"People can just vanish in this country," said Jack Bales, a member of Fremont County Search and Rescue. "It's thick and bushy and rough. Once you get into the trees, you can get turned around so easily."

Evan has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, sensory integration disorder, significant limited intellectual capacity, and emotional and behavioral disorders.  Evan's parents lost custody of him because of drug problems, and Evan's aunt and uncle are his foster parents.

On Sunday, after combing the mesas and canyons for more than 24 hours, searchers found a fresh trail made by the boy's Spider Man athletic shoes, with a distinctive spider pattern in the sole.

   1) The grand jury informed Attorney General Alberto  Gonzales of its decision to indict Karl Rove

   2) Karl Rove and Patrick Fitzgerald visited Patton Boggs, where Fitzgerald advised Rove and attorney Robert Luskin that the grand jury would return an indictment against Rove

   3) Fitzgerald also informed Luskin that he (Luskin) is now a subject of the investigation

   4) The Rove-Fitzgerald-Luskin meetings did not span 15 hours

   5) Fitzgerald did not deliver a 24-hour notice of intent to indict

Madsen also suggests that Rove's indictment may be announced tomorrow.

Madsen's report is more plausible than the puzzling version we've been deconstructing since Saturday.  I wonder if it will turn out to be accurate.

A 16 year old Texas boy is in critical condition, five days after two white teenagers shouting anti-Hispanic epithets beat and sodomized him with a plastic pipe, cut him with a knife, poured bleach over him, and left him for dead.

His attackers apparently believed the Hispanic boy had tried to kiss a girl at a party.

On Monday, May 1, citizens and immigrants alike will wear white and join in SOMOS AMERICA/WE ARE AMERICA marches in support of comprehensive, just immigration reform.  Many who are unable to participate will wear white that day in solidarity.

Join a march on Monday.   Wear white.   Stand against the wind of hate.

SOMOS AMERICA Update [2006-4-28 13:48:38 by coloradobl]: Today's Houston Chronicle reports that the boy, David Ritcheson, is clinging to life. A list of marches across the country can be found here

We also know that Ms. Harris tried to cozy up to a Florida student who interviewed her, telling him "she wanted to have a 'nuclear' conversation with him...and wanted to 'talk about nuclear technology.'"

When Ms. Harris tires of nuclear technology talk -- as we know she must -- and feels the need to raise her campaign from the dead, she has only to turn to the recipients of her largesse, Global Dominion Ministries.  They have just the right experience.

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The pictures of Baghdad Mr. Kaloogian should have posted on his web site are the ones he refused to take:

On July 11

Ten unidentified men suffocated at Al-Nisour Square police station, Baghdad

Ten Sunni Muslim tribesmen died after American-trained Iraqi police commandos kept them in an airtight container for more than six hours in 115-degree heat, outraged Sunni clerics and politicians alleged link

Sgt. Timothy J. Sutton, 22, of Springfield, Missouri dead in Baghdad, after his HMMWV struck a land mine (Sutton was assigned to the Army's 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Carson, Colorado) link

In response to his FOIA request, Spencer received a heavily redacted file.  

The whole judicial disposition section was whited out. ... This missing data seems critical to understanding why a White House staffer did not illegally pose as a Secret Service agent when he forced Alex Young, Leslie Weise and Karen Bauer from a taxpayer-financed forum before the president arrived.

IRAQIS ANGRY THAT U.S. FORGOT ANNIVERSARY OF WAR
Shiites, Sunnis Enraged Over Absence of Flowers

Iraqi citizens, already furious at the United States for a host of issues, are now miffed that the U.S. apparently forgot the third anniversary of the war there, sources said today. ... And while Sunnis and Shiites have found little to agree about as sectarian violence has surged in recent weeks, they both seemed in accord about one thing today: the United States should have at least sent flowers.

At the White House, aides were scrambling to make amends ... with President Bush reportedly suggesting that the U.S. send a Mylar balloon with the words "Mission Accomplished" on it.

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The Young Republicans claimed in a press release that Bauer and News reporter Ann Imse were deceptive, with Bauer posing as a Rocky Mountain News reporter and subjecting Klinkerman (chair of the Colorado Young Republicans) to harassment, grilling, and harsh questioning.

Temple calls the Repubs' allegations false, taking them apart in blistering detail.

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Rocky Mountain News online

Denver's CBS affiliate reported McSwane's sting on the 10 o'clock news Thursday night.  By 7 o'clock Friday morning, someone had fired 8 shots at a regional recruitment center in Westminster, Colorado -- shattering glass but injuring no one.

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