Andy, I thought you were discussing Stem Cell Research

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Charles Rangel voted for Stem Cell Research, why didn't you ask him about that rather than enhancing the 'potential for global war' with draft legislation?

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2/3 YEA-AND-NAY
19-Jul-2006
6:51 PM
QUESTION: Passage, Objections of the President Not Withstanding
BILL TITLE: Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll388.xml

Just can't get over making war instead of peace, huh?

You know what is hideous about the interview to promote war with Charles Rangel? The fact it isn't based in reality, but, a dreamscape of a perfect world without war. Not only that but just like Bush, Rangel has no plan for any kind of 'mandatory' service, just that is should be done.

It's pure stupidity. Just like Anderson Coopers interview.

Bush vetoes embryonic stem-cell bill

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/19/stemcells.veto/

Kissing babies is easy. What isn't easy is SAVING LIVES and promoting peace in a way that secure the nation. Neither are an easy task but definately realistic.

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Rick Sanchez on 'living in New Orleans.' Sort of sounds like Baghdad and it's irregularity of utilities, why didn't you make that analogy, Andy? Ask Rick about comparing the availability of the utilities in New Orleans and Baghdad. I betcha it's close to the same. And without insurgents. I'll be darn.

You know with all the gentrification that is going on in New Orleans, somehow it doesn't track that the crime rate would be prevalent, except, rich folks can hire their own security.


Crowd of 3,000 shows City Hall its outrage over violent crime
By Laura Maggi and Gwen Filosa Staff writers

In an unprecedented display of civic outrage over violent crime, as many as 3,000 people marched on City Hall Thursday, demanding that city leaders stem the tide of violence, as well as calling on ordinary citizens to help make New Orleans safer.

Organized in the wake of a string of almost daily murders in the new year, the protest channeled the city’s rising anger and fear.

“We have come to declare that a city that could not be drowned in waters of a storm will not be drowned in the blood of its citizens,” said the Rev. John Raphael Jr., one of the opening speakers, hunched over the podium and preaching in a booming voice.

Other speakers echoed his pledge, offering a mixture of criticism directed at Mayor Ray Nagin, District Attorney Eddie Jordan and Police Superintendent Warren Riley, as well as requests that people living in neighborhoods scarred by violence stand up as witnesses and refuse to tolerate crime. Nagin and Riley, along with City Council members, attended the rally but were not allowed to speak. Jordan didn’t show up.

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tpupdates/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tpupdates/archives/2007_01_11.html#224418

BUT

Then the crime rate is nationwide. How about that reality, Andy?

Rise in New York's murder rate reflects new US appetite for guns
By David Usborne
Published: 29 December 2006
The steady decline in murder rates in America's biggest cities that began in the early 1990s and earned political points for urban leaders like New York's former mayor Rudolph Giuliani appears to be bottoming out, with signs of a sharp rise in urban violence this year.
With a few exceptions, notably in Los Angeles and San Francisco, police departments across the country are recording new increases in homicide rates for 2006. Officials blame gang turf wars, the ubiquity of guns, and a willingness among young people to shoot if they feel they have been shown disrespect.
The trend prompted the Mayor of Philadelphia, John Street, to make a televised address last summer appealing to young people to cease fire. "Lay down your weapons," he pleaded. "Do it now. Choose education over violence." The number of murders in his city will exceed 400 this year for the first time in a decade.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2110299.ece

Conviction rate ain't the reason, Anderson. Stop picking on the Black President of the city council. The fact of the matter is this is a federal problem because the gun laws have weapons running to the hands of people without restriction. Bush's permissive laws are the cause for increase CRIME and VIOLENCE issues in the USA. This president and NOT the Black President of the city council has the problem. Now. What is yours, Anderson?

Concern as homicide rates show increase in major cities
Published: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 10:56 AM Doha Time
By David Usborne
NEW YORK: The steady decline in murder rates in America’s biggest cities that began in the early 1990s and earned political points for urban leaders like New York’s former mayor Rudolph Giuliani appears to be bottoming out with signs of a sharp rise in urban violence this year.
With a few exceptions, notably in Los Angeles and San Francisco, police departments across the country are recording new increases in homicide rates for 2006. Officials blame gang turf-wars, the ubiquity of guns and a willingness of young people to shoot if they feel they have been shown disrespect.
The trend that prompted the Mayor of Philadelphia, John Street, to make a televised address last summer appealing to young people to ceasefire.
"Lay down your weapons," he pleaded. "Do it now. Choose education over violence."
The number of murders in his city will exceed 400 this year for the first time in a decade.

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=125226&version=1&template_id=43&parent_id=19

Natural gas inside an energy policy set for Friday.

Democrats Unveil Energy Package
By H. JOSEF HEBERTThe Associated PressThursday, January 11, 2007; 8:38 PM
WASHINGTON -- House Democrats next week will push to impose a conservation fee on oil and natural gas taken from the Gulf of Mexico if prices remain at current high levels.
Also, under a package of energy measures to be unveiled Friday, oil and gas companies would be barred from future Gulf lease sales unless they agree to renegotiate flawed 1998-99 leases that allowed them to avoid federal royalty payments.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/11/AR2007011101719.html

I guess Human Induced Global Warming has it's upside to New Orleans. At least folks don't have to worry about freezing to death, just the potential of drowing again.

2006 Was Record Warmest Year Across USA
ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, January 10, 2007 (ENS) - The 2006 average annual temperature for the Lower 48 United States was the warmest on record and nearly identical to the record set in 1998, according to government scientists at the NOAA National Climatic Data Center in Asheville.
Meteorologists said the past nine years have all been among the 25 warmest years on record for the contiguous United States, a streak which is unprecedented in the historical record.
Seven months in 2006 were much warmer than average, including December, which ended as the fourth warmest December since records began in 1895, the agency said Tuesday.
Based on preliminary data, the 2006 annual average temperature was 55 degrees Fahrenheit. That is 2.2 degrees F (1.2 degrees C) above the 20th century mean and 0.07 degrees F (0.04 degrees C) warmer than 1998.
These values were calculated using a network of more than 1,200 U.S. Historical Climatology Network stations. These data, primarily from rural stations, have been adjusted to remove artificial effects resulting from factors such as urbanization and station and instrument changes, which occurred during the period of record.
An improved data set being developed at the National Climatic Data Center and scheduled for release in 2007 incorporates recent scientific advances that better address uncertainties in the instrumental record.
Although undergoing final testing and development, this new data set also shows 2006 and 1998 to be the two warmest years on record for the contiguous United States, but with 2006 slightly cooler than 1998.
Five states had their warmest December on record - Minnesota, New York, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire - and no state was colder than average in December.
The unusually warm start to this winter reflected the rarity of Arctic outbreaks across the country as an El Niño episode continued in the equatorial Pacific. It is known that El Niño is playing a major role in this winter's short-term warm period.
U.S. and global annual temperatures are now approximately 1.0 degrees F warmer than at the start of the 20th century, and the rate of warming has accelerated over the past 30 years, increasing globally since the mid-1970s at a rate approximately three times faster than the century-scale trend.

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Just an interesting article from "NOLA."

1st black female judge in U.S. dies
1/11/2007, 10:01 p.m. CT
By SAMANTHA GROSS The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Jane Bolin, the nation's first black female judge and the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School, has died. She was 98.
Bolin's family contacted the New York City Bar Association on Thursday for help arranging a memorial, spokesman Matthew Kovary said.
Bolin, who died Monday in New York, was sworn in by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia in 1939, according to the city's law department. She was assigned to the Domestic Relations Court, later named Family Court, and fought racial discrimination from the bench.
She worked to end segregation in child placement facilities and the assignment of probation officers based on race. She also helped create a racially integrated treatment center for delinquent boys.
Bolin reflected on her status as a barrier-breaker in a 1993 interview with The New York Times.
"Everyone else makes a fuss about it, but I didn't think about it, and I still don't," she said. "I wasn't concerned about first, second or last. My work was my primary concern."
The city's mayors renewed her appointment three times, until the law required her to retire at age 70.

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/topstories/index.ssf?/base/national-78/116856865676170.xml&storylist=topstories

There is that decision too about State Farm lacking the morality to pay their insured.

Judge: State Farm liable for damage in Katrina case
1/11/2007, 12:26 p.m. CT
By GARRY MITCHELL The Associated Press

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge ruled against an insurance company Thursday in a Hurricane Katrina damage case that may have implications for hundreds of other homeowner lawsuits against insurers who refused to cover billions of dollars in damage from the storm's surge.
U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter Jr. ruled that State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. is liable for $223,292 in damage caused by Hurricane Katrina to a Biloxi couple's home, but said a jury must decide whether to award millions of dollars more in punitive damages.
The jury was expected to start weighing punitive damages on Thursday afternoon.

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-29/1168537177199970.xml&storylist=louisiana

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If there is an explosion, I doubt if there is local involvement. This is the only really volitile issue and it looks to be recently resolved.

Port standoff ends
The Piraeus Port Authority will discuss the business future of the portwith workers over the next four months, but 53 days of labour action have costPiraeus and Thessaloniki revenue and credibility

http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.prnt_article?e=C&f=13216&t=01&m=A07&aa=1

I guess some folks don't like Bush's assault within Iraq. That time of day there aren't that many people around to even be injured. Maybe it was a GAS LEAK, huh?

Blast rips through U.S. embassy compound in Athens

ATHENS (Reuters) - An explosion ripped through the U.S. embassy compound in central Athens on Friday, a police source said.
It was not clear what caused the blast and there was no immediate word on whether there were any casualties.
Police cordoned off all roads around the embassy.
Police officials at the scene said that whatever caused the explosion damaged the official embassy sign outside the mission, but there was little other indication of the extent of damage inside.

enough

Where did Aaron go?

Q: What has happened to Aaron Brown since he left the CNN program at night? (click on) He was wonderful and I miss his calm, concise, and interesting way of presenting the news.

A: Beginning Tuesday, Brown will spend a semester as the John J. Rhodes Chair at Arizona State University's Barrett Honors College. According to ASU, Brown ``will teach a course on news media issues, deliver a major speech on the Tempe campus and be part of the faculty at both ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Barrett Honors College.''

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