[A-List] Superbowl Thoughts - 900 Disabled Players Receive NO Disablity From The NFL

[Leigh Meyers <the.buffalo.in.the.midst@xxxxxxxxx>]

Crossposred to [pen-l]

Bonus... quote of the day:
âSO THE FIRST THING I THOUGHT, HAVING WORKED IN THE GOVERNMENT ALL MY 
LIFE, WAS THAT WE PROBABLY GAVE POWELL THE WRONG SPEECH.â

-- The former chief of the CIA's Europe division, Tyler Drumheller, 
regarding Powellâs presentation at the United Nations on Iraq; cited in 
âSpiegel Interview With CIA's Former Europe Directorâ (Spiegel 
International, January 29)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,462782,00.html

Courtesy of John Brown's Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pdpr/~3/85494322/

[February 02 2007] Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The 
SuperBowl - A Perfect Holiday For Americansâ It Celebrates Nothing But 
Itself (but the 900 seriously disabled ex-players who receive no 
benefits arenât celebrating)
<http://leighm.net/blog/2007/02/02/tth_070202/>

In other news of note:
Your Defense Dollars @ Work: The National Intelligence Estmate (NIE) 
finally appears and itâs conclusion is that things will deteriorate in 
Iraq if the violence is not controlled. Details.

The President fudges the figures about the âsurgeâ: 21,500 troops is 
just the count of combat soldiers. It will require 38 - 48 thousand 
including support personnel.

2,500 scientist meet at a Paris convention on global warming and thereâs 
90% assurance that mankindâs activities in the industrial age and itâs 
effects are the main cause of global climate change.

Groundhog dayâ The poor, half-asleep critter DID NOT see his shadow this 
morning. Spring is on the way

Brother bikers, which side are you on? Harley-Davidson shuts down itâs 
largest assembly plant to lock out strikers, or perhaps they just canât 
operate without workers.

Federal Minimum Wage bill passes with 8.1 Billion in tax cuts attached.