Wed Dec 7 2005
Pearl Harbor Day

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Ice tonight?

10:05 AM -- A COLD RAIN WILL OCCUR TODAY CHANGING OVER TO FREEZING RAIN AND DRIZZLE AND CONTINUING INTO THIS EVENING AS SURFACE TEMPERATURES FALL BELOW FREEZING. THE AREAS AFFECTED BY THE FREEZING PRECIPITATION WILL BE MAINLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM LLANO TO SAN MARCOS TO LA GRANGE. ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF LESS THAN ONE QUARTER INCH WILL OCCUR ON BRIDGES...OVERPASSES AND ELEVATED ROADS. A FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT FOR THE AREAS AFFECTED.

Bush "Holiday" cards gathering complaints
Religious conservatives balk at the White House's generic season's greetings, which don't specifically reference Christmas.

Brad's Ten-Foot Poll on Bush "Holiday" Cards---RESULT

posted 11a Wed Dec 7 - 8a Thur Dec 8 2005 Should the White House cards mention Christmas, or just a generic "Holiday" greeting? Should say Christmas 203- 67% "Holiday" is appropriate 102- 33% Total votes 305-

 

Some Texas cattle ranchers' hopes evaporating in drought

Patriot Act "terrorist" case collapses in Florida

New Orleans evacuees in Dallas have many unanswered questions

Giving up on New Orleans
We may as well abandon the Big Easy because the White House is killing a plan to protect the city from the next Katrina.

Report disputes belief about jobless migrants
Most of the latest Mexican arrivals are younger and better-educated, researchers find

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Christmas Present Wrapping
"Wrappin' with Jack" Riccardi
Next Tuesday Dec. 13, 6-9pm
Northside Ford 281@Nakoma

TELESCOPE EXPO
This Saturday Dec 10 • 4-10pm • St. Mary's Hall • 9401 Starcrest
San Antonio Astronomical Ass'n
"It is to help people who are looking to buy telescopes this Christmas and to show them a little bit about astronomy and what's up there."

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What about Tom DeLay? Leadership question hangs over GOP

Surfboard makers say new regulations are a wipeout
Up and down the California coast and in Australia and other surf havens, artisan shapers and surf shops worried that hundreds of businesses would suffer.

"About 40 percent of Gillette Co.'s top executives and managers are leaving or have left the Boston shaving giant as Procter & Gamble Co. completes its takeover..."

"White House has all but abandoned its effort to persuade Senator John McCain to exempt C.I.A. employees."

"Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was pelted with questions on Tuesday about covert prisons and a mistaken, secret arrest, as she grappled with what has become an incendiary issue in Europe. She declined to answer most of them in two European capitals."