House Panel Holds Hearing on Al Qaeda Fortitude as Top Leader is Reported Dead
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
WASHINGTON — Al Qaeda's network has weakened, but the U.S. must continue to step up efforts to thwart its outreach and prevent possible attacks perpetrated by its followers, three terrorism investigators told the House Select Intelligence Committee on Wednesday.
McCain Refuses to Rule Out Option of Pre-Emptive War
by Associated Press
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
WESTPORT, Conn. — Republican Sen. John McCain refused Wednesday to rule out a pre-emptive war against another country, although he said one would be very unlikely.
April 9, 2008 8:42 AM PDT
Bob Metcalfe's EnerNet embraces 'global warming bubble'
Posted by Martin LaMonica | 2 comments BOSTON--Bob Metcalfe thinks we'll solve global warming if we take our cue from the Internet.
Three Poems
Elegy
Sixty years I've lived, hardly a cross word said!
(The carpenter found, behind their bed,
a crawl-space where black snakes had bred.)
Each of the Ten Commandments, I kept.
(Broom jabbing, she frantically swept
at filth that flowered while she slept.)
No one can ever say I told lies.
(She faded below her cracking disguise,
fixed as a dead-leaf butterfly's.)
