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Dick Cheney on Face the Nation (05/10/09) - BrainMovie

THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON VIDEO OF DICK CHENEY TALKING TO CBS' FACE THE NATION. THIS IS WHAT A PERSON'S BRAIN LOOKS LIKE... more

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Biden marks 100th gaffe in office

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The Raw Story: 'Executive assassination ring' reported directly to Cheney

Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh dropped a bombshell on Tuesday when he told an audience at the University of Minnesota that... more

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Biden Forgets Recovery.gov’s “Website Number”

This morning Vice President Biden went on the CBS early show to promote Recovery.gov, the website that will detail where all of... more

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Biden Will Be Economic Stimulus Cop

Vice President Joe Biden is warning that if states don't use federal stimulus money as intended, the Obama administration may... more

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High schooler describes inaugural significance

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Cheney In Wheelchair After Injury

Vice President Dick Cheney pulled a muscle in his back while moving boxes and will be in a wheelchair for Tuesday's... more

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Honoring the fallen, PEOTUS Barack Obama Lays Wreath at the Tomb of the Unkown Soldier

With great significance for an incoming President with the burden of a war to bare, PEOTUS Obama and VPEOTUS Biden stopped by... more

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Schools Blow Off Inauguration. Change??

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Biden Bids Farewell to the Senate

In a moving and often amusing delivery, VP Elect Joe Biden bid his Senate colleagues goodbye today (10 AM) as a fellow Senator.

In recounting the advent of computers and how some in the Senate felt it was a waste of taxpayer money to put computers in their offices, Biden said, "I'm almost embarrassed to admit that; it means I'm a pretty old dude."

In another vignette, Biden recounted the great friendships he had developed with Senators now deceased whose positions were in opposition to his own. As he lay dying in hospital Strom Thurmond, former Governor of South Carolina and staunch Conservative had his wife call Senator Biden to ask him to deliver Thurmond's eulogy when he passed. In remembering this moment, Biden told his listeners, "Friendship and Death are great equalizers."

Biden's history with former Senator John C. Stennis, a courtly Mississippi Democrat and staunch opponent to civil rights provided another moving moment. He recounted their introduction when Biden was a new, young Senator who told the Old Guard Senator that he had come to the Senate for Civil Rights, realizing only after he's said it just whom he was addressing. He then recollected his encounter with Stennis as Stennis was retiring and Biden was taking his office and how his parting words to Biden were that "Civil Rights did more to free the white man than the black man" and when Joe asked him why Mr. Stennis replied with a tap of the heart, "It freed my soul. It freed my soul."

Biden's more touching remembrance came as he talked of the deaths of his first wife and infant daughter shortly after being elected to the Senate. After a period of grief and standing watch at the bedside of his sons also injured in the accident that took his wife and daughter, Biden returned to the Senate. He said that he they became his second family and that he would forever be grateful to them for that comfort and support.

It seems the state of Delaware will be losing a fine, dignified and dedicated Senator respected by colleagues from both sides of the aisle. If he serves his country as Vice President even half as well as he served the state of Delaware as Senator, the country can surely only benefit from his sacrifice.

(Author: "Barkway")In a moving and often amusing delivery, VP Elect Joe Biden bid his Senate colleagues goodbye today (10 AM) as a fellow Senator.... more

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Biden to shrink VP role - big time

Biden sounds like hes doing this Job Part Time Joe Biden is laying plans to significantly shrink the role of the vice... more

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Sarah Palin Tries Out For Fredericks of Hollywood Will She Make It

Sarah said: "After saving a turkey during the Thanksgiving Day Holiday she felt she should do something for Christmas as... more

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George Bush and The Three Stooges… Thowing The Shoe Video

This is a great clip with President George Bush and The Three Stooges throwing things at one another. A play off the the Iraq Shoe... more

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Hit The Bush With A Shoe Game!!!

One more game for you to chuck shoes at President Bush as he tries to duck behind a podium! This ones pretty fun. As... more

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President George Bush “ANTI-SHOE DEVICE”

Technicians at the National Security Agency (NSA) and the United States Secret Service (USSS) have teamed up both departments... more

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Conspiracy theory 14: the second shoe

At exactly the same time, a second shoe was thrown from a nearby grassy knoll. Cheney seen here shortly after the incident.... more

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Joe Biden buys a dog from a known puppy mill operator [When Breed is available at Shelters]

Is Joe Biden in the doghouse?
1:15 PM, December 15, 2008

When we told you last week about Vice President-elect Joe Biden's new German shepherd puppy, we suspected a few of you might be mad that he chose to purchase from a breeder rather than adopt. (Truthfully, we were a little upset ourselves. Was Biden unaware of the many shepherds available in animal shelters and rescues nationwide? We can't recall the last time we went to a shelter without seeing at least two or three.)

We were a little surprised, though, by the flood of comments we received. A few supported Biden's choice, but a lot of you were pretty angry with the future VP. And animal activists all across the country are chiming in as well.

PETA blogger Christine Doré said:

Ugh. I'm sorely upset about this -- not to mention worried that his supporters will now all run out and get purebred German shepherds. I mean, not only is it really out of touch with dog issues to buy a dog from a breeder -- or plain cold-hearted -- it's such a bad idea that one New Mexico county has just banned selling dogs from pet stores altogether. At least some Americans know what's up. So what's with our future vice president?

PETA also noted that it will be investigating an allegation that the breeder from whom Biden purchased the puppy is "a known puppy mill operator."

Michael Markarian, executive vice president of the Humane Society of the United States, told the Philadelphia Inquirer, "We are surprised that Sen. Biden chose to purchase a dog from a commercial kennel since he has been a leader on animal-protection issues and has championed a number of important animal-welfare reforms in the Senate ... President-elect Obama can send a stronger message of hope and change for animals by adopting a homeless dog from an animal shelter or rescue group."

The Inquirer's article also notes that Biden spokeswoman Elizabeth Alexander defended the vice president-elect:

" 'Vice President-elect Biden has a stellar animal-rights record, and was one of only seven senators who in 2008 received a 100 percent rating from the Humane Society, which also called him a 'Humane Champion' and a 'prime-sponsor of pro-animal-rights legislation,' Alexander said."

She added: "He is an advocate for rescuing animals, as shown by his rescue of the Biden's current cat, Daisy, from a local shelter."

-- Lindsay Barnett

Photo: J. Scott Applewhite / Associated PressIs Joe Biden in the doghouse? 1:15 PM, December 15, 2008 When we told you last week about Vice President-elect Joe... more