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American Museum of Natural History Dioramas link to galleries

Which includes, Mountain Gorilla, African Elephants, Klipspringer, African Buffalo, Greater Koodoo, Cheetah , Leopard, Libyan Desert, Gemsbok and  Black Rhinoceros among lots of others. If you're over the age of 10 this is supposed to be a secret I guess because the dioramas are featured in the kid's section. That's OK though, I understand that kids have to have their cultural territory, but what kills me is that the videos are in Real(RM) format. If they would change to Quicktime or mpeg I promise I'll send a donation.

new Google Toolbar for Firefox is out, includes anti-phishing feature.

I guess congratulations are in order, Alaska Retains Title as Nation’s Most Pork-Laden State 

Libby: Bush Authorized Plamegate Leak 

According to Fitzgerald's filing, an excerpt of which you'll find below, Libby, 55, testified in 2003 that he provided reporter Judith Miller with information from a classified National Intelligence Estimate after being told by Cheney that Bush "specifically had authorized" him to "disclose certain information in the NIE." Libby also testified that Cheney specifically directed him to speak to other reporters about information in the classified NIE (which addressed Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction programs) as well as a cable authored by Plame's husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson. The leaking of the classified material was apparently done in an effort to counter claims made by Wilson regarding the White House's justification for invading Iraq. The Fitzgerald filing also notes that Libby told grand jurors that he conferred with David Addington, Cheney's counsel, about the leak directive and that Addington told him "that Presidential authorization to publicly disclose a document amounted to a declassification of the document." 

Somebody needs to get a charity drive going and send these guys a big crate of Depends. Leak ,leak, leak. Yesterday it was secret, today its not, tomorrow it'll be secret again. If only thses guys thought life was like high-school, it looks like they think life is like junior high. Which might explain this, Bush, GOP Approval Ratings Hit New Lows

Just 35 percent of the public approves of Bush's handling of Iraq, his lowest in AP-Ipsos polling.

"He's in over his head," said Diane Heller, 65, a Pleasant Valley, N.Y., real estate broker and independent voter.

As bad as Bush's numbers may be, Congress' are worse.

Just 30 percent of the public approves of the GOP-led Congress' job performance, and Republicans seem to be shouldering the blame.

By a 49-33 margin, the public favors Democrats over Republicans when asked which party should control Congress.