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President Bush visits BSA Jamboree
photo by Daniel Giles- My son, who is a Life Scout, was one of the children who saw
President Bush last Sunday at the 2005 BSA Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill. He was also one of the 300 Scouts who were medically treated for heat exhaustion on the day the President was initially scheduled to appear but cancelled due to the extreme heat. My son says that the soldiers at A.P. Hill were welcoming and treated him very well. He is now
home safely. We are very sorry about the Scout leaders who died at the Jamboree when their tent pole hit a live wire and they were killed. My heart goes out to their families.
- Osama Bin Laden's aide Ayman al-Zawahri said in a videotape that London will face more attacks because of Prime Minister Tony Blair's foreign policy decisions; claiming the recent attacks stemmed from Blair's decision to invade Iraq. [
al Jazeera News]
- Discovery Commander Eileen Collins has described how widespread environmental destruction on Earth is visible from the shuttle. She says, "
It's very widespread in some parts of the world. We would like to see, from the astronauts' point of view, people take good care of the Earth and replace the resources that have been used." [
BBC News]
- Ohio families are fed up with the loss of so many of their Marines. [
Minneapolis Star Tribune] [
Chicago Sun-Times]
- Tomorrow is the 1st anniversary of the release of the infamous anti-Kerry Swift-boat ads.
Steve Cobble has an idea for Teresa Heinz.
- This weekend the GOP kicks off its 2006 campaign cycle at the party's annual summer meeting in Pittsburgh, with Pennsylvania Senator
Rick Santorum playing host. A right-wing wacky extremist is at the center of their effort to keep control of the Senate?! This goal - to hold on to power at
any cost, while dragging America away from mainstream common values - how much longer can this spell success for the GOP?
- I liked
Duncan's title on the new "GSAVE" moniker and President Bush's follow-up statement. I recently heard Air America writer/satirist Barry Crimmins recommend that the name of the Anti-War movement should be changed to the "Anti-Struggle" movement. (And Barry's book "
Never Shake Hands with a War Criminal" can now be changed to "Never Shake Hands with a Struggle Criminal.") Thanks again to Barry, by the way, for the benefit he performed last week here in Syracuse for the
Syracuse Peace Council. I had a wonderful time, and it was great to have met Barry in person.
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Drudge is reporting that the NYT is looking into the adoption records of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts as a part of the paper's "standard background check."
- My, how quickly things change with these fickle wackos. Once a 'Justice Sunday' hero - Bill is "Benedict Frist - Agent of Beelzebub" by the time the next 'Justice Sunday' rolls around. [
CNN]
- What the hell was
HE thinking?
- South Korean scientists have successfully cloned
man's best friend (or in their case, man's best meat supply). "
Snuppy" steak, anyone?
Update: Speaking of Man's Best Friends,
Dark Syde has what I think is a great diary about them today at Daily Kos website.