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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 12:45 PM
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Countdown Newsletter -- 02/01/06: Road Show
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Tonight on Countdown
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President Bush on Wednesday takes his election-year agenda on the road to convince Americans he is addressing their concerns about high gasoline prices and health care costs. One day after outlining priorities on energy, health care, and economic competitiveness in his State of the Union address, Bush will go to Nashville, Tenn., to kick-off a campaign to sell his 2006 agenda to the public. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11125997/

Cindy Sheehan, mother of a fallen soldier in Iraq, wasn't the only one ejected from the House gallery during the State of the Union address for wearing a T-shirt with a war-related slogan that violated the rules. The wife of a powerful Republican congressman was also asked to leave. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11120353/

Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann broadcasts LIVE at 8 pm et, and the count is never complete without you. Join us.

Keith's exclusive interview with Michael Schiavo begins tonight. Looking back at the difficult time when overzealous politicians, and others, inserted themselves into a private matter.

Responding to a dramatic videotape of a police shooting, federal officials opened an investigation Tuesday into the conduct of a San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy who opened fire on a man who appeared to be following the deputy's order to get off the ground. A grainy videotape of the shooting in Chino was broadcast repeatedly on television Tuesday. The quality of the tape is poor, and it is difficult to clearly hear all the exchanges between the deputy and 21-year-old Elio Carrion during the seconds before the shooting. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-highspeed1feb01,0,7570035.story?coll=la-home-headlines
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10788476/

Black activists on Tuesday called for the firing of police officers who were shown on live television swinging night sticks and punching and kicking a suspect after a car chase. The Missouri State Highway Patrol was investigating to see if the four officers involved had acted illegally. The suspect, Edmon Burns, 33, of St. Louis County, was treated at a hospital and released, and was jailed. No charges had been filed. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/31/AR2006013100572.html

Neil Entwistle was not seen at the funeral for his wife and 9-month-old daughter today in Plymouth. Entwistle left his parents' home in England Tuesday for an undisclosed location. He did not attend the wake last night. Investigators are still calling him a "person of interest" in the murders. http://cbs4boston.com/topstories/local_story_032073059.html

And a look at the lighter side of the State of the Union, with Mo Rocca.

That's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.

Finally,
A man who was stopped for driving erratically on a divided highway was distracted because he was looking at pornography, authorities said. David Kennedy, 33, of Nashville, was charged with felony reckless endangerment after motorist Deborah Dotson reported Friday afternoon that he nearly ran her vehicle off State Route 840 several times. "When I made contact with the driver of the suspect vehicle, a Mr. David Kennedy, there were several pornographic magazines on the seat next to him," Hall said in his report. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DISTRACTING_PORN?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOME
Dude, XXX will lead you to need AAA. Watch out!

-- Carey Fox

Countdown Home: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/

More:
Shares of Google Inc. sank nearly 10 percent Wednesday, wiping out billions of dollars in shareholder wealth, after the Web search firm's earnings report disappointed Wall Street and stunned almost everyone who follows its stock, except the company's founders. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11117261/

The House of Representatives is set to vote Wednesday on extending the USA Patriot Act to March 10 to give the White House and conservative Senate Republicans time to strike a deal that would strengthen civil liberties without weakening the war on terror. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10693284/

The body of Coretta Scott King arrived in her hometown early Wednesday and was escorted through the darkened streets to a funeral home in the southwest part of the city. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11126773/

It's true, James Frey, you need a new literary manager. Brillstein-Grey Entertainment literary manager Kassie Evashevski, who represented the author of "A Million Little Pieces" for more than four years, said she's not representing him anymore because of his tall tales. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11127022/

The Bush administration failed to set up a clear chain of command to respond to Hurricane Katrina, slowing coordination, communication and relief efforts, the investigative arm of Congress said Wednesday. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11127695/

A postal worker shot by a former employee inside a mail processing plant died of her injuries Wednesday, a hospital official said. Also, a former neighbor of the shooter was found dead in her home, police said. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11128315/

Veteran CBS White House correspondent John Roberts, snubbed by his network during the long search for Dan Rather's successor, has jumped to CNN. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11128678/

A study of 950,000 Swedish men has shown that taller men get a better education, a researcher said on Wednesday. The study, to be published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, could suggest short people are discriminated against as they are expected to be low achievers, said researcher Finn Rasmussen at Sweden's Karolinska Institute. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11127577/
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 01:11 PM
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1. Glad to see shrubbie didn't learn his lesson
the more he talks, the more people hate his proposals....

dg
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 03:18 PM
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2. Hey, DG.
Yep. Meet the new speech, same as the old speech.

Anyone believe we're going to break our "addiction" to oil?

You know, I wondered why Darth Cheney stood and applauded when the brain stem said that, but then I realized we're only cutting down our dependency on "foreign oil" -- therefore, as a domestic robber baron, Cheney and Shrubbie get even more money!

Also, how soon until we "cut and run" in Iraq but don't call it "cut and run"?
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 03:36 PM
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3. i claim dibbies on
remobilizing our forces in a strategic manner.

dg
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 03:44 PM
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4. and speaking of old speeches, check out this link
it's a more truthful rendering of a past SOTU speech. :-)

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/presaddress2.shtml
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 03:46 PM
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5. "break our dependence on foreign oil"
== handouts to lumber and auto industries to develop "alternative" energy strategies, which would be okay, if they'd actually use the money and truly come up with something. I expect the $$ will disappear down a rabbit-hole.
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 03:58 PM
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6. Coal.
* wants to increase coal production and improve coal technology. Let's take a minute and think about where Rockefeller and Byrd are from. "What is West Virginia?" Correct. Two Dems voting Yes on Alito because they knew coal was gonna be a big player? Hmmm.

:tinfoilhat:

Maybe I should post this as its own thread in GD? :)
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 04:29 PM
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7. go for it.
me, I'm thinking about that business about "funding basic research in supercomputing" because in Bushworld that doesn't mean funding research in supercomputing, that means funding research in chemistry or biology or physics done at one of the supercomputer centers. Hmm, I wonder which centers are being funded these days? I'm guessing Pittsburgh got a new lease on life and let's not forget the one in Ohio...
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