George W. Bush put Dick Cheney on the ticket, a former congressman who had voted against funding for Head Start, against subsidizing school lunches and against federal aid for college students. In other words, against kids.

The proposed changes in the act are so transparently a giveaway to Mr. Bush's corporate allies and so widely unpopular among the officials responsible for air quality in the individual states that they have already assumed a place in the nascent presidential race.

What is remarkable about the voices is their calm, even tone amid the chaos, said Lillian Valenti, an attack survivor and head of Port Authority's Office of Medical Services.
"It's absolutely stunning the degree of objectivity and professional interchange among everyone on the transcripts to get the deed done -- to evacuate as many people as possible and rescue the injured," she told Newsday.

The Bush administration on Wednesday exempted thousands of older power plants, refineries and factories from having to install costly clean air controls when they modernize with new equipment that improves efficiency but increases pollution.

Any corporate money he takes is irrelevant, Schwarzenegger said, because he wouldn't be influenced by it.

Howard's extraordinary undermining of the integrity of the judicial system in the Hanson case is, therefore, part of a broader pattern of nibbling away at the credibility, standing and independence of the judiciary and the separation of judicial and executive powers.

A federal judge held two more closed hearings in the criminal case against Andrew Fastow and two other former Enron executives on Tuesday and refused to unseal the transcript of a July 28 hearing he also held in secret.

The bioterrorism expert under scrutiny in the 2001 anthrax attacks sued Attorney General John Ashcroft and other government officials Tuesday, accusing them of using him as a scapegoat for their failure to make an arrest in the case.

The U.S. President has created a tool kit for any mini-empire looking to get rid of the opposition
"Those who criticize about human rights being breached must understand that all the bombing victims are more important than any human-rights issue."

Bernard Ebbers, Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling may never face prosecution, according to former federal prosecutors and securities lawyers.

"Garofalo's scathing public criticism of the United States' going to war with Iraq angered many Americans. An actor's opinions, they said, held no weight."mr ed - ...until arnie came along...

The University of Maryland's sexual harassment policy, for example , bans "idle chatter of a sexual nature, sexual innuendoes, comments about a person's clothing, body, and/or sexual activities, comments of a sexual nature about weight, body shape, size, or figure, and comments or questions about the sensuality of a person."

The Air Force had hoped to gain support for the tanker program through a lease arrangement that would lower initial costs, pushing most of the expense into the future.
mr ed: same same same

Bremer said Iraqi revenue will not nearly cover the bill for economic needs "almost impossible to exaggerate," the Washington Post reported Wednesday.

What Scarlett is saying here is that Kelly was confused because he thought the claim in the dossier that Saddam could deploy weapons against Britain in 45 minutes referred to missiles, when in fact it referred to mortar shells or small calibre weaponry. But mortar shells or small calibre weaponry could not possibly have hit Britain, or even Cyprus.

The tabloid press got a nice Christmas present late last year (2000) when Arnold Schwarzenegger tore through a day of publicity work in London, promoting his latest film, The 6th Day, which had just opened there. In less than 24 hours, the star was said to have attempted to, as high school boys used to say, cop a little feel from three different female talk-show hosts. / Schwarzenegger has been wed to NBC’s Maria Shriver since 1986—a father of four, someone who ceaselessly espouses family values in the press

arnie was once named chairman of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness by the first Bush Administration

mar 2001. The fact that his star may be waning has led to renewed speculation that Arnold the Kennedy might pull a Ronald Reagan. Schwarzenegger has long espoused right-wing politics—he campaigned furiously for George Bush in 1988 / “In America I could go all the way to Speaker of the House. I think I could bring a little spice to the job. I think I could put a little fire up their asses.”

Shortly before U.S. forces began streaming across the Iraqi border, commencing Persian Gulf War II, the CIA and the Department of Defense, with a little help from Israel and some Europeans, pulled off a massive bank heist in Iraq to the tune of several billion dollars.

(jan 03) The reports paint a sobering picture of cybersecurity at FirstEnergy. / According to the reports, plant computer engineers hadn't installed the patch for the MS-SQL vulnerability that Slammer exploited. In fact, they didn't know there was a patch, which Microsoft released six months before Slammer struck.

Pfc. Jessica Lynch recently was awarded a Bronze Star Medal, a Purple Heart and the POW Medal.

And poor Jessica Lynch has become the unwitting poster girl for an Army of One that’s fast becoming an Army of Two – since apparently more than half of the women deployed to Iraq are now pregnant.

The Hatch bill, entitled the VICTORY Act (Vital Interdiction of Criminal Terrorist Organizations Act), is seen by some to be a substitute for the so-called PATRIOT Act II / A narco-terrorist would be anyone who possesses even the smallest amount of an illegal drug with the intent to distribute it to someone who is — with or without the dealer's knowledge — planning to carry out a terrorist attack.

"I catch fish in the morning and Americans at night," he said. "Catching Americans is easier than catching fish." / He said he was driven by what he sees as the Americans' heavy-handed treatment of ordinary Iraqis during anti-guerrilla operations. / "We are not doing this for the sake of Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein is finished," he said. ./ "The Americans always say they are against terrorism, but they are conducting terrorism right here in Iraq," he said. "If they would not come into our houses, we wouldn't have anything to do with them. Can't they occupy us without humiliating us?" / "This resistance is not a reaction to the American provocations against the Iraqi people or to the shortage of services, as some analysts believe ... but to kick out the occupiers as a matter of principle," one of the men read. / "At the beginning we were afraid. We didn't know the Americans' abilities," he said. "But we discovered that they are cowards and won't follow us." / But "Salahuddin" also described an attack a month ago that he said killed seven Americans and wounded three. He said a Humvee that wasn't hit sped away and didn't return for the wounded for three hours. / The United States hasn't reported more than three soldiers killed in any attack since the war.

Baghdad is on a knife-edge. Three in four of its residents say the city is now more dangerous than when Saddam Hussein was in power.

GIs might feel relieved to learn that only 9 per cent of Baghdadians say they are “very hostile” – but this small percentage amounts to around 250,000 adults. It would take only a tiny proportion of these to be armed, angry and willing to act to make life a continuing misery for the occupation forces. / just 32 per cent say that everyday life is better now than it was a year ago. Twice as many say it is either just as bad (16 per cent) or actually worse (47 per cent). Indeed, one respondent in four told YouGov it is much worse. / More alarming is the 67 per cent who fear the danger of being attacked in the streets – a fear that afflict men and women in equal numbers. 50 per cent also fear being attacked at home or at work. / 54 per cent who say it is “much more dangerous”). / The most popular is western-style democracy with competing parties. This was chosen by 36 per cent. But 50 per cent opted for one of the five variants of Islamic, presidential or single-party rule.

invasions of privacy invade our freedoms quite directly. This is true even if the surveillance isn't abused by the watchers, even though history shows that it always is. / Some feel themselves reducing to their old, censored self during Thanksgiving dinner. / When I say a watched populace never boils, I refer to the ability to bubble with change and novelty. / Consider as well the plight of the shy person in the surveillance society. They are many, and they are a great deal more sensitive to being watched. In them, the feeling of being noticed sets off an anxiety the extroverted will never understand, and they will fear the public arena. For many, it is how their brain is wired. They can't "get over it" and accept the cameras. / surveillance just gives everybody the exposed life of the famous without the nice tables at restaurants. / We might be safer if people had less privacy. We could be as safe as the people in the small towns, which have low crime rates. We would also be as lukewarm as the people in those towns; content but never boiling.

Biographer Wendy Leigh reveals Arnold’s father voluntarily became a Nazi brown-shirted stormtrooper and how the gubernatorial candidate once publicly made Hitler-like gestures.
mr ed - bosnich was excoriated

These are all things we've been told will wreck our society. But I guess Canadians are different, because theirs seems oddly sound.

Arnold said he supported domestic partnership legislation but not gay marriage, contending, "I think that gay marriage [sic] is something that should be between a man and a woman."

arnie 1977: "i probably should play the victim"