Monday, August 20, 2007

August 26, 2007 No Talking Heads

Local
New Bread and Roses Blog, OlyBlog
Bush order limits health plan, Olympian

National
Feds Pay $80,000 Over Anti-Bush T-Shirts, ABC News via Boing Boing
Army could be too stretched for extended buildup, AP via Olympian
Disney asks UW to remove study info from UW-website which quetioned the effect of DVDs on infants, Puget Sound Business Journal
White House Declares Office Off-Limits; Administrator of Missing E-Mails Not Subject to Open-Records Law, It Says, Washington Post
The claim, made in a motion filed Tuesday by the Justice Department, is at odds with a depiction of the office on the White House's own Web site. As of yesterday, the site listed the Office of Administration as one of six presidential entities subject to the open-records law, which is commonly known by its abbreviation, FOIA.

Warner Calls for Pullouts By Winter; GOP Senator Suggests Move Would Prod Iraq, Washington Post
". . .a new National Intelligence Estimate provided a mixed assessment on Iraq seven months after Bush ordered more U.S. troops to the country. The report, produced by the CIA and 15 other intelligence agencies, determined that "there have been measurable but uneven improvements in Iraq's security." But it predicted that the Iraqi government "will become more precarious" in the next six to 12 months, with little hope of reaching accommodation among political factions."

"The Last Month of Summer" by Sarah Bear (21:16)
- Sarah presides over the Flower Child Day School in Olympia, WA. This is her story about the end of summer.

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