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Abandoned cruise ship filled with cannibal rats headed for British shore The Lyubov Orlova has been detected off the coast of Scotland. Its only passengers are demented, disease-ridden rats feeding off each other. An abandoned cruise liner teeming with inbred cannibal rats is adrift in the Atlantic Ocean and possibly about to run aground on Britain’s coastline, according to a new report. The Lyubov Orlova has been drifting east from Canadian waters since last year. Newly detected beacons off the dilapidated vessel’s rescue boats indicate it is was recently off the west coast of Scotland, raising concerns it could run...

From Our Friends at DU: Tom Daschle and Nancy Pelosi cost us the election. Congress needed to call for a paper trail. That would have given us Florida - because we won there. We won Ohio and Iowa, too. Greg Palast and Bev Harris warned us this is exactly what would happen and we thought we could go about business as usual. I have no doubts Kerry won. The Bush gang blew up the WTC and killed three thousand Americans. They were prepared to cheat, to kill, to lie, to destroy all life on EArth, if necessary, to win. If...

JOHN Kerry campaign insiders are blaming some of the high-profile people surrounding the candidate for helping President Bush win re-election. A prime target of the finger-pointers is Kerry's filmmaker daughter Alexandra, who made a splash at the Cannes Film Festival last spring when she appeared on the red carpet in a see-through dress. She then hired a pricey publicist at powerhouse agency PMK — on her dad's dime, sources say — and went on the campaign trail. But insiders snipe that all she did was rack up major expenses. "She had an entourage of five people with her everywhere...

<p>Is a movement about its leader or the person who put it together?</p> <p>That question is fueling a behind-the-scenes struggle between Howard Dean and his former campaign manager, Joe Trippi, as they jockey for control of the campaign's bounty of grass-roots supporters and search for personal direction after the former Vermont governor's failed bid for the presidency.</p>