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To: lurqer who wrote (39111)	3/9/2004 10:32:56 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 89467

Martha deserves what she gets. Don't you remember your electrical bills? Remember the businesses which went bankrupt because she played games with electricity and gas? Give her 10 years for every plant she shut down to create a shortage. WR

To: lurqer who wrote (39111)	3/9/2004 10:39:59 AM
From: lurqer	Respond to of 89467

The color Pink. Women use Weather Balloon to lift 40-Foot Pink Banner in Front of White House with the Message: "Women Say: Fire Bush" WASHINGTON - March 7 - In honor of International Women’s Day and the beginning of the Presidential election season, women throughout the United States converged today on the White House in a colorful march that culminated with the hoisting of a huge pink banner into the air in front of the White House. The banner, reading “Women Say: Fire Bush, ” marked the kick-off of a campaign calling on women to Give George Bush a Pink Slip in November 2004. “George Bush is a global bully,” said Medea Benjamin, a co-founder of CODEPINK, the women’s peace group that organized the protest. “He lied to Congress and the American people about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and is robbing our children of a viable future as he lines the pockets of his already wealthy corporate friends. It’s time for Bush to join the 2.4 million people who have gotten pink slips since he took office. Let’s fire him!” The march began at noon at the National Mall with about 100 women carrying a clothesline of dozens of pink women’s slips meant for George Bush. The women also carried banners with their reasons for wanting to Give George Bush a Pink Slip, including “Bush Lies, Innocents Die,” “Biggest Budget Deficit Ever,” and “2.4 Million Jobs Lost; Pink Slip Bush.” As they made their way to Lafayette Park in front of the White House, for one of the first permitted protests in the park since September 11, 2001, they chanted “1-2-3-4, We don’t Want George Bush No More; 5-6-7-8, Speak out Women, State-to-State” and “We won’t be lied to anymore, Bush out of office in 2004.” CODEPINK: Women for Peace is the group that brought 10,000 women to Washington, DC last year to protest the war against Iraq and encircle the White House in pink. Since then it has grown into a movement with some 90 chapters throughout the United States and around the world. CODEPINK is known for its creative and sometimes outrageous actions that have ranged from singing anti-war Christmas carols in front of Donald Rumsfeld’s house to holding a four-month long peace vigil in front of the White House before the war against Iraq. All of their actions are full of their signature color, pink. CODEPINK has now turned its attention to preventing George Bush from being re-elected in 2004, and has initiated a campaign to Give Bush a Pink Slip. For more information about the Pink Slip Bush Campaign, see www.pinkslipbush.org. VISUALS: Photo of 40-foot pink banner reading “Women Say: Fire Bush” floating in the air with the White House in the background. Email photopress@pressroom.com commondreams.org and picture commondreams.org lurqer

To: lurqer who wrote (39111)	3/9/2004 10:43:04 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 89467

Dozens of Inca mummies found near Lima Monday, March 8, 2004 Posted: 3:31 PM EST (2031 GMT) LIMA, Peru (Reuters) -- Dozens of mummies dating back more than 500 years have been discovered on the path of a proposed highway on the outskirts of the Peruvian capital, near an Inca graveyard, archeologists said on Friday. Archeologists uncovered 26 burial bundles, each containing one or more adult and child mummies dating from 1472 to 1532. In 1533, the Incas were defeated at the hands of the Spanish conquistadors. "This [area] is part of the largest Inca cemetery in Peru and the largest excavated cemetery in the Western Hemisphere, that of Puruchuco-Huaquerones," said archeologist Guillermo Cock, who was contracted by Lima's town hall to comb the area for artifacts before construction could begin. Cock said archeologists did not know the exact number of mummies at the site because they had not opened any of the bundles, which are still half-buried. Some were already broken, exposing skulls and showing several hunched mummies with cloth bags tied to their bodies and offerings in their hands. The mummies were once farmers and craftsmen and lived under the dominion of the Lati and Ishma Inca leaders, who ruled over the Rimac River valley, home to modern-day Lima, Cock said. "These are local inhabitants, what we could now call middle class, belonging to the period of the Inca Empire, between 1472 and 1532," Cock said. He said they were textile makers: "Ninety-nine percent of the tools in the tombs are used for such production, from dressmaking to cloth dying. There are needles and looms. "The important thing about this discovery is that it is intact. ... The area around the mummies shows evidence of rituals prior to the burials. There are the remains of corn, beans, coca leaves and pots," Cock said. Despite the finding, the town hall said the road -- an extension to a busy urban highway -- will go ahead. "The works will not stop. They are an urban necessity. ... We will take the burial bales to a museum for conservation and for study. They could be plundered here," town hall spokesman Armando Molina said. But archeologist Federico Kauffmann said Peru would be better off running the road through a tunnel under the site because it could yield further findings. "In Peru, there is neither the money nor the techniques to preserve mummies, and there is no more space for mummies in the Puruchuco museum," he said. Archeologists have uncovered thousands of mummies in Peru in recent years, mostly from the Inca culture five centuries ago, including about 2,000 unearthed from under a shantytown near the capital in 2002. One of Peru's most famous mummies is "Juanita the Ice Maiden," a girl preserved in ice on a mountain. Last month, two mummies predating the Incas -- so well-preserved one had an eye intact -- were found under a school in southern Peru. cnn.com

To: lurqer who wrote (39111)	3/9/2004 10:27:24 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

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To: lurqer who wrote (39111)	3/9/2004 10:43:56 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

Punish Martha, but not Bush? boston.com Editorial The Boston Globe 3/9/2004 SO, MARTHA STEWART has been found guilty and most likely will go to jail (Page A1, March 6). She sold $228,000 worth of ImClone stock before the price plummeted based on insider information and was convicted on obstruction charges. But what I would like to know is, why are the rules not the same for everyone? In 1990 George W. Bush dumped $848,000 worth of Harken Energy Corp. stock before the price plummeted. Bush, as a Harken board member and a member of the well-informed Harken Audit Committee, surely had insider information about the oil company's financial woes. If Bush didn't think his sale would be considered suspicious, why did he wait eight months to notify the SEC about the trade and then uncharacteristically leave the notification undated? He said the timing of his sale of stock before the price plummeted was purely "coincidental." Lucky for Bush, his father was president at the time, the head of the SEC was his father's appointee and former vice presidential counsel, and the SEC's general counsel was Bush's personal lawyer in his sale of the Texas Rangers. Why is it that Bush seemed to get away with something much worse than Martha Stewart's crime? KIM HARRINGTON Abington © Copyright 2004 Globe Newspaper Company.