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09:12 AM :: Rock on the Hole.
The latest release by Comfort Stand Recordings is a great moment in stupid home taping. Perry Amberson and friend, under the influence of a video of a Krokus concert, created the Yugoslavian metal band Iron Metal and made up the stupidest metal songs ever. Just a hair worse than actual metal songs!
You have to go listen to this, especially to the double-album epic "Rock on the Hole," the solo project by Iron Metal's leader Jim Rock. "Rock on the Hole" is an amazing concept album in which Jim Rock falls into a hole, meets various characters in the hole, and then .... well, you'll have to go listen to it for yourself. Be sure to check out the lyrics as you listen, because it's really hard to hear them (they are from Yugoslavia, after all).
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08:48 AM :: Bush administration breaks law AGAIN.
Gee, you'd think it'd be front-page news or something.
WASHINGTON - Bush administration officials were wrong to prevent a budget expert from giving Congress estimates of the cost of Medicare legislation, congressional researchers have concluded.
In a report made public Monday, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service said efforts to keep Richard Foster, the chief Medicare actuary, from giving Democratic lawmakers his projections of the bill's cost — $100 billion more than the president and other officials were acknowledging — probably violated federal law.
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The report was requested by committee Democrats after majority Republicans refused to subpoena Scully and White House adviser Doug Badger to testify about their roles in keeping cost estimates from lawmakers.
Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Calif., the committee chairman, said he would be willing to issue subpoenas if laws had been broken.
A spokesman for Thomas did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Well, gee, here's his contact page on his Website! I think I'll ask him if he plans to issue subpoenas now...
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