tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53151422011-06-21T07:26:02.333-07:00News Clippings Tracking the Insanity in this WorldCarrie Vnoreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315142.post-1123692417222866242005-08-10T09:46:00.000-07:002005-08-10T09:46:57.260-07:00

Eh, I'm a little embarrassed here. But, I'm sure all of you have been tuning in for almost a month and a half to see the completed project. *looks around* Yeah still not done. Been busy. Work related, so you know can't talk much about it. But, I will finish the wrap. I will. I promise. Why is it all echo-ee in here? Isn't anybody listening? Hello? Hello? Anybody there? Now pitching for

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It's Saturday and that means one thing, Weight Watchers meeting. Ijoined weight watchers 9 weeks ago when I looked at myself andrealized my attempts to lose weight on my own failed. I had lostabout 10 pounds on myown. But, there was more to go and I needed help. I'm not good atasking for help. But, I got over it and went to my first meeting anddidn't look back.And today was a great meeting.

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Reuters.com - US Officer Granted Latitude at Iraqi Prison-Report http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type%3DtopNews%26storyID%3D5405165

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TheStar.com - Rebels raid Iraqi police station YUSUFIYAH, IRAQ—Gunmen stormed a police station south of Baghdad yesterday, drove off poorly armed police and blew up the building in the fourth such attack in a week against Iraqi security installations. Police in this Euphrates river town, 16 kilometres south of Baghdad, called for help from U.S. forces when they came under attack. But the

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Yep, things are going great. :: Xinhuanet - English :: BAGHDAD, June 12 (Xinhuanet) -- Iraq's interim Deputy Foreign Minister Gassan Kuba was assassinated in Baghdad on Saturday, al-Jazeera television reported. Kuba was assassinated in Al-Adhamiya district in Baghdad, a Sunni Muslim neighborhood where support for Saddam Hussein's regime had been strong. Attackers fired at the car of top

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Tampabay: TIA now verifies flight of Saudis: " TIA now verifies flight of Saudis The government has long denied that two days after the 9/11 attacks, the three were allowed to fly. By JEAN HELLER, Times Staff Writer Published June 9, 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Times art] The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, better known as the 9/

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It's comforting to know that 12 ordinary citizens can score one for freedom and the principals that our country is supposed to stand for. Here are excerpts of the article in the Los Angeles Times Acquittal in Internet Terrorism Case Is a Defeat for Patriot Act The case of Sami Omar Al-Hussayen, 34, in Boise had become a test of the scope of U.S. anti-terrorism laws, including a provision of the

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USATODAY.com - Document warns Guantanamo employees not to talk: "The document 'suggests that there is something that needs to be hidden' about how detainees are being treated, says Scott Silliman, a Duke University law professor and a former Air Force lawyer. 'It suggests that the default should be: Don't talk.' Gary Solis, a retired Marine lieutenant colonel, says he gave similar advice to

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Colin Powell says the errors in the Terror Report were due to honest mistakes. Waxmen, who has wondered if the numbers were skewed for political reasons, has accepted Powell's explanation for the errors. Yahoo! News - State Dept. Understated Terrorism Attacks: "The April report said attacks had declined last year to 190, down from 198 in 2002 and 346 in 2001. The 2003 figure would have been

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For years the conservatives have accused public radio and television of being bastions on liberals. Personally I've always found them non-partisan, presenting all sides of an issue, finding a refreshing news source NOT dependent on corporate advertising. However, increasing fair and balanced means propaganda for the right. Now, we might be losing the one truly free source of quality news and

Carrie Vnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315142.post-1086828167656259612004-06-09T17:42:00.000-07:002004-06-09T17:42:47.656-07:00

Honest mistake or politcial manipulation? Either way it looks like we didn't do quite as well on reducing terrorist activity in the world as previously reported by the State Department. They reported in their annual report on glabl terrorism that Terrorism hit a 34 year low in 2003. Now it appears global terrorism may have actually risen. According to Mary Kaplan on Air America radio today,

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Torture memos draw fire: "WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats say Department of Justice memos contending that a wartime president is not bound by anti-torture principles could have laid the legal groundwork for the prisoner abuses that took place in Iraq and elsewhere. Rep. Jane Harman of California, senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, today released excerpts of one internal Bush

Carrie Vnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315142.post-1086817117426742052004-06-09T14:38:00.000-07:002004-06-09T14:49:40.220-07:00

Leahy is quickly becoming one of my favorite congressman. It's about time someone from government took Ashcroft to task. Have we captured some bad guys? Maybe, but we don't really know. We have no trials. We have no guilty verdicts. Our justice system is based on simple premises, innocent until PROVEN guilty, not claims of guilt, not declaration of guilt. Public trials, transparency

Carrie Vnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315142.post-1086814565887088632004-06-09T13:56:00.000-07:002004-06-09T13:56:05.886-07:00

Anybody see those ads of Laura Bush declaring her and her husband's commitment to education? Yeah, in 2000 Bush said he was the "Education President" and he would do for the country what he did for Texas, raise test scores and lower drop out rates. He got No Child Left Behind passed based on the "Texas Miracle" But, was their a miracle? Did Bush turn water into wine in Texas Education?

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So, it's been awhile since I've posted anything. But, I'm going to try to do something with this, since well I'm on vacation and maybe no one else reads this, but it amuses me, and keeps the fan burning for my disdain for this Bush Administration.

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Charged with Alien Smuggling After 18 Die Trucker Okay, I know this is a tragedy, but when I first read the headline I though it meant alians from outerspace. That made me laugh. So, I'm an idiot.

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Yahoo! News - Official Trapped in Car After Computer Fails Remeber that Stephen King/Emilio Esteves movie "Maximum Overdrive"? Be leary of the digitized world. It can always turn on you.

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ABCNEWS.com : Bush, Blair Nominated for Nobel Prize for Iraq War HOMINA, HOMINA, HOMINA WHAT!!!!!!! You start a unilateral war on the premise of stopping the proliferation of WMD, then after winning admit there may be none, and that wasn't the actual reason, and you get nominated for Nobel PEACE Prize? Thank God the Norwegian Parliament member who put forth the nomination was three months late

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Fortune.com - Magazine - Rummy's North Korea Connection Okay if I was a conspiracy theorist and paranoid I could spin quite a few scenarios around this story. Most would involve big business, world domination, and the spreading of Democracy through pre-emptive military action. That's only IF I was a conspircy theorist and paranoid. "Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld rarely keeps his opinions

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TIME.com: Steve Jobs: 'It's So Cool' Jobs: With the introduction of the new iTunes Music Store we've now built the first real complete ecosystem for the digital music age. We've got a way to buy music online legally that's fantastic ? it's better than any other way to acquire music. We've got a way manage music with the iTunes Jukebox, which is the best in the world. And we've got a way to listen

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ABCNEWS.com : Officials: 9/11 Was Main Reason for War "I don't think you should go to war to set examples or send messages," Woolsey said. Get the transcript of the Woolsey interview. Great, now that we're knee deep in Iraq with no easy way out but moving forward people start going wait, people start questioning are motives. This strikes me as too little, too late. "I don't think you should go

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Japan Today Japan News - Commentary - U.S. media losing global respect - Japan's Leading International News Network Great article on the failure of the US News Media to provide any meaningful coverage, challenge, or at times facts about the times we live in. How can a democracy thrive if no opposing voice of prevailing viewpoints is ever heard? If the news media is becoming no more than a

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Anybody Want a Rolex? "There was an element to the talks of attempts to threaten and intimidate and elements of wanting to buy a Rolex." Talking about North Korean terms for ending nuclear program. All I can say is hahahaha. That's funny. And my other favorite quote: "State Department spokesman Richard Boucher, however, ruled out offering such carrots and said: "We've made clear we're not

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Coherence Engine "Godwin's Law, which is that eventually, discussion threads will mention Nazis, at which point the discussion usually ends." That just struck me as funny.

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The Volokh Conspiracy Is America a Christian Nation? Wait you're telling me that the Separation of Church and State is an American principal?

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Iraq reconstruction costly, experts say Sheesh I thought we were going to have the bargain basement nation building plan in effect. Nice article about how our work is not over in Iraq despite the fall of Baghdad, and the capturing of the Iraqi Most Wanted Deck of Cards. What is with that Deck of card system anyway?

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