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Bush popularity dropping: poll
Daily Telegraph, Australia - 8-9-03

US President George W Bush's ... this month from 58 per cent in July, bringing it close to his level before the September 11 attacks, according to a poll ...
       Bush popularity dropping: poll - NEWS.com.au
       Latest poll shows Bush popularity dropping - Hindustan Times
       Latest poll shows Bush popularity continues to drop - Keralanext
 

New Attacks Wound 4 U.S. Troops in Iraq
Saturday August 9, 2003 2:59 PM
By TAREK AL-ISSAWI  Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - U.S. troops came under renewed attacks Saturday that wounded at least four soldiers, and a team of FBI investigators prepared to take control of the probe into the car bombing of the Jordanian Embassy.

Soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade on patrol in the northern city of Kirkuk...
 

Noelle Bush -  January 2002

Noelle Bush  - August 2003

Noelle Bush out of rehab
The Tallahassee Democrat -8-9-03

...Noelle Bush, 26, hugged Circuit Judge Reginald Whitehead as the governor and his wife, Columba, looked on. The president's niece had been ordered into treatment after she was arrested in January 2002, accused of trying to pass a fraudulent prescription at a Tallahassee pharmacy to obtain the anti-anxiety drug Xanax...
       Drug-rehab grad Noelle Bush: It was 'quite a challenge' - Orlando Sentinel
       Noelle Bush completes rehab - San Mateo County Times

I feel sorry for Noelle. I'm glad she is better.

Is one of the side effects of drug rehabilitation is that your hair grows at incredible speed?

Lisa

Ken Lay , wife lose $889000 on property
Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA - Aug 4, 2003
ASPEN, Colo. -- Former Enron chairman Ken Lay and his wife, Linda, took nearly $1 million in losses in selling their four properties in town. ...

Blame it all on Texas
BY MARTHA SMILGIS -Special To The Examiner
Publication date: 09/27/2002
LET'S STOP pussyfooting around California's energy crisis and tell it like it was -- "screw California" was the mantra of about all the Texas-based energy suppliers and marketers.

As the truth trickles out of the 18-month Federal Energy Regulatory Commission investigation, it's increasingly obvious that the utility companies (Southern California Edison and PG&E), as well as California consumers, were hostages of Enron, Dynegy, El Paso Corp. and a gang of Southwestern sharpshooters...

Graphic by BH48

Gray Davis isn't at fault for the horrible debt in California.  The above story posted last September points out just what led California down the road of debt.  I did a toon on the subject, January 29 2001 click here
 

Published on Friday, August 8, 2003 by The Bradenton Herald (Florida)
Katherine Harris Booed at Bradenton Town Hall Meeting
by Donna Wright

BRADENTON - U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris had planned a quick town meeting Thursday night at Bradenton Kiwanis Hall.

But when hundreds of people showed up with detailed questions, her tight schedule didn't allow detailed answers, and a frustrated crowd turned angry, booing the congresswoman several times.

After introductions at 5:30 p.m., Harris spoke for nearly half of the allotted hour. It was after 6 p.m. when she asked for questions.

US Rep Katherine Harris
Cover of the Fall 2002 issue of IAM Journal - the newsletter of the International Association of Machinists.

Harris told attendees she wanted all questions asked first before she answered.

The lines at the microphones were long.

The boos were loud.

"We want our answers now," a man in the back of the room shouted.

She said, "Doing it this way will allow more people to speak."

Harris' logic didn't sit well with the standing-room-only crowd.

The crowd's mood already was testy before the meeting began. Security guards and Harris' staff confiscated any written material people tried to bring into the hall...
 

The above artwork is the Cover of the Fall 2002 issue of IAM Journal - the newsletter of the International Association of Machinists.