Given the history of the Carlyle Group and the people directing this organization, I found it worrisome to see the following headline on Yahoo this morning:

Carlyle group bids $5.5 bln for Taiwan's ASE

This is a major company that puts the silicon chips into the plastic containers that mount onto the circuit boards of our computers. Do we really want the Carlyle Group to have that much access to what is being mounted inside our computers, cell phones, etc.?

More below the fold:

From http://www.bushgreenwatch.org:

"September 16, 2005

Six Senate Democrats Vote to Retain Bush Mercury Rule

The nation's environmental health protections suffered a severe
setback this week when six Democratic Senators joined 45
Republicans to defeat an effort to overturn the Bush
Administration's new rule regulating mercury emissions.

Health experts assert that the new EPA rule, which institutes a
"cap-and-trade" system for mercury emissions, will cause
dangerous hot spots of mercury pollution in regions where a
power plant can buy pollution "credits" rather than reduce its
emissions.

Not surprisingly they're beginning to go after Michigan Congressman John Conyers, who has openly called for the impeachment of the President. This article from the Detroit Free Press refers to Conyers as the "darling of the antiwar, anti-Bush far left" and refers to his statements about this and the Downing Street Memos as "rhetoric," while quoting Nate Bailey, spokesman for the Michigan Republican Party saying, "We have real issues to face and he's tracking down some British memo about a conflict that's been going on a couple of years." And there is much more. See it all at:

http://www.freep.com/news/nw/conyers10e_20050910.htm

I'd comment more on this but I was about to leave the house when I spotted this article and thought that someone should post it. Note that the staff writer's email address is at the bottom of the article if you wish to contact her.

Something doesn't smell right here.

Where is the logic in homeless snipers shooting at rescue vehicles? Even the TV/Stereo looters would be unlikely to do that because it would seem probable that either they or immediate family members would need rescued, medical attention, food and water.

So who is doing the shooting? Am I the only one that thinks this has a stench about it that's as big as the stench reeking from George Bush and his cronies?

ChemBob