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- Local: The U.S. Commerce Secretary recently met with local Austin business leaders in an effort to push Bush's platform to control illegal immigration. One concern facing business owners will be their ability to find skilled workers who can claim legal status. In other local news that we mentioned a while back: Your house may now be located in a flood plain.
- State: Democratic candidate for governor Chris Bell believes that the four-way race for governor is really just a two-man race. He apparently doesn't believe that Carole Cougar Mellencamp or Kinky Friedman pose a serious threat. In other state news: Texas residents are being asked to cut back on water use starting today.
- National: Apparently
Emperor PalpatineKarl Rove will not be charged in the CIA leak case, according to Robert Luskin, Rove's lawyer. Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald was looking into why Rove initially did not disclose a conversation with Time magazine's Matt Cooper, which included a discussion of the CIA job held by Valerie Plame. - World: Dubya returned home yesterday after a surprise trip to Baghdad - his first since November 2003. He met with Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri Maliki at the US embassy in the fortified Green Zone and was there for a grand total of 6 hours. He thanked the US military for all their efforts just before hopping on a helicopter and getting the hell out of there.
- Weird: The oldest surviving condom in the world has gone on display in an Austrian museum. The condom dates back to 1640 and was found intact along with the users' manual.
- And now for something completley different: Comedy legend John Cleese is retiring from writing and performing sitcoms. He plans on becoming a "comedy professor" in order to teach aspiring comedians the "rules of the game." He claims that the last truly excellent performance he saw was Eddie Izzard, but he does admit that Ricky Gervais is also a match for any sitcom from the states.
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Is that "cut back on water use" link correct? It's talking about residents of SW-Austin with no water. Or is that the joke?
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