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August 16-17 2003
Weekend Edition - Zelda has a great new column! |
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POWER OUTAGE TRACED TO DIM BULB IN WHITE HOUSE
The Tale of The Brits Who Swiped 800 Jobs From New York,
Carted Off $90 Million, Then Turned Off Our Lights
By Greg Palast
I can tell you all about the ne're-do-wells that put
out our lights tonight. I came up against these characters -- the Niagara
Mohawk Power Company -- some years back. You see, before I was a journalist,
I worked for a living, as an investigator of corporate racketeers. In the
1980s, "NiMo" built a nuclear plant, Nine Mile Point, a brutally costly
piece of hot junk for which NiMo and its partner companies charged billions
to New York State's electricity ratepayers... |
Utility deregulation possible villain in blackout
Newsday - 8-16-03
... modernizing its power systems. "We do not need any more deregulation of
the energy grid," she said. Mohammed Safiuddin, professor of ... |
Blackout Investigators' Backgrounds Vary
Guardian, UK - 8-16-03
... mathematicians and computer specialists have started to comb
through hundreds of millions of pieces of data in an effort to reconstruct
the largest blackout in ... |
Greg Palast says it
all--Power Outage Traced to Dim Bulb in the White House.
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Dean Hartwell's Perspective:
Show Up and Stand Out
(8/15/03)
What if a group held a debate and one of the participants did not show up?
This question presented itself to me recently at a local chamber of commerce
meeting. I attended the meeting planning to debate in opposition to the
recall of Governor Gray Davis of California against a recall supporter...click
here for more |
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The 'Zero
Dropout' Miracle: Alas! Alack! A Texas Tall Tale
By MICHAEL WINERIP - NYTimes
ROBERT KIMBALL, an assistant principal at Sharpstown High School, sat smack
in the middle of the "Texas miracle." His poor, mostly minority high school
of 1,650 students had a freshman class of 1,000 that dwindled to fewer than
300 students by senior year. And yet — and this is the miracle — not one
dropout to report!...In February, with the help of Dr. Kimball, the local
television station KHOU broke the news that Sharpstown High had falsified
its dropout data... |
Man on Motorized Bar Stool Pulled Over
Wed Aug 13, 2003
RENO, Nev. - Police pulled over a man on a bar stool — after a slow-speed
pursuit on one of Reno's busier streets.
It started Monday when an officer saw a man riding the motorized bar stool at 35
mph. He was being followed closely by a woman in a Mustang.
Both driver and rider were pulled over.
Why do I think Anita Beer was involved with this?
"As this gets closer, Arnold
Schwarzenegger has a lot of challenges ahead of him. At some point he's going to
have to pronounce the word 'gubernatorial.'" —Jay Leno
Graphic by BH48
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Savage Beatnik
Infoshop News - Aug 9, 2003
... Savage was recently fired after he told a prank
caller, who he characterized as a "Sodomite," to "get AIDS and die." MSNBC's
hiring and firing of Savage has sparked more interest in his counter-culture
past. Prior to reading a July 10 San Jose Mercury-News article about Michael
Savage's counter-culture past |
Have you visited
www.buckfush.com ?
"President Bush came to California
today. He's here to try and raise money. Good luck. What are we, $38 billion in
debt? We should be hitting him up for some dough." —Jay Leno
I just needed to see a picture of a
family who is decent. Enjoy.
-Lisa
"Republicans in the Texas State
Senate have voted to fine Democrats $5,000 a day to force them to return [from]
New Mexico. They've been hiding out in New Mexico to avoid voting on some bill
... $5,000 a day. Hey, if Democrats had that kind of dough, they'd be
Republicans." —Jay Leno
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If only Poppy and Mommy Bush had used
these.
Peace through laughter.
