Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Son sure Ky. census taker was slain - AP
Josh Sparkman lost the only family he ever really had when his census worker father was found hanging from a tree in rural Kentucky, his feet and hands duct-taped and the word "fed" scrawled on his chest.
Now the 19-year-old wants answers from investigators who will not even confirm Bill Sparkman was slain more than two weeks after his body was found.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Romney a victim in health care debate - Andy Barr - POLITICO.com
Romney a victim in health care debate - Andy Barr - POLITICO.com
I thought about his a few months ago. I theory this guy would be the SME,,right. But if the Republican position is against goverment mandated healthcare like Romney-care.
The national health care reform debate is far from settled, but one of the casualties is already clear: former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
Three years ago, Romney was heralded for his innovative effort to institute near-universal health care in his state. But now that the issue has emerged as a partisan fault line and the Massachusetts plan has provided some guidance for Democratic reform efforts, Romney finds himself bruised and on the defensive as the GOP rallies around opposition to President Barack ObamaĆ¢€™s plans.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27610.html#ixzz0SM3qxBRl
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Friday, September 25, 2009
95 in Georgia - add another bank
Columbia, S.C.-based First Citizens Bank and Trust Company Inc. has agreed to assume the failed bank's deposits, the FDIC said in a statement.
The FDIC estimated that the cost of the bank's failure to the federal deposit insurance fund will be $892 million.
Georgian Bank is the 19th Georgia bank to fail this year.
AIDS vaccine - found by the U.S. Army (Two New Neutralizing Antibodies Discovered)
Thursday, September 24, 2009
The first US President to led - U.N. Security Council Adopts Measure on Nuclear Arms
The successes came as Mr. Obama told leaders that the United States intended to begin a new era of engagement with the world, in a sweeping address to the General Assembly in which he sought to clearly delineate differences between himself and the administration of President George W. Bush.
One of the fruits of those differences — although White House officials were loath to acknowledge any quid pro quo publicly — emerged during Mr. Obama’s meeting on Wednesday afternoon with President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia, the first between the two since Mr. Obama decided to replace Mr. Bush’s missile defense program in Eastern Europe with a version less threatening to Moscow.
With a beaming Mr. Obama standing next to him, Mr. Medvedev signaled for the first time that Russia would be amenable to longstanding American requests to toughen sanctions against Iran significantly if, as expected, nuclear talks scheduled for next month failed to make progress.
“I told His Excellency Mr. President that we believe we need to help Iran to take a right decision,” Mr. Medvedev said, adding that “sanctions rarely lead to productive results, but in some cases, sanctions are inevitable.”
U.N. unanimously backs Obama's nuclear disarmament goal
With President Barack Obama in the chair at an unprecedented meeting of the U.N. Security Council, major world powers on Thursday endorsed his goal of a nuclear weapons-free world and pledged to strengthen the shaky international system for preventing the spread of nuclear arms.
The Security Council unanimously passed a U.S.-drafted resolution that endorses the eventual goal of "a world without nuclear weapons." It lays out steps for nuclear powers to trim their arsenals, while making it harder for other nations to convert civilian nuclear programs to military ones. - Miami Hearld
Obama Makes Gains at U.N. on Iran and Proliferation
Monday, September 21, 2009
Glenn Beck Was For The Bailout, Before He Was Against It
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Big Oil Goes Green for Real (Newsweek)
94 Banks - The Trend Continues
The move comes after their parent firm - Irwin Financial - was unable to meet an FDIC demand to boost their capital.
Irwin Union Bank based in Louisville was closed by the Office of Thrift Supervision and Columbus-based Irwin Union Bank and Trust Co. was shut by the Indiana Department of Financial Institutions, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said yesterday in a statement. First Financial Bank of Hamilton, Ohio, agreed to assume the deposits and take over 27 offices, the FDIC said.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
US Household Net Worth Up 3.9% To $53.14 Trillion In 2Q
Household wealth rose in the second quarter at a 17% annual rate, or $2 trillion, to $53.1 trillion after falling at a 13% rate in the first quarter, the Fed said. It was the first time since the second quarter of 2007 that wealth had increased. Net worth is down $12.2 trillion from the peak in 2007, an indication of how much the collapse in stock prices and home prices have hurt. Read the full report.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
INSTANT VIEW: U.S. retail sales rise; producer prices jump | Reuters
INSTANT VIEW: U.S. retail sales rise; producer prices jump | Reuters: "U.S. retail sales rise; producer prices jump"
Monday, September 14, 2009
He could not leave a comrade behind - The Boston Globe
Moving low and fast, according to the testimony of his fellow soldiers, Monti got within less than a dozen feet of Bradbury before he had to dive behind the low stone wall where Lybert lay dead. After a brief pause, he made another attempt but the shooting was even more intense. He scrambled back behind the low wall.
He prepared to make another attempt to save Bradbury, this time asking some of his men to cover him with more gun fire trained on the woods. But as he lunged toward Bradbury the third time, an RPG exploded in his path.
The blast blew off his legs, but Monti struggled to get back to the stone wall, his men calling out in encouragement. With his last breaths, his soldiers later reported, Monti said he made his peace with God. And right before he died he asked them to tell his family he loved them.
As darkness fell over the valley, the mortar rounds Monti called for began to hit the enemy positions. US aircraft also dropped several bombs into the woods.
“Monti’s selfless act of courage rallied the patrol to defeat the enemy attack,’’ the Army concluded.
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Monday, September 7, 2009
Florida GOP Chair - TPM
White House Rewrote School Speech After Conservatives Caught Them Indoctrinating Children!
Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer appeared on CNN today, and accused the White House of changing the content of President Obama's stay-in-school speech in the wake of conservative outrage at political indoctrination -- outrage that he was instrumental in mobilizing, by the way -- and that the original would have been much more politically-oriented.
Florida GOP Chair - TPM
White House Rewrote School Speech After Conservatives Caught Them Indoctrinating Children!
Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer appeared on CNN today, and accused the White House of changing the content of President Obama's stay-in-school speech in the wake of conservative outrage at political indoctrination -- outrage that he was instrumental in mobilizing, by the way -- and that the original would have been much more politically-oriented.
Florida GOP Chair on Obama's Speech to Students:
ABC News' Steven Portnoy reports: The Florida Republican party chairman who last week accused the president of trying to “indoctrinate America’s children to his socialist agenda” now says he’ll let his children watch what he calls a “good speech,” one the president “should give.”
“It’s a good speech,” Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer said Monday. “It encourages kids to stay in school and the importance of education and I think that’s what a president should do when they’re gonna talk to students across the country.”
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Senate has sent a bipartisan framework for health care legislation
It’s finally coming together. In a last minute push to get a Senate plan in front of the White House a bill has been suggested.
Although we would think that people don’t like paying extra money to companies just for the sake of doing it, this bill creates a foundation for an overdue healthcare bill. My example are healthcare and oil\gas.
This healthcare has taken way to long to get done. As known by everyone, there is a disparity of care based on economic status that is as old as the nation but for this point I’ll say a century. If a person has money they get preventive healthcare, for others they get emergency care at the ER – Trauma center. The care is not preventative and it is too late. Maybe this will bring the equity that the ‘founders’ were thinking about and not writing about. If only the clarity of their thoughts were written so there would be no questions today.
Tennessee mayor defends sending out false anti-Muslim email.
The mayor forwarded the e-mail to city council members, department heads and to a city e-mail list that goes to every employee with an e-mail account.
Piper defended his actions. He said the e-mail is not anti-Muslim and he forwarded it to provide "information."
The e-mail says incorrectly that the stamp was developed under the administration of President Barack Obama. The stamp was first issued in 2001 and reissued in 2002, 2006, 2007 and 2008.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Video - Olbermann calls out conservative media for "urging America to just stay home from school"
Olbermann calls out conservative media for "urging America to just stay home from school"
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US Share of Worldwide Arms Market
Russia was far behind in 2008 with $3.3 billion in weapons sales to the developing world, about 7.8 percent of all such agreements. The report notes that while Moscow continues to have China and India as its main weapons clients, Russia’s new focus is on arms sales to Latin American, in particular to Venezuela.
France was third with $2.5 billion in arms sales to developing nations, or about 5.9 percent of weapons deals with these countries.
The top buyers in the developing world in 2008 were the United Arab Emirates, which signed $9.7 billion in arms deals, Saudi Arabia, which signed $8.7 billion in weapons agreements, and Morocco, with $5.4 billion in arms purchases.
ArmorGroup: US Guards 'Drunk At Obscene Kabul Parties' - video
The Kabul senior management team of ArmorGroup North America, the private contractor that provides guards for the State Department, was also “being replaced immediately,” the embassy said Friday in a statement.
Fifty-seven companies abandon Glenn Beck, should Fox do the same? -- DailyFinance
Eleven new companies whose ads were recently seen during Beck’s program—Binder & Binder, Capital One, The Dannon Company, Discover, HSBC, ICAN Benefit Group Insurance, Infiniti, Jelmar (manufacturer of CLR All-Purpose Cleaner), Jordan McKenna Debt Counseling Network, Mercedes-Benz and Simplex Healthcare (creator of the Diabetes Care Club) —have pledged to ColorOfChange.org to take steps to ensure that their ads don’t run on Beck’s show. Fifty-seven companies have now committed not to support Beck’s show since ColorOfChange.org launched its campaign four weeks ago after the Fox News Channel host called President Obama a “racist” who “has a deep-seated hatred for white people” during an appearance on Fox & Friends.
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Glenn Beck wins a big one
Glenn Beck's all out campaign to attack ColorOfChange.org has gotten a win by getting the resignnation of a founder and advisor to the President: Van Jones.
No matter what position one my have about him, Jones was wrong in signing a questionaire about 9/11/2001. Although this may be seen as a matter of Beck stating (exposing) that Jones is a - well see the following: On July 23rd, Glenn Beck began his crusade against Van Jones, calling him “a communist-anarchist radical.” He went on to rail against Jones approximately 20 times on Fox News in the past couple of months. Last Friday, Beck cited “former black nationalist, avowed communist Van Jones” as an example of “the true danger”...
Friday, September 4, 2009
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Prediction and Analysis: President Obama and Health care
The discipline of the new Dems is that they learned from history. Their history of division and infighting is well known, but in case no one was watching they've passed everything that they wanted. Right? They've won the youth vote for three elections and the general populous for two. They've won the Latino vote - for a generation with the appointment of Sotomayor. Latinos are very, very loyal. By contrast, the opposition has blown up: governors quitting, having affairs, and being the leaders of the resistance.
Second, with the harsh polorized nature in the US any lean towards one side will tilt the balance of power with the help of Independents.
Third, power doesn't come often. The dems have had power since 2006, which is long enough, but not long enough to seal change. So the dems need to extend their leadership for a few more elections with wins and caluclated losses. The dmes will buck up to the pres and the dems will try to hole the repubs into blockers of change. People are still irratated with the 2000-2006 control structure. - CMP