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To: PROLIFE who wrote (18754)	4/7/2007 12:13:35 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Respond to of 71588

"My wife came into the living room wearing a Kevlar vest, helmet and night-vision goggles. "What are you doing?" I asked. "Have you completely forgotten, silly head? We're going to the market." [...] Carol helped the boys get ready, putting on their sneakers and body armor. I phoned the Indiana National Guard so that they could radio the 434th Special Air Wing at Grissom Air Force Base, which in turn scrambled two F-14 Tomcats. Then we hopped in the wagon. [...] The F-14s flew by low. Each of us activated our earpieces and hand-held mini walkie-talkies, agreed on a frequency, and I slowed the car to 15 mph as Carol and the boys opened the doors and rolled out, taking cover under shrubbery near the Bibb lettuce stand (the boys love salad!). So far, so good. [...] Carol, I noticed, had found cover behind the wall of a largely destroyed warehouse. A sniper had a bead on the glint from her eyeglasses, which the afternoon sunshine had caught (Indiana is known for its beautiful summers). [...] A CBU-52B cluster bomb exploded to our left, and I hit the gas. We could see the boys ahead, waving flares in the dense smoke. I didn't stop the car completely. Kevin threw Chip in first, then jumped in himself. "You kids have fun?" Carol asked. "Yeah!" said Chip. "He was holding a loaf of bread and it got blown out of his hand!" "It was so awesome, Mum." We all laughed. Really hard. That's how shopping is in Indiana in the summer. It's just fun. It's fun and safe and hopeful and full of warm and welcoming Indianans and insurgents and snipers and bombs.

To: PROLIFE who wrote (18754)	4/7/2007 9:24:19 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Respond to of 71588

this isn't good "U.S. helps North Korea break sanctions. “Three months after the United States successfully pressed the United Nations to impose strict sanctions on North Korea because of the country’s nuclear test, Bush administration officials allowed Ethiopia to complete a secret arms purchase from the North, in what appears to be a violation of the restrictions, according to senior American officials.”

To: PROLIFE who wrote (18754)	4/8/2007 4:02:01 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Respond to of 71588

"Newt Gingrich is joining the list of Republicans calling for the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Gingrich appeared on "Fox News Sunday" and criticized Gonzales' judgment in allowing the firings of eight U-S attorneys to become a political scandal. Earlier this year, Gonzales insisted that the dismissals were based on performance and were not politically motivated. But e-mails between the Justice Department and White House contradicted those claims and prompted a public apology from Gonzales. Gingrich calls the controversy the "most mishandled, artificial, self-created mess" he's ever seen in his years of public service."