NASA May Try To Repair Shuttle In Orbit

NASA is a shambles. Let's pray that these astronauts come back safely.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/31/AR2005073100080.html

Hilliary Clinton Raises Alot Of Money In Texas

Looks like Bushies are ready for a change. They will never speak of it, but they are putting their money where their mouth is.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0531,lombardi,66389,6.html

Bin Laden Still Ordering Al Qaeda Attacks

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5978630&cKey=1122831318000

Mother Of Iraq Soldier Cursed At For Questioning War

Some people have no class. All those yahoos who lament that that war dissenters are unpatriotic do this to one of the soldier's mother? Is it patriotic to condemn a woman who loves her son and wonders about the war that could kill him? You yeehaws need to get a little grounded in reality.

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/one_mothers_war_ohio_728

Bush Pats Himself On The Back

But for what? He did nothing but imprudently cut taxes ( I mean, come on, no president has cut taxes in ther middle of a war, that's just dumb), lied, and covered up. What has he done to be proud of?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/30/bush.radio/index.html

Progressivism Is Not Liberalism

http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/23706/

Frist Sees The Light

Is it political or is it political? Did Frist first denounce stem cell research because he was pandering to the far right, or is he now pandering to the moderates because the far right is not in Bush's corner as much lately? After all, there has been talk of Frist running for President in 2008. Any way you slice it, he was not suddenly overcome with critical thinking ability and some sort of new information that would cause him to flip flop. What an obvious ploy to place him in a better position come 2008.

Roberts Forgot That He Was In Federalist Society?

Forgot? Yea, OK. More like tried to keep it hidden so that we don't find out how conservative he really is. No wonder Bush does not want to release all documents about him. I like the guy. But I don't like being treated like a fool. Maybe I don't like him so much anymore.

http://www.alternet.org/story/23784/

Soldier Gets 15 Months In Prison For Refusing To Return To Iraq

Apparently, you can leave service if you are deemed a conscientious objector, which this soldier claims to be, after his first tour of duty. I guess not all of the troops feel that this is a just war.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050729/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/objecting_soldier

Depression Linked To Previously Unknown Dopamine Regulator

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=28280

Arizona National Guard Blogger Fined 3500.00

He was critical of the Iraq war. The Army says he released classified information.

http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1003245.php

US Ally Evicts Forces From Base

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBOM318SBE.html

Federal Judge Says Portions Of Patriot Act Unconstitutional

Because they are too complicated for people to understand. I guess Bush and his cronies were hoping that they can pass whatever they want in the act, because people won't understand it anyway. I'm glad a judge saw through that. Maybe if citizens really understand what is being said in that document, they may not be as likely to support all aspects of it.


Federal Judge Says Patriot Act Too Vague

By LINDA DEUTSCHThe Associated PressFriday, July 29, 2005; 7:12 PM

LOS ANGELES -- A federal judge has ruled that some provisions of the U.S. Patriot Act dealing with foreign terrorist organizations remain too vague to be understood by a person of average intelligence and are therefore unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge Audrey Collins found that Congress failed to remedy all the problems she defined in a 2004 ruling that struck down key provisions of the act. Her decision was handed down Thursday and released Friday.

"Even as amended, the statute fails to identify the prohibited conduct in a manner that persons of ordinary intelligence can reasonably understand," the ruling said.

Collins issued an injunction against enforcement of the sections she found vague but specified that her ruling applies only to the named plaintiffs and does not constitute a nationwide injunction.

"I'm pleased that the court has recognized that people have a right to support lawful, nonviolent activities of groups the secretary of state has put on a blacklist," said David Cole, the attorney and Georgetown University law professor who argued the case on behalf of the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Humanitarian Law Project.

The center had sought to clear the way for U.S. groups and individuals to assist political organizations in Turkey and Sri Lanka.

The case centered on two groups, the Liberation Tigers, which seeks a separate homeland for the Tamil people in Sri Lanka, and Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan, a political organization representing the interests of the Kurds in Turkey.

Both groups have been designated by the United States as foreign terrorist organizations.
However, the plaintiffs argued that there was a desperately increased need for aid following the tsunami disaster that devastated Sri Lanka last December. Without a clear definition of what aid is permissible, they said that those who provide assistance could be subject to 15-year prison terms.

The judge's ruling addressed the prohibition on providing material support or resources, including "training," "expert advice or assistance," "personnel" and "service" to designated foreign terrorist organizations.

The judge upheld the government position on a challenge to the ban on providing "personnel" to the named groups but found the other terms too vague.

"The court finds that the terms 'training,' 'expert advice or assistance' in the form of 'specialized knowledge' and 'service' are impermissibly vague under the Fifth Amendment," the judge concluded at the end of 42-page decision.

She enjoined the government from enforcing those provisions as they apply to the groups named in the lawsuit.

EPA Holds Back Important Information Prior To Congress Vote

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/28/business/28fuel.html?ei=5065&en=e782c053a94be35e&ex=1123128000&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print

Utah Court Denied Gay License Plate 3 Times

I am all for gay rights, but what is the point of this license plate? Do homosexuals always have to wear their sexuality on their sleeves? I don't have a plate that says "Straights Rock".

http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_208174426.html

Lance Armstrong, War, and Bush

http://www.alternet.org/story/23743/

Democrats Plan For Retirement Funds

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050726-113114-6853r.htm

On Searching NY Transit Passengers

http://villagevoice.com/news/0530,murphy2,66226,5.html

Dems Support Porn Tax

I am not sure how I feel about this. It may cause pornographers to declare their sites other than porn sites or find other ways to avoid paying the tax. They are crafty. They will find ways to do this and kids will thus, still be able to get access to porn.

http://www.avn.com/index.php?Primary_Navigation=Articles&Action=View_Article&Content_ID=234443

Mother Abandons Boy On Highway And Tries To Run Him Over

This story made me cry. How aweful. If you don't want your kids, someone else will take them. There is no need for this. This poor child will be traumatized for life.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB8O1O4OBE.html

Sexy Men Won't Sell Alcohol In UK

Are they kidding? Do they really think women drink because of the good looking men who hawk the stuff? And do they think alcoholics will stop drinking when paunchy bald men are on the ads? What a waste of time and money.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1710050,00.html

Teen Sentenced For Vomitting On Teacher

What a hopeless, grotesque, wretched kid this is. You have to be mentally ill to do something like this.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB8LJRANBE.html

Afghan Protestors Break Down US Base Gate

And yell "Die America"...very scary...tbe Iraq war is not making us safer, it is heating up more and more people.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8702657/

Applicants Will Spend Less Time Waiting For Social Security Disability Decision

It's about time...I know a woman who is legally blind, has a guide dog, Fibermyalgia, and Multiple Sclerosis who has been waiting eight months so far.

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SOCIAL_SECURITY_DISABILITY?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-07-26-18-16-54

51% Believe Bush Deliberately Misled The Public

This is news? Some people are really slow.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-07-26-poll-us-not-winning-iraq_x.htm

Stupid Guy Calls Police To Report His Pot Stolen

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050725/od_uk_nm/oukoe_odd_bust

Senate GOP Leaders Push For Detainee Rules

Despite Bush's threat to veto. That must be humiliating for him. It just goes to show, maybe conservatives are not actually blind to Bush. Just a shame it takes so long for them to stand up to him.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050725/ap_on_go_co/congress_detainees

Veterans Group Wants Release Of Prison Photos

But Bush and the Pentagon don't want to release them. Bush does not want anyone knowing about anything. He doesn't want to release Roberts' records, doesn't want to release these photos. He is afraid he will be exposed for the liar that he is.

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/2000_vets_call_for_release_of_more_Abu_Ghraib_p_0725.html

Brits Want To Know Why War Has Not Made Them Safer

http://www.aljazeera.com//cgi-bin/review/article_full_story.asp?service_ID=9242

Penn Station Evacuated After Bomb Scare

The dufus that did this should go to jail for 5 years for risking a catastrophe. Peopole could have gotten panicked and a disaster could have ensued.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB5VVLYJBE.html

Roberts Made Argument To Limit Federal Anti-Discrimination Laws

http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=17393

Administration Won't Release Robert's Government Documents

And why not? If he is so esteemed, there should be nothing there to impeach him. I'm sure he is just the kind of person Bush REALLY wants in office. If the president's character and ideas are subject to scrutiny before the public before he is elected, then surely a supreme court nominee's is. Bush can make his appointment easy by releasing his records. His administration blames Democrats for holding things up all of the time, but Bush can make it easy and take away their power to do so, if he simply gives the people what they want to see. I'm sure many conservatives would like to know what he stands for as well. Bush holds this process up as much as anyone else. Why is Robert's privacy more important than the people's interest in his views? It does matter.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB1QGRKJBE.html

The Weirdest Things Happen In Florida

Watch your feet - Florida police search for naked ticklerAssociated Press
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -

Police are on the lookout for the naked tickler. Investigators said they believe one man could be responsible for a series of bizarre break-ins in which a naked man enters victims' rooms while they are sleeping and tries to tickle their feet.

The naked tickler struck again in New Smyrna Beach over the weekend.

Investigators have been working on five similar, unsolved cases since 2001. Most of the victims are women over age 60, said police Cmdr. Wade Kirby.

Kirby said no arrests have yet been made because they don't have a lot to go on.
New Smyrna Beach is 44 miles northeast of Orland

Article Says Cheney Drafts Plan Including Nuclear Attack, If US Attacked Again

http://www.justinlogan.com/justinlogancom/2005/07/what_is_the_pla.html

We Are On The Road To WWIII

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB90TBDIBE.html

Some Iraq Soldiers Turn To Drug Use

Who can blame them? Although, I would not want to be high if there is some sort of attack. People can only take so much I guess.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/23/wirq23.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/07/23/ixportal.html

Man Killed By London Police Not Tied To Bombings

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB9YGJ6IBE.html

Bolton Involved In Plame Case?

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/

Record Heat Kills 13 in Phoenix

The temps got up to 113 degrees. I bitch and moan when it's 85. I don't know how people can tolerate living is such hot climates. The weather in general has been weird. All the hurricanes in Florida last year. And where I live in the mountains, we haven't gotten much snow for years, but ALOT of ice. Maybe this global warming stuff is catching up with us.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBYJKQ2IBE.html

New Version Of Windows

Called "Vista" is coming out. I still like 98 the best, even though I have XP...alot of bugs still with XP.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050722/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_windows

Anti-War Grannies Want To Go To Iraq

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/07/22/raging.grannies.ap/index.html

While We Focus On Social Issues, We Are Screwed Financially

http://www.alternet.org/story/23670/

Republican Congressman Wants To Impeach Bush

http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050721/NEWS/507210422/1002/NEWS01

More Americans Believe Iraq War Hurts Fight Over Terror

Finally, people are getting it...all of these Americans can't all be liberal. Iraq does not equate with terror. The insurgency is not the terrorists. The terrorists are all over the world. I truly feel sorry for the person who takes over for Bush. Not only will he/she have to resolve the Iraq war, but will have to begin a battle with the real terrorists. God help us.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/oneworld/20050722/wl_oneworld/45361158061122047137

Oregon Catholics Held Accountable For Sex Abuse

Is this the craziest thing you ever heard of? I am sickened by the lengths that some lawyers will go. It's like Santorum saying that Boston is responsible for sex abuse in that area...the priest's did it, noone else, not the people of Boston, or the people of Oregon. I hope a sane judge throws this one out.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB3FBS4HBE.html

Feds Shut Down Drug Tunnel

Wow...this is quite an elaborate setup. They must have been working on it for years.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8661624/

Polanski Wins Libel Suit Against Vanity Fair

This guy is running away from a child sex abuse arrest and has the nerve to sue over this tidbit? He should come back to the States and face the real issue. His refusal to answer those charges, and run away, tells me he is guilty.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBT9ZLMGBE.html

Bush To Veto Bill If Detainee Policies Change, Gitmo Investigated

Business as usual...or I'm gonna throw a hissy fit!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050721/pl_nm/arms_congress_dc

Timeline Of Rove Dirty Tricks

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0529,ridgeway,66005,6.html

Karl Rove Comic Strip

http://villagevoice.com/people/0529,tomorrow,66094,24.html

Syria Accuses US/Iraqi Forces Of Firing Upon Them

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050721/wl_nm/syria_iraq_usa_dc_1

Iraqi Forces Unprepared To Fight

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1533306,00.html

Merck Never Studied Vioxx Effect On The Heart

Absolutely irresponsible. They ought ot pay ought billions to all of the people whose lives they put at risk.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050720/ap_on_he_me/vioxx_trial

Pentagon Asks Congress To Raise Military Recruitment Age To 42

And they say there will be no draft? Who are they kidding?

http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-983408.php

Roberts Has Supported Operation Rescue

This document shows that he wrote a brief supporting Operation Rescue, an anti-abortion group that has a radical wing that has been responsible for some abortion clinic bombings. While he did not write that he supports such actions, anyone who would support a group who has been responsible for such actions should not be on the Supreme Court. I'm kinda bummed because I supported his nomination when I first looked into h is background, but when I saw this and other documents that state this, I had to change my mind.

http://www.naral.org/facts/loader.cfm?url=/commonspot/security/getfile.cfm&PageID=1916

http://mediamatters.org/items/200507070006

http://mediamatters.org/items/200503220001

California Wants Teachers To Use Ebonics

Once again, the USA lowers the bar. In Japan, children go to school long hours and through the year. They are expected to do well. In the USA, we don't ask students to reach a high standard, we bring in the troops to maintain our already low expectations.

If you are in school, and you can't speak English, then you should start all over again and learn it. Parents who use Ebonics should learn to speak English too, because they are setting their children up for failure. Educators say if they use Ebonics, then those students will learn more.

Who care how much a student knows, if they can't go out in the work force and earn a decent living because their employer does not want their customers to be greeted with street talk? Figures this is occuring in California, with their anything goes, live and let live attitudes. I have no disrespect for other languages and cultures. May family speaks several languages and I am fluent. But I know where to draw the line. This is America. Our language is English. Learn it.

Al Qaida Warns Europe- Get Out Of Iraq Or More Attacks

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=14046

Reactions To Supreme Court Nomination

I think that it is a good choice. He is not a right wing conservative, is smart, and appears to be fair. I think Bush would have loved to appoint a radical conservative, but made this nomination as more of a political tactic than anything else.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB7BXXWCBE.html

Firefighter Revives Goldfish

http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=1398032005

Al Qaida's Alleged US Targets

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45313

51% Want Military Strikes In Retaliation For London Bombing

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/2005/London%20Bombing.htm

Congressman Says US Should Bomb Islamic Holy Sites If US Is Attacked With Nuclear Weapons

Oh wonderful...not only will the extremists be after us, but regular Muslims will join the fight. A totally irresponsible statement. Doesn't he realize that this is not about Islam, but about extreme factions using Islam to justify their crimes? He should shut up before all Muslims start getting paranoid.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3934448,00.html

Right Wing Group Says Planned Parenthood Has "Anything Goes" Agenda About Sexuality

As I understand it, Planned Parenthood is in the business of encouraging planned parenthood. It has nothing to do with dictating people's sexual practices. That is their personal business. Planned parenthood simply says that if you are going to have sex, protect yourself and make sure that you don't have children you don't want or can take care of. It is naive for these groups to think that they can do away with sex education, and the world will be bright and kids won't have sex. What do they propose we do with all of the poor people who can't have abortions or no longer have access to birth control, when they have kids that they don't want or can afford to raise? Doing away with programs like Planned Parenthood will increase social problems. Then the right will be screaming, "it's your problem, take responsibility for your own actions". Well that does not work. Women have unwanted pregnancies for multiple reasons. They are raped. They are poor and seek temporary relief through sex. They have been sexually molested and lack sexual boundaries at times. The media portrays them as sexual objects, therefore many young girls feel they need to behave that way. Some are on birth control and it didn't work. And yes, some are irresponsible.

But forcing someone to "take responsibility" will not solve the problem of unwanted pregnancies. All it does is force women to take care of kids they don't want and can't take care of. Reform welfare? I doubt it, if a higher number of women have to raise unwanted children. So the issue is not to deny access to places like Planned Parenthood, rather to earnestly start addressing the social issues that cause unwanted pregnancies. It would be a monumental task, but it will also be a monumental task to deal with the ramifications of denying access to places like Planned Parenthood.

We don't live in a perfect society. I agree that there has to be a big focus on abstinence education. But educating people in earnest, takes time and it could be generations before there is a shift in mentality about sexuality. If you are going to harrange Planned Parenthood, you better have a really good plan until we get back to the days when you saved sex for marriage, otherwise this group will then be bemoaning the fact that they have to spend so much money helping people who they denied education about pregnancy planning.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBT3HLJABE.html

Sharpton Urges Calm As Investigation Continues In Case Of 19 Month Old Child Killed By Police

This should not have happened. There must have been something they could have done to avoid this. The police said that the gunman was shooting at them and they had the right to defend themselves. I think that they had other ways of defending themselves while they waited this out. They have such things as armoured cars, etc. these days. I don't typically criticize the police when things like this happen, but I just think there were more options. The police said that they were concerned about people in the community being hurt. They could have closed all the streets around this guys house. If he went to shoot at anyone else, then they would need to stop him, but I don't think he was doing that. Very sad.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBT3HLJABE.html

FBI Is Crazy-Think Greenpeace and ACLU Supports Terrorism

We are absolutely frozen by fear

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBXTLX6ABE.html

Living In 1 Dollar A Day In Africa

http://www.alternet.org/story/23369/

Harry Potter Breaks It's Own Sales Record

A recent survey of elementary school children shows a significant increase in reading achievement. High school students has remained the same. This rise in elementary students reading achievement has been accredited to the Harry Potter books, as they are the ones who are reading them for the most part. Wonderful how these books encourage children to read. The author is writing her last installment now.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3269827

Bill Clinton Announces Hilliary As A Candidate?

I don't understand why so many dislike her. When she announced that she is against violent video games with pornographic hidden content, the right said she was pandering to moderates and conseratives. I don't get that. She is a mid 50's woman with a grown daughter, who by most acccounts turned out pretty well. Is it unfathomable that a democrat would be against video game violence? Why is she labled a panderer because of that?

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Did_Bill_throw_Hillarys_hat_intopresidential_ri_0717.html

FBI Monitored Protest Websites

So now anyone who protests the war is a terrorist?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/17/AR2005071700889.html

Cooper Says Rove Was First Source In CIA Outing

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8605680/

A Bostonian's Rebuttal to Rick Santorum

http://www.alternet.org/story/23578/

New Yorker To Report That Bush Considered Giving Support To Preferred Iraqi Political Candidates

Plan Called for Covert Aid in Iraq Vote

By DOUGLAS JEHL and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: July 17, 2005

WASHINGTON, July 16 - In the months before the Iraqi elections in January, President Bush approved a plan to provide covert support to certain Iraqi candidates and political parties, but rescinded the proposal because of Congressional opposition, current and former government officials said Saturday.

In a statement issued in response to questions about a report in the next issue of The New Yorker, Frederick Jones, the spokesman for the National Security Council, said that "in the final analysis, the president determined and the United States government adopted a policy that we would not try - and did not try - to influence the outcome of the Iraqi election by covertly helping individual candidates for office."

The statement appeared to leave open the question of whether any covert help was provided to parties favored by Washington, an issue about which the White House declined to elaborate.
The article, by Seymour M. Hersh, reports that the administration proceeded with the covert plan over the Congressional objections. Several senior Bush administration officials disputed that, although they recalled renewed discussions within the administration last fall about how the United States might counter what was seen as extensive Iranian support to pro-Iranian Shiite parties.

Any clandestine American effort to influence the Iraqi elections, or to provide particular support to candidates or parties seen as amenable to working with the United States, would have run counter to the Bush administration's assertions that the vote would be free and unfettered.
Mr. Bush, in his public statements, has insisted that the United States will help promote conditions for democracy in the region but will live with whatever governments emerge in free elections.

The article cites unidentified former military and intelligence officials who said the administration went ahead with covert election activities in Iraq that "were conducted by retired C.I.A. officers and other non-government personnel, and used funds that were not necessarily appropriated by Congress." But it does not provide details and says, "the methods and the scope of the covert effort have been hard to discern."

Representative Jane Harman of California, the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, issued a statement saying that she could not discuss classified information, noting: "Congress was consulted about the administration's posture in the Iraqi election. I was personally consulted. But if the administration did what is alleged, that would be a violation of the covert action requirements, and that would be deeply troubling."

Despite the denials by some Bush administration officials on Saturday, others who took part in or were briefed on the discussion said they could not rule out the possibility that the United States and its allies might have provided secret aid to augment the broad overt support provided to Iraqi candidates and parties by the State Department, through organizations like the International Democratic Institute.

They said they were basing their comments primarily on the intensity of discussions within the administration about the potential adverse consequences of a victory by Iraqi parties hostile to the United States.

Officials and former officials familiar with the debate inside the White House last year said that after considerable debate, the president's national security team recommended that he sign a secret, formal authorization for covert action to influence the election, called a "finding." They said that Mr. Bush either had already signed it or was about to when objections were raised in Congress. Ultimately, he rescinded the decision, the officials said.

Among those who discussed the matter in interviews on Saturday were a dozen current and former government officials from Congress, the State Department, intelligence agencies and the Bush administration. They included some who said they had supported the idea of a covert plan to influence the Iraqi elections, and some who had opposed it.

None would speak for the record, citing the extreme sensitivity of discussing any covert action, which by design is never to be acknowledged by the United States government.

The current and former officials said the debate was likely to resurface within the administration in advance of the next round of Iraqi elections, scheduled for January.
Time magazine first reported in October 2004 that the administration had encountered Congressional opposition over a plan to provide covert support to Iraqi candidates. The New Yorker account detailed more elements of that debate.

The current and former officials interviewed Saturday amplified how Mr. Bush had initially approved the plan, and how the White House met objections as it notified Congressional leaders, as required by law.

Mr. Bush's precise reasons for rescinding the plan are not clear.

Among those whom Time and The New Yorker cited as raising objections was Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader. The Time report said Ms. Pelosi had had "strong words" with Condoleezza Rice, then the national security adviser.

A spokeswoman for Ms. Pelosi, Jennifer Crider, said Saturday that Ms. Pelosi could "neither confirm nor deny" that she objected. "Leader Pelosi has never publicly spoken about any classified information and would never threaten to take any classified information public," Ms. Crider said. "That is against the law."

Mr. Jones, the National Security Council spokesman, in words that echoed a statement the White House issued to Time in October, said in a telephone interview on Saturday, "I cannot in any way comment on classified matters, such as the existence or nonexistence of findings."

"But there were concerns about efforts by outsiders to influence the outcome of the Iraqi elections, including money flowing from Iran," he said. "This raised concerns about whether there would be a level playing field for the election. This situation posed difficult dilemmas about what action, if any, the United States should take in response. In the final analysis the president determined and the United States government adopted a policy that we would not try - and did not try - to influence the outcome of the Iraqi election by covertly helping individual candidates for office."

Bush Wants Public Television To Adhere To Conservtive Ideas

Isn't this a form of censorship? Viewers also donate alot of money to PBS and they have a say on what is aired.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/7483528

Coach Payed Player To Hurt 8 Year Old Disabled Boy

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050715/ap_on_re_us/young_player_hurt

Social Security Bill Would Increase Debt by 800 Billion

But it would only make social security marginally solvent. This plan is not good enough.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBVTUAY6BE.html

Pataki Considering Run For White House?

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB1EOKN6BE.html

Egyptian Chemist Arrested In Connection With London Bombings

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1695467,00.html

Bush Supports Jailed Iranian Reporter While American Reporter Remains Jailed

Why do you think that is? Maybe because he is safe with her in jail. Despicable

http://villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/001075.php

China Says They Would Use Nuclear Weapons Against US

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45278

Enron Directors Vote For 1 Million Dollar Salary Increases For Board Members

With all of the illegal things this company has been involved in, and all of the little people they screwed, you would think they would use better judgement.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/enron_board_pay

Support For Bin Laden Falls In Muslim Nations

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N14716944.htm

Alzheimer's May Be Partially Reversible

http://www.rawstory.com/

Bush Asks Congress To Increase Veterans Funding

Didn't he cut it a while ago? I guess he is deeing that his popularity is waning, so it's time to do something to get in favor again.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB7DGGT5BE.html

Man Murders 3 Year Old Son Because He Thought He Might Be Gay

Isn't this lovely? While I'm on a roll about Santorum, his rhetoric is dangerous it rallies people to hate in the way this derelict hated his son.

http://www.rawstory.com/

More Santorum Antics

Doesn't this guy look like a plant? No gay person would think highly of Santorum.

http://www.rawstory.com/

Woman Scalps Indiana Boy

And blames it on mental illness. I sam very concerned that every aborrant incident is being blamed on mental illness. It creates the image of mentally ill people (depression is included in that) as dangerous and adds to the stigma. People who do such things are EVIL. Period. Most mentally ill people are not dangerous. And even if this is due to a mental illness, so what? It doesn't matter what the reason is. If someone commits such an act, they should be locked up forever. Enough of this, let's give them treatment jazz. They can get all the treatment they need-behind bars forever. Mental illness should not even come into the discussion during trials. The only factors that should be taken into account are, did the person do it or not. Treatment can be discussed when they are locked up.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB7U32H5BE.html

Busho Live-Flash Cartoon about G8

http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/fiore/2005/07/rockstar.html

Bush's Credibility Falls

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/WSJ_Bush_shows_erosion_of_sup_0713.html

Rick Santorum Does Not Believe We Have The Right To Privacy

As you can tell, this guy has blown my mind today...This is from an interview in April...

AP: Speaking of liberalism, there was a story in The Washington Post about six months ago, they'd pulled something off the Web, some article that you wrote blaming, according to The Washington Post, blaming in part the Catholic Church scandal on liberalism. Can you explain that?

SANTORUM: You have the problem within the church. Again, it goes back to this moral relativism, which is very accepting of a variety of different lifestyles. And if you make the case that if you can do whatever you want to do, as long as it's in the privacy of your own home, this "right to privacy," then why be surprised that people are doing things that are deviant within their own home? If you say, there is no deviant as long as it's private, as long as it's consensual, then don't be surprised what you get. You're going to get a lot of things that you're sending signals that as long as you do it privately and consensually, we don't really care what you do. And that leads to a culture that is not one that is nurturing and necessarily healthy. I would make the argument in areas where you have that as an accepted lifestyle, don't be surprised that you get more of it.

So, the right to privacy means that we all go crazy and start molesting children and doing every other deviant thing under the sun. We can no longer have privacy in our own homes because he is out gunning for the deviants. I would say that the vast majority of people, liberal and conservative, are not deviant. If he wants to get em...he should get out of office and be a bounty hunter.

It Took A Village Idiot To Raise Rick Santorum

Is there anyone more repulsive than this guy? He says that liberalism is the reason for the Catholic church sex abuse scandal. So, us liberals are in favor of molesting children? Our ideas are responsible for priests commiting such vile acts? I would bet the farm that most priests are conservative, and the Catholic church in general is a conservative institution.

Santorum is on his way out of PA. He is lagging far behind in the polls. There is no doubt, he is gunning for a high profile position in DC, if not actually running for the presidency. He must think he is rallying his conservative friends. He must think the conservative base is a group of misinformed, arrogant, stupid yahoos. I'm glad he thinks that his constituants are so dumb, because every time he opens his big mouth he is that much closer to being kicked out of PA. What the hell is he doing, representing Pennsylvanians anyway? He actually lives in Virginia and there has been speculation that he owns a home in PA that is way too small for his family (six kids). This is an excerpt from the Wikipedia Encyclopedia:

In November 2004, a controversy erupted over education costs for the Senator's children. Santorum's legal address is in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, but he lives most of the year at his home in Leesburg, Virginia near Washington, DC. Santorum's five older children received education through the Western Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School with 80% of tuition costs paid by the Penn Hills School District.

At a meeting in November 2004, the Penn Hills School District announced that it did not believe Santorum met the qualifications for residency status since he and his family spend most of the year in Virginia. They demanded repayment of tuition costs totaling $100,000.
Reporters visiting the house Santorum claimed as his noted that, as a two-bedroom, it seemed small for the large Santorum family. The door was answered by a man who refused to identify himself, and neighbors said two cars were regularly parked at the house. When checking at the township government offices, they discovered the building department had never issued a certificate of occupancy and thus no one could legally live in it.
Supporters of the Senator claim that the controversy is politically motivated as the school board is controlled by Democrats and Erin Vecchio, the school board member who first publicly raised the issue, is the chair of the local Democratic Party. They also claim that since Santorum votes in Penn Hills and pays property and school taxes there, he is entitled to the same privileges as any other Penn Hills resident.

After the controversy erupted, Santorum said he would make other arrangements for his children's education, but insists he does not owe the school board any back tuition. In early 2005, both sides agreed to work out a settlement outside the court system. A state appointed hearing officer set a deadline of May 9, 2005 for the parties to reach a settlement. [3]
On July 8, 2005, a Pennsylvania state hearing officer ruled that the Penn Hills School District had not filed objections to Santorum's residency in a timely manor and dismissed the complaint. Santorum hailed the ruling as a victory against what he termed "baseless and politically motivated charges." He told reporters, "No one's children -- and especially not small, school-age children -- should be used as pawns in the 'politics of personal destruction'." [4]

And here is a link to dump him for good

http://www.dumpsantorum.com/

The Real Rove Scandal

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/23501/

Why Isn't Anyone Signing My Petition

About universal health care? Please, take a look at it. It's in my sidebar, in the drop down menu. I know there are problems associated with universal health care, but if we can wage a war, we can figure out those problems.

Eating Disorder Expert Passes Out Inhaling Whipped Cream Cans

It's late and this is aweful, but I think it's kinda funny.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/whippit_arrest

Illinois Governor Allocates 10 Million For Stem Cell Research

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBQWWIW2BE.html

24 Hour CBS News Channel Will Have Web Component

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB7F4DM2BE.html

Bush's Fantasy World

http://www.alternet.org/story/23469/

Take A Look At The Details Of The Amber Alert

Another guy kills a a family and takes the kids. We really have a serious problem in this country. You don't hear about this in other countries so much. While people like him ought to fry, that won't deter the dementos. It's a back to basics thing. But it's too hard a task for a liberal society to take on. We're going down the toilet fast.

Is Rove Screwed?

The Bushies will find a way to get him out of this one

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/23451/

BTK's Home Up For Auction

Who in their right mind would want that house of horrors?

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB0K72L1BE.html

Homeland Security Not Keen On Securing Buses and Rail

Duh?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/07/11/MNGJ2DLUT71.DTL

Death By Silicone

Are these people nuts? Set aside the transgendered who feel that they are trapped in the wrong body. Regular soccer moms go to these Botox parties. Our society is so superifical-it's all about looks and money.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050711/us_nm/life_silicone_dc_1

Legal Permits Obtained For Impeachment Rally

Legal permits have now been obtained on both sides of the White House for the mass demonstration on September 24. This will allow tens of thousands of supporters of the impeachment of George W. Bush to join with the antiwar movement and create a sea of protestors to surround the White House.

September 24 will be a day to bring your family, your parents, grandparents and children, and as many neighbors and friends as possible together with thousands of others in the the ImpeachBush movement's most powerful display yet. It will be an opportunity to exercise your First Amendment right to demand that Bush, Cheney and other high officials be held accountable for their criminal conduct.

As we reported last week, recent polls show a dramatic spike in support for impeachment. According to most recent Zogby Poll, 42% of voters - 25% of whom consider themselves Republicans - would support impeachment if Bush lied about Iraq. The tide is clearly turning, but we need to work with ever-greater vigor.

ImpeachBush.org/VoteToImpeach is launching a massive advertising and publicity campaign to promote the September 24 Impeachment contingent at the White House demonstration. We will take out newspaper ads, radio spots, targeted media outreach, and print hundreds of thousands of leaflets, stickers, posters, lawn signs and other outreach materials.

The impeachment campaign will use the information from the Downing Street memos and other known sources that prove the Bush administration engaged in a pattern of lies and deceit to mislead Congress and the people.

We are asking everyone to make a donation to help in the advertising and publicity campaign. This is a huge grassroots effort. We depend on the people who believe in impeachment to fund this historic campaign. To make a contribution, click here to access the online donation form and the secure server, where you can also get information to write a check.

More than 500,000 people have voted to impeach at the web site www.VoteToImpeach.org. This has been a remarkable exercise in grassroots democracy. Let’s double that number in the months ahead. We can do it. Each day brings a larger section of the population to the same conclusion: the Bush administration lied. Each day more and more people become outraged at the spiraling death toll in Iraq. Each day, angry and outraged people demand that the elected officials of this country uphold the constitution and use the mechanism of impeachment to hold high officials accountable for their High Crimes and Misdemeanors. We can’t wait for the politicians - the people must act now to create a firestorm of support for impeachment.

If you know someone or a few people who would also vote to impeach, encourage them to visit www.VoteToImpeach.org to cast their ballot.

9 Iraqi Reconstruction Workers Die

After being put in a metal container when someone reported them as suspected terrorists. Does anyone over there know what they are doing? This is an outrage. They were not proven terrorists, and even then this would be unacceptable. It's a three ring circus over there and Rumsfeld is the ringleader.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4672433.stm

White House Statements About Rove

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/TRANSCRIPT_WHITE_HOUSE_GRILLED_0711.html

Bush's Culture Of Unaccountability

I know that Bush had nothing to do with outing a CIA agent. But uf it turns out that Rove did, it will be interesting to see how he responds. He tends to support, not matter what, the antics of his staff. That is the biggest thing that bugs me about Bush. He never heard of the phrase "the buck stops here" and just tries to wiggle his way out of things. I hope that he denounces Rove if it turns out he was truly the leak, and takes responsibility himself, for surrounding himself with less than honorable people.

http://www.alternet.org/story/23450/

Suspected Terrorists Escape From Afghan Detention Facility

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBDD36M0BE.html

What Rove Told TIME

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8525978/site/newsweek/

Bush Averts Eyes Away From The Sudan

Liberty Beat: Bush Averts His EyesWith rape as an official weapon in Darfur, Sudan officials are now welcome here

by Nat HentoffJuly 5th, 2005 12:29 PM

Women and children refugees from Darfur in neighboring Chad. Nearly all the elderly among them have died, as well as 23 children. Why, they ask, has no one come to help them?photo: Konrad Fielder/The New York SunRefugees fleeing . . . from a village called Saleya described how nine boys were seized by the janjaweed, stripped naked and tied up, their noses and ears cut off and their eyes gouged out. They were then shot dead and left near a public well. Nicholas Kristof, reporting from Sudan about the genocide in Darfur ("Uncover Your Eyes," The New York Times, June 7)

I took Nicholas D. Kristof's advice and wrote to both of my United States senators [Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton]. When I went to their Web sites, I was asked to pick from a drop-down list of about 50 topics. . . . Nowhere was there anything that would be a good category to address the genocide in Darfur. Eliav Bock of New York City in a letter to The New York Times, February 24 :

When I was 12, in the Jewish ghetto of Boston—at the time, a chronically anti-Semitic city—I heard on the radio, to which I was addicted, about Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass, when in Germany and Austria the windows of thousands of Jewish stores and homes were shattered; 100 Jews were murdered; 30,000 were arrested and were to end up in concentration camps. The Holocaust had begun.

I figured then that if I were a boy in Germany, I'd never be an adult. Years later, after that holocaust was over, Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Nazis' genocide, wrote in his memoir Night: "How could it be possible for them to burn people, children, and for the world to keep silent?" I had the same question, with no answer.

The question has often reverberated for me, particularly in 1994 when the world was silent as 800,000 were massacred in Rwanda because Kofi Annan, then head of the peacekeeping operations at the U.N., absolutely refused, though he had advance warning, to send more troops. And Clinton administration officials ordered the State Department, while that swift genocide was going on, not to use the word genocide, because then the United States would have to do something to stop it.

Unlike Rwanda, where the killing ended in 100 days, the world has known about Darfur for two years. More than 400,000 black Muslim Africans have been slaughtered or have died of disease. And as Eric Reeves, the premier historian of this genocide, wrote on June 1 (sudanreeves.org), "The case for international humanitarian intervention remains as clear as ever. Without such intervention, hundreds of thousands of Darfuris will die in the coming months and years, compounding the staggering catastrophe and moral failure to date." (Emphasis added.)

Khartoum insists it will not cooperate with the International Criminal Court's investigation of the war crimes in Darfur, and although there are purported "peace" negotiations under way between Sudan's government and Darfurian rebel groups, Khartoum has violated every agreement it has signed—while the killings go on.

Bush has lost interest in the relentless destruction of these black Africans because, as the June 7 Financial Times reported, "US officials say Sudan is [now] a valuable partner [with the United States] in the 'global war on terror.' "

Accordingly, on June 4, Sudan's maximum murderer, President Omar Bashir, said on state-owned television (there's an independent channel?) that there has been "a positive change" in the American position on Darfur.

On the Sudan Tribune website, the same dispatch adds that when U.S. deputy secretary of state Robert Zoellick met in Khartoum on June 3 with Sudan foreign minister Moustafa Osman Ismail, they "agreed for a Sudanese delegation to visit Washington soon to discuss bilateral relations in more detail in order to restore relations between the two countries." (Emphasis added.)

Franklin D. Roosevelt was far too slow to recognize and condemn Hitler's Holocaust—thereby having been complicit in the slaughter of many Jews and other "impure" victims—but at least FDR didn't warmly act "to restore relations" with Hitler.

Even now, with the comradely warm relationship between the CIA, Bush, and Khartoum, will Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton, for so long indifferent to the genocide in Darfur, object? Will Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Howard Dean, and others in what passes for the Democratic leadership get themselves arrested at Washington's Sudanese embassy?

Nicholas Kristof, after showing grisly photographs of the genocide in the February 23 New York Times, wrote: "What will really stop this genocide is indignation." And he quoted the late Illinois senator Paul Simon after corpses had filled the rivers in Rwanda:

"If every member of the House and Senate had received 100 letters from people back home saying we have to do something about Rwanda, when the crisis was first developing, then I think the response would have been different."

Now, as polarized as this nation is, if the evangelicals and other Christian activists in the Bush base were to join with George Soros and the other billionaires financing moveon.org and other such liberal engines of mass information, even the media—to which Darfur is not at all a priority—would also insistently spread the word of these horrors.

Eric Reeves, Nicholas Kristof, and others would be an invaluable source of specific information for them on these crimes against humanity, including what Kristof wrote in detail from Sudan on June 5 about Khartoum's "systematic campaign of rape to terrorize civilians and drive them from 'Arab lands'—a policy of rape" that includes banning rape kits. (Emphasis added.)

During the Nazi Holocaust, there were attempts to awaken this nation to those horrors, but though admirable, they were too little and too late. To hell with again lamenting "never again" when millions will have been destroyed in Darfur. George W. Bush should not be allowed to keep his eyes averted. The International Crisis Group's new Zogby poll reveals, says Kristof, that "Americans [by] six to one favor bolder action in Darfur." What are we waiting for?

Iraq Bomb Attacks Kill 33

Didn't the military say that the insurgency was pretty much done with? Yes they did. Very premature, not just because of this attack, but because the insurgents won't give up that easily.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBUE5BBZAE.html

Pope Tells Terrorists "Stop, In The Name Of God"

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBFXA85ZAE.html

Bush's Battle For The History Books

http://www.alternet.org/rights/23365/

I don't think he will be remembered as a great president. I think he will be remembered as someone who tried to mold America into his own image, and had a knee jerk reaction to terrorism. He will be remembered as someone who was not very thoughtful, did not listen to his advisors, and made poor decisions. The US was on the brink of a nuclear war during the Cuban Missle Crisis. Kennedy was deliberate, thoughtful, and actually listened to those around him. He decided to handle the situation with diplomacy, and it worked. He would have used force if necessary, but his thought process helped him to handle the situation without the need for force, his actions during this crisis are said to be a model for how a leader should resond in such events. The opposite is true of Bush. Leaders in his own party are increasingly critical of how the war began, and how it is proceeding. I think that Bush will be viewed as someone turned America from the most beloved country in the world, to the most reviled country in the world.

Allawi Predicts Beginning Of Civil War

http://www.rawstory.com/

US/UK To Cut Troops In Half By Mid 2006?

I sure hope this is a wise move. Iraq has become a breeding ground for terrorism since we invaded, and I think the terrorists may see the London bombings as successful and may increase their efforts all over the world, including Iraq.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050709/ts_nm/iraq_britain_troops_dc

Londn Death Toll Approaches 80

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article298113.ece

Insensitive FOX News Comments about London attack

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1524856,00.html

We should all boycott FOX news.

Advocates Revive Push For Universal Health Care

Their opponents say it has problems. But any new system will have problems. I think the majority of Americans would love to see their tax dollars spent for ensuring that everyone has health care.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBVE836YAE.html

Mosque Set On Fire-Possible Hate Crime

We an't start retalliating in this way. Most Muslims denounce terrorism, but we can't give them reasons to start bearing arms and feeling like perhaps the terrorists have a good idea. We are going to make this situation worse than it already is.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBQH767YAE.html

Cleveland Newspaper Shuts Down Two Investigative Reports

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000976374

Drunk Man, At Private Party Is Arrested

Do we have any rights anymore? He wasn't behind the wheel, not in a confrontation, nothing. This is ridiculous.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/weird_news/12085786.htm

US Says Iraq Insurgency Is "Mostly Eliminated

What's with the double talk? First he says it's mostly eliminated, then he goes on to say, well we don't really know. Just another attempt at PR. Shameful to play with people's emotions this way. If it's not fixed, don't say it's fixed.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/08/AR2005070800732_pf.html

Italy, The Vatican Could Be Next

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBM3BPYWAE.html

Lil Kim Gets One Year In Jail For Perjury

And I'm sure she will get out with a new found status as a rap hero.

http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=195989

Flash Cartoon-Plame Case

http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/fiore/2005/07/press.html

Jeb Bush Touts Christian Based Programs In Public Schools

Better reign Jeb in before he makes his own bid for the White House. Are the Bush's for real? They really do think that they can stomp on the basic tenants of the Constitution.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/state/content/state/epaper/2005/07/06/m1a_fathers_0706.html

Is The California National Guard Spying On Protestors?

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/07/06/calif_guard_units_possible_spying_probed?mode=PF

Drug Makers Hired 1300 Lobbyists Last Year

AP advance: Drug firms spent more than $800 million on campaigns

Pharma army: 1,300 lobbyists hired in last year

The pharmaceutical industry's run of success on Capitol Hill has benefited from the more than $800 million spent since 1998 on lobbyists and political campaigns, a political watchdog group told AP's Kevin Freking Wednesday. The trade group representing drug makers said the money helped patients. The following excerpts, acquired by RAW STORY, will run nationwide later tonight.

In the past year, the industry hired nearly 1,300 lobbyists, including dozens of former lawmakers and hundreds of people who worked for congressional committees or regulatory agencies.

"It is astonishing to learn that no other interest has spent more money to sway public policy in this time period," said Roberta Baskin, the executive director of the Center for Public Integrity. The nonpartisan research group investigated the pharmaceutical industry's spending.
Baskin described the industry's motives for its spending as profit-driven.

Ken Johnson, senior vice president for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, said the report was "clearly biased and one-sided."

He said it failed to acknowledge that "medicines researched and developed by America's biopharmaceutical research companies save lives and improve the quality of life for tens of millions of patients from around the world."

Last year, according to the center, the industry spent $128 million on such efforts, including seeking tax breaks as part of a massive corporate tax relief bill.

Drug companies lobbied for $5.6 billion in spending for biodefense and for a bill that allows easier access to patents for inventions researched jointly by public institutions and private entrepreneurs.

More to break tonight via AP.... DEVELOPING....

IRS Investigating Benny Hinn

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3254357

Bush Wrecks His Bike Again

Oy...He can't speak nor ride a bike straight.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBW8452UAE.html

Bloomberg Whines About Olympic Loss

Ok let's get this straight. NYC is not the center of the universe. It is not the only game in town. Another city won the bid to host the Olympics, get over it and stop acting as if it was NYC's right to host the games. All that has been on TV all day is the backlash of all of this. There are more important things going on in the world than the Olympics. It would have been nice if it was held in NYC, but it isn't. Life goes on. Why don't ya'll just wish the winners well and try again next time?

http://villagevoice.com/news/0528,moses,65677,2.html

NY Times Reporter Sentenced To Jail Immediately

You go girl!! I admire you standing up for your principals.

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Time_journalist_agrees_to_testify_in_CIA_leak__0706.html

TIME Magazine Reporter Agrees To Testify

While I understand that he does not want to go to jail, I am disappointed that he will testify. The courts have the TIME emails and documents that supposedly identify who the leak is, why do they now need for the reporter to testify? I think it is an exercise in the court pushing it's weight around, showing that they are more important than the rights of reporters to maintain the confidentiality of their sources.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB3XDDXTAE.html

West Spends 25 Times More On Defense Than Aid

Thank you Mr. Obvious.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g8/story/0,13365,1522226,00.html

Prince Of Monoco Has Love Child

And here we all thought he was gay.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050706/ap_en_ce/monaco_albert_s_son_2

Israel Wants Millions Of US Dollars For Gaza Oullout

Isn't there any other country who has a stake in this? Why should we give so much money for this effort, in the middle of a war? Who else is going to hel fund this? The world thinks that the US is an endless source of money, when our economy is the pits and we have more debt than anyone else. We helped these nations come to an agreement. If they really want to do it, they will find a way, regardless if the US can help.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5121332,00.html

Santorum Compares Abortion To Slavery

Beware! He will be running for president in 2008. I am actually anti-abortion, but it is my personal belief, between me and God. I don't choose to pound others with my beliefs. I am shamed to admit he is from my state. Remember the comments he made about homosexuals a few years ago? He is Bush's MORE EVIL twin.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBORNLYSAE.html

Last Farm Area In DC Sold To Build Mall

I'm absolutely sure that D.C. does not have enough malls. What a waste.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBNC80ZSAE.html

The Failure Of Bush's AIDS Policy In Africa

Bush can rant and rave about abstinence here I suppose (which I am for, don't get me wrong) but to go to Africa and make that the emphasis of his AIDS policy is ludicris. This is the country that harbors most of the world's HIV infected. The religious right is barking that promoting the use of condoms encourages promiscuity, which by the way is bogus. Bush falls right into their hands and rhetoric. Now, of course abstinence needs to be a focus, but the priority TODAY is to stop the spread of AIDS. The idea of abstinence in Africa is a concept that will take time and effort to educate about. Africa does not have that much time. They first need to stop the spread of this disease TODAY, and then, as this is being done, go ahead and teach abstinence. If there is not a more aggressive campaign to stop the spread of AIDS immediately, then there won't be anyone around to teach abstinence to.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/7371950?pageid=rs.Politics&pageregion=single1&rnd=1120613516546&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.1069

Minnesota School Killer Upset About Teasing

You know, this is not about teasing at all. Didn't we all get teased for one thing or another? For zits, or being fat, or a nerd, or glasses. What kind of kids are we raising, that have no self esteem that some teasing would get to them to the point of killing people? I know that some of the teasing is way out of line, but it is never that much to push someone to murder. Once again, parents are too busy working, playing golf, etc. to pay enough attention to their kids to give them enough self esteem and the tools they need to deal with type of thing. Of course, you have some kids that are just plain messed up, but overall, no matter what, they don't have the skills to deal with the negative part of growing up. Lord, if I had the propensity to kill when I was teased, I would have cleared the school.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBPV2ANSAE.html

Democrats Call For Rove's Resignation Unless He Explains Himself

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Democratic_letter_Rove_must_explain_role_in_CIA_outing_0705.html

McDonald's Getting Designer Uniforms?

Uniforms by Armani? Get real, noone cares about your uniforms...they only care about the greasy slop you serve up so quickly. You are already one of the most profitable companies ever, now you are completely being taken over by greed. You're McDonald's, not Le Bec Fin, ok? Put all that money to better use, like Ronald McDonald House.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050705/us_nm/leisure_mcdonalds_uniforms_dc_2

Katie Holmes-Compassion Impossible

http://villagevoice.com/news/0527,essay1,65549,6.html

Live 8 Philadelphia-Review

http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/riffraff/archives/2005/07/why_i_thought_l.php

Concerns Of An Iraqi Journalist

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/23325/

Could We Return To The Draft?

I read an article that 17% of the military is returning for their third tour of duty in Iraq. That seems awefully high. And many of the dead soldiers are from that 17%. It must mean something. Soldiers getting weary? Discouraged? I don't know, but there has been more and more talk of a Draft lately.

http://www.alternet.org/story/23308/

Schumer Asks Rove To Speak For Himself, Not Through Lawyer

Schumer demands Rove speak up about leak
WASHINGTON, July 3 (UPI) -- Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY, called Sunday for Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove to personally deny leaking the name of a CIA official.

Saturday, Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin told The Washington Post Rove had not disclosed the name of Valerie Plame to Newsweek in a 2003 interview.

Sunday, Schumer, who led the push for a Congressional inquiry into the leak, issued a challenge for Rove to speak for himself.

"We've heard it from his lawyer, but it would be nice to hear it directly from Mr. Rove that he didn't leak the identity of Valerie Plame, and that he didn't direct anyone else to do such a dastardly thing," Schumer said in a statement. "I have said from the first day ... whoever leaked the classified information should be punished to the full extent of the law."

The panel is investigating the leak of Plame's name to various news outlets in 2003. It is a federal crime for a government employee to reveal the name of an undercover operative after the employee learns it from classified material.

Texas Man Arrested After Saving Drowing Victim

I understand that we have to listen to the police and that his refusal to do so may have made the situation worse, but did they have to cuff him, take him to jail, and put on a 20,000 dollar bail? He used poor judgement but he did save the guy.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB45X71SAE.html

Gaddafi Tells African Leaders To Stop Begging For Western Money

Pouring massive amounts of money into Africa is not going to solve the problem there. We can give them all of the money in the world, if African leaders do not do something internally about the plight of much of their country, the money is a waste.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4647579.stm

Has Iraq Replaced Afghanistan As The Primary Breeding Ground For Terrorism?

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/politics/12052894.htm

Troops Observe Independence Day

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBRKWHWQAE.html

Paris Hilton Popularizes Dog Boutiques

Ugghhh...why is the world fascinated with this airhead? This will be her greatest contribution to society. Ever.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBDBWYRQAE.html

Some Criticize Disney Internship Program

Why is everyone a critic? They are complaining that these kids only get 6.25 or so to work their internships at Disney. They are supposed to be there for the work experience. When I did my internships and work-study programs, I went into it knowing that it was for the opportunity to learn, not to make alot of money. Everyone, get over yourselves please.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB2NEURQAE.html

Unmanned Space Probe Collides With Comet

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB8GPIPQAE.html

TIME Magazine-A Bunch Of Weenies

I cannot believe that this once venerable media outlet has turned over one of it's reporters notes, etc. They say, oh well, we are not above the law. This is a country that prides itself upon it's free press. We have denegrated other countries due to their censorship. The only way to have a truely free press, is to allow reporters to maintain the confidentiality of it's sources. Otherwise, there would be no stories to tell. Some say, so what. I say, the media is integral in maintaining dignity in society. Yes, the media has it's problems. But we would never have known about Nixon's corrupt administration, if it were not for media and their ability to ensure the confidentiality of it's sources. There are hundreds, thousands of other examples. I say, bravo...to the reporters who stood their ground and were imprisoned for maintaining the identities of their confidential sources, and booooo to TIME for chickening out and loosing their journalistic integrity.

Boxer Dies In Vegas

One day after being knocked out by a Russian opponent. I cannot believe that they call this a sport. What is the sport in this? A sport would indicate some type of skills. Bulking up and having the upper hand in bashing your opponents brains out, is not a skill.

http://msn.foxsports.com/boxing/story/3736014

NJ Governor Blasts Cruise

I predict that this is the end of his career. Oh, he will keep working. But he has lost the respect of even many of his most ardent fans, including myself. I loved Tom Cruise. I don't want to hear his prothesizing, especially of things he knows nothing about. I know more about psychotropic medication than he does. I have seen it save lives. I hope he thinks flapping his gums was worth it. I respect his right to believe what he wants, but he is a big bore, preaching to everyone. Scientoogy has completely brainwashed him. If I was Katie Holmes parents/family, I would kidnap her and take her away to be deprogrammed before it's too late.

http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=195841

Iraqi Government Invites Militants To Join Political Process

I think this is a good move. As long as the militants feel alienated, terrorism in Iraq will continue. At least they may be able to have a dialogue now.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBQQZE4QAE.html

Gonzales: FBI Will Help Iraq In Kidnapping Investigations

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050703/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/gonzales_iraq_10

10th Annual Redneck Games

These people are surely a breed of their own.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/redneck_games

World Heading For Unprecidented Fuel Crisis

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1519745,00.html

United Church Of Christ Approves Same Sex Marriage

When will we learn that homosexuality is not a choice? People are born gay. But because society discourages same sex unions, they suppress it until one day they discover who they really are. Then, people say, "oh all this time he has been with women, he is choosing a man now".

If you are a straight man, there is nothing that could convince you to have a relationship with another man, right? Then why would anyone think that other straight men, would somehow "choose" to have sex with and have a relationship with another man (or woman if you are a lesbian). Straight men and women don't turn gay all of a sudden. They deserve to be accepted into the church of their choice and praise God just like everyone else.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB571WYPAE.html

Teen Murdered For His iPod

This country is a shambles and it is the fault of every parent out there. You have parents who, are unconcerned about what their kids do and let them get away with everything. Then there are the parents who, when told their child has misbehaved, stick up for them rather than give em hell for acting the fool. You have the crackhead and alcoholic parents who are poor and on welfare, and revel in their misery rather than get out and get training, education, whatever it takes to make their kids' lives better. You have the workaholic parents who are never there for their kids. Oh, and the ones I really love...those rich, connected parents who buy their sixteen year old's brand new cars for their birthday, never teaching them the meaning of hard work and promoting their kids' feelings of entitlement. Yeah yeah, I know it isn't that simple, but we are raising our kids to think that they can behave exactly as they want to. Wake up already!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/brf_ipod_killing

Alington National Cemetary Expands With Iraq War Dead

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/03/AR2005070300500_pf.html

Teacher's Union Wants National Starting Salary of 40,000

Look, I agree that teaching is one of the most important and noble professions that there is. But why do they need such a high starting salary? I don't think most police officers get as high a starting wage. They have off three months a year, and in most cases, their lives are not at risk when they go to work. Where is this money going to come from? Bush can't even fund No Child Left Behind correctly.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBZYEJQPAE.html

Putin Urges World To Unite For Iraq

Wouldn't it be a kick in the butt if Putin were the one to unite everyone, to rally, to ensure democracy in Iraq?

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBL5VHRPAE.html

Conservatives And Liberals Agree-NO To Gonzales

July 3, 2005
New York TimesConservative Groups Rally Against Gonzales as Justice
By ADAM NAGOURNEY, TODD S. PURDUM and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
This article was reported and written by Adam Nagourney, Todd S. Purdum and David D. Kirkpatrick.

WASHINGTON, July 2 - Within hours after Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's announced retirement from the Supreme Court, members of conservative groups around the country convened in five national conference calls in which, participants said, they shared one big concern: heading off any effort by President Bush to nominate his attorney general, Alberto R. Gonzales, to replace her.

Late last week, a delegation of conservative lawyers led by C. Boyden Gray and former Attorney General Edwin Meese III met with the White House chief of staff, Andrew H. Card Jr., to warn that appointing Mr. Gonzales would splinter conservative support.

And Paul M. Weyrich, a veteran conservative organizer and chairman of the Free Congress Foundation, said he had told administration officials that nominating Mr. Gonzales, whose views on abortion are considered suspect by religious conservatives, would fracture the president's conservative backers.

The groundswell of opposition to Mr. Gonzales was just one sign of the conflicting forces suddenly swirling around Mr. Bush this weekend as he headed to Camp David to begin considering a replacement for Justice O'Connor, a decision his aides said would not be announced before he returned from a trip to Europe at the end of next week.

Senate Democrats demanded that he consult them before making a choice and appoint a pragmatist in Justice O'Connor's mold.

Conservatives, flexing their muscles in a battle they have spent a decade preparing for, described the nomination as a test of Mr. Bush's convictions and past promises, and his biggest opportunity yet to assure that the Bush presidency will leave a conservative stamp for a generation to come.

And on Friday, the Rev. Miguel Rivera, president of the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders, a group that represents more than 6,000 Latino evangelical churches, sent the president a letter urging consideration of "a true conservative Latino nominee," Emilio M. Garza, a federal appeals judge from Texas.
In a telephone interview late Friday, Mr. Rivera said he had received no response. "All the meetings we have had in all the different groups today we have not heard anything to reassure us that he is out of the loop," Mr. Rivera said of Mr. Gonzales.

Administration officials discounted the conservative uprising against Mr. Gonzales, saying that Mr. Bush was already aware of the objections and was not convinced by them.

"It is what it is," said one senior administration official, who insisted on anonymity in exchange for discussing the White House views of the criticism of the attorney general. "The president is going to pick someone who is a true constructionist and who is correct in interpreting the law." The official said that Mr. Gonzales fit that description, but also that Mr. Bush might be wary of moving him to a new position so shortly after he was confirmed as attorney general.

Mr. Bush planned to spend the weekend getting a head start on "homework" on a list of potential nominees and expected to "be on the phones with his advisers," said another senior administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe internal deliberations. He said that the president had been briefed on his staff's preparations for a court vacancy, and that "he knows the orbit of names."

Other White House aides said they had canceled holiday plans to meet with supporters and prepare for a fight whose dimensions and intensity would be, to a considerable extent, dictated by the nominee Mr. Bush settles on.

Members of Congress and conservatives close to the White House said that they were confident that Mr. Bush would use the first Supreme Court vacancy of his tenure to nominate a judge in the mold of Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, as he has repeatedly promised to do.
"They don't need me lobbying on this stuff - they know what to do," said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, a conservative group with close ties to the White House. "My only recommendation is that they nominate someone who is 12 or 13 years old," to ensure as long a conservative legacy as possible.

Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, a veteran and former chairman of the Judiciary Committee, which will hold hearings on any nominee, said flatly of Mr. Bush: "He's going to appoint a conservative. I have no doubt about that."

But Mr. Hatch, breaking with fellow conservatives, suggested in an interview that he would support Mr. Gonzales.

"Let me not get into any nominee, but Gonzales is an excellent human being," Mr. Hatch said. "He's done an exceptional job as White House counsel. He's brought additional stability and peace to the Justice Department. I know the president is interested in trying to find people of diversity - he's really bent over to do that as president."

Mr. Gonzales is a longtime Bush aide and friend from Texas, and naming him could enhance the Republican Party's standing among Hispanics, one of the president's longtime political goals. Some conservatives acknowledged that they had stated their opposition to him with some delicacy to avoid provoking the White House, given Mr. Gonzales's friendship with the president.

But the swift and vociferous opposition to Mr. Gonzales reflected the intensity of concern on the right over just what kind of conservative Mr. Bush will choose, as he moves toward a decision that will go a long way toward settling any question about what kind of conservative he is, and how his presidency will be remembered.

Mr. Weyrich, while declining to disclose the specifics of a recent conversation with Ken Mehlman, the Republican Party chairman, said, "We have let the administration know through whatever channels we have that Gonzales would be an unwise appointment because of the opposition of some of the groups," some of which he said would actively oppose Mr. Gonzales, while "others like the Southern Baptists and myself would simply not help."

For many conservatives, who have seen Republican presidents nominate justices like Ms. O'Connor who then vote against them on pivotal issues, Mr. Gonzales epitomizes the fear of the unknown. But in other ways, and to some Democrats, he is very well known, confirmed by a vote of 60-to-36, along largely partisan lines, after unexpectedly contentious hearings and debate in which Democrats challenged his policies on the detention and treatment of prisoners in the administration's campaign against terror. In a 2002 legal memorandum, Mr. Gonzales characterized as "obsolete" the Geneva Conventions' limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners, and he said provisions in the conventions like commissary privileges and athletic uniforms were "quaint."

"He would face stiff opposition from liberal groups," said Nan Aron, president of the liberal legal group Alliance for Justice. "He would have to answer tough questions about his role in the administration's war on terror."

Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York and a member of the Judiciary Committee, declined to say on Saturday how Senate Democrats might respond to a Gonzales nomination. "It's too early to tell - we're not talking about any specific judge," Mr. Schumer said.
He described the situation with Mr. Gonzales as "a real Rubicon for this president. The hard, hard right wants a true believer."

Even at a time when they have unprecedented influence in the nation's capital, many conservative leaders have become increasingly restive at their comparative lack of sway on the court and have described the selection of the next justice as the most important decision Mr. Bush will make - even if he has to force it through at the expense of his ambitious second-term agenda.

Some Republicans warned that a very conservative nomination by Mr. Bush would guarantee a protracted legislative battle that could doom any hope Mr. Bush had of pushing through a Social Security or tax reform bill.

At the same time, Kenneth M. Duberstein, who managed the Supreme Court nominations of Clarence Thomas and David H. Souter for Mr. Bush's father, said that the president could go only so far in replacing Justice O'Connor, a Reagan appointee who turned out to be a major disappointment to the right.

"Any nominee can be a notch or two to the right of Sandra Day O'Connor, but not 10 notches to the right," Mr. Duberstein said, noting that the political dynamics are different than if Mr. Bush were replacing Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who is ill with thyroid cancer and still widely expected to retire.

The National Review said in an editorial on its Web site: "Conservatives would be appalled and demoralized by a Gonzales appointment."
Phyllis Schlafly, a longtime conservative activist, said: "Bush was very clear, and certainly his constituents believed him, when he said he would appoint justices like Scalia and Thomas. We are not in favor of Gonzales." Reflecting a widely held view among conservatives, and one of the reasons for the intensity of the sentiment on the right, Mrs. Schlafly described Justice O'Connor as "a terrible disappointment."
But other conservatives said there was no reason to fear, given Mr. Bush's record of appointing conservatives as president, and noted Mr. Bush's unambiguous embrace of conservative ideals.

"Whatever else you say about President Bush, he is certainly the type of man who says what he means and means what he says," said Paul Rosenzweig, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative group. "I also think it's clear that the majority who elected him - and who elected 55 members of the Senate - is looking to him to fulfill that pledge. Just as President Clinton took the opportunity to name two very liberal judges, the president's constituency will be looking to him to appoint a conservative jurist."

White House officials declined to comment, saying that Mr. Bush would not make a final decision until he finished reviewing potential candidates and consulting with Senate leaders, and that they were making an orchestrated effort to avoid saying or doing anything that would feed what they feared could be a week of speculation. One Republican with close ties to the White House said administration officials assumed that Mr. Bush would have at least one other vacancy to fill, and that that could influence his thinking.

Among the names most frequently mentioned as likely candidates, besides Mr. Gonzales and Mr. Garza, are Judges J. Harvie Wilkinson III and J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Va.; Judge John G. Roberts Jr., who sits on the federal appeals court in Washington; and Judge Michael W. McConnell of the 10th Circuit, which is based in Denver. Should Mr. Bush consider a woman, the most likely candidates are Judges Edith Brown Clement and Edith H. Jones, both of the Fifth Circuit, based in New Orleans.

Republicans and Democrats agreed on the importance of the appointment for Mr. Bush's legacy, though they differed sharply - and predictably - over what kind of nominee he should choose.
Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, said that he believed that Mr. Bush would pick "a qualified, mainstream nominee." But he acknowledged that "the problem is because of the contentious nature of the process, sometimes even mainstream nominees are caricatured in a way that makes them appear to be extreme."

Senator Jon Kyl, Republican of Arizona and a member of the Judiciary Committee, said in a telephone interview: "You know President Bush. You know the kind of person he is. You know the way he's approached personnel questions. He's going to be very straightforward about the kind of person he wants."

Todd S. Purdum and David D. Kirkpatrick reported from Washington for this article, and Adam Nagourney from New York. Richard W. Stevenson contributed reporting from Washington.

Autopsy Shows Banned Parkinson's Drug Was Effective

This man's autopsy shows that the drug stimulated the growth of nerve fibers that produce Dopamine, the drug that is needed to calm the effects of Parkinson's. The drug was pulled because some monkey's developed brain damage and some patients developed anti-bodies. The drug looks promising. I hope they do further testing on this drug.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBYIA4DPAE.html

Filibuster In Works For O'Conner Replacement

This one would be worth it.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB1FLHFPAE.html

Photos Of Rep. Duke Cunningham's Homes

It is being speculated that these homes are a bribe in exchange for MZM's war profittering

http://dukecunningham.org/cunningham-home.php

Man Accused Of Kidnapping Siblings Out Of Jail One Month

Are we ever going to learn that sex offenders, especially child sex offenders, can never be rehabilitated? This guy didn't have the impulse control to at least wait some time and lay low before he started victimizing again. His propensity to molest children is greater than his fear of spending his life in jail. Everyone needs to get a clue already.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBYPHXAPAE.html

Arnold Takes On Bush On Global Warming

http://www.breakingnews.ie/2005/07/02/story209803.html

Live 8 Telecast

http://music.aol.com/live_8_concert/live_now

Homeowners Grapple With Rising Property Taxes

This is really a problem. I live in PA, bordering NY and NJ. The housing and taxes here are relatively inexpensive compared to those states, so everyone from NY and NJ is moving here. It has caused a huge jump in property values, because they will pay anything sellers are asking because it is still cheaper than their state, and thus, an increase in property taxes. These people are buying up all of the property and work in NYC and NJ. People who have lived here all of their lives can no longer afford to buy homes because the asking prices are now so high, but wages here are much lower than NJ and NY. It has created a real culteral "chasm". There is high resentment of the out of staters coming in. I'm sure this happens in other states as well. A bill recently passed would allow school districts to opt into an Act that would enable them to reap funding from the recently passed legislation allowing gambling in PA. Theoretically, this money would decrease property taxes here (property taxes and school taxes the same here). While many educators have an ethical problem with taking gambling money to fund schools, they do know that they need to do something because people who work here can't afford the rising taxes, caused by out of staters moving in. It's a real "quagmire"

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB3UIHZNAE.html

Flash Cartoon-But First Ocracy-We Are Never Getting Out

http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/fiore/2005/06/butfirst.html

NOW Declares State Of Emergency With O'Conner Resignation

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBWNQKWNAE.html

Woman Leads Mosque In Prayer-1st Time In 1000 Years

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/07/01/muslim050701.html

Speculation That Rove Was Leak In Plame/CIA Case

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBDOG4BNAE.html

Bill Clinton Says Legalizing Immigrants Would Stabilize Social Security

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBDOG4BNAE.html

Bush Administration Wants To Study Bunker Bombs

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050701/pl_nm/usa_congress_nukes_dc_4

Bush Not Surprised If Iranian President Was Hostage Captor

Boy, gotta give it to Bush. He sure is a smooth talker. Nothing like calling this guy a thug/terrorist before all of the facts are checked. Then again, that is his way of doing things. Unless the Iranian President had plastic surgery, there is no way that is him. There is a picture circulating, showing both men's profiles...the nose is obviously different...actually, radically different, though they do resemble each other. Well, let's just leave it to Bush to tick off another country and add to the mix.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB7JZW5NAE.html

North Korea Wants US To Consider Them A Friend

They want the administration to retract their comments that North Korea is an "outpost of tyranny" if they are expected to reenter nuclear talks. Gee, ya think that's gonna happen? Bombs away.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBZ87H2NAE.html

Economic Treason

http://www.alternet.org/story/23290/

Man Is Accused Sex Offender Because He Grabs Girl's Arm

She walked in front of his car. He grabbed her arm to chastize her. Are we bananas? This guy has to register as a sex offender? Because his behavior is like what a sex offender would do-which is to restrain the child? We are so crippled by this epidemic of sex offenses, that we can't see the forrest for the trees. We can't even identify who is a sex offender anymore.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-molest01.html

Reaction to O'Conner Resignation

We are screwed. She was the one Justice who kept Roe/Wade alive, as well as voting for other laws that were not radical right wing policies.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBBDNZTMAE.html

Republicans Blame War Critics For Army Shortfall

Humm...I suppose Bush can't be to blame for lying to everyone including potential recruits. I guess Rumsfield isn't to blame, you know, for his insensitive remarks about keeping soldiers as safe as possible. Oh, and back to Bush, those dumb army recruits ought to sign up voluntarily, regardless of the administration not having the slightest type of exit strategy. War critics have been here since wars were...this is anohter attempt at the Bush administration to tell people to shut up, don't voice your opinions, or you will be responsible for any negative outcomes, you low life, unpatriotics.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050630/pl_nm/iraq_congress_dc_1

Judge Reinhold Picked To Fill O'Connor Vacancy...LOL

http://www.rawstory2.com/admin/story.php?story=32

Number Of Army Deserters Doubles

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=30089

Woman Tattoos Forehead To Send Child To Private School

Does she think this is noble? She isn't doing this to send her kid to school, she is doing it for her 5 minutes of fame. There are other ways to raise 10,000, like get a part time job, take a loan out, etc. Her son isn't going to go into a coma if he has to (perish the thought) go to public school for one year while she raises the money to send him to the school of her choice. She is simply teaching him to take the quick and preposterous way to get what you want.

http://bluememe.blogspot.com/2005/06/utah-woman-sells-forehead-as-billboard.html