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Anderson IS green. He doesn't have to wear it.
"All angles on Iraq tonight." There are many angles to Iraq? Oh. I didn't think there was. I thought there was supposed to be a sovereign Iraq. What's the angle to that?
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"Swarmer" - Like Bees. Helicopters. Reconnaissance. This is a training session. That is why it is NOTHING, except the USA did lose at least one soldier. Nic. This military maneuver was nothing. It was never intended to anything except another training mission. Rove 'hyped' it for PR purposes. There isn't anything to this.
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THIS IS DEMOCRACY? This is exploitation of the American People.
U.S. Senate passes $2.8 trillion fiscal 2007 budget
WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday narrowly passed a $2.8 trillion election-year budget that would continue a string of huge deficits while also rejecting some of President George W. Bush's domestic spending priorities.
By a vote of 51-49, the Senate approved the fiscal 2007 budget that is nonbinding, but provides guidelines for spending bills Congress will try to pass this summer.
The budget passed with Vice President Dick Cheney, who also serves as president of the Senate, sitting in the Senate chamber ready to cast a tie-breaking vote if needed.
The House of Representatives has not yet written its version of a fiscal 2007 budget.
The Republican budget, which won the support of only one Senate Democrat, projects a $359 billion deficit in the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, down slightly from the $371 billion estimated for this year.
The budget also calls for the opening of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, generating an estimated $6 billion in leasing fees and bonus bids paid by energy companies to drill in the refuge. Pro-development lawmakers have been pushing the initiative for years and it was unclear whether environmentalists will be able to block the plan this year.
http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2006-03-17T004031Z_01_N16205864_RTRIDST_0_ECONOMY-BUDGET.XML
The Iraqi people are not better off now. Their lives are in direct fire of war daily. That wasn't going on with Saddam there. Tell me Abu Ghraib is better than any prison Saddam had?
Army Releases Abu Ghraib Documents
They support assertions by a punished officer that she was innocent of two main allegations.
From Associated Press
March, 17 2006
WASHINGTON — Army documents released Thursday substantiate assertions by Janis Karpinski, the highest-ranking officer punished in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, that she was innocent of two principal allegations lodged against her by the officer who initially investigated the case.
Among the documents was a January 2005 report by the Army inspector general's office that found insufficient evidence to support allegations that Karpinski had made a misleading statement to other Army investigators and that she failed to obey an order in connection with disciplinary action against soldiers under her command.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-karpinski17mar17,1,7024210.story?coll=la-headlines-nation
Abu Ghraib Dog Handler Case Goes to Jury
By DAVID DISHNEAU Associated Press Writer
© 2006 The Associated Press
FORT MEADE, Md. — A military jury began deliberating Friday in the case against an Army dog handler accused of using his barking animal to torment prisoners at Abu Ghraib for his own amusement.
Sgt. Michael Smith, 24, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., could get up to 24 1/2 years in prison if convicted on all counts.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/3731759.html
THE USA IS NOT OPEN FOR BUSINESS. National Security is defined as American Business, American Workers, American Investors and RESPECT for the unions of the Longshoremen. End of Discussion. This is NOT an answer to our National Security including our ports.
Security changes proposed after ports flap
COMBINED NEWS SERVICES
March 15, 2006
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration, reeling from a recent ruckus over ports security, will work with Congress to bolster national security reviews of foreign companies and others that want to invest in the United States, Treasury Secretary John Snow said yesterday.
Snow pushed lawmakers to ensure that any changes to investment rules leave the U.S. "open for business."
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/politics/ny-ussecu154662680mar15,0,3130949.story?coll=ny-lipolitics-print
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A Homegrown Solution for Safe Ports
Sophisticated scanning technology is being tested in Hong Kong. Why not at home?
The Dubai Ports World affair touched a nerve in the U.S. over the threat of possible security breaches at American ports. Though U.S. authorities thoroughly inspect the 5% of cargo containers they identify as high-risk, only 45% of all containers pass through the most accurate radiation scanners.
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar2006/nf20060316_8508_db016.htm
YOU GUYS don't get it, do you?
Look. Let's talk turkey. The American Hospital Association. Port Security. What do they have in common? Americans and the need for income. The American Hospital Association is wall to wall established Non-Profit Corporations with losts of money to invest. They need to form a cooperative and buy into the security of our country. Why isn't Port Elizabeth funded by all the hospitals in Newarki? Every American could have FREE hospital care including those on Medicare and Medicaid IF the nation's hospitals could invest in the security of our nation. Most certainly Port Investment is lucrative. It would be perfect to fund American Health Care. End of Discussion !!
Director Ridge Speaks at American Hospital Association Meeting
Remarks by Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge to the American Hospital Association
The Washington Hilton
Washington, D.C.
GOVERNOR RIDGE: Thank you very much for that very kind introduction, and thank you for your warm reception. I'm very pleased we've had the opportunity to spend a little time with you this morning.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/04/20020408-5.html
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17, 2006
More Evidence of Taliban & al Qaeda in Lodi, CA
Yes, the fine gentle people of the Taliban visited Lodi, California, testimony during the terror trial revealed yesterday. An FBI report also reveals that one of the men who was in Lodi to raise funds for the Taliban was Ayman al-Zawahiri--al Qaeda's #2 man.
Via Cagey Mind this from the Sac Bee:
Prosecutors on Thursday turned over to defense attorneys four FBI reports that apparently reflect agents' interviews of Naseem Khan, the government's key witness in the trials of two Lodi men on terrorist-related charges....
The first report describes an interview of the source on Oct. 26, 2001, in Bend, Ore., where Khan lived at the time. The source told agents that during Ramadan in 1999, when Khan was living in Lodi, three Taliban members came to the Lodi Muslim mosque while the source was there and met with members who handled the mosque's financial affairs.
The source said the trio "traveled around to the other area mosques in Stockton, Yuba City and Live Oak," apparently on a money-raising mission.
"Source said that a very large amount of money is collected at the various mosques during Ramadan," the report says.
The source named the three Taliban members as Ayman al-Zawahri, Ahmed Mohammed Hamed and Abdelkarim Hussein Mohamed al-Nasser.
Now that KG, formerly of the CalMafia blog, has come out of retirement, his blog will be the place to check for Lodi terror updates.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/163861.php
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Virginia Chow the woman's rights advocate !
FDA Nominee Could Stumble on Issue of 'Morning After' Pill
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Times Staff Writer
March 16, 2006
WASHINGTON — President Bush on Wednesday nominated acting Commissioner Andrew C. von Eschenbach to permanently head the troubled Food and Drug Administration, but a controversy involving science and sexual mores could stall his confirmation by the Senate indefinitely.
Democratic Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Patty Murray of Washington announced Wednesday that they would block a floor vote on the nomination until the FDA made a firm decision on the controversy — whether or not to allow Plan B, the "morning after" birth control pill, to be sold without a prescription.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-fda16mar16,1,7597869.story?coll=la-headlines-nation
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Mention Spring Break and does the news team at AC 360 revel with the College Crowd. No. They seek to terrorize every parent in America.
Prostitutes on lookout as police search for Daytona serial killer
By TRAVIS REED
Associated Press
Posted March 17 2006, 3:00 PM EST
DAYTONA BEACH -- Joe Lynn Alderman and other prostitutes walking Daytona's streets are on edge as police think a serial killer is stalking them.
They are trying to memorize vehicle descriptions and license plates, talking regularly with investigators and keeping a wary eye out for suspicious activity. Three women who police say led ``high-risk lifestyles'' have turned up dead since December.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-317serialkiller,0,1020259.story?coll=sfla-news-florida
There is a lot of killing going on in Florida, including Pediophils on the loose.
Suspect in West Boca nanny killing charged with Lake Worth attack
By JEROME BURDI
sun-sentinel.com
Posted March 17 2006, 3:38 PM EST
WEST PALM BEACH – The man held in the nanny killing case on Friday was charged at his first appearance hearing with trying to kill a Lake Worth couple during a 2003 break in, prosecutors said.
The suspect, Jerry Wiggins, 30, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in Broward County just two weeks ago for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old Coral Springs girl.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-317jerrywiggins,0,3841825.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines
Pathologist says teen who died after boot camp altercation likely suffocated
By Bill Kaczor
Associated Press Writer
Posted March 17 2006, 6:12 PM EST
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A teen who was punched and kicked by guards at a Panama City boot camp likely died because he was suffocated during the confrontation and probably was brain dead when he was brought to a hospital, a pathologist told lawmakers Friday.
Dr. Michael Baden observed the second autopsy performed on 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson on Monday in Tampa. Anderson's family disputed the original autopsy by a district medical examiner who found the boy had a natural death from complications of sickle cell trait, a usually benign blood disorder many blacks have.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-0317bootcamp,0,4472974.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines
To: Governor Jeb Bush
PETITION TO GOVERNOR JEB BUSH OF FLORIDA ASKING FOR AN INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF THE EVENTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING THE RECENT CARLIE BRUSCIA MURDER
WE, the undersigned citizens of the State of Florida, hereby ask the Governor of Florida, Jeb Bush, to call for an immediate independent and bipartisan commission to be formed to investigate the events and circumstances of the tragic abduction and murder of Carlie Bruscia, age 11, of Sarasota. The purpose of the petition is to inquire specifically why the charged person, one Joseph Smith, was allowed to be in the general public despite his prior history, especially regarding a kidnap of another person prior to Carlie Bruscia’ s murder. The judicial system was derelict in its duty to protect the public from people like Mr. Smith, and the State of Florida has a right to correct such injustice. The citizens of Florida have an inherent right to protect their children, and the Government of the State of Florida, being of the citizens of Florida, has an inherent right to protect the children of this State from harm at any cost.
http://www.petitiononline.com/Jeb8447/petition.html
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Firm Sets Timetable for U.S. Ports Pullout
By TED BRIDIS Associated Press Writers
© 2006 The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A Dubai-owned company is giving itself up to six months to sell all $700 million worth of its newly acquired U.S. port operations to an American buyer, a plan forced by congressional concerns over terrorism security.
DP World, the world's third-largest ports company, disclosed new details and the timetable Wednesday for its plans to surrender its U.S. businesses. The announcement was the first time it described its plans for the newly acquired U.S. operations as a "sale" to a single, unrelated American buyer and indicated it would retain no stake.
Lawmakers who criticized the Bush administration for approving DP World's earlier plans to operate in the United States said they were satisfied. Still, the House voted 377-38 Wednesday to formally express its opposition to DP World running any port terminals in America.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/3727261.html
Great Lakes gray wolves no longer endangered -US
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Interior Department on Thursday proposed to remove gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region from the federal list of endangered and threatened species.
Wolves in Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin, as well as in parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, would no longer be protected under the Endangered Species Act.
Instead they would be shielded by state and tribal programs, Department of Interior Secretary Gale Norton said in a press conference call.
The final decision will be made in eight to 12 months following a public comment period.
The Fish and Wildlife Service, an arm of the Interior Department, estimates some 4,000 gray wolves now live in Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin, up from between 700 and 1,000 when the animal was classified as endangered in 1974.
The agency says the current population represents 80 percent of all the gray wolves in the 48 contiguous states.
"Certainly, in the western Great Lakes the wolves are back," said John Kostyak, a lawyer for the National Wildlife Federation who attributed the recovery to cooperation between government officials and landowners.
"We're seeing a very impressive rebound for the species that have enjoyed the protection of the ESA," he said.
In 2003 the Bush administration tried to downgrade the status of the wolf from endangered to threatened in most of the lower 48 states. But federal courts in Oregon and Vermont struck down the decision.
The agency said the proposed Great Lakes delisting is smaller in scope than the 2003 effort, and can be easily approved. A 90-day public comment period on the proposal begins next week.
The Fish and Wildlife Service said that by 1960, the gray wolves were almost entirely eliminated from the three states in the northern Midwest, having starved from a lack of prey and been hunted for bounties for nearly 200 years.
"This is a species that over the centuries was basically extirpated from almost the entire lower 48 (states)," Kostyak said.
The proposal does not affect gray wolves in the West or in the Southwest, nor does it concern red wolves, a different species found in the Southeast.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-03-16T195743Z_01_N16340974_RTRUKOC_0_US-ENVIRONMENT-WOLVES.xml
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Denny's Restaurants
http://www.dennys.com/en/
Nutrition and Allergens
http://www.dennys.com/en/cms/Nutrition%2FAllergens/23.html
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Dubai ports vote splits Arizona Republicans
The Business Journal of Phoenix - 11:12 AM MST Thursday
by Mike Sunnucks
Four Arizona Republican lawmakers were among backers March 16 of an unsuccessful effort to kill a federal ban on turning over U.S. seaport operations to a state-owned company from the United Arab Emirates.
Arizona Congressmen Jim Kolbe, John Shadegg, Jeff Flake and Trent Franks -- all Republicans -- were among 38 lawmakers who voted for a plan to take the port restrictions out of a defense and security-related spending bill.
http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2006/03/13/daily38.html?jst=b_ln_hl
P&O India to clarify on Dubai Ports deal
K P Narayana Kumar / New Delhi March 17, 2006
Prior consent of central, state governments was must for any equity dilution in the company.
P&O Ports India has sought time till the end of the month to reply to a Gujarat Maritime Board notice on its recent takeover by Dubai Ports. P&O owns the Mundra International Container Terminal.
The board has also decided to ask Adani Port Ltd, the original owner of the Mundra Terminal, to clarify certain points, possibly with regard to the sale of the terminal to P&O some years ago.
Board Vice-Chairman & CEO HK Dash said, “We have received a communication from P&O. They have sought time till March 31 to file a detailed reply.”
http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?leftnm=lmnu2&leftindx=2&lselect=1&chklogin=N&autono=218975
I WOULDN'T BE SO SURE.
US-Oman deal should survive ports furor: lawmaker
Reuters
Thursday, March 16, 2006; 6:22 PM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress is likely to approve a free-trade pact with Oman this year despite the furor over a state-owned Arab company managing American ports, a Democratic congressman said on Thursday.
"My prediction on Oman -- if I was a betting man, I'd bet it would happen," Rep. Gregory Meeks, a New York Democrat, said in remarks to the USA Engage business coalition, which lobbies against the use of unilateral U.S. sanctions.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/16/AR2006031601536.html
Bi-state cooperation could begin with ports
Thursday, March 16, 2006
By DON HAMILTON Columbian Staff Writer
Vancouver and Portland should consider merging their two ports, the mayors of the two cities said Thursday at a forum looking at bi-state issues.
The daylong Bi-State Metropolitan Forum at Portland State University examined common issues and common problems the two states share. PSU and Washington State University Vancouver were among the sponsors.
Much of the discussion at the conference centered on the need for better schools, smarter economic development and transportation improvements. But the two mayors -- Royce Pollard of Vancouver and Tom Potter of Portland -- said they wanted to see if a port merger made sense.
"I see one area where we could move a lot further," Pollard said during a question and answer session with Potter that was moderated by Scott Campbell, publisher of the Columbian. "I'd like to see some day where we have one port authority, Vancouver and Portland. We'd drive the economic engine that we have for the success of our region. I think it's worth looking to that in the future."
Potter said the issue intrigued him and wondered whether money could be saved through economies in administration and marketing.
"The proximity begs the question," Potter said after the forum. "Why shouldn't we at least look at entering into more collaborative activity?"
The idea, though, was only that, an idea. No discussions have taken place and neither port has been involved in any merger discussions, said Larry Paulson, executive director of the Portland of Vancouver, who attended the conference and was surprised when he heard the proposal.
"I said that's news to me," Paulson said.
The two ports already operate a joint marketing agreement, travel together on overseas trips, share a floating dock and sit on several interstate committees.
http://www.columbian.com/news/breakingNews/breakingNews.cfm?story=13407
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NEXT UP ON CNN. The Day of Disaster. A fiction work to insight terror beyond any imagination.
Like I said.
National Security is not for sale !
Saturday, March 18, 2006
Friday, March 17, 2006
Bored and reading the Sunday supplements
In light of the attempt of some local officials in Clayton County to get giant raises, I noted that Billings, Montana pays its mayor $9,600 a year. I always think of everyone in television bringing in the big bucks, but a 27-year-old television news editor in Kearney, Nebraska earns $24,500 while a 23-year-old television production assistant in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma brings in $20,000. So much for my plan to lower my voice, get a face transplant and go into television. (When I first got into this business when Lincoln was still president, a friend told me I had a face for radio and a voice for newspapers). But lest you totally despair Jon Steward makes a cool $1.5 million and news anchor Anderson Cooper makes $2 million.
In light of the attempt of some local officials in Clayton County to get giant raises, I noted that Billings, Montana pays its mayor $9,600 a year. I always think of everyone in television bringing in the big bucks, but a 27-year-old television news editor in Kearney, Nebraska earns $24,500 while a 23-year-old television production assistant in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma brings in $20,000. So much for my plan to lower my voice, get a face transplant and go into television. (When I first got into this business when Lincoln was still president, a friend told me I had a face for radio and a voice for newspapers). But lest you totally despair Jon Steward makes a cool $1.5 million and news anchor Anderson Cooper makes $2 million.
I told you. Aaron Brown had one of the best news hours in the business. Look who he keeps company with !
... The most centrist outlet proved to be the "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer." CNN's "NewsNight With Aaron Brown" and ABC's "Good Morning America" were a close second and third...
... Five news outlets - "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer," ABC's "Good Morning America," CNN's "NewsNight With Aaron Brown," Fox News' "Special Report With Brit Hume" and the Drudge Report - were in a statistical dead heat in the race for the most centrist news outlet. Of the print media, USA Today was the most centrist....
As far as bias goes in media, there is no such thing in a 'centrist' program. In additon to that 'cutting edge' is not mired in 'old world' anything. News is cutting edge. It is the nature of the beast.
Too Bad.
News outlets are not supposed to market politics; they are to add to the discussion. Not. Lead the way. Aaron Brown by far has to be the best in the business. The best ! Bar none. I miss you Aaron.
... Five news outlets - "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer," ABC's "Good Morning America," CNN's "NewsNight With Aaron Brown," Fox News' "Special Report With Brit Hume" and the Drudge Report - were in a statistical dead heat in the race for the most centrist news outlet. Of the print media, USA Today was the most centrist....
As far as bias goes in media, there is no such thing in a 'centrist' program. In additon to that 'cutting edge' is not mired in 'old world' anything. News is cutting edge. It is the nature of the beast.
Too Bad.
News outlets are not supposed to market politics; they are to add to the discussion. Not. Lead the way. Aaron Brown by far has to be the best in the business. The best ! Bar none. I miss you Aaron.
Shut up Anderson. Talk about sex. That's what is "W"rong with Bush. He never thinks about sex.
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The NEW assault, on the American psyche. Pre-emptive wars. Amazing. Bush is an idiot. He wants to chronically launch new wars, placing cronies in strategic economic vantages and causing incredible chaos and disorder in the International Community. See Biush's agenda is fueled by causing internal unrest in other countries. He causes disorder out of order and then turns around while committing human rights abuses himself, stating a country has changed it's stripes and are committing human rights abuses.
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Nic Robertson
I don't a second of this film. This is nonsense. This is nothing more or less different than has been happening. Caches', IED material, etc, etc, etc, etc. Like I said, nothing new. I mean there wasn't a new invasion of Iraqis were there?
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This is going to be a long program. Lt. Gen. called Anderson, "Tucker." He must be making the rounds selling his book and forgot whom he was talking about. That's right the American people will never tolerate an escalation in ANY war. SOS, SAVE THE REPUGLICAN SHIP !
1006
Another talking head retired and tired general. This time Shepard. Gee, whiz this guy is really trying to sell a new reality. "W"rong Shepard. Sell your stocks in Carlyle.
1008
Here we go with Pre-Emption. Hadley. What a jerk. The USA has no military to start STILL ANOTHER WAR. These guys are not only jerks they are building STILL another new reality. They are all conartists.
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David Gergen. Blah, blah, blah.
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There won't be troops much longer in Iraq.
1021
The News Secretary
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The Carlyle Group Buys UC4
03/16/2006
UC4 Software, a specialist in enterprise job scheduling, and global private equity firm, The Carlyle Group, today announce that, in partnership with CEO and Founder Franz Beranek and Management, The Carlyle Group has signed an agreement to acquire UC4 Software GmbH, subject to regulatory approvals. Financial details were not disclosed.
http://www.ebizq.net/news/6803.html
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Yeah, it is very interesting how the Bush Administration, the 'Family Administration,' destroyed families.
Carlyle, Maxis Lead Firms Borrowing for Asian Buyouts This Week
March 17 (Bloomberg) -- Carlyle Group, manager of the largest U.S. buyout fund, and Malaysian mobile-phone network operator Maxis Communications Bhd. sought a total $1.8 billion of acquisition loans this week as debt-funded takeovers surge.
Carlyle in Washington is borrowing NT$30 billion ($927 million) to finance its bid for Taiwanese cable-television provider Eastern Multimedia Group, said bankers competing to lend the money. Kuala Lumpur-based Maxis said it's getting a loan for as much as $880 million to buy most of Aircel Ltd., the largest cell-phone company in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=aEQdXw5HZGf0&refer=asia
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If a dead beat dad doesn't want to pay child support because he told his girlfriend he never wanted children then he should have gotten a vasectomy.
Commercials.
If a dead beat dad doesn't want to pay child support because he told his girlfriend he never wanted children then he should have gotten a vasectomy.
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MacMedia still in the picture
March 17, 2006
With a bit of luck, it could soon be bidding for another cable TV deal in Taiwan.
MACQUARIE Media Group is still in the race to buy another cable TV operator in Taiwan, despite speculation US investment company Carlyle Group has Eastern Multimedia Group sewn up.
Carlyle has won the right to negotiate exclusively with Eastern Multimedia. But the talks are limited to two weeks and if there is no deal, bidders such as MMG, Newbridge Capital (which is teaming up with John Malone's Liberty Media) and Taiwan's Fubon Group can then restate their case.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/xchange/macmedia-still-in-the-picture/2006/03/16/1142098600315.html
Abortion, Authority, and Responsibility
March 16th, 2006
We hear a lot about women’s “reproductive rights.” In fact, some liberal politicians – Barbara Boxer comes to mind – seem to be able to segue from any conceivable topic to a discussion of them with ease. But do men have reproductive rights too?
Answering in the affirmative, a men’s group is filing a lawsuit today to win those very rights. According to CNN.com,
The National Center for Men [NCM] has prepared a lawsuit – nicknamed Roe v. Wade for Men – to be filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Michigan on behalf of a 25-year-old computer programmer ordered to pay child support for his ex-girlfriend’s daughter . . .
. . . The gist of the argument: If a pregnant woman can choose among abortion, adoption or raising a child, a man involved in an unintended pregnancy should have the choice of declining the financial responsibilities of fatherhood. The activists involved hope to spark discussion even if they lose.
I must say, this action has been a long time in coming, as it targets a glaring double-standard of the pro-abortion lobby.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5330
THIS IS HIDEOUS. If women want to prevent pregnancy they use contraception. Men need to do the same thing. It's called a condom.
Male activists want say in unplanned pregnancy
Lawsuit seeks right to decline financial responsibility for kids
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/03/08/fatherhood.suit.ap/index.html
The NEW assault, on the American psyche. Pre-emptive wars. Amazing. Bush is an idiot. He wants to chronically launch new wars, placing cronies in strategic economic vantages and causing incredible chaos and disorder in the International Community. See Biush's agenda is fueled by causing internal unrest in other countries. He causes disorder out of order and then turns around while committing human rights abuses himself, stating a country has changed it's stripes and are committing human rights abuses.
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Nic Robertson
I don't a second of this film. This is nonsense. This is nothing more or less different than has been happening. Caches', IED material, etc, etc, etc, etc. Like I said, nothing new. I mean there wasn't a new invasion of Iraqis were there?
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This is going to be a long program. Lt. Gen. called Anderson, "Tucker." He must be making the rounds selling his book and forgot whom he was talking about. That's right the American people will never tolerate an escalation in ANY war. SOS, SAVE THE REPUGLICAN SHIP !
1006
Another talking head retired and tired general. This time Shepard. Gee, whiz this guy is really trying to sell a new reality. "W"rong Shepard. Sell your stocks in Carlyle.
1008
Here we go with Pre-Emption. Hadley. What a jerk. The USA has no military to start STILL ANOTHER WAR. These guys are not only jerks they are building STILL another new reality. They are all conartists.
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David Gergen. Blah, blah, blah.
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There won't be troops much longer in Iraq.
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The News Secretary
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The Carlyle Group Buys UC4
03/16/2006
UC4 Software, a specialist in enterprise job scheduling, and global private equity firm, The Carlyle Group, today announce that, in partnership with CEO and Founder Franz Beranek and Management, The Carlyle Group has signed an agreement to acquire UC4 Software GmbH, subject to regulatory approvals. Financial details were not disclosed.
http://www.ebizq.net/news/6803.html
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Yeah, it is very interesting how the Bush Administration, the 'Family Administration,' destroyed families.
Carlyle, Maxis Lead Firms Borrowing for Asian Buyouts This Week
March 17 (Bloomberg) -- Carlyle Group, manager of the largest U.S. buyout fund, and Malaysian mobile-phone network operator Maxis Communications Bhd. sought a total $1.8 billion of acquisition loans this week as debt-funded takeovers surge.
Carlyle in Washington is borrowing NT$30 billion ($927 million) to finance its bid for Taiwanese cable-television provider Eastern Multimedia Group, said bankers competing to lend the money. Kuala Lumpur-based Maxis said it's getting a loan for as much as $880 million to buy most of Aircel Ltd., the largest cell-phone company in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=aEQdXw5HZGf0&refer=asia
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Commercials.
If a dead beat dad doesn't want to pay child support because he told his girlfriend he never wanted children then he should have gotten a vasectomy.
Commercials.
If a dead beat dad doesn't want to pay child support because he told his girlfriend he never wanted children then he should have gotten a vasectomy.
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MacMedia still in the picture
March 17, 2006
With a bit of luck, it could soon be bidding for another cable TV deal in Taiwan.
MACQUARIE Media Group is still in the race to buy another cable TV operator in Taiwan, despite speculation US investment company Carlyle Group has Eastern Multimedia Group sewn up.
Carlyle has won the right to negotiate exclusively with Eastern Multimedia. But the talks are limited to two weeks and if there is no deal, bidders such as MMG, Newbridge Capital (which is teaming up with John Malone's Liberty Media) and Taiwan's Fubon Group can then restate their case.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/xchange/macmedia-still-in-the-picture/2006/03/16/1142098600315.html
Abortion, Authority, and Responsibility
March 16th, 2006
We hear a lot about women’s “reproductive rights.” In fact, some liberal politicians – Barbara Boxer comes to mind – seem to be able to segue from any conceivable topic to a discussion of them with ease. But do men have reproductive rights too?
Answering in the affirmative, a men’s group is filing a lawsuit today to win those very rights. According to CNN.com,
The National Center for Men [NCM] has prepared a lawsuit – nicknamed Roe v. Wade for Men – to be filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Michigan on behalf of a 25-year-old computer programmer ordered to pay child support for his ex-girlfriend’s daughter . . .
. . . The gist of the argument: If a pregnant woman can choose among abortion, adoption or raising a child, a man involved in an unintended pregnancy should have the choice of declining the financial responsibilities of fatherhood. The activists involved hope to spark discussion even if they lose.
I must say, this action has been a long time in coming, as it targets a glaring double-standard of the pro-abortion lobby.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5330
THIS IS HIDEOUS. If women want to prevent pregnancy they use contraception. Men need to do the same thing. It's called a condom.
Male activists want say in unplanned pregnancy
Lawsuit seeks right to decline financial responsibility for kids
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/03/08/fatherhood.suit.ap/index.html
CNN is still making Propaganda it's focus. It's stupid already. .
They are sounding exactly as the did before Iraq. There is no way the USA is going to become a raging tyraid of military aggression. This is taking on a very sad montra. The USA hasn't caught Osama bin Laden and here is this news service promoting more and more aggression. There is no way. Hadley and McClellan are nothing but propaganda specialists. The Defense department cries, "Poor me everytime one turns around and they actually think they can come out promoting more war? This is an outrage. 1056 More leverage for UAE as FTA talks set to restart BY ISAAC JOHN (Chief Business Reporter) 16 March 2006 DUBAI — The flexible stand taken by the UAE on DP World row is likely to provide it with more leverage and bargaining power against the US at the fifth round of free trade talks that may get a revival following Minister of Economy Shaikha Lubna Al Qassimi's visit to Washington next week, sources close to the government said. Shaikha Lubna's visit to meet US officials — raising a mix of scepticism and hopes — is viewed by both sides as a strategic initiative in clearing the air of mistrust that had strained the bilateral ties in the wake of the controversy surrounding the collapsed ports deal. With the expected resumption of the crucial fifth round of free trade talks, which has been postponed in the backdrop of DP World's aborted takeover bid of six American ports, both sides can now hope to clinch a trade deal within months, sources said.
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?x
No surprise here. Libby's Lawyers Subpoena Times, Reporters By PETE YOST The Associated Press Thursday, March 16, 2006; 9:34 PM WASHINGTON -- The CIA leak case of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby may be heading for a new battle between the news media and the courts, the second such confrontation triggered by the Valerie Plame affair.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/16/AR2006031601711.html
Good night, all.
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Cooper doesn't believe his own polls, why should we ever expect them to believe Clarke and Paul O'Neil
1000
Bush Buloney
There ya go, a Bash talking about the Glory Days and the real victory for Bush and Cheney the attacks of 911. The door that opened the opportunity for Iraq. i.e. On the day after 911 the president wanted to name Iraq as the attackers, per Mr. Clarke.
1004
David Gergan to the rescue. This White House is forever shaking up his staff. They leave faster than he can find replacements.
So, if Cooper won't believe his own polls how about Rasmussen. I doubt if history will be kind to a president not seen as a leader in his own time.
1009
Andy thinks Bush still has Political Capital.
41% Say U.S. Winning War on Terror
35% Say Terrorists Winning
March 15, 2006--For the first time ever in a Rasmussen Reports survey, a majority of Americans believe that the U.S. mission in Iraq will ultimately be judged a failure. Fifty-two percent (52%) now hold that view. Just 32% believe that, in the long run, the mission will be viewed as a success.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/2006/War%20on%20Terror_Monthly_Update.htm
1011
Just think those children were playing on playground equipment under the UN Oil for Food Program that was having success before Bush moved against Saddam for no reason except oil.
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1013
Commercials
1016
Here we are again looking at the bizarre violence of the day.
The US Senate has rejected - by one vote - the Asbestos Bill, presented last year in an attempt to "cap" corporate liabilities for one of the worst minerals-related diseases. Although the Bill may be re-presented later this year, it's more likely to have sunk without trace.
The proposal divided political parties, trade unions, veterans, and businesses, although the Democratic party, mineworkers and environmentalists largely opposed it.
The biggest public relations "guns" were aimed by suporters of the Bill, notably Dow Chemical. While flagrantly refusing to settle claims by victims of the Bhopal conflagration in India, Dow has doled out at least US$3.6 million to lobbyists to apply pressure in favour of the bill.
Some of the lesser-known victims of asbestosis - as well as lead and mercury poisoning -are those employed to clear up the appalling detritus from the Twin Towers disaster of September 11 2001. Eighteen months after the first suit mounted for compensation, many are now suffering from fatal - and preventable - diseases
Under the Bush regime, only 12 mining violations have attracted maximum fines (US$60,000), in contrast to six times this number during the previous half dozen years under Clinton.
http://www.minesandcommunities.org/Action/press927.htm
1018
Nice earrings, Erica. The hair design compliments your facial profile. Nice bone structure. About time you were less prudish. Old before your time, Dear.
US sees UAE trade deal soon
Posted: Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Washington
The US hopes to clinch a free trade deal with the UAE within a few months, despite a political firestorm which unraveled a deal to let a Dubai firm manage US port terminals, US Trade Representative Rob Portman said.
Portman said the furore that forced Dubai Ports World to announce last week it would sell recently acquired US port operations would not prevent the two countries from reaching the trade accord.
The planned ports deal had triggered a broad uproar among Republican and Democratic lawmakers who said it would undermine security. Amid media reports that Dubai Ports World might not relinquish control of its US assets, the company insisted on Tuesday it would sell them to a US buyer.
http://www.tradearabia.com/tanews/newsdetails_snECO_article102081.html
1020
Commercials
Commercials
1023
The Carlie Brucia Trial and the sentencing of her killer. Steve Kansler. I am sure as a step father he feels watching her killer die will somehow be a justice for the death of Carlie. That isn't possible. Each person in this world has a place. The place Carlie occupied has been left in void. That is why there is never any such thing as closure. Of course Laurie Brucia feels a profound lose with no resolve to her feelings. Death is alien to her. Death was alien to Carlie until the bitter reality of social fodder found a manifestation. There needs to be a better way of achieving justice. Death of a killer never really closes the pain of loss. The pain of loss goes on forever. Every dead child has caused a change in laws. It stops some of the crime but does not eliminate it. There has to be answer.
Rapes Still Not Being Reported
The National Crime Victimization Survey includes statistics on reported and unreported crimes in America. Sexual assault is one of the most underreported crimes, with more than half still being left unreported. Utilizing services such as The National Sexual Assault Hotline can help encourage victims to get help and report what has happened to them so that more perpetrators can be brought to justice.
Young females are four times more likely than any other group to be the victims of sexual assault.
http://www.rainn.org/statistics/index.html
Sorry to hear about your brother's death, Anderson. I lost a nephew to suicide. It's very difficult. He hung himself from the barn rafters where all the animals he loved lived. Eddy was a big and soft heart in life. He collected all the misfits and treated them like family. As a result the brush burn issues of his young adult life proved too much for him and he turned to alcohol and marijuana. He was drunk purposely when he killed himself. He loved his family too much to do it to us. He had to play Molly Hatchet in his earphones and down a six pack of beer to bring his life to an end. He had every reason to live. So did Carlie Brucia.
1032
Commercials
UAE minister to visit U.S. after ports furor
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-03-15T124126Z_01_L15747655_RTRUKOC_0_US-TRADE-EMIRATES-USA.xml&archived=False
1035
The Sago Mine Debacle.
Lighting strike is one possibility. I think it is also a neglect issue as the companies involved were exploiting methane extraction at the same time the mine was occupied by miners. They didn't care about the danger or the loss of miners. They were willing to pay the penalities while realizing they would simply continue to do business. The mines with penalities need to be closed until every aspect of safety is addressed. The fact of the issue if the coal mines closed and the public finally moved onto other forms of energy in it's absence the mining industry might find out it truly is an antiquated form of fuel.
'
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/15/national/main1405081.shtml
1041
Commercials and the return of Frankenstein, Andy's automated boy toy.
1043
Mining Associations
http://www.nma.org/about_us/links.asp
It is a huge industry far beyond the mining of the coal. I would think the industry would take better care of those that make all this possible.
1050
The News Secretary
1051
Safe Coal Storage to Stabilize the Industry
http://www.compressedairmagazine.com/archived_files/1923_04_028_Ancient_Copper_Pipe.pdf
1053
commercials
1055
Ports deal collapse: A lesson for the world
By Youssef M. Ibrahim
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — On the first day of the firestorm involving Dubai's purchase of a global port management company, I phoned my friend Rashid al-Oraimi, opinion editor at Al Ittihad, a government-owned newspaper of the United Arab Emirates, to discuss the fierce reaction in the USA. No problem, Rashid said. The deal would go through "because Abu Abdullah OK'd it."
Who is Abu Abdullah? I asked.
"George Bush, of course," my friend answered, laughing, explaining that Abu Abdullah is the nickname given Bush in the inner circles of the Persian Gulf region.
Funny indeed, but as it turned out it's the wrong answer in this case.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-03-14-portslessons_x.htm
Bush Buloney
There ya go, a Bash talking about the Glory Days and the real victory for Bush and Cheney the attacks of 911. The door that opened the opportunity for Iraq. i.e. On the day after 911 the president wanted to name Iraq as the attackers, per Mr. Clarke.
1004
David Gergan to the rescue. This White House is forever shaking up his staff. They leave faster than he can find replacements.
So, if Cooper won't believe his own polls how about Rasmussen. I doubt if history will be kind to a president not seen as a leader in his own time.
1009
Andy thinks Bush still has Political Capital.
41% Say U.S. Winning War on Terror
35% Say Terrorists Winning
March 15, 2006--For the first time ever in a Rasmussen Reports survey, a majority of Americans believe that the U.S. mission in Iraq will ultimately be judged a failure. Fifty-two percent (52%) now hold that view. Just 32% believe that, in the long run, the mission will be viewed as a success.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/2006/War%20on%20Terror_Monthly_Update.htm
1011
Just think those children were playing on playground equipment under the UN Oil for Food Program that was having success before Bush moved against Saddam for no reason except oil.
\
1013
Commercials
1016
Here we are again looking at the bizarre violence of the day.
The US Senate has rejected - by one vote - the Asbestos Bill, presented last year in an attempt to "cap" corporate liabilities for one of the worst minerals-related diseases. Although the Bill may be re-presented later this year, it's more likely to have sunk without trace.
The proposal divided political parties, trade unions, veterans, and businesses, although the Democratic party, mineworkers and environmentalists largely opposed it.
The biggest public relations "guns" were aimed by suporters of the Bill, notably Dow Chemical. While flagrantly refusing to settle claims by victims of the Bhopal conflagration in India, Dow has doled out at least US$3.6 million to lobbyists to apply pressure in favour of the bill.
Some of the lesser-known victims of asbestosis - as well as lead and mercury poisoning -are those employed to clear up the appalling detritus from the Twin Towers disaster of September 11 2001. Eighteen months after the first suit mounted for compensation, many are now suffering from fatal - and preventable - diseases
Under the Bush regime, only 12 mining violations have attracted maximum fines (US$60,000), in contrast to six times this number during the previous half dozen years under Clinton.
http://www.minesandcommunities.org/Action/press927.htm
1018
Nice earrings, Erica. The hair design compliments your facial profile. Nice bone structure. About time you were less prudish. Old before your time, Dear.
US sees UAE trade deal soon
Posted: Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Washington
The US hopes to clinch a free trade deal with the UAE within a few months, despite a political firestorm which unraveled a deal to let a Dubai firm manage US port terminals, US Trade Representative Rob Portman said.
Portman said the furore that forced Dubai Ports World to announce last week it would sell recently acquired US port operations would not prevent the two countries from reaching the trade accord.
The planned ports deal had triggered a broad uproar among Republican and Democratic lawmakers who said it would undermine security. Amid media reports that Dubai Ports World might not relinquish control of its US assets, the company insisted on Tuesday it would sell them to a US buyer.
http://www.tradearabia.com/tanews/newsdetails_snECO_article102081.html
1020
Commercials
Commercials
1023
The Carlie Brucia Trial and the sentencing of her killer. Steve Kansler. I am sure as a step father he feels watching her killer die will somehow be a justice for the death of Carlie. That isn't possible. Each person in this world has a place. The place Carlie occupied has been left in void. That is why there is never any such thing as closure. Of course Laurie Brucia feels a profound lose with no resolve to her feelings. Death is alien to her. Death was alien to Carlie until the bitter reality of social fodder found a manifestation. There needs to be a better way of achieving justice. Death of a killer never really closes the pain of loss. The pain of loss goes on forever. Every dead child has caused a change in laws. It stops some of the crime but does not eliminate it. There has to be answer.
Rapes Still Not Being Reported
The National Crime Victimization Survey includes statistics on reported and unreported crimes in America. Sexual assault is one of the most underreported crimes, with more than half still being left unreported. Utilizing services such as The National Sexual Assault Hotline can help encourage victims to get help and report what has happened to them so that more perpetrators can be brought to justice.
Young females are four times more likely than any other group to be the victims of sexual assault.
http://www.rainn.org/statistics/index.html
Sorry to hear about your brother's death, Anderson. I lost a nephew to suicide. It's very difficult. He hung himself from the barn rafters where all the animals he loved lived. Eddy was a big and soft heart in life. He collected all the misfits and treated them like family. As a result the brush burn issues of his young adult life proved too much for him and he turned to alcohol and marijuana. He was drunk purposely when he killed himself. He loved his family too much to do it to us. He had to play Molly Hatchet in his earphones and down a six pack of beer to bring his life to an end. He had every reason to live. So did Carlie Brucia.
1032
Commercials
UAE minister to visit U.S. after ports furor
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-03-15T124126Z_01_L15747655_RTRUKOC_0_US-TRADE-EMIRATES-USA.xml&archived=False
1035
The Sago Mine Debacle.
Lighting strike is one possibility. I think it is also a neglect issue as the companies involved were exploiting methane extraction at the same time the mine was occupied by miners. They didn't care about the danger or the loss of miners. They were willing to pay the penalities while realizing they would simply continue to do business. The mines with penalities need to be closed until every aspect of safety is addressed. The fact of the issue if the coal mines closed and the public finally moved onto other forms of energy in it's absence the mining industry might find out it truly is an antiquated form of fuel.
'
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/15/national/main1405081.shtml
1041
Commercials and the return of Frankenstein, Andy's automated boy toy.
1043
Mining Associations
http://www.nma.org/about_us/links.asp
It is a huge industry far beyond the mining of the coal. I would think the industry would take better care of those that make all this possible.
1050
The News Secretary
1051
Safe Coal Storage to Stabilize the Industry
http://www.compressedairmagazine.com/archived_files/1923_04_028_Ancient_Copper_Pipe.pdf
1053
commercials
1055
Ports deal collapse: A lesson for the world
By Youssef M. Ibrahim
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — On the first day of the firestorm involving Dubai's purchase of a global port management company, I phoned my friend Rashid al-Oraimi, opinion editor at Al Ittihad, a government-owned newspaper of the United Arab Emirates, to discuss the fierce reaction in the USA. No problem, Rashid said. The deal would go through "because Abu Abdullah OK'd it."
Who is Abu Abdullah? I asked.
"George Bush, of course," my friend answered, laughing, explaining that Abu Abdullah is the nickname given Bush in the inner circles of the Persian Gulf region.
Funny indeed, but as it turned out it's the wrong answer in this case.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-03-14-portslessons_x.htm
1057
The West Coast Edition and Frankenstein it 'out there.' Back to Denny's and the postal event that is faciliated by Bush's LIBERAL GUN LAWS.
I wonder what the NRA (The National Restaurant Association) would say to the National Rifle Association??
1104
This is me, under the radar, signing off because I've had enough. The LA Edition is always heavy on control. When these control measures finally make a difference it will be an amazing day.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Have some technical changes.
I actually have an office where all the equipment is for these occassions. I started this project a few months ago so there are still some modifications going on over the past week and will continue this week. I should be back no later than Monday next.
I was impressed by this poll:
Iraq drives Bush's rating to new low
Americans pessimistic on war as president launches new push
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/13/bush.poll/index.html
There was this article in the Washington Post. The words are revealing.
Bush Calls on Iraqis to Embrace Compromise
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/13/AR2006031300785.html
COMPROMISE. Insurgencies are supposed to stop because there is compromise.
Right.
The article goes on: "President urges leaders to form "unity government" to fend off increasingly lethal insurgency."
INCREASING Letal Insurgency.
Those are Bush's words?
... increasing lethal insurgency.
I thought he said we were making progress. That does not sound like progress to me.
We need to leave Iraq to the Iraqis. The increasing insurgency is a Civil War and we don't need to practice ethnic cleansing. Obviously, short of a political solution there is nothing Bush seems to be able to do. Political solutions don't require the USA military.
I was impressed by this poll:
Iraq drives Bush's rating to new low
Americans pessimistic on war as president launches new push
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/13/bush.poll/index.html
There was this article in the Washington Post. The words are revealing.
Bush Calls on Iraqis to Embrace Compromise
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/13/AR2006031300785.html
COMPROMISE. Insurgencies are supposed to stop because there is compromise.
Right.
The article goes on: "President urges leaders to form "unity government" to fend off increasingly lethal insurgency."
INCREASING Letal Insurgency.
Those are Bush's words?
... increasing lethal insurgency.
I thought he said we were making progress. That does not sound like progress to me.
We need to leave Iraq to the Iraqis. The increasing insurgency is a Civil War and we don't need to practice ethnic cleansing. Obviously, short of a political solution there is nothing Bush seems to be able to do. Political solutions don't require the USA military.
We do not need to cause more problems for Iraq. We need to cause less. Representative Murtha is correct. We need to redeploy out of Iraq and allow the citizens there to regroup and hopefully find peace among themselves. We are causing much of the insurgency and Civil War. The Shi'ites are seen as favoring the US Military's intervention. That is why they are sustaining such attacks.
I'm going to read Professor Krugman's editorial and call it a night.
Later....
Saturday, March 11, 2006
New York Times’ “Ethicist” Charges Bush “Lied the Country Into a War”
How complete were the questions put by Aaron Brown of collegues when it came to their reporting?
An example is below.
My opinion, in regard to this, and where Mr. Cohen never completed his assertions regarding the lies of the Bush White House, was the FACT there were United Nations inspectors 'On The Ground' in Iraq at the request of Bush's Administration. Additionally, the expense of those inspectors were paid by a neutral country so there was no undue pressure on the UN Inspectors to alter their results. Concluding, Bush did not offer proof that over rode the authority of the findings of the UN inspectors when he and his administration, including Dick Cheney, invaded Iraq. Bush invaded Iraq a full day before the meeting of the UN Security Council where they were to come to a conclusion regarding the findings of the UN Inspectors. Bush invaded Iraq on 'steam' alone knowing full well no other country would oppose the military might of the USA for the sake of Saddam.
In Mr. Cohen's statements on ethics he stands out as being more than correct when the conclusions are not filtered through White House standards so much as 'the entire picture.' I more than likely would disagree with Aaron and his questions of 'proof' in that there is plenty of proof, but, Aaron's standards of collegues was not to be friendly but to be complete and correct. He carried out his responsibility in the interview with flying colors. In order to 'beat' Aaron's interviews one had to remain cool, calm and prepared. It was tough to be completely prepared.
What the public was treated to night after night was a perfectionist view of the world. He was not a 'spin doctor,' he was a journalist first and foremost. He assumed no political position of correctness. Aaron is hard core news. The public is his driving force. The love of his profession, his country and a hunger for accuracy are what qualified his journalistic style.
From the Tuesday, June 10, 2003 MRC CyberAlert about Cohen’s appearnce on the Friday, June 6 NewsNight on CNN:
During an appearance on CNN's NewsNight with Aaron Brown, Randy Cohen, who writes “The Ethicist” column for the New York Times Magazine, charged: “I think this is the big ethical story of the week -- is many people are asserting that the President is a liar, that the President lied about -- in order to get our country into a war. That's a serious story.”
When Brown suggested that “one should have evidence” that Bush lied “before one makes that argument,” Cohen snidely retorted: “Do you mean, before one drags the country into a war?”
Brown also raised the possibility the Bush administration just made a mistake. Cohen then contended: “The alternatives then are corrupt or incompetent. And that if you are so wrong about all three causes, then I wonder if you can honorably hold -- continue to hold your office. It's an important thing. Many people died.”
But not as many as the New York Times editorials and “news analysis” pieces by R.W. “Johnny” Apple predicted.
MRC analyst Ken Shepherd checked the transcript against the tape of the June 6 NewsNight and here is how the discussion proceeded after they talked about William Bulger continuing to serve as President of the University of Massachusetts when he refuses to help the FBI locate his fugitive brother, and the Martha Stewart matter:
Brown: “There's an interesting right or wrong, I'm not sure exactly where it centers, in this whole debate and discussion over weapons of mass destruction and what the government may have known, may have sort of known, but made it sound like maybe they knew more, all of that. What do you see there?”
Cohen: “I see you being surprising gentle, Aaron. I think the story -- and I think this is the big ethical story of the week -- is many people are asserting that the President is a liar, that the President lied about -- in order to get our country into a war. That's a serious story.”
Brown: “Well, yes, but it's also -- that would be a very serious story. One should have evidence of that, though, shouldn't one, before one makes that argument?”
Cohen: “Do you mean, before one drags the country into a war?”
Brown: “Well, that also. But before one asserts that anyone, including the President of the United States, is a liar, one ought to be able to prove that.”
Cohen: “Well, it's an interesting problem, that the -- and more and more papers are reporting it now, that the President listed three causes for the war, Iraq was an imminent threat to us, and to its neighbors, that Iraq was connected with the events of September 11, and that there would be weapons of mass destruction there. None of these things have been found. And I think many people believe the burden is on the president to prove his case. And if he doesn't, he then, it seems to me, is either a liar or a fool, and that's a very awkward position to be in.”
Brown: “Why is the burden on the President, and why are those the two choices? Why isn't one of the choices that intelligence was simply wrong? They thought they were right, but they were wrong. That is also a possibility.”
Cohen: “Well, yes, but the alternatives then are corrupt or incompetent. And that if you are so wrong about all three causes, then I wonder if you can honorably hold -- continue to hold your office. It's an important thing. Many people died.”
Brown: “They died. I’m with you on that.”
Cohen: “And the questions of his integrity have been raised by many places.”
Brown: “And I agree with that.”
Cohen: “By members of both parties. I think it has to be taken seriously as an ethical matter, absolutely.”
An example is below.
My opinion, in regard to this, and where Mr. Cohen never completed his assertions regarding the lies of the Bush White House, was the FACT there were United Nations inspectors 'On The Ground' in Iraq at the request of Bush's Administration. Additionally, the expense of those inspectors were paid by a neutral country so there was no undue pressure on the UN Inspectors to alter their results. Concluding, Bush did not offer proof that over rode the authority of the findings of the UN inspectors when he and his administration, including Dick Cheney, invaded Iraq. Bush invaded Iraq a full day before the meeting of the UN Security Council where they were to come to a conclusion regarding the findings of the UN Inspectors. Bush invaded Iraq on 'steam' alone knowing full well no other country would oppose the military might of the USA for the sake of Saddam.
In Mr. Cohen's statements on ethics he stands out as being more than correct when the conclusions are not filtered through White House standards so much as 'the entire picture.' I more than likely would disagree with Aaron and his questions of 'proof' in that there is plenty of proof, but, Aaron's standards of collegues was not to be friendly but to be complete and correct. He carried out his responsibility in the interview with flying colors. In order to 'beat' Aaron's interviews one had to remain cool, calm and prepared. It was tough to be completely prepared.
What the public was treated to night after night was a perfectionist view of the world. He was not a 'spin doctor,' he was a journalist first and foremost. He assumed no political position of correctness. Aaron is hard core news. The public is his driving force. The love of his profession, his country and a hunger for accuracy are what qualified his journalistic style.
From the Tuesday, June 10, 2003 MRC CyberAlert about Cohen’s appearnce on the Friday, June 6 NewsNight on CNN:
During an appearance on CNN's NewsNight with Aaron Brown, Randy Cohen, who writes “The Ethicist” column for the New York Times Magazine, charged: “I think this is the big ethical story of the week -- is many people are asserting that the President is a liar, that the President lied about -- in order to get our country into a war. That's a serious story.”
When Brown suggested that “one should have evidence” that Bush lied “before one makes that argument,” Cohen snidely retorted: “Do you mean, before one drags the country into a war?”
Brown also raised the possibility the Bush administration just made a mistake. Cohen then contended: “The alternatives then are corrupt or incompetent. And that if you are so wrong about all three causes, then I wonder if you can honorably hold -- continue to hold your office. It's an important thing. Many people died.”
But not as many as the New York Times editorials and “news analysis” pieces by R.W. “Johnny” Apple predicted.
MRC analyst Ken Shepherd checked the transcript against the tape of the June 6 NewsNight and here is how the discussion proceeded after they talked about William Bulger continuing to serve as President of the University of Massachusetts when he refuses to help the FBI locate his fugitive brother, and the Martha Stewart matter:
Brown: “There's an interesting right or wrong, I'm not sure exactly where it centers, in this whole debate and discussion over weapons of mass destruction and what the government may have known, may have sort of known, but made it sound like maybe they knew more, all of that. What do you see there?”
Cohen: “I see you being surprising gentle, Aaron. I think the story -- and I think this is the big ethical story of the week -- is many people are asserting that the President is a liar, that the President lied about -- in order to get our country into a war. That's a serious story.”
Brown: “Well, yes, but it's also -- that would be a very serious story. One should have evidence of that, though, shouldn't one, before one makes that argument?”
Cohen: “Do you mean, before one drags the country into a war?”
Brown: “Well, that also. But before one asserts that anyone, including the President of the United States, is a liar, one ought to be able to prove that.”
Cohen: “Well, it's an interesting problem, that the -- and more and more papers are reporting it now, that the President listed three causes for the war, Iraq was an imminent threat to us, and to its neighbors, that Iraq was connected with the events of September 11, and that there would be weapons of mass destruction there. None of these things have been found. And I think many people believe the burden is on the president to prove his case. And if he doesn't, he then, it seems to me, is either a liar or a fool, and that's a very awkward position to be in.”
Brown: “Why is the burden on the President, and why are those the two choices? Why isn't one of the choices that intelligence was simply wrong? They thought they were right, but they were wrong. That is also a possibility.”
Cohen: “Well, yes, but the alternatives then are corrupt or incompetent. And that if you are so wrong about all three causes, then I wonder if you can honorably hold -- continue to hold your office. It's an important thing. Many people died.”
Brown: “They died. I’m with you on that.”
Cohen: “And the questions of his integrity have been raised by many places.”
Brown: “And I agree with that.”
Cohen: “By members of both parties. I think it has to be taken seriously as an ethical matter, absolutely.”
Friday, March 10, 2006
Emoting has it's drawbacks
There is every indication from AC360 website that a topic of interest is the young man needing a kidney while his father is 'on the lamb' at his son's expense. The 'emoting' will end not in heroics but in a sudden truth, should the father be apprehended, that permission to remove the kidney is required. Just because the father is apprehended by a reward does not mean he has to consent to anything. Even prisoners aren't required to relinquish a body organ.
This is one of the saddest stories out there today. However, to protect the young man and his supportive public it is also the kind of story that requires perspective. When a criminal turns into a hero-father and then disappears that should be the end of the story to a greater aspect of it. The young man needs a kidney. I certainly hope he is not holding out all his hopes on a rush of conscience by a man that betrayed him.
To add a light touch to this entry. Arron Brown tends to speak so indelicately off camera. Come to think of it there were times on camera when he wasn't so delicate either. At any rate he was a first class journalist and this was a story I had in a file. I wanted to add perspective to a personality some might find they need to rescue, simply because of his leadership quality and all around nice guy status. Which he is. Aaron Brown needs no one to rescue him. He is all too adept at being intriguing, evoking, with the milder form of 'off color' humor when called for:
Media Whores no longer exists online as of today.
Rabid watchdog
While attacking what it sees as a vast, right-wing media conspiracy, an anonymous Web site has led to a growing media mystery:
Who is behind Media Whores Online?
June 3, 2002 CNN's Aaron Brown discovered he was the target of an organized campaign against him one morning in early May when his Blackberry started vibrating with the fury of hundreds of emails. "It was like magic fingers at a cheap motel," he says.
He had run afoul of the online media critics at Media Whores Online, an anonymously run Website whose writers and readers share a conviction that the mainstream media (aka "media whores") is dominated by a right-wing agenda, acts as a lapdog to President Bush and viciously attacks all things related to Bill Clinton, Al Gore or Democrats in general. So they, in turn, attack back.
The site's gimmick is to activate its readers, directing them to the latest offending "whore" to spam with e-mail arrows. And in its nearly three year history, its profile has steadily risen enough to merit increasingly frequent television and newspaper citations. All by ruffling the feathers of those easily wounded egos in journalism.
I really do miss Aaron. He was a good deal of fun as well as a first rate journalist.
Have a good weekend.
Shalom.
This is one of the saddest stories out there today. However, to protect the young man and his supportive public it is also the kind of story that requires perspective. When a criminal turns into a hero-father and then disappears that should be the end of the story to a greater aspect of it. The young man needs a kidney. I certainly hope he is not holding out all his hopes on a rush of conscience by a man that betrayed him.
To add a light touch to this entry. Arron Brown tends to speak so indelicately off camera. Come to think of it there were times on camera when he wasn't so delicate either. At any rate he was a first class journalist and this was a story I had in a file. I wanted to add perspective to a personality some might find they need to rescue, simply because of his leadership quality and all around nice guy status. Which he is. Aaron Brown needs no one to rescue him. He is all too adept at being intriguing, evoking, with the milder form of 'off color' humor when called for:
Media Whores no longer exists online as of today.
Rabid watchdog
While attacking what it sees as a vast, right-wing media conspiracy, an anonymous Web site has led to a growing media mystery:
Who is behind Media Whores Online?
June 3, 2002 CNN's Aaron Brown discovered he was the target of an organized campaign against him one morning in early May when his Blackberry started vibrating with the fury of hundreds of emails. "It was like magic fingers at a cheap motel," he says.
He had run afoul of the online media critics at Media Whores Online, an anonymously run Website whose writers and readers share a conviction that the mainstream media (aka "media whores") is dominated by a right-wing agenda, acts as a lapdog to President Bush and viciously attacks all things related to Bill Clinton, Al Gore or Democrats in general. So they, in turn, attack back.
The site's gimmick is to activate its readers, directing them to the latest offending "whore" to spam with e-mail arrows. And in its nearly three year history, its profile has steadily risen enough to merit increasingly frequent television and newspaper citations. All by ruffling the feathers of those easily wounded egos in journalism.
I really do miss Aaron. He was a good deal of fun as well as a first rate journalist.
Have a good weekend.
Shalom.
The Refined Spin
The entire show tonight was devoted to 'fine tuning.' It took the content last night and refined it for political gain by the 'perferred party.'
The most astounding part by the man who supposedly loves animals more than life itself it that the cadavor dogs spot lighted last night returned home tonight. The difference this time is that the insult from FEMA waving pages of invalid documents to complete for their hotel rooms was substituted for a complaint against the State of Louisiana whom they hoped had planned for the next set of cadavor dogs do to arrive sometime this week.
I tell you what AC.
Why don't YOU and Oprah sponsor a month or so of hotel accommodations and get the job done? Rather than picking on a state government that is now grabbing for monies it thought was guaranteed for rebuilding but is now divided among the entire Gulf Region sending any plans Louisiana had into a tail spin. Hardly sounds like a state government that can pay for hotel rooms for anyone, yet alone cadavor dogs, a veteranarian and their handlers.
The most astounding part by the man who supposedly loves animals more than life itself it that the cadavor dogs spot lighted last night returned home tonight. The difference this time is that the insult from FEMA waving pages of invalid documents to complete for their hotel rooms was substituted for a complaint against the State of Louisiana whom they hoped had planned for the next set of cadavor dogs do to arrive sometime this week.
I tell you what AC.
Why don't YOU and Oprah sponsor a month or so of hotel accommodations and get the job done? Rather than picking on a state government that is now grabbing for monies it thought was guaranteed for rebuilding but is now divided among the entire Gulf Region sending any plans Louisiana had into a tail spin. Hardly sounds like a state government that can pay for hotel rooms for anyone, yet alone cadavor dogs, a veteranarian and their handlers.
Thursday, March 9, 2006
When Penance is a Convenience
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The murder suspect. MSNBC's Rita Crosby did a great job with this subject just an hour ago.
Van Seats Tested In Grad Student Murder
Detectives investigating the murder of Manhattan graduate student Imette St. Guillen are now focusing on a van parked near the home of the man being questioned in the case.
Police removed minivan seats Tuesday from the basement of 41-year-old Darryl Littlejohn's Queens home. The seats will be tested for DNA evidence.
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=57636
I have no comment. I think the police are doing a good job. It's a tragic reality women still face. Women don't have the luxury of being completely liberated to have a good time without the threat of WACKO obsession.
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This just came into an e-mail. It isn't going away.
EX-CNN ANCHOR BROWN: "THE NEWS IN THIS COUNTRY IS A BUSINESS"
Former CNN anchor Aaron Brown has suggested that television viewers are responsible for the deterioration of broadcast news as much as the TV networks themselves. "In the perfect democracy that I believe TV news is, it's not enough to say you want serious news, you have to watch it," he told an audience in Medford, OR this week. As reported by the Medford Mail Tribune, Brown, speaking to a First Amendment forum, noted that while CNN was spending a fortune covering the 2004 tsunami, Fox News was channeling its resources into the missing teenager Natalee Holloway. The contest, he noted, was won hands down by Fox. The result, he suggested, was not lost on his former employer, CNN. "The news in this country is a business," he said. "You might not like to think of it that way, but it is." He suggested that television, instead of being diverted by scores of late-breaking trivial stories, ought to focus on the 6-10 "really important stories" that occur each day.
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THE CADAVOR DOGS
Kalib - Promises made to officers about living accommodations while they seek out bodies as volunteers are pulled. The Bush White House is playing politics with the findings of more dead bodies. Bush wants the dead buried forever. He wants to build over top of the evidence of his negligence. He could be tried for the crimes he committed against the people of this country. Other countries are watching him. If he was an MD and ignored evidence of impending death, he could be charged with malicious negligence, manslaughter or worse. He made his way to the Gulf Coast today and clamped down on this effort. He invited volunteers to commit fraud by filling out long term assistance forms. He doesn't want the 'bad press.' I find it interesting this segment was on the aire and then he turns up at The Gulf Coast after visiting India. It's a very odd coincidence. The statement to FEMA probably went like this, "You all are handing out the government money like candy to every sap that wants to make the Democrats dream come true. You are the problem, Brownie never was. Unless these are people needing long term assistance while living in New Orleans then they don't get free housing."
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Mixed response to $51m pregnancy hotline
THE Federal Government's $51 million pregnancy support counselling scheme has been hailed by anti-abortion groups, but has drawn a cool response from doctors and others caring for women with unwanted pregnancies and abused children.
The Prime Minister, John Howard, yesterday announced a new Medicare payment for pregnancy support counselling and a 24-hour hotline to give help to those wishing to "explore pregnancy options". Mr Howard, flanked by the Minister for Health, Tony Abbott, who has pushed for the scheme as a way of reducing Australia's 90,000 abortions a year, said there was a clear national consensus that the abortion rate was too high.
"I think the chances of it reducing the number of abortions is probably pretty minimal," Dr Haikerwal said. Everybody agreed that there were too many abortions, he said, but the new measure, by identifying the Medicare service specifically for pregnancy counselling, might be seen by patients as too easily identifying them as having an unwanted pregnancy.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/mixed-response-to-51m-pregnancy-hotline/2006/03/02/1141191796992.html
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THE INTERNET AND CHAT ROOMS. She ran away with someone she thought she could trust until she couldn't anymore. She's probably still alive. There was that young girl not long ago who was stolen from her home with her brother with relatives killed at the house. It's probably a pedophile similar to that man, from ???????? Utah? No, it wasn't Utah. Nevada maybe.
Police say mom, friends getting text messages from missing girl
JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Since 13-year-old Natasha Brown vanished on her way to school Monday, police say she's text messaged her mother saying that someone followed her and that she woke up in a dark basement.
One of the messages Brown sent her mother shortly after disappearing said: "Someone has me, she'll take my phone," Jersey City Police Chief Robert Troy said Wednesday.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj--missinggirl0308mar08,0,3985243.story?coll=ny-region-apnewjersey
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http://www.abpnews.com/862.article
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The analysis, which looked at six states that introduced parental involvement laws in the last decade and is believed to be the first study to include data from years after 1999, found instead a scattering of divergent trends.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/06/national/06abortion.html?ex=1142312400&en=ff533d9870b1db54&ei=5070&emc=eta1
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The News Secretary
Independent study
Nebraska Is Last In Preventing Unwanted Pregnancy
March 01, 2006
Nebraska scored another “last in the country” this week, finishing at the bottom of the heap when it comes to preventing unintended pregnancies.
http://nebraska.statepaper.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/03/01/4405d6329193d
THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY and the exploitation of human health. If you smoke cigarettes chronically you get sick and die prematurely. I met a 81 year old man who was admitted to the hospital. It was the first time he was ever hospitalized. When asked if he smoked he stated, 'Yes.' When asked how long he smoked, he stated "About 40 years." Then asked how much he smoked per day, he stated, "One cigarette everyday." That was an extraordinary answer. He took a habit of having a cordial and a cigarette in his smoking jacket after dinner. He then asked a question. "You don't think that has contributed to my illness now do you?" The reply simply was, "Perhaps." The fatality factor of cigarette smoking is measured in 'cigarette years.' The number of cigarettes per day by the length of time smoking. See, when cigarettes were once introduced to 'society' it was a luxury. An expensive luxury based on tabacco quality. Tobacco type. Then Industry Tobacco started and all kinds of additives and 'junk' was added to it and people became hooked on it against their will. Tobacco smoked to 'cope with stress' is an illness no different than alchoholism. It's just that with the wealth of big advertising dollars, cigarettes have lost their sophistication and has become a from of drunkenness. The strange thing about allowing cigarettes to be a luxuty and an occassional indulgence is that, considering the reaction of an appropriate 81 year old who expected longevity to treat him well, it would have been abandoned as a 'bad habit.'
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The murder suspect. MSNBC's Rita Crosby did a great job with this subject just an hour ago.
Van Seats Tested In Grad Student Murder
Detectives investigating the murder of Manhattan graduate student Imette St. Guillen are now focusing on a van parked near the home of the man being questioned in the case.
Police removed minivan seats Tuesday from the basement of 41-year-old Darryl Littlejohn's Queens home. The seats will be tested for DNA evidence.
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=57636
I have no comment. I think the police are doing a good job. It's a tragic reality women still face. Women don't have the luxury of being completely liberated to have a good time without the threat of WACKO obsession.
1008
This just came into an e-mail. It isn't going away.
EX-CNN ANCHOR BROWN: "THE NEWS IN THIS COUNTRY IS A BUSINESS"
Former CNN anchor Aaron Brown has suggested that television viewers are responsible for the deterioration of broadcast news as much as the TV networks themselves. "In the perfect democracy that I believe TV news is, it's not enough to say you want serious news, you have to watch it," he told an audience in Medford, OR this week. As reported by the Medford Mail Tribune, Brown, speaking to a First Amendment forum, noted that while CNN was spending a fortune covering the 2004 tsunami, Fox News was channeling its resources into the missing teenager Natalee Holloway. The contest, he noted, was won hands down by Fox. The result, he suggested, was not lost on his former employer, CNN. "The news in this country is a business," he said. "You might not like to think of it that way, but it is." He suggested that television, instead of being diverted by scores of late-breaking trivial stories, ought to focus on the 6-10 "really important stories" that occur each day.
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Birth control plan will cut welfare costs
Governor's program will try to prevent unplanned pregnancies
G ov. Jennifer Granholm's plan to spend $183 million to prevent unwanted pregnancies among low-income women is a good investment in reducing Michigan's burgeoning welfare burden.
The plan, approved last week by the federal government, would use federal dollars to teach birth control and provide contraceptives to women who can't afford them.
It's drawing fire from religious groups, who raise concerns about the state promoting sexual promiscuity and absolving women of responsible behavior.
But that horse is already out of the barn. Michigan pays for 52,000 Medicaid births each year. If that number could be cut by one-third, the savings would be roughly $274 million.
That's just the start of the obligation for taxpayers. Most of the Medicaid babies are born to single mothers and will go immediately on the welfare rolls, where they'll often remain until adulthood and beyond.
The state has a stake in cutting these costs. Education and prevention offer the best opportunities for reducing the number of children born into poverty and thus the burden on taxpayers.
Michigan's Medicaid burden is already consuming nearly 20 percent of the state budget and is growing every year.
That growth must be slowed if Michigan hopes to improve its education system and rebuild its crumbling infrastructure. The governor's plan is one answer.
THE CADAVOR DOGS
Kalib - Promises made to officers about living accommodations while they seek out bodies as volunteers are pulled. The Bush White House is playing politics with the findings of more dead bodies. Bush wants the dead buried forever. He wants to build over top of the evidence of his negligence. He could be tried for the crimes he committed against the people of this country. Other countries are watching him. If he was an MD and ignored evidence of impending death, he could be charged with malicious negligence, manslaughter or worse. He made his way to the Gulf Coast today and clamped down on this effort. He invited volunteers to commit fraud by filling out long term assistance forms. He doesn't want the 'bad press.' I find it interesting this segment was on the aire and then he turns up at The Gulf Coast after visiting India. It's a very odd coincidence. The statement to FEMA probably went like this, "You all are handing out the government money like candy to every sap that wants to make the Democrats dream come true. You are the problem, Brownie never was. Unless these are people needing long term assistance while living in New Orleans then they don't get free housing."
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Failing to prevent unwanted pregnancies
It’s no surprise to Hoosier health care providers that more than half of Indiana’s low-income women have little or no access to family planning services. But it should anger every single Indiana citizen to learn that just 41 percent of low-income women and teenagers receive birth-control services they need at publicly financed health clinics.
A study released Tuesday by the non-profit Guttmacher Institute ranks Indiana 49th in access to contraceptive services. Just under half of Indiana counties have a family planning clinic within their borders.
The reasons behind Indiana’s statistics are complex.
The cost of birth control is a factor – even for women with private insurance, which frequently doesn’t cover contraception. An estimated 16 percent of Hoosiers have no health insurance at all.
At the same time, the state has been stingy in allotting its own funds and leveraging federal funds for family planning. Thirty-four states do a better job.
Distance is another factor, especially for low-income women. Because most clinics that dispense birth control are in cities, they are often inaccessible to women who have neither time nor access to transportation in rural areas or small towns.
Many women also have too little knowledge about how their bodies work, which makes it easier for an unintended pregnancy to occur. Indiana schools take the path of least resistance and focus sex-education classes on abstinence and AIDS prevention. Many abstinence-only advocates argue that parents should teach their children about sexuality, but a teen pregnancy rate of 16,000 a year suggests that parents alone aren’t doing the job.
About 12 percent of the estimated 121,890 pregnancies that occur in Indiana each year end in abortion. Many of those abortions could be prevented if every woman of child-bearing age had ready access to safe contraception.
It’s irresponsible head-in-the-sand politics to decry the abortion rate when many families have no ready access to birth control.
The federal government has established a national public health goal of reducing the number of unplanned pregnancies 40 percent by 2010.
That’s a goal worth pursuing, and the state should vow to make family planning services accessible and affordable for every woman in Indiana. They can start by going after available funds more aggressively and then using them in the state’s most underserved areas.
Mixed response to $51m pregnancy hotline
THE Federal Government's $51 million pregnancy support counselling scheme has been hailed by anti-abortion groups, but has drawn a cool response from doctors and others caring for women with unwanted pregnancies and abused children.
The Prime Minister, John Howard, yesterday announced a new Medicare payment for pregnancy support counselling and a 24-hour hotline to give help to those wishing to "explore pregnancy options". Mr Howard, flanked by the Minister for Health, Tony Abbott, who has pushed for the scheme as a way of reducing Australia's 90,000 abortions a year, said there was a clear national consensus that the abortion rate was too high.
"I think the chances of it reducing the number of abortions is probably pretty minimal," Dr Haikerwal said. Everybody agreed that there were too many abortions, he said, but the new measure, by identifying the Medicare service specifically for pregnancy counselling, might be seen by patients as too easily identifying them as having an unwanted pregnancy.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/mixed-response-to-51m-pregnancy-hotline/2006/03/02/1141191796992.html
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THE INTERNET AND CHAT ROOMS. She ran away with someone she thought she could trust until she couldn't anymore. She's probably still alive. There was that young girl not long ago who was stolen from her home with her brother with relatives killed at the house. It's probably a pedophile similar to that man, from ???????? Utah? No, it wasn't Utah. Nevada maybe.
Police say mom, friends getting text messages from missing girl
JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Since 13-year-old Natasha Brown vanished on her way to school Monday, police say she's text messaged her mother saying that someone followed her and that she woke up in a dark basement.
One of the messages Brown sent her mother shortly after disappearing said: "Someone has me, she'll take my phone," Jersey City Police Chief Robert Troy said Wednesday.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj--missinggirl0308mar08,0,3985243.story?coll=ny-region-apnewjersey
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Rusty Dornan and the good police work regarding the church fires.
Catholic Democrats outline beliefs on church, state, abortion rights
By Robert Marus
Published March 2, 2006
WASHINGTON (ABP) -- In an apparent attempt to address a controversy that has swirled since the 2004 general election, a group of Catholic Democrats in the House of Representatives issued a document Feb. 28 explaining how they reconcile their faith with their politics.
The document, signed by 55 of the chamber's 72 Democratic Catholics, outlines how the signatories believe they should balance their roles as individual people of faith and as public servants representing people of all faiths.
"We are committed to making real the basic principles that are at the heart of Catholic social teaching: helping the poor and disadvantaged, protecting the most vulnerable among us, and ensuring that all Americans of every faith are given meaningful opportunities to share in the blessings of this great country," it read. "That commitment is fulfilled in different ways by legislators but includes: reducing the rising rates of poverty, increasing access to education for all, pressing for increased access to health care, and taking seriously the decision to go to war."
Both relatively liberal Catholics who support abortion rights, such as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and moderate, anti-abortion Democrats, such as Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), signed the document. It addressed abortion directly only by noting that all the signers agreed that it is a practice that should be reduced.
"We envision a world in which every child belongs to a loving family and [we] agree with the Catholic Church about the value of human life and the undesirability of abortion -- we do not
http://www.abpnews.com/862.article
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Commercials AGAIN
Scant Drop Seen in Abortion Rate if Parents Are Told
By ANDREW LEHREN and
Published: March 6, 2006
For all the passions they generate, laws that require minors to notify their parents or get permission to have an
The analysis, which looked at six states that introduced parental involvement laws in the last decade and is believed to be the first study to include data from years after 1999, found instead a scattering of divergent trends.
For instance, in Tennessee, the abortion rate went down when a federal court suspended a parental consent requirement, then rose when the law went back into effect. In Texas, the rate fell after a notification law went into effect, but not as fast as it did in the years before the law. In Virginia, the rate barely moved when the state introduced a notification law in 1998, but fell after the requirement was changed to parental consent in 2003.
Since the
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/06/national/06abortion.html?ex=1142312400&en=ff533d9870b1db54&ei=5070&emc=eta1
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Independent study
Nebraska Is Last In Preventing Unwanted Pregnancy
March 01, 2006
Nebraska scored another “last in the country” this week, finishing at the bottom of the heap when it comes to preventing unintended pregnancies.
The independent, non-profit
Nebraska ranked:
– 51st in service availability.
– 34th in laws and policies.
– 49th in public funding.
– 51st overall.
While some states aggressively pursue programs intended to avoid unwanted pregnancies, the study said, “officials in other states, including bottom-ranking Nebraska, North Dakota, Indiana, Ohio and Utah, are failing the women who live there.”
"We try to be very creative to get the services across to women across the state," Dr. Joann Schaeffer, director of regulation and licensure for the state Health and Human Services, told the Associated Press.
[Nebraska’s last place finish in the Guttmacher study came in the wake of another recent report – one that showed the state was last in economic development, too.]
States can be especially helpful to low-income women who are more likely than others to have unintended pregnancies, and to rely on publicly supported services for contraceptive care, the analysis said.
The report covered 1994-2001. It was based on the Guttmacher Institute’s independent research and data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Center for Health Studies. The study took a state-by-state look at programs to serve women who need contraceptive services, money provided for family planning and laws and policies promoting access to contraceptive information and services.
Some findings on Nebraska
In Nebraska, 33,890 of the 366,310 women of childbearing age become pregnant each year. The report said 73% result in live births, and 12% result in abortions; the remainder end in miscarriage.
Nebraska has the 10th lowest teenage pregnancy rate of any state. Of the 3,860 teenage pregnancies each year in Nebraska, 64% result in live births and 21% result in abortions.
Nebraska’s teenage pregnancy rate declined by 17% between 1992 and 2000.
Need for Publicly Supported Services
In Nebraska, 198,160 women are in need of contraceptive services and supplies. Of these, 105,090 need publicly supported contraceptive services because they have incomes below 250% of the federal poverty level (74,380) or are sexually active teenagers (30,710).
In Nebraska, 11% of women aged 15–44 have incomes below the federal poverty level, and 15% of all women in this age-group are uninsured (i.e., do not have private health insurance or Medicaid coverage).
In Nebraska, 10% of women aged 15–44 are enrolled in Medicaid.
Service Availability
In Nebraska, 39 publicly funded family planning clinics provide contraceptive care to 35,170 women—including 9,280 sexually active teenagers.
Family planning clinics in Nebraska serve 33% of all women in need of publicly supported contraceptive services and 30% of teenagers in need.
Only 25% of counties in Nebraska have at least one family planning clinic.
Funding for Publicly Supported Services
In 2001, the federal and state governments together spent $3,173,000 in Nebraska on contraceptive services and supplies. Of this amount, 3% was allocated to contraceptive services at the state’s discretion. (The funds came from either state revenues or federal dollars under the state’s control.) The remainder came from the federal government.
In Nebraska, $33 was spent on contraceptive services and supplies per woman in need (adjusted for the cost of health care in the state).
Impact of Publicly Supported Services
Publicly funded family planning clinics in Nebraska are estimated to help women prevent 6,500 unintended pregnancies each year.
Every public dollar spent on family planning services saves the federal and state governments three dollars in Medicaid costs for prenatal and newborn care.
The Key Role of Title X
Title X of the Public Health Service Act, the only federal program devoted solely to the provision of publicly supported family planning services, supports 32 family planning clinics in Nebraska. These clinics serve 33,550 women, including 8,880 teenagers.
Title X–supported clinics in Nebraska help women avert 6,300 unintended pregnancies each year.
http://nebraska.statepaper.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/03/01/4405d6329193d
THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY and the exploitation of human health. If you smoke cigarettes chronically you get sick and die prematurely. I met a 81 year old man who was admitted to the hospital. It was the first time he was ever hospitalized. When asked if he smoked he stated, 'Yes.' When asked how long he smoked, he stated "About 40 years." Then asked how much he smoked per day, he stated, "One cigarette everyday." That was an extraordinary answer. He took a habit of having a cordial and a cigarette in his smoking jacket after dinner. He then asked a question. "You don't think that has contributed to my illness now do you?" The reply simply was, "Perhaps." The fatality factor of cigarette smoking is measured in 'cigarette years.' The number of cigarettes per day by the length of time smoking. See, when cigarettes were once introduced to 'society' it was a luxury. An expensive luxury based on tabacco quality. Tobacco type. Then Industry Tobacco started and all kinds of additives and 'junk' was added to it and people became hooked on it against their will. Tobacco smoked to 'cope with stress' is an illness no different than alchoholism. It's just that with the wealth of big advertising dollars, cigarettes have lost their sophistication and has become a from of drunkenness. The strange thing about allowing cigarettes to be a luxuty and an occassional indulgence is that, considering the reaction of an appropriate 81 year old who expected longevity to treat him well, it would have been abandoned as a 'bad habit.'
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A minority still photo segement. You know Anderson, I realize you get 'sucked' in the vacuum of supposed equity in issues of discrimination. You probably get sucked into justifying party issues as well that are basically bad for this country. But, when do you stop being a sucker for false and dangerous priorities? Huh? When? When it's convenient or when you are vigilant everyday to the "W"rongful priorities of the current administration and their cronies. GEt over it. DO THE RIGHT ALL THE TIME, not when the just the 'heat' is on.
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Frannksetin had insulted me enough.
It's the "Reform Los Angeles" second 60 mintues. It's always about violence and law enforcement.
It is about discriminatory views of minoriites because they are poor.
Enough.
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
Anderson is 'on leave' tonght
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The tribute to Dana Reeves.
And the same insulting automated voice is inflicted on the audience again.
Joan's Legacy is a research foundation. Aaron was an Honorary Chairman last year.
Honorary Benefit Chairmen:Tom Brokaw, Aaron Brown, John Stossel, Elizabeth Vargas, Barbara Walters, Brian Williams
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More about lung cancer.
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More of the same. Can't leave them alone for a minute. When a person stops smoking the adverse effects strats reversing immediately. Wihtin three days, the senses that were dulled by the displaced oxygen of hemoglobin, returns. With increased oxygen in the blood the senses and brain are reinfused and working at maximum again. After that the lungs, which have an incredible ability to clean themselves of air pollution start to do exactly that. The smallest spaces of the lungs, the alveoli, start to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide to their fullest extent.
The average 'tidal' volume of any breath is about 500 cc. That is a half a liter of air moving in and out with each breath. When severe lung disease like Chornic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease occurs due to cigarette smoking, frequently the ONLY air exchange that occurs is the tidal volume. See the lungs have a lot of air in them at any given time. If the lungs CLEARED of all the air with every breath one would be chronically short of breath. The 'residual' amount of air in lungs can be as much as 2000 cc. But, the 'tidal' volume is only 500 cc as average.
These severe lung diseases literally destroys alveoli. When the alveoli are gone there can be no air exchange. When 'end stage' strikes of any of these diseases all too often the residual air in the lungs is gone and only the tidal volume exists. As time goes on that volume gets smaller and smaller. The average 'end state' of lung disease has a tidal volume of 240 cc before they die. The only air in the lungs is that supplemented with oxygen. The average pulse oximeter reading of people at 'end state' is about 84 to 85 percent. Normal is as close to 100% as a person can get. A chronic hypoxia exists. It's a horrible existance.
If you don't smoke, don't start.
If you do smoke, stop.
Lung disease takes your breath away. Better your 'soul mate' have that 'thrill' rather than the business of tobacco. Live a lifestyle of health and not anti-health.
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The tribute to Dana Reeves.
And the same insulting automated voice is inflicted on the audience again.
Joan's Legacy is a research foundation. Aaron was an Honorary Chairman last year.
Honorary Benefit Chairmen:Tom Brokaw, Aaron Brown, John Stossel, Elizabeth Vargas, Barbara Walters, Brian Williams
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More about lung cancer.
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More of the same. Can't leave them alone for a minute. When a person stops smoking the adverse effects strats reversing immediately. Wihtin three days, the senses that were dulled by the displaced oxygen of hemoglobin, returns. With increased oxygen in the blood the senses and brain are reinfused and working at maximum again. After that the lungs, which have an incredible ability to clean themselves of air pollution start to do exactly that. The smallest spaces of the lungs, the alveoli, start to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide to their fullest extent.
The average 'tidal' volume of any breath is about 500 cc. That is a half a liter of air moving in and out with each breath. When severe lung disease like Chornic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease occurs due to cigarette smoking, frequently the ONLY air exchange that occurs is the tidal volume. See the lungs have a lot of air in them at any given time. If the lungs CLEARED of all the air with every breath one would be chronically short of breath. The 'residual' amount of air in lungs can be as much as 2000 cc. But, the 'tidal' volume is only 500 cc as average.
These severe lung diseases literally destroys alveoli. When the alveoli are gone there can be no air exchange. When 'end stage' strikes of any of these diseases all too often the residual air in the lungs is gone and only the tidal volume exists. As time goes on that volume gets smaller and smaller. The average 'end state' of lung disease has a tidal volume of 240 cc before they die. The only air in the lungs is that supplemented with oxygen. The average pulse oximeter reading of people at 'end state' is about 84 to 85 percent. Normal is as close to 100% as a person can get. A chronic hypoxia exists. It's a horrible existance.
If you don't smoke, don't start.
If you do smoke, stop.
Lung disease takes your breath away. Better your 'soul mate' have that 'thrill' rather than the business of tobacco. Live a lifestyle of health and not anti-health.
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Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Anderson will get serious about bigotry any time now.
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Fugitive dad leaves sick son on dialysis
Authorities suspect man fled to Mexico as his child needs kidney
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (CNN) -- A Kentucky prisoner who duped authorities and his family into believing he intended to donate a kidney to his ailing son may have escaped to Mexico with his girlfriend, federal authorities said.
"It is a solid lead," Deputy U.S. Marshal Dawn Izgarjan told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday.
The possible breakthrough came after a couple saw a report on CNN about Byron Perkins and his fugitive girlfriend while at the Phoenix, Arizona, airport, recognized the pair and called authorities.
The couple reportedly told authorities they had spent time with Perkins and the woman, Lee Ann Howard, in a fishing village near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, earlier in the week. Authorities consider Perkins armed and dangerous.
"They described the tattoo that was on the gentleman's chest that was identified with Byron Perkins as being an identifying mark," Deputy U.S. Marshal Chuck Gilbert said.
The couple reportedly said the two went by the name Perkins and that the woman used insulin.
Authorities said Howard is a diabetic. (Watch for the jailhouse conversation the couple had about her needles -- 3:44)
The couple also said the two had books on regions of Mexico and that the man "seemed to know a lot" about the country, Izgarjan said.
http://cnn.worldnews.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=CNN.com+-+Fugitive+dad+leaves+sick+son+on+dialysis+-+Mar+3%2C+2006&expire=-1&urlID=17413014&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2006%2FUS%2F03%2F03%2Fkidney.dad%2F&partnerID=2006
'Crash's' look at racism trumps 'Brokeback' love
By Barry Caine, STAFF WRITER
One surprise, and we had to wait till the end. There is no justice.
In Sunday's 78th Annual Academy Awards, heretofore known as Everyone Wants to Sleep with George Clooney Night, "Crash" put a stop to the "Brokeback Mountain" stampede-that-never-happened with an upset win for best picture.
You can still hear the shock reverberating among Oscar-pool losers.
With no movie winning more than three Oscars, this was the first year in a while when no single picture dominated la "Lord of the Rings."
``An intricate ensemble piece about racism in L.A., ``Crash'' also notched awards for editing and original screenplay.
Picked as best original song was "It's Hard Out There for a Pimp," an insightful ditty from "Hustle & Flow" that was sung flatter than any nominee in recent memory.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/localnews/ci_3573804
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The News Secretary
£2.6m for radical new treatment for kidney dialysis patients
An innovative new medical approach which could substantially improve the quality of life for over a million kidney dialysis patients, and bring huge savings to health services around the globe has received an investment round worth £2.6m.
The development of this new product has been made possible thanks to a major funding round of £2.6m led by NPI Ventures with funding from NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts), who had previously invested £95,000 in the technology, Imperial College and Oxford Capital Partners.
At present, over a million kidney dialysis patients worldwide are treated by having a synthetic tube – called a vascular access graft - inserted under the skin, through which they are "hooked up" to a machine every few days.
Vascular access grafts are inserted beneath the skin so needles can be injected regularly and to maximise blood-flow to the dialysis machine. However, these can develop a potentially lethal disease, called ‘intimal hyperplasia’. This thickens the blood vessels, which is the most common reason for grafts needing to be replaced within a year, or for patients to undergo remedial surgery.
London-based Veryan Medical Ltd has developed SwirlGraft to combat this. It updates the standard synthetic grafts with a new spiral shape, allowing the blood to swirl through it, mimicking its natural action and reducing the likelikood of any problems.
http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/report-55268.html
Deception turns Tillman's death into sad mockery
BY MIKE BIANCHI
The Orlando Sentinel
ORLANDO, Fla. - What have they done to Pat Tillman?
Remember when he symbolized what the war on terrorism was supposed to be about_unselfishness, gallantry, patriotism? Now, tragically and perhaps even criminally, his name has become a euphemism for what far too many Americans believe this war has become _deception, fabrications, cover-ups.
We've gone from Pat Tillman giving up his life in his fight for justice to his death being marred by the obstruction of it. From weapons of mass destruction to whoppers of mass distortion. From a man whose life became an American inspiration to a man whose death is being tainted by a criminal investigation.
ORLANDO, Fla. - What have they done to Pat Tillman?
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/14033517.htm
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Century 21 Hangs Sign on CNN
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 3/6/2006 8:59:00 AM
Century 21 Real Estate has signed on for a year-long advertising/sponsorship deal with CNN ad sales.
No, Anderson Cooper won't make sure he is standing in front of a Century 21 "for sale" sign for that next Katrina repopulating story.
Century 21 will become the sponsor of CNN's Open House Saturday morning half-hour real estate news feature series. It will also get billboards in "Top Five Real Estate Tips" and "Home Front" segments that air during the week on CNN networks.
In addition, an on-demand version of CNN's real estate shows will have a "brought to you by Century 21" attached for about a month--which month will be up to Century 21--and the company will be the real estate category sponsor on CNN.com.
On the other side of the table, Century 21 will get to use select stories from CNNMoney.com on its own Web site.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6313101.html?display=Breaking+News
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HK Hospital Authority enhances measures to prevent avian flu
Upon confirmation of a human avian influenza case in China's Guangdong province, the Hong Kong Hospital Authority announced Monday that it will strengthen measures in avian flu prevention.
During an urgent meeting held on March 4 by the Central Committee on Infectious Disease (CCID) of the Hospital Authority, a three-week enhanced surveillance program from March 8 was recommended.
According to the recommendation, public hospitals should report to the e-Flu system of the Hospital Authority all patients fulfilling the case definition of having pneumonia of unidentified etiology and travel history to places with confirmed human cases of avian flu infection in the past six months, within seven days before symptoms onset.
Besides, the laboratory network including the Hong Kong Public Health Laboratory Center, Princess Margaret Hospital, Prince of Wales Hospital and some other public hospitals will participate in the enhanced surveillance program to provide rapid test for avian influenza.
This special enhanced surveillance program will be reviewed in three weeks' time. Meanwhile, all infection control measures under current Yellow Alert are still in effect.
The Hospital Authority will continue to co-operate with the Center for Health Protection to keep the general public and professionals posted of the most updated situation and relevant information.
http://english.people.com.cn/200603/06/eng20060306_248380.html
Avian Flu: US to produce second bird-flu vaccine; World Health Organization meets in Geneva on pandemic strategy
By Finfacts Team
Mar 6, 2006, 17:46
Today the World Health Organization (WHO) convened a three-day technical meeting of international public health experts at its Geneva headquarters, to discuss a rapid response strategy in the event of an influenza pandemic emerging.
http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_10005101.shtml
Racism needs to be wiped out from cricket: Lee
Monday, 06 March , 2006, 12:48
London: Strike bowler Brett Lee thinks that ''a very small minority of the Aussie crowds are giving all Australians a bad name'' by passing racist remarks on the Proteas during their recent tour Down Under and said racism in any form should be wiped out of cricket.
''Racism should not be tolerated either on the field, in the crowd or in everyday life. I don't think that it is a major problem because I have not witnessed any of it myself.
However, there may be a very small minority of the Australian crowds that are giving all Australians a bad name. It is something that needs to be looked at and wiped out of our game,'' The Independent quoted him as saying.
Lee, who is now in South Africa tour, said the Ashes series last year was not out of their mind yet and the Aussies have some unfinished business to attend to next November when England tour Australia.
http://sify.com/sports/cricket/fullstory.php?id=14156164
Cartoon riots: Kano blames elite class
By Umoru Henry
Posted to the Web: Monday, March 06, 2006
Sorry, your browser does not support floating frames
ABUJA—THE Kano State Government said it saw the recent cartoon crisis coming hence the people of the state were allowed to express their grievances through a peaceful demonstration against the backdrop of a democratic system whose one of its tenets is freedom of expression, just as it condemned very strongly the killings and wanton destruction of property and urged other states and their governors to emulate the people and government of kano State.
Fielding questions from Journalists in Abuja at the end of the signing of Financial Agreement to eradicate polio out of Kano state, the State Deputy Governor, Engr. Magaji Abdullahi who noted that both Islam and Christianity abhor bigotry and violence, said any one who goes out under the guise of religion to engage in killing and destruction of people’s property was certainly not a true Moslem or practicing the religion, adding that most of the crisis that seem to have religion undertone are simply for selfish reasons and that of the elite class who use the poor to cause mayhem.
“Unfortunately, people use religion for their selfish end. Most of the religious crisis is not base on religion, but because of the selfish interest of elites who use the people for their selfish end”, he stressed.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/north/nt406032006.html
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Dogs that track dead people. The people are still being found in The Gulf Coast. It's good they are perfecting their skills post Katrina, another season is coming.
Fugitive dad leaves sick son on dialysis
Authorities suspect man fled to Mexico as his child needs kidney
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (CNN) -- A Kentucky prisoner who duped authorities and his family into believing he intended to donate a kidney to his ailing son may have escaped to Mexico with his girlfriend, federal authorities said.
"It is a solid lead," Deputy U.S. Marshal Dawn Izgarjan told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday.
The possible breakthrough came after a couple saw a report on CNN about Byron Perkins and his fugitive girlfriend while at the Phoenix, Arizona, airport, recognized the pair and called authorities.
The couple reportedly told authorities they had spent time with Perkins and the woman, Lee Ann Howard, in a fishing village near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, earlier in the week. Authorities consider Perkins armed and dangerous.
"They described the tattoo that was on the gentleman's chest that was identified with Byron Perkins as being an identifying mark," Deputy U.S. Marshal Chuck Gilbert said.
The couple reportedly said the two went by the name Perkins and that the woman used insulin.
Authorities said Howard is a diabetic. (Watch for the jailhouse conversation the couple had about her needles -- 3:44)
The couple also said the two had books on regions of Mexico and that the man "seemed to know a lot" about the country, Izgarjan said.
http://cnn.worldnews.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=CNN.com+-+Fugitive+dad+leaves+sick+son+on+dialysis+-+Mar+3%2C+2006&expire=-1&urlID=17413014&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2006%2FUS%2F03%2F03%2Fkidney.dad%2F&partnerID=2006
'Crash's' look at racism trumps 'Brokeback' love
By Barry Caine, STAFF WRITER
One surprise, and we had to wait till the end. There is no justice.
In Sunday's 78th Annual Academy Awards, heretofore known as Everyone Wants to Sleep with George Clooney Night, "Crash" put a stop to the "Brokeback Mountain" stampede-that-never-happened with an upset win for best picture.
You can still hear the shock reverberating among Oscar-pool losers.
With no movie winning more than three Oscars, this was the first year in a while when no single picture dominated la "Lord of the Rings."
``An intricate ensemble piece about racism in L.A., ``Crash'' also notched awards for editing and original screenplay.
Picked as best original song was "It's Hard Out There for a Pimp," an insightful ditty from "Hustle & Flow" that was sung flatter than any nominee in recent memory.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/localnews/ci_3573804
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The News Secretary
£2.6m for radical new treatment for kidney dialysis patients
An innovative new medical approach which could substantially improve the quality of life for over a million kidney dialysis patients, and bring huge savings to health services around the globe has received an investment round worth £2.6m.
The development of this new product has been made possible thanks to a major funding round of £2.6m led by NPI Ventures with funding from NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts), who had previously invested £95,000 in the technology, Imperial College and Oxford Capital Partners.
At present, over a million kidney dialysis patients worldwide are treated by having a synthetic tube – called a vascular access graft - inserted under the skin, through which they are "hooked up" to a machine every few days.
Vascular access grafts are inserted beneath the skin so needles can be injected regularly and to maximise blood-flow to the dialysis machine. However, these can develop a potentially lethal disease, called ‘intimal hyperplasia’. This thickens the blood vessels, which is the most common reason for grafts needing to be replaced within a year, or for patients to undergo remedial surgery.
London-based Veryan Medical Ltd has developed SwirlGraft to combat this. It updates the standard synthetic grafts with a new spiral shape, allowing the blood to swirl through it, mimicking its natural action and reducing the likelikood of any problems.
http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/report-55268.html
Deception turns Tillman's death into sad mockery
BY MIKE BIANCHI
The Orlando Sentinel
ORLANDO, Fla. - What have they done to Pat Tillman?
Remember when he symbolized what the war on terrorism was supposed to be about_unselfishness, gallantry, patriotism? Now, tragically and perhaps even criminally, his name has become a euphemism for what far too many Americans believe this war has become _deception, fabrications, cover-ups.
We've gone from Pat Tillman giving up his life in his fight for justice to his death being marred by the obstruction of it. From weapons of mass destruction to whoppers of mass distortion. From a man whose life became an American inspiration to a man whose death is being tainted by a criminal investigation.
ORLANDO, Fla. - What have they done to Pat Tillman?
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/14033517.htm
Commercials
Century 21 Hangs Sign on CNN
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 3/6/2006 8:59:00 AM
Century 21 Real Estate has signed on for a year-long advertising/sponsorship deal with CNN ad sales.
No, Anderson Cooper won't make sure he is standing in front of a Century 21 "for sale" sign for that next Katrina repopulating story.
Century 21 will become the sponsor of CNN's Open House Saturday morning half-hour real estate news feature series. It will also get billboards in "Top Five Real Estate Tips" and "Home Front" segments that air during the week on CNN networks.
In addition, an on-demand version of CNN's real estate shows will have a "brought to you by Century 21" attached for about a month--which month will be up to Century 21--and the company will be the real estate category sponsor on CNN.com.
On the other side of the table, Century 21 will get to use select stories from CNNMoney.com on its own Web site.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6313101.html?display=Breaking+News
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HK Hospital Authority enhances measures to prevent avian flu
Upon confirmation of a human avian influenza case in China's Guangdong province, the Hong Kong Hospital Authority announced Monday that it will strengthen measures in avian flu prevention.
During an urgent meeting held on March 4 by the Central Committee on Infectious Disease (CCID) of the Hospital Authority, a three-week enhanced surveillance program from March 8 was recommended.
According to the recommendation, public hospitals should report to the e-Flu system of the Hospital Authority all patients fulfilling the case definition of having pneumonia of unidentified etiology and travel history to places with confirmed human cases of avian flu infection in the past six months, within seven days before symptoms onset.
Besides, the laboratory network including the Hong Kong Public Health Laboratory Center, Princess Margaret Hospital, Prince of Wales Hospital and some other public hospitals will participate in the enhanced surveillance program to provide rapid test for avian influenza.
This special enhanced surveillance program will be reviewed in three weeks' time. Meanwhile, all infection control measures under current Yellow Alert are still in effect.
The Hospital Authority will continue to co-operate with the Center for Health Protection to keep the general public and professionals posted of the most updated situation and relevant information.
http://english.people.com.cn/200603/06/eng20060306_248380.html
Avian Flu: US to produce second bird-flu vaccine; World Health Organization meets in Geneva on pandemic strategy
By Finfacts Team
Mar 6, 2006, 17:46
Today the World Health Organization (WHO) convened a three-day technical meeting of international public health experts at its Geneva headquarters, to discuss a rapid response strategy in the event of an influenza pandemic emerging.
http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_10005101.shtml
Racism needs to be wiped out from cricket: Lee
Monday, 06 March , 2006, 12:48
London: Strike bowler Brett Lee thinks that ''a very small minority of the Aussie crowds are giving all Australians a bad name'' by passing racist remarks on the Proteas during their recent tour Down Under and said racism in any form should be wiped out of cricket.
''Racism should not be tolerated either on the field, in the crowd or in everyday life. I don't think that it is a major problem because I have not witnessed any of it myself.
However, there may be a very small minority of the Australian crowds that are giving all Australians a bad name. It is something that needs to be looked at and wiped out of our game,'' The Independent quoted him as saying.
Lee, who is now in South Africa tour, said the Ashes series last year was not out of their mind yet and the Aussies have some unfinished business to attend to next November when England tour Australia.
http://sify.com/sports/cricket/fullstory.php?id=14156164
Cartoon riots: Kano blames elite class
By Umoru Henry
Posted to the Web: Monday, March 06, 2006
Sorry, your browser does not support floating frames
ABUJA—THE Kano State Government said it saw the recent cartoon crisis coming hence the people of the state were allowed to express their grievances through a peaceful demonstration against the backdrop of a democratic system whose one of its tenets is freedom of expression, just as it condemned very strongly the killings and wanton destruction of property and urged other states and their governors to emulate the people and government of kano State.
Fielding questions from Journalists in Abuja at the end of the signing of Financial Agreement to eradicate polio out of Kano state, the State Deputy Governor, Engr. Magaji Abdullahi who noted that both Islam and Christianity abhor bigotry and violence, said any one who goes out under the guise of religion to engage in killing and destruction of people’s property was certainly not a true Moslem or practicing the religion, adding that most of the crisis that seem to have religion undertone are simply for selfish reasons and that of the elite class who use the poor to cause mayhem.
“Unfortunately, people use religion for their selfish end. Most of the religious crisis is not base on religion, but because of the selfish interest of elites who use the people for their selfish end”, he stressed.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/north/nt406032006.html
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commercials
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Dogs that track dead people. The people are still being found in The Gulf Coast. It's good they are perfecting their skills post Katrina, another season is coming.
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