My wife just told me that she read in the paper where President Obama said no to another pay increase for congress. . I told her finally, a president!
Think on this email I rec'd from an old buddy . .
"A Proposal"
When a company falls on difficult times, one of the things that seems to happen is they reduce their staff and workers. The remaining workers must find ways to continue to do a good job or risk that their job would be eliminated as… Continue
Many systemic challenges face the United States and the world, including a lack of accountability for American leaders for the crimes of the recent era, says former CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
In a March 8 speech in Kirkland, Washington, McGovern goes through these daunting problems from global warming to the loss of a "free media" in terms of keeping the American people adequately informed, but concentrates on how the Bush administration wantonly violated… Continue
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March 09, 2009 "Khaleej Times" -- - While the United States was fighting for its economic life, Obama administration officials and the media issued a blizzard of contradictory claims over Iran’s alleged nuclear threat, leaving one wondering who is really charge of US foreign… Continue
Amendment X: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Hypocrisy and politicians! There is nothing new in this love-match made by Cupid's arrow of self-interest, right? Wrong. In the current flurry of… Continue
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LONDON, March 8 (UPI) -- A former Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, terrorism detainee says memos from the spy agency MI-5 prove Britain colluded with CIA captors who were torturing him.
British resident Binyam Mohamed, who returned home last month after his release from nearly seven years of imprisonment at the U.S. prison camp in Cuba and other locales, cited MI-5 memos purporting to show how British officials orchestrated his questioning while… Continue
Denied. No music videos for folks in UK using Youtube. 5.7 billion dollars from last years profit not enough to buy rights of music videos for UK residents. 83 million hits for Leona Lewis' song, "Bleeding Love". That's 23 million more… Continue
Food irradiation is a risky technology with unknown long term health effects. Yet Secretary Vilsack and the administration are considering nominating Dr. Michael Osterholm, a strong proponent of this technology, as Undersecretary of Food Safety. Some research has indicated that food irradiation… Continue
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The site has been described as 'extraordinary' and 'the most important' site in the world
For the old Kurdish shepherd, it was just another burning hot day in the rolling plains of eastern Turkey. Following his flock over the arid hillsides,… Continue
Cardiff University researchers, who are part of a British-German team searching the depths of space to study gravitational waves, may have stumbled on one of the most important discoveries in physics, according to an American physicist.
Craig Hogan, a physicist at Fermilab Centre for Particle Astrophysics in Illinois is convinced that he has found proof in the data of the gravitational wave… Continue
Added by Marklar on March 7, 2009 at 11:30pm —
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The Daily Show: Jon Stewart calls CNBC for what it really is: clueless, in-the-tank reporting, of inflatable bubbles and blowhard CEOs, while the U.S. and world economies slowly slid into a meltdown:…