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Today in History
In 1979, Carl Sandburg, American poet and biographer, known for his unrhymed free verse which uses precise and vivid images to portray the energy and brutality of American urban industrial life. Sandburg also wrote what is generally considered the definitive biography of United States president Abraham Lincoln.
Poetry
In Reckless Ecstasy (1904)
Chicago Poems (1916)
Cornhuskers (1918)
Smoke and Steel (1920)
Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922)
Selected Poems (1926)
Good Morning, America (1928)
The People, Yes (1936)
Complete Poems (1950)
Harvest Poems (1950)
Honey and Salt (1963)
Prose
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (1926)
The American Songbag (1927)
Steichen the Photographer (1929)
Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow (1932)
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (1939)
The New American Songbag (1950)
I am the People, the Mob
I am the people--the mob--the crowd--the mass.Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?I am the workingman, the inventor, the maker of the world's food andclothes.I am the audience that witnesses history. The Napoleons come from meand the Lincolns. They die. And then I send forth more Napoleonsand Lincolns.I am the seed ground. I am a prairie that will stand for much plowing.Terrible storms pass over me. I forget. The best of me is sucked outand wasted. I forget. Everything but Death comes to me and makesme work and give up what I have. And I forget.Sometimes I growl, shake myself and spatter a few red drops for historyto remember. Then--I forget.When I, the People, learn to remember, when I, the People, use thelessons of yesterday and no longer forget who robbed me last year,who played me for a fool--then there will be no speaker in all theworld say the name: "The People," with any fleck of a sneer in hisvoice or any far-off smile of derision.The mob--the crowd--the mass--will arrive then.
1497 Jews are expelled from Graz (Syria)
1663 Great earthquake in New England
1681 1st recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher
1784 Turkey & Russia sign treaty in Constantinople
1832 New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston)
1838, Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrated his telegraph, in Morristown, N.J.
1901 Tómas Gudmundsson Iceland, poet
1906 Benedict Vilakazi South Africa, Zulu poet/novelist/educator (Zulu-English Dictionary)
1920 Reverand Sun Myung Moon evangelist (Unification Church-Moonies)
1973 "Schoolhouse Rock" premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock
1980 Philadelphia Flyers set NHL record of 35 straight games without a defeat
1987 Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy.
1989 Baby lion-tailed macaques at Woodland Park Zoo (Seattle)
1990 New York Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (#s are 18-25-26-32-42-44)
1991 "Gypsy" closes at St James Theater New York City NY after 477 performances
1991 Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 seconds)
Missing in Action
1967 MULLEN RICHARD D. CHICAGO IL 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1971 MILLER CARLTON P. JR. MELROSE MA
1973 LINDAHL JOHN C. LINDSBOURG KS
http://www.scopesys.com/powmia/powsearch.html
Sydney Morning Herald
Incredible! Australia has been enjoying a surplus in their treasury, but, the surplus wasn't this big. Deep pockets in Australia. I am sure he is measuring what is spent on the war effort and looked for a balance for compassionate giving.
Howard promises $1 billion in aid
By Tom Allard, Herald Correspondent in Jakarta and Cynthia Banham
January 6, 2005
The Prime Minister, John Howard, today pledged $1 billion over five years to the Indonesia's tsunami reconstruction, the largest donation made so far for the relief effort.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Asia-Tsunami/Howard-promises-1-billion-in-aid/2005/01/05/1104832180468.html
Kofi is the MAN !!!
Tsunami summit underway in Jakarta
January 6, 2005 - 1:49PM
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, center, gestures as he arrives at Jakarta for a summit of donor nations.
World leaders opened a summit to deal with Asia's tsunami disaster in Jakarta today with a minute's silence for the tens of thousands of people killed in one of the biggest humanitarian catastrophes of modern history.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Asia-Tsunami/Tsunami-summit-underway-in-Jakarta/2005/01/06/1104832220218.html
DNA only way to identify most bodies
By John Garnaut
January 6, 2005
The morbid task of matching traces of hair and saliva with thousands of bodies in Thailand's makeshift morgues is beginning in living rooms across Australia.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Asia-Tsunami/DNA-only-way-to-identify-most-bodies/2005/01/05/1104832179614.html
SMH Survey of it's readers.
What do you think of Australia's $1 billion aid offer?
Very generous - 70%
Good, but could do better - 14%
Still not enough - 5%
Too much - 9%
Total Votes: 500
http://smh.com.au/polls/results.html
THE PEOPLE OF THE AREA WILL NOT BE ABLE TO FISH FOR A LONG TIME. The oceans are polluted with corpus that will never be retrieved. It will be awhile before the seas are clear again. It will be still longer before anyone can trust the quality of the fish for food.
The people of these islands desperate for a return to life might return to their old habits but considering the extent there is disease being found in Sumatra and the high potential for contaminated sealife it probably is ill advised until the fish as a food source can be tested. Would Americans jump right back in to contaminated waters? No.
Continued tsunami aid needed: Labor (That is a political party in Australia - Labor)
January 6, 2005 - 10:24AM
Australia's $1 billion aid package to help Indonesia rebuild after the tsunami disaster was a good first step but more was needed for long-term recovery, Labor said.
http://smh.com.au/news/Breaking-News/Continued-tsunami-aid-needed-Labor/2005/01/06/1104832209166.html
The Miami Herald
Judge vacates man's 1993 conviction in home-invasion robbery, orders new trial
BY SCOTT HIAASEN
shiaasen@herald.com
A Miami-Dade judge on Wednesday vacated the conviction of Sergio Radillo, who served 11 years in prison for a violent home-invasion robbery before another man confessed to the crime.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10572040.htm
JEB BUSH WAS WISE to visit the area. Florida has a double wammy, in that it has a very long coast as well as a pennisula.
Leaders tour tsunami areas, up donations
By BURT HERMAN
Associated Press
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Australia promised $810 million - the largest government pledge - to the tsunami relief effort, topping a $674 million German aid package on the eve of a crucial donors' conference Thursday. World leaders were competing to head the donors list as summit participants got firsthand looks at the apocalyptic landscapes carved out by south Asia's tsunami.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10565645.htm
Miscellaneous
Bush Donates $10,000 to Tsunami Relief Efforts
Wednesday, January 05, 2005 2:18 p.m. ET
COLLINSVILLE, Ill. (Reuters) - President Bush, who called on Americans this week to make a donation to help victims of the Asian tsunami, has contributed $10,000 himself, the White House said on Wednesday.
Bush, whose wealth is estimated at some $13 million, on Monday asked "every American to contribute as they are able to do so."
http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=971151&tw=wn_wire_story
THIS IS BIZARRE TO THINK ABOUT. It is unrealistic with Climate Change that any Insurance Estimation is Accurate. We are in uncharted territory. There have never been weather systems as dictated by Human Induced Global Warming. If the Earthquakes aren't due to deadly weather patterns, which I am not willing to say yet and will elaborate on later, then the impact of this tsunami was make worse by the fact the coral reefs are degraded due to warmer oceans and abuses of humans. The islands could have received a diminished impact if Earth was healthy.
The Tsunami Risks Project
This website, the result of the Tsunami Risks project, seeks to introduce the insurance industry to the complexity of tsunami and the wide range of phenomena that can cause them, and to explore the implications for estimation of tsunami hazards, frequency-magnitude distributions and evaluations of the direct and indirect insurance risks that they present.
The arrival of a wave at Island of Oahu, Hawaii, about 3600km from the source of 1957 Aleutian Islands tsunami.
http://www.nerc-bas.ac.uk/tsunami-risks/
Los Angeles Times
Most DIALOGUE by Neocons is Combative. So? That is supposed to be impressive? I find it abusive !!! It is a 'Real Man' not a 'Girlie Man' ATTENTION GETTER. Attitude. The Neocons are big on Attitude. Like I say, "SO !!!"
Governor Lays Out Ambitious Agenda Certain to Draw Fire
In a combative speech, Schwarzenegger seeks spending caps, a revised state worker pension plan, teacher merit pay and cuts in bureaucracy.
By Peter Nicholas
Times Staff Writer
January 6, 2005
SACRAMENTO — In a broad challenge to California's entrenched special interests, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger implored the Legislature on Wednesday to restrain spending, revise "out of control" pensions, reward the best schoolteachers and "expel" the worst.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-speech6jan06,0,5258024,print.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Wal-Mart Settles Gun Sales Lawsuit
The retailer will pay $14.5 million in its deal with California over alleged violations.
By Julie Tamaki
Times Staff Writer
January 6, 2005
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will pay $14.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the California attorney general that accuses the nation's largest retailer of a host of gun law violations, state officials said Wednesday.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-walmart6jan06,0,6454940,print.story?coll=la-home-business
Government Case Called 'Reckless'
In closing arguments, the defense says federal evidence was hyped in the 'house of cards' terrorism trial of lawyer Lynne F. Stewart.
By Josh Getlin
Times Staff Writer
January 6, 2005
NEW YORK — The federal government carried out a "cruel and reckless" campaign to destroy an outspoken civil rights lawyer by whipping up fears of terrorism and falsely accusing her of conspiracy, her attorney charged Wednesday.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-stewart6jan06,0,1602093,print.story?coll=la-home-nation
THIS IS SO PRECIOUS. Gain Norton opens up public lands for exploitation while Bush opens up nuclear radiated and radiating lands for camp sites and tourist attractions. When is someone going to impeach these idiots? Speaking of cancer rates and health and life insurance premiums….No wonder Bush wants to lower Tort Thresholds. He might be liable for the disease he causes to the public under his administration.
Nuclear Weapons Site Still Unsafe, Says Ex-FBI Agent
The man who led the raid on Rocky Flats calls plans for a national wildlife refuge there irresponsible. Officials deny the allegation.
By David Kelly
Times Staff Writer
January 6, 2005
DENVER — The FBI agent who led the raid on the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in 1989 charged the federal government Wednesday with deceiving the public about cleanup efforts at the facility and said plans for a national wildlife refuge there were irresponsible.
"Public recreation at Rocky Flats is a foolish idea driven by politics, not by facts," said Jon Lipsky, who took early retirement from the FBI to speak out against the refuge. "It's dangerous and scientists say they can't make it safe."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-rocky6jan06,0,1566407,print.story?coll=la-home-nation
THE LOS ANGELES TIMES doesn't know what morality is only what 'works' to please a president. Since when is advocating brutal torture moral? Even the Defense Department has quickly moved away from including the techniques Gonzales designed. What kiss ups !!!
A Window on a Man's Morality
Alberto R. Gonzales' record raises questions about his fitness to serve as attorney general.
January 6, 2005
The Republicans' comfortable majority in the Senate means that Alberto R. Gonzales will almost certainly be confirmed as the next attorney general. With hearings on his nomination set to start today, many Democrats think the best they can do is wound Gonzales enough with questions about his notorious torture memos to disqualify him for any future Supreme Court seat. In the end, however, they will feel pressure to support him or face retaliation from Republicans.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-gonzales6jan06,0,4296995,print.story
Michael Moore Today
Link of the Week
Veterans For Common Sense
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/
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Dangerous Trends - Mike is RIGHT !!!
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php
Virginia Considers Issuing Anti-Gay License Plates
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
Posted: January 4, 2005 12:01 am ET
(Richmond, Virginia) Virginia lawmakers will consider legislation to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage in the new session of the legislature.
http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/01/010405vaLicense.htm
Military Doctor Closes Online War Diary
Wed Jan 5,12:30 PM
PHILADELPHIA - A military doctor whose Web site chronicled the bloody aftermath of the suicide bombing of a mess tent in Iraq (news - web sites) has shut down the site after being told his postings violated Army regulations.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=20&u=/ap/20050105/ap_on_re_us/doctor_s_war_diary
Keeping in mind, Louisiana is one of the poorest states in the country, the reasons this soldier loved being a soldier SOUNDS A BIT JIHADISH TO ME. We don't belong in Iraq. We never did. Sorry Craig is dead. He shouldn't be. There faith should be a solace not a commitment.
Fallen soldier remembered as faithful trooper
Sgt. Craig Nelson's patriotism will linger in memory of friends, family
...But he was also the son of a forthright Christian and patriotic family, whose father had served in the U.S. Air Force, and who knew from the time he was old enough to walk that he wanted to be a soldier.
IRAQ WAS NEVER A THREAT TO THE USE. This type of patriotism is highly admirable. However, it is easily used by men of power so have other agendas!
..."He loved his country and wanted nothing from it -- he just wanted to serve it." Henry said. "Craig believed in this war -- he believed that by doing his part it would make a difference. He believed that by him being over here the people of the United States would be a lot safer, and he believed it with all his heart."
..."He was a genuine, all-American kid who was mischievous at times, but I couldn't ever get mad at him," said Ken Gaspard, principal during Nelson's last two years at Airline, from which Nelson graduated in 2002. "He had that little smile. It was very difficult to punish him because he was a likable kid."
"Like it says in the Bible, there's no truer friend than the one willing to lay down his life for you, and Craig was willing to do it for any one of his friends."
These memories are a comfort for his mother, who plans to remain active in the family readiness group of her son's company.
"I'm not bitter, I'm not angry," his mother said. "Craig was doing what he wanted to do."
His death, back home close to those he loved, in the presence of his loved ones, may have been a blessing in its own way, she said.
"Craig didn't want to live in that condition," his mother said.
The family's firm conviction that Craig is now with his creator is inspirational to their minister, the Rev. Harrell Shelton, associate pastor of Airline Baptist Church in Bossier City. He feels it may be a sign that God has a greater plan for the family, to be of comfort to other unit families in months to come.
"These have been phenomenal people," Shelton said. "Here's a test of what Christian faith is -- to lose a child is one of the toughest things you can imagine."
"We have already cried a river of tears," Lois Nelson said. "We're going to miss Craig -- he was such as sweet boy. We hope everyone will pray for us, and pray for the boys still over there."
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050104/NEWS01/501040327
An open letter from an Ohio voter
Guest Editorial / One Thousand Reasons
January 5, 2005
To all concerned Americans:
I live in Ohio and saw and heard election "fraud" first hand.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=855
Dem Lays Out Case Against Bush's Ohio Win
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee protested President Bush's re-election Wednesday with a new report claiming serious election irregularities and ``significant disenfranchisement'' of voters in Ohio.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=857
USA Senate Contract Resource - Filibusters Work !!!
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
E-Fax your Senator
http://miamedia.com/news/2004-12-28.efax.your.senator.html
There is also an On-Line fax service called "efax, e-mail fax services"
http://www.efax.com/en/efax/twa/page/homePage?location=us-ca-panorama.gif&CMP=OTC-us_ca
MY ESTIMATION OF IRAQ now. Is that the rebels are being effective. Their pattern clearly indicates they are closing in on the Green Zone. One day the Exiles will find themselves at the airport with the two mile runway looking for a safe haven somewhere else while American troops hold the perimeter.
Dozens killed in Iraqi violence
Ramadi has been the scene of frequent clashes
At least 25 people have been killed in Iraq in the latest series of attacks by insurgents.
A car bomb outside a police academy killed at least 15 people during a graduation ceremony in Hilla, south of Baghdad, on Wednesday.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4148329.stm
IT IS INTERESTING. The jets from Pope are flying over my home frequently when I am on-line but never when I am off-line. I never thought of myself as the enemy. I am waiting for the day an accident of a 500 bomb without detonator drops on the neighborhood. Oops, just one of those military accident things. The Pope 'Rocket Jockies' need to realize I am not always home when I am on-line. Ohhh....
All Africa
Somalia: Fears of Water-Borne Diseases in Areas Affected By Tsunami
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
January 5, 2005
Posted to the web January 5, 2005
Nairobi
The Indian Ocean tsunami that slammed onto the Somali coast 10 days ago destroyed water sources and sanitation facilities on Hafun peninsula, putting up to 1,000 households at risk of water-borne diseases, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200501050004.html
Somalia: Thousands of Households Affected By Tsunami
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
January 4, 2005
Posted to the web January 4, 2005
Nairobi
The tsunami triggered by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean that struck the Horn of Africa coastline just over a week ago has affected about 18,000 households of varying sizes in Somalia, the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200501040109.html
WFP Sends More Food to Assist Somali Victimes of Tsunami
World Food Programme (Rome)
PRESS RELEASE
January 3, 2005
Posted to the web January 3, 2005
The World Food Programme has dispatched from the port town of Bossaso in Puntland 277 metric tonnes (MT) of food aid to assist 17,000 Somalis affected by the tsunami. A total of 198 MT metric tonnes has already reached the areas so far identified as in need of assistance following the effects of the huge waves on the north-eastern coast of Somalia. Another 79 MT are still on their way. Of the total 277 MT so far dispatched, 98 MT have already been distributed to 5,250 people.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200501030396.html
Obama Steps Into US History
The Nation (Nairobi)
January 6, 2005
Posted to the web January 5, 2005
Kevin J. Kelley
New York
Mr Barrack Obama officially became a US senator on Tuesday at a ceremony attended by his relatives from Kenya and Cabinet minister Raphael Tuju.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200501050764.html
Three-Month Amnesty Window for Illegal Guns Begins
Business Day (Johannesburg)
January 3, 2005
Johannesburg
THE safety and security department has announced a three-month amnesty period on illegal guns in its latest drive to tackle the high level of violent crime.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200501030007.html
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