Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 64 (64 kbps .mp3 11:04 5.1 Mb)
A daily roundup of things that seemed important.
The Penalty Box of the literary world.
IT’S POOR MOJO’S NEWS SHOW! FOR WEDNESDAY, MARCH SEVENTH, TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN
A DAILY ROUNDUP OF THINGS THAT SEEMED IMPORTANT .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6424319.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070306/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_blood_clot
IT'S BEEN A BAD-NEWS KINDA DAY FOR VICE PRESIDENT RICHARD CHENEY. FIRST, DOCTORS DISCLOSED THAT HE HAS A POTENTIALLY LIFE-THREATENING BLOOD CLOT IN HIS LEG, ACCORDING TO WIRE SERVICE REPORTS. WHICH, GIVEN HOW HONEST AND FORTHRIGHT THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN, PROBABLY MEANS HE'S ON A RESPIRATOR AND RECEIVING LAST RITES. SECOND, HIS FORMER CHIEF OF STAFF WAS CONFIRMED BY A JURY OF HIS PEERS TO BE A LYING SCUMBAG TODAY, UP TO HIS NECK IN THE PLOT TO OUT A C-I-A UNDERCOVER NON-OFFICIAL COVER OPERATIVE, WHICH MAY I REMIND YOU IS TREASONOUS. WELL, TO HEAR B-B-C NEWS TELL IT, THE CHARGES WERE obstruction of justice and perjury. THEN AGAIN, MAYBE IT ISN'T SUCH A BAD DAY FOR CHENEY, AS SPECIAL PROSECUTOR PATRICK FITZGERALD HAS DECIDED THAT NO FURTHER CHARGES WILL BE FILED, AS CHENEY AND ROVE WILL JUST KEEP LYING, AND THEY CLEARLY WOULD THROW THEIR CHILDREN TO THE WOLVES IF NECESSARY. OOPS, SORRY, THAT ROVE FELLER is what they call A CONFIRMED BATCHELOR. ANYWAY, SENATE MAJORITY LEADER HARRY REID, DEMOCRAT OF NEVADA, HAS DARED BUSH TO PARDON SCOOTER, AND AS SOON AS CHENEY TELLS HIM TO, I'M SURE GEORGE WILL.
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002629.php
OOPSIE! TURNS OUT THAT THOSE WEAPONS THAT ARE KILLING OUR TROOPS PARTICIPATING IN THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ THAT THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION INISISTED CAME FROM IRAN ARE IN FACT COMING FROM IRAQ! ACCORDING TO T-P-M MUCKRAKER, QUOTING THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, troops "uncovered a makeshift factory used to construct advanced roadside bombs that the U.S. had thought were made only in Iran." DURING A RAID IN SOUTHERN IRAQ. AMONG THE ITEMS FOUND: "cardboard boxes of the gray plastic PVC tubes used to make the canisters. The boxes appeared to contain shipments of tubes directly from factories in the Middle East, none of them in Iran.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/04/news/shoot.php
WE ARE ASKED TO BELIEVE THE FOLLOWING: A KREMLIN EXPERT STATES ON NATIONAL TV THAT THE KREMLIN IS KILLING ITS CRITICS, AND THEN FOUR HOURS AFTER MEETING WITH A FORMER K-G-B GENERAL LATER THAT WEEK, THE KREMLIN EXPERT IS GUNNED DOWN IN FRONT OF HIS HOME IN SUBURBAN MARYLAND. The F-B-I says it was a simple robbery ACCORDING TO REUTERS. POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR TWO BLACK MEN. DO YOU BELIEVE IT?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/05/AR2007030500357.html
SCIENTISTS HAVE DISCOVERED A NATURAL BARRIER TO H-I-V, according to HEALTH DAY NEWS, QUOTED IN THE WASHINGTON POST. Researchers have discovered that cells in the mucosal lining of human genitalia produce a protein that "eats up" invading HIV -- possibly keeping the spread of the AIDS more contained than it might otherwise be.
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http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/why-ban-poetry/
“The U.S. Treasury Department - which, among other things, handles cases of treason - recently warned American publishers against translating poetry from Iran. Such translations, they avowed, would be considered ‘trading with the enemy,’ and would be punishable by fines and jail time.” THIS ABOMINATION WAS NOTED ON JOHN BAKER'S BLOG, AND WAS TAKEN FROM AN ARTICLE WRITTEN BY ROBERT PEAKE ENTITLED "Why Poetry Matters Now" YOU CAN FIND THE LINK AT POORMOJOSNEWSSHOW.-- NO APOSTROPHE - DOT BLOGSPOT DOT COM IN THE ENTRY FOR TODAY'S PODCAST.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070305/ts_nm/weight_puberty_dc
EARLY-ONSET PUBERTY HAS BEEN LINKED TO CHILDHOOD OBESITY, ACCORDING TO AN REUTERS ARTICLE QUOTING A MULTI-YEAR STUDY FROM THE University of Michigan's Mott Children's Hospital. THE GIRLS IN THE SURVEY who were fatter at age 3 and who gained weight during the next three years reached puberty, as defined by breast development, by age 9.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/05/coulter.ads/index.html
FUGLY, GIANT-SIZED MAN THING ANN COULTER WILL HAVE SOME TROUBLE AFFORDING HER ESTROGEN TREATMENTS AND ADAMS-APPLE CONCEALER, NOW THAT MAINSTREAM ADVERTISERS ARE LEAVING HER WEB SITE LIKE RATS OFF A SINKING SHIP. ACCORDING TO C-N-N, Verizon, Sallie Mae and Georgia-based NetBank each said they didn't know their ads were on AnnCoulter.com until they received the complaints. I GUESS SHE'S OUT LOOKING FOR SOME MORE DEMOCRATS TO CALL FAGGOT, SEEING AS IT WORKED OUT SO WELL THIS TIME.
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http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/06/morin-bush-va/
IT bearS repeated mentioning that Walter Reed was privatized, and that the horrors started then., SAYS POOR MOJO NEWSWIRE EDITOR MOJO. HE BRINGS US WORD FORM THINK PROGRESS THAT, In an interview with National Public Radio, even American Legion National Commander Paul Morin, a regular political ally of the White House, pointed out that Bush has consistently skimped on veterans funding. “We are not pleased with the budget for the military and for the VA hospitals for our veterans,” Morin said. “I blame the President and Congress for insufficient funding of the VA health care system.” THINK PROGRESS PRESENTS THE FACTS: FACT: Bush plans to cut veterans health care after 2008. White House budget documents assume consecutive cutbacks in 2009 and 2010 and a freeze thereafter.” FACT: Bush raises health care costs for veterans. For the fifth year in a row, Bush’s budget has attempted to raise health care costs on 1.3 million veterans, calling for “new enrollment fees and higher drug co-payments for some veterans.” FACT: THE Bush administration has claimed veterans benefits are “hurtful” to national security. “The amounts have gotten to the point where they are hurtful. They are taking away from the nation’s ability to defend itself,” says David Chu, the Pentagon’s undersecretary for personnel and readiness.
http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/stories/03/06/6krugman_edit.html
PAUL KRUGMAN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES LIKENED THE WALTER READ SCANDAL TO HURRICAINE KATRINA: For all its cries of "support the troops," the Bush administration has treated veterans' medical care the same way it treats everything else: nickel-and-diming the needy, protecting the incompetent, and privatizing everything it can.
What makes this a particular shame is that in the Clinton years, veterans' health care — like the Federal Emergency Management Agency — became a shining example of how good leadership can revitalize a troubled government program.
But as with FEMA, the Bush administration has done all it can to undermine that achievement. And the Walter Reed scandal is another Hurricane Katrina: the moment when the administration's misgovernment became obvious to everyone. We know from Hurricane Katrina postmortems that one of the factors degrading FEMA's effectiveness was the Bush administration's relentless push to outsource and privatize disaster management, which demoralized government employees and drove away many of the agency's most experienced professionals. It appears that the same thing has been happening to veterans' care.
The redoubtable Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, points out that IAP Worldwide Services, a company run by two former Halliburton executives, received a large contract to run Walter Reed under suspicious circumstances: the Army reversed the results of an audit concluding that government employees could do the job more cheaply.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/06/hagel-impeachment/
DO YOU KNOW WHAT DID RICHARD NIXON IN? DO YOU KNOW WHY HE RESIGNED? IT WASN'T THE WATERGATE TAPES. HE WOULD HAVE STONEWALLED FOREVER. IT WASN'T VIET-NAM. HE WOULD HAVE BOMBED FOREVER. HE RESIGNED BECAUSE THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL AND SENATE LEADERSHIP WALKED DOWN TO THE WHITE HOUSE AND TOLD HIM IT WAS TIME TO GO. AND SO, NIXON WENT, UNDER HIS OWN STEAM AND OWN TERMS. WILL GEORGE W. BUSH BE THAT SMART? WILL THE REPUBLICANS MAKE THAT WALK? AGAIN, FROM THINK PROGRESS, QUOTING ESQUIRE MAGAZINE, Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) has suggested that Congress may consider the impeachment of President Bush before his term ends:
“The president says, ‘I don’t care.’ He’s not accountable anymore,” Hagel says, measuring his words by the syllable and his syllables almost by the letter. “He’s not accountable anymore, which isn’t totally true. You can impeach him, and before this is over, you might see calls for his impeachment. I don’t know. It depends how this goes.”
The conversation beaches itself for a moment on that word — impeachment — spoken by a conservative Republican from a safe Senate seat in a reddish state. It’s barely even whispered among the serious set in Washington, and it rings like a gong in the middle of the sentence, even though it flowed quite naturally out of the conversation he was having about how everybody had abandoned their responsibility to the country, and now there was a war going bad because of it.
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