"Okeydoke"
History, February 22….
1349, Jews are expelled from Zurich Switzerland
1732, George Washington, first president of the United States (1789-1797) and one of the most important leaders in United States history. His role in gaining independence for the American colonies and later in unifying them under the new U.S. federal government cannot be overestimated. Laboring against great difficulties, he created the Continental Army, which fought and won the American Revolution (1775-1783), out of what was little more than an armed mob. After an eight-year struggle, his design for victory brought final defeat to the British at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced Great Britain to grant independence to its overseas possession.
1784, The Empress of China, the first United States merchant ship to trade with China, sets sail from New York.
1819, After long negotiations, Spain agrees to cede Florida to the United States.
1879, F.W. Woolworth opens up his first five and dime store in Utica, New York.
1865, Tennessee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery
1865, Battle of Wilmington NC (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals
1872, 1st national convention of the Prohibition Party (Columbus OH)
1872, Labor Reform Party formed at Columbus OH
1876, Johns Hopkins University opens
1878 Greenback Labor Party formed (Toledo OH)
1879, Nothing Over Five Cents
On this day in 1879, Frank Winfield Woolworth kicked off a retail revolution by opening the Great 5 Cents Store in Utica, New York. Pledging to sell "nothing" that cost more than a nickel, Woolworth packed his store with a smorgasbord of goods, ranging from items for the kitchen to beauty products.
1892, Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet (1892)
1924, President Calvin Coolidge delivers the first presidential radio address from the White House.
1932, born, Edward Kennedy, member of the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts.
1945, Arab League forms (Cairo)
1981, Amy Alcott wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic
Missing in Action
1969 MACKO CHARLES ENDICOTT NY
1969 PAXTON DONALD E. CEDAR RAPIDS IA
1969 PEARSON WAYNE E. WESTERN SPRINGS IL REMAINS IDENTIFIED 02 JULY 1993
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February 23rd …
1743, Birth of a Banking Dynasty
1787, Emma Willard, American educator, who lectured and counseled on public and female education. She was born Emma Hart in Berlin, Connecticut, and was largely self-educated. She entered the teaching profession in 1803 and was principal of the Female Academy, Middlebury, Vermont, from 1807 to 1809.
1861, Lincoln arrives in Washington
1868, WEB DuBois, author and historian
1870, Mississippi is formally readmitted to the Union.
1934, Casey Stengel, who had previously been the team's coach, becomes the manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1940, The Walt Disney animated motion picture Pinocchio, about a wooden puppet who longs to become human, is released.
1945, U.S. Marines capture the highest point on the island of Iwo Jima and raise the American flag for the second time that day.
1955, First council meeting of SEATO
1971 South Vietnamese advance stalls
1997, First movie shown on TV without interruption
1997, Scottish scientists announce what they have kept secret for seven months: that they have cloned adult sheep DNA and produced a healthy sheep who they have named Dolly.
Cloning Special Report
On this day in 1997 researchers in Scotland announced the birth of a sheep named Dolly, produced from a cell of an adult female sheep. The magazine New Scientist presents a report on recent developments in cloning.
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/onthisday.aspx
Gay genetics
IF homosexuality is an inherited trait, why do genes for it survive? Because these genes may make women more likely to reproduce.
Andrea Camperio-Ciani's team at the University of Padua, Italy, asked 98 gay and 100 straight men to fill in questionnaires about their families. They found mothers and aunts had more children if related to a gay rather than a straight man. Mothers of gay men averaged 2.7 babies, compared with 2.3 born to mothers of straight men. Aunts on the mother's side had 2 babies compared with 1.5 for maternal aunts of straight men (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004).
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/mg18424690.80
THERE WILL NO LONGER be Missing in Action as the Website has been mysteriously shutdown.
February 23, 2005
The Daily Star - Lebanon
Beirut demonstration sends clear message
Arab league chief: syrian president 'determined' to withdraw troops
By Nayla Assaf
Daily Star staff
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
BEIRUT: One week after the brutal slaying of former Premier Rafik Hariri, as tens of thousands of protesters chanted "Syria out" as they marched from the scene of Hariri's death to Martyrs Square in central Beirut, Syrian President Bashar Assad was indicating his willingness to withdraw his troops from Lebanon, in line with the Taif Accord.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=12868
Lebanese government dismisses U.S. and EU calls for prompt Syrian pullout
FM says transatlantic call for immediate withdrawal 'nothing new'
By Linda Dahdah
Daily Star staff
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
BEIRUT: Lebanon's government has dismissed American and European Union calls for Syrian troops to leave the country immediately in the latest escalation of tension between the two sides. The move comes as U.S. President George W. Bush and European Union leaders ratcheted up pressure on Syria to withdraw troops from Lebanon in the wake of the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=12912
By Nada Raad Daily Star staff
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
BEIRUT: The pro-government Ain al-Tineh gathering launched Tuesday an attempt to approach the opposition through a visit to Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=12906
Syria is doing well in a diplomatic minefield
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
The U.S. and French positions regarding Lebanon, expressed in the joint statement released following the meeting between U.S. President George W. Bush and his French counterpart Jacques Chirac, increased the pressure on Damascus by calling for the immediate implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1559.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=12908
Bush or Bushehr? Russia puts its money on Iran
Gulf atomic plant back on track
By Paul de Zardain
Special to The Daily Star
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
MOSCOW: With a firm handshake from the Kremlin chief, Hassan Rohani concluded his visit to Moscow last Friday. As head of Iran's National Security Council, Rohani made no secret that his meetings were timed ahead of a U.S.-Russia summit in Bratislava this week.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_id=12884
Bahrain sees growing role for euro
International currency reserves could diversify away from Dollar
Bahrain sees a growing role for the euro in international currency reserves but is not in a hurry to diversify away from the falling dollar, the country's Central Bank governor said.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_id=12885
Arab world in Wonderland, or how to face a realigning West
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Editorial
In the uncertain world of politic relations, one of the few certainties is that alliances will shift. Leading up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the world saw the U.S.-European relations suffer significant stress. Now, we see the divide between the two narrowing. Of course, there is a long way to go before the two see eye-to-eye on many issues, but the juggernaut of U.S.-EU relations is changing course.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&article_id=12894&categ_id=17
Hariri sought the dignity of a businessman's peace
By Fouad Ajami
Commentary by
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Rafik Hariri, who was struck down just over a week ago by a huge car bomb on Beirut's seafront, was the unlikeliest of martyrs for the cause of Lebanon's independence. He had risen from the obscurity and poverty of Sidon to the upper reaches of Lebanese and Arab society, largely through the patronage of the House of Saud and the inner dealings of Arab rulers and courtiers. A former prime minister of Lebanon, he wasn't particularly articulate, or given to the call of political causes. He believed in the power of wealth and of pragmatism, and saw Lebanon's mission in the time-honored way of Sidon's Phoenician heritage: commerce and trade, banking and tourism. Over two long decades in the political game, he had made his accommodation with Syrian power. He no doubt paid off Syrian intelligence operatives and officers, cut their sons and daughters and wives into business deals, did what he could for the restoration of his battered country, while staying on
the safe side of Syria's hegemony
in Lebanon.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=12892
The Philadelphia Inquirer has buried it's head in the sand with local scandal and sports coverage.
Editorial Culture Funding
Seek new ideas for old problem
A few weeks ago, Mayor Street pledged to work toward creating a stable arts and culture fund for the region.
Now, the William Penn Foundation has joined with the region's leading arts coalition to launch a study of concrete ways to boost the arts.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/10966199.htm
The Philadelphia Daily News
Ready for battle
BEBASHI prez & AIDS activist fights myths about disease
By JENICE M. ARMSTRONG
armstrj@phillynews.com
EVERY TIME he goes on the radio, the executive director of BEBASHI gets another lesson in conspiracy theories about AIDS.
Listeners always call whatever show he's on, ranting that the U.S. government officials created AIDS in a test tube as a form of germ warfare.
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/10959364.htm
It makes me laugh to here some of the biggest opponents of the illegal invasion into Iraq run to the arms of 'correctness' when the Free and Fair Elections in Iraq never took place realizing the entire Sunni population was displaced in protest and the only leader in Iraq with any influence, The Grand Ayatollah al Sistani, was the one that insisted the elections go forward. He insisted the elections to go forward after having to leave his surgical bed in London to rescue them from the USA invading force who was seeking to al Sadr. PLEASE don't try and crown Bush with a success he never owned. Not even close !! The Shi'ites could have just as easily boycotted the elections except the Grand Ayatollah sees the light at the end of the tunnel. It has nothing to do with Bush/Cheney. Absolutely nothing. The Grand Ayatollah was faced with an unstable country and he acted.
Shiite party taps al-Jaafari as PM choice
By TOM LASSETER
Knight Ridder Newspapers
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The dominant Shiite Muslim political ticket on Tuesday picked its candidate for prime minister: Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a man who some fear could lead the nation toward theocracy.
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/10964511.htm
The Gulf News
Powerful earthquake hits southeast Iran
Reuters
Tehran: A strong earthquake hit southeast Iran today, killing almost 400 people, injuring hundreds and destroying villages, a local official told Reuters.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=153133
500 killed in Iran earthquake
AP
Sarbagh: A powerful earthquake shook central Iran yesterday, destroying villages, killing at least 500 people and injuring hundreds.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=153178
Soros sounds dollar warning
Staff Report
Jeddah: George Soros is warning all oil-producing countries about pegging their currencies and oil revenues to the dollar.
"The US dollar is weak, and is expected to deteriorate more," said Soros.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=153162
Syria hints at Lebanon pullout
Agencies
Beirut: Syria indicated yesterday it would start pulling out some of its troops from Lebanon soon.
It came as US President George W. Bush in Brussels called on Damascus to end its occupation of its neighbour. The announcement on the Syrian step was made by Arab League chief Amr Mousa who met the Syrian President in Damascus yesterday.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=153018
... but it is being made a scapegoat
By Sami Moubayed, Special to Gulf News
Nobody has concrete evidence against Syria. Many want to believe, however, that Syria was responsible for the brutal death of its former ally Rafik Hariri on February 14, to justify getting international support to force it to withdraw its remaining 15,000 troops from Lebanon.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/OpinionNF.asp?ArticleID=152979
Israel seeks to improve ties with Arab countries
Agencies
Occupied Jerusalem: Israel is seeking to develop diplomatic relations with its Arab neighbours.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=153019
Ideological divide over disengagement
By Linda S. Heard
Religious extremists threaten to derail the Israeli Prime Minister's strategy of permanently pulling out of Gaza and dismantling a few small northern West Bank Jewish colonies.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/OpinionNF.asp?ArticleID=152989
Darfur should not be a failure
International community is also to be blamed for the ills of the Dark Continent
Africa can do without any more famines. Blighted by more wars than most parts of the planet, the continent has been known to perpetually put its potential for growth on hold.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/OpinionNF.asp?ArticleID=152981
The Boston Globe
Prelude to War with a supposed support of Europe by his 'trip precense'
Bush admonishes Russia to commit to democracy
In Europe, seeks to heal rift in relations
By Susan Milligan, Globe Staff February 22, 2005
BRUSSELS -- President Bush publicly urged Russia yesterday to adopt "a commitment to democracy and the rule of law," delivering an unusually blunt admonishment to Russian President Vladimir Putin three days before the two leaders are set to meet in Slovakia.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/02/22/bush_admonishes_russia_to_commit_to/
Abuses demand justice, Afghans tell leaders
Kabul sees risk in trying warlords
By Victoria Burnett, Globe Correspondent February 22, 2005
KABUL -- S. M. Saidi's voice cracked as he began to recall the six weeks he spent as a prisoner of the Taliban intelligence service. An elegant man in a cravat and neatly pressed trousers, he lowered his gaze and let out a long, shuddering sigh.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/02/22/abuses_demand_justice_afghans_tell/
This will only serve to do without. The USA is a third world nation and moving more quickly to disenfranchised Civilization all the time. The USA vs. the underground USA.
US sees insurers as possible tool in terror fight
By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff February 22, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Homeland Security officials in the Bush administration are considering ways to use the insurance industry as a free-market-friendly vehicle to drive chemical facilities, food companies, utilities, and other businesses to take greater precautions against terrorist attacks without heavy-handed new regulations.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/02/22/us_sees_insurers_as_possible_tool_in_terror_fight/
FRONTING AS A LEGITIMATE GOVERNOR, the speech reeks of bigotry, bias and war. Romney is desperately trying to 'shake' the Massachusetts icon image as 'liberal' even declining the positive results of stem cell research condemning his own spouse to an illness that in time will kill her. Can anyone state Romney is not another Neocon with promises to more and more dangerous aggressions against humanity here domestically and abroad? No. By this speech alone is he guilty on all counts. It took a long time to get the Confederate Flag to be removed from The State House as well. This is the kind of president we continue to want? Can Bob Jones be far away?
Confederate flag summit ends deadlocked in South Carolina
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2000/US/01/14/sc.flag.legislature/
South Carolina takes Confederate flag down from Capitol dome
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2000/US/07/01/scflag.01/
Romney talks 'right' on social issues in S.C.
By Raphael Lewis, Globe Staff February 22, 2005
SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- Governor Mitt Romney, addressing 350 Republicans in a speech here last night, decried efforts by Massachusetts Democrats to legalize certain cloning for stem cell research, blasted the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling that legalized gay marriage, and praised Ronald Reagan and President Bush for their struggles against worldwide tyranny and higher taxes.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/02/22/romney_talks_right_on_social_issues_in_sc/
Romney's stance on civil unions draws fire
Activists accuse governor of 'flip-flopping' on issue
By Frank Phillips, Globe Staff February 23, 2005
A national gay and lesbian Republican organization yesterday accused Governor Mitt Romney of "flip-flopping" on civil unions for same-sex couples, and other gay activists and Democrats complained that Romney was reinventing himself as a conservative to run for president.
http://www.boston.com/news/traffic/bigdig/articles/2005/02/23/romneys_stance_on_civil_unions_draws_fire/
Summers vows new tone with faculty
Pledges to temper his words, actions
By Marcella Bombardieri, Globe Staff February 23, 2005
CAMBRIDGE -- Lawrence H. Summers yesterday offered conciliatory remarks to his critics, pledging at a meeting attended by several hundred Harvard professors to "set a different tone" in his relationship with the faculty and acknowledging widespread complaints that his leadership style has frozen out critical voices on campus.
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2005/02/23/summers_vows_new_tone_with_faculty/
Harvard seeks to test ecstasy drug on the dying
By Raja Mishra
Globe Staff February 23, 2005
BELMONT -- Harvard researchers are preparing for the first time in three decades to conduct human experiments using a psychedelic drug, a study that would seek to harness the mind-altering effects of the drug ecstasy to help ease the crushing psychic burdens faced by dying cancer patients.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/02/23/harvard_seeks_to_test_ecstasy_drug_on_the_dying/
The Chicago Tribune
O, you lucky dogs, this is Bark Ave.
By Hal Dardick, Tribune staff reporter. Tribune staff reporter Brendan McCarthy contributed to this report
Published February 22, 2005
It is designed to be the biggest and best bark park in Chicago.
The canine play area at the south end of Grant Park will stretch more than 13,000 square feet and include a doggie drinking fountain. Plumbing will also be installed for a future decorative fountain for warm-weather frolicking.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0502220326feb22,1,4809120.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Peace activists sue city over march permit
By Hal Dardick
Tribune staff reporter
Published February 22, 2005, 3:29 PM CST
Peace activists, twice denied Chicago city permits to march along Michigan Avenue on the second anniversary of the Iraq invasion, filed suit today in U.S. District Court seeking to overturn the city's decision.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050222protest,1,152879.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Fear arises that virus will mutate
CDC sounds alarm of likely pandemic over bird flu strain
By Paul Recer
Associated Press
Published February 22, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Monday that bird flu in Asia is highly likely to mutate into a virus transmittable from person to person, raising the prospect of a global epidemic.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0502220309feb22,1,5137027.story?coll=chi-news-hed
The Moscow News
Bush to Talk Security, Not Scold
U.S. President George W. Bush will probably keep a promise to prod President Vladimir Putin over concerns that Russia is backsliding on democracy when the two meet in Slovakia on Thursday. However, while seeking explanations, Bush is unlikely to tie his administration's Russia policy to Putin's record on democracy because Moscow remains too valuable as a partner in security and oil and would become too troublesome as a spoiler if antagonized.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/22/001.html
IT'S CALLED TALKING OUT OF BOTH SIDES OF YOUR MOUTH.
Bush Seeks Thaw While Talking Tough
By Tom Raum
The Associated Press
BRUSSELS -- U.S. President George W. Bush, on a trip to thaw relations with Europe, prodded Russia not turn its back on democratic advances. He also demanded that Iran give up its nuclear ambitions and told Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/22/251.html
WHAT is there to talk about? Bush trashed to ABM Treaty years ago?
Proliferation of the Bigwigs
The summit between President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush this Thursday in Bratislava will address proliferation. There are serious disagreements between Moscow and Washington in almost every other area. Russia believes the West is bent on isolating it from other countries in the CIS. The West in turn believes the Kremlin is trying to reestablish control over former Soviet republics. The Yukos affair and Putin's dismantling of democracy have poisoned U.S.-Russia relations. The war on terrorism is no longer a unifying factor: The American campaign to install democracy in Iraq and the Russian war to enforce its will in the North Caucasus are as far apart ideologically as the United States and Russia are geographically.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/22/009.html
Putin Calls for Tougher Action in the Caucasus
President Vladimir Putin ordered the Interior Ministry on Monday to toughen efforts to eliminate militants in the restive North Caucasus region.
His order followed special operations over the past several weeks to kill alleged Islamic extremists and their accomplices in several southern cities.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/22/011.html
Indians Arrive Seeking Landmark Energy Deals
Top Indian officials held discussions in Moscow on buying a stake in Yuganskneftegaz and attracting major Russian investors to the Indian oil and gas sector, Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said in an interview Monday.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/22/041.html
Global Eye
Sword Play
By Chris Floyd
Published: February 18, 2005
'You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force ... the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security."
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/18/120.html
Michael Moore Today
February 22nd, 2005 4:15 pm
For Some, a Loss in Iraq Turns Into Antiwar Activism; Gold Star Families Band Together to 'Make People Care'
By Evelyn Nieves / Washington Post
VACAVILLE, Calif. -- Five minutes after President Bush began his State of the Union address, Cindy Sheehan clicked off her television set.
She would read the transcript, watch the salute to the parents of a Marine killed in Fallujah, chew over such words as "ultimate sacrifice" and "fight against tyranny" -- the next morning.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1517
THE MARCH OF FREEDOM
Three soldiers killed in Baghdad.
Washington's waning influence in Iraq.
In the nearly two years since the war began in Iraq, at least 232 civilians working on U.S. military and reconstruction contracts have been killed there, many in largely overlooked slayings.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php
Poll Shows Doubts Over Bush Democracy Push
By Will Lester / Associated Press
President Bush is calling on European leaders to support his campaign to spread democracy abroad at a time people in many of those countries have doubts whether that should be the U.S. role in the world, Associated Press polling found.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1516
Panelists Decry Bush Science Policies
By Paul Recer / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The voice of science is being stifled in the Bush administration, with fewer scientists heard in policy discussions and money for research and advanced training being cut, according to panelists at a national science meeting.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1513
The Los Angeles Times
Toll Mounts as Storms Continue
Southern California braced for another round of rain, snow and even tornadoes this afternoon as a lethal and destructive storm system slowly moved across the region in what could be the wettest year on record.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-022205rain_lat,0,111437.story?coll=la-home-headlines
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