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The White House had long insisted that Rove and Libby had nothing to do with the leakage but reporters have since named them as sources. According to the Associated Press, Rove's attorney, said he had been assured no decisions on charges had been made. Rove would first have to receive what is known as a target letter if he is about to be indicted: Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald may have given up the leak case in favor of a perjury case. The grand jury expires on October 28. Then we will all find out the truth.

Tularemia bacteria can live in soil and may simply have been released by thousands of people kicking up dirt, the Washington Post reported. But the bacteria can also cause a dangerous infection and is listed as a possible biohazard. Von Roebuck, a spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the disease has not been reported in humans in the Washington area or among any of the thousands who came to the city on Sept. 24 for the demonstration.

Sept. 24 Test Results Indicate Tularemia Bacteria The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notified the states of Maryland and Virginia and the District of Columbia today that an airborne form of Tularemia bacterium was detected by air sensors in the vicinity of the National Capital Mall during the weekend of Sept. 24 - 25. Since then, additional tests from these collectors have all been negative. Subsequent laboratory tests performed on the Sept. 24-25 samples have supported the presence of low levels of the bacterium in the environment. Public health officials do not believe the finding of low levels of the bacterium near the National Mall indicate a public health threat. Tularemia, which occurs naturally, is easily treated with common antibiotics. It cannot be transmitted from person to person. Tularemia is found naturally in the environment, and health officials are doing additional environmental sampling as well as reviewing other possible causes of the positive reading. State health departments have alerted local health departments, acute care treatment facilities, health care providers and veterinarians to be on the alert for signs of respiratory infections related to Tularemia. Also as a precaution, CDC and public health officials are alerting the medical community to be on the lookout for possible cases of Tularemia. To date, no cases of Tularemia have been discovered or reported. As a precautionary measure, CDC and public health officials are recommending that anyone who visited areas around the National Mall between 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 24 and 10 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 25 should see a health care provider if they experience symptoms related to Tularemia, which include: Sudden fever Chills Headaches Muscle aches Joint pain Dry cough Conjunctivitis Pneumonia People who do not have symptoms of Tularemia do not need to seek out medical attention. The Centers for Disease Control is the lead agency investigating this incident. Information about Tularemia is available from the CDC at www.cdc.gov http://www.cdc.gov/. Similar information is available on the Virginia Department of Health Web site at www.vdh.virginia.gov. D.C. Health Department, Leila Abrar (202) 841-9232 Maryland Department of Health, Karen Black (804) 471-0842 VDH Press Pager (877) 573-9504

It looks like the coaches are saying Lavar is not accepting the Skins defensive system.

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A Texas grand jury yesterday indicted the Republican majority leader of the House, Rep. Thomas DeLay, of Texas, and two of his political associates on one count each of conspiracy to commit campaign finance fraud. Mr. DeLay, who had been under investigation for a year, declared his innocence at a press conference with reporters and described the indictment as a witch hunt orchestrated by his political enemies on the left. "As for the charges, I have the facts, the laws, and the truth on my side," a defiant Mr. DeLay said, "just as I have against every other false allegation my opponents have flung at me over the last 10 years."

I bet that would be a pretty cool event.

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Henry Hugh Shelton (born January 2, 1942) is a retired American career military officer. He served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1997 to 2001. In early October 1999 the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Hugh Shelton ordered Special Operations (SOCOM) commander Peter Jan Schoomaker (born February 12, 1946) to start a project code named "Able Danger" to track likely al Qaeda operatives worldwide. In order to accomplish this tasking General Schoomaker turned to an internal working group who again worked with elements within the Department of Defense and with the Department of the Army to construct this plan. Captain Scott Philpot, was the 10 member Able Danger team leader. The elite unit used computer programs, such as Spire, Parentage and Starlight, to track threats to U.S national security. Much of this data crunching was facilitated by private contractors, including Raytheon Company, of Waltham, MA, and Orion Scientific (now part of SRA International, Inc., based in Fairfax, VA) which helped execute the sophisticated data mining software packages, said Shaffer. When queried by GSN, a Raytheon spokesperson would neither confirm nor deny the company’s involvement with Able Danger. In September 1999 U.S. Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer became a liason of the Able Danger team. Schaffer defined the Able Danger program primary focus was tracking al Queda. According to Philpott, that Able Danger chart was produced in January or February 2000. The Able Danger Chart bore the name and likeness of Mohamed Atta, and linked him to a mosque in Brooklyn which has been a center of Islamic extremism for more than 20 years. According to German police records, Atta was nowhere near the U.S. then. He was in Hamburg. And it wasn't until March 22, 2000, that Atta, an Egyptian national, began contacting flight schools here to see about taking lessons. He emailed 31 different schools. In one email, he wrote: "We are a small group of young man [sic] (2-3 persons) from several different Arab countries. We would like to start a course for professional airplane-pilots." Then on March 31, Atta also emailed an old friend from Cairo who was studying in Florida to ask if he needed to apply for a student visa before coming to the U.S. He then applied for his visa, got it May 18, and arrived here June 3—several months after the Able Danger team allegedly placed the future hijacker in Brooklyn. By July, Atta had settled in Florida, far from his alleged Brooklyn base. Shaffer set up meetings with FBI officials in 2000, but they were canceled because lawyers for the Special Forces unit -- of which Able Danger was a member -- allegedly were concerned military authorities could not legally share information with domestic law enforcement about potential terror suspects in the United States. An FBI agent, who, according to Representative Curt Weldon, will testify under oath that she organized the meetings between the FBI and Able Danger analysts to discuss Atta. Jamie S. Gorelick, former Deputy Attorney General under Janet Reno and the Clinton administration. Gorelick was at the center of controversy as a result of her March 4, 1995 controversial memo to U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White and others, erecting “a wall of separation” disallowing the sharing of intelligence between law-enforcement agencies about terrorists in the United States. Gorelick may be more intimately involved than previously thought with hampering communications between U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies fighting terrorism. Supposedly, Gorelick stopped Able Danger from passing leads to the FBI. Although the National Security Council had the means through the U.S. Defense Support Program to bring all the CIA-FBI-DIA information [that they can't talk to eachother about], into a single picture. In addition, there is a 1979 document called the Delimitations Agreement, between the DOJ and SECDEF which outlines investigatory authorities for counterintelligence (and by extension counterterrorism) cases between the Bureau and military CI agencies. The bottom line is that DOD does not have jurisdiction to investigate civilians in the United States without FBI coordination. They can investigate civilians overseas who may post a threat to DOD personnel/installations, but once bad guys pass over into the States, FBI retains investigatory jurisdiction. Ms. Pat Downs statement is completely inaccurate. Here is the military regulation. There was no legal basis for the provisions of Executive Order 12333 to have been interfered with or blatantly ignored by Department of Justice or Department of Defense lawyers pursuant to the exchange of intelligence data between SOCOM project Able danger and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. As George W. Bush was sworn in January 2001, Special Operations Command submitted the final plan to the joint staff, and Able Danger ended. Sometime after all Able Danger data was destroyed. On Sept. 25, 2001 Weldon stated that he handed over an Able Danger chart to Stephen John Hadley (born February 13, 1947), the current U.S. Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (commonly referred as National Security Advisor) for President George W. Bush. Attorney General, John Ashcroft reflected back to Gorelick when questioned at a 911 Commission hearing. General Schoomaker became the 35th Chief of Staff of the United States Army, on August 1, 2003. In October 2003, Executive Director (now Rice aide) Philip Zelikow of the 9/11 commission, two of his staffers, and a "attorney from the administration" were briefed in Afghanistan by Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer (DIA liason for Able Danger) on what the program had accomplished and why he felt it should be reestablished. Zelikow urged Shaffer to contact him personally upon his return to the US after his time in Afghanistan. When the story broke, former Rep. Lee Hamilton, a Democrat from Indiana, co-chairman of the 9/11 commission, at first denied the commission had ever been informed of what Able Danger had found, and took a swipe at Weldon's credibility: "The Sept. 11th commission did not learn of any U.S. government knowledge prior to 9/11 of the surveillance of Mohamed Atta or his cell," Hamilton said. "Had we learned of it obviously it would have been a major focus of our investigation." Hamilton changed his tune after The New York Times reported Thursday, and The Associated Press confirmed, that commission staff had been briefed on Able Danger in October 2003 and again in July 2004. Shaffer and defense contractor James D. Smith, have stated that they had copies of a pre-Sept. 11 chart that included Atta, but that they were destroyed in 2004 under unclear circumstances. O'Reilly August 25, 2005 C-SPAN Sunday Morning, 8/21. Shaffer's interview is 34:25 into the 3 hour show.

The Republican chairman of the Senate judiciary committee accused the Pentagon on Wednesday of stonewalling an inquiry into claims that the U.S. military identified four September 11 hijackers more than a year before the 2001 attacks.

Hail, That was one of the surprising Monday night games I have seen in a few years.

The agencies listed below are accepting donations for assistance they or their affiliates are providing to those affected by the earthquake and tsunamis: Action Against Hunger 247 West 37th Street New York, NY 10018 212-967-7800 http://www.actionagainsthunger.org ADRA International Asia Tsunami Crisis Fund 12501 Old Columbia Pike Silver Spring, MD 20904 800-424-ADRA (2372) http://www.adra.org Air Serv International 6583 Merchant Place, Suite 100 Warrenton, VA 20187 540-428-2323 http://www.airserv.org American Friends Service Committee 1501 Cherry Street Philadelphia, PA 19102 215-241-7050 http://www.afsc.org American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Inc. JDC-South Asia Tsunami Relief P.O. Box 321 847A Second Avenue New York, New York 10017 212-885-0832 http://www.jdc.org American Jewish World Service 45 W. 36th St., 10th Fl. New York, NY 10018 212-736-2597 http://www.ajws.org American Red Cross International Response Fund 2025 E St. NW Washington, DC 20006 800-HELP-NOW http://www.redcross.org AmeriCares 88 Hamilton Ave Stamford, CT 06902 800-486-4357 http://www.americares.org Baptist World Aid Asia Tidal Waves 405 North Washington Street Falls Church, VA 22046 703 790 8980 http://www.bwanet.org/bwaid B'nai B'rith International B'nai B'rith Disaster Relief Fund 2020 K Street NW 7th Floor Washington, DC 20006 212-490-3290 http://www.bnaibrith.org Brother's Brother Foundation 1200 Galveston Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15233 412-321-3160 http://www.brothersbrother.org CARE 151 Ellis Street NE Atlanta, GA 30303 800-521-CARE http://www.care.org Catholic Relief Services 209 West Fayette Street Baltimore, MD 21201 877-HELP-CRS http://www.catholicrelief.org Christian Children's Fund Child Alert Fund PO Box 26484 Richmond, Virginia - 23261-6484 800-776-6767 http://www.ChristianChildrensFund.org Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC) South Asia Earthquake 2850 Kalamazoo Ave. SE Grand Rapids, MI, 49560 800-55-CRWRC http://www.crwrc.org Church World Service PO Box 968 Elkhart, IN 46515 800-297-1516 http://www.churchworldservice.org Direct Relief International 27 South La Patera Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93117 805-964-4767 http://www.directrelief.org Episcopal Relief and Development South Asia Relief Fund 815 Second Avenue New York, NY 10017 800-334-7626, ext. 5129 http://www.er-d.org Food for the Hungry, Inc. Food for the Hungry Asia Quake Relief 1224 E. Washington St. Phoenix, AZ 85034 800-2-HUNGERS http://www.fh.org Habitat for Humanity International Asia Tsunami Response Fund 121 Habitat St Americus, GA 31709 229-924-6935 http://www.habitat.org International Aid 17011 W. Hickory Spring Lake, MI 49456 800-968-7490 http://www.internationalaid.org International Medical Corps Tsunami Emergency Response 1919 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 300 Santa Monica, CA 90404-1950 800-481-4462 http://www.imcworldwide.org International Relief Teams Asia Earthquake/Floods 3547 Camino Del Rio South, Suite C San Diego, CA 92108 619-284-7979 http://www.IRTeams.org International Rescue Committee PO Box 5058 Hagerstown, MD 21741-9874 877-REFUGEE or 733-8433 http://www.theIRC.org

Republicans on three separate congressional committees this week derailed three formal "resolutions of inquiry" by Democrats that would have required the Bush administration to turn over sensitive information and records relating to the outing of CIA officer Valerie Plame. Had the resolutions of inquiry been adopted, they would have led to the first independent congressional inquiries of the Plame affair, and perhaps even the public testimony of senior Bush administration aides such as Karl Rove, the White House deputy chief of staff, and I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, about their personal roles. Votes on all three House committees this week were along strictly partisan lines. The House Select Committee on Intelligence voted 11-9 on Thursday to adversely report H. Res. 418, which would have opened a formal inquiry by Congress of the Plame affair. The House International Relations Committee voted 26-21 against the same resolution one day earlier. And the House Judiciary Committee voted 15-11 on Wednesday as well against launching an inquiry. Here is a house summary of what took place On July 14, 2003, syndicated columnist Robert Novak wrote a column questioning why Ambassador Joseph Wilson had been tasked with gathering information for the Bush Administration. Novak wrote, `Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me his wife suggested sending Wilson to Niger to investigate the Italian report. The CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him.' 1 [Footnote] Novak refused to identify his sources, but added additional detail about how he had learned of Plame's employment in an October 1, 2003, column: [Footnote 1: Robert Novak, `The Mission to Niger,' Chicago Sun-Times, 14 July 2003, Editorial section, p. 31.] During a long conversation with a senior administration official, I asked why Wilson was assigned the mission to Niger. He said Wilson had been sent by the CIA's counterproliferation section at the suggestion of one of its employees, his wife. It was an offhand revelation from this official, who is no partisan gunslinger. When I called another official for confirmation, he said: `Oh, you know about it.' 2 [Footnote] [Footnote 2: Robert Novak, `Columnist Wasn't Pawn for Leak,' Chicago Sun-Times, 1 October 2003, Editorial section, p. 49.] According to press reports, the CIA referred the matter to the Department of Justice after Novak's July 14, 2003, column based on the possibility that the revelation of Plame's employment status with the Central Intelligence Agency constituted a violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 (50 U.S.C. 421). This Act makes it a crime to intentionally disclose the identity of a covert agent by persons with access to classified information and foreknowledge that the government sought to protect the identity of that covert agent. According to press reports, the Department of Justice began an investigation in September 2003, which the White House spokesman confirmed on October 1, 2003. By that time, the Justice Department had contacted the White House and asked it to preserve and maintain documents under its control. On October 3, 2003, a White House spokesperson indicated that the Justice Department had asked the White House to produce certain, more specific materials as part of the investigation, including the kinds of materials that are the subject of H. Res. 499. On December 30, 2003, the Attorney General recused himself from the investigation to avoid an appearance of a conflict of interest. Prior to his recusal, the Attorney General, in discussions with Deputy Attorney General James Comey, concluded that it was appropriate to appoint an investigator from outside the Justice Department's normal chain of command in order to oversee the investigation. That decision fell to Deputy Attorney General Comey, who appointed U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Patrick Fitzgerald, to investigate the matter and act as a special counsel. Comey simultaneously delegated all necessary authorities to Fitzgerald to continue the investigation. As a sitting U.S. Attorney, Fitzgerald's investigatory authority exceeds that of a normal `special counsel.' He does not have to secure approval from the Attorney General in making his prosecutorial decisions and has all the investigatory tools normally available to a U.S. Attorney at his disposal, including the authority to interview witnesses, subpoena documents and testimony, and convene a grand jury. A recent news article has stated, `Boxloads of documents have been forwarded to the FBI team, including White House phone logs and e-mails. More documents are being produced, as the contents of individual items sometimes lead agents to request additional materials. * * *' 3 [Footnote] According to press reports, Fitzgerald has since convened a Grand Jury to consider evidence in the investigation. In general, federal grand juries have sweeping investigative authorities to subpoena witnesses and documents identical to those identified in H. Res 499. [Footnote 3: Curt Anderson, `Rove, McClellan among Officials Interviewed in CIA Leak Probe,' Associated Press Newswires, 23 October 2003.] Justice Department officials have discussed the process associated with the investigation on the record, but have refused to discuss any details of the investigation itself in order to preserve the integrity of a possible criminal prosecution. Deputy Attorney General Comey told the media, `I can't tell you about the details of any criminal investigation because our goal is to make sure that anyone we're pursuing doesn't know what we're doing, and also, anyone who might not be charged with a crime is not unfairly smeared.' 4 [Footnote] [Footnote 4: U.S. Deputy Attorney General James Comey and Assistant Attorney General Christopher Wray, Department of Justice Press Conference, Washington, D.C., 30 December 2003.] In light of the ongoing criminal investigation, the committee concluded that transmittal of the materials identified in H. Res. 499 would undermine the investigation and possible criminal prosecution of any suspects believed to have committed a crime in the Plame matter. Therefore, the committee ordered the resolution to be reported adversely.

I see that Michael Feinstein is the central problem there. Is that correct?

The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) today exposed internal oil company memos that show how the industry intentionally reduced domestic refining capacity to drive up profits. The exposure comes in the wake of Hurricane Katrina as the oil industry blames environmental regulation for limiting number of U.S. refineries. The three internal memos from Mobil, Chevron, and Texaco show different ways the oil giants closed down refining capacity and drove independent refiners out of business. The confidential memos demonstrate a nationwide effort by American Petroleum Institute, the lobbying and research arm of the oil industry, to encourage the major refiners to close their refineries in the mid-1990s in order to raise the price at the pump. "Large oil companies have for a decade artificially shorted the gasoline market to drive up prices," said FTCR president Jamie Court, who successfully fought" to keep Shell Oil from needlessly closing its Bakersfield, California refinery this year. Oil companies know they can make more money by making less gasoline. Katrina should be a wakeup call to America that the refiners profit widely when they keep the system running on empty." "It's now obvious to most Americans that we have a refinery shortage," said petroleum consultant Tim Hamilton, who authored a recent report about oil company price gouging for FTCR. (Click here to read the report.) "To point to the environmental laws as the cause simply misses the fact that it was the major oil companies, not the environmental groups, that used the regulatory process to create artificial shortages and limit competition." The memos from Mobil, Chevron and Texaco show the following: * An internal 1996 memorandum from Mobil demonstrates the oil company's successful strategies to keep smaller refiner Powerine from reopening its California refinery. The document makes it clear that much of the hardships created by California's regulations governing refineries came at the urging of the major oil companies and not the environmental organizations blamed by the industry. The other alternative plan discussed in the event Powerine did open the refinery was "... buying all their avails and marketing it ourselves" to insure the lower price fuel didn't get into the market. Click here to read the Mobil memo. * An internal Chevron memo states; "A senior energy analyst at the recent API convention warned that if the US petroleum industry doesn't reduce its refining capacity it will never see any substantial increase in refinery margins." It then discussed how major refiners were closing down their refineries. * The Texaco memo disclosed how the industry believed in the mid-1990s that "the most critical factor facing the refining industry on the West Coast is the surplus of refining capacity, and the surplus gasoline production capacity. (The same situation exists for the entire U.S. refining industry.) Supply significantly exceeds demand year-round. This results in very poor refinery margins and very poor refinery financial results. Significant events need to occur to assist in reducing supplies and/or increasing the demand for gasoline. One example of a significant event would be the elimination of mandates for oxygenate addition to gasoline. Given a choice, oxygenate usage would go down, and gasoline supplies would go down accordingly. (Much effort is being exerted to see this happen in the Pacific Northwest.)" As a result of such pressure, Washington State eliminated the ethanol mandate -- requiring greater quantities of refined supply to fill the gasoline volume occupied by ethanol.

You are right. Chertoff didn't shift that power to Brown until 36 hours after Katrina hit Louisiana and Mississippi. It appears that Chertoff did not understand that he had power to make the decision. It appears he waited for the White House to make the call. I am starting to feel bad for Michael Brown. The whole country hates the man for something he might not been completely at fault. I willing to bet all the media's focus will be on Michael Chertoff. I really believe a commission should be created to investigate this whole mess. The 911 Commission benifited our country with the Intelligence Reform Bill. We may be see an National Response Reform Bill as well.

I think history gives you the answer. Take the Democratic Party. Jefferson defined the Democratic ideals. Jackson brought those ideals to the people. Solution: Find a war hero that Americans respect and believes in the ideals of the Green Party. I also think the green party logo should incorporate our nation's colors. Here is a rough idea of what I am thinking

Rudy Rucker is an amazing writer. A friend of mine got me hooked on him. I recommend you read 'Software' first. Here is a list of all Rudy Rucker's works. The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning Of Life, and How To Be Happy, nonfiction, Thunder's Mouth Press, (Scheduled October, 2005). Book's web page. Frek and the Elixir, novel, Tor Books, 2004. Book's web page. As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel, historical novel, Tor Books, 2002. Book's web page. Software Engineering and Computer Games, textbook, Addison-Wesley, 2002. Book's web page. Spaceland, novel, Tor Books, 2002. Book's web page. Ebook edition. Realware, novel, Avon Books, 2000. Gnarl!, collected stories, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000. Book's web page. Saucer Wisdom, novel, Tor Books, 1999. Book's web page. Seek!, selected nonfiction, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999. Book's web page. Freeware, novel, Avon Books 1997. The Hacker and the Ants, novel, Avon Books 1994, Four Walls Eight Windows 2003. Book's web page. *Transreal!, fiction and nonfiction collection, WCS Books 1991. (Nearly all these pieces also appear in Seek! and Gnarl!) *The Hollow Earth, novel, William Morrow & Co. 1990, Avon Books 1992. All the Visions, memoir, Ocean View Books, 1991. Amazon link. *Wetware, novel, Avon Books 1988, Avon Books 1997. Mind Tools, nonfiction, Houghton Mifflin 1987. *The Secret of Life, novel, Bluejay Books 1985. Ebook edition. Master of Space and Time, novel, Bluejay Books 1984, Baen Books 1985, Thunder's Mouth Press 2005. The Fourth Dimension, nonfiction, Houghton Mifflin 1984. *The Sex Sphere, novel, Ace Books 1983. *The Fifty-Seventh Franz Kafka, story collection, Ace Books 1983. (All these stories appear in Gnarl!) Software, novel, Ace Books 1982, Avon Books 1987, Avon Books 1997. Infinity and the Mind, nonfiction, Birkhäuser ‘82, Bantam ‘83, Princeton University Press, 1995. Book's web page. White Light, novel, Ace Books 1980, Wired Books 1997, Four Walls Eight Windows 2001. Book's web page. *Spacetime Donuts, novel, Ace Books 1981. Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension, nonfiction, Dover 1977.

If the defense plays the way they did last week and Brunell stays healthy we should have a winning season.

I have repeatedly tried to get off their program. They slip checks into our accounts receivable and then take money from our bank account. I did not order Buyers Advantage or Sellers Advantage. On September 12, 2005 I contacted Buyers Advantage by Phone: 1-800-553-4948 on how to stop the service. I offerred to pay the $2.50 (Check No. 4280665177) and $5.00 (Check No. 425146088). The Customer Service Representative Erica #30374 told me my name was not in the system and I should call back in a couple of weeks to get removed. I told her to look up the check no. and she stated she could not. She then repeatedely told me to wait and call back. I then asked what is the name of the company she worked for. "Trilegiant," She responded. I asked what is the number for the Trilegiant corporate headquarters. She said that she did not have the number. I looked on the check and then asked if Trilegiant is based in Trumbell, Connecticut. She said yes. I asked Erica where she was based. "Ohio," she responded. She then went on to tell me to wait a few weeks and call back. Since I was getting nowhere I ended the conversation. After a bit of searching I found Trilegiant's telephone number and contacted the main office. I then asked for someone in accounts payable. I got the name Linda Frengh at Tel. 615-764-2591. Linda was very nice and felt bad for me. She promised to call the Ohio office and get my problem resolved. I thanked her and got off the phone. Today I called Linda at Trilegiant to find out the status of my problem. I told her my name and she remembered me. Linda apoligized and said that she deals with 1,000s of problems a day. Linda could not find my check no.s, but stated that she had spoken to Cathy Conner in the Ohio office to make sure my name was removed and would get back to me.

Mercy-USA continues to provide food, hygiene packages, clothing and shelter assistance to hurricane survivors from New Orleans and surrounding areas. The need is so great and every dollar counts! Please join us in alleviating the hardships faced by so many hurricane-affected persons. You may send your contribution immediately through the secure online donation form http://mercyusa.org/HurricaneKatrinaRelief.cfm or mail it to: Mercy-USA for Aid and Development Attn: Hurricane Katrina Relief 44450 Pinetree Drive, Suite 201 Plymouth, Michigan 48170-3869

Just to get the facts correct below are public releases on how the President, Governor, and Mayor reacted before the storm hit New Orleans. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco is Governor of Louisiana. Here is a press release dated two days before Hurricane Katrina hit New OrleansAugust 27, 2005, where Governor Blanco asks President to Declare an Emergency for the State of Louisiana. The White House posted a press release on August 27, 2005 that the President declared at State of Emergency in Lousiana. Clarence Ray Nagin Jr. is properly the Mayor of Orleans Parish but is more commonly referred to as the Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana, as the Parish coexists with the city. Mayor Nagin issued a voluntary evacuation request late in the day on August 27. He was hesitant to order a mandatory evacuation because of concerns about the city's liability for closing hotels and other businesses. Here is an excerpt taken from Times-Picayune August 28, 2005. The day before the storm.

Rev. Larry Snyder, president of Catholic Charities USA, is in Baton Rouge this week assisting with local Catholic Charities Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. “Traditionally, Catholic Charities’ role in disaster response has been in helping families and communities recover to the point they were before the storm. In the past, our agencies usually began their long-term recovery weeks after a disaster,” said Fr. Snyder. “However, with Katrina, it is much different. The two Catholic Charities working together in Baton Rogue, as well as the other Catholic Charities all over the country are already assisting displaced people with their immediate needs.” To date, Catholic Charities has sent a total of $760,000 in emergency grants to eight local Catholic Charities to support their immediate response, which includes temporary housing; food, clothing, and other basic necessities; crisis and grief counseling; and financial assistance. Because it had to evacuate the city, Catholic Charities of New Orleans is operating out of the offices of Catholic Community Services of Baton Rogue. Both agencies are working collaboratively with state authorities, FEMA, and Red Cross to identify unmet needs and offer relief, food, water, shelter, and counseling and to help people who have been separated from one another to regain communication. The agencies are also networking with other Catholic Charities as a part of Operation Home Away From Home—a national initiative to provide temporary housing for displaced people. While Catholic Charities agencies around the country are working to meet the immediate needs of evacuees, they are planning their long-term recovery efforts. “Catholic Charities USA is firmly committed to helping people rebuild their lives,” said Fr. Snyder. Learn more about Catholic Charities’ Katrina recovery efforts at http://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/news/katrina.cfm.

SPNN.NET The facts you have for the population of the District are quite revealing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vermont population 608,827 THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA POPULATION 600K TO 506,900 WHERE IS THE BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE? WHY? 10 largest cities (2000): Burlington, 38,889; Essex, 18,626; Rutland, 17,292; Colchester, 16,986; South Burlington, 15,814; Bennington, 15,737; Brattleboro, 12,005; Hartford, 10.367; Milton, 9,479; Barre, 9,291; 14 counties ELECTED OFFICIALS FOR SCHOOLS, JUDGES, MAYORS AND MORE QUALITY LIFE. Wyoming 493,782 THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA POPULATION 600K TO 506,900 WHERE IS THE BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE? WHY? 10 largest cities (2000): Cheyenne, 53,011; Casper, 49,644; Laramie, 27,204; Gillette, 19,646; Rock Springs, 18,708; Sheridan, 15,804; Green River, 11,808; Evanston, 11,507; Riverton, 9,310; Cody, 8,835; 23 counties ELECTED OFFICIALS FOR SCHOOLS, JUDGES, MAYORS AND MORE PLUS A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE. Alaska 626,932 THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA POPULATION 600K TO 506,900 WHERE IS THE BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE? WHY? 10 largest cities (2000): Anchorage, 260,283; Juneau, 30,711; Fairbanks, 30,224; Sitka, 8,835; Ketchikan, 7,922; Kenai, 6,942; Kodiak, 6,334; Bethel, 5,471; Wasilla, 5,469; Barrow, 4,581; 27 boroughs ELECTED OFFICIALS FOR SCHOOLS, JUDGES, MAYORS AND MORE PLUS A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE FOR RESIDENTS. I will recommend the web site http://www.dcvote.org But, it seems like Geocities puts a limit on how many people can view the information. District of Columbia Citizens really should have the right of Representation like all other Americans have. This really should be the number one issue of every election until something is done. Thanks for sharing

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