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Politics : PRES GEORGE BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: geode00 who wrote (788)	4/6/2004 5:04:49 PM
From: Ms. Baby Boomer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 944

U.S. Networks to Air Rice Testimony Live Thursday... [1 hour, 9 minutes ago] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The three major U.S. broadcast networks said on Tuesday they will broadcast live National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites)'s testimony before the commission investigating the Sept. 11 2001 attacks. ABC, NBC and CBS said they would go live at 9 a.m. EDT on Thursday to broadcast the appearance, which comes amid controversy over whether she failed to focus on the threat posed by al Qaeda in the weeks before the Sept. 11 2001 attacks on the world Trade Center and the Pentagon (news - web sites). A Fox News spokesman said they would offer their coverage to affiliates to air at their discretion. A spokeswoman for NBC news said Tom Brokaw and Tim Russert would anchor the network's coverage; CBS said Dan Rather would handle its coverage; and ABC said Peter Jennings and a senior team of correspondents would cover the event. Rice, who initially declined to testify, is scheduled to appear before the commission for 2-1/2 hours, and the networks said they would stay with her appearance as events warranted. The White House had initially insisted that Rice's testimony be private before bowing to political pressure from both Republicans and Democrats that she speak publicly. She is expected to address claims by former U.S. counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke that she and President Bush (news - web sites) ignored the threat of al Qaeda before the 9/11 attacks. While it is not uncommon for networks to interrupt regular daytime programing for breaking news, lengthy scheduled preemptions during the day for news events are far less frequent. NBC said the last time it aired daytime gavel-to-gavel coverage of a live address was the one given by Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) at the United Nations (news - web sites) in February 2003. CBS is a unit of Viacom Inc., ABC is a unit of the Walt Disney Co., NBC is a unit of General Electric Co., and Fox is a unit of News Corp. Ltd. . (With additional reporting by David Morgan and Steve Holland in Washington).... story.news.yahoo.com

To: geode00 who wrote (788)	4/6/2004 7:54:54 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 944

Ah, but that wasn't just income tax in those figures. That was all federal revenue. All taxes, all fees, all fines, whatever. So you don't have to deal with the idiotic complexity of the tax code to see the trends. And they're mostly up, up, up. US Bonds: Run for cover! The sky is falling! For real. Foreign gov'ts are going to get tired of buying an endless supply of increasingly worthless paper from Uncle Sugar. This trend was foreseen long ago. But it looks like the denouement is near now.