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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (48237)	3/16/2006 5:24:41 PM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Do you think they got a bonus for this? news.yahoo.com Halliburton Co. failed to protect the water supply it is paid to purify for U.S. soldiers throughout Iraq, in one instance missing contamination that could have caused "mass sickness or death," an internal company report concluded. The report, obtained by The Associated Press, said the company failed to assemble and use its own water purification equipment, allowing contaminated water directly from the Euphrates River to be used for washing and laundry at Camp Ar Ramadi in Ramadi, Iraq.

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (48237)	3/16/2006 5:32:07 PM
From: mishedlo	Respond to of 116555

The right is still fighting against contraception It seems hard to imagine, but in Missouri, state GOP lawmakers have voted to ban county health clinics from providing family planning services. This isn't about access to abortion — it's about access to contraception. It may be the 21st century, but based on some of the comments from the legislature, you wouldn't know it. An attempt to resume state spending on birth control got shot down Wednesday by House members who argued it would have amounted to an endorsement of promiscuous lifestyles. <snip> The House voted 96-59 to delete the funding for contraception and infertility treatments after Rep. Susan Phillips told lawmakers that anti-abortion groups such as Missouri Right to Life were opposed to the spending. "If you hand out contraception to single women, we're saying promiscuity is OK as a state, and I am not in support of that," Phillips, R-Kansas City, said in an interview. It's rather breathtaking. Under the GOP approach, even low-income married people would be unable to access birth control at public health clinics — because the right believes it's "immoral." They weren't kidding. State Rep. Kate Meiners (D) noted, "It's going to have the opposite effect of what the intention is, which will be more unwanted pregnancies and more abortions." Unfortunately, reality-based arguments like these had no place in the legislative debate. thecarpetbaggerreport.com First South Dakota bans abortions...now this. What year is it again?

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (48237)	3/16/2006 6:07:16 PM
From: ild	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

Look at SPY calls volume on CBOE: 2,601,183 calls traded today (mostly March expiration) with total open interest of just 1,250,285 cboe.com