"A car bomb detonated today near a fruit and vegetable market in Hilla, a Shiite town south of Baghdad, killing at least 8 people and wounding 41. It was the second attack in two days of bloodletting that has left 110 people dead."
"Federal auditors said today that the Bush administration had violated the law by purchasing favorable news coverage of President Bush's education policies, by making payments to the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party.
In a blistering report, the investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, said the administration had disseminated 'covert propaganda' inside the United States, in violation of a longstanding, explicit statutory ban."
"As we slip into deep sleep, higher regions of our brains take a vacation from each other, disconnecting so much that consciousness is snuffed out and a once highly integrated organ becomes separated, according to a groundbreaking experiment by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers."
"The new regulations will require 85 percent of the car's materials, by weight, to be recovered and reused; the figure includes 5 percent through energy recovery, typically by burning materials that are not economically practical to recycle.
In 2007, networks set up by carmakers in the European Union must be ready to accept all scrap vehicles, regardless of age, at no cost to the car's last owner. In 2015, the portion of each vehicle that should be recycled increases to 95 percent."
"'This is a truly astounding discovery,' he said in a statement. 'Tool usage in wild apes provides us with valuable insights into the evolution of our own species and the abilities of other species.'"
"Depressed and demoralized White House staffers say working at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is “life in a hellhole” as they try to deal with a sullen, moody President whose temper tantrums drive staffers crying from the room and bring the business of running the country to a halt.
“It’s like working in an insane asylum,” says one White House aide. “People walk around like they’re in a trance. We’re the dance band on the Titanic, playing out our last songs to people who know the ship is sinking and none of us are going to make it.”"
"Since the beginning of the summer, the price of natural gas has doubled. But unlike crude oil or gasoline, whose recent gains have been widely felt by most Americans, the surge in natural gas prices, the most popular form of energy for home heating, has so far gone largely unnoticed."
Harsdorf's resoltion fails in Senate vote
•Missed the override by two votes
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
-Sept. 20, Daniel B. Songetay, Danbury, was traveling north on Hwy 35 when he lost control of his vehicle, causing him to go in a ditch, colliding with a tree headfirst. He suffered severe injuries from the accident. It is unknown if alcohol or drugs were a factor.
-Sept. 23, Joseph R. McGeshick, Siren, attempted a u-turn on Herman Johnson Road, but ended up in the ditch, knocking down a stop sign.
-Sept. 24, a 2003 Honda Odyssey van owned by Peter D. Porotko, Brooklyn Park, MN, was hit by an unidentified vehicle in the parking lot of Wayne’s Food Plus. The suspect then fled the scene, making it a hit and run.
Like the ancient, mythical bird, The Phoenix, which was said to be extinct but rose up once again, so did the Webster Tigers rise up from a shaky 0-5 volleyball start to win three matches at the Grantsburg Invitational before falling 2-0 to Grantsburg.
phoe-nix also phe-nix (fnks).Extinct? I don’t think so.
n.
1. Mythology. A bird in Egyptian mythology that lived in the desert for 500 years and then consumed itself by fire, later to rise renewed from its ashes.
2. A person or thing of unsurpassed excellence or beauty; a paragon.
3. Phoenix. A constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor
No it spells miscues.
“Many miscues spell disaster” -
-St. Croix Falls stuns Pirates 17-14 after stalls inside the scroing zone, interceptions and fumbles destroy Grantsburg's chances.
-Freshman Ben Nelson’s runner’s knee won’t stop him because he’s the fifth runner in Frederic’s success plan -
"A natural cycle in the polar atmosphere, the Arctic Oscillation, that contributed to the reduction in Arctic ice in the past was not a significant factor right now, he said, adding that rising temperatures driven by accumulating greenhouse-gas emissions had to be playing a role."
"Said House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi: 'The criminal indictment of Majority Leader Tom Delay is the latest example that Republicans in Congress are plagued by a culture of corruption at the expense of the American people.'"
"LONDON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - The conduct of U.S. troops in Iraq, including increasing detention and accidental shootings of journalists, is preventing full coverage of the war reaching the American public, Reuters said on Wednesday."
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"Schlesinger said the U.S. military had refused to conduct independent and transparent investigations into the deaths of the Reuters journalists, relying instead on inquiries by officers from the units responsible, who had exonerated their soldiers."
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"Schlesinger's letter said: "It appears as though the U.S. forces in Iraq either completely misunderstand the role of professional journalists or do not know how to deal with journalists in a conflict zone, or both."
"Reuters and other media organisations in Iraq had repeatedly tried to hold a dialogue with the Pentagon to establish appropriate guidelines on how to safeguard journalists. These efforts had failed "and the situation is now spiraling out of control", Schlesinger said."
"We can all pitch in...by being better conservers of energy. I mean, people just need to recognize that the storms have caused disruption and that if they're able to maybe not drive...on a trip that's not essential, that would be helpful."
Q: Does the President believe that, given the amount of energy Americans consume per capita, how much it exceeds any other citizen in any other country in the world, does the President believe we need to correct our lifestyles to address the energy problem?
MR. FLEISCHER: That's a big no. The President believes that it's an American way of life, and that it should be the goal of policy makers to protect the American way of life.
"Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy."
"It's important for the president of the United States to travel to the region and get firsthand accounts of the operations and to provide comfort and support to those who have been affected. ... That's an important responsibility of the president of the United States."
"'This has been a mystery for a thousand years,' said Richard Ellis, author of 'Monsters of the Sea' (Knopf, 1994). 'Nobody knew what they looked like in the wild. We only saw them dead. These images will open the door to more detailed study of their life.'"
"'Now here's some sad information coming out of Washington. According to reports, President Bush may be drinking again. And I thought, `Well, why not? He's got everybody else drinking.''
--David Letterman"
"Skill is on display, but also kindness and respect toward the animals — equine and bovine."
"'I once listened to three weeks of Beethoven,' Smart says.
'I don't believe it,' another character says.
'Would you believe two weeks of Brahms?'
'No.'
'A day of Looney Tunes?'"
• Sen. Bill Frist: The report accuses him of violating federal campaign finance laws in how he disclosed a campaign loan. It also calls for an inquiry over his recent sale of stock in HCA Inc., his family's hospital corporation. The sale has raised questions about possible insider dealing. Frist aides confirmed Friday that the SEC was investigating. They have denied claims of campaign finance violations.
• Rep. Roy Blunt: The report criticizes him for trying to insert provisions into bills that would have benefited, in one case, a client of his lobbyist son and in another case, the employer of his lobbyist girlfriend, now his wife.
• Sen. Conrad Burns: The report says that questions arose over $3 million in appropriations he earmarked for an Indian tribe in Michigan that was a client of lobbyist Abramoff. The senator received substantial campaign contributions from Abramoff and various clients.
"Sen. Burns did nothing wrong, and any accusation to the contrary is pure politics," said James Pendleton, his director of communications. He said Burns had earmarked the appropriation at the request of the Michigan congressional delegation.
• Rep. Bob Ney: The report says the chairman of the House Administration Committee went on a golf outing to Scotland in 2002, arranged by Abramoff, at a time when the congressman was trying to insert a provision into legislation to benefit one of Abramoff's tribal clients.
Ney reported to the House that the trip was paid for entirely by the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank, which denied paying any of the costs. Ney has said he had been duped by Abramoff.
• Rep. Tom Feeney: The report says he incorrectly reported that a golf trip to Scotland with Abramoff in 2003 was paid for by the National Center for Public Policy Research, which denied it. A Feeney aide said the congressman had been misled. Questions also have arisen about two other privately funded trips.
• Rep. Richard W. Pombo: He paid his wife and brother $357,325 in campaign funds in the last four years, the report says. He also supported the wind-power industry before the Department of Interior without disclosing that his parents received hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties from wind-power turbines on their ranch.
Brian Kennedy, a spokesman for Pombo, said that "each of the charges is baseless." He called the watchdog group "a Democratic attack group, and all of their charges should be taken with a grain of salt."
• Rep. Maxine Waters: The report cites a December 2004 Los Angeles Times investigation disclosing how members of the congresswoman's family have made more than $1 million in the last eight years by doing business with companies, candidates and causes that Waters has helped. Before publication of the Times investigation last year, Waters declined to be interviewed, but said of her family members: "They do their business, and I do mine."
• Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.): The report says he encountered controversy over disclosures that Pennsylvania taxpayers paid for his children's schooling while they lived in Virginia. Santorum maintained he did nothing wrong, and has pulled his children out of the school, according to reports.
• Reps. Randy "Duke" Cunningham and William J. Jefferson: Both congressional veterans are under federal investigation.
Cunningham, who has announced that he will not run for reelection, faces questions over his dealings with a defense contractor who allegedly overpaid him when he purchased Cunningham's house. Jefferson is under scrutiny for his role in an overseas business deal. Normally the House ethics committee does not hold inquiries while criminal investigations are underway.
• Rep. Charles H. Taylor (R-N.C.): The report says that questions have been raised about his private business interests, including a savings and loan in Asheville, N.C., and personal business interests in Russia.
• Rep. Marilyn N. Musgrave (R-Colo.) and Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.): Both second-term House members encountered criticisms tied to campaign activities, the report says.
Musgrave was accused of misusing her congressional office for campaign purposes. Renzi was accused of financing portions of his 2002 campaign with improper loans.
Joe Bauman, 83; Set Home Run Record That Lasted 47 Years
Joe Bauman, 83, whose 72 minor-league home runs in 1954 stood as a professional baseball record until Barry Bonds hit 73 in 2001, died Tuesday in Roswell, N.M., where he played for the Roswell Rockets of the Longhorn League during the 1950s.
"If Darwin was right, for example, then scientists should be able to perform a neat trick. Using a mathematical formula that emerges from evolutionary theory, they should be able to predict the number of harmful mutations in chimpanzee DNA by knowing the number of mutations in a different species' DNA and the two animals' population sizes.
'That's a very specific prediction,' said Eric Lander, a geneticist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, Mass., and a leader in the chimp project.
Sure enough, when Lander and his colleagues tallied the harmful mutations in the chimp genome, the number fit perfectly into the range that evolutionary theory had predicted."
"Evolution's repeated power to predict the unexpected goes a long way toward explaining why so many scientists and others are practically apoplectic over the recent decision by a Pennsylvania school board to treat evolution as an unproven hypothesis, on par with "alternative" explanations such as Intelligent Design (ID), the proposition that life as we know it could not have arisen without the helping hand of some mysterious intelligent force."
"Because he never was an agency employee – and, as such, never signed a prepublication agreement with us – any suggestion that the CIA tried to censor or suppress his writings is incorrect," Gimigliano states in his letter.
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The CIA hired Army personnel to help with training prior to the Bay of Pigs and subsequently, to train Cuban expatriates for planned operations inside Cuba.
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"Ayers gathers evidence that his bosses at the CIA in Miami had direct involvement in the killing of both Kennedys."
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That, too, is garbage and should be treated as such."
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"I would like to live out my life here with some reasonable degree of peace, acceptance and respect," he said. "I don’t know why I must constantly defend myself for my past, falsely condemned for speaking my mind."
"Our poor students do extremely well, so the gap between them and the high performers is small compared to that in other countries. But we know you have to work extremely hard with those students. If you stress competition, they will be the losers and the gap will widen.'"
"The EPA's exceptions, according to the Sun, would allow pesticide testing on 'abused or neglected' children without permission from parents or guardians; permit 'ethically deficient' human research if necessary to 'protect public health,' and allow more than a minimal health risk to a test subject if there is 'a direct benefit' to the child and parents or guardians approve."
"Finnegan said he knew he would like Cream City as soon as his fellow pub-goers assured him we Milwaukeeans 'don't have a town drunk - we just take turns.'"
"A Leinenkugel's," he said, practicing a Wisconsin accent. ""Yah, it was good."
"Allen Touissant, a legendary New Orleans pianist, summed up the night: 'If you'd like to know how to get from the Big Apple to the Big Easy, take Highway Love, and you'll get there.'"
"He came along when country music was dominated by novelty acts and huck-and-shuck mediocrities and comics with blacked-out teeth and Ma-and-Pops-and-Cousin-Hezzie bands and Republican daddies like Roy Acuff and Tex Ritter, and in blew this lean drifter"
"A phenomenal clustering of migrating monarch butterflies - up to several thousand a night - occurred over a succession of evenings recently in a grove of trees at a residence in Jerusalem Township."
"The fish are also imperiled by dam construction that has cut off spawning grounds and by damage to their habitats from pollution."
"Maybe, just maybe, the public is beginning to see through the toxic fog of fantasy, propaganda and deliberate misrepresentation that has been such a hallmark of the George W. Bush administration, which is in danger of being judged by history as one of the worst of all time.
"Mr. Bush's approval ratings have tanked as increasing numbers of Americans worry that their president, who seems to like nothing better than running off to his ranch to clear brush and ride his bike, may not be up to the job.
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"Reality is caving in on a president who was held aloft for so long by a combination of ideological mumbo-jumbo, the public relations legerdemain of Karl Rove and the buoyant patriotism that followed the Sept. 11 attacks. The Bush people were never big on reality, so sooner or later they were bound to be blindsided by it."
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, President Bush and Republicans in Congress have refused to consider rolling back the $336 billion in new tax cuts that the richest 1 percent are slated to get over the next five years. They say we need to pay for reconstruction not by asking the wealthiest to sacrifice just a little bit, but by massive cuts to spending. And now we see what that means: The Navy Times today reports that those cuts "include trimming military quality-of-life programs, including health care" . . . This, while troops are fighting and dying for our country in Iraq.
. . . The specifics are ugly. They are, for instance, asking troops to "accept reduced health care benefits for their families." Additionally, "the stateside system of elementary and secondary schools for military family members could be closed." In the past, this idea "has faced strong opposition from parents of children attending the schools because public schools [in and around bases] are seen as offering lower-quality education."
None of this, I suppose, is all that surprising. In the past, we've seen tax cuts put before making sure troops have adequate body armor heading into war - a tax/budget decision that very likely increased U.S. casualties. We've also seen Republicans vote down efforts to reduce tax cuts for the very wealthy in order to restore cuts to military family housing. And we've seen tax cuts come as the White House has refused to adequately fund a variety of other programs for troops. The truth is, the GOP has in moments of candor admitted that they care about cutting taxes for the wealthy far more than they care about the troops.
As you may recall, it was Tom DeLay who said before the Iraq invasion "Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes." Apparently, nothing is more important in the face of a war AND massive destruction to the homefront than tax cuts either.
"A new, highly contagious and sometimes deadly canine flu is spreading in kennels and at dog tracks around the country, veterinarians said yesterday.
"The virus, which scientists say mutated from an influenza strain that affects horses, has killed racing greyhounds in seven states and has been found in shelters and pet shops in many places, including the New York suburbs, though the extent of its spread is unknown.
"Dr. Cynda Crawford, an immunologist at the University of Florida's College of Veterinary Medicine who is studying the virus, said that it spread most easily where dogs were housed together but that it could also be passed on the street, in dog runs or even by a human transferring it from one dog to another. Kennel workers have carried the virus home with them, she said.
"How many dogs die from the virus is unclear, but scientists said the fatality rate is more than 1 percent and could be as high as 10 percent among puppies and older dogs."
"I tried to see my way clear to attend the festival in order to bear witness--as an American who loves her country and its principles and its writing--against this undeclared and devastating war.
"But I could not face the idea of breaking bread with you. I knew that if I sat down to eat with you, it would feel to me as if I were condoning what I see to be the wild, highhanded actions of the Bush Administration.
"What kept coming to the fore of my mind was that I would be taking food from the hand of the First Lady who represents the Administration that unleashed this war and that wills its continuation, even to the extent of permitting 'extraordinary rendition': flying people to other countries where they will be tortured for us.
"So many Americans who had felt pride in our country now feel anguish and shame, for the current regime of blood, wounds and fire. I thought of the clean linens at your table, the shining knives and the flames of the candles, and I could not stomach it."
"Well, I call em as I see them too. And I have found that Max Baucus meets my criteria for a gutless son of a bitch. Baucus demonstrates a healthy disrespect for his Leader in the Senate and for the values and principles that define the Democratic Party."
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"If you have an emergency, please call my office directly at (800) 332-6106 (from MT) or (406) 657-6790."
"House-Senate Katrina probe dies as Dems refuse to participate in GOP-controlled probe.
"Mammalian biologists cite development as new evidence for late-stage testiculogenesis."
"A senior White House budget official who resigned abruptly last week was arrested Monday on charges of lying to investigators and obstructing a federal inquiry involving Jack Abramoff, the Republican lobbyist who has been under scrutiny by the Justice Department for more than a year.
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"The White House said in a statement that Mr. Safavian had resigned on Friday
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"His wife, Jennifer Safavian, is chief counsel for oversight and investigations on the House Government Reform Committee, which is responsible for overseeing government procurement and is, among other things, expected to conduct the Congressional investigation into missteps after Hurricane Katrina."
"CHEERS to tipping the scales. (via The Raw Story) This week's issue of Newsweek gives Democrats a 50%-38% edge over Republicans in the 2006 mid-terms, an unthinkable achievement just a few months ago. The numbers reflect either A) a unified Democratic strategy coupled with powerful think tanks and media dominance...or B) the sudden realization that the Republican party is going to kill us all. (Hint: it rhymes with 'Bee')
"Let us not beat about the bush — the common assumption that evolution through natural selection is a 'theory' in the same way as string theory is a theory is wrong. Evolution is a law (with several components) that is as well substantiated as any other natural law, whether the law of gravity, the laws of motion or Avogadro's law. Evolution is a fact, disputed only by those who choose to ignore the evidence, put their common sense on hold and believe instead that unchanging knowledge and wisdom can be reached only by revelation. "
"Katrina is a symbol of all this administration does and doesn't do. Michael Brown -- or Brownie as the President so famously thanked him for doing a heck of a job - Brownie is to Katrina what Paul Bremer is to peace in Iraq; what George Tenet is to slam dunk intelligence; what Paul Wolfowitz is to parades paved with flowers in Baghdad; what Dick Cheney is to visionary energy policy; what Donald Rumsfeld is to basic war planning; what Tom Delay is to ethics; and what George Bush is to “Mission Accomplished” and 'Wanted Dead or Alive.' The bottom line is simple: The 'we'll do whatever it takes' administration doesn't have what it takes to get the job done."
"Consider this: in the United States, unlike any other advanced country, many people fail to receive basic health care because they can't afford it. Lack of health insurance kills many more Americans each year than Katrina and 9/11 combined.
"But the health care crisis hasn't had much effect on politics. And one reason is that it isn't yet a crisis among middle-class, white Americans (although it's getting there). Instead, the worst effects are falling on the poor and black, who have third-world levels of infant mortality and life expectancy."
''When the hurricane struck, it did not turn the region into a Third World country ... it revealed one,'' actor Danny Glover told the audience in a speech with Harry Belafonte.
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''Katrina was not unforeseeable,'' Belafonte said. ''It was the result of a political structure that subcontracts its responsibility to private contractors and abdicates its responsibility altogether.''
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Robin Williams poked fun at the Bush administration during his standup routine, in which he imagined an ethnically named Hurricane, and imagined its attitude: ''I'm going to go to Kennebunkport and see if they respond any quicker!''
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Jazz singer Jon Hendricks summed up the tone of the evening. After singing one tribute, he said, ''That's the way I feel about New Orleans. This is the way I feel about the country right now.''
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Then he launched into the angry song ''Tell Me The Truth,'' singing lines like ''Nowadays, wrong is right, down is up, black is white, bad is good, truth is a lie'' before defiantly singing, ''Somebody tell me what's right,'' to the applause of the audience.
Sept. 9, Ted P. Sterling, Danbury, reported right field fencing missing at the Danbury Baseball Field. The incident is under investigation.
(Who cares? They always put the loser in right field anyway. Yes, it's true, that's the position I played.)
Cynthia A. Hageman, Webster, is under investigation for possible theft at the Siren Veterinary Clinic. The incident took place in July, and she since then has been terminated. When confronted by the store manager, she said the money was used for large animal clippings and that she would pay it back. The money, $170, has been paid back (call Julie Turner or Ron Wilhelm for questions).
(I have a question for Julie or Ron - how come those large animal clippings are so expensive? Actually I have another question - did Julie or Ron want their names mentioned in the "Police Blotter"?
Patricia J. Swenson, Frederic, backed into a 1992 Pontiac Grand Am, owned by Jennifer VanWagner of North Branch, MN, at the Grantsburg Family Foods parking lot. The front left side of the car sustained the most damage.
(No offense, but Patricia J. Swenson must have one hell of a rear end.)
Sept. 7, BP Amoco reported a gas drive off. The car had no front license plate and drove away with about $76 worth of gas.
(Well, that sure helps. What's in the water in Grantsburg?)
"James Sensebrenner, who is displaying all of the signs of a man desperate to get into hell on a special express train, would rather not house the homeless, if it's all the same to you."
"The Islamic Army in Iraq, which has previously claimed responsibility for kidnappings and killings of foreigners, made a bounty offer for the assassination of key Iraqi officials.
"The militant group called in a Web posting for its "holy fighters to strike the infidels with an iron fist." It offered $100,000 to the killer of al-Jaafari, $50,000 for the interior minister and $30,000 for the defense minister."
""What we've seen in Louisiana...is exactly the kind of situation where the second amendment was intended to allow citizens to protect themselves," NRA chief Wayne LaPierre said in a statement."
""Local authorities in New Orleans are turning nature's assault on human life into man’s assault on human rights," LaPierre added."
"Dr. Schultz said he was not familiar with the February report from Guidant that broke out the short circuit figures. He said he did not have information about what percentage of reports were reviewed within 90 days."
Jeff Tyberg’s position on “Pro Life”
Our Founding Fathers made it very clear where they believed life came from and what it's worth when they wrote, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
(So Jeff, I hate to say it, but the passage you quote doesn’t give a street address or price tag. Just where did life come from & how much did it cost?)
Abortion is morally wrong at any stage, it is also a breach of the baby's God-given right-to-life.
(I agree abortion would be morally wrong on the stage at the Guthrie Theater. Their coat hangers probably aren't sterile.I do wonder, however, about the value of using the words “breach” & “baby” in the same sentence. Some of your supporters might confuse you with an OB-GYN. I also wonder whether God is liable when a baby is stillborn? The lawsuits, the lawsuits....[I don’t mean to be insensitive to people who have had stillborn fetuses, it’s just that Jeff Tyberg is just so full of it, that I can’t think of anything else to say - except that maybe his ideas are stillborn.])
Abortion is also a major contributing factor in the shaky future of Social Security as there are some 43 million fewer people in the workforce than otherwise would have been.
(Of course, it has nothing to do with St. Reagan’s incredibly high budget deficits or Bu$hCo’s incredibly high deficits. Well, to solve this problem, I make a modest proposal - privatize all baby making, oh wait, we already do that - socialize all baby making, thus forcing adults to have many children, even if they don’t want them. Make them suck it up to help provide Social Security benefits.)
This is also a factor in the apparent need for illegal immigrants to fill so many jobs.
(Factor this, Mr. Jeff Tyberg, if you know what I mean.)
Morally, Constitutionally, economically, abortion is bad for America and needs to be stopped!
(I didn’t know “constitutionally” was a proper noun. What needs to be stopped is Mr. Jeff Tyberg before he capitalizes again.)
It's time for a change! It's time for Tyberg!
(Oh, I don’t think so.)
"Here is the Bush agenda come home to roost - on a roof. And it's caved in. Can't get much more real than that."
Emphasis added. I also corrected the word "of", in the original, the author had a typo of "on"."I have been thinking about Fat Tuesday since this disaster began to collapse all around us. Mardi Gras will be a sign of undying spirit so evident in the city of wonder. Sometime somebody is going to come up with a Lance Armstrongarmed bracelet for the victims of Katrina. I would say save the money on the bracelets, give as much money as you can to the restoration of the city, its noble spirit, and glorious people. And think about wearing a string [of] Mardi Gras beads now to keep the spirit and the memory alive. Let the good times roll."
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Study: Mushrooms Source for Anti-Cancer Vitamin
Mushrooms are the best-known source for an antioxidant thought to protect against cancer and cardiovascular disease, according to a study by researchers at Penn State University.
White button mushrooms, the type most commonly consumed in the U.S., have about four times more of the antioxidant ergothioneine than chicken liver, which was previously considered the best source for the vitamin, according to the study to be presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington.
"This is another good reason to eat mushrooms," said Joy Dubost, the Penn State researcher who led the study. "It's a good antioxidant to have in your diet."
Ergothioneine helps the body eliminate so-called free radicals, which are chemicals that can start chain reactions harmful to a body's cells, Dubost said.
White button mushrooms have about 12 times more ergothioneine than wheat germ, also a good source of the nutrient, the study said. Exotic mushrooms such as shiitake, oyster and maitake mushrooms have about 40 times more of the antioxidant than wheat germ, the study said.
A 3-ounce serving of button mushrooms, about the amount that would be served on a hamburger, has as much as 5 milligrams of ergothioneine, the study said.
Responding to Sen. Feingold
Dear Editor;
As most of your readers know, I'm running for Congress next year.
(Well, I didn’t know, & what I didn’t know didn’t hurt me.)
Since I desire to be your representative in Washington, it behooves me to respond to Russ Feingold, even though I will be running against Dave Obey.
(That’s right, respond to someone you are not running against. & baby, behoove all you want. I love behooving. I'd watch out with that desiring stuff though. Remember Jimmy Swaggert?)
If Mr. Feingold gets his way, and a deadline is set for bringing the troops home, here is what will happen: The terrorists will lay low until the deadline, preparing their attacks here in this country and organizing their resources for such attacks.
(Sorry Jeff, much like Bu$hCo, you get an F in grammar. It should be lie low. I’ll bet your high school English teacher(s) aren’t very proud of you.)The day after our pullout they will unleash terror HERE.
(So, if we leave Iraq, as the terrorists apparently want, then the terrorists will attack us here. I don’t understand. Jeff, are you suggesting that the terrorists want us in Iraq.)While we are in Iraq, and while the Iraqis are building themselves a stable government, the terrorists have to focus on Iraq, where they have little or no support.
(What the hell does that mean?)
But they have to fight there, with imported soldiers from Syria and Iran, because we have taken the war to them.
(Please remember, this was a war of choice, Jeff. Not a war of necessity. Can you remember Jeff, or did your memory lay low?)
The only deadline for withdrawal is a free and democratic Iraq. As for Judge Roberts, well, Mr. Feingold voted for him just two short years ago.
(How do these two sentences go together? There is no prize for getting this one correct.)
The fact is President Bush couldn't have nominated a better candidate and they know that. He is being opposed for the simple reason that President Bush nominated him.
(I think it is a bit more complex than that. Actually, though, that would be a good enough reason for me. Jeff, did you see how his children behaved? Not a very good parent? Probably doesn't behoove enough.)
As your representative in Washington, I would fight hard to get control of our borders!
(Yes, another unbelievably dumb transition. & an equally dumb racist idea.)
While we are doing a great job in Iraq, and are working to control Iraq's borders with Syria and Iran, we are doing nothing to control our border with Mexico!
(If we are doing such a great job in Iraq, why do the majority of Americans now think it was a bad idea? Jeff, you need to keep up with current events. I didn't know Syria & Iran wanted to help us with our border with Mexico.)
I applaud the Minuteman movement, and truly hope that they will fulfill their goal of prodding Washington to do something. If you?ll send me to Washington, I will be an untiring voice for enforcing our immigration laws and controlling our borders. Please check out my website at www.tybergforcongress.com to see my positions on other important issues.(I ususally hate to suggest bonehead websites but, yes, please check out his website. You will need to cut & paste the above address. Listen, quit bitching, I can't link to everything. On the website you’ll learn that Mr. Jeff Tyberg invented the blog. Please scroll down & view the first ever blog.)
Jeff Tyberg
Grantsburg
