WTF Is It Now?!?

I'm late today. All the good news has been taken.
Got some monkey mail last night - to the cretinous fretard bushmoonie who asked how I can be such a 'disrepectful' lesbian bitch: I'm not a lesbian. Not that there's anything wrong with that.



Oh, Canada!
OTTAWA: "George Bush is very trigger-happy," Benoît Serré, a Liberal MP, said after a meeting of the party caucus. "The point that makes me upset is that most of those dictators in the last 25 or 30 years were put in place by the Americans. As long as they sell oil and they obey the American position, then they are OK." - the National Post.




W pushes war, but people push back
The number of Americans opposed to war with Iraq is growing faster than anyone in the White House dares to admit. - Nice piece on the protest movement, by Juan Gonzalez at the NY Daily News.




Not so fast...
The Bush administration's plan to open the 19 million acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to drilling suffered a major blow today, as six Republican senators said they opposed inserting language to give oil companies access to the refuge into a must-pass budget bill.

Six of the Senate's 52 Republicans, including John McCain of Arizona, announced today that they would not go along with a plan to tack ANWR drilling language onto a massive spending bill this spring that would enact the new 2004 budget for the federal government. The senators said drilling in the Alaskan refuge is an important policy issue that should be openly debated, not slipped into an unrelated bill.

"Because the opening of the Arctic refuge to drilling raises a host of policy concerns, including serious environmental ramifications, we do not believe this issue should be injected in the budget process," the lawmakers said in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Don Nickles.

In addition to McCain, the letter was signed by Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, Peter Fitzgerald of Illinois and Mike DeWine of Ohio. - link.




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"And, most importantly, Alma Powell, secretary of Colin Powell, is with us." - Squinty the Boilfaced Doper, Washington, D.C., 1/30/03.