nathan Deal (R-GA), John Doolittle (R-CA), John Duncan (R-TN), Terry Everett (R-AL), Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Trent Franks (R-AZ), Scott Garrett (R-NJ), Phil Gingrey (R-GA), Joel Hefley (R-CO), Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), Wally Herger (R-CA), Sam Johnson (R-TX), Steve King (R-IA), John Linder (R-GA), Patrick McHenry (R-NC), Gary Miller (R-CA), Charles Norwood (R-GA), Ron Paul (R-TX), Tom Price (R-GA), Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), Ed Royce (R-CA), John Shadegg (R-AZ), Thomas Tancredo (R-CO), William Thornberry (R-TX), and Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA)

Notice what they all have in common, that little "R" next to their names.