while i am not sure if this has been mentioned before....  or if microserf is actually donating anything to the cause...

looks like Hugo is trying to wrestle a little of the US's power away from it...

Venezuela wants to share its energy potential with South  America and the Caribbean," Chavez said earlier as he outlined  the Petrocaribe initiative, which will create a regional oil  shipment, storage and refining network promoted by Venezuela.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8934470

http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/2005-06-22-royal_x.htm?csp=36

June 24-26, 2005
Crystal Gateway Marriott
Arlington, Virginia

Confirmed speakers include:       
Majority Leader Tom DeLay - Inaugural Keynote Address!
 Secretary Mike Johanns
 Governor Mitt Romney
 Phyllis Schlafly
 David Horowitz
 Congressman Patrick McHenry
 Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson
 Morton Blackwell
 Tony Perkins
 Grover Norquist
 Ed Gillespie
 Congressman Mike Pence

Health Ministry blasted over decision to allow fetus sex selection

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/578274.html

The Israeli health ministry has decided to allow parents to select the sex of their children..

"The Health Ministry decision created for the first time an official opening for using technology to select a baby's sex for nonmedical reasons. Such use of technology, Shoham said, "is banned in many countries in the world, including Germany," and is considered immoral in others.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/2/24343/06904

as diaried by Xamxam 1

During the season finale of ABC's schlocky reality show, "Supernanny," James Dobson's Focus on the Family will be running ads promoting its "Focus on Your Child" program, which advises parents on how to implement the parenting principles outlined in his best-seller, "Dare to Discipline." These include spanking with "sufficient magnitude to cause the child to cry genuinely." Children have to be taught respect for authority at an early age, Dobson preaches, or they'll never develop respect for governmental authority or God.  

http://www.dailysouthtown.com/southtown/dsnews/203nd2.htm

this line comes from a NYT story today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/15/sports/othersports/15coach.html?8hpib

Analysts say prolonged surge in gasoline prices is beginning to depress demand for gas guzzlers

http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/12/Autos/gas_prices.reut/index.htm

but as i did and got to the quotes from the experts, some things sort of clicked...

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=00032537-679A-1212-A79A83414B7F0000

let me make a wild guess

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/12/06/oxfam.aid.ap/index.html

so while the "first world" is fat and getting fatter, while in the US corporate execs making 600 fold what the average employee makes, and pro atheletes, actors, musicians make more in a year than most of us and our families and our families families make in a lifetime (and bitch about it) while the rich get richer and the poor get the picture our leaders scratch their heads and pretend to be unaware as to why they might have ANY hatred towards our caring giving nations

Oxfam singled out the United States for criticism, saying it gives just 0.14 percent of its national income in aid, making it the least generous donor by that measurement.

http://www.christianpost.com/article/church/1697/section/catholic_diocese_settles_record_%24100_mill ion_to_clergy_abuse_victims/1.htm

These clowns dont feed and clothe the poor.. they could care less for the downtrodden, hell Robertson fully takes advantage of them...
I am sure we can find and dispense equally troubling (or worse) information about Falwell, Robertson and the other idiots out doing the devils work under the guise of doing gods...
Isnt it just a matter of getting the dirt out into mainstream minds so there is less and less trust in every word they say??   Isnt that all the other side does, sow the seeds of doubt, water daily and watch them grow.

 By BARRY SCHWEID
  WASHINGTON (AP) - Interception of several technology shipments to Iran has bolstered U.S. suspicions that Iran is secretly developing an intercontinental ballistic missile that could threaten Europe and possibly the United States.  

guess we WILL be pulling out of Iraq shortly...  got a whole  new bunch of evil do-ers, and haters of freedom to attack....

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?floc=NW_1-T&oldflok=FF-APO-1151&idq=/ff/story/000 1%2F20041203%2F0538439230.htm&sc=1151&photoid=20041124XHS103

 President Bush on Thursday called  for a "full and open" accounting of the U.N. oil-for-food  program but would not say whether he thought U.N.  Secretary-General Kofi Annan should resign.

"I look forward to the full disclosure of the facts, get an  honest appraisal of that which went on. And it's important for  the integrity of the organization to have a full and open  disclosure of all that took place with the oil-for-food  program," Bush said.