Volume 2 Issue 48

April 9, 2003

Capturing Baghdad

The capital falls, the Congress stalls, and Dolly gets stuffed

Another work meeting today, so no rant...sorry folks, I'm going to do one tonight so we have one for the rest of the week!

Baghdad! The city has mostly fallen to the US -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2930913.stm

Did he escape again? Looks like we may have missed Saddam again, though there is disagreement between the CIA and MI6 -
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5944-639777,00.html

And if we do, how will we know?
http://slate.msn.com/id/2081276/

Anarchy: That whole policing the cities thing isn't going too well, as rioting and looting has broken out in both Baghdad and Basra -
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/international/worldspecial /09POLI.html

The most popular man in Baghdad: The Information Minister vanished today, but not before a new crop of articles on him in the American Press -
http://slate.msn.com/id/2081302/

On to Tikrit: The North still needs to be captured, including Saddam's hometown -
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-War-Targeting-Tikrit.html

Who's Next? US officials are starting to drop the veneer that this was just an isolated war -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63436-2003Apr9.html

Things going well? An economist explains why things always seem not to go as well as we thought they would -
http://slate.msn.com/id/2081275/

Budget, Smudgit: There's trouble a'brewin for Bush's Tax Cut -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59498-2003Apr8.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/opinion/09RUBI.html

Look Who's Running for President: Gary Hart is close to a decision on running -
http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c4789004/20959086. html

Look Who's Running for President: Yes, Dennis Kucinich is still running. But he hasn't released his fundraising totals...guess we'll have to wait until next week...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60182-2003Apr8.html

He's got lots of money, but still can't be more photogenic...it's the Bad John Edwards Photo of the Day!

Um...I was told there would be no math today...

Dumb Politicians: The fury at Minn. Senator Norm Coleman seems to be real, and not political, though it has calmed down a bit since Coleman issued a real apology yesterday, instead of the idiotic statement he first issued -
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/national/09COLE.html
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/local/5589436. htm"

But Secretary of Education Roderick Paige has gotten into trouble for saying that religion belongs in schools -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59692-2003Apr8.html

Goodbye, Freedom: The GOP wants to make the Patriot Act permanent -
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/international/worldspecial /09TERR.html

The Outbreak: Some light SARS news. Hong Kong tourism officials are red in the face after their new ad campaign kind of backfired on them. The slogan? "Hong Kong: It will take your breath away." Whoops. -
http://media.guardian.co.uk/advertising/story/0,7492,932861, 00.html

Fluffed, Stuffed, and Cloned: Dolly, the late cloned sheep, is now on display at an Edinburgh museum -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/2930537.stm

You! Stop smiling! A California city wants to outlaw smirks at political meetings -
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/04/08/smirk.ban.reut/ind ex.html

Have a great day!