Just got this from my friend Chris Lau:
Coble Cartoon

I've been sleeping a lot this past week - I got sick sometime Sunday night / Monday. Classes are going well, though - I think everything is coming together and synthesizing in my head, making it worthy of being called a graduate education, but I'll talk more about that later - have to get up and go to class...

heehee... from the NYT:
"Pyongyang said it would prefer to negotiate directly with Washington, a proposal that has been rebuffed by the Bush administration.

China has recommended that the United States negotiate directly with North Korea, but Beijing has rebuffed the White House overtures that it play a larger role as an intermediary.

Meanwhile, Britain has rebuffed Pyongyang's request that it play a similar role as an intermediary."

I wonder if they considered any synonyms of "rebuffed"

Last week, Rep. Howard Coble (Republican, NC), the chairman of the Homeland Security Subcommittee made a comment on a radio show indicating that he agreed with Japanese internment during WWII*. This is on par with Trent Lott's comment on segregation. He should issue a formal apology and step down from the Homeland Security Subcommittee. The worst thing is that there has been almost no coverage of this on the news channels.

Like segregation, the legality or morality of Japanese Internment is not an issue of debate. In 1983, a government commission made the following finding:
"In sum, Executive Order 9066 (Pres. F.D. Roosevelt's order to intern) was not justified by military necessity .... The broad historical causes that shaped these decisions were race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership."

What should you do?
1. Spread the word. This should not go unnoticed. Email all your friends.
2. Read more about it at http://www.80-20initiative.net/em030208.html .
3. Write/email your representatives.

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* Don't know what the Japanese internment was? Shame on you. But I don't blame you either, our public education system neatly left that out for the most part. Find out more here or here.