Flotsam & Jetsam, assorted news items

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SBVLiars: Funders have trouble (Bwahhahahahah!)

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050224/ap_on_bi_ge/michaels_stores_subpoena_1

Michaels Stores Subpoenaed Over Trusts

DALLAS - A federal grand jury and the Securities and Exchange Commission (news - web sites) are investigating whether trusts controlled by Michaels Stores Inc. leaders Sam Wyly and Charles J. Wyly Jr., wealthy benefactors of President George W. Bush (news - web sites), failed to disclose their involvement in offshore trusts that traded in company stock, the crafts-store chain said Wednesday.

SNIP

Last year, the Wyly brothers contributed $10,000 each to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group which aired political advertisements assailing the Vietnam War record of Bush's Democratic opponent, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites). In 2000, they financed $2.5 million in ads against Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), R-Ariz., Bush's rival in the Republican presidential primaries, according to an analysis by Political Money Line, a campaign-finance tracking service.

Movies: Iraq Film, "Gunners Palace' shown in DC.

Iraq veteran vouches for film's realism
By JERRY ZREMSKI
News Washington Bureau
2/22/2005

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050222/1005724.asp

Special to The News
Now-retired Army Capt. Jonathan P. Powers, shown playing with a child in Iraq, served in the unit featured in the documentary "Gunner Palace."

You can't call retired Army Capt. Jonathan P. Powers of Williamsville the star of "Gunner Palace," one of the first documentaries on the Iraq War.

You just get a brief shot of him poolside during a party with his comrades in his home at the time: Uday Hussein's former pleasure palace.

But Powers, who befriended director Michael Tucker during the making of the documentary, is certainly a star of the film's promotional tour.

Powers joined Tucker and Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., in Washington last week to present a special viewing of the film for senators and their staffs. Beforehand, Powers delivered a simple but blunt message to the audience.

"This shouldn't be a Page 7 war," said Powers, angry that some newspapers are now burying news of war casualties on the inside pages.

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1. Speech next week

From ABC The Note: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238

Sen. John Kerry:
Sen. John F. Kerry will address more than 400 union leaders and other legislative activists at the opening session of the National Treasury Employees Union's annual legislative conference next Tuesday, March 1, in Washington, DC. The opening session will begin at 9:00 am ET Tuesday in Washington, D.C. NTEU endorsed Sen. Kerry's presidential bid.

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2. Nice.

Stephanie Miller read a story about Corsi this morning, and was laughing about his purported move to MA and run against JK.

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3. I can't believe those SB guys are still at it

Losers.