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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (48850)	3/29/2006 1:36:55 AM
From: mishedlo	Respond to of 116555

Hello Ben Bernanke! globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com Mish

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (48850)	3/29/2006 2:15:17 AM
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Cops in Georgia have way too much time on their hands! progressive.org Denise Grier is a nurse at Emory University hospital in Georgia. On March 10, she was driving home from dinner when a Dekalb County police officer pulled her over. “At least initially, I was just surprised because I hadn't done anything wrong,” she says. “When he approached the car, he had his hand on his weapon, and I was in my nurse's uniform with a stethoscope around my neck. He asked for my license, and then said, 'Any idea why I stopped you.' “I said no. “ 'You have a lewd decal on your car.' ” Grier says she immediately thought that one of her kids had put something nasty on her bumper as a joke. “But then he mentioned the Bush sticker,” she says. That one says: “I'm tired of all the BUSHIT.” [...] By the way, this is not the first time someone in Grier's family has gotten into trouble over a bumpersticker. Last year, she says her 20-year-old son was pulled over in Athens, Georgia, for having a bumpersticker that said, “Bush Sucks Dick. Cheney Too.” She says the police officer told her son, “If you do not remove the bumpersticker, I'm taking you to jail.” So he removed it. “He thought it was kind of funny,” she says, though she told him she would rather go to jail than take her bumpersticker off.

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (48850)	3/29/2006 2:17:09 AM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

truthdig.com The Pentagon has once again investigated itself! And—have a seat, get the smelling salts, hold all hats—the Pentagon has once again concluded the Pentagon did absolutely nothing wrong and will continue to do so. In this particularly fascinating case, the Pentagon investigated its own habit of paying people to make up lies about how well the war in Iraq is going, and then paying other people to put those lies in the Iraqi media, thus fooling the Iraqis into thinking everything in their country is tickety-boo. Well, if we can't fool them, whom can we fool? The case revolves around a contract worth several million dollars given by the U.S. military command in Baghdad to the Lincoln Group, a public relations outfit started by two young entrepreneurs, one British, one American, in 2003 in Iraq. Articles were written by American military personnel from the American point of view about the war, to wit, it's going well. Lincoln Group in turn paid Iraqi journalists, some “on retainer,” to print the articles without revealing the source. Amusingly enough, through other programs, the U.S. government is also spending money trying to teach Iraqis about the importance of a free press in a democracy. According to the Pentagon's investigation of itself, none of the Lincoln Group's actions violate military policies because the Pentagon is just trying to counter the vast amount of anti-American propaganda carried in Middle Eastern papers.