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April 9th, 2008

That Was The Week That Was … chock full of delusion; the Condi Rice comment qualifies, for one — let’s hope McRib doesn’t select her for Veep, as reports come in that she’s making herself available [although that would be one more nomination 'first' for our collection, and some Dem's think that would be a dandy idea, given her record.]

Note that, thanks to Ted Turner, cannibalism showed up in the Review again — all in all, this week my sympathies are mostly with the poor hedgehog.

News of the day includes Greenspan’s pronouncement that the country is in recession [duh!] and the continuing airline crisis [that we no longer have Federal $$ to deal with.]

Jude

HARPER’S WEEKLY REVIEW
April 8, 2008

The United States marked the fortieth anniversary of the
assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. “He was normal as
a person could be,” said his sister Christine King
Farris. “I want people not to think of him as some mythic
character from out of space.” Speaking from the Memphis
hotel, now a museum, where King was shot, John McCain was
booed after describing how he had voted against creating a
federal holiday in King’s honor, and Hillary Clinton,
speaking from the church where King delivered his last
sermon, called for the creation of a poverty czar. The
Clintons released thirty years of tax returns, showing
they had earned more than $109 million since the year
2000; Bill Clinton said that Hillary was “in tears” when
he called to say that $250,000 had been raised for her at
a Pennsylvania event. The United Nations found that women
make up 70 percent of the world’s poor, own only 1 percent
of the world’s titled land, and are discriminated against
in almost every country. Oregon was holding a health
insurance lottery for the state’s 600,000 uninsured
citizens, angry Americans boycotted Absolut vodka after
the company ran an ad showing much of the western United
States as part of Mexico, and DNA found in ancient feces
indicated that people lived in the United States much
earlier than previously thought. Utah-based Internet
provider OnSat Network Communications was preparing to
shut off service for the entire Navajo Nation, and
foreclosures were forcing Americans out of their
mansions. “People had in their head, ‘I need a mud room, I
need giant columns, I need a media room,’” said a Virginia
real estate researcher, “‘and I’m going to do anything to
get it.’”

Russian President Vladimir Putin crashed a gala on the
last day of the NATO summit in Bucharest. “Let’s be
friends, guys,” he said. President George W. Bush snuck
out early from a summit meeting on operations in
Afghanistan, and it was reported that more than 1,000
Iraqi soldiers and policemen had abandoned their posts
during the Basra siege last week. Deaths of Iraqis were up
50 percent across the country compared to the previous
month. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she
believed peace in the Middle East will come about before
President Bush leaves office in January. Doctors in
Al-Anbar province named a deadly malarial infection after
Blackwater, whose contract the U.S. State Department
recently renewed and who are currently under investigation
by the FBI for the killing of 17 Iraqi civilians. The
Vatican’s newspaper reported that Islam had overtaken
Roman Catholicism as the world’s largest “single religious
denomination.” “While Muslim families, as is well known,
continue to make a lot of children,” said Monsignor
Vittorio Formenti, “Christian ones on the contrary tend to
have fewer and fewer.” A church exploded in Oconomowoc,
Wisconsin. “People say miracles don’t happen now days,”
said the town’s deputy fire chief, who was shielded from
the blast by the bell tower. “I firmly believe they do,
because one just did.” An Iowa man with a lengthy and
violent criminal record was serving an eight-Sunday church
sentence, and Charlton Heston, the actor and NRA spokesman
who had called Martin Luther King, Jr, “a twentieth-
century Moses for his people,” died at 84.

Hadijatou Mani, a former slave from Niger, was suing her
government for not implementing protective laws after it
ended slavery four years ago. Zimbabwean President Robert
Mugabe demanded a recount and refused to release the
results of his country’s recent presidential election,
which he probably lost, and a Burmese man was fined $1 and
sentenced to life in prison for staging a silent protest
outside the U.S. embassy in Rangoon. New codes were drawn
up to provide the United Kingdom’s 900 working beach
donkeys with such protections as vacation time, decent
housing, and rider weight restrictions. Billionaire Ted
Turner told Charlie Rose what will happen if global
warming proceeds unchecked: “Most of the people will have
died,” he said, “and the rest of us will be cannibals.”
Global temperatures were expected to decrease in 2008. A
Vidalia, Georgia, man who had married the widow of the man
whose suicide provided him with a heart transplant twelve
years ago committed suicide; it was reported that the
organs donated by a New York teenager had spread cancer to
all four of their recipients, killing two of them; and
scientists hoped that a cure for the contagious cancer
wiping out Tasmanian devils was to be found in a
tumor-resistant devil named Cedric. A New Zealand man
threw a hedgehog at a 15-year-old boy; “He was arrested
shortly afterwards for assault with a weapon,” said
Sergeant Bruce Jenkins of the Whakatane police. “Namely
the hedgehog.”

– Chantal Clarke
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/04/WeeklyReview2008-04-08

“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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