AMERICA - The Right Way!! (Day 1552) [Remember the Trade Center!!]

All of Us | April 21, 2005 | Various News Sources and FReepers

[gulfcoast6]

She gets by with anything she has done or is doing.

[The Raven]

>>The Chairman will be back today.

Oh no....that means we have to get in line ??

[when the cat's away.....]

[lysie]

Okay. Good luck.

[lysie]

Yup, the partying is over. Stand up straight and get that smirk of your face.....;-) LOL

[Carolinamom]

Drudge has a story up that Colin Powell has been working behind the scenes against Bolton's confirmation. If true, I'm steamed.

[The Raven]

Some links and news blips:

Mike Mussina won for the first time this season and the Yankees swept a two-game series with a 4-3 victory over the Blue Jays on Thursday night.

With Mrs. Clinton likely to run for President in 2008, three highly partisan Democrats want to de-fund the Henry Cisneros probe and prevent publication of the report. "There is no other way to characterize this but as obstruction of justice," a source tells us, noting that Congress has never before tried to step on an Independent Counsel investigation like this. It is also the first time the IRS has been investigated with grand jury subpoena power, and it is likely to be revealing

A New Orleans political consultant who is Senator Kennedy's brother-in-law and who organized fund-raisers for President and Mrs. Clinton, has been operating in Democratic circles for the last three years ">as an undercover informant for the FBI.

The Dow industrials shot up 206.24 points, or 2.06%, to 10218.60 -- their first 200-point gain in almost two years. The Nasdaq composite gained 2.54% as Wall Street cheered upbeat earnings.

Google posted an almost sixfold increase in net income for the first quarter, as the Web-search giant grabbed an increasing share of the world's ad spending, nearly doubling its revenue to $1.26 billion.

Greenspan said Ch ina will unpeg its currency from the dollar "sooner rather than later" because the policy poses a growing threat to China's economy and that our rising deficits endanger our economy.

Senator James M. Jeffords of Vermont, the Republican-turned-independent whose party switch in 2001 delivered control of the Senate to Democrats for 19 months, announced on Wednesday that he would not seek re-election next year, citing concerns about his health and that of his wife.

An employee at a printing plant that makes more than half of America's currency stole up to $700,000 over seven years by regularly stuffing his pockets with folded sheets of $20 or $50 bills, a Secret Service agent testified Thursday.

The Move America Forward [Republican] Web site says it is ``strongly backing the nomination of John Bolton to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations'' and expressed ``outrage today that a Republican United States Senator [Ohio Sen. George Voinovich] would refuse to vote to confirm the President's nominee in committee.''

[lysie]

Great post and toon. Thanks.

[The Raven]

Whoops - one bad link in there...Should I fix or go to work???

[kassie]

Hey, those are great! Thanks.

[kassie]

I couldn't fix the computer so I woke up D. Had to have him come and fix it. He's always doing something...graphic card was doing something weird.

[lysie]

The link of the undercover Kennedy bil...I don't think you have to fix it. That story is posted..by you.. on the thread already, right?

[The Raven]

But I added the story about the Wendy's finger.....that's right up there with the Yankees.

[gulfcoast6]

This I like, keep it up, expand on it, and THANKS.

[gulfcoast6]

Got to get my fog knife out this morning, it is thick here and I mean thick.

[lysie]

We had a heavy frost. Good. It might have killed some of the black flies that were bugging me yesterday.