Get me caught up on the news - Democratic Underground

Ellen Forradalom

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Fri Aug-12-05 03:09 PM
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Get me caught up on the news

I've been living a very isolated physical and emotional life for the past few weeks. What's been going down out there?

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GreenPartyVoter

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Fri Aug-12-05 03:11 PM
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1. Cindy Sheehan is sitting in a ditch in Crawford outside the Lazy Dubya

ranch, and calling out **.

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Ellen Forradalom

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Fri Aug-12-05 03:17 PM
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2. Yes, I heard about it fleetingly on NPR

she's getting major attention. Good.

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GreenPartyVoter

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Fri Aug-12-05 03:19 PM
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3. Yep. Also news, saber rattling towards Iran is increasing. Gas prices

Edited on Fri Aug-12-05 03:20 PM by GreenPartyVoter

are going up. There is a terra alert that al-qaeda is gonna hijack and blow up fuel trucks, but this is only being issued because some 600 truckers are staging a park-in. Flu is still a pandemic worry. The greenhouse effect could go ballistic as the Siberian peat bogs thaw out and release their methane.

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Ellen Forradalom

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Fri Aug-12-05 03:35 PM
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4. I think I'll go back

to the Canadian woods.

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GreenPartyVoter

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Fri Aug-12-05 03:36 PM
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5. Yes, I am missing PEI too :^(

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BurtWorm

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Fri Aug-12-05 03:41 PM
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8. Nice to see you out of them for a bit, EF.

Edited on Fri Aug-12-05 03:42 PM by BurtWorm

:hi:

But I don't blame you for wanting to retreat. I was just on vacation in Maine for a week and tried my best not to look at the paper or go on line. Every time I did, something awful crossed my path--like the recess appointment of Jackass Bolton to the UN, or the increase in violence in Iraq, or Blair's idiotic Bushistic response to the subway bombings.

:argh:

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Lars39

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Fri Aug-12-05 03:39 PM
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6. This was an overlooked biggie....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4323053

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wicket

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Fri Aug-12-05 03:40 PM
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7. Bush installed Bolton to the UN at the beginning of last week

n/t

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