*Ø* Blogmanac | The awful truth about Wesley Clark
After his honeymoon period with the media, comes a barrage of criticisms of Wesley Clark (seen below clowning around and swapping hats with Serbian war criminal and mass murderer, Ratko Mladic). This article comes from a page full of Clark info – scary info, like that the Presidential wannabe was in great part responsible for the Waco massacre, and less than honest with the American people, as seen below.
The Democrats have Kucinich, which is all they need. Let's hope they stand with him and let Wesley Clark get back to the big toy box.
"In an article in last Thursday's Toronto Star, reporter Tim Harper uncovered the identity of the man who supposedly called Wesley Clark on Sept. 11, 2001, urging him to go on CNN and blame Saddam Hussein for the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
"Clark, you'll remember, told Tim Russert last June that the attempt to link Saddam and 9/11 'came from the White House, it came from people around the White House, it came from all over. I got a call on 9/11. I was on CNN, and I got a call at my home saying, "You've got to say this is connected. This is state-sponsored terrorism.'"'
"Clark eventually admitted that he never received a call from the White House. Instead, he talked to 'a man from a – of a Middle East think tank in Canada, the man who's the brother of a very close friend of mine in Belgium.' Clark's explanation threw THE SCRAPBOOK for a loop, because we couldn't locate a 'Middle East think tank in Canada.' But according to Harper, the man who called Clark was Thomas Hecht, who heads the one-man Montreal office for the Israel-based Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies."
Read more of this eye-opening stuff on Clark
After his honeymoon period with the media, comes a barrage of criticisms of Wesley Clark (seen below clowning around and swapping hats with Serbian war criminal and mass murderer, Ratko Mladic). This article comes from a page full of Clark info – scary info, like that the Presidential wannabe was in great part responsible for the Waco massacre, and less than honest with the American people, as seen below.
The Democrats have Kucinich, which is all they need. Let's hope they stand with him and let Wesley Clark get back to the big toy box.
"In an article in last Thursday's Toronto Star, reporter Tim Harper uncovered the identity of the man who supposedly called Wesley Clark on Sept. 11, 2001, urging him to go on CNN and blame Saddam Hussein for the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. "Clark, you'll remember, told Tim Russert last June that the attempt to link Saddam and 9/11 'came from the White House, it came from people around the White House, it came from all over. I got a call on 9/11. I was on CNN, and I got a call at my home saying, "You've got to say this is connected. This is state-sponsored terrorism.'"'
"Clark eventually admitted that he never received a call from the White House. Instead, he talked to 'a man from a – of a Middle East think tank in Canada, the man who's the brother of a very close friend of mine in Belgium.' Clark's explanation threw THE SCRAPBOOK for a loop, because we couldn't locate a 'Middle East think tank in Canada.' But according to Harper, the man who called Clark was Thomas Hecht, who heads the one-man Montreal office for the Israel-based Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies."
Read more of this eye-opening stuff on Clark
The 
"COHABITATION, oral sex and homosexual sex will soon become crimes in Indonesia if the justice ministry has its way, a ministry spokesman said Monday.
"YANGON - Calls were mounted yesterday for the release of Myanmar democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi as she remained under house arrest after nearly four months of detention in a secret location.
Feast of Gwynn ap Nudd
USA: Police are searching for a man who paid for $150 in groceries at a Food Lion grocery store with a bogus $200 bill. 
"North Korea has launched a scathing attack on US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, calling him a 'dictatorial psychopath'. 
O great King! the birds of the air and the beasts on the earth have an equal right to live and move about in any part of this land as thou. The land belongs to the people and all other beings and thou art only the guardian of it.
On June 10, 1754, Duncan Terig alias Clark, and Alexander Bain Macdonald, two highlanders, were tried before the Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, for the murder of Arthur Davis, sergeant in Guise's Regiment, on September 28, 
The story of Prester John (his name is derived from the French Prętre, which indicates he is therefore both priest and king) is known today from almost 100 manuscripts, written in several languages, including Hebrew. The first authentic mention of Prester John occurs in the Chronicle of Otto, Bishop of Freising, in 1145, and the legend endured for centuries ...
Amnesty International welcomes the decision today by the Sharia Court of Appeal of Katsina State, in northern Nigeria to quash Amina Lawal's sentence to death by stoning handed down by a Sharia court at Bakori, in Katsina State on 22 March 2002. 
Hawaiian legends tell that eruptions were caused by 
1652 English highwayman, 
A 17th-century Robin Hood?
"Since this Organisation was founded, States have generally sought to deal with threats to the peace through containment and deterrence, by a system based on collective security and the United Nations Charter.
Now we learn that something like 60 or 70 per cent of Bush's electorate actually believes that the USA has already found WMDs in Iraq, and 70 per cent believe that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9-11! This in spite of the fact that Hussein and bin Laden were as much enemies as Bush and Castro. How can millions of people be so unaware of the facts?
"A leading British museum has paid $387,000 for a Renaissance plate which shows a male head made up entirely of phalluses. The Italian plate is thought to have been made by ceramicist Francesco Urbini in the 16th century. It shows a head made up of around 50 fleshy penises, wrapped round each other to form a dense, knotted whole. 
"They may look like lovable pets but Britain’s estimated 9m domestic cats are being blamed by scientists for infecting up to half the population with a parasite that can alter people’s personalities.
His birth was announced by an earthquake in Rome, and he grew to be skilled in the magical arts, or so it is said. Virgil made a lamp that lit every street in Rome; he was said to have founded the city of Naples upon eggs, as a magical charm for protection. On one of Naples's gateways he erected two statues: one had a happy face, the other a deformed and miserable one. If one was to enter the town near the happy statue, that person would prosper; if near the sad statue, the person would have a contrary fate. On another gate he erected a statue of a fly, the presence of which kept out flies from Naples for eight years.
Privatisation ... and privateers
Our other Blogmanac team member is Veralynne Pepper, from Texas, USA. Have you seen her excellent blog, 
New page posted at the Scriptorium
A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. 
1995 The milk miracle of New Delhi, India which spread worldwide and finished in 24 hours as suddenly as it had started.
Feast day of Raud the Strong, Norway
Slim Dusty, who died yesterday at 76, was Australia's great communicator, and not simply because he had 1000 songs to sing, writes Peter Garrett, ex-Midnight Oil.
Feast day of St Eustace (Eustathius, formerly Placidus)
On a Saturday afternoon in 1958, I sat in a Harlem department store, surrounded by hundreds of people. I was autographing copies of 
1819 It was such a beautiful autumn day, that English poet 
If the husbandmen who rent the land, do not get their corn off before a certain day in August, the fair-keepers may trample it under foot and spoil it to build their booths, or tents, for all the fair is kept in tents and booths. On the other hand, to balance that severity, if the fair-keepers have not done their business of the fair, and removed and cleared the field by another certain day in September, the ploughmen may come in again, with plough and cart, and overthrow all, and trample into the dirt; and as for the filth, dung, straw, etc. necessarily left by the fair- keepers, the quantity of which is very great, it is the farmers' fees, and makes them full amends for the trampling, riding, and carting upon, and hardening the ground.
Spin and hype, says Blix
Feast day of 
“When Sept. 19 rolls around and suddenly tens of thousands of people are saying "arrr" and "Weigh anchor or I'll give you a taste of the cap'n's daughter," it staggers us. They are talking like pirates – not because two yahoos from the Northwestern United States told them to, but simply because it's fun.” 
The Buss of Bridgewater, as she came homeward, to the southeastward of Frisland, discovered a great island in the latitude of 57 degrees and a half, which was never yet found before, and sailed three days along the coast, the land seeming to be fruitful, full of woods, and a champaign country.
The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer-- they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
Mad House Mystery of Beautiful Sydney Girl
Bee was famous for riding on car running-boards, bonnets and bumper bars and was reputed to have pulled at least one car door off its hinges. (Your almanackist recalls seeing Bee in a Sydney taxi but must report that the doors appeared to be all intact.) She would also ride bicycles and motorcycles through the city in an evening dress. Constantly in trouble with Sydney’s police, she had more than 200 convictions recorded against her: “80 I deserved but 120 were unfair and malicious”. Much of her notoriety also came from her advocacy of free love in a day when such matters shocked many Sydneysiders.
"Remote Pitcairn Island in the Pacific has experienced a population boom with the birth of the first child on the tiny outpost in 17 years and taking its population to nearly 50.
International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer (
On this day, 
The Australians do not seem to me to differ noticeably from Americans, either in dress, carriage, ways, pronuciation, inflections, or general appearance.
King Herod was so infuriated that a rival had been born (the "King of the Jews") that he ordered the massacre of all baby boys in Israel, but Mary and Joseph fled to Egypt. They stayed there for two years until Herod's death, said to have closely followed a lunar eclipse. Lunar eclipses occurs in 4 BCE and 1 BCE.
The city of Pallas Athena
"World trade reform negotiations were at serious risk of running off the rails last night as ministers from developing countries accused the organisers of drafting an agreement favouring rich countries.
"Egypt will use modern technology to neutralise the curse of the pharaohs, which myth blames for the deaths of those who have opened the tombs of the ancient rulers, Egypt's chief of antiquities said.
Agrippa lived and died nominally a Catholic, but was openly sympathetic to Martin Luther, and perhaps it was for this reason that England’s Protestant 
New Zealand exports wallabies to Australia
By now, everyone knows that Bush told a lot of pork pies (Aussie rhyming slang for for lies) about Iraq so he could invade it, which he did mainly because the Iraqis had his oil under their sand. 
Afghanistan: Masoud Largely Recalled As Hero, Two Years After Assassination
"CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian lawyer said Wednesday he was planning to sue the world's Jews for 'plundering' gold during the Exodus from Pharaonic Egypt thousands of years ago, based on information in the Bible. 
Nearly lost at sea
"The terrorist organization that did this is called the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In 1970 the Chileans committed the sin of electing a democratic socialist, Salvador Allende, President in a free and fair election. Upon coming to office, Allende increased civil liberties, instituted agrarian reform, and increased spending on health, education, housing and sanitation. Many foreign owned businesses were nationalized, including the copper firms (which were mostly owned by United States companies). This threatened US political and economic domination over South America, and so the CIA launched the coup that murdered Allende and put Pinochet in power."
Another good place for the skeptics, of course, is ... any place on earth. Glaciers in Norway are melting, the Arctic ice is getting mushy, and two years ago half of the world's coral reefs died due to incresed ocean temperatures. We've all heard of the "Snows of Kilimanjaro". Well, they've gone. It's mainly rocks on the summit of Kilimanjaro now. Seen at left, how the majestic Tanzanian mountain as she was in 1854, and at right, as she is today.
"The sport that is 'extreme ironing' is an outdoor activity that combines the danger and excitement of an 'extreme' sport with the satisfaction of a well pressed shirt. It involves taking an iron and board (if possible) to remote locations and ironing a few items of laundry. This can involve ironing on a mountainside, preferably on a difficult climb, or taking an iron skiing, snowboarding or canoeing."
“The date of Chinese Moon Festival (a.k.a. Mid-autumn Festival) is on the 15th moon day of 8th Chinese lunar month (Chicken month). The new moon day is the first day of a Chinese Lunar Month. Since the first day of 8th lunar month is 8-28-2003, the Moon Festival is on 9-11-2003 in China time zone. But the Moon Festival is on 9-10-2003 in USA time zones, since the new moon day is on 9-10-2003.”
So said Rumsfeld last November 14
1797 The death of English anarchist, feminist 
This is run by people associated with the 
"How can I complain?" singer-songwriter Warren Zevon said to his son, Jordan, after being diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer [Mesothelioma, associated with inhaling asbestos. -v] about a year ago. "I got to be Jim Morrison for the first half of my life and Ward Cleaver for the second." 
Asclepius
The legend of the Sawney Beane family
The swallows' eggs outside my flat hatched on Saturday. The parents, Welcome swallows, returned recently to the nest that has been there for years. I don't know where they go each winter, but it's nice to see them return, and even nicer to hear the soft cheeps of the little babies.
What a waste of human power
Wakes Monday, the first Monday after September 4
1923 
'Er name's Doreen ...Well, spare me bloomin' days!
Virgin of the Remedies (Fiesta of Nuestra Senora de los Remedios), Mexico
Grace Darling, born November, 1815, was a lighthouse-keeper's daughter on Longstone Island, off the coast of England. On September 6, 1838, a stormy day, the Forfarshire, a 300-ton steamer, was on her way from Hull to Dundee when she smashed into the rocks at about 4am. The seas were so great that the local boatman, and lighthouse keeper Darling, refused to take vessels out to the wreck. Grace, aged 22, coaxed her father into going with her to row the mile to rescue the survivors, of whom they saved nine, including a mother who they found nursing the corpses of two infants.
I just posted a new article-in-continual-progress on the month of 
1928 
Being the topmost devotee of Lord Krsna, 
Australia: 
After the 
The Bartholomew Fair lasted for four days. It opened annually at Smithfield, England each St Bartholomew's Day (August 24) from 1133 to 1752, then after the introduction of the Gregorian calendar, opened on September 3, except where this was a Sunday. It was removed to Islington in 1840, and last held in 1855.
Rapa Nui, known also as Easter Island (Spanish Isla de Pascua) is an island in the south Pacific Ocean, west and slightly north of Santiago, Chile and part of the territory of Chile (Valparaíso Region). It has a population of only about 2,000 locals and an unknown number of ethnographers ... 
The world shall yet be a wider world – for the tokens are manifest; 
"The 35-year-old mystery of Australian prime minister Harold Holt's disappearance while swimming may be re-examined by a coronial inquest, Victorian state officials said here.
Formerly August 1, 
The pigeons were picked up and piled in heaps, until each [hunter] had as many as he could possibly dispose of, when the hogs were let loose to feed on the remainder.
The legend of Giles and the hind
"Mikaela Ziegler, 7, and her 4-year-old sister, Annika, were selling refreshments Wednesday afternoon near the State Fairgrounds when a woman approached them. But she wasn't there to buy.
