Posted on 05/03/2005 8:23:05 PM PDT by Mo1
My husband took his laundry to his mom to do too, until he married me. He was younger, but I'm certain that it never once occurred to him to do it himself. I know it sure didn't when we were married.
I do my own laundry, thank you.
*Smooch*
Meanwhile, I'm sitting here reading some of the case file they faxed me today on my other California cuckoo client. Sheesh. Of all the places for some of these people to light. I'm starting to feel like Darks....a weird magnet.
Snoqualmie Falls, WA.
It has been a crappy day here...Cloudy and later rain...
I have been having a problem trying to stay awake all day...LOL
So think I'll call it a day...Goodnight all, be good....
.....Westy.....
I hear the Twin Peaks theme music...
Thanks, I think...
After a whirlwind romance, these two celebs just got hitched
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/APWires/headlines/D8A02BIO0.html
LOL! I was talking about my California clients/fruitcakes.
I always believed Wen Ho Lee was innocent of espionage and used as a fall guy for Clinton's pals for the leaks of secret info from our nuclear labs. CYA policies are still in full operation:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Reporters%20Sources&dpfrom=1
Court debates ruling in Wen Ho Lee case
By PETE YOST
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court debated on Monday whether to overturn a contempt ruling against five journalists who have refused to identify their sources for stories on Wen Ho Lee, the nuclear scientist whose career was cut short when his name surfaced as an espionage suspect.
Lee is suing the government for leaking his name to the news media during a political frenzy late in the Clinton administration when Republicans accused the White House of ignoring China's alleged theft of U.S. nuclear secrets.
Lawyers said that the journalists have a qualified First Amendment privilege to protect the confidentiality of their sources and that a lower court judge erred in finding the reporters in contempt. A $500-per-day fine was suspended pending appeals.
Lee Levine, representing Associated Press reporter H. Josef Hebert and Los Angeles Times reporter Robert Drogin, said the judge in the case "simply bundled all the reporters together" without drawing distinctions in the stories they wrote or broadcast.
The other journalists found in contempt in the case are James Risen and Jeff Gerth of The New York Times, and Pierre Thomas, formerly of CNN and now of ABC.
Lee's lawyer framed the case in terms the judges readily understood.
"There is, especially in this town, a culture of leaks," Brian Sun said.
"This town?" U.S. Court of Appeals Court Judge David Sentelle asked in mock surprise, bringing laughter in the courtroom.
Sun said he unsuccessfully questioned 21 government witnesses about the leaks before turning to the news media for answers.
"We were asking them questions every which way from Sunday to find out who they were talking to," Sun said of interviews with government witnesses.
Lee was fired from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. He said government officials leaked information about him to reporters, violating the Privacy Act in pointing to him as a suspect in the possible theft of nuclear secrets for China.
Indicted on 59 felony counts alleging he mishandled nuclear weapons information, Lee pleaded guilty to a single charge after spending nine months in solitary confinement.
His treatment drew an apology from a federal judge, who said the case had embarrassed the nation and every citizen.
Appeals court judges A. Raymond Randolph and Sentelle reacted skeptically to the news media's suggestion that Lee should have done more interviews with government witnesses to find out the sources of the leaks.
Randolph pointed to other cases in which far less questioning of witnesses had been done before the plaintiffs targeted the news media.
First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams, representing The New York Times reporters, pointed to a case in which 60 witnesses had been interviewed before turning to the press.
The number is irrelevant to the Lee case, Sentelle replied.
Sentelle is a Reagan-era appointee. Randolph is an appointee of President Bush's father. The third member of the appeals panel, Judith Rogers, is a Clinton appointee.
The Lee case is among several recent high-profile examples of reporters facing punishment for refusing to reveal sources.
Last month a federal appeals court in Washington declined to reconsider a three-judge panel's ruling that Matthew Cooper of Time magazine and Judith Miller of The New York Times must testify before a federal grand jury about their sources or go to jail for up to 18 months.
The two reporters have been called to testify about the leak of an undercover CIA officer's name. Both publications plan to take their appeal to the Supreme Court.
Last year, Rhode Island TV reporter Jim Taricani was sentenced to home confinement after he refused a court order to reveal the confidential source of an undercover FBI videotape of an alleged bribe. He served four months.
Morning westy.
Nice pic you found us!
Thanks!
LOL!
Yes, that does seem to describe cat behavior quite well.
'morning...
Morning.
I have no idea why we're both awake at the moment.
It is unholy.
A disturbance in the force?
Probably.
And it seems to be just us...
Weird.
Like we were summoned by someone.
Cue Twilight Zone music...
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