2005.3.9=3[#68]:4703.1.29[#29/60]: [Blogsphere], Started for Tax & Living Trust. 0)US Peace Movement.

[Blogosphere] "Blogosphere March 8, 2005 — These days, bloggers are having an effect on politics—even changing the way we think about news. Tonight, John Donvan tells the story of a high school teacher whose personal Web log instigated big political changes. Related: White House Admits 1st Blogger to Briefing ", ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/ "Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth Occasional Musings from Andy Carvin of the Digital Divide Network": http://www.andycarvin.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nicely warm: Up again 8:10, a while and a realtor, Elizabeth tel, so quick drive to house and discovered at once her idea (not really to rent) and drove to get paper soon and back home where Lung was back. One possible renter tel and came at 11:30am to get appln-lease form and permission to open hole for dryer. Mom tel still worried about Chiu's phone about NT$9000 for 3rd floor front hall floor leaking. Lung out for lunch, I finished email at 12:40pm. Finally 3:20-6:30pm finished starting to manage my latest documents for eventual 2004 income tax return and already-bought living trust forms soon, as we could go back to Taiwan again rather soon, especially as mom is worried about Chiu's tel/water leaking etc. 6:50 Mei/Jyun home, dinner, Mei to singing class 8:00-10:00pm. 11:00pm 2nd Korean drama "Fire Bird, or Love Letter?" over, after 1st "Da Chang-jin"(sweeping Canton with travel and food), off computer, when Mei still dinner, bed 12:05 then 12:35. TOPIC: US Peace Movement: (1) "What Now For The Peace Movement?", by Amy Quinn, TomPaine.com; March 09, 2005: http://www.tompaine.com/articles/what_now_for_the_peace_movement.php "" Polls in recent weeks show a full 59 percent of Americans are now in favor of withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. But they're not acting on this view, in part because they worry about the potential for even greater chaos following a U.S. exit. The task for the peace movement—responsible for the huge public demonstrations against a war in Iraq in the days prior to March 19, 2003—is speaking to these concerns as it mobilizes untapped public sentiment against the occupation. Amy Quinn is the Peace Movement Links Coordinator for the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. She is a founding steering committee member of United for Peace and Justice "" (2) "What Jesus Wouldn't Do", By Jim Wallis, AlterNet, Posted March 9, 2005: http://www.alternet.org/story/21428/ "" Excerpt: Much of the religious right's agenda is in direct contradiction to Christ's own teachings – and most devout Christians know it. Editor's Note: The following is an edited excerpt from Jim Wallis' new book, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It (Harper San Francisco). ""