The lot on the left is the subject of the "Rezko" deal. Rezko bought the lot for the asking price, and the Obamas got $300,000 off the asking price. Full Story from the Washington Post

A video grab shows smoke pouring from the left engine of the plane as it takes off. Full Story from the UK Daily Mail

Mention of it in German || Translation

An already sad story on the serious medical condition of Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio) was made embarrassingly worse today by Capitol Briefing and other news outlets, as conflicting information prompted several erroneous reports that the lawmaker had died. As of this writing, she remains in critical condition in a Cleveland hospital. Full Story from the Washington Post

 

Ok, real deal this time, Rep. Tubbs Jones Dies After Brain Hemorrhage, again from the Washington Post

"We have determined that we cannot continue with business as usual," the 26 NATO states said in a joint declaration issued after emergency talks in Brussels. Full Story from Reuters

 

[Video] - NATO / Condi Rice

More images and updates - MyFoxHurricane.com

Hand Check!

Images of Russian tanks rolling on the offensive trigger a relapse of Cold War shivers for several sobering reasons. Full Story from Minn Post

Politics is tough. So is driving in Miami. Just ask Sen. John McCain's tour bus driver. Full Story from the Miami Herald

 

[Video] - The straight talk barrels through miami, literally

Thank you to our listener Curtis.

 

He's made this Oil Derrick to send to Pelosi's office for Operation Drill Bit / Nancy Pelosi Edition. According to Curtis, he can make two of these a week at no cost to fill her office up... Imagine her surprise at these gifts in addition to all the drill bits. Great job and creative.

[Images] - See the photos of protesters outside Temple Judea during Pelosi's book signing in Miami.

Gunfire killed a federal agent in the parking lot of a U.S. post office in Pembroke Pines on Tuesday, where he was found near a dark-colored sedan with its driver's door open and blood-stained clothing laying on the ground. Full Story from CBS 4

 

 

 

Some members of the U.S. cycling squad arrived for the Olympic Games on Tuesday wearing black respiratory masks, apparently concerned over reports of unhealthy levels of air pollution in Beijing. Full Story from Reuters

A Schnitt Show listener discovered something funny. We aren't sure if this phrase was added on purpose or just random act of accuracy. Full PDF file

When Clearwater's Spyglass Hotel imploded into a pile of smoke and rubble Wednesday night, it seemed that illusionist Criss Angel was still in the building. But then he appeared on the ground, covered in dust, safe and sound. Full Story and Video from Fox 13 in Tampa

 

How He Did It!: [Video] - Spoiler alert: Criss Angel's 'escape' revealed Exclusive footage reveals a possible explanation

 Placed on same shelf as Lincoln, an actual U.S. President.

 

Even the little kid's section has Obama front and center.

[Photos from TMZ]

 

Statement from Kerry's Office: "As Sen. Kerry and two friends left dinner at the Straight Warf restaurant on Nantucket and walked down the dock, a large group on a boat recognized Senator Kerry and asked if they could have a photo taken. The group came off the boat and onto the dock, took a photo with Sen. Kerry and his friends, and then Sen. Kerry and his two friends immediately walked away. End of story."

Investigators are looking into how a gaping hole appeared in a jumbo jet 30,000 feet in the air. It happened on a Qantas flight from London to Melbourne. Full Story from the Belfast Telegraph

 

[Video] - Nightmare at 20,000 feet

[MSNBC] - Amateur video shows emergency landing

[YouTube] - Rainman Scene

Note that McCain hasn't whined about the Rolling Stone cartoon portrayal, unlike thin-skinned, sensitive about his ears Obama, who felt it necessary to have his campaign call the New Yorker cartoon portrayal of himself and his wife "tasteless and offensive." Full Story from NewsBusters

US lawyer David Remes, demonstrating the mistreatment suffered by his clients at Gitmo. Full Story from Weasel Zippers | More at San Fran Chronicle

It may be satirical, but the Obama campaign is not amused. The cover for the July 21 issue shows a turban-clad Barack Obama fistbumping with an Afro-bedecked, machine-gun toting Michelle Obama. Full Story from Boston Globe

 

 

Obama and The New Yorker

 

 

Dubai beach sex romp, puts couple behind bars. The couple face between three months and six years in jail, plus a fine and deportation for flouting the strict ban on sex outside marriage in the Muslim emirate. The pair have both told police that they were so drunk they cannot even remember the sexual encounter in the early hours of Saturday. More photos and Full Story from the UK Daily Mail

 

Hot Air: Video: Six years for sex on the beach?

Magic lasso and clone tool come in handy when adding an extra missile to your news release photo. Full Sory form the UK Guardian

 

NY Times: In an Iranian Image, a Missile Too Many

Iran test-fired nine long- and medium-range missiles Wednesday during war games that officials said were intended to show the country can retaliate against any U.S. or Israeli attack, state television reported. Full Story from MSNBC | Video from CNN

Summit that's hard to swallow - world leaders enjoy 18-course banquet as they discuss how to solve global food crisis. Full Story from the Daily Mail

Watermelon may offer Viagra-like effects. Ingredient helps relax blood vessels, but don't expect "fireworks" all night.  Full story from MSNBC.

It's always been one of the enduring truths of architecture: buildings stand still. Parts may move--the arms on a windmill, the elevators and escalators, the occasional rotating restaurant on the top floor--but not whole huge swaths of skyscraper.  Full story from CNet News.

General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. today posted double-digit June U.S. sales declines as consumers spurned pick-up trucks, SUVs and luxury sedans in favor of economical small cars.  Full story from Detroit News.

 

A 25-second snippet of video showing actor Verne Troyer and a former girlfriend having sex, available online over the past couple of days, is all the world will see of the tape -- for now.  Full story from CNN.

Rivals turned allies, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton made a show of unity Friday in a hamlet named for it, their first joint public appearance since the divisive Democratic primary race ended. Full story from CBS News.

 

The massive implosion, which came at about 5pm local time Friday at the Yongbyon facility, was intended to be a powerful public symbol of a move to end nuclear activities by the Communist nation once branded a member of an "axis of evil" by U.S. President George W. Bush. Full story from CNN.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Thanks to some text message-savvy grandchildren, North Carolina drivers whose license plates have the potentially offensive "WTF" letter combination can replace the tags for free. Full story from Fox News.

 

 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Washington D.C.'s sweeping ban on handguns is unconstitutional. Full story from CNN.

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The U.S. Supreme Court, in a fractured ruling, said punitive damages are allowed in a lawsuit over the 1989 Valdez oil spill but that lower courts should reduce the $2.5 billion award. Full story from CBS MarketWatch

Barack Obama: The Stevie Wonder Geek Returns to the Cover of Rolling Stone

St. Louis' woes add to the growing number of levee breaches that have been occurring from Iowa to Missouri since the flooding started last week, according to the Corps of Engineers. Full Story from CNN

The extended-range electric vehicle is no longer just a rumor. More info from GM

The dark, filthy water that flooded Iowa's second-largest city finally started to recede Saturday after forcing 24,000 people to flee, but those who remained were urged to cut back on showering and flushing to save the last of their unspoiled drinking water. Full Story from TBO

Tim Russert's son, Luke, touches his dad's empty chair on Father's Day.

“Try to charge me, but I’m not guilty,” R. Kelly sings in his hit song with Jay-Z, “Guilty Until Proven Innocent.” And that’s exactly the outcome of his child pornography trial. Full Story from Rap-Up || Gavel to Gavel coverage from the Chicago Tribune

Record low 30 and 7" of snow in Great Falls, Mt // 6-11-08.

Thank you to Emery for the photo submission

Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones are offering internet viewers lurid details of encounters they claim they had with former US president Bill Clinton for $1.99 a pop. Full Story from Press Association

 

 

[WSJ] - Our E-Commerce Report Card for Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones

Another work of art created and submitted by a Schnitt listener.

Controversial boob op which gave model Maxi Mounds world record breaking breasts has been banned - over safety fears. Full Story from the UK Sun

California’s Silicon Valley could become the Detroit of the 21st Century. The new Detroit Electric car company is a west coast resident since 2007; Detroit South, if you want. Full Story from the Trentonian

 

< Aptera's site [Video from CNN]

 

Another cool looking alternative fuel vehicle from Tesla Motors

It's a pageant for headscarf-wearing women sponsored by state broadcaster Danmarks Radio and comes at a time when Denmark grapples with the fallout from the 2005 publication in a local newspaper of cartoons that linked the Prophet Muhammad to terrorism and sparked riots across the Middle East. Full Story from Bloomberg

 

[Headscarf Gallery]

CAPTION: Picture 11, Rev. Willie T. Barrow, chairman emerita, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, enjoys the Women’s Luncheon with Michelle Obama, wife of U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama of Illinois and executive director of community affairs, University of Chicago Hospital, Shoshana Johnson, the nation’s first Black female POW and former Iraqi captive, and Mrs. Jamell Meeks, wife of the Rev. James Meeks, vice president, Rainbow/PUSH, and Rev. Dr. Barbara King, Mother Khadijah Farrakhan, wife of Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan, and Judge Arnette Hubbard.; This is the latest from Larry Johnson/No Quarter

Thank you to Don Meredith for his original, Operation Drill Bit, illustration that he sent the Schnitt Show.

Schnitt thinks people are making an issue of nothing, it's just a scarf...

 

Does Dunkin’ Donuts really think its customers could mistake Rachael Ray for a terrorist sympathizer? The Canton-based company has abruptly canceled an ad in which the domestic diva wears a scarf that looks like a keffiyeh, a traditional headdress worn by Arab men. Full Story from the Boston Globe

 

[Photos] - McCain Daughter Dons Islamic Terror Scarf!

Ground controllers at NASA observed some unexplainable images which prompted the question: could there be intelligent life on Mars? Full Story from WESH

Barack Obama is getting called out again for his knowledge of history, including his own family’s, after declaring to veterans on Memorial Day that his uncle helped liberate the Auschwitz death camp at the end of World War II. Full Story from Fox News

 

[Video] - Obama: My uncle liberated … Auschwitz?

 

[Update] - Obama's World War II history

Huckabee makes a joke about Obama being shot at, the only thing shot would be Huckabee's chances at VP now. Video and Full Story from CNN

Interpol, the international police agency, said on Thursday documents found on Colombian rebel computers, which Colombia's government charges show that Venezuela and Ecuador supported leftist guerrillas, were authentic. Full Story from Reuters

• California Supreme Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban
• Same-sex marriage in the United States public opinion From Wikipedia
• Edwards stands by ex-rival Obama's side at Grand Rapids rally
• [Video] - Edwards Endorses Obama
• [Video] - Pres. Bush speaking in Israel takes a shot at Obama
• Behind the Bush-Obama Smackfest
• [Video] - Obama: Sure, I'll meet with Castro, Chavez, Ahmadinejad, etc
• [NY Times] - Bush Speech Criticized as Attack on Obama
• [Video] - Sen. Joe Lieberman talks with E. D. Hill re Bush Knesset speech
• Biden: Bush's comments were - bullschnitt
• Gates: U.S. Should Engage Iran With Incentives, Pressure
• McDermott endorses Obama
• Pelosi: Bush comments 'beneath the dignity of the office'
• Barkley says he'll pay huge gambling debt
• NBC: Bush Goes Left on Global Warming, But Not Left Enough
• [Video] - Cause for concern in polar bear population
• How Healthy Is John McCain?
• Lingering deep snow delays campground opening in Yellowstone
• Inhofe Says Listing of Polar Bear Based on Politics, Not Science
• Polar bears join 'threatened' list
• [Audio] - Obama Apologizes to WXYZ Reporter

The European Union's top aid official said the military government's restrictions were increasing the risk of starvation and disease. Photos, Video and Full Story from Reuters

• Iran's Ahmadinejad says Israel "dying"
• US President Bush launches Israel visit
• [Video] - The Colbert Report Bill O'Reilly Inside Edition
• [Amazon] - A Spring without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply (Hardcover) by Michael Schacker
• [Video] - Rove: Obama a “sore loser”
• [Video] - Hillary choose who you believe
• [Video] - Chris Matthews: Hillary’s sort of the “Al Sharpton of white people,” isn’t she?
• Barack Obama Pays Radicals to Staff His Campaign
• [Photo] - That Old Rugged, Neon, Explicit Cross
• [Photo] - Barack Obama’s Pitch in Kentucky
• Obama and the Cross
• Clinton gets teary over Chelsea
• [Video] - Obama annoys reporter by calling her “sweetie”
• Polar bear added to endangered species list
• [2007] - Polar bears 'thriving as the Arctic warms up'
• [2007] - Polar Bear Baby Boom Occurring in Eastern Arctic, Will Media Notice?
• Paul McCartney's carbon footprint is criticized
• Major Abortion Rights Group Endorses Obama
• Edwards To Endorse Obama
• 'American Idol' Tracker: Many roads to the Final Three
• Walter E. Williams: Environmentalists' wild predictions

A way for Obama supporters to show their patriotism to these United 57 States. Lapel pin

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