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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (38186)	7/26/2005 12:39:30 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Ted the Swimmer is a demagogue. So was Bill Cocaine Boy Clinton. Not to mention Robert Sheets Byrd, Bagdad Jim McDermott, Turban Durbin, etc etc

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (38186)	7/26/2005 12:47:28 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Knoll & Rendell: Disgraceful remarks Pittsburg Tribune-Review Tuesday, July 26, 2005 Sometimes politicians need to stop while they're behind. Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll did a little politicking and offered some political commentary Tuesday last, uninvited, at the Carnegie funeral of Staff Sgt. Joseph Goodrich. The Marine, 32, of Westwood, was killed in a mortar attack in Iraq on July 10. Mrs. Baker Knoll began talking to Sgt. Goodrich's aunt during the Communion service. She handed the aunt a business card; Knoll called the funeral a "function." Then Knoll told the aunt that the state government was "against the war." Outrageous. Visiting Pittsburgh on Sunday, Gov. Ed Rendell tried to make amends. Knoll merely was trying to be supportive, he said. But even though Mr. Rendell said "our state supports the men and women who are fighting this war," he echoed Knoll's ghastly war remark: "It's not the business of state government to support the war." Which would be news to those federal agencies, D.C. politicos and nongovernmental organizations to which the state has been whining about potential military base closings in Pennsylvania, citing the war effort and national security. Apologies were the order of the day Monday. But the damage was done and the egg on the face is thick. The best public service Knoll could perform would be to not seek re-election. As for Rendell, he could use a class in thinking before speaking.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (38186)	7/26/2005 10:28:17 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Fine example of media bias. (What's missing from this article?) CNN ^ \| July 26, 2005 \| Associated Press "Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll apologized Monday to the family of a Marine killed in Iraq for showing up uninvited for his funeral last week and giving out a business card. Knoll went to the funeral of Staff Sgt. Joseph Goodrich and family members said she told his aunt that 'our government' was opposed to the war." What is missing from this article? Notice that there is not a single mention of the fact that Lt. Governor Catherine Baker Knoll is a DEMOCRAT in the AP article posted on CNN. You can bet if a Republican politician publicly screwed up like this, the word "Republican" would be in the first sentence -- if not the title! It's nice to know that some things never change, like MSM bias.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (38186)	7/26/2005 10:33:13 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 93284

Suspect paid thousands in benefits London Evening Standard ^ \| 7-26-2005 One of the would-be suicide bombers who tried to blow up a London Tube train had been handed thousands of pounds in taxpayers' money. Yasin Hassan Omar, 24, was given £75 a week in housing benefit to pay for the one-bedroom flat where he has been the registered tenant since February 1999. His housing benefit stopped in May but he may have been given up to £24,000 over the last five years. The flat, on the ninth floor of a 12-storey tower block in New Southgate, north London, is believed to have been used as a bomb factory by the suicide team who unsuccessfully targeted the London transport network last Thursday. Explosives experts were examining material found inside. Neighbours said another suspected bomber Muktar Said-Ibrahim, 27, had also been staying at the flat. And they described seeing men lugging boxes into the flat only a few weeks ago. The men said the boxes contained wallpaper stripper. Police have spoken to Ibrahim's father, who lives in north west London, as they look into the background of the bombers, but he has not been arrested. Home Office officials were trying to establish the immigration status of Omar and Ibrahim who are both thought to be of east African origin. The cordon around their tower block flat was widened and police were searching lock-up garages nearby. Detectives now fear there were five would-be suicide attackers on July 21. Devices were found on a number 26 bus and on Tube trains at Warren Street, Shepherd's Bush and Oval. The fifth bomb was dumped on open ground at Little Wormwood Scrubs, west London, suggesting that the final member of the suicide team may have lost his nerve.