Thank you Colin Powell
A bit late in the 'game'? for lack of a better word..Was happy to read that Colin Powell wrote Sen. John McCain a letter saying that Congress MUST NOT pass Bush's proposal to redefine (by narrowing the US's interpretation of ) US compliance with the Geneva conventions. Bravo. Bush was forced to create his proposal because last June his existing court system to prosecute terrorist suspects was ruled ILLEGAL by the US Supreme court AND it violates the Geneva Conventions...
The Geneva conventions were created after WWII, I think it's important that the US atleast tries to respect them...(despite the President).
On a cheerier note- I'm making chicken soup, since Roman and Italian weather in general has decided to imitate Northern Scotland...Chicken soup making encouraged me to hunt through what I call 'the dark bottles'. A good part of Italy is at not all food substances are packaged by industries. I've been given bottles of grains,pastes,spices,capers,oils, honey, stuffed peppers, jams and none of them are labeled. Because they're not labeled I tend to forget about them after their placed either in the pantry or fridge. This is a leftover of my having grown up in an industrialized society.
The bad news is that I forgot to buy cat food at the supermarket and now Brocca won't stop meowing and swatting at me and I don't want to go back out into the Scottish drizzle.
Other bad news, www.websleuths.com won't let me post to their Johnny Gosch thread because I don't have a paid for email address, how sucky. They do have the best J.G. stuff around...
Rosalyn has moved to Paris. Gil asked about him the other evening. Boo-hoo. We'll HAVE to go visit.