Second weekend in a row of baking holiday cookies marathon, plus wrapping more gifts and finishing up on decorating the apartment. Quite pleased with the outcome et al. NYC area received another batch of snowfall Sunday morning. Not blizzard conditions, but a gentle snowfall and soothing to watch from my livingroom window. At one point I bundled up in coat, scarves, gloves and went out to stand/walk around in it. Lovely! The peaceful quiet was occasionally broken by the distant sound of someone shoveling or a lone car driving by.

Then the news on the radio that Saddam Hussein was captured in Iraq. [Well, its about time. Congrats to our troops.] And having to put up with watching that "toxic texan" gloat on telly. Makes one want to barf. Please remember the main reason that those insane DC republicans wanted to oust Hussein was, NOT to liberate the Iraqi, but to get their greedy claws on the oil fields. Oh and to further their imperial domination of the middle east. Nothing more, nothing less. Yes, those poor Iraqi are cheering in the streets now, due to capture of Hussein. I don't blame them. [Iraq never threatened the US nor had anything to do with 9/11 ... but Bin Laden, Al-Qaeda and the Saudis do. Big time!] After 24 hours or so the Iraqi mood will go back to what it was before, hating the US military and government for occupying their country. They are far from being liberated and I'm sure the "attacks" to US soldiers will continue. Its sad and upsetting to see anyones life hurt or damaged. I'm not talking just about US soldiers, but thousands of innocent people throughout the world. I continually wish for peace, solidarity and universal love ... never war or greed. Please pray for peace on earth!

P.S. Naturally it didn't take long for the Conservative Republican controlled corporate media to put a huge spin, and I mean huge, on Sundays events out in Iraq. I watched some of the programs and couldn't believe the bullshit. One of the reports was lead by one of media's biggest dickhead, I'm talking about Dan Rather. He should be retired and have duck tape permanently across his mouth, and the same goes for Ted Koppel. If you want the truth ... watch or listen to free-speech, non-corporate news. [Like WBAI on FM radio 99.5] Its the only way to get the truth in America.

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Came across this fasinating article [Hussein's Capture is Yesterday's News] on AlterNet website written by Christopher Scheer. Check it out if you wish:

http://alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17387

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ARE THE POLLS WRONG ABOUT KUCINICH?

That's the headline of an article at Utne.com that shows that the www.kucinich.us website is the second most read presidential campaign site, and which presents other reasons to believe Kucinich's low ranking in some polls is quite misleading.

http://www.utne.com/web_special/web_specials_2003-12/articles/11008-1.html