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To: elmatador who wrote (60224)	2/9/2005 5:49:45 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 74559

elmat, Re: Where are the articles?? They've been removed! Why? Easy answered: Temperatures have jumped up a bit, global warming crowd said: "See the proof!" Relax, my friend. Your paranoid side is showing through. <grin> Actually, the reason you're getting "404- Object Not Found" messages on several of those articles is because of a standard operating procedure for smaller local and regional newspapers in the U.S. They regularly dispose of older news items and do not provide any sort of Internet archive to their regularly changing "news" content. There's nothing sinister about this at all. This is simply a matter of the newspapers providing a relatively inexpensive service on the Net. *** As to the record cold weather that you describe via the AFP article, that is interesting to me. I hadn't seen that. Although I did read about how warm January was in comparison. Here in Central Oregon, I'm witnessing elm trees in my front yard that are starting to bud out due to an extremely warm week at the end of January. Normally, this budding would not occur until March. I hope this doesn't cause any damage to the tree, because we still have several weeks of winter ahead of us here.

To: elmatador who wrote (60224)	2/9/2005 5:49:03 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

"In 1998 Madeleine Albright, then US secretary of state, said of the U.S.: "We are the indispensable nation." By backfiring, the unilateralism of Mr Bush has proven her wrong. The US, it turns out, is a dispensable nation. Europe, China, Russia, Latin America and other regions and nations are quietly taking measures whose effect if not sole purpose will be to cut America down to size. Ironically, the US, having won the cold war, is adopting the strategy that led the Soviet Union to lose it: hoping that raw military power will be sufficient to intimidate other great powers alienated by its belligerence. To compound the irony, these other great powers are drafting the blueprints for new international institutions and alliances. That is what the US did during and after the second world war. But that was a different America, led by wise and constructive statesmen like Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who wrote of being "present at the creation." The bullying approach of the Bush administration has ensured that the US will not be invited to take part in designing the international architecture of Europe and Asia in the 21st century. This time, the US is absent at the creation." Message 21033208