The good news of the day - personal, common good -

[robbedvoter]

I don't want to let go of this brilliant idea - it just needs to be started at the end of the day for more events to occur and perspective gathering.
For me, I am still basking in the afterglow of the WesPac reunion on Monday - where some important hopes for the future were confirmed, and I met good friends.
I am also happy that the media shows considerable signs of life - NYT even issued some sort of mea culpa for crappy war coverage (vague and hidden on page 10, but hey...)
More significantly, they are starting reporting the truth - such as in the delicious


Analysts Say U.S. Threat Warning Is Back-Covering

Wed May 26, 5:26 PM ET
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040526/pl_nm/security_threat_politics_dc_1
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By Caroline Drees, Security Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A vague new U.S. warning that al Qaeda may be planning a massive attack smacks of political back-covering and campaigning, not just a call for heightened vigilance, analysts and former government officials say."

What are your good news?

[NMDemDist2]

1. Gore gave a great speech and it made the Evening News

link to speech here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=1671642&mesg_id=1671642&page=

[robbedvoter]

2. yessss! And C_Span will have it at 9:50 PM!

[meti57b]

3. What if they spent the $200B on "homeland security" instead of......

blowing it on Iraq. That's the question.

[rogerashton]

4. I think maybe this is a build-up to

cancelling the New York Republican convention and holding it instead at a ski resort or island somewhere.

Which, by the way, would be a good idea, in my opinion. Holding it in New York is foolhardy -- always was.

[NMDemDist2]

5. more good news--- the new polling data :-)