"Okeydoke"
"We are in the suburbs, and we hold the war at arm's length here, as if we're living parallel lives," said Bennison, the rector at St. John's. "The position a lot of people here take is, even if we are wrong (for invading Iraq), now we're in it and we have to stay and fix it. It's almost like some people are saying if we stay, we can redeem that mistake."
… It's almost like some people are saying if we stay, we can redeem that mistake."
… It's almost like some people are saying if we stay, we can redeem that mistake."
… It's almost like some people are saying if we stay, we can redeem that mistake."
March 18-20: The World Says End the War!
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/
UPSURGE IN FAITH-BASED ORGANIZING AGAINST THE WAR
This weekend will also mark the formal launching of Clergy and Laity Concerned About Iraq. Nurtured by United for Peace and Justice, this new national faith-based network is focusing on the immorality of the war and occupation. Visit www.unitedforpeace.org/faith for highlighted events and more information.
$80 Billion More for War?
by United for Peace and Justice
January 28th, 2005
$80 BILLION MORE FOR THE IRAQ WAR?
NO WAY! BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW
Contact your member of Congress: no new war spending!
Congressional Switchboard 202-224-3121 (9-5 EST)
additional action steps below
George W. Bush is asking Congress for $80 billion more for the failed Iraq war. Congress is gearing up to pour more money to "stay the course" of the past two tragic years. Tell your Member of Congress that not one more dime should go to waging war in Iraq. Instead, the U.S. must end the occupation, bring our troops home, and support Iraqi sovereignty.
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=2716
Suburbs a world away from war
Clayton minister says violence in Iraq fails to stir passions
The Rev. John Bennison scheduled a peace vigil Saturday in his small church in the Contra Costa town of Clayton because he hadn't heard of anything happening nearby to mark the second anniversary of the Iraq war.
There isn't much to hear about. The antiwar movement's failure to take root in the suburbs is one reason the movement is struggling to redefine itself and gain political power 2 1/2 years after hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to city streets in the run-up to the U.S. invasion.
"We are in the suburbs, and we hold the war at arm's length here, as if we're living parallel lives," said Bennison, the rector at St. John's. "The position a lot of people here take is, even if we are wrong (for invading Iraq), now we're in it and we have to stay and fix it. It's almost like some people are saying if we stay, we can redeem that mistake."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/03/18/MNGSSBRF7N1.DTL
Experts: GOP may have stepped out of bounds
BY TOM BRUNE
WASHINGTON BUREAU; J. Jioni Palmer of the Washington bureau contributed to this story.
March 19, 2005
WASHINGTON - House Republicans may have overreached their authority when they issued congressional subpoenas yesterday to try to block a Florida court's order to remove Terri Schiavo's feeding tube, many lawyers and experts said yesterday.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-uscong194182497mar19,0,6625027.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines
Analysis: Politics eclipse one woman's tragedy
Republicans on religious right see a 'culture of life' issue
By CARL HULSE
THE NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON -- The extraordinary congressional intervention in a single individual's health crisis is being driven largely by strong political forces converged at Terri Schiavo's bedside.
While lawmakers of both parties justified their aggressive effort to try to prevent removal of the feeding tube from the brain-damaged woman as a matter of fundamental rights and due process, political motivations have figured in as well.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/216728_legal19.html
Decision to end life support a common one
By DAVID B. CARUSO
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
PHILADELPHIA -- Hospitals and nursing homes don't track how many Americans die each year after some level of life support is withdrawn, but the number is likely to be at least in the tens of thousands, doctors said Friday.
"I make at least one of these decisions daily," said Dr. Sean Morrison, a palliative care physician and professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?category=1500&slug=Withdrawing%20Life%20Support
Drought could parch Indian reservation
By DORIS HAUGEN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Some 14,000 residents of the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation could run out of water by August because of a drought along the Missouri River basin, officials said.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Drought%20Drinking%20Water
Jury gets deadly human smuggling case
By JUAN A. LOZANO
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Fatima Holloway leaves the federal courthouse in Houston, Thursday, March 17, 2005. Holloway testified she believed the illegal immigrants being smuggled in a tractor-trailer she rode in were in danger during their deadly journey but the driver ignored their pleas for help. ``They wanted to get out. It was hot,'' Holloway testified Wednesday during the trial of Tyrone Williams, who could be executed if convicted for his role in the smuggling attempt that resulted in the deaths of 19 immigrants. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
HOUSTON -- The driver of a tractor-trailer in the nation's deadliest smuggling attempt was an inexperienced pawn of a smuggling ring who didn't know 17 immigrants were dying in the airless truck, the defense said in closing arguments.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Truck%20Bodies
Pakistan test-fires longest-range missile
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan successfully test-fired its longest-range, nuclear-capable missile Saturday.
The test comes two days after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Pakistan to encourage its peace process with neighboring India. There was no immediate reaction from New Delhi.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Pakistan%20Missile%20Test
Russian general denies war games plans
By JOE MCDONALD
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
BEIJING -- The visiting chief of staff of Russia's army is denying reports that planned Russian-Chinese military exercises are meant as practice for a Chinese attack on Taiwan, according to Chinese and Russian news reports.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=China%20Russia
Hong Kong leadership change worries U.S.
By WILLIAM FOREMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
HONG KONG -- The United States expressed concern Friday about Hong Kong's leadership change - a switch some legal experts and companies fear might mark the erosion of a legal system that has made the Chinese territory one of the best places in the world to do business.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Hong%20Kong%20US%20Worries
Legal challenges, terrorism threaten U.S.
By JOHN J. LUMPKIN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- America's strength is being challenged by "a strategy of the weak," a Pentagon document says, listing diplomatic and legal challenges in international forums in the same sentence with terrorism.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1152&slug=Pentagon%20Strategy
Democrats plan Social Security campaigns
By GLEN JOHNSON
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- Democrats are taking President Bush up on his suggestion to spend Congress' two-week recess talking to folks in the heartland about Social Security. Some plan to venture into Republican-held districts to do it.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1153&slug=Selling%20Social%20Security
Shiites demand apology over deadly bombing
By RAWYA RAGEH
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Iraqis march toward the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad, Iraq Friday, March 18, 2005. More than 2,000 Shiites marched through the streets of Baghdad Friday to protest the alleged involvement of a Jordanian in Iraq's single deadliest suicide bombing, a Feb. 28 attack south of Baghdad that killed 125 people.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Shiite demonstrators raised the Iraqi flag over Jordan's Embassy on Friday after more than 2,000 people marched through Baghdad demanding an apology for the alleged involvement of a Jordanian in a suicide bombing that killed 125 people
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=Iraq
Jordan proposes new Israel peace strategy
By SALAH NASRAWI
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
King Abdullah II of Jordan, left, listens to Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel during a news conference, Thursday, March 17, 2005 in Washington. Wiesel and Abdullah meet to announce the Petra Conference in Petra, Jordan. The May 18-19 conference of Nobel laureates in the ancient Jordanian city of Petra would bring together scientists, economists and humanitarians to tackle problems such as poverty, disease and violence. (AP Photo/Haraz Ghanbari)
ALGIERS, Algeria -- King Abdullah II of Jordan has proposed a new peace strategy that drops traditional Arab demands that Israel give up all land seized in the 1967 war and offers the Jewish state normalized relations with Arab countries, according to a text of the proposal seen Friday by The Associated Press.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=Arab%20Summit%20Jordan
Blast injures 9 in Beirut Christian area
By BASSEM MROUE
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Two Lebanese army officers inspect next to a destroyed car damaged by a bomb in the New Jdeideh neighborhood in the northern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday March 19, 2005. A car bomb in the area wrecked the front of a building early Saturday, wounding nine people, police said. The explosion came amid major political turmoil in Lebanon in the wake of the Feb. 14 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and the subsequent withdrawal of Syrian troops to east Lebanon and Syria.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Investigators searched the rubble of a car-bombed building in Beirut for clues to an attack that boosted fears of renewed bloodshed in Lebanon and complicated already troubled negotiations between rival political groups over the formation of a new government.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=Lebanon%20Syria
Provisional ballot counts vary by state
By DAVID PACE
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- Two-thirds of the more than 1.6 million provisional ballots cast in last year's presidential election were counted, but there were wide differences from state to state. Alaska counted 97 percent of its provisional votes, Delaware just 6 percent.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apelection_story.asp?category=1131&slug=Provisional%20Ballots
Provisional Ballots States
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Provisional ballots cast and counted by state in the 2004 presidential election. Mississippi, New York and New Jersey have not reported their totals
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apelection_story.asp?category=1131&slug=Provisional%20Ballots%20States
Officials: Rubella no longer health threat
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON -- German measles, which expectant mothers once feared contracting because of prenatal complications, is no longer a health threat in the United States, federal authorities say.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?category=1500&slug=German%20Measles
Measles kills hundreds of Nigerian children
By DANIEL BALINT-KURTI
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
An unidentified man drinks from a bottle filled with river water, fetched from the river in Argungu village Northern Nigeria, Friday, March 18, 2005. At least 589 have died from measles in Nigeria since January, mostly children under five in northern states, according to figures from the World Health Organization and the Nigerian Red Cross Friday. (AP Photo/George Osodi)
LAGOS, Nigeria -- Hundreds of children have died from an upsurge in measles cases in Nigeria, despite a series of local vaccination campaigns aimed at combating the disease, health authorities said Friday.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?category=1500&slug=Nigeria%20Measles
Nigeria proposes tribunal for Sudan
By NICK WADHAMS
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
UNITED NATIONS -- Nigeria has proposed setting up an African-run tribunal to prosecute human rights violators and war crimes suspects from Sudan's conflict-wracked Darfur region, a possible bid to break an impasse in the U.N. Security Council.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apafrica_story.asp?category=1105&slug=UN%20Sudan%20Nigeria
Donors approve $1B for post-Aristide Haiti
By PETER PRENGAMAN
Mourners attend the funeral of three men, including two allegedly shot to death by police during a Feb. 28 protest to mark the first anniversary of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, in right poster, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday March. 18, 2005. The poster at center shows jailed former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune. (AP Photo/Rood Cherry)
CAYENNE, French Guiana -- World donors approved $1 billion in aid projects for Haiti on Friday, promising to repair its roads and rebuild its battered power grid, in an effort to help the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation as it prepares for fall elections.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/aplatin_story.asp?category=1102&slug=Haiti%20Donors%27%20Conference
Michael Moore Today
On the 2nd Anniversary of
the Invasion of Iraq...
Join Iraq Veterans and Soldiers' Families in Anti-War Rally Saturday at Ft. Brag
Soldier Letter: "Marching in Fort Bragg"
This Weekend Everywhere!
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
Un-Volunteering: Troops Improvise to Find Way Out
By Monica Davey / New York Times
The night before his Army unit was to meet to fly to Iraq, Pvt. Brandon Hughey, 19, simply left. He drove all night from Texas to Indiana, and on from there, with help from a Vietnam veteran he had met on the Internet, to disappear in Canada.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1871
Sentences Upheld for Nuns in Missile Case
By Erin Gartner / Associated Press
DENVER - A federal appeals court upheld the prison sentences Thursday for three pacifist nuns accused of using their blood to deface a missile silo in northern Colorado in 2002.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1866
The Boston Globe
2d Belfast family seeks justice
Finucanes want slaying's truth to be known
By Kevin Cullen, Globe Staff March 19, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The sisters of Robert McCartney, who was brutally murdered by members of the Irish Republican Army Jan. 30, were not the only Belfast family seeking justice in the corridors of power here this week.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/03/19/2d_belfast_family_seeks_justice/
2d Big Dig expert raises safety issue
Wall specialist leaves project
By Raphael Lewis, Globe Staff March 19, 2005
An internationally renowned specialist hired to solve the Big Dig's leak problems has left the project, saying he was denied information about the situation and can no longer say that the tunnels are safe.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/03/19/2d_big_dig_expert_raises_safety_issue/
South Korea, U.S. begin military drills
March 19, 2005
SEOUL, South Korea -- Thousands of American and South Korean troops conducted joint maneuvers Saturday, rankling North Korea, which denounced the exercises as a rehearsal for war.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/03/19/south_korea_us_begin_military_drills/
Lebanon President Urges Opposition, Loyalists Meet
March 19, 2005
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud invited the country's anti-Syrian opposition and loyalist politicians to begin immediate talks Saturday, hours after a car bomb shook a Christian suburb of the capital.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/03/19/lebanon_president_urges_opposition_loyalists_meet/
Japan weds nature, high-tech at World Fair
By Audrey McAvoy, Associated Press Writer March 19, 2005
NAGAKUTE, Japan -- Imagine a future where robots work as receptionists and street cleaners and cities build walls of vegetation to combat global warming. Or better, check out this year's World's Fair, where caring for the environment goes hand in hand with technological innovation.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/03/19/japan_weds_nature_high_tech_at_world_fair/
New Zealand Herald
Pylons and the weak link
The link with cancer and neurological disorders is elusive. Picture / Amos Chapple
19.03.05 6.00pm
by Martin Johnston
The first study suggesting an association between childhood leukaemia and power-line magnetic fields was published in 1979.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10116070
Wellington Airport reopens as fog lifts
19.03.05 1.00pm
Normal service resumed at Wellington International Airport today after heavy fog prevented planes from landing or taking off for much of yesterday.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10116167
Atlanta police admit mistakes after court shooting
19.03.05 1.00pm
ATLANTA - The head of Atlanta's police department conceded on Friday that his officers had made a number of mistakes when searching for the suspect in a deadly shooting rampage that left four people dead.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10116172
Titanic director revisits ship's wreck with hi-tech help
19.03.05
In Titanic 3D: Ghosts of the Abyss, Academy Award-winning director James Cameron returns to his greatest inspiration: Titanic.
With a team of marine experts and historians, Cameron and his friend, actor Bill Paxton, embark on a journey to the final resting place of the passenger liner, where nearly 1500 souls lost their lives almost a century ago.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10116038
The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
Scott Base
Clear
-16.0°
Updated Saturday 19 Mar 9:59PM
Global Warming Could Decimate CropsPosted: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 03:33:42 GMTAuthor: Matt Cameron
According to a new study, we are past the point of no return in regards to Global Warming. Nothing we do will stop the inevitable rising oceans and warming temperatures. The study which was posted in the journal Science by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, indicates that even if greenhouse gas levels remained as they are today, it still would not help the outcome. North America could face excessive heat waves and swarms of insects that could decimate crops.
A trend, it is actually freezing at Glacier Bay National Park
The weather (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
32 °F / 0 °C
Clear
Windchill:
22 °F / -5 °C
Humidity:
23%
Dew Point:
-2 °F / -19 °C
Wind:
13 mph / 20 km/h from the NNE
Pressure:
30.32 in / 1027 hPa
Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds (AGL):
Clear -
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