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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (15745)	11/9/2003 11:38:42 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793671

Dreier is a weasel who won't appeal to the grassroots, I would love to see Cox of Orange County run. He is a major fan of Ayn Rand. Does real well in Congress, but for some reason doesn't seem to be interested in the Senate.

To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (15745)	11/10/2003 1:05:49 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793671

The "New York Times" leads with the House of Saud story. ____________________________________ NEWS ANALYSIS A Campaign to Rattle a Long-Ruling Dynasty By PATRICK E. TYLER ASHINGTON, Nov. 9 — For years, Osama bin Laden called for the violent overthrow of the Saudi royal family for allowing American bases in the holiest land of Islam. But with American forces gone, the bombs continue to explode — signaling that the withdrawal did not address the deeper grievances among the hardened Saudi militants who were behind the car bomb attack in Riyadh late on Saturday. Those militants are now seeking to exploit the opposition that is growing within Saudi Arabia to a dynasty long immune to political challenge. What seems ever more apparent in the attack in Riyadh that left at least 17 people dead and 122 wounded is that it is no longer Americans or even Westerners who are the targets of terrorism in Saudi Arabia, but rather stability itself in the oil-producing kingdom, as well as the writ of the House of Saud. With targets like government ministries and diplomatic quarters heavily guarded, the bombers may have opted for blowing up a relatively unprotected housing compound associated with Western lifestyles and foreign influence to make their point. "I think they are after the royal family," said Wyche Fowler Jr., a former senator who was ambassador to Saudi Arabia from October 1997 to February 2001. "There is a determined nytimes.com

To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (15745)	11/10/2003 8:21:57 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793671

Can Arnold save California? November 10, 2003 BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST LOS ANGELES -- California Republican politicians, who had signed a political blank check to back Arnold Schwarzenegger's improbable campaign, spent an uneasy three weeks after his landslide election. They feared the governor-elect would bring to Sacramento a motley collection of his pals from Hollywood and buddies of his Kennedy in-laws. But last week, Republicans were breathing sighs of relief over his key appointments. So were many other Californians. Schwarzenegger's most important selection was to fill the key post of finance director. He picked Donna Arduin, who earned a national reputation as a budget-cutter and tax-cutter during five years as Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's budget director. The appointments that followed for the most part confirmed that the former Mr. Universe's administration marks a sharp departure from the feckless rule of Democrats. Although picking ex-Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan as secretary of education did not please die-hard conservatives, it pleased the California Teachers Association even less. What happens next will be the nation's most compelling political story. The state's Republicans, at death's door before the recall election, now envision Schwarzenegger as their savior. More important is whether he can save the Golden State. Once the land of opportunity for dispirited Americans throughout the continent, it has become burdened with profound pessimism. One prominent Republican activist told me he pities Schwarzenegger for having to face a government-created malaise transcending a mere budget crisis. REST AT suntimes.com

To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (15745)	11/10/2003 8:41:30 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793671

Wonderful article in this week's "New Yorker" on Clark's Military career. It is really devastating to Clark. The last half is the most important. An excerpt and the URL. ____________________________________ GENERAL CLARK’S BATTLES by PETER J. BOYER The candidate’s celebrated—and controversial—military career. One evening in July, as Clark was dining with the President of Lithuania, he was summoned to an urgent telephone call from General Shelton. Shelton told Clark that Cohen had decided to remove him from the job in nine months, in order to make way for a new saceur, General Joe Ralston. Clark was flabbergasted, and tried to protest, but Shelton rang off. Then Clark received a call from a Washington Post reporter, Bradley Graham, who’d been told about Clark’s removal. The leak was a cold-blooded, but effective, method of cutting off Clark’s escape routes. “He was probably not extended the traditional courtesies of receiving the news in an orderly and private manner,” the Defense official said. “Quite simply, we felt he could not be trusted to accept the decision.” Clark made a furious round of telephone calls, to no avail. newyorker.com

To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (15745)	11/10/2003 10:22:34 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793671

Mark Steyn posted a two year old column at his site that really hits the points that Bush has been talking about. _________________________________ The snakes of Araby ........But in the Arabian penisula the Ottoman vacuum was filled not with dependencies proper but with ‘spheres of influence’, a system that continues to this day. Rather than making Arabia a Crown colony within the Empire, sending out Lord Whatnot as Governor, issuing banknotes bearing the likeness of George V, setting up courts presided over by judges in full-bottomed wigs, and introducing a professional civil service and a free press, the British instead mulled over which sheikh was likely to prove more pliable, installed him in the capital and suggested he send his sons to Eton and Sandhurst. The French did the same, and so, later, did the Americans. This was cheaper than colonialism and less politically prickly, but it did a great disservice to the populations of those countries. The alleged mountain of evidence of Yankee culpability is, in fact, evidence only of the Great Satan’s deplorable faintheartedness: yes, Washington dealt with Saddam, and helped train the precursors of the Taleban, and fancied Colonel Gaddafi as a better bet than King Idris, just as in the Fifties they bolstered the Shah and then in the Seventies took against him, when Jimmy Carter decided that the Peacock Throne wasn’t progressive enough and wound up with the ayatollahs instead. This system of cherrypicking from a barrel-load of unsavoury potential clients was summed up in the old CIA line: ‘He may be a sonofabitch but he’s our sonofabitch.’ steynonline.com

To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (15745)	11/10/2003 11:38:29 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793671

I think the Unions will lose this one. The WalMart/Costco pressure on prices is really hurting the Grocery Chains. Slowly but surely, union leaders acknowledge, the number of shoppers crossing the picket lines is growing. ______________________________________________ 2 Sides Seem Entrenched in Supermarket Dispute By STEVEN GREENHOUSE - NEW YORK TIMES LOS ANGELES, Nov. 8 — As 80 picketing workers bellowed chants outside the supermarket Thursday evening, Rosalyn Colvard, a grocery stocker, said she would need help from welfare to make ends meet if Southern California's three largest grocery chains won their four-week-old battle with 70,000 workers. For the cashiers and stockers on the picket lines, the fight to fend off large-scale concessions is a struggle to avoid being thrown into one of America's lowest castes, the working poor. But for the supermarkets, the confrontation, the biggest labor dispute in the nation in recent years, is a painful investment to ensure that they can survive against Wal-Mart and other low-cost rivals. "The stakes are enormous," said Ruth Milkman, chairwoman of the University of California Institute for Labor and Employment. "If the employers succeed in their effort to extract large concessions, they will turn these into low-wage jobs, and other employers across the nation will see this as a green light to try to do the same thing." REST AT nytimes.com