I'm worn out...

this morning, as i look at the accumulation of news over the past few days, i'm feeling dispirited...

• Pentagon still not reimbursing troops who buy own body armor
  

• Indicted Texas Rep. Tom DeLay will serve as a "very powerful adviser" to the Republican leadership
  

• String of Car Bombs Kills 65 in Iraq

• Quietly last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a 59-page document outlining new rules forcing broadband internet and voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone service providers to open up their systems to federal, state and local law enforcement officials.

• Bolton-Loyalist Jeffrey Gedmin Joining America's UN Mission
  

• Bush's job approval rating in the latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll climbed to 45 percent

• Natural Gas Prices Set Record, Pointing to Costly Winter
  

• House Republicans on Wednesday [launched] a rapid-fire assault against environmental protections on the pretext of helping the U.S. oil and gas industry recover from hurricane damage
  

• Alphonso R. Jackson, secretary of housing and urban development, during a visit with hurricane victims in Houston, said New Orleans would not reach its pre-Katrina population of "500,000 people for a long time," and "it's not going to be as black as it was for a long time, if ever again."
  

fortunately, not all is bleak...

• With Miller's testimony, lawyers said, Fitzgerald could move quickly to bring indictments in the case. Or he may conclude that no crime was committed and end his investigation and possibly issue a report on his findings.

• The White House on Friday criticized former Education Secretary William Bennett for remarks linking the crime rate and the abortion of black babies. "The president believes the comments were not appropriate," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said.

• Energy drawn from the wind, tide, sun, Earth's heat, and farm waste is poised to begin replacing oil and other fossil fuels, a prominent research group said Wednesday in a wake-up call to industry executives and government officials worldwide. "Energy markets are about to experience a seismic shift," Christopher Flavin, president of the Washington, D.C.-based Worldwatch Institute, said in a speech to oil executives and energy ministers in Johannesburg, South Africa, site of the 18th World Petroleum Congress.

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