Wondered the same thing myself but another interesting question might be, “Who leaked the declassified report and and for what purposes?”

There’s one or more commenters at the Lake who keep wondering where a report from a particular committee is. Don’t think this is the one they’re looking for but the article paints a pretty bleak picture of reasons why such findings never see the light of day:

http://www.latimes.com/news/po…..ome-center

and why doesn’t the latime post a link to the unclassified report they’ve obtained? they could do a real service to let all of us read it too.

Substitute “USA” for “China” and “republic party” for “C*mm*nist Party” and I wonder if there might not be a wee bit of snark hidden in there somewhere. ;-)

I just did this the other day with a news report about Iran’s current Prez trying to silence dissent. It was a disturbing read after replacing “Iran” with “U.S.A.” Amazing…

Please let Pelosi know that immediate Impeachment is the solution. Interesting that Iranians or the Chinese don’t have that option. Yo Dems, there’s a reason they wrote impeachment into the Constitution, and we’re living it!

I could never figureout the rationale that birthdates are used anyway if one is going to talk about some “gravitational” influence. The magnetic field of Pluto, Mercury and Mars are so weak to have no conceivable influence on the epigenetic process in any case. It would be about the effect of a cell-phone in the next city.

I never believed in the stuff until my better half and I started a family.

Now, I wonder…

Why has each child exactly followed their astrological sign’s behaviour pattern since day one out of the womb?

Twin suicide car bombings exploded within 20 minutes of each other in the northern city of Kirkuk on Monday, killing at least 80 people and wounding around 150 in attacks targeting a Kurdish political office and ripping through an outdoor market, police said.

The attacks began around noon when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-packed truck near the concrete blast walls of the headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the party of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.

http://www.latimes.com/news/po…..ome-center

And lastly, some thoughts on the current “media divide” which produces a range of reactions on my part:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..inionsbox2

The editorial in today’s NYT makes the following observation:

China’s dysfunction has deep roots. The Communist Party leadership has muzzled consumer advocacy groups and the press. The government is also loath to do anything that might hinder the country’s breakneck economic growth. With no public accountability, shoddy companies are allowed to cut every possible corner in their pursuit of business, often under the protection of corrupt government officials.

Substitute “USA” for “China” and “republic party” for “C*mm*nist Party” and I wonder if there might not be a wee bit of snark hidden in there somewhere. ;-)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07…..ref=slogin

And, in a slightly more entertaining (or maybe not) vein, a cri de coeur with which I can definitely agree:

http://news.blogs.nytimes.com/…..t-changes/ :