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Monday, August 4, 2008 12:55 PM

Re: AnnieW

Kappa Kappa Gamma:

http://www.kappakappagamma.org/

Kappa has 134 collegiate chapters and nearly 300 active alumnae associations.

More than 220,000 Kappas have been initiated since our founding at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois, on October 13, 1870, by six pioneering women. Kappa is a women’s fraternity—the word sorority was not coined until after our founding.

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Its chief address is:

Kappa Kappa Gamma

530 East Town Street, P.O. Box 38

Columbus, Ohio 43216

toll free 866-KKG-1870

tel 614-228-6515; fax 614-228-7809

In Maryland it has a chapter in John Hopkins.

In DC, it has a chapter in George Washington.

In West Virginia, it has a chapter at West Virginia University.

It has a whole bunch in Pennsylvania:

Allegheny College

Bucknell University

Carnegie-Mellon University

Dickinson College

Lafayette College

Pennsylvania State University

Pittsburgh, University of

Villanova University

Washington & Jefferson College

The only one in NJ is in Princeton.

How on earth does a KKG obsession tie one to Princeton?

This is total crap!

Monday, August 4, 2008 03:04 PM

@susan

The Baltimore Post

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/crime/bal-te.md.ivins03aug03,0,1282203.story

or click on sig

"Members of the Ivinses' immediate family hadn't lived in Lebanon since the early 1980s. According to Bruce Ivins' eldest brother, Tom Ivins, he came to town to move their father, T. Randall Ivins, to Maryland after he wrote a $10,000 check to a woman who had befriended him."

"After completing his doctorate at the University of Cincinnati, Bruce Ivins is believed to have returned to the county seat of about 20,000 only to sell the house and attend his father's funeral.

"Bruce Ivins was so seldom present that the "Memory Lane" columnist for the local weekly newspaper, The Western Star, once erroneously reported that he had died. The author corrected the error in a subsequent column.

"Bruce Ivins' mother died in 1970. Tom Ivins said that Bruce was at her side in the hospital. Randall Ivins closed the drugstore soon thereafter, and Bruce sold the family home - which locals say his father had built to resemble a house he saw in France - in the mid-1980s.

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and from the beginning of the article:

"The agents said Bruce Ivins, 62, the youngest son of the town's long-deceased druggist, had faked his death. And they wanted to know everything about him and his family."

Monday, August 4, 2008 03:36 PM

Sensible editorial from the Hartford Courant

http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-fbi.artaug04,0,3746296.story

or click on sig.

Monday, August 4, 2008 05:52 PM

Posner on Countdown

Worth watching.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#25978251

Posner + KO.

Click on signature.

Monday, August 4, 2008 05:59 PM

Re: Posner on Countdown

Sorry, link is from old segment. Will post correct link when it is up.

Monday, August 4, 2008 06:11 PM

@dvw

Posner on Countdown questioned the timeline which is something like:

July 10 - Ivins is committed

July 16 - Ivins signs himself out

July 24 - Duley files her stuff

Among the questions are - if Ivins was so terrifying why did Duley wait a week? And of course, how did Ivins get to sign himself out?

Monday, August 4, 2008 08:08 PM

Correct KO link

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#26015772

or click on signature.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 04:30 AM

Amazed

I'm amazed there are sources that specialize in mailed pornographic images of blindfolded women. Learn something new every day!

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 04:35 AM

Spertzel in the WSJ

Bruce Ivins is not it, as per a Spertzel op-ed in the WSJ.

I don't touch the WSJ with a long pole, here's the dkos story

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/5/5586/57155/664/562764

(or click on my signature)

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 06:32 AM

@General Zod

If the FBI had a good case, we wouldn't see all these leaks that are utterly irrelevant to establishing Ivins' guilt. If the public swallows all this and subsequently the FBI's circumstantial-only evidence, then there will be no pressure to force ABC to reveal its sources.

Even with public opinion firmly against the FBI, the chances of anything happening are minimal. But unless we poke all the holes possible into the government story, there is zero chance of getting anywhere.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 06:35 AM

@gandhi

Most readers of this thread know Spertzel's antecedents. It would be impossible to make any collection of information here if we had to keep prefacing it with every bit of information already gathered.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 07:05 AM

@General Zod

What has gone out of control? And out of whose control?

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 08:06 AM

On the comments

I think the resources to moderate the comments are not there. One learns quickly to skip the 9/11 and civil war comments, and the personality contests between various participants. Maybe the comments thread seems chaotic to one who has not yet learned to do this.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 08:34 AM

Another Princeton connection

"Mr. Ivins’ father, Thomas Randall Ivins, was a 1928 graduate of Princeton University, confirmed Emily Aronson, a Princeton University media relations officer."

http://www.packetonline.com/articles/2008/08/05/the_princeton_packet/news/doc48977dfa74028184949085.txt

or click on signature.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 10:56 AM

Snark

Brad Friedman has obtained interesting evidence of Ivins' political leanings, including the fact that he was a registered Democrat who has voted in numerous Democratic primaries since 1996.

Ivins was evidently a psychic and upset in 2001 by his visions of the Democratic cave-in on FISA in 2007. Of course, he didn't see clearly enough to send it to Reid rather than Daschle.

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