[Vision2020] I'm baaack . . . with a present for Pat Kraut

[Carl Westberg]

Welcome back, Joan.  Actually, according to the New York Times, Texas 
officials said on Monday night that Mr. Cheney would be issued a warning 
citation for hunting without a proper game stamp on his license.  However, 
I'm confident that the Attorney General, after looking over precedent and 
interpreting the Constitution, will determine that the Vice-President, 
particularly this Vice-President, quite simply "don't need no stinking game 
stamp."                                                                      
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                    Carl Westberg Jr.


>From: Joan Opyr <joanopyr at moscow.com>
>To: Vision2020 Moscow <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: [Vision2020] I'm baaack . . . with a present for Pat Kraut
>Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:45:20 -0800
>
>Hello Visionaries:
>
>I'm back from North Carolina, thank heavens.  After a week spent moving my 
>84-year old grandmother out of her home of 54 years and into a nice, safe, 
>clean apartment, Idaho has never looked so lovely.  What, you may wonder, 
>does 54 years' worth of accumulated detritus look like?  It looks like 
>4,000 issues of Life Magazine, Reader's Digest, old pay stubs, many, many, 
>many cobwebs and spiders, and the receipt for my mother's birth: way back 
>in 1942, it cost $36.50 to have a baby in Raleigh's Rex Hospital.  I asked 
>my grandmother why she'd saved the receipt -- was she planning to return my 
>mother at some point?  If so, she should have given birth at Nordstrom.  
>They'll take anything back without a receipt.
>
>I am, of course, enjoying the news streaming out of Texas.  Hunting without 
>a license?  Hunting from a truck?  Shooting a member of one's hunting 
>party?  My, my.  I see now that we should be grateful that Dick Cheney had 
>"other priorities" during Vietnam.  But, lest we lose sight of other 
>important events in the news, I am (without permission) reposting the 
>following from Salon.com.  Here you go, Pat -- have at it!
>
>Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
>www.newwest.net
>www.joanopyr.com
>
>From Salon.com, February 13, 2006:
>
>Cheney shoots, but there's other news to blow away
>
>Here's the odd thing about the White House decision not to go public with 
>news that Dick Cheney had shot a man: All things considered, it's a better 
>story for the White House than some of the others that might be getting 
>attention today:
>
>Hurricane Katrina: As the New York Times is reporting, Republicans in the 
>House of Representatives are about to release a "blistering" report on the 
>Bush administration's response to Katrina. In the report, 11 Republicans 
>say that the administration slowed the evacuation of New Orleans by 
>ignoring an early report of a levee break -- a report the White House 
>initially claimed not to have had. "If this is what happens when we have 
>advance warning, we shudder to imagine the consequences when we do not," 
>says a draft of the report. "Four and a half years after 9/11, America is 
>still not ready for prime time."
>
>Iraq: In what's being described as a victory for Muqtada al-Sadr and a 
>setback for the Bush administration, Shiites selected Ibrahim Jafari as 
>their nominee to become Iraq's prime minister. Even before the vote, 
>Nebaska Sen. Chuck Hagel -- a Republican -- was raining on the Bush 
>administration's parade of progress. Three years into the war, Hagel said, 
>"things haven't gone the way the administration said and others said it was 
>going to go. In fact, I think we’re in more trouble today than we've ever 
>been in Iraq."
>
>Leaks: Responding to reports that Dick Cheney authorized Scooter Libby to 
>leak classified information to bolster support for the war, Democratic 
>National Committee chairman Howard Dean said this morning that the vice 
>president may have committed a crime. "If Vice President Cheney has, in 
>fact, ordered the leaking of ... intelligence information, that means he 
>has to step aside," Dean told CNN. "We don't know if it's true, but he has 
>been accused of it. If it's true, he has to step aside."
>
>Abramoff: Over the weekend, Time became the first news outlet to publish a 
>photograph showing George W. Bush with disgraced GOP lobbyist Jack 
>Abramoff. The photo comes from an event in May 2001 in which the president 
>met with Abramoff client Raul Garza, who was the chairman of the Kickapoo 
>Traditional Tribe of Texas at the time. As Time explains, the White House 
>initially denied that it had any record of any such meeting. The White 
>House is still refusing to turn over the Bush-Abramoff photos in its 
>collection, but it now concedes that the Time photograph is legitimate. 
>"The president has taken countless, tens of thousands of pictures at home 
>and abroad over the last five years," Scott McClellan tells Time. "As we've 
>said previously a photo like this has no relevance to the Justice 
>Department's investigation." Although Abramoff is little more than a speck 
>in the background in the photo, Time says the lobbyist had closer contact 
>with Bush right after the picture was taken: "Abramoff has told friends, 'I 
>was standing right next to the window and after the picture was taken, the 
>president came over and shook hands with me, and we chatted and joked.'" 
>Time says that it has seen a photograph of that exchange, too.
>
>-- Tim Grieve
>Joan Opyr, Northern Idaho Editor
>New West Magazine
>www.newwest.net


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