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

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (563704)	4/13/2004 9:09:01 AM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 769667

Retail Sales Log Unexpectedly Big Rise Tuesday April 13, 8:31 am ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. shoppers turned out in force in March, a Commerce Department report on Tuesday showed, pushing retail sales to their strongest gain in a year. Commerce said retail sales rose an unexpectedly sharp 1.8 percent in March to a seasonally adjusted $333.01 billion, the biggest gain since March 2003. Excluding cars and trucks, sales gained 1.7 percent, that category's best performance since March 2000. Wall Street analysts had expected both figures to advance a smaller 0.6 percent. biz.yahoo.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (563704)	4/13/2004 11:40:23 AM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Sounds good to me. jdn

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (563704)	4/13/2004 12:01:57 PM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 769667

Faith requires quiet reflection and more than a bit of self-doubt, because you can never really be sure you are hearing the voice of God or just voices in your head. Reflection and self-doubt are characteristics not usually associated with this president, and he certainly should not be congratulated for his in-by-9, out-by-5 approach to divining God's will. (Bible in the morning, bombs in the afternoon.) Being devout is not the same as being right, a distinction that many Americans seem increasingly incapable of making. Unlike President Bush, I don't know whether God wants us to bring freedom to the people of Iraq by blowing the limbs off their children, poisoning their soil with depleted uranium and sending our own country further down the hellhole of eternal debt, but I'd bet against it because I don't think God is psychotic. About Bush, I'm not so sure. CC