Deans are first around here.    Tar and feathers to the war mongers.

3 children killed during Coalition strike on bomb emplacers
Friday, 01 June 2007

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq – Three children were killed and one insurgent was wounded when a Coalition Force tank fired on three men emplacing an improvised explosive device outside Fallujah today.

Two tank crews during a mounted patrol were providing overwatch for a major highway southeast of Fallujah in an area where previous IED attacks have occurred to prevent the emplacement of roadside bombs. While performing security, the crews observed a vehicle drop off two men on the road, who were then joined by a third individual on foot. The three began staging materials consistent with the size and shape of IED components and appeared to start emplacing a roadside bomb. Based on the observations, two separate crew commanders determined hostile intent.

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MND-B Soldiers capture two insurgents emplacing IED
Saturday, 02 June 2007

CAMP TAJI, Iraq — Baghdad Soldiers captured two men attempting to emplace an improvised explosive device on a major road near Dubai, Iraq, north of Baghdad, May 31.

Soldiers from Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment were conducting a mounted patrol searching for insurgents responsible for IED attacks in the area when the incident occurred.

While on the patrol, the troops came across the two men attempting to emplace an IED.

The men ran when the mounted patrol drove up to the emplacement site on a major road, and the Soldiers engaged the men.

Both suspects were detained. Neither was injured during the engagement.

There were no Coalition casualties in the incident.

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Interesting chain of events here...looks like the army captured two insurgents while the Marines, I'm assuming, didn't capture any.

Venezuela to Propose the Most Sweeping Restrictions on GMOS in the Western Hemisphere

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_5353.cfm

In a strongly worded declaration, many of the world's leading environmental scientists warned Thursday that exposure to common chemicals makes babies more likely to develop an array of health problems later in life, including diabetes, attention deficit disorders, prostate cancer, fertility problems, thyroid disorders and even obesity....

....Many governmental agencies and industry groups, particularly in the United States, have said there is no or little human evidence to support concerns about most toxic residue in air, water, food and consumer products. About 80,000 chemicals are registered in the United States....

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/25/MNGR7Q1I7P1.DTL&hw=chemical+pollutants&sn=001&sc=1000

Hi, Steve! Long time no see♥ Thanks for the heads up.

So, why does the "chat" thread follow Sheri's posts and not just any new post? and does anyone ever actually comment on her posts?

WEST COAST PBS NETWORKS - BILL MOYERS STARTING

Hi Puddle. Life sometimes becomes a constant busy season.   Organizing Lincoln Democrats, farming the non-GMO way, and keeping UNL dorm rooms cool, full and economical, while being raised by my two teenaged daughters and kept sane by my incredible wife between Saturday nights at the local dirt track keeps me away from here. Life is generally good.

Scott, Sheri's posts are suggestions and good information to digest while eating chunky chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream and catching up on the blog. 

Just got back from seeing the play "cats" amazing. those kids can dance and it was amazing. I almost cried when she sang "memories" I still have some.

Peace to all and thanks to all my friends that are now going to go to TBA cause Howard and Jim will be there. Let's all get together for dinner folks.

Love to you all and Fred, take care of yourself. You are special to  your family and what you are going through makes you a hero to me.

"It isn't Edwards that they are all afraid of. It is economic populism, fair trade, and, in the end, the American Dream. That's what the media and their mouthpieces in politics and punditry are trying to kill."

http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/6/1/194025/0888 

I know I'm a bit behind the curve with this one, but work has been interfering with blogging again. But, better late than never, I've posted a few thoughts about the Creation Museum that opened last week.

With all the rain from the tropical storm today,  I needed some encouragement.   Some inspiration.   Look what  I found.  Brought a smile.

I often wonder if Dean ever got fitted for that 3-piece suit he laughed about...
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/555

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Creation Museum

museum: a building where objects of historical, scientific or artistic interest are kept

Let's see. There could be nothing of historical or scientific interest. So there must be some art in it. 

"It isn't Edwards that they are all afraid of. It is economic populism, fair trade, and, in the end, the American Dream."

Based on his votes as a senator, there's little if any connection between Edwards and those things. 

Good morning, BFA! Perhaps Sitka at least is still here. Waves from here ... !

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puddle
Fri, 06/01/07
11:13 pm

♥ puddle ♥

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Tom Bearse ... in case you ever look through back threads ... I would like to thank you for giving me some outright guffaws! Believe me, that is much appreciated.

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Interesting news this am. Assisted suicide is legal here. The rules and regulations are pretty tight to safeguard those concerned, but it is indeed OK to do.

I certainly hope this is never I decision that I would have to make for myself, but it is nice to know that while I live here, I have the option.

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Dr. Death, American icon
Jack Kevorkian's zealous advocacy of assisted suicide may have been unsavory, but it sparked a national discussion of right-to-die issues.
June 2, 2007

I'VE ALWAYS BELIEVED that someday there will be a Jack Kevorkian postage stamp. Granted, it will be a first-class stamp that costs $3; that's how far into the future we're talking. But considering we've already had a Richard Nixon stamp, who says you need charisma to grace the upper right corners of America's envelopes?

Historical relevance, however, is a different story. Kevorkian, who was released Friday after just over eight years in a Michigan state prison, may have his greatest relevance ahead of him.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/comm...

Interesting chain of events here...looks like the army captured two insurgents while the Marines, I'm assuming, didn't capture any.

It's best not to accept at face value any information that is sourced from the US military in Iraq. Mis and Dis information are tools of the trade.

Good morning, BFA! Perhaps Sitka at least is still here. Waves from here ... !

Hi JFD. I always enjoy your reliable information. 

Yet another area where putzCo have failed ... and there are still idiots who say they feel safer under Rethug administrations, and according to one of yesterday's posts, it's more than the 20% or so who still support putzCo policy in Iraq, which is indeed frightening.

Let's combat the idiocy with some facts, although there will still be some people who can be fooled all of the time. An inordinate number of these seem to be Americans.

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Violent Crime Up For Second Year
Some Point to Cuts in Federal Funding
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, June 2, 2007; A01

The number of violent crimes in the United States rose for a second straight year in 2006, marking the first sustained increase in homicides, robberies and other serious offenses since the early 1990s, according to an FBI report to be released Monday.

The FBI's Uniform Crime Report will show an increase of about 1.3 percent in violent offenses last year, including a 6 percent rise in robberies and a slight rise in homicides, according to law enforcement officials, who described key findings in advance of the report's release. That follows an increase of 2.3 percent in 2005, which was the first significant increase in violent crime in 15 years.

Much of the increase was concentrated in medium-size cities, including the District of Columbia, officials said. Criminologists and law enforcement officials offer varying theories for the upswing, including an increase in the juvenile population, growing numbers of released prison inmates and the rise of serious gang problems in smaller jurisdictions.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...

Sitka, I enjoy your wit too ... you and jc in point-counterpoint made for a very lively blog. Now you have to hold up both ends, I'm afraid.

Oh, for God's sake, even those who work here believe that the funds could be better spent elsewhere.

People are dying all over the world while millions of dollars that could help in building societies are held hostage to international politics.

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U.N. Team Still Looking for Iraq's Arsenal
Though Work Is Seen as Irrelevant, Security Council Can't Agree to End It
By Colum Lynch
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, June 2, 2007; A01

UNITED NATIONS -- More than four years after the fall of Baghdad, the United Nations is spending millions of dollars in Iraqi oil money to continue the hunt for Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction.

Every weekday, at a secure commercial office building on Manhattan's East Side, a team of 20 U.N. experts on chemical and biological weapons pores over satellite images of former Iraqi weapons sites. They scour the international news media for stories on Hussein's deadly arsenal. They consult foreign intelligence agencies on the status of Iraqi weapons. And they maintain a cadre of about 300 weapons experts from 50 countries and prepare them for inspections in Iraq -- inspections they will almost certainly never conduct, in search of weapons that few believe exist.

The inspectors acknowledge that their chief task -- disarming Iraq -- was largely fulfilled long ago. But, they say, their masters at the U.N. Security Council have been unable to agree to either shut down their effort or revise their mandate to make their work more relevant. Russia insists that Iraq's disarmament must be formally confirmed by the inspectors, while the United States vehemently opposes a U.N. role in Iraq, saying coalition inspectors have already done the job.

"I recognize this is unhealthy," said Dimitri Perricos, a Greek weapons expert who runs the team, known as the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), and manages its $10 million annual budget. But, he added, "we are not the ones who are holding the purse; the one who is holding the purse is the council."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...

Well, Kinsley is more optimistic than I am, given those who simply refuse to see the facts. But I hope that he has the right of it here.

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The Troop Funding Trap
By Michael Kinsley
Saturday, June 2, 2007; A13

What are you supposed to do, according to supporters of the Iraq war, if you think that the war is a dreadful mistake? Suppose you are a member of Congress, elected by constituents who also, like most Americans, according to opinion polls, oppose the war. Is there any legitimate action you can take? Or must you simply allow the war to go on and let young Americans die in what you regard as a bad cause? What are your options?

The Constitution says, "The Congress shall have the Power . . . to declare War." That power does not mean much unless it includes the power not to declare war as well. But presidents from both parties have pretty much stolen Congress's war power, with the ordinarily "strict constructionist" Republicans taking the lead. Congress has stood by and not done much -- but what could it do? As Stalin supposedly said about military advice from the Vatican, "The Pope! How many divisions has he got?"

Last week President Bush condescended to sign a bill authorizing $100 billion for his war, but only after any serious timetables or criteria or deadlines for troop withdrawal were stripped from the legislation. There was a time, circa 1999, when Republicans considered it the height of naivete, irresponsibility and indifference to the fate of American soldiers to commit any troops to action in a foreign country without what used to be called an "exit strategy." That was when the president was a Democrat. Now it is considered the height of naivete, irresponsibility and indifference to the fate of American soldiers to suggest the possibility of any exit strategy short of triumph. If you do, you are betraying the troops. And no one sees actual triumph in the cards, so there is no exit strategy.

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Advocates of the current war who enjoy the spectacle of war opponents caught in this trap of laws and logic had better hope that every military action a president chooses to engage in from here on out is as wonderful to them as is the war in Iraq. Because there is nothing war-specific about this line of argument. It would work just as well on an invasion of Canada or an aerial bombardment of Portugal. The president can do it if he wants to, and no one can legitimately stop him.

Of course, the president is elected, and in that sense he is acting as proxy for the citizens when he decides to take our country into a war. Right? Well, not quite. Let's leave aside the voting anomalies of the 2000 election. When this president first ran for national office, he campaigned on a platform of criticizing his predecessor for engaging in military action (in Kosovo and Somalia) without an exit strategy. He mocked the notion of trying to establish democracy in distant lands. He denounced the use of American soldiers for "nation-building." In 2000, if you were looking for a way to express your disapproval of the policies and prejudices that later got us into Iraq, your obvious answer would have been to vote for George W. Bush.

Check and mate.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...

I've always thought that by saying the least we say the most; and jc was a master at it. She's one of those people whose passing left not just a hole, but a gaping crater. "Irreplacable" is all the epitaph she needs.

Dan Froomkin does a great tour d'horizon about putz's seeming (and clearly phony) neoconversion to "green."

I would certainly say that the press over here is "less constrained" than it is in the States ... but kudos to those like Froomkin (all too few unfortunately these days) who try very hard to hold our elected officials accountable in the US.

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Bush's Climate-Change Feint
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Friday, June 1, 2007; 2:04 PM

The White House yesterday showed that it still knows how to play the American press like a harp.

President Bush yesterday put forth a new proposal on climate change that is most newsworthy for its attempt to muddy the debate about the issue and derail European and U.N. plans for strict caps on emissions. Bush's proposal calls for a new round of international meetings that would nearly outlast his presidency. The purpose of the meetings would not be to set caps on emissions, but to establish what the White House -- uncorking a bold new euphemism -- calls "aspirational goals."

But a change in rhetoric was enough to generate some headlines about the administration's attention to the issue: Bush Proposes Goals on Greenhouse Gas Emissions, reads the New York Times headline. Bush Proposes Talks on Warming, says The Washington Post's front page. Bush offers to take climate lead, proclaims the Los Angeles Times.

For a more pointed view of Bush's statement, let's travel across the Atlantic, where the style of journalism is less constrained than in the States.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...

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Sitka
Sat, 06/02/07
3:00 am

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I've always thought that by saying the least we say the most; and jc was a master at it. She's one of those people whose passing left not just a hole, but a gaping crater. "Irreplacable" is all the epitaph she needs.

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There are a lot of us on this blog who would concur wholeheartedly with that thought.

Russia insists that Iraq's disarmament must be formally confirmed by the inspectors, while the United States vehemently opposes a U.N. role in Iraq, saying coalition inspectors have already done the job.

Iraq is Bush's Chinatown. But it's amusing that Russia keeps the wild goose chase alive just to keep embarassing Bush.

He was right about Iraq, so when ElBaradei speaks, we had better listen and we had better be bombarding the *critturs* relentlessly ... although our best allies may indeed be the those left in our military commands who are still sane, because bombing Iran is madness

... as has been invading and occupying Iraq.

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Published on Friday, June 1, 2007 by the BBC
Nuclear Watchdog’s Attack Warning
by Rob Broomby

The head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog has given one of his sternest warnings against using military action to halt Iran’s uranium enrichment program.

Dr Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, described those wanting to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities as “new crazies”.

After Iraq, Dr ElBaradei said he did not want to see “another war”.

He made his comments in an interview for a BBC Radio 4 documentary to be broadcast at 2000BST on Friday.

This is not the first time that Dr ElBaradei has spoken out against the possibility of using force against Iran, but it is perhaps his strongest warning to date.

Tehran is still refusing to bow to demands from the UN Security Council to halt its uranium enrichment program, which the United States fears would give it access to material for a bomb.

Dr ElBaradei said a nuclear-armed Iran would be terrible but the jury was still out as to whether the country even wanted nuclear weapons.

But he said you could not “bomb knowledge”, and he was scathing towards those who still favored air strikes after the experience of intervention in Iraq.

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007...

26. And Putin is a master at these games ... putz and Rove have no idea, especially when they can't control the outcomes.

But they are still games and I know that there are lots of grassroots organizations that could do a lot of good with USD 10 million.

"aspirational goals."

Bush can kiss the world's collective "aspirational." What a 25% approval quadraplegic duck like him proposes doesn't carry any weight with anybody.

This is not good news, I'm afraid.

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Abuse and incompetence in fight against global warming
Up to 20% of carbon savings in doubt as monitoring firms criticised by UN body
Nick Davies
Saturday June 2, 2007
The Guardian

A Guardian investigation has found evidence of serious irregularities at the heart of the process the world is relying on to control global warming.

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which is supposed to offset greenhouse gases emitted in the developed world by selling carbon credits from elsewhere, has been contaminated by gross incompetence, rule-breaking and possible fraud by companies in the developing world, according to UN paperwork, an unpublished expert report and alarming feedback from projects on the ground.

One senior figure suggested there may be faults with up to 20% of the carbon credits - known as certified emissions reductions - already sold. Since these are used by European governments and corporations to justify increases in emissions, the effect is that in some cases malpractice at the CDM has added to the net amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
The problems focus on the specialist companies that validate and verify the projects in the developing world which produce the certified emission reductions. Three of those companies have failed spot checks, which revealed a catalogue of weakness.

Separately, one of the CDM's experts calculates that as many as one third of the projects registered in India are commercial ventures which do not produce any additional cut in greenhouse gases and were wrongly approved.

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http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climat...

Well, this is probably good news for his family. But he is still in captivity ... and that is NOT good.

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Video released of abducted BBC man 'in good health'
Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem and Duncan Campbell
Saturday June 2, 2007
Guardian

Alan Johnston, the kidnapped BBC Gaza correspondent, appeared in a video released by his captors yesterday, nearly 12 weeks after he was seized, in which he says he is healthy and being well treated.

It is the first time the journalist has been seen since he disappeared on March 12 and he seems to be unhurt. Some in Gaza suggested the appearance of the video, on a website used by Islamic radicals, meant negotiations with his kidnappers were progressing. But it was not clear when the film was shot.

Johnston, 45, is shown seated in front of the camera in a red sweatshirt. The wall behind him is covered in black cloth. "First of all, my captors have treated me very well," he says. "They've fed me well. There has been no violence towards me at all and I'm in good health."

He then makes a series of what appear to be scripted political statements critical of Israel and the west. "In three years here in the Palestinian territories I have witnessed the huge suffering of the Palestinian people and my message is that their suffering is continuing and that it is unacceptable," he says.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,32996...

grassroots organizations that could do a lot of good with USD 10 million.

Yes it's a undeniably a waste -- except in the sense that anything which weakens and hobbles the Bush Regime by reminding everyone in the world they can't be believed is not a complete waste.

Robert Fisk's latest ... I have heard Fisk speak in person. He's well worth it, believe me.

And this is it for now as chores are calling my name!

'Nite, Sitka & lurkers! Have good ones.

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Robert Fisk: In the shadow of the Second World War
Bush and Blair try to dress up in the waistcoats of Churchill and Roosevelt
Published: 02 June 2007

Not far from my balcony overlooking the Mediterranean lies a sunken French submarine. It sits on the bottom of the sea just to the left of the blossoming purple jacaranda tree which stands opposite my bedroom window. It was sunk in 1941 when a disguised Royal Navy vessel slunk up the coast of Lebanon from Palestine and discovered two U-boats of the Vichy French fleet trying to make it home after the Anglo-Free French invasion of Lebanon.

The French embassy in Beirut regularly reminds divers that this is a war grave, but the Lebanese still swim inside the hull. The gentle Mediterranean tides rock the vessel from time to time, and the skeletons inside - still in the remnants of their uniforms - rock with it. The Second World War will never go away.

There are war cemeteries in Sidon and Beirut - British and French dead from this extraordinary, largely unknown exploit of the war - and I often drive through the village of Damour where a Jewish Palestinian soldier, a certain Moshe Dayan, was hit in the eye by a French sniper.

At home, I have an album of Lebanese Second World War photographs which depict the choice made by the French army in Lebanon when told that they could either sail home to Vichy France or stay in the Middle East and fight for de Gaulle. Almost all chose to return to Marseilles and a two-page spread in my photographic book shows thousands of French troops sailing out of Beirut port with a huge French flag upon which are embroidered the words "Vive Pétain."

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http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/artic...

Dr Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, described those wanting to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities as “new crazies”.

Actually, they're the same crazies we've come to know as NeoCons. 

Good morning, everybody

The paper just came and the driver gave a honk to let the spouse know. It's a ritual. I hardly ever read the paper anymore since most of it is old news.

I don't have any new thoughts either. LOL

Has Sherri gone to bed?  Is it safe to post?  LOL

Home from dancing...quickie or two.  Do you suppose there was any reliable intel here or is putz just firing to kill?  He has a *use sledge hammer to kill a tse tse fly* mentality.

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Somali officials said a remote village in the Puntland region was bombarded, days after foreign militants arrived.

US reports suggest the target was an al-Qaeda operative suspected of involvement in the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6714473.stm 

The strike would be at least the third by the US in Somali territory in 2007.

In early January, US forces tried to target three suspected members of al-Qaeda but were thought to have missed their targets.

The refugee crisis in the entire ME will reach epidemic proportions if it hasn't already  and putz/poodle/olmert share much of the responsibility.

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The army said it was "tightening the ring" around the Nahr el-Bared camp in Tripoli and had destroyed many of the militants' sniper posts.

Four soldiers are among 16 people dead from clashes on Friday and overnight.

The 13-day confrontation between troops and militants has killed more than 100 people, many of them civilians.

Aid agencies have voiced fears for the safety of civilians, as artillery fire targets the camp.

The UN says about 25,000 of the camp's 31,000 original residents have fled.

Aid agencies have called for a ceasefire to allow more civilians to leave the camp.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6714465.stm 

One thought as I doze off.

Many articles and CMW have covered the caving of the dems by giving putzfollies money w/o timetables.  I've heard no one in the CM talk about the fact that they also gave him carte blanche to *bomb bomb bomb* Iran.

They didn't just cave to putz.  They crowned him god/king.

The public needs to know AIPAC's part in this horror show.  To just talk about the corporations doesn't tell the full truth and it's not even a good half truth.  Corps are amoral and are vested in making money.  AIPAC is more concerned with Israel than with the welfare of our country.  Big difference even tho the 2 war together.

Now this is fascinating. Think it'll ever hit the press or the CM?

Posted:

Senator Fulbright, 1967: The trouble is that the Jews think they have control of the Senate

Hundreds of pages released this week by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee contain protocols of the closed hearings of this committee from the seminal year of 1967. Many deal with Vietnam, but the more interesting are those dealing with the Six-Day War.

The senators of the prestigious committee grilled then-Secretary of State Dean Rusk over the meaning of the looming crisis days before the war, and the meaning of the remarkable victory during the war. This coming weekend, Haaretz will publish many anecdotes from the hearings in a longer feature, but here is one of the more amazing dialogs contained in these pages:

Date: June 9, 1967. The senators contemplate ways to pressure Israel and the Arabs and delve into the question of Jewish power in America.

Secretary Dean Rusk: Well, I do not want to underestimate influence in this situation, but I just want to point out that it is not necessarily decisive when you are talking with countries about what they consider the life and death issues for them.

Senator Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa: Do we not give tax forgiveness for monies contributed to Israel, which is rather unusual? We could stop that.

Secretary Rusk: I believe contributions to the UJA [United Jewish Appeal] are tax exempt, yes.

The Chairman, J. William Fulbright of Arkansas: That is right. The only country. Do you think you have the votes in the Senate to revoke that?

Senator Clifford Case of New Jersey: Are you in favor yourself?

Senator Hickenlooper: I think we ought to treat all nations alike.

Senator Case: That is correct. But are you in favor of it?

Senator Hickenlooper: As long as we do not give it to other nations, I do not -

The Chairman: The trouble is they think they have control of the Senate and they can do as they please.

Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri: What was that?

The Chairman: I said they know they have control of the Senate politically, and therefore whatever the Secretary tells them, they can laugh at him. They say, "Yes, but you don't control the Senate."

Senator Symington: They were very anxious to get every Senator they could to come out and say we ought to act unilaterally, and they got two, three.

The Chairman: They know when the chips are down you can no more reverse this tax exemption than you can fly. You could not pass a bill through the Senate.

Senator Hickenlooper: I do not think you could.

The Chairman: Changing that tax exemption contribution to the UJA. I would bet you ten to one you could not begin to pass a bill You do not believe they could under any circumstances.

Senator Symington: A bill to do what?

The Chairman: To revoke the tax exemption of gifts to the UJA. That is one of their major sources of income. You yourself have pointed out the money they paid for the French arms they got from the U.S.

Senator Symington: Each year the money we give annually for this is less than 1 percent of the cost of Vietnam.

The Chairman: I agree with that.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerBlog.jhtml?itemNo=847472&contrassID=25&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=1&listSrc=Y&art=1

The above article froze my mac 3 times.zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

It's best not to accept at face value any information that is sourced from the US military in Iraq. Mis and Dis information are tools of the trade.

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Which is why the American public are supposed to BELEIVE what the military says this Fall about the surge? Ho things are going in Iraq? What a joke.....most here wil but it though, like they lsitened to Westmoreland during Vietnam.......................

I am down on my knees, Demcritters. 

Bush campaigns for immigration bill McClatchy Newspapers

"I believe I'm sinkin' low"

I f W wants it ...you know it ain't no good for America.

Eric Clapton and The Powerhouse

CD: What's Shakin' (Various Artists)
Song: "Crossroads"
Label: Elektra

Listen to "Crossroads"

You may fancy this tune, Mike

Fairport Convention

CD: Liege and Leaf
Song: "The Deserter"
Label: A&M

Listen to "The Deserter"

'A Look Through Square Windows' McClatchy Newspapers

Here they come. The first Hummer vehicle turns the corner and comes towards me. There are usually four. As soon as they are close enough I look straight into the vehicle's square windows – straight at the china-doll faces inside. Every time I look, I see young men – so young, some younger than my student daughter – with difficulty I see their faces, old disillusioned expressions on their surprisingly young faces; the baby fat still lingering in some.

Loving v. Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights case in which the United States Supreme Court declared Virginia's anti-miscegenation statute, the "Racial Integrity Act of 1924", unconstitutional, thereby ending all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the United States.

~ Decision

Nick Drake

CD: Bryter Layter
Song: "Poor Boy"
Label: Universal

Listen to "Poor Boy"

Imn2Paine
Sat, 06/02/07
7:24 am
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I click on the link and nothing happens.................like some relationships I guess, hell I dunno...........off for a bike ride.........barrys comin......no rain here for 15 days...............cheers

OK, Mike, didn't work for me either...

http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/archives/20070405/

Will attempt with Firefox:

Fairport Convention

didn't work...strange, 'cause it use to...???

Boat Filled With Taliban Sinks; 60 Dead

Couldn't have happened to ... 

"He stopped and bought a cigar and smoked it on the way to the airport," spokesman Aaron McLear said.

Was it a banned Cuban cigar?

"There's no way of telling now because he smoked it," McLear said

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Under trade restrictions, U.S. citizens are prohibited from buying Cuban cigars anywhere in the world.

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"Persons subject to U.S. jurisdiction are prohibited from purchasing or importing Cuban cigars, regardless of where they are," U.S. Treasury Department spokeswoman Molly Millerwise said in a statement.

The long-standing U.S. ban on prized Cuban cigars hasn't stopped a black-market trade, and numerous Internet sites offer cigars for sale purporting to be from Cuba.

Schwarzenegger favors costly Daniel Marshall cigars with personalized labels, but he has told Cigar Aficionado magazine he enjoys Cohibas and Montecristos, legendary brands from Cuba.

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Laws are for common people, Republicans are above that trivial nonsense.  Tut-tut, much ado about nothing.  

Money talks, money walks.

I bet Sen Thompson [R(at)-Tennesee] ...

new one

http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/21046