Month: October 2005

Just in how many ways does the Bush Administration hate women? How many ways can they find to destroy some of the best projects this country has developed over the years?

Today’s Troy Record newspaper has a picture on it of a lawyer I know. She was appointed to represent a very young, very sweet child I know in a custody dispute between her parents many years ago.

So I read the article (similar article on-line in the Albany Times Union)and what do I find? Bushies at it again. Apparently this lawyer, Jo Katz, does pro bono work for something called The Legal Project.

According to their web site:

The Legal Project is a private, not-for-profit organization that was founded by the Capital District Women’s Bar Association in 1995. It provides a variety of free and low cost legal services to the working poor, victims of domestic violence and other underserved individuals in the Capital District of New York State.

More below the fold…

Well, the CA-48th has settled into a three period waiting for the November 8th statewide elections.  Everyone in the 48th is trying their best to help do the work necessary on the November 8th election and still help CA-48 and Steve Young and it’s hard on everyone!  Our army will pick up dramatically after the Statewide General Election is finished and the Governor’s effort is defeated.

Yesterday Governor Muscles started his official GOTV effort in OC and Steve Young was out front with the Firefighters, Police unions and other labor groups protesting with signs and shouts.

But the most amazing piece of info from this mornings article about the Statewide General Special Election was that even Muscles was only predicting a 30% turnout!

The Miller Case: From a Name on a Pad to Jail, and Back (Printer-friendly version of an 8-page story)

By DON VAN NATTA Jr., ADAM LIPTAK and CLIFFORD J. LEVY

ALSO UP:

Judith Miller’s “My Four Hours Testifying in the Federal Grand Jury Room” (Printer-friendly version of an 5-page story)

My notes indicate that well before Mr. Wilson published his critique, Mr. Libby told me that Mr. Wilson’s wife may have worked on unconventional weapons at the C.I.A.

My notes do not show that Mr. Libby identified Mr. Wilson’s wife by name. Nor do they show that he described Valerie Wilson as a covert agent or “operative,” as the conservative columnist Robert D. Novak first described her in a syndicated column published on July 14, 2003. (Mr. Novak used her maiden name, Valerie Plame.)

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During my testimony on Sept. 30 and Oct. 12, the special counsel, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, asked me whether Mr. Libby had shared classified information with me during our several encounters before Mr. Novak’s article. He also asked whether I thought Mr. Libby had tried to shape my testimony through a letter he sent to me in jail last month. And Mr. Fitzgerald asked whether Mr. Cheney had known what his chief aide was doing and saying.

My interview notes show that Mr. Libby sought from the beginning, before Mr. Wilson’s name became public, to insulate his boss from Mr. Wilson’s charges. According to my notes, he told me at our June meeting that Mr. Cheney did not know of Mr. Wilson, much less know that Mr. Wilson had traveled to Niger, in West Africa, to verify reports that Iraq was seeking to acquire uranium for a weapons program. …

Jerry Policoff is reading both documents. I may have to leave. Please start reading and provide your feedback here. Hopefully, Jerry will lend his considerable expertise to a review of the two articles.

NOTE: There are also two timelines: Judith Miller and The Leak Inquiry

My vision of the future is probably a little different from others you might read here.  Although I agree with many analyses of the political and economic forces at work, and on the future impact of declining energy and natural resources, I place them in a different framework.  I see a factor dominating that others see as contributory.

In my view, the future will be shaped and dominated by climate.  Not just the tepid background of “global warming,” not some distant and neutral-sounding “climate change.” I mean what I’ve been calling–and others (like Al Gore) are beginning to call–the climate crisis.  I’ll explain what I mean by this, which is perhaps different as well.

But first let me preview what I mean by fear of the future.