2005.4.26=2:[#116]4703.3.18[#60+17/60]: [unhcr,rockart,Nixon,scandal,Bushmen] Drive mom passport, attorney for us. 1)MoveOn. 2)US Right. 3)Jane Fonda.

[UNHCR, Refugees] http://un1.freewebpage.org/ [UK rock art] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/4476303.stm [Nixon Tape...at Bohemian Grove] http://www.prisonplanet.com/032604nixontape.html [biggest scandal...Bush/Reagan?] http://www.thelawparty.org/FranklinCoverup/franklin.htm [Bushmen fight for homeland] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4480883.stm Thin cloud soon fair mild: 5:30 up from 2:30! Large scale hunt for passport and related documents without any find so far 9:32am. Ju is furious no one has told her about Jung & mom's delaying, demands mom to pay for penalty. Smashing to the end of emails at 10:22 now, even joining in the revival of [War&Politics] forum. Going to o.h. then to San Francisco with mom by BART as she suggested? Still drive mom to SF TECO of Taiwan, apply for her new replacement passport, with extra $15 for special quick processing. At o.h., tel. Jung then Ju, the latter prefer to delay going back with mom, then home to emails to reply [W]'s A. and joining Nexus ["Politics, philosophy, humor and humanity - all topics welcomed"] forum where, according to A., D. is busy while quiet now away from [W] & [C], while tv 6-7 "Winter Sonata" repeat, 7-8 "Blue Fog(?)"#11 serious, 8-9 now "Stairway to Heaven"#4 car accident now here too, all Korean and really from fun to deeply and serously moving, Lung home 8:10, Ch. with dog then, 8:20 finish emails again, so here now 8:40. Reply to A. cut short by Jyun's printing of his letter concerning dog to someone. 8:50 attorney W., mother of sons' student, returns Jyun's call [all gone] suggesting to check insurance coverage first. 9-10 "Winter Sonata" again. The guest dog is apparently still here making sound, as Mei back from computer class 7-9 at 9:05, soon Jyun & Ch. back, 9:20 Lung back. Tell Jyun about call, Lung cares also, probably go to check with my ins. co. tommorow. Late dinner again & 10-11 "Lovers on Snow(?)". Jyun still out, now 11:52 to finish. 12-1 "Blue Fog(?), 1:05 bed. 1) "MoveOn Muscles Up", by Don Hazen, AlterNet. Posted April 26, 2005. ""MoveOn founder Wes Boyd discusses how progressives can gain the offensive advantage, the power of the Democratic rank and file, and the futility of moving to the center. This is excerpted from "Start Making Sense: Turning the Lessons of Election 2004 into Winning Progressive Politics" (Chelsea Green), edited by Don Hazen and Lakshmi Chaudhry. To learn more about the book and to purchase it, visit the Start Making Sense website"": http://www.alternet.org/story/21862/ "" On January 20, 2005, Inaugural Day, MoveOn proposed a strikingly ambitious plan: to organize "networks of neighbors and friends" in every Congressional district that would together create a "national message," and to use the networks to take back the House of Representatives in 2006. In the missive sent to its 3-million-member list, the MoveOn leaders said the plan came directly from the members in terms of their comments about MoveOn's future. For many members, this was a signal that the organization had dramatically shifted gears after the Democrats' defeat in November. For Wes Boyd, cofounder, with Joan Blades, of MoveOn, the declaration represented a transition from working in support of John Kerry's presidential bid and the Democratic Party to building a true grassroots movement. "" 2) "The Right's Siege Mentality", by Paul Waldman, TomPaine.com. Posted April 26, 2005: ""At Justice Sunday, speaker after speaker told of the terrible injustice being perpetrated by Senate Democrats. Sinister, powerful liberals are attacking you, your children and everything you believe in. Despite all evidence to the contrary, it's the conservative rallying cry": http://www.alternet.org/story/21865/ "" Many progressives watched in puzzlement at the end of last year as religious conservatives declared that a war was being waged across America, a campaign of untold savagery whose sole victim was a holiday celebrated by approximately four out of every five Americans. Forced to endure the horror of department store signs reading "Happy Holidays," conservatives beat their breasts and gnashed their teeth over the War on Christmas. "" "" Soon enough, the conflict over the filibuster and judicial nominations will come to its conclusion. But win or lose, those so angry about the "judicial war on faith" will quickly discover another war being waged against them, another reason to proclaim that--all evidence to the contrary--they are the real victims. Paul Waldman is a senior fellow with Media Matters for America and a senior contributor to The Gadflyer. "" 3) "During rant on Fonda, Crowley repeated debunked claim of betrayal": http://mediamatters.org/items/200504250002 "" MSNBC host Monica Crowley repeated a baseless claim that actress and anti-Vietnam War activist Jane Fonda "betrayed American POWs" by passing secret notes given to her by American prisoners of war to their Vietnamese captors, resulting in the POWs' torture and murder. As Media Matters for America has documented, Col. Larry Carrigan, the surviving POW specifically named by those relaying the rumor, has said that he never met Jane Fonda and never handed her a secret message. From the "Rants and Raves" segment of the April 21 edition of MSNBC's Connected: Coast to Coast (also posted to the show's weblog at MSNBC.com): CROWLEY: In 1972 Jane Fonda was at the height of her fame, a movie star and icon in her own right out of the shadow of her famous father. That's when she used her fame to oppose the war in Vietnam. Jane Fonda took to the streets to let her views against the war be known. But she didn't stop there. She took her show on the road, to the enemy. During her stay as a guest of the North Vietnamese government, she climbed atop an enemy gun, used to shoot down American airplanes. She broadcast messages on Radio Hanoi telling American pilots to disobey their orders and stop the bombing runs, and she betrayed American POWs who covertly identified themselves to her only to see her tell the enemy they tried to communicate with her. She now says that her trip to North Vietnam was a large lapse in judgment, but she doesn't regret the radio broadcasts or taking her opposition to the war to American soldiers in harm's way. And that's precisely the problem. — R.S.K. Posted to the web on Monday April 25, 2005 at 11:48 AM EST ""