Tuesday edition - March 20, 2007
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White House issues veto threat on Iraq pullout bill |
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Poll: Fewer than 1 in 5 Iraqis has confidence in US-led
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Afghan government met Taliban demands |
I wonder what Osama is up to these days? I wonder if Bush wonders?
"The White House keeps changing its story about who fired these U.S. attorneys. First it was the Justice Department, then it was Harriet Miers ... and the new e-mails released yesterday suggest it's Karl Rove's idea. ... Of course the problem with e-mails is you think you've erased them and then they're still there. Which is why President Bush writes all his memos on an Etch-E-Sketch." --Bill Maher
The-World-Is-A-Safer-Place-Without-Saddam News
US deaths in Iraq Cleveland Plain Dealer
Suicide bomber hits US convoy, killing Afghan teen and wounding 5 ...Canada.com
Saddam Hussein's vice-president hanged Telegraph.co.uk
Italian hospital's head arrested in Afghanistan Washington Post
North Korea refuses to take part in international nuclear talks International Herald Tribune
Hamas' military wing breaks Gaza truce Los Angeles Times
Bush again urges US to be patient about Iraq Los Angeles Times
Please Impeach Me - YouTube
"Donald
Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense, was admitted to a Washington hospital
yesterday for a heart procedure. They said this is the first time in medical
history that the patient had more blood on his hands than the surgeon."
--Bill Maher
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While Patrick
Fitzgerald was prosecuting the CIA leak case, his name appeared on a Justice
Department chart that was the first step in an effort to identify U.S. attorneys
who should be removed, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
The Justice Department ranking of Fitzgerald, which was sent to the White House
in March 2005, listed him among prosecutors who had "not distinguished
themselves" and put him below
"strong U.S. attorneys . . . who exhibited loyalty" to the administration,
but above "weak U.S. attorneys who ... chafed against administration
initiatives, etc.,"
Disturbing News
Death toll in West Siberian mine explosion rises to 106 RIA Novosti
Fire in Russian old people's home kills 62 Washington Post
Bush Editing Style
A former White House official accused of improperly editing reports on global warming defended his editing changes Monday, saying they reflected views in a 2001 report by the National Academy of Sciences. House Democrats said the 181 changes made in three climate reports reflected a consistent attempt to emphasize the uncertainties surrounding the science of climate change and undercut the broad conclusions that man-made emissions are warming the earth.
"The big rumor is that Newt Gingrich may run for president. Newt Gingrich has the best reason to stay out of the Mid East -- he knows they stone adulterers." --Jay Leno
Republican Shenanigans
Media Reviews Plame's Wardrobe -- But Not White House Coverup
Georgia weighs slavery apology Detroit Free Press
David Corn Finds False Testimony
Victoria Toensing: By the
way, Bob Novak was not the first person to say she was covert. That was David
Corn, who printed that she was covert. All Bob Novak did was call her an
operative.
...Stop the presses. I said Valerie Wilson was a "covert" officer? This is a canard
that some Republican spinners have been peddling for years, in an attempt to get
Novak off the hook while muddying the waters. I long ago gave up on persuading
conservative ops like Toensing that this is nonsense they should drop, and I no
longer routinely reply every time the silly charge is repeated.
But when
someone testifies falsely about you to Congress, you practically have a civic
duty to call him or her on it...
"Valerie Plame is who Ann Coulter thinks she looks like" - heard on NPR
Washington DC - 1/3 Are Illiterate
DC Village idiot.
About
one-third of the people living in the national's capital are functionally
illiterate, compared with about one-fifth nationally, according to a report
on the District of Columbia.
Rock-The-Voter News
Is popular YouTube ad big trouble for Hillary? Chicago Sun-Times
"For St.
Patrick's Day, all the presidential candidates get into it. Have you noticed
that? John McCain had a green tie on, Hillary Clinton had a green scarf, Rudy
Giuliani was wearing a green dress." --Bill Maher
Biz-Tech News
Will Google Launch a Cell Phone? ABC News
"Military contractor Halliburton announced this week that it is moving its corporate headquarters from Houston, Texas, to Dubai. A Halliburton spokesman said Dubai was chosen because of its convenient location just outside the long arm of the law." --Amy Poehler
Use smoke, mirrors
to combat global warming?
Those and other ideas are floated
as ways to engineer a cooler Earth
Bush-Prison-Torture News
Guantánamo captive confesses to role in Cole, embassy bombings Bradenton Herald
Tour route:
March 28: Drinking Liberally, Kansas City
March 29: Faith & Life Bookstore, Newton, Kansas
March 30: Lawrence, Kansas, public library
March 31: Crossroads Infoshop, Kansas City
April 2: A Novel Idea Bookstore, Lincoln, Nebraska
April 3: Soul Desires Bookstore, Omaha, Nebraska
April 4: The Reading Grounds Bookstore, Omaha
April 6: Wayne State College, Wayne, Nebraska
April 6: Zandbroz Bookstore, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
April 10: Hill Avenue Bookstore, Spirit Lake, Iowa
April 12: Southeast Minnesota Peacemakers, Rochester, MN
April 14: Ritual Café, Des Moines, Iowa [afternoon]
April 14: Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa [evening]
April 15: Iowa City, Iowa, Public Library
April 16: Magers & Quinn Bookstore, Minneapolis
April 17: Magus Bookstore, Minneapolis
April 18: Duluth: College of St. Scholastica, 4 pm
April 18: Duluth Catholic Worker, 7 pm.
April 19: Mondragon Bookstore, Winnipeg, CA
April 21: Rainbow Books, Madison, WI
April 22: Cream City Collective, Milwaukee, WI
April 23: New World Resource Center, Chicago/530p
April 23: Unitarian Church, Park Forest [Chicago]/8p
April 24: Barbara’s Bookstore, Chicago
April 25: Volume One Books, Hillsdale, MI
April 26: Drinking Liberally, Indianapolis
April 27: Saginaw, MI, 303 Collective Bookstore
April 28: The Planet Bookstore, Ann Arbor, MI [afternoon]
April 28: Drinking Liberally, Detroit [Oakland Co.] [evening]
April 29: Drinking Liberally, Cleveland
April 30: Boxcar Books, Bloomington, IN
May 1: Drinking Liberally, Pittsburgh
May 2: Talking Leaves Books, Buffalo, NY [afternoon]
May 2: Literary Café, Buffalo [evening]
May 3: Drinking Liberally, Rochester, NY
May 4: Bluestockings Bookstore, New York City
May 5: ETG Café and Books, Staten Island
May 7: AS220 Performance Space, Providence, RI
May 8: The Book Cellar, Brattleboro, VT
May 10: Lucy Parsons Center, Boston, MA
May 11: Elizabeth, NJ Catholic Worker House
May 13: Wooden Shoes Books, Philadelphia
May 14: Robin's Books, Philadelphia
May 15: Drinking Liberally, Wilmington, NC
May 16: McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro, NC
May 17: Internationalist Books, Chapel Hill, NC
May 18: Revolution Books, Atlanta
May 19: Beyond Your Ordinary Bookstore, Atlanta [afternoon]
May 19: Bound To Be Read Books, Atlanta [evening]
May 20: Koinonia Community, Americus, GA
May 21: Iron Rail Bookstore & Collective, New Orleans
May 22: That Bookstore in Blytheville, Arkansas
May 23: Monkeywrench Books, Austin, TX
May 24: Drinking Liberally, San Antonio
May 26: Peace Farm, Amarillo
May 28: Albuquerque, La Semilla Bookstore
May 29: Taos/Food Not Bombs
May 30: Tucson, Prescott College
May 31: Drinking Liberally, Las Vegas
June 1: San Diego Drinking Liberally
June 2: Metropolis Books, Los Angeles
June 6: Oakland Drinking Liberally/Oakland Green Party
June 7: San Jose Drinking Liberally
June 8: Sonoma Peace & Justice Center, Santa Rosa
June 9: Revolution Books, Berkeley [?]
June 11: Medford Oregon
June 13: Drinking Liberally, Corvallis OR
June 14: Bend, OR: Book Barn, 530p; Bend Brewing Co., 7p.
June 15: Tsunami Books, Eugene
June 16: Laughing Horse Books, Portland
June 18: Last Word Books, Olympia, WA
June 21: Revolution Books, Seattle
June 23: Village Books, Bellingham
June 25: Vancouver, CA
June 27: Northern Idaho, sponsored by The Oberver, Don Harkins
June 29: Free Speech Zone, Salt Lake City, UT
June 30: Off The Beaten Path Bookstore, Steamboat Springs, CO
July 2: Left Books, Boulder, CO
July 3: Drinking Liberally, Colorado Springs
[Times, local contacts,
additional information, available upon request]
For information about me, my
books, the tour: www.iowapeace.com
— or
write to me: mpalecek@rconnect.com .
Bush Library finally finds a home on MySpace. - Grant Gerver, www.seriouskidding.com
Go-F***-Yourself News
Cheney Will Not Quit, Say Americans Angus Reid Global Monitor, Canada
Cheney Returns to Hospital for Checkup Washington Post, DC
Dubya, you and Dick need to take some "Bong Hits 4 Jesus." - Grant Gerver, www.seriouskidding.com
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Odd News
Judge in Anna case is busted for dope
Spector Goes Blond for Trial
Newspaper Deliveryman in Truck Crash Saved by Bundles of Papers
The 'Pueblo Fantasma' or ghost town is seen at the Catorce sierra near the old mining town of Real de Catorce, Mexico, Feb. 23, 2007. Using just your driver's license or birth certificate, Americans can cross the border and spend a day buying trinkets and even tequila in one of Mexico's dozens of border towns, all scattered between Tijuana and Matamoros. Or, if you have a long weekend and want to explore farther south, you can take a bus or drive to old mining towns that seem untouched by time, like the mountain-top Real de Catorce. (Photo/Guillermo Arias)
Peace.