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MSNBC:
Rita strengthens to Category 5 hurricane — Storm on a course to Texas with wind speeds now up to 165 mph — Galveston residents wait to board buses to evacuate as Hurricane Rita heads for the Texas Gulf Coast Wednesday. — FREE VIDEO — • Houston warning
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QandO, Pandagon, Weather Underground, The Left Coaster, Secular Blasphemy and The Reaction
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Reuters:
Rita may be 'national disaster': oil CEO — SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Valero Energy Corp. (VLO.N: Quote, Profile, Research) Chairman and Chief Executive Bill Greehey said Hurricane Rita's impact on U.S. crude oil production and refining could be a "national disaster."
Wall Street Journal:
Storm News Tracker — Updated regularly with news on the hurricane. All times EDT. — 5:25 p.m.: WSJ.com's Scott Patterson reports from New York. The Dow industrials fell 103.49 points, or 1%, to 10378.03, a three-week low, under pressure from higher crude-oil prices as Rita moved into the Gulf of Mexico.
Los Angeles Times:
Crippled JetBlue Airliner Makes Emergency Landing at LAX — Despite flames while on the runway and faulty landing gear, which was turned at a 90-degree angle, the pilot of Flight 292 safely guided the craft to a successful stop. — A JetBlue flight with 145 passengers and crew …
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Roger Runningen / Bloomberg:
Specter Urges Delay in Replacement of O'Connor at Supreme Court — Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said he urged President George W. Bush today to delay nominating a replacement for retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
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ww2.scripps.com:
OIL FIRMS APPLY FOR FEDERAL PERMITS, LOOK TO SIMPLIFY EXTRACTION — Page: 1B — Memo: chakrabartyg@RockyMountainNews.com or 303-892-2976 — Banner p.1A - OIL SHALE HEATS UP / 23 years after boom went bust, eight companies seek Colorado leases. — SEE END OF TEXT FOR INFOBOX — Edition: Final
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nationalenquirer.com:
BUSH'S BOOZE CRISIS — Faced with the biggest crisis of his political life, President Bush has hit the bottle again, The National Enquirer can reveal. — Bush, who said he quit drinking the morning after his 40th birthday, has started boozing amid the Katrina catastrophe.
Discussion:
AMERICAblog, PoliPundit.com, Pam's House Blend, Gawker, Wonkette, Hullabaloo and THE NEWS BLOG
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Recent Iraq Operations - A Flash Presentation — Created by Steve Schippert, Marvin Hutchens and Bill Roggio — The pace and tempo of operations in western Iraq have been increasing over the past month, indicating the Anbar Campaign is moving forward. The disclosure of Operation Sayaid signals …
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Jonah Goldberg / Townhall.com:
Hurricane coverage veers off course — The press was blindsided again. As Hurricane Rita barreled toward Key West, television news executives were unprepared to deal with the lamentable divide this storm would undoubtedly reveal between gay America and straight America.
Chris Clarke / Creek Running North:
It's Lurker Day! — I happen to know, from seeing the site statistics for this here blog, that I have a number of regular readers who - to my knowledge, anyhow - have never made comments or otherwise gotten in touch. — And that's fine. Nothing wrong with that.
Reuters:
Indonesia says bird flu outbreak an epidemic — JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia called an outbreak of bird flu in its teeming capital an epidemic on Wednesday as health and agricultural experts from around the world converged on Jakarta to help control the virus.
interesting-people.org:
Subject: [IP] Cops scheme to frame journalist who criticized photo radar program [priv] — From: David Farber <dave@farber.net> — Begin forwarded message: — From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> — To: politech@politechbot.com — Subject: [Politech] Cops scheme to frame journalist …
Associated Press:
Condoms Are Named for Clinton, Lewinsky — BEIJING - A rubber company in China has begun marketing condoms under the brand names Clinton and Lewinsky, apparently seeking to exploit the White House affair that led to the impeachment of America's 42nd president.
Discussion:
Chris Christner's Blog
Marshall Auerback / prudentbear.com:
Neither compassionate, nor conservative — "Couple a multi-state disaster of Katrina's magnitude, (including some of the poorer and less well-governed states in the union), add on a dysfunctional federal bureaucracy that had deteriorated in recent years, and a chief executive whose motto seemed to be …
Discussion:
Hullabaloo
Rebecca MacKinnon / Global Voices Online:
It's Out! Handbook for Bloggers & Cyber-Dissidents — Reporters Without Borders has given Global Voices a sneak peak at the Handbook For Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents before its official Thursday release. Click here to download the full PDF booklet. Thanks to Julien Pain for his hard work on this project.
