Saturday

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Stay calm everyone, there's Prozac in the drinking water: "It should make us happy, but environmentalists are deeply alarmed: Prozac, the anti-depression drug, is being taken in such large quantities that it can now be found in Britain's drinking water. "
JohnKerryIsADoucheBagButImVotingForHimAnyway.com

Friday

Yahoo! News - Halliburton Accused of Accounting Fraud: "Halliburton Co. and several top executives intentionally engaged in 'serial accounting fraud' from 1998 to 2001, including when it was led by Vice President Dick Cheney"
Mike Whitney: The Arbitrary Imprisonment of Jose Padilla: "Their message is quite clear; THEY WILL NOT DEFEND EVEN THE MOST BASIC TENANTS OF THE CONSTITUTION, but will defer to the executive as the sole arbiter of justice."
Confusion Mounts Over Threat (washingtonpost.com): "Americans should prepare for more confusion, uncertainty and cynicism"

Tuesday

Ashcroft Tells Libraries to Destroy Citizen-Friendly Publications - BuzzFlash News Alert: "[T]he Department of Justice asked the Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents to instruct depository libraries to destroy five publications the Department has deemed not 'appropriate for external use.' The Department of Justice has called for these five these public documents, two of which are texts of federal statutes, to be removed from depository libraries and destroyed, making their content available only to those with access to a law office or law library.



The topics addressed in the named documents include information on how citizens can retrieve items that may have been confiscated by the government during an investigation. The documents to be removed and destroyed include: Civil and Criminal Forfeiture Procedure; Select Criminal Forfeiture Forms; Select Federal Asset Forfeiture Statutes; Asset forfeiture and money laundering resource directory; and Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (CAFRA)."

Monday

Will Ferrell - A message from White House West Will Ferrell for President!
Yahoo! News - Pre-9/11 Acts Led To Alerts: "Most of the al Qaeda surveillance of five financial institutions that led to a new terrorism alert Sunday was conducted before the Sept. 11, 2001,"
Daily Yomiuri On-Line: "As the Minshuto (Democratic Party of Japan) presidential election nears, what was considered the likeliest scenario--the uncontested reelection of incumbent Katsuya Okada--is being questioned by some Minshuto legislators.

...What triggered skepticism about giving Okada an uncontested ride were the remarks he made last week in the United States regarding his desire to revise Japan's war-renouncing Constitution. "

Sunday

Housing Costs, Layoffs Boost Need for Food Banks : "According to the Agriculture Department, 11% of U.S. families - 34.9 million people - are 'food insecure,' meaning they lack the means to ensure themselves of healthy meals and are vulnerable to at least a mild form of chronic malnutrition. A U.S. Conference of Mayors survey of 25 cities found that demand at food banks rose 17% in 2003....While very few Americans, even the poorest, risk starvation, Hofer said many wind up with long-term health problems as they cut financial corners."
BUSH NOTEBOOK - zanesvilletimesrecorder.com: "The public was not allowed to bring umbrellas, which were collected by security personnel outside of the park. [While both campaigns announced before the rallies that umbrellas would not be permitted, attendees who brought umbrellas to Kerry's rally were allowed to bring them in.] ... Area media, including the Times Recorder, WHIZ, Daily Jeffersonian in Cambridge and the Columbus news stations, had to sit outside in the rain with their equipment. However, a tent was set up for the national media to stay dry."