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Those indictments might not come until the actual day that the grand jury runs out on October 28th, as Fitzgerald seems to be nailing down every corner.

In the meantime, firedoglake and the Next Hurrah have some interesting posts interpreting recent developments. The bit on firedoglake in which it is pointed out that Libby’s weird aspen letter references July 2003, but Judy Miller’s newly rediscovered notes are from June 2003, which has people jumping up to volunteer to testify again, is quite peculiar.

Bones excavated in the 1920s and ’30s from caves in the Yorkshire Dales have finally been subjected to precise carbon-dating at Oxford. Although i find it fun to call them cannibals, they weren’t mindless, savegae barbarians, but agrarians with specialized burial rituals, living from 3,000 BC to 2,000 BC

Lou’s from Lancashire. When i read her the story about prehistoric Yorkshire cannibals, she said that there were no surprises there.

…unless by ” strict constructionist,” they mean interpretation of the Constitution by self-serving whim. Hey! That’s how i interpret “strict constructionist” too! That’s not any different from Scalia and Thomas, but that’s not the point of this post.

On October 4th, Bush said, “She shares my philosophy that judges should strictly interpret the laws and the Constitution of the United States and not legislate from the bench.” He added that her philosophy won’t change.

When she was acting as his lawyer in 2000, was her philosophy the same as it is now?

The Wall Street Journal points out that in the turmoil of the 2000 election, Miers acted as counsel in Jones v. Bush, in which three Texas voters filed suit arguing that Bush and Cheney could not run on the same ticket in Texas as they were both inhabitants of Texas, in violation of the Twelfth Amendment. Cheney insisted that he was a resident of Wyoming, even though his wife remain declared a resident of Texas. Miers and her co-counsel argued that the law is archaic and not suited for modern times.

“Strict constructionist,” eh?

Interesting.

Although Bookslut is saying that the New Orleans Bookfair will go on as scheduled, i’m noticing that the official site says something a little different, that it’s an “unofficial” event, as it’s not clear that as of October 29th, people will be legally allowed into the city. However, it seems that everyone, and his sister and brother, has been back into the city at this point.

Official or not, the bookfair will be at Barrister’s Gallery.

It’s too bad that the artifact was not left in situ, but it seems that an amateur artifact hunter has found a four-inch paleolithic spearpoint in New Jersey. No professional authority has examined it first hand, but archaeologist Gerard Scharfenberger cautiously acknowledges that it looks like a paleolithic point. Glenn Harbour hazards a guess that it’s 12,000 years old though.

Yeah, it’s more of a human interest story than a real discovery.