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from Cindy Sheehan:
Saturday -- Rallies in many cities . . .

The End Begins November 22nd: End the Fed

Undo the Coup: Time to Impeach


Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
--  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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    Friday 21 November 2008

    Deep End News

    Speaker Karen Bass, D-Baldwin Vista (LA County)

    CA Assembly speaker leaves town during budget mess
    Matthew Yi, sfgate

    Chicago! Chicago! that toddlin' town ...

    Congressional chaplain accused of covering up Chicago sex abuse
    David Edwards and Muriel Kane, rawstory
    Paul Singer, rollcall
    abc

    DOD’s Global Information Grid includes more than 17,000 local- and regional-area networks and approximately 7 million individual computers.

    Pentagon Confirms Computer Virus in Networks
    William H. McMichael and Bruce Rolfsen, navytimes
    Richard Adhikari, internetnews
    Jennifer H. Svan and David Allen, Stars and Stripes

    • Wednesday, 19 November 2008
    Democratic Assemby member Patty Berg, Eureka skipped the special session for a Maui junket sponsored by the privately-funded Pacific Policy Research Foundation (whose website doesn't appear to have been updated since 2006)

    State lawmakers overseas during budget crisis
    Matthew Yi, sfgate

    At issue is Mr. Daschle’s work since leaving the Senate four years ago as a board member of the Mayo Clinic and a highly paid adviser to health care clients ... Mr. Daschle’s wife, Linda Daschle, is a prominent lobbyist for aerospace and military concerns.

    Obama’s Pick of Daschle May Test Conflict-of-Interest Pledge
    David D. Kirkpatrick, NYT

    Time Machine . . .
    from 2003:

    Tom Daschle Should Resign as Minority Leader of the Senate
    buzzflash Editorial

    Tuesday, 18 November 2008
    psst! Pass it on:
    "Retirement Administrator's Report, Investments and Financials, Independence, Health Insurance ... "

    Mendocino County Retirement Board meeting:
    Wednesday, 19 November
    8:30am @ 625 B Kings Court, Ukiah ...

    Josefat "Joe" Estrada Jr., 35, a math teacher at Vintage High School in the Napa Unified School District

    NAPA Teacher arrested in molestation case
    Henry K. Lee, sfgate
    Laura Norton, PressDemocrat
    Marsha Dorgan, napavalleyregister

    Note that the Press Democrat coverage above, unlike that in the Chronicle and Register, states that the school district "would not comment on how long [Estrada] had been with the district or where he taught". Weird. Puts one in mind of the quashed Heck case.
    17 November 2008

    Senator Sanders seeks halt to Wall St bailout
    Kevin Drawbaugh/Bill Trott, Reuters

    Stripping Paulson of His Remaining Power & Money
    David Sirota, ourfuture.org

    "Congress last year refused to consider a 25 percent cut for 220 federal programs the government rated as ineffective, passing up a savings of $17 billion a year. Obama did not vote on the measure while he was a senator from Illinois."

    Federal Workers Wooed By Obama Before Vote
    Carol D. Leonnig, WashPost

    Wealthy gay men backed anti-Prop. 8 effort
    John Wildermuth, sfgate

    14 November 2008
    from johnsondigitalmedia/ukiahvalley.tv

    Fitch Downgrades Mendocino County, California Pension Bonds to A-, Outlook to Negative
    businesswire

    "Many of the images and videos depict prepubescent boys engaged in sexual acts," it said.

    Aide to Boxer Fired After Being Charged in Child Pornography Sting
    Ben Pershing, Washingtton Post

    28 August:
    "John Enquist, a former Sonoma County wine leader, has guided Mendocino's wine promotions over the past decade."

    State: Wine board rejected probe of missing funds
    Mendocino panel made deal
    Mike Geniella, PressDemocrat
      Mendocino Wine Grape and Wine Commission's
      blank website     here

    Mendocino County Wildfires,
    23 June - 10 July 2008:

    Emergency BOS Fire Meeting www.ukiahvalley.tv

    more here . . .