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July 25th, 2007

That Was The Week That Was … full of twists and turns. Interesting reflection [and cautionary tale] of the chain of action/reaction regarding the rat problem in China; their final use in Guangzhou reminds me of the punch line for the Chinese restaurant joke — I TOLD you it wasn’t chicken!! And with nature so out of balance, kudos on the indigenous guy who’s protecting the giant blue-tongued lizard in Australia [because you KNOW what they'd do with the uranium.] All fascinating sociological study, as usual.

Jude

HARPERS WEEKLY REVIEW

Executive power was transferred to Vice President Dick
Cheney for two hours and five minutes while President
George W. Bush underwent a routine colonoscopy. Spokesman
Scott Stanzel announced that five small polyps had been
removed, but “none appeared worrisome,” and the president
was soon able to ride his bike. Prior to the procedure,
Bush issued an order requiring the CIA to stop torturing
its prisoners and to comply with the Geneva Conventions as
the president interprets them, and also made clear that he
would, by invoking executive privilege, refuse to allow
the Justice Department to pursue any contempt charges that
Congress might bring against his aides. “The next step,”
said Representative Henry A. Waxman (D., Calif.), “would
be just disbanding the Justice Department.” India’s
parliament elected Pratibha Patil as the country’s first
female president, and it was announced that the United
States would have a woman as president on the next season
of “24.” The Pentagon accused Senator Hillary Clinton of
reinforcing “enemy propaganda” when she asked whether the
Bush Administration had an exit plan for the Iraq war,
and, despite an all-night debate, Democratic senators
failed to invoke cloture and bring to vote a measure
requiring the majority of U.S. troops to be withdrawn from
Iraq. In Baghdad two people died and 15 were wounded in
the celebration following the Iraqi soccer team’s 2-0
victory over Vietnam; the former King of Afghanistan died
in Kabul.

A steam pipe exploded near Grand Central Station and
rained debris on midtown Manhattan, and tangled clumps of
worms fell from the sky in Jennings, Louisiana. Former
congressman Tom DeLay gave a speech about abortion to a
gathering of college Republicans in Washington, D.C. “If
we had those 40 million children that were killed over the
last 30 years,” said DeLay, “we wouldn’t need the illegal
immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today.”
Police recovered a seven-week-old boy from the middle of a
road in Ohio, where his naked mother had placed him in
order to appease Satan, and a newborn was found in a
trashcan at a Denny’s in Anaheim, California; a
17-year-old girl with blood dripping down her legs was
discovered nearby, having just shared a meal with her
family. IHOP, which serves more than 700 million pancakes
each year, announced that it would buy Applebee’s for $1.9
billion, and a new biofuel-recycling and -filling station
capable of processing 5,000 gallons of cooking grease per
day was about to open in Blair, Wisconsin. “America’s
obesity problem,” said a co-owner, “is our lifeblood.”
Authorities estimated that 20 tons of meat are smuggled
into Oslo, Norway, each week. In China, where flooding has
killed hundreds of people this summer, the rampant Yangtze
River had caused Dongting Lake to overflow, leading two
billion rats to flee to the Hunan countryside, where there
are few predators to reduce their numbers, as the snakes
have been eaten by southerners and the owls have been used
for medicine. Besieged farmers were poisoning the rats,
beating them with hammers, and sending them, live, by
truckload to restaurants in Guangzhou, where diners pay
136 yuan for a kilogram of ratmeat. A Beijing journalist
was detained for fabricating a story about street vendors
stuffing their dumplings with cardboard.

Japan was gradually rearming itself. “Bombing,” said
Col. Tatsuya Arima, “does not always mean offensive
weapons.” The final book of the Harry Potter series, in
which Hedwig dies, was released in the United States and
sold 8.3 million copies within 24 hours, and in Britain a
six-year-old boy hanged himself with a skipping rope. A
man with a needle sticking out of his arm crashed his car
into a Cincinatti, Ohio, drug treatment center, Nicole
Richie let it be known that she dates only circumcised
men, and Oprah Winfrey’s dog died when it choked on a
ball. Recently filed court documents described how Henry
T. Nicholas III, the billionaire founder of Broadcom,
built a $30 million underground sex bunker in Laguna
Hills, California, and stocked it with prostitutes flown
in by private jet, and it was reported that during
intercourse the owners of private submarines are sometimes
troubled by peeking dolphins. A French geologist stated
that a newly discovered underground lake in Darfur, which
was expected to help bring peace to the water-starved
region, likely dried up at least 5,000 years ago, and near
Kakadu National Park in Australia, Jeffrey Lee, the last
surviving Djok, was refusing to allow an estimated $5
billion in uranium to be mined from the Koongarra deposit,
a “djang” or spiritual place where there lives a giant
blue-tongued lizard that must never be disturbed, and
where the rainbow serpent has entered the land. “I can go
fishing and hunting,” said Lee. “That’s all that matters
to me.”

– Paul Ford
http://harpers.org/archive/2007/07/WeeklyReview2007-07-24

“So keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through kickin’ ass and celebratin’ the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was.”
~ Molly Ivins, 1944 - 2007

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