Baby Update!

Age of Fetus—19 weeks

You may now be able to detect and anticipate cycles of sleep, drowsiness and activity. The baby is getting stronger and looking much like a tiny newborn with a natural formed mouth and lips, nose and closed eyelids. By the end of the week you are halfway through your pregnancy!

Other changes that are happening:

• The baby's legs will be close to the final natural proportion to the body and head.
• The baby's heart can be detected by a standard stethoscope. Your hair and nails tend to grow rapidly now because of hormones that are released during your pregnancy.

Baby's Size and Weight this week:

• Size: About 7.25 inches (head to rump).
• Weight: Approximately 10.5 ounces
• Right now your baby is about the size of a large banana.

Email from John Kerry

I still get emails from time to time from the John Kerry website. Here's the latest...

Thanks for being dilligent Senator Kerry.

Dear James,

Less than two weeks ago, members of the johnkerry.com community demanded that Karl Rove be fired for his deliberate attempt to, once again, use the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks to divide America. Now Karl Rove is embroiled in another controversy concerning the leaked identity of a covert CIA agent, which was done to punish her husband, a man who had the courage to tell
the truth about manipulated intelligence in Iraq.

Karl Rove is the President's top advisor in the White House and what he has admitted doing has
deep and troubling consequences for our national security.
It's hard to understand how the President can tolerate his top advisor being involved in
exposing a CIA agent in the name of politics by telling reporters about her work - making her already dangerous job that much more dangerous.
In order to do what the President called on us to do earlier this week - "continue to take the
fight to the enemy" - the White House and Karl Rove must stop taking it to their
so-called political enemies here at home. It's perfectly clear that Rove - the person at the center of the slash and burn, smear and divide tactics that have come to characterize the Bush Administration - has to go.

http://www.johnkerry.com/firerove

The problem is that, instead of protecting the American people from real threats to our security, this Administration spends its time protecting Karl Rove. That's not leadership. They're doing their best to brush off this new Rove controversy as just another political story, but this time they are having a harder time getting away with it. That's why, if we raise our voices now, we can really make a difference. Please ask all your friends to sign our "Fire Rove" petition today:

http://www.johnkerry.com/firerove

Despite carefully worded denials, it is now apparent that Karl Rove discussed the identity of an undercover CIA agent with a reporter. His clear aim was to discredit that agent's husband who had dared to challenge the Administration in the buildup to the war.

There appears to be no limit to the lengths to which Rove - and this Administration - will go. But, there is a limit to the patience of the American people - and we have reached it. President
Bush has a choice to make: Spend the months ahead focused on protecting Karl Rove's job security or spend them focused on protecting America's national security.

We are asking the President and the White House to do what they
promised. When the scandal first broke, here's what the President's spokesman,
Scott McClellan, said: "If anyone in this Administration was involved in it, they would no longer be in this Administration." (9/29/03, White House press briefing). Now we will find out if the Administration honors its word. Call on President Bush to keep his word and fire Rove now:

http://www.johnkerry.com/firerove

It's as simple as this: We need President Bush and his White House staff to focus on finally taking action necessary to avoid a quagmire in Iraq. The American people can't afford to wait while the White House spends its time and energy defending a top presidential aide's dangerous political maneuvers.

In the days ahead, the President will either make good on his promise to hold accountable those who shared the identity of a secret soldier in the war on terror - or he'll prove that promise hollow. We now know that Karl Rove "was involved" in a breach of national security. Decency - and the interests of the American people - demand an end to Karl Rove's days in the White House. It's time for you to demand it as well.

http://www.johnkerry.com/firerove

I urge you to take action right now.

Sincerely,

John Kerry

Bend over ROVEr.

Hi! My name is Karl Rove and I blew the cover of an undercover CIA agent! :-)

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/12/cia.leaks/index.html

In all seriousness, this guy is an a** clown. He's a Bushie cronie that was caught with his pants down after a dangerous attempt to "get even" with someone who bashed Bushie and the war that never should have been started.

From the article:
Newsweek reported this week that a July 2003 e-mail from Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper states Rove told him about an agent who was the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who had just leveled accusations that the Bush administration had overstated a key piece of intelligence in its arguments for war with Iraq.

I would like to borrow a page from the book of John Stewart..

"And now...your moment of Zen...: "

Scott McClellan, White House Spokesman speaking about the Rove incident:

"No one wants to get to the bottom of it more than the president of the United States".

There were giggles heard around the world after that statement.