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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tonto who wrote (8685)	10/4/2006 8:12:27 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 9838

Democrat Sees Dow Record As 'Failure' CNS News ^ \| 10/4/06 (CNSNews.com) - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at a record high on Tuesday -- but not everyone is celebrating the milestone as a positive development. According to one Democratic operative, the Dow's record close is "not an achievement but a failure." Robert Weiner, a Democratic strategist and former member of the Clinton administration, said people should remember it's taken nearly seven years for the Dow to break its previous record close, which happened on Jan. 14, 2000 - near the end of Bill Clinton's presidency. And then there's inflation, Weiner said: "With an average annual inflation of 2.575 percent over the past six years and a compounded inflation of some 20 percent," the Dow would have to be more than 2,000 points higher than it was on Tuesday to "be truly equal" to the record high of the Clinton years, Weiner said. "Scratching and clawing to achieve this milestone almost seven years after the earlier record is not an achievement but a failure. We must be wary of celebrating these marks as major achievements especially when inflation rates are considered." He said Tuesday's stock market milestone is "at best a modest achievement and in reality a sad statement of a slow return to prosperity, delayed and not assisted by current Administration economic policies."

To: tonto who wrote (8685)	10/4/2006 8:25:19 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

These people are truly evil to do this...... Kansas church plans to picket girls' funerals Wednesday, October 04, 2006 BY IRVIN KITTRELL III Of The Patriot-News Members of a Kansas-based church that has picketed funerals of fallen American soldiers are expected to protest at the funerals of the Amish girls killed Monday in Lancaster County, according to a news release issued by the church. The Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka blamed Gov. Ed Rendell for the mass murder of the five girls in a one-room schoolhouse because he ridiculed the church on a national television news show, the news release said. The church said nothing about the man who shot and killed the girls and wounded five other girls. He was identified as Charles Carl Roberts IV of Bart. Members of the church have been in the national spotlight after picketing at funerals of soldiers killed in action. The church says the military deaths are God's punishment for tolerance of gay people. In June, a York County man sued the church, seeking unspecified damages for the messages held by church protesters outside his son's funeral. The lawsuit seeks damages for invasion of privacy at the funeral. About a dozen states, including Pennsylvania, have adopted laws limiting funeral protests at services for soldiers killed in combat. President Bush signed a bill curbing pickets at national cemeteries.

To: tonto who wrote (8685)	10/4/2006 8:28:30 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 9838

Annan's financial form to be secret The Washington Times ^ \| 4 OCTOBER 2006 \| Betsy Pisik washingtontimes.com NEW YORK -- U.N. officials said yesterday that they will not publicly release a financial disclosure form filed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan last month -- 10 months after he ordered all senior U.N. officials to file the forms. A spokesman said Mr. Annan submitted the questionnaire -- under a policy implemented in response to international outrage over U.N. involvement in the Iraq oil-for-food scandal -- on Sept. 22. "The secretary-general has filed the forms," Stephane Dujarric confirmed yesterday. But, he said, "We will not be making it public." John R. Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, did not return a call asking about that decision, but other critics of the world body argued that the disclosure form should be made public. "Kofi Annan has not gone far enough. He should make the financial disclosure publicly available for outside scrutiny," said Nile Gardiner, director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation. "The culture of secrecy remains intact in the upper echelon of the United Nations." Mr. Annan implemented the disclosure-form policy as one of several moves to reform the institution in the wake of the oil-for-food scandal. Massive fraud was uncovered in a $64 billion program run by the United Nations that allowed Saddam Hussein's Iraq to sell a limited amount of oil. (Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ....