19 Jun
Jim Swanson 11:52 pm (Middle East, Military)
from Air Force retiree News Service
h/t to Glenn
Release No 06-08-07
June 19, 2007
SAN ANTONIO (AFRNS) — Secretary of the Air Force Michael W. Wynne has sent the following letter to all Airmen. The letter explains the reasons behind current and future force’shaping measures:
“Probably the most difficult part of my job as your Secretary is [...]
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19 Jun
Jim Swanson 10:43 pm (Business News, NYSE)
A few business stories from Reuters
* notice one of the buyers of Home Depot. It’s in italics. - JS
Home Depot to buyback stock
By Michael Flaherty and Karen Jacobs
Home improvement retailer Home Depot Inc. (NYSE:HD - news) on Tuesday said it would repurchase $22.5 billion in stock and sell its supply division to three private equity [...]
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19 Jun
QuestionGirl 10:39 pm (Club Blue)
[[ Video ]]
Grand Funk Railroad
“We’re An American Band”
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19 Jun
Jim Swanson 10:31 pm (Bush, Congress, Stem Cell Research)
By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer
from Yahoo News
WASHINGTON - Pushing back against the Democratic-led Congress, President Bush intends to veto a bill Wednesday that would have eased restraints on federally funded embryonic stem cell research - work that supporters say holds promise for fighting disease.
At the same time, Bush will discuss at a White House [...]
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19 Jun
QuestionGirl 9:23 pm (Guantanamo)
My prayers go out to Abdullah bin Omar this evening, going back to a country who will imprison him for involvement with a certain political party, and the United States not giving two cents what happens to him.
By BEN FOX
Associated Press Writer
The U.S. announced the transfer Tuesday of six Guantanamo Bay prisoners [...]
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19 Jun
QuestionGirl 9:11 pm (Jimmy Carter, Palestine)
A man with a brain……and compassion.
DUBLIN, Ireland - Former President Jimmy Carter accused the U.S., Israel and the European Union on Tuesday of seeking to divide the Palestinian people by reopening aid to President Mahmoud Abbas‘ new government in the West Bank while denying the same to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
Carter, a Nobel Peace [...]
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19 Jun
QuestionGirl 8:21 pm (2008 Presidential Election)
[[ Video ]]
CNN reports on Bloomberg leaving the Republican party to become an Independent.
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19 Jun
QuestionGirl 8:18 pm (2008 Presidential Election)
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CNN reporting on Giuliani’s South Carolina Campaign Chairman, Thomas Ravenel, being indicted for cocaine. Notice how short the report is. No bias there. If this were Obama you think they’d give it more than 52 seconds? Oh but it’s ok because he wasn’t going to sell it, just share [...]
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19 Jun
QuestionGirl 6:50 pm (Election, Voting)
Ok, when I heard the term “vote caging” during Goodlings testimony, I had to look it up to find out what it meant. Here’s an explanation from Greg Palast:
Vote caging is an illegal trick to suppress minority voters (who tend to vote Democrat) by getting them knocked off the voter rolls if they fail [...]
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19 Jun
QuestionGirl 6:40 pm (Bush, Congressional Hearings)
“The administration is thumbing its nose at the law,” said Conyers, one of the lawmakers who commissioned the GAO study.
So do something about it…….. PLEASE!
By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff
WASHINGTON — Federal officials have disobeyed at least six new laws that President Bush challenged in his signing statements, a government study disclosed yesterday. The [...]
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