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All the news reports I saw last night portrayed the breakthrough on nuclear proliferation as a sudden concession by the N.Koreans, with all credit given to the Bush administration for it's negotiating prowess. The way I understand it , the US conceeded to N.Korean demands to develope light water nuclear power, as is their right, and has committed resources to help feed and power the country as well as to not attack it. Questions. How much resources? In a time of enormous national debt. Will the US rejoin the Nuclear non-proliferation treaty process? Did this agreement come about because Bush is now in such a weakened position? Did the news people get instructions to put a positive spin on it? Will the ultra-conservatives back an agreement Bolton couldnt do but Condi could, with this member of "the axis of evil"?

We feel that as fellow citizens we should be donating to help the people of New Orleans. Don't we already donate a bunch as tax payers to a government that should be spending money on helping it's citizens rather than building weapons, invading countries, subsidizing corporations etc? Shouldnt the obscenely wealthy give up their tax cuts to be put into a hurricane clean up fund?

Pete Dominiechi of New Mexico thinks there might be something to this global warming thing, though he takes pains to remind us many scientists still have doubts. The most important source for information here in the West is a guy with a noon time radio show named Paul Harvey. A right -wing shill, he has been poh-poohing global warming for decades. As did Ronald Reagan on his radio show, listened to by the masses here in the vast countryside of America. The blue collar workers (of which I am one) sit eating their brown bag lunches listening to these guys tell them that liberal intellectuals and East Coast (read Jewish) bunny huggers are the source of all their misery.