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Posted on October 17, 2005 in Roundup

This roundup covers the period from 9 October 2005 to 16 October 2005.

Seeing the date October 9, I recall a button we had on the 1972 McGovern campaign. (I’ve never regretted my working for George — just remember who his opponent was, the second most corrupt president in US history). The button said “Remember October 9” and it pointed to something Richard Nixon said on that day in 1969: “Those who have had four years and have not found peace, should not have another four years.” It’s been nearly six years of Bush and what we have are THREE costly wars (Afghanistan, Iraq, and the War on Drugs — which is taking place on our city streets). The sad part is that Bush should not have been in the White House in the first place. He was, in both elections, clearly the inferior candidate.

Now for the roundup. Our stories included lots of sloppy work by the New York Times on the matter of Judy Miller; a translation of the “war on terror”; allowing churches to rent space in public schools; followup on the earthquake in Pakistan; Republicans who focus so much on their own families that they commit incest; where have all the jobs gone; an active duty force on American soil; a proposed journalist shield law; guessing about Harriet Miers; the broadening Traitorgate investigation; Katrina and class; the lack of intelligence among the proponents of Intelligent Design; how corporate interests are striving to seize more power in California through the initiative process; mothers in prison; compulsive habitual lying disorder; the use and abuse of Karl Popper; how is your genotype doing?; a war on expertise; Bush stages a rally; Harold Pinter wins the Nobel Prize; police beatings beyond the camera; what is a single Christian girl to do?; the Republican Party doesn’t stand for law and order; blogging and tenure; Catholics condemn boxing; rescuing thousands at Machu Picchu after a mudslide; should you have a baby if your partner is not willing?; an exorcism course aims to scare the devil out of Italians; San Bernardino is not ready for a big one; a luxury retreat for rich burnouts; are whistle-blowers heroes or blowhards?; musical mammaries; Haiti goes bad in so many ways that it isn’t funny; how the administration chose the Big Lie; rewriting the rules for softball; the Third Man Theme plays in the Judy Miller scandal; how computers are poisoning India’s poor; Nigeria signs a pact with the Sovereign State of Microsoft to stop email spam; the U.S. has to starve Iraqis in order to save them; the Beatles are named the icons of the century; Imedla Marcos — the Musical; are the Narnia films/books actually Christian?; covert propaganda against schools in the Department of Education; Delay acts promptly to fix the jury; the Republicans try to collect insurance to pay off fines; Rove speaks out of at least two sides of his mouth; the coming pandemic; violence at a neo-Nazi march; the case for impeachment; Rice will not tell if she testified; grouper groupies will have to wait; how to steal a plane by opening the door and getting in; Tom Cruise has a scarey Scientology birth plan; abuse victims still suffer many years later; what would Jesus blog?; Delay goes on the web to attack his prosecutor; racism and archaeology; Tourette’s Syndrome; Potomac boy bass turned female thanks to birth control pills in the water; and Cindy Sheehan tells why she can’t support Hillary Clinton.

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