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NEWS as of 8:40 am..e.s.t..2-2-05




Legion Leader Decries Undersecretary's Remarks on Veterans
1/26/2005 1:19:00 PM

To: National Desk
Contact: Joe March, 317-630-1253 or 317-748-1926 (cell), or Wade Habshey, 317-630-1255 both of American Legion
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The leader of the nation's largest military veterans organization has reacted strongly to comments made by the Pentagon's undersecretary for personnel and readiness, Dr. David Chu.
Chu was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article Tuesday, pitting veterans from past wars against those currently serving in the war on terrorism, alleging veterans' benefits were taking away funds from national defense.
"His remarks about veterans' pay and benefits that 'the amounts have gotten to the point where they are hurtful...they are taking away from the nation's ability to defend itself' is a slap in the face to every veteran who took the oath to uphold and defend the constitution against all enemies," Cadmus wrote in a letter to the editor of the Journal.
"Our country cannot separate military retirees from veterans -- a veteran is a veteran!" asserted Thomas P. Cadmus, national commander of The American Legion. "When their country called all gave their best -- some gave their last -- and they deserve the best our country can give them."
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=42182
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The Nuclear Option in the Senate: A Preemptive Strike for Absolute Power

A January National Review column by former Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, floor remarks by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, and op eds in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere are clear: the right wing is mounting an all-out attack on the 200-year-old tradition of the filibuster in the Senate to clear the way for President Bush’s most extreme, ultra-conservative nominees to the federal bench and, eventually, to the U.S. Supreme Court. To that end, it’s obvious that the truth is no obstacle to any argument.
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=17784
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Bush Not Revealing Social Security Details
By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent
WASHINGTON - President Bush will outline ideas about strengthening Social Security but will not spell out all the details of a plan to fix the system's financial problems when he delivers his State of the Union address Wednesday night.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=18&u=/ap/20050201/ap_on_go_pr_wh/state_of_union
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Dems: No Gonzales Filibuster
(AP) Democrats won't try to filibuster Alberto Gonzales' nomination to be attorney general but will hold extensive debates in the Senate over his role in developing the Bush administration's policies on treating foreign detainees, the Senate's top Democrat said Tuesday.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/31/world/main670539.shtml
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The Return of the Draft With the army desperate for recruits, should college students be packing their bags for Canada? By TIM DICKINSON
Uncle Sam wants you. He needs you. He'll bribe you to sign up. He'll strong-arm you to re-enlist. And if that's not enough, he's got a plan to draft you.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6862691?rnd=1107204673514&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.1040
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Cop pays sticker price
Denver police Sgt. Michael Karasek will be disciplined for threatening to arrest a woman for displaying on her truck a profane bumper sticker about President Bush, Police Chief Gerry Whitman said Tuesday.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3498669,00.html
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Judge Rules Gov't Wrong to Downgrade Wolf
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=461483
GRANTS PASS, Ore. Feb 1, 2005 — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Bush administration violated the Endangered Species Act when it relaxed protections on many of the nation's gray wolves.
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Bush will face political reality check after speech
By TAMARA LYTLEOrlando Sentinel
WASHINGTON - President Bush will have no problem winning applause and accolades Wednesday when he delivers his State of the Union speech to Congress.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/10778321.htm?1c
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Senate Delays Vote on Gonzales Nomination
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate won't vote Wednesday to confirm attorney general nominee Alberto Gonzales, GOP senators say, in part because Democrats don't want to give President Bush a success to talk about in his State of the Union speech.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Senate-Gonzales.html?oref=login&oref=login
----Yeah its the dems fault because THEY DONT WANT A TORTURER AS ATTORNEY GENRAL...Gee wonder why?-----
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Global warming inevitable for decades to come, science conference told
EXETER, England (AFP) - A climate conference opened to renewed concern about the worsening threat of global warming and appeals from Britain to its ally, the United States, not to stand on the sidelines.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1504&ncid=1504&e=15&u=/afp/20050201/ts_afp/scienceclimate_050201193856
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The Costly Right to Know

Citizens who rate the Freedom of Information law as priceless had better consider this: The Justice Department is demanding close to $400,000 from a public interest foundation before honoring its request for information on a lingering mystery of 9/11 - the secret numbers of immigrants who were rounded up after the terrorist attacks and never heard from as their court records were sealed. This huge tab, presented to the People for the American Way Foundation, is well beyond established criteria and amounts to an insult to the law's intent: letting citizens in on some of the murkier things the government may be up to.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/02/opinion/02wed2.html?ex=1108011600&en=c3e3feaf2ddda59d&ei=5070
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Pope Hospitalized With Breathing Problems
Anxiety has been running high over the 84-year-old pope's Parkinson's disease and other ailments, but Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls told The Associated Press that the decision to hospitalize him was "mainly a precaution."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20050202/ap_on_re_eu/pope_flu
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Rumsfeld Seeks to Revive Burrowing Nuclear Bomb
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld sent a memo last month to then-Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham saying next year's budget should include funds to resume study of building an earth-penetrating nuclear weapon designed to destroy hardened underground targets.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52564-2005Jan31.html?referrer=email
---Excuse me just a moment...But isn't it wise to keep nukes out of the hands of incompetent idiot who could care less about 'The army you have' not the one we 'Actually go to war with'...? Rumsfield is a disgrace to the ENTIRE U.S.A...Ask John McCain...----
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It is not partisan for anti-torture Democrats to oppose Gonzales. It is partisan for anti-torture Republicans to support him.
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2005_01_30_atrios_archive.html#110728692577088295

---Normaly I would not try to comment about another bloggers comments, but damn Atrios, yall ROCK!...and AMEN-----
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Evangelical leader thinks evolution more dangerous than anything. Ever.
It is Kennedy's opinion that Christians who embrace evolution are compromising their faith. He describes evolution as the most destructive idea ever to enter the mind of man, and a concept that has killed more people than all religions that ever existed.
http://www.itaffectsyou.org/blog/index.php?p=482

----If GOD createted EVERYTHING....then who CREATED evolution.?...Science CAN prove the very existance of God, Himself...SOMEONE wrote those instructions on a stem cell using mathmatics....This guy is denying GOD by DENYING the evidence of EVOLUTION. But hey wouldn't Jesus just bomb something? Wonder If Jesus would borrow Rummys little ground cleveing nukes?----
----By the Way..Every human being that has ever died has died of the EXACT SAME THING...Lack of oxygen to the brain...Funny cause thats exactly how ALL dogs die too...And rats...and fish..and yes even monkeys---
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Jump In Front Of A Crowd, Call It A Parade

To great fanfare and applause, the Pentagon announced this week that President Bush would propose dramatically increasing the "death benefit " paid to the families of U.S. troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan to $250,000.
Talk about jumping in front of a crowd and calling it a parade.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050131-115542-3499r.htm
http://www.thinkprogress.org/
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HOMELAND INSECURITY
Issue of 2005-02-07Posted 2005-01-31
It’s not easy to remember, but we didn’t always think of ourselves as a target-rich country. A rich country, sure, but terms such as "target-rich" and all that they imply hadn’t penetrated everyday American awareness. Today, nearly everyone who studies the sources of potential terrorism, particularly the global jihadist movement, believes that more attacks are inevitable. Stephen Flynn, in his book "America the Vulnerable," likens this period to the Phony War—the eight months, beginning in September, 1939, after Hitler had invaded Poland, and Britain and France had declared war on Germany, when essentially nothing happened. The United States hasn’t been attacked for more than three years now, an extraordinarily happy fact for which the Bush Administration is quick to take the credit. If that changes, the Department of Homeland Security seems well positioned to take the blame.
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?050207ta_talk_finnegan