-Yesterday, gas was priced at $3.49/gal. here in central Ohio.
-Looks like things are heating up for former Rove assistant, Susan Ralston. Bloomberg:
Susan Ralston, former executive assistant to presidential adviser Karl Rove, is seeking immunity from prosecution before testifying about any knowledge she has of contacts between administration officials and lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a House committee disclosed yesterday.
Representative Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said the panel will seek information elsewhere before deciding whether to grant Ralston's request, according to a memo to committee members on the panel's Web site.
Before working for Rove, Ralston was an assistant to Abramoff, who is in jail for pleading guilty to conspiracy to corrupt public officials, mail fraud and tax evasion. A federal corruption probe of Abramoff's lobbying business has led to the jailing of one ex-congressman, the conviction of a former White House budget official, and guilty pleas from several former congressional aides and government officials....
It was over 100 degrees in Baghdad yesterday. The New York Times has a picture and an article about what our military is facing in Iraq:
....Where Sgt. Justin D. Wisniewski, 22, had just been standing there was now a crater five feet wide and three feet deep. His body lay nearby. The wounded were scattered around him.
The soldiers swore.
“It was Ski,” one said, using the sergeant’s nickname.
Sgt. Joshua Delgado, 23, the unit’s medic, rushed in and went to work on the most seriously wounded soldier, who lay with shrapnel wounds to the face, arm and side. Two other Americans and an Iraqi were also hurt.
One of the wounded, Staff Sgt. Robert Simonovich, 31, knelt off to the right. He had taken his body armor off and, with just a T-shirt on, it was clear he had not walked far enough yet to sweat. His hands rested on his knees, his head tilted down. Eyes closed, he said he couldn’t see.
“It’s not one of our guys, is it?” he said. No one answered.
Capt. Blake Keil, 31, who commanded the group of 11 Americans working with about 50 Iraqis, called for a medevac helicopter.
The bomb was the third planted away from a road that the soldiers had discovered since May 12, when they began searching for three soldiers from their unit who had been captured after an ambush that left four Americans and an Iraqi soldier dead....
Isn't it time to end Bush's war?
