SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!

Those were the cries heard on the floor of the House of Representatives this afternoon. For the third time the Republican House of Corruption held open a vote to twist arms to get their way.

The FIVE minute vote was held open for FIFTY minutes until it passed 212-210.

The vote was held on the “Gasoline for America’s Security Act of 2005,” a provision sponsored by Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) to nominally “expedite the construction of new refining capacity.” But the bill is essentially a giveback to the oil industry — Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) called it a “leave-no-oilman-behind bill.”

The Rethuglicans in the House have previously held votes open to reward large corporations with the vote on CAFTA as well as to reward Big Pharma with the Medicare prescription drug vote.

Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) was heard saying, "Hey, it was just Exxon's turn."***

You can watch the Democrats yell "Shame!" and "Banana Republic" here.

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***I'm sure that the Other Political Junkie will want me to say that I made that quote up.

KARMA'S A BITCH

From my sis in DC:

Feds have been on the news here today implying that Michael Bloomberg panicked about the subway threat. Well, for the past hour the traffic has been a complete disaster cause the Park Police panicked and shut down the area around the Washington Monument when someone called in a bomb threat. I'm betting it was a New Yorker!

Happy 25th, C-SPAN!

C-SPAN MARKS 25 YEARS OF CALL-IN PROGRAMMING

C-SPAN launched television’s first-ever, regularly scheduled national viewer call-in program on October 7, 1980 from the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. We’re marking the call-in anniversary with a live, 25-Hour Call-In Marathon starting on Friday, October 7, 2005, at 8 p.m. and continuing through Saturday, October 8, 2005 at 9 p.m. ET.

Every hour, the special program will highlight key events from a year in recent history starting with 1980. Interviews with guests who helped shape or cover the event, archival video and statistics from that year are scheduled. Also, interviews with 25 winners from C-SPAN’s Viewer Call-In Essay Contest will be featured hourly.

Full programming schedule here. The first hour includes a debate between Phil Donahue and Pat Buchanan. Christopher Hitchens will be on live at 5 AM Saturday morning (I assume that will be an all-nighter for him) and Randi Rhodes will be on that same day between 1 and 2 PM.

I've called in more than a few times to C-SPAN over the years. I blogged about my favorite call to them here.

Preznit's "Major Speech" on Iraq

In case you, like I, missed it:

Think Progress covers the major fear mongering

and

Wonkette offers a much needed major dose of snark.

More bad news for Rick Santorum

Via the P-G, the AP is reporting:

Pennsylvania State Treasurer Bob Casey Jr.'s lead over Sen. Rick Santorum grew slightly greater in a poll released today.

The Quinnipiac University poll of 1,530 Pennsylvania voters showed Casey leading the two-term incumbent by 52 to 34 percent -- an 18 point lead -- in his 2006 bid. That compares to a 50-to-39 percent lead in July by the same pollster.

"He's in trouble in this race," said Clay Richards, assistant director of the Hamden, Conn., university's polling institute. "He has suffered a lot of bad PR in the last two months. That, plus the president's weakening support in Pennsylvania have combined to give him some real bad numbers."

Those polled disapproved 61-to-37 percent of the job President Bush is doing, his lowest score on the poll, down from a 53-to-44 percent disapproval in July.

Did I read that last paragraph right?

Of those polled, 61% disapprove of what Bush is doing?

Cool.

Darfur Fast and Rally

WHAT
Darfur Fast and Rally

Politicians, student, non-profit and community leaders will speak at Rally to bring attention to genocide in Darfur and urge the US government to lead our nation and the international community by taking a stronger more decisive action to end the violence in Darfur and protect its vulnerable citizens. Participants will fast for one meal and donate the cost of the meal to an organization providing humanitarian aid to civilians in Darfur. Also, the Pittsburgh Darfur Emergency Coalition will be presenting a petition signed by over 1,300 Pittsburghers calling on our government to take action against the genocide in Darfur to Senators Specter and Santorum and President Bush.

This event is free and open to the public.

Visit www.pittsburghdarfur.org for more information.

WHEN
Thursday, October 6, 12:00 – 2:00
Speakers and other events of media interest will begin at 12:20 and last approximately 40 minutes.

WHERE
Mellon Square Park (behind William Penn Hotel)

WHO
Sala Udin, Pittsburgh City Councilman
Bill Peduto, Pittsburgh City Councilman
Paul D’Allesandro, Pittsburgh District Director for Congressman Mike Doyle
Dr. Michael Yemba, Former President of the Sudan Council of Churches USA
Kahdra Mohammad, Executive Director of the Pittsburgh Refugee Center
Sabira Bushra, Partnership for Minority HIV/AIDS Prevention
Rabbi Alvin Berkun, Tree of Life Congregation
Molly Rush, Co-founder of Thomas Merton Center, Steering Committee of Pennsylvania United for Single-Payer Health Care (PUSH)
Ruth Portnoff, Co-founder of Schenley High School STAND
David Rosenberg, Coordinator of Pittsburgh Darfur Emergency Coalition

How to participate in fast
List of organizations to which you can send donations

Events for Thursday and Friday

TODAY:
Point State Park Fountain Runs Bright Pink!
Thursday, Oct 6 2005
10:00 AM
Point State Park

Pennsylvania Commission for Women is turning the Pittsburgh's Point State Park fountain pink in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month at 10 AM on Thursday, October 6th.

In the past Harrisburg and Philadelphia have done these beautiful and uplifting events. With the support of Pa Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Leslie Stiles, Executive Director of Pa Commission for Women will launch Breast Cancer Awareness Month in Pittsburgh.

Elsie Hillman, Dan Onorato and Peggy Finnegan will also participate as speakers for our Breast Cancer Awareness program. The event will take place in front of Point State Park Fountain.

Darfur Fast and Rally
Thursday, October 6, 12:00 – 2:00
Mellon Square Park (behind William Penn Hotel)
(More in above post)

TOMORROW:
The Source Magazine's Biko Baker & Showtime's Malia Lazu on Hip Hop and Politics in Pittsburgh!
Friday October 7, 5PM
Space Gallery at 812 Liberty Avenue

Friday October 7, 5:00 PM Static Free will sponsor an evening featuring nationally recognized innovators in urban grassroots politics.

Space Gallery at 812 Liberty Avenue will house this event as part of Static Free and the Out of Town Expert Speaker Series beginning at 5pm on October 7.

These activists don't view the time between elections as "down time," nor the line between art, pop-culture, and politics divisive. Instead, they continue to organize traditionally a-political and disengaged voters—mainly young people and minorities—around issues of importance in their community, using creative and groundbreaking techniques.

The bill includes two nationally recognized organizers Rob "biko" Baker and Malia Lazu.

Rob "biko" Baker, contributing writer to the Source Magazine will talk about:

- Using politicization as a tool for youth civic engagement
- Organizing around issues, taking young people from unengaged residents to
political citizens; with no stopping in between
- The Campaign Against violence in Milwaukee

Malia Lazu runner up on Showtime's American Candidate relaity show will discuss:

- Creating National political agendas out of local issues like: Health Care, Bringing the Troops Home, Local efforts against Walmart
- Cities for Progress

Representatives of two benchmark civic participation initiatives right here in Pittsburgh will also speak;

Khari Mosley, co founder of the PA Hip Hop Politcial Convention and

Luqman Abdul Salaam will discuss his work with The Arts Greenhouse at The Center for the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University .

This event represents efforts by a coalition of Pittsburgh grassroots progressive organizations:
GroundZero Action Network; PittsburghVIE; Everybody Vote; Progress Pittsburgh; Arts Greenhouse; Pittsburgh League of Young Voters.

American Taliban: Bill Drafted to Criminalize "Unauthorized Reproduction"

From Daily KOS, Atrios, Exit Stage Left, and others:

Republican lawmakers are drafting new legislation that will make marriage a requirement for motherhood in the state of Indiana, including specific criminal penalties for unmarried women who do become pregnant "by means other than sexual intercourse."

According to a draft of the recommended change in state law, every woman in Indiana seeking to become a mother throu gh assisted reproduction therapy such as in vitro fertilization, sperm donation, and egg donation, must first file for a "petition for parentage" in their local county probate court.

Only women who are married will be considered for the "gestational certificate" that must be presented to any doctor who facilitates the pregnancy. Further, the "gestational certificate" will only be given to married couples that successfully complete the same screening process currently required by law of adoptive parents.

As it the draft of the new law reads now, an intended parent "who knowingly or willingly participates in an artificial reproduction procedure" without court approval, "commits unauthorized reproduction, a Class B misdemeanor." The criminal charges will be the same for physicians who commit "unauthorized practice of artificial reproduction."

A draft of the legislation which, among other things, bars unmarried people from having children by articifial means is here:

http://www.in.gov/legislative/interim/committee/prelim/HFCO04.pdf

An isolated case of madness, you say?

I was instantly reminded of a bill introduced earlier this year in the Virginia Legislature:

HB1677, "Report of Fetal Death by mother, penalty" is a bill introduced by John A. Cosgrove (R) of Chesapeake. Cosgrove's bill requires any woman who experiences "fetal death" without a doctor's assistance to report this to the local law-enforcement agency within twelve hours of the miscarriage. Failure to do so is punishable as a Class 1 Misdemeanor.

FYI:

- Virginia's definition of "fetal death" is "death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of human conception, regardless of the duration of pregnancy..."

- It is estimated that at least 30% of all pregnancies are lost in the first few weeks, usually without the woman knowing.

- There would be no way to know when "fetal death" occurs unless the fetus has a heartbeat and you're hooked to a monitor. Sometimes, it takes the body days or weeks to figure out that the embryo/fetus is no longer alive before getting rid of it.

- Virginia already had a law meant to prevent the abandonment of full-term babies.

The Virginia bill was withdrawn after numerous women threatened to send Cosgrove their used tampons "just in case."

It's time for all of us to consider that while most may have read Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" as a cautionary fable, the Right read it as a blueprint.

We need to also remember that when the Right tell us they went less activist judges and want lawmakers to make policy; this is the kind of sick crap they have in mind.

They have no intention of just trying to outlaw abortion.

They will not be happy until they establish a Taliban-like grip of control over women's bodies and their lives.

UPDATE (10-6-05):

Legislator drops controversial plan

A controversial proposed bill to prohibit gays, lesbians and single people from using medical procedures to become pregnant has been dropped by its legislative sponsor.

State Sen. Patricia Miller, R-Indianapolis, issued a one-sentence statement this afternoon saying: “The issue has become more complex than anticipated and will be withdrawn from consideration by the Health Finance Commission.”

Thanks to Philip Shropshire for the heads up.

Why Are These People Smiling?

This picture of Bush and new U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers has appeared in many newspapers:



Most of them, including the New York Times, did not indicate the exact date that this photo of the two posing for the camera was taken. Fortunately, some did print the date. It was taken on August 6, 2001.

As Editor & Publisher points out, the date is significant:

Does that date sound familiar? Indeed, that was the date, a little over a month before 9/11, that President Bush was briefed on the now-famous “PDB” that declared that Osama Bin Laden was “determined” to attack the U.S. homeland, perhaps with hijacked planes. But does that mean that Miers had anything to do with that briefing?

As it turns out, yes, according to Tuesday's Los Angeles Times. An article by Richard A. Serrano and Scott Gold observes that early in the Bush presidency “Miers assumed such an insider role that in 2001 it was she who handed Bush the crucial 'presidential daily briefing' hinting at terrorist plots against America just a month before the Sept. 11 attacks.”

So, again, I ask:
Why Are These People Smiling and Posing for the Camera?

And, as they are smiling and posing for the camera, let's all yell it from the rooftops:
George W. Bush is the Worst President Ever!

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Top Ten Signs Your Supreme Court Pick Isn't Qualified

From Late Show with David Letterman:

10. "Lost 10 grand yesterday in the 'case' of Jets vs. Ravens"

9. "Spends most of her time trying to fit the gavel into her mouth"

8. "Her legal mentor: Oliver Wendell Redenbacher"

7. "Asks courtroom stenographer to, 'Quit that annoying tapping!'"

6. "Instead of Constitutional law books, consults set of 'Garfield' paperbacks"

5. "Keeps shouting, 'When does mama get to hang somebody?!'"

4. "When Scalia walks by, she pretends to cough and says, 'Rogaine'"

3. "Authored the book: 'I'm Not Qualified to be a Supreme Court Justice'"

2. "The closest thing to courtroom experience was being an extra on 'Matlock'"

1. "Glowing letter of recommendation from former FEMA director Michael Brown"

Everything you need to know about why Miers is a sucky choice

From National Review Online:

In the White House that hero worshipped the president, Miers was distinguished by the intensity of her zeal: She once told me that the president was the most brilliant man she had ever met.

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I Met Amy Goodman!

I happened to be in Dayton, Ohio this past weekend on a mini-vacation with my SO.

We were staying at the Crowne Plaza downtown finishing a drink in the bar late on Saturday night when the bar started to fill up. It looked like someone was setting up an ad hoc political meeting as we were leaving. A middle-aged guy with a back-pack and a mohawk put up a lawn sign, something about voting down a number of local resolutions.

As we were walking out, I found myself face-to-face (well, almost) with Amy Goodman. I take it she was in town for some sort of rally.

Screwing up all my post-drink courage, I put out my hand and asked, "Excuse me, are you Amy Goodman?"

She answered with a very gracious yes. She had something in her right hand so she shook mine with her left.

I told her I was a big fan - watch her all the time - blah blah blah.

I quickly put two and two together and assumed that she was probably on her way to a sit-down with middle-aged mohawk guy and the other folks clustering around that political lawn sign. So I got out of her way.

I was a blabbering idiot for about 10 seconds, but the important thing to remember here is that I met Amy Goodman!

And my god, she's tiny!

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Bush Picks Harriet Miers for Supreme Court (Bush Crony with No Experience as a Judge)

Wikipedia has to say:

Harriet Miers received both her undergraduate and law degrees from Southern Methodist University. She worked at the firm of Locke, Purnell, Rain & Harrell from 1972 to 1999, rising to the position of president. In 1985, she became the first woman president of the Dallas Bar Association; she also served as a member-at-large on the Dallas City Council.

In 1992, Miers became the first woman president of the Texas State Bar. Most recently, she was co-managing partner at Locke Liddell & Sapp, LLP. From 1995 until 2000, Miers was chair of the Texas Lottery Commission.In November 2004, President Bush nominated Miers to succeed Alberto Gonzales as top Counsel to the President."

Notice that it does not say she's ever been a judge because she's never been a judge. Though keeping to Bush tradition of never looking further that arm's length, she is a bush crony:

Miers, 59, tapped to replace U.S. Attorney General-designate Alberto Gonzales as White House counsel, has long been one of the most discreet, most private and most protective members of George W. Bush's inner circle.

From Just a Bump in the Beltway:

White House counsel Harriet Miers has never served as a judge before, and while this career "hard-nosed lawyer" (as she is invariably described) from Texas certainly deserves some kudos for a trailblazing career as a female lawyer, she's not a legal scholar, either. But she does know better than just about anyone else where the bodies are buried (relax, it's a just a metaphor...we hope) in President Bush's National Guard scandal. In fact, Bush's Texas gubenatorial campaign in 1998 (when he was starting to eye the White House) actually paid Miers $19,000 to run an internal pre-emptive probe of the potential scandal. Not long after, a since-settled lawsuit alleged that the Texas Lottery Commission -- while chaired by Bush appointee Miers -- played a role in a multi-million dollar cover-up of the scandal.

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AUGUST WILSON (1945-2005)

The New York Times covers his career here.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette here.

The Tribune-Review here.

Well, this has got to help: Army National Guard Recruiting With Free iTunes

This is for real (I'm not that funny):


(Via Crooks & Liars)

Ya think maybe there's a connection?

Story #1:
Our soldiers in Iraq are STILL being forced to buy THEIR OWN body armor
Story Link

Story #2:
AP: Army in worst recruiting slump in decades
Story Link

Meet the Santorums: Just Your Average All American Family

The City Paper -- Philadelphia's, not Pittsburgh's -- has all the heartwarming details on America's Favorite Dysfunctional Family.

A sample:

When she met Rick, Karen was living with Tom Allen, an OBGYN who in the early-1970s cofounded Pittsburgh's first abortion clinic. It was a somewhat unusual pairing. Allen was the doctor who delivered Karen. She began living with him while an undergraduate nursing student at Pittsburgh's Duquesne University. She was in her early 20s, he was in his 60s.

"When she moved out to go be with Rick, she told me I'd like him, that he was pro-choice and a humanist," said Allen, an elderly but vibrant man, during a brief conversation on the porch of his Pittsburgh row home. "But I don't think there's a humanist bone in that man's body."

[snip]

Gabriel Michael Santorum lived for only two hours. The Santorums spent the night in the hospital bed with their lifeless baby lying between them. The next morning they brought the palm-sized corpse to Karen's parent's house. They had their other children pose for pictures and cuddle with Gabriel. They sang lullabies and held a private mass.

[snip]

Here at the Carlisle courthouse, the College Republican rally draws to a close. The Santorum campaign is filming the event for a campaign commercial to be aired sometime next spring as the election heats up. Little 4-year-old Patrick becomes overwhelmed by the crowd and the cameras and begins to cry. Santorum takes his son in his arms and seeks out a quiet spot on the edge of the crowd, just a few feet from where I'm standing.

"You did wonderful," he says, hugging and comforting the child. "You're such a brave boy."

The cameramen pick up on the touching moment and rush over to film it. Karen follows and notices that Patrick's tear-streaked face is turned away from the camera. Karen tells her husband to turn around so their son can be filmed.

The senator obliges.

Lovely!

ABSOLUT CORRUPTION.

Whether they're pulling a Martha Stewart, or conspiring to subvert election laws, or ripping off their kids' school board, or outing a CIA agent, or practicing cronyism turned deadly, or hiring a bagman who in turn hires Mafia hit men, or lying to get us into an unjust war that kills tens of thousands, these guys are:

(Click on graphic for larger image)

NOTE: ABSOLUT vodka did not create or contribute to this material, and has not authorized or approved it.

Crossposted (and a Recommended Diary) at Daily KOS.

UPDATE: I promise that I'll eventually get around to putting up posters, T-shirts, etc., of this image at my store: New Retro T's! -- maybe this weekend (10/22 - 10/23). And, I'll change the seal for all those who requested that.

UPDATE 2: Absolut Corruption political cartoon appears in the News Section of LA Weekly:

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/50/image-absolut.php



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Two Opportunities to Meet Chuck Today!

Chuck Pennacchio will be in Pittburgh Today, September 29 for two events.

Please come out and show your support or just to find out more about a progressive alternative to Casey.

www.chuck2006.com

CMU
WHEN: Thu Sep 29: 4:30 PM
WHERE: McKenna Room, on the 2nd Floor of the CMU University Center
(not yet confirmed)

PROGRESS PITTSBURGH SOCIAL HOUR
WHEN: Thu Sep 29: 6PM-8PM
WHERE: Harris Grill
NEIGHBORHOOD: Shadyside
IT'LL COST YOU: $cost of beverages
More info: www.progresspittsburgh.com
All are welcome to attend - please forward this invitation to anyone
who may be interested

Hmmm...

Now that my colleague has already posted the Delay indictment, it leaves me free to comment on some of the other news of the day.

Notably, I am wondering how long it will take the right side of the punditocracy to distance itself from Ashley Smith. For those of you who don't know it, she was the woman...well let me let the Coulter, the leather-clad blonde bombshell describe it herself. She wrote in April of this year:

At 2 a.m. one Saturday night, Ashley Smith went out for cigarettes while unpacking her new apartment, yet another victory for tobacco pleasure. Returning from the store, Smith was grabbed by a man at her front door, who put a gun in her side and told her not to scream. He asked if she knew who he was. When he removed his baseball cap, she saw it was Nichols, the dangerous fugitive all over television who had escaped custody during his rape trial and had killed four people in the previous 48 hours. (Although he also looked a lot like of one the guys on "American Idol.")

In Smith's apartment, Nichols bound Smith's feet and hands and put her in the bathtub. Later, at Smith's request, Nichols allowed her to hop from the bathroom into the bedroom, where she began talking to him.

In short order, Smith was reading aloud to Nichols from the Christian book "The Purpose Driven Life" – in direct violation of his constitutional right to never hear any reference to God, in public or private, for any purpose, ever, ever, ever! For more on this right, go to the "People for the American Way" website.

After reading the first paragraph of Chapter 33 aloud, about serving God by serving others, Nichols – the man pundits were calling an "animal" – asked her to read it again.

Nichols listened to the passage again and responded by telling Smith he was already dead, saying, "Look at my eyes." But Smith looked and told him God had a purpose for him, perhaps to minister to other lost souls in prison. Smith read to Nichols some more, both from the "Purpose" book and from another popular book that's been dropped from all news accounts of this incident: the New Testament. (In the Hollywood version, Smith will be reading from the Quran.)

Smith knew all about Nichols' violent depredations from television. Yet she saw him not as a monster, but as one of God's creatures. Most Christians – most people – have trouble seeing the humanity of people who take our parking spots. Smith could see God's hand in a multiple murderer holding her hostage. By showing him genuine Christian love, Smith turned Nichols from a beast to a brother in Christ. This phenomenon, utterly unknown to liberals, is what's known as a "miracle." Top that, Paul Krugman!

Nichols told Smith she was "an angel sent from God," calling her "his sister" and himself her "brother in Christ." Nichols said he had come to Smith's home for a reason, in Smith's words, that "he was lost and God led him right to me to tell him that he had hurt a lot of people."

This trampling of our Constitution – I mean this conversation – lasted long into the
night. They watched Nichols' shooting people on television. Nichols said he couldn't believe he was that man. In the morning, Smith made Nichols eggs and pancakes for breakfast. Then she walked out of the apartment to pick up her daughter and to call 911. The last thing Nichols said as Smith was leaving was to say hello to her daughter for him. When the police arrived, Nichols surrendered without incident, an utterly transformed human being.

I can't fault Saint Ann of the Laryngeal Prominence nor not knowing the rest of the story when she wrote what she wrote. So here it is:

Ashley Smith, who was held hostage in her apartment in March by the man now charged with murder in the Atlanta courthouse shootings, was hailed as a hero after she disclosed how she had persuaded her captor to surrender, partly by reading to him from the spiritual best seller "The Purpose-Driven Life."

But in a memoir released yesterday, Ms. Smith also recounts that she gave the kidnapper some of her supply of crystal methamphetamine during her captivity and that she did not tell the police for some time afterward.

In the memoir, "Unlikely Angel: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Hostage Hero," Ms. Smith recalls that Brian Nichols, who has been charged in the death of three people shot at the Fulton County Courthouse and a fourth killed elsewhere in Atlanta soon before her kidnapping, asked her if she had any marijuana. She answered no but said she did have some "ice," or crystal meth.

Ms. Smith says that at the time, she was fighting an addiction to crystal methamphetamine that had previously led her to spend time in a psychiatric hospital and to lose custody of her 5-year-old daughter.

She says she last used crystal meth about 36 hours before being taken hostage. Though Mr. Nichols used it and invited her to do so, she refused, she writes, and has not taken drugs since the episode.

First off, it's nothing but good news that Ms Smith was able to kick her addiction. It must've have been an extremely difficult thing to do. And if she was able to do it via a deeper spirituality, mazel tov. But let's not get carried away here. Reading Coulter's telling of the story, you'd think some sort of miracle stopped this guy from killing her. She even wrote how Smith's "Christian love" turned this beast into a "brother in Christ."

Do I need to ask it? Perhaps it was THE CRYSTAL METH?

Let's take a look at the effects of crystal meth on the user. Here's what the DEA says:

As a powerful stimulant, methamphetamine, even in small doses, can increase wakefulness and physical activity and decrease appetite. A brief, intense sensation, or rush, is reported by those who smoke or inject methamphetamine. Oral ingestion or snorting produces a long-lasting high instead of a rush, which reportedly can continue for as long as half a day. Both the rush and the high are believed to result from the release of very high levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine into areas of the brain that regulate feelings of pleasure.

Coulter wrote later in the column:

Smith saved the soul of a man on a killing spree by talking to him about Christianity. But liberals think this won't work with the Muslims? We ought to fly this Ashley Smith to Saudi Arabia. We could just make her a box lunch every day and send her on her way.

Ok, Ann. If we do send Ms Smith over there to Saudi Arabia, how much crystal meth do you think it would take to convert them all?

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