Volume 2 Issue 58

April 23, 2003

Hail to the Emperor!

Alan Greenspan serves on, SARS continues to spread, and a dog with 9 lives

Yay! The huge meeting is over! That means tomorrow we're back to normal schedules, here's a small Swamp for today.

The Emperor Reigns: Alan Greenspan will get another term as Fed Chairman if he wants it -
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/business/23GREE.html

Iraq's Oil: OPEC will meet this week, and is likely to cut back on production to raise prices, though Iraq will not be represented at the meeting. And I was so looking forward to seeing Dick Cheney go... -
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/23/opec.advancer/inde x.html

Fair and Balanced alright: A FOX News Engineer was arrested for trying to smuggle looted Iraqi art into the US. Now we know what FOX reporters do when they're not on camera! Wonder what Geraldo took -
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-iraq-us-thefts,0,7783165.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

Another Republican Speaks: Man, these guys have got to start thinking before they speak. Rick Santorum, a Senator from Pennsylvania, is the latest to get into hot water, with seemingly anti-gay comments. Actually, when first reading the most controversial part, I thought that it may have been misunderstood and take out of context. Then I read the context, and um, yeah, he meant it as he said it -
http://www.post-gazette.com/nation/20030423santorum0423p1.asp
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-santorumapr23,0,5111869.story?coll=all%2Dnews%2Dhed

So much for that outreach to new groups thing -
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/national/23TALK.html?pagew anted=all&position

And one Pennsylvania paper has already called on Santorum to step down from his leadership post -
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/5694636.htm

But will anyone care?
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/04/23/MN253916.DTL

Outbreak: The World Health Organization advised people not to travel to Ontario today -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2969943.stm

The British Government also did so -
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1-656552,00.html

Panic has broken out in Beijing, with millions trying to flee the city -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21395-2003Apr23.html

Baseball is also trying to cope with the outbreak, with so many players traveling so often -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17722-2003Apr22.html

And just when you thought it couldn't get worse...the virus may be mutating -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17363-2003Apr22.html

Look Who's Running for President: John Kerry has gotten into it with the White House, who apparently views him as a formidable candidate. After a White House source said Kerry "looked French", leading his wife Theresa Heinz (who may end up being the comic relief of the campaign) to say that "They'll probably say he's French, he's Jewish . . . he's a monkey...they probably don't even speak French." And Hillary was a problem?
http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/national/kerr04232003.htm

Look Who's Running For President 2: Dennis Kucinich gets the NYT Profile today -
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/politics/campaigns/23KUCI. html?pagewanted=all&position

Look Who's Running for President 3: Bill Saletan says that the invisible primary is invisible for a reason...it doesn't matter -
http://slate.msn.com/id/2081847/

Look Who's Running for President 4: George Bush may not make the ballot in Alabama, unless the law gets changed -
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/04/23/offbeat.bush.ballo t.ap/index.html

Look Who's Running for President 5: Dick Gephardt introduced his health plan yesterday to quiet coverage -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22621-2003Apr23.html

Mystery Solved? Again? Someone else says they know who Deep Throat is -
http://www.dailyillini.com/apr03/apr23/news/stories/news_sto ry01.shtml

Unstable Ground: The San Francisco Bay Area will has a 62% chance of being hit by a major earthquake by 2033, says a new Government study. But, that is down from 70% a few years ago -
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/04/23/california.earthq uake.ap/index.html

They Just Don't Get It: Will the recording industry's multi-billion dollar lawsuit against a handful of college students stop the spread of music electronically?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/national/23STUD.html?pagew anted=all&position

Ah, vanity: Follow a model search agent into a small African village as she looks for the next supermodel -
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/international/africa/22MOD E.html?pagewanted=all&position

Rasputin's Dog? A California dog was hit by a car, shot, frozen, and taken to the morgue...and is fine -
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/04/23/offbeat.dog.survival.r eut/index.html

Swamp Commencement Speaker of the Day:
J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Richmond, Virginia, May 10, 2003
H. F. Gouldthorpe Jr., a vice president of Owens & Minor Inc., a distributor of medical and surgical supplies, based in Glen Allen, Va.
So who wants to buy some needles?

Have a great day!