Asian Tsunami makes for strange bedfellows.

A Giant Tortise and a Hippo.

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Randy Kay and the shock of her life. The 'TREATMENT' is not therapy. It damages the brain, especially the junvenile brain.

On to Andy Card ... maybe this has something to do with it ....

March 28th, 2006 2:18 pm
Fitzgerald Will Seek New White House Indictments
By Jason Leopold / t r u t h o u t
It may seem as though it's been moving along at a snail's pace, but the second part of the federal investigation into the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson is nearly complete, with attorneys and government officials who have remained close to the probe saying that a grand jury will likely return an indictment against one or two senior Bush administration officials.
These sources work or worked at the State Department, the CIA and the National Security Council. Some of these sources are attorneys close to the case. They requested anonymity because they were not permitted to speak publicly about the details of the investigation.

Anderson likes to play "Let's Guess." It's gossipy. The talking heads are seeking to 'gossip' about this to make more of it than it is. Boring. Irrelivant.

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It's over in Iraq.

An Iraqi on Monday mourns his brother, who was killed in Sunday night clash, outside a local hospital in Sadr City (AFP photo by Ahmad Al Rubaye)

http://www.jordantimes.com/tue/index.htm


Rumsfeld: U.S. Struggles to Combat Anti-American Propaganda
By Bill Brubaker / Washington Post
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today the United States military has not figured out how to combat anti-American propaganda by Iraqi militants, including a widely reported claim that a Sunday attack by U.S. and Iraqi special forces targeted innocent Shiite Muslims praying in a mosque.


Sadr expected to gain from US raid

By Michael Georgy
Reuters
BAGHDAD — Iraq's Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr may turn to political advantage the bloody results of a US-Iraqi raid on a mosque compound in Baghdad.
Twenty bullet-riddled bodies lay in a Shiite community hall near a mosque in Sadr City after Sunday's raid, though there were widely conflicting accounts of how they were killed.
Political analysts say anger over the killings is likely to give Sadr political ammunition both on the street and at the negotiating table with Iraqi leaders who have been struggling to form a government more than three months after elections.

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Sudan may try to create nuke plan for electricity

KUWAIT CITY (AP) — The impoverished and war-torn country of Sudan is considering trying to create a nuclear programme to generate electrical power, its president told the state-owned Kuwait Television in an interview aired Monday.
President Omar Bashir said his government believes that its energy resources will not cover an expected increase in needs for electrical power in the next 25 years in the Arab-African country.
"During that period, nuclear energy comes in to fill the deficit in electrical power generation," Bashir said in the interview conducted Sunday. He spoke from the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, where his nation is hosting the Arab League summit that starts Tuesday.

Rights groups urge Arab summit to back UN force in Darfur

CAIRO (AFP) — The Arab League should support calls for the deployment of a UN force in Sudan's war-torn western region of Darfur and encourage Khartoum to accept the motion, rights groups urged Monday.
"The Arab League has rightly condemned attacks on civilians across the region, but it has remained silent about Sudan's atrocities in Darfur," a coalition of Arab and international human rights groups said.
"This time, Arab leaders must put the interests of Sudan's people first and support the transition to a UN force in Darfur," the coalition, including the New York-based Human Rights Watch, said in a statement on the eve of an Arab summit in Sudan.

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FOX PLAYS WITH LIVES This is irresponsible journalism. Who is going to try this medication out? Not only that it takes the 'safety' margin of using condoms and being tested. Who will bother to get tested and tell their partners if all they have to do is be 'on the pill' to prevent HIV. I can't imagine any medication formula that will proved a 'side effect' free drug to do this. This is outrageious. It give far too much permission for irresponsible behavior. It will case an increase in infection rate.

Drugs Show Promise in Stopping HIV Infection

ATLANTA — Twenty-five years after the first AIDS cases jolted the world, scientists think they soon may have a pill that people could take to keep from getting the virus that causes the global killer.
Two drugs already used to treat HIV infection have shown such promise at preventing it in monkeys that officials last week said they would expand early tests in healthy high-risk men and women around the world.
"This is the first thing I've seen at this point that I think really could have a prevention impact," said Thomas Folks, a federal scientist since the earliest days of AIDS. "If it works, it could be distributed quickly and could blunt the epidemic."

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DeLay appeals suspension of gun license

RICHMOND, Texas U-S Representative Tom DeLay is fighting to regain his Texas concealed handgun permit after it was suspended because of his indictment on felony charges.A Fort Bend County justice of the peace suspended DeLay's license after he was indicted by a Travis County grand jury on charges of conspiracy and money laundering last year.
A judge dismissed the conspiracy charge, but the Sugar Land Republican still faces a felony charge of money laundering.
Under Texas law, the Texas Department of Public Safety can suspend a handgun permit if its holder has been charged with certain misdemeanors or higher.
In papers filed with the court on March 14th, DeLay lawyer Steve Brittain appealed the suspension and asked the court to reconsider the matter. A hearing date has not been set.
A lawyer for the Department of Public Safety says the state will contest the appeal.

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Anderson, the ECT issue is ages old. Electrocution of children needs to be a crime. That segment you showed with children being wired for punishment didn't afford them anesthesia. Knock it off !

TOM DELAY IS SEXIST.

DeLay: O'Connor, Ginsburg 'don't get it' on judicial criticism

WASHINGTON Embattled Congressman Tom DeLay says "all wisdom doesn't reside in ... people in black robes."The Texan today said former and current U-S Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg "don't get it" when they complain of conservative criticism of judges.
O'Connor recently said the criticism has threatened judicial independence to deal with difficult issues such as gay marriage.
Ginsburg has said a Web threat against her and O'Connor was apparently prompted by G-O-P proposals in Congress that tell judges to stop relying on foreign laws or court decisions.
Republican DeLay spoke today to a group of Christian conservatives in Washington.
DeLay last year was indicted in Austin on charges that he improperly funneled corporate donations to Republican candidates for the Texas House.
The lawmaker from Sugar Land says he's innocent.

Enough

To Andy with love from LA - ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz........

When the piece is over, take a drive - provided you are still awake.

And now, the snooze: Considering the subject matter, Donald Bentley of La Puente thought it ironic that CNN would ask viewers to try to sit through a 10 p.m. broadcast (see accompanying). Then, again, better to fall asleep watching Anderson Cooper than driving a car.

Just an LA THING you understand.