Really news? Too much to hope for. Amazing. There is a conscience at CNN.

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Dana Bash (Bush) seems to think 'the news conferences' and 'question and answer session' with the public is something the White House has no choice in 'performing.'

There is an alternative, Ms. Bash did not explore. Impeachment.

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The Democratic Candidate from Chicago. How about that? A segment worth watching.

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David Gergen. I would think you would be more positive about the Democrats, David. After all they didn't lie, they didn't corrupt the nation, or run the country into debt. They ARE the candidates with conscience and good government. Come now, Mr. Gergen. Let's get over this already.

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commercials

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I told you so. There are a lot of dead people buried on the Gulf Coast yet. "An intimacy" of one human being searching for another. Did the desire for searching of every increment of remains not exist after 911? It's high time that same sentiment arrived on the Gulf Coast. That love of fellow citizens should have existed long before, LONG BEFORE, Katrina ever arrived. The Gulf Coast just like every other case of negligence and incompetent became a 'Blame Game' i.e. "The problem..." according to MIchael Brown, "...were the Democrats in Louisiana." If that is not politics in the face of human tragedy don't ask me what is?

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The news secretary. Steady as she goes, Anderson. It is about time you all started looking like Americans rather than Bush's puppets.

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commercials

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Rob Marciano. One degree centigrade since 1975. That is a lot of calories when one considers the size of the oceans.

The 'storms' of the Atlantic have increased in intensity since the vortices of the in October 2002. The 'end of the storm season.'

This is the lack of conscience that is also immoral.

Let's start with this:

http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/index.html

Again. The ONLY place on the planet that debates the issues is Bush's America.

Sempra ranked near bottom on global warming

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20060322-9999-1b22sempra.html


Public service ads aim to raise awareness about global warming
BY SANDY BAUERS
Knight Ridder Newspapers
PHILADELPHIA - Your favorite TV show has ended. You've just seen the ads for Lipitor and light beer, and here comes another:
"Tick. Tick. Massive heat waves.
One after another, the faces of small children appear.
Tick. Tick. Severe droughts.
The kids look serious, maybe even upset.
Tick. Go to www.globalwarming.com. While there's still time."
Yikes - did some ad exec get lost on a horror movie set? Not quite.
Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense, has teamed with the Ad Council, which has challenged social norms with public service campaigns like "Friends don't let friends drive drunk" and Nancy Reagan's "Just say no."
In a series of TV and radio spots that one publicist termed "edgy" - and that a global warming skeptic called "the ultimate triumph of propaganda over science" - the group is hoping to spawn a massive shift in social awareness that will send millions rushing to turn down their thermostats, inflate their car tires and recycle their plastic.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/14161947.htm

and

http://apps5.oingo.com/apps/domainpark/domainpark.cgi?client=netw8744&s=GLOBALWARMING.COM

Denial of the fact this is high level of carbon dioxide due to human induced reasons is complete suicide. So what if the storms were increasing over the last nine years. Global warming has been an issue since the invention of the the railroads in the late 1800s. Xince 1960 scientists have been measuring the makedly noticable trend. I am assuming you all have heard of the Mauna Loa Labortories? This is the most hideous argument I have heard by a '?climatologist?' - Rob? I mean for real already. Are you actually that unsure? I am not and most of the world scientists are not. Time to join the communities of conscience. Perhaps you have heard about the conscience driven Christians that have come out to support the opposition to the continued abuse of the planet. I can't believe after all this time this news team has no clear message about Global Warming and Climate Change but simply uses the subject to promote it's popular exploitation of extreme weather. It's a darn shame. AC360 the staff of 'fence sitters.'

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I think ConocPhillips needs Russia more than the other way around.

China key role in Russia's oil strategy: oil tycoon

www.chinaview.cn 2006-03-23 00:31:15

BEIJING, March 22 (Xinhua) -- China is a long-term strategic partner for Russia's energy sector and plays an important role in Russia's Asian oil strategy, Russian oil tycoon Sergei Bogdanchikov said here Wednesday.
In an interview with Xinhua, the president of the Russian oil company Rosneft said by the end of the year, Russia and China willset up a joint venture in each country that will engage in the exploration, production and processing of crude oil and oil products in Russia, and the sale of such products in China and other countries.
Asian and Pacific countries, particularly China, could be the major markets for oil from Russia's Siberia and Far East regions, he said, adding that Rosneft will set up an Asian office in Beijing.
Rosneft has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the China Development Bank which provide financing for increased oil exports from Russia to China. Rosneft and the bank will also jointly finance the development of two oil and gas fields.
Bogdanchikov said Rosneft plans to increase its export of crudeoil and oil products to China from 7.1 million tons in 2005 to 12.7 million tons this year.

End item

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-03/23/content_4333700.htm

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Oil giants unite on refineryChina's two state oil giants are expected to join hands to build a US$1.5 billion (HK$11.7 billion) refinery in the country's southwest, under Beijing's mandate to merge two proposed competing plants, company officials said Wednesday.Thursday, 23 March, 2006China's two state oil giants are expected to join hands to build a US$1.5 billion (HK$11.7 billion) refinery in the country's southwest, under Beijing's mandate to merge two proposed competing plants, company officials said Wednesday.
This would be the first joint-venture refinery project between PetroChina and Sinopec and is projected to be built by 2010.
The actual size of the refinery or investment costs have not been pinned down, but officials expected the capacity to be around 200,000 barrels per day, or larger, and cost 12-13 billion yuan (HK$11.52 billion-HK$12.48 billion) to build.

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=22&art_id=14850&sid=7183032&con_type=1

DOES America and AC360 ever feel like the world has them over a barrel? Ha, ha, ha.

Work to begin on oil pipeline: Russian FM
www.chinaview.cn 2006-03-23 02:37:41
BEIJING, March 22 (Xinhua) -- Work on a new oil pipeline from Russia to China will begin in the near future, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in Beijing on Wednesday.
Addressing a press conference on the Year of Russia in China, Lavrov said the two countries will conduct a technical feasibilitystudy on the pipeline, which will be a branch of the East Siberia-Pacific pipeline.
Russian natural gas company Gazprom on Wednesday signed an agreement with the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) on the joint designing and construction of the oil pipeline from Russia's Skovorodino to the border of the two countries.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-03/23/content_4333784.htm

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It's time for the LA Terror Hour of AC360. Frankenstein is still insulting the viewership.

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Dana "Bash" Bush
"It's time to put a government in place (in Iraq.)" Bush.

It's time? It's long past time. It is however time to put a government in Washington, DC.

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The Kents believe Mr. Kent is a better journalist than any other news media service.

Oh?

He states the bridge the GIs were building was a priority for Iraq.

Oh?

I thought bridges were important for transport vehicles like the trucks Halliburton runs around Iraq. Right? Bridges? They are a strategic issue for the military. The soldiers are doing their job in the heat because it is a military project. Military projects aren't supposed to be the mechanism whereby Iraq is rebuilt. The Iraqis are supposed to be rebuilding Iraq. This such nonsense.

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Journalists are endangering soldiers. Excuse me but these men and women that report the war are doing so as imbeds. Not only that but they put their lives on the line. Nic is right the American media is not recruiting Jihadists. We call them suicide bombers. Al Jazeera calls them martyrs. This is more hideous stuff. You tell them, Nic.

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Michael Yon is an asshole. He is nothing but 'mind speak.' He has to be for his closed minded readership. The GIs are complaining about the media because they have such poor leadership. I am sure they complained about the media in Vietnam as well. Too bad. The nation is not about to stand behind immorality, prisoner abuse, lies and deceit for the sake of blowing smoke up the butts of GIs so they can have their morale'. Sorry. Lives are more important than egos here. The media far outshines in helping rather than hindering any effort in Iraq. If it weren't for the media like The New York Times, the American Soldier wouldn't have improving conditions or remotely adequate armor. Any 'insurgent' network does not need the American media to carry out it's plans. That is so stupid. How many people in Iraq even speak English, yet alone understand the sophisticated debate the American people engage in daily. Go straight to hell Anderson. You are NOT a good pier to other journalists. You know countries jail journalists for exactly these issues. Go straight to hell. This discussion is a 'designer' discussion to change the tone of the debate at a time when Bush is struggling for votes for his party this Novermber.

Get over it. People that criticize the media NEVER speak about the good the profession brings. If it weren't for The New York Times, there would never be the identity of 'The Military Class' instead of The Lower Middle Class where they were once consider to be and there would never be improved death benefits for families whom in the past lived in poverty worse than their military service poverty. The criticism is hideous.

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Enough.

Replacing Anderson by a designer journalist that is a name sake for the Chief Justice? How does it feel, Bubba?

Blood, Ink, and Oil: the Case of Darfur

The real reason may lie with the oil money that has backed George W. Bush from early in his first campaign for president.
U.S. oil companies, sidelined since 1997, are clearly eager for a piece of the action in Sudan. One of the recent oil deals signed with Khartoum is worth noting. On June 10, a "British" oil tycoon named Friedhelm Eronat acquired for $8 million the largest stake in a drilling contract signed two years ago on behalf of Cliveden Sudan, a company owned by Eronat at that time and had registered in the Virgin Islands to avoid paying taxes. Until then, Friedhelm Eronat had been an American citizen. He swapped his American citizenship for British just before signing the contract, thereby avoiding a jail sentence or fine.
But was Eronat - a high-risk wheeler-dealer who owns extensive drilling rights in neighboring Chad, where he played the Chinese against Canadian oil interests - acting on his own behalf in the recent deal, or was he fronting for other interests? Eronat has fronted for Exxon Mobil and other companies in the past. He narrowly escaped indictment on corruption and fraud charges in connection with a deal allegedly involving shell companies, bribery, and the swapping of Iranian oil for oil from Kazakhstan in order to circumvent the American law against trading with Iran.

You want to stop the genocide in Darfur? Divest from any company that supports the killing no matter how indirect it seems.

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Maryland Lt Governor urges divestiture of Sudan investments
Wednesday 22 March 2006 02:30.
March 21, 2006 (ANNAPOLIS) — Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele asked state pension system managers Monday to withdraw $1.9 billion from investment funds that hold stocks of companies that do business in Sudan to protest what he called "some of the most egregious human rights violations our nation has ever been witness to."

http://www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=14658

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Rumsfeld never defeated General Shinseki. After Shinseki left all that was left were cowards and 'yes' men. Right General Marks?

Pentagon Contradicts General on Iraq Occupation Force's Size

In a contentious exchange over the costs of war with Iraq, the Pentagon's second-ranking official today disparaged a top Army general's assessment of the number of troops needed to secure postwar Iraq. House Democrats then accused the Pentagon official, Paul D. Wolfowitz, of concealing internal administration estimates on the cost of fighting and rebuilding the country.

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Commercials

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PanAfrica: Africa: Group Slams Janus Face of U.S. Policy

The report, which comes on the eve of a critical decision by the African Union (AU) whether to ask the United Nations to absorb its 7,000-strong peace monitoring force into a larger and more robust U.N. peacekeeping operation in Darfur, points precisely to Sudan as a prime example of the administration's competing priorities in Africa.
On the one hand, the administration has accused Khartoum of "genocide" in Darfur and has spoken out strongly -- most recently in an appeal Thursday by Secretary of State Robert Zoellick -- in favour of a strong U.N. mission to end the violence that has recently spread to Chad.
On the other hand, Washington has ruled out deployment of its own troops on the ground in Darfur and appears to be forging an alliance with Sudan's intelligence services in the context of its "war on terror", reportedly even building a listening post near Khartoum to gather intelligence in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian peninsula. To the extent that Washington relies on Khartoum's cooperation, its efforts to end the Darfur crisis are constrained.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200603100066.html

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NPPA Awards
Posted Mar 21st 2006 3:21PM by Jay Savage
The National Press Protographer's Association has started naming winners in their Best of Photojournalism 2006 still photography awards. The crop at right is from David Burnett's portrait of Joseph C. Wilson and his wife Valerie Plame that won the category of "News Protrait and Personality." Other categories include "Domesic News," "Art of Entertainment," "Celebrity News Single," "Natural Disaster," "Sports Single," "Team Sports," and around two dozen other categories. Judging should continue through the wekk, culminating with awards for "Photojournalist of the Year (under 115,000 circulation)," and "Photojournalist of the Year (over 115,000 circulation)." All of the more than 45,000 pictures entered are available in the online archive.

http://digitalphotography.weblogsinc.com/2006/03/21/nppa-awards/

Joe Wilson knocks Iraq policyFormer ambassador wants coalition to sit down and talkBy Diane Hirth DEMOCRAT SENIOR WRITER
The man who rattled the White House by disputing President Bush's 2003 State of the Union claim that Saddam Hussein sought uranium in Niger to build a nuclear arsenal, said he did so simply as a patriot doing his duty.
Joe Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador to Iraq who spent 23 years in public service under Democratic and Republican presidents, told several hundred attentive listeners at Florida State University: "What I did was not extraordinary. It's the environment in which we act that makes this truth-telling event revolutionary. There's something wrong with this picture."

http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060321/NEWS01/603210331/1010/NEWS01

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Halliburton CEO says planning acquisitions
Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:38 AM ET
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NEW ORLEANS, March 21 (Reuters) - Oilfield services company Halliburton Co. (HAL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) expects to acquire companies to complement its existing businesses and broaden its geographic reach, Chairman and Chief Executive Dave Lesar said on Tuesday.
"These are going to be technology acquisitions, bolt-on acquisitions to our product lines, product extensions or geographic extensions," Lesar told the Howard Weil energy conference.
Halliburton, the world's second-largest oil field services company, has seen its revenues climb due to robust spending by oil and gas producers seeking to boost output to take advantage of high energy prices.
The company has said it plans to launch an initial public offering for 20 percent of its engineering and construction unit KBR, which is the Pentagon's biggest private contractor in Iraq.
Halliburton recently raised its quarterly dividend by 20 percent, putting the first-quarter dividend per share at 15 cents.

http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2006-03-21T153906Z_01_N21318433_RTRIDST_0_ENERGY-HALLIBURTON.XML

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Anderson and his boy toy, Frankenstein can't extrapolate the obvious. The parents of the boy don't want him to be another Billy with two children by an older woman persecuted on his part. This mother states "I pray he can leave this behind him."

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Business Digest
Port firm weighs options at key time
SSA Marine of Seattle, the largest U.S.-based port terminal operator, said it has engaged Citigroup to explore its "strategic alternatives" at a pivotal moment for the nation's ports.
SSA said it has received "recent inquiries from many companies looking to partner with, or invest in SSA Marine, as well as the opportunities to acquire additional operations."
SSA is seen as a potential bidder for the U.S. operations that Dubai Ports World has agreed to divest. The Seattle company already is a joint-venture partner in three of the terminals — in Philadelphia, Wilmington, Del., and Camden, N.J. — that Dubai Ports bought before its acquisition of port operator P&O ran into congressional opposition.
"None of the alternatives we are exploring would involve selling control of our U.S. operations to a company owned by a foreign government," SSA spokesman Bob Watters said late Friday.

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Farrell knocks Shays on port security

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/scn-sa-farrell5mar18,0,529025.story?coll=stam-news-local-headlines

BRIDGEPORT -- Democratic congressional hopeful Diane Farrell criticized U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays yesterday for not doing enough to enhance port security.Some House votes by Shays have kept additional federal dollars from ports security, Farrell said.

... Farrell's plan would implement the recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission; institute a review of the effectiveness of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism; implement funding to improve security at the nation's most vulnerable ports first; and repair communications between U.S. Coast Guard field offices.

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N.J. lawmakers: Make ports safer
Home News Tribune Online 03/19/06By RAJU CHEBIUMGANNETT NEWS SERVICErchebium@gns.gannett.com
WASHINGTON — Capitalizing on the attention generated by the now-defunct Dubai Ports World deal, some New Jersey lawmakers are trying to get Congress to further fortify the country's 361 ports against potential terrorist attacks.
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Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez introduced a measure Tuesday seeking $965 million for port security after touting his proposals in a speech at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank.
After initially proposing $250 million for port security, the Republican-controlled Senate adopted a measure by Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to allocate $978 million to make ports safer. However, that allocation — part of a bigger bill the Senate approved Thursday 51-49 — isn't binding because it is but one piece of a package of proposed governmental spending ceilings over the next five years.

http://www.thnt.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060319/NEWS/603190440/1001

Repuglicans always lie and manipulate.

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Proposal for ports may aid air Ships could be forced to power down enginesWarren Lutz Record Staff Writer Published Sunday, Mar 19, 2006
STOCKTON - Newly proposed rules aimed at reducing pollution at California ports could help improve the air San Joaquin Valley residents breathe - but exactly how the regulations will be met remains unknown.Port of Stockton officials are preparing to submit comments to state air officials over draft regulations that could require visiting ships to "cold iron" their vessels, or power down the combustion engines that spill pollutants into the atmosphere.The San Joaquin Valley is already one of the dirtiest air basins in the nation and has one of the highest asthma rates in the state. During winter, stagnant air traps pollution in the Valley for days, sending many residents to hospitals.

http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060319/NEWS01/603190326/1001

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The AC360 new broadcast is laughable. They are criticizing the media and reporting of Iraq because Bush says so. This by a man who oppresses the media, fines CBS relentlessly and USES the media at every turn including the Iraq war to terrorize the USA electorate. The reason Bush came out on attack on the media because he was being attacked. He's a Neocon. He doesn't turn tail and run. He victimizes. Allowing a news conference with a seasoned journalist like Helen Thomas, his best defense was an offense. He literally told the American Press to stop reporting the war and propagandize the war to the benefit of the Repuglican re-elections of November 2008. There is always a method to Bush's madness. Literally, madness. Daddy got mad at the media for making his job tougher with a war he designed and used the media to brainwash the American public to believe it was connected to 911. I think the word is 'hypocrit.'

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Top 25 Censored Stories of 2006

#1 Bush Administration Moves to Eliminate Open Government
#2 Media Coverage Fails on Iraq: Fallujah and the Civilian Death
#3 Another Year of Distorted Election Coverage
#4 Surveillance Society Quietly Moves In
#5 U.S. Uses Tsunami to Military Advantage in Southeast Asia
#6 The Real Oil for Food Scam
#7 Journalists Face Unprecedented Dangers to Life and Livelihood
#8 Iraqi Farmers Threatened By Bremer’s Mandates
#9 Iran’s New Oil Trade System Challenges U.S. Currency
#10 Mountaintop Removal Threatens Ecosystem and Economy
#11 Universal Mental Screening Program Usurps Parental Rights
#12 Military in Iraq Contracts Human Rights Violators
#13 Rich Countries Fail to Live up to Global Pledges
#14 Corporations Win Big on Tort Reform, Justice Suffers
#15 Conservative Plan to Override Academic Freedom in the Classroom
#16 U.S. Plans for Hemispheric Integration Include Canada
#17 U.S. Uses South American Military Bases to Expand Control of the Region
#18 Little Known Stock Fraud Could Weaken U.S. Economy
#19 Child Wards of the State Used in AIDS Experiments
#20 American Indians Sue for Resources; Compensation Provided to Others
#21 New Immigration Plan Favors Business Over People
#22 Nanotechnology Offers Exciting Possibilities But Health Effects Need Scrutiny
#23 Plight of Palestinian Child Detainees Highlights Global Problem
#24 Ethiopian Indigenous Victims of Corporate and Government Resource Aspirations
#25 Homeland Security Was Designed to Fail

http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2006/#1

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Did I hear how the product should be taken off the market? Do I detect more hypocracy by this administration and it's crony meida?

FDA To Mull Celebrex, Bextra

WebMD) The fate of a highly controversial class of painkillers is likely to be decided at a federal inquiry scheduled to open Wednesday. In three days of hearings, the FDA and a panel of outside experts will investigate the safety of arthritis drugs called Cox-2 inhibitors. This group includes Vioxx, Celebrex, and Bextra. FDA documents show that the hearings will focus on evidence that the drugs increase the risk of heart attacks and stroke, a finding that pushed Vioxx's manufacturer to pull it from the market in September 2004. This has also led many experts to call for a broad re-evaluation of the other Cox-2 inhibitors.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/15/health/webmd/main674248.shtml

Here you go Anderson, the Bush Administration believes in LABELS like the ones on cigarettes. An oversight on your part I am sure. Women have their place and they should be happy in it, right, Bubba?

Vioxx, Celebrex, Bextra: COX2 Inhibitors Unsafe Warns FDA Panel

The FDA advisory panel, a joint meeting of the agency's Arthritis Advisory Committee and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee, also recommended that the FDA require strongly worded black box warnings for each of the three COX 2 inhibitors currently approved in the United States - celecoxib, valdecoxib, and rofecoxib. The decision about rofecoxib was needed, according to FDA officials, because the drug was not ordered off the market but was withdrawn voluntarily.

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2005/02/28/vioxx_celebrex_bextra_cox2_inhibitors_unsafe_warns_fda_panel.htm

DeLay needs to come out of the re-election closet he is hiding in and debate his oppositon.

Prosecutors hope to reinstate charges against Delay
AUSTIN (AP) — Prosecutors will try to persuade a Texas appeals court Wednesday to reinstate some of the criminal charges against Rep. Tom DeLay, who is trying to win re-election to Congress while under indictment.
In December, a judge threw out some of the conspiracy and money laundering charges against the former House majority leader, saying the conspiracy law DeLay allegedly violated did not exist at the time.
Prosecutors say that it did. Both sides will argue their cases before the Texas 3rd Court of Appeals. DeLay will not attend.
Because of the dispute, no trial date has been set.
DeLay is accused of funneling illegal corporate donations to Republican candidates for the Texas House. The Republicans went on to win control of the Legislature in 2002 and pushed through a DeLay-engineered redistricting plan that helped Texas send more Republicans to Congress in 2004.

The most incredible and crass behavior tonight was when Rob Marciano did a segment on extreme wheather due to Global Warming while being stabbed in the back for his efforts by repeated oil company commercails. Talk about disrespect for the talent. The two subjects don't belong together in the same program. Either this news team is completely out of touch with reality or they simply don't care. Every viewer is an opportunity to exploit for a change of mind. Corrupt and dishonest journalism.