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I was telling netmouse and rikhei that I'm thinking of getting a car, now that I have a permanent job. The kind I want, of course, is a hybrid. They suggested getting on the waiting list now.

I think I can go a few more months before I'd absolutely have to invest more money in the junkbucket that is my current car.

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One Committee's Three Hours of Inquiry, in Surreal Time

Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes -- this is serious news

Bill for Morning-After-Pill Passed in N.Y.

Feds Target Calif. Marijuana Dispensaries

Pentagon Creating Student Database

Twin Oaks: The Great Farm Revolution (thanks, sarahmichigan)

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Dems Say Rove Should Apologize or Resign

White House adviser Karl Rove should either apologize or resign for saying liberals responded to the Sept. 11 terrorist strikes by wanting to "prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers," Democrats said Thursday.

[...] Rove, Bush's chief political adviser, said in a speech Wednesday that "liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers." Conservatives, he told the New York state Conservative Party just a few miles north of Ground Zero, "saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war."

Rove said the Democratic Party made the mistake of calling for "moderation and restraint" after the terrorist attacks.

Democrats were quick to respond — and in growing numbers.

"Karl Rove should immediately and fully apologize for his remarks or he should resign," Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said in a statement. "I hope the president will join me in repudiating these remarks."

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean called on Bush to "show some leadership and unequivocally repudiate Rove's divisive and damaging political rhetoric."

During a Senate hearing on Iraq in which Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other military leaders testified, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., read Rove's statement and urged them to reject the remarks.