Get Your Asthma On!

WASHINGTON The Bush administration issued rules Tuesday to make it easier for industrial plants and refineries to modernize without having to buy expensive pollution controls ? and immediately was sued by nine states charging that the changes undermine their efforts to protect public health.

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The nine attorneys general [from New England & New York -the states that are most effected], who filed the lawsuits, are all either elected Democrats or appointed by a Democratic governor, prompting EPA's Martyak to suggest political motives. "There are those who would reach the conclusion that this appears to be more of a political step than based on other reasons," he said.

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- Of course! Those calculating Democrats are after all those elusive Please Don't Give Us Any More Respiratory Diseases voters! How cynical!

Where Did It All Go So Wrong?



What drove the wedge? Why did they drift apart? Was it a woman? Was it a man? Did Donny grow into someone else that Saddam could no longer recognize? Did Saddam need more space...say Kuwait? What a shame...these butchers seemed so good together.

Letting The Dots Connect Themselves...

This space (in e-mail form) spent a lot of time a little over a year ago trying to shed some some light on lesser known justifications for the war against Afghanistan (remember that conflict way back when?). One of those justifications involved an extremely lucrative pipeline project for US company UNOCAL and fittings supplier Haliburton (yes, that Haliburton). Claims were made that the officials from the Taliban were wined & dined over the last 5 years, including visits to Texas in order to get them to play ball. We even gave them $45 million for their progress in fighting opium production (which has since massively reversed itself) as an incentive. The Taliban went with a regional company and shut out UNOCAL after they had invested a reasonable chuck of change. 9/11 happened and we went after Afghanistan & installed a former UNOCAL consultant as the new President (yep, check his resume). Despite this being a matter of public record, the right wrote it off as a leftist, anti-corporate conspiracy theory, as they did with those problems UNOCAL had in Burma (slavery was used to build a pipeline...it's still in court). It was an interesting defense of UNOCAL's actions, despite the fact that it violated any law of common sense. Anyway, I'll be interested to hear what those critics of the "conspiracy theory" have to say about the amazing coincidence of a $3.2 billion contract UNOCAL just signed to build the said pipeline. Come on, you didn't think that this was about teaching women to read, did you? Oh well, on to Iraq!

Read about the signing ceremony here (don't wait to hear about it on Fox news!).

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Where did Saddam get the tools to build his weapons of big time destruction? Any third graded can tell you "right here in the USA!" However,can they tell you which companies actually did the supplying? Now they can!