Volume 2 Issue 121
August 13, 2003
Whooooie!
The military gets ready to give vacations, John Kerry slums it up in Philly, and Greg rejoins the high-speed world
Well, hello friendly Swampers! Back on-line here, they finally got the high-speed connection in yesterday, so I'm zooming along again. Bit short today still, but it will begin to build again as my home office improves. Onto the insanity...
Time off? The commander of an Army division has proposed allowing soldiers on 12 month deployments in Iraq 2 weeks of leave during their deployment, a telling sign of how bad the morale problem is -
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/11/politics/11AIRB.html
Cheats and Liars: A fantastic story of how the Bush administration lied their way to war, or at least ignored comprehensive evidence that what they were saying was wrong -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39500-2003Aug9.html
Those "chemical weapons trailers"? Made hydrogen for weather balloons -
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/09/international/worldspecial /09WEAP.html?hp
And how did Colin Powell get it wrong?
http://slate.msn.com/id/2086924/
Florida, you ain't got nothin on us: Think election night 2000 was bad? Wait until the California recall, where the sheer number of candidates is overwhelming the balloting systems -
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-me-recall11aug11,1,5238329.story?coll=la-home-headlines
And if it's at all possible, could I have my bomb back? Unabomber Ted Kaczynski has asked the federal government to return his personal possessions to him...including one unexploded pipe bomb -
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/08/11/MN81991.DTL
Hot: While the Eastern US has had a cooler and wetter summer than most, in Europe, they're suffering from the worst heat wave ever, which has killed at least 50 in France, and resulted in energy shortages across the continent -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3141253.stm
Paging any courageous politician: A group of doctors has renewed the call for national health care -
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/08/12/financial2002EDT0368.DTL
Democratic troubles? Can the Democrats even hope to retake the House in 2004?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42074-2003Aug10.html
Look Who's Running for President: Seems that John Kerry had some trouble blending in amongst the proletariat yesterday in Philadelphia, where he asked for a cheesesteak...with swiss cheese. If you don't get that well...perhaps you should support Kerry -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51517-2003Aug12.html
Bad John Edwards Photo of the Day:
And now for my next trick...
Moving Vans? The Expos are definitely moving to DC in 2004. Or maybe they're not. Or maybe they're headed to Mexico. Depends who you believe, which in baseball should be no one -
http://www.washingtontimes.com/sports/20030812-111855-2631r.htm
Um...run: Lovely Mt. Ranier, which towers over Seattle, has a deadly secret that isn't going to make many homeowners very happy. If you live there, I'd keep a good pair of running shoes in the closet -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42059-2003Aug10.html
And another lovely vacation spot: The large blob has been removed from the town it was eating at the Jersey Shore -
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/states/new_jer sey/6520480.htm
Ah, the eccentric rich: A Tampa businessman apparently kept secret the fact that he had two families for years, even though both families ran the same social circle -
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/South/08/12/double.life.ap/index. html
