links for 2007-07-05

• BBC NEWS | Wales | Tate to be Doctor’s new companion
  Comedian Catherine Tate is to play Doctor Who’s new companion, reprising her role from the 2006 Christmas special, the BBC has announced.

  She will join David Tennant for the complete 13-week run of the new series of Doctor Who, which is due to begin fi

  (tags: BBC doctorwho drwho news tv)
• Riley says pray for rain to fall from heavens- al.com
  With the state’s weather forecasters not delivering much-needed rain, Gov. Bob Riley on Thursday turned to a higher power. The governor issued a proclamation calling for a week of prayer for rain, beginning Saturday.

  Riley encouraged Alabamians to pray

  (tags: wtf weather religion rain idiocy government christianity alabama absurd)
• BTC News » Blog Archive » In which I lose my cool while debunking right wing Libby myths at the White House press briefing
  Today at the White House press briefing, I got into a somewhat heated (on my part) dispute with John Gizzi, political editor of the right wing web magazine HumanEvents.com. It happened like this…
  (tags: press Bush perjury lying tony+snow idiots stupidity)
• just as furious, but a bit more reasoned this time – WIL WHEATON dot VOX
  I grew up believing that all Americans were equal under the law. In fact, that’s what divided America from the rest of the world, I thought, and that’s what made America great: we didn’t have to fear being taken from our houses in the middle of the night,
  (tags: wilwheaton Libby Bush commutation scandal idiocy Cheney outrage anger)

~ by SAP on 4 July 2007.