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Blair Calls on United States to Cooperate With Rest of the World: "AVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 26 - Seeking to bridge deep differences between the United States and other nations, Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain urged the Bush administration on Wednesday to heed the concerns of other countries in return for support in its wars on terrorism and tyranny.
'If America wants the rest of the world to be part of the agenda it has set, it must be part of their agenda, too,' Mr. Blair said, appealing for unity in fighting terrorism and poverty. 'It can do so, secure in the knowledge that what people want is not for America to concede but to engage.'"

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- posted by liz @ 1/28/2005 03:47:00 PM 0 comments

 
Salon.com News | Long live secession!
Salon.com News | Long live secession!: "What you will not hear is that secessionism is as old as the states themselves, that it was not always a reviled idea, that it cleaves to the heart of a celebrated but perhaps outmoded American principle -- the rebellion against centralized power -- and that it is a founding American act enshrined in our most revolutionary document. '[W]henever any Form of Government becomes destructive,' counsels the Declaration of Independence, 'it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.' "
- posted by liz @ 1/25/2005 10:22:00 AM 1 comments

 
I do still think John Kerry is great, I really do.
Just back from a fact-finding trip to Iraq, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry questioned Rice extensively about the war effort but also about negotiations with North Korea and the proliferation of nuclear weapons. In a style familiar to anyone who saw him on the campaign trail, Kerry began the day by announcing that his questions for Rice were 'several-fold.' Nearly 10 hours later, long after most of the other committee members had left for TV appearances or inaugural parties, Kerry was still in his seat, pushing Rice to explain why the administration would choose to spend hundreds of billions of dollars for 'weapons that weren't there' but only $1 billion a year to secure 'real, ascertainable, tangible' nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union.
Salon.com News | The song remains the same
- posted by liz @ 1/19/2005 09:44:00 AM 0 comments

 
Um yeeeeah, I'm going to have to ask you to come in on Saturday...Ahh, I'm going to have to go ahead and ask you to come in on Sunday, too...
"WASHINGTON Jan 12, 2005 - The search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has quietly concluded without any evidence of the banned weapons that President Bush cited as justification for going to war, the White House said Wednesday.
The Iraq Survey Group, made up of some 1,200 military and intelligence specialists and support staff, spent nearly two years searching military installations, factories and laboratories whose equipment and products might be converted quickly to making weapons. "

ABC News: White House Says Iraq Weapons Search Over
- posted by liz @ 1/12/2005 02:31:00 PM 0 comments

 
This has been making me laugh for the last hour:
From Manolo's Shoe Blog, regarding Michael Moore's new chin pubes: "Here is the fashion tip for the day. If you do not have the chin, the goatee she will not give you one."
- posted by liz @ 1/10/2005 02:37:00 PM 0 comments

 
Bush extends hand to Palestinian leader


Bush extends hand to Palestinian leader
- posted by liz @ 1/10/2005 12:33:00 PM 0 comments

 
Delicious super-cheap dining experience of the weekend
I've got this new idea. It's some sort of bizarre, most likely short-lived attempt to share my undying love of cheap NYC restaurants with the world (or just keep some sort of record of where to eat for my fiscally-challenged self). Eh. Regardless. First on the agenda-- E. 4th st. Italian match-up:

Cucina di Pesce
87 E 4TH St

vs.

Frutti di Mare
84 E 4TH St

Both of these places have incredibly tasty food. At FdM I had the to-die-for pumpkin ravioli with pine nuts in some sort of delicious creamy sauce. And it was so cheap! SO cheap! The pastas are like $7, entrees about $10. OK and even better? The wine list. And I'm not talking about quality. This is pure quantity, and as my friends know, dinner is not dinner without 2 or 3 bottles per 2 or 3 people. This alcoholic overindulgence was happily supported by FdM's wine list where just about everything is under $20.

So when do we get to the comparison with FdM's neighbor, Cucina di Pesce? I ate at Frutti di Mare on Friday night and Cucina on Saturday thinking that they were different restaurants. It turns out that Frutti di Mare is just a little bit less, shall we say...romantic...and all of the menu items are a dollar or 2 cheaper. But the couple of $1 bills is completely worth the change in atmosphere. It literally pays for the candlelight. And where FdM serves slightly crappy Italian bread with foil-wrapped butter packets, CdP hands out baskets of garlic bread that may even have been prepared in-house. But back to the sameness of the two places--well, the menu is a good place to start. Because aside from the prices, they're identical. I'm talking, even the font, the list of items, and the weird description of salad as "exotic lettuce" (which is actually what tipped me off). Ah well. the food is good. It's really really good. And the wine, well, it's cheap. And I don't ask for a lot more in a dining establishment.

I will go back to both places again, most definitely, but note to self: next time save room for amazing-looking tiramisu served in GIANT GOBLET. Who doesn't need a goblet of tiramisu?

- posted by liz @ 1/10/2005 09:55:00 AM 0 comments

 
Salon.com Comics | This Modern World
Salon.com Comics | This Modern World
- posted by liz @ 1/10/2005 09:40:00 AM 0 comments

 
Tsumamis = great PR for US.
"BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell saw the devastation of tsunami-hit Asia on Wednesday and found it more horrible than the war he had witnessed during decades as a soldier. "

...in faaact...do you think people will just forget that the war's still going on altogether?

Top News Article | Reuters.com
- posted by liz @ 1/05/2005 12:23:00 PM 0 comments