22 Jun
QuestionGirl 10:57 pm (Health Care)
Crossposted at Joewo.com Thanks Joe!
In military news, a new Harvard Medical School study shows around 1.8 million U.S. veterans lack basic health insurance or access to care. The number of uninsured veterans has increased by nearly three hundred thousand since President Bush took office in 2000.
So what is the backlog of VA cases? [...]
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22 Jun
Jim Swanson 10:00 pm (Club Blue)
22 Jun
Jim Swanson 7:28 pm (Alberto (I don't recall) Gonzales, Justice)
By MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press Writer
from YAHOO! NEWS
WASHINGTON - President Bush’s pick to be the No. 3 official in the Justice Department asked to have his nomination withdrawn Friday, four days before he was to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Bill Mercer sent a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales saying it was unlikely [...]
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22 Jun
Jim Swanson 5:43 pm (Bush, Dick Cheney, Froomkin)
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Why, in 2003, did Vice President Cheney suddenly become so dead’set against reporting how his office handled government secrets?
Cheney’s refusal to abide by reporting requirements that apply to everyone else in the Bush administration — and the audacity of his excuse, that because he is also president of the Senate, his [...]
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22 Jun
Jim Swanson 5:38 pm (Health, Health Care)
By Stephanie Nebehay
from YAHOO! NEWS
GENEVA (Reuters) - A new, untreatable form of tuberculosis is striking up to 30,000 people a year, the World Health Organization said on Friday, and warned it could spark an “apocalyptic scenario” if unchecked.
The United Nations agency appealed for $2.15 billion to combat drug-resistant TB under a program which it said [...]
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22 Jun
Jim Swanson 5:27 pm (Science)
By ALICIA CHANG, AP Science Writer
from YAHOO! NEWS
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - Atlantis and its seven astronauts returned to Earth safely Friday, ending a two-week mission to deliver an addition to the international space station and bring a crew member home from the outpost.
Atlantis crossed the Pacific and glided to a stop at 12:49 [...]
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22 Jun
QuestionGirl 4:31 pm (CIA, Israel/Palestine, Palestine)
by Mike Whitney
When Hamas gunmen stormed the Fatah security compounds in Gaza last week they found huge supplies of American-made weaponry including 7,400 M-16 assault rifles, dozens of mounted machine guns, rocket launchers, 7 armored military jeeps, 800,000 rounds of bullets and 18 US-made armored personnel carriers. They also discovered something far more valuable— CIA [...]
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22 Jun
QuestionGirl 1:19 pm (2008 Presidential Election, Cuba)
But of course he does. Hialeah, a suburb of Miami, has one of the highest concentrations of Republicans (if not the highest) and Cubans of any city it’s size. And again I have to say, why all the attention given to Cuba? Why is it ok to trade with China???? Or all [...]
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22 Jun
Jim Swanson 12:32 pm (Miscellaneous, News)
from YAHOO! NEWS
EDINBURG, Texas - Firefighters who spent half an hour fighting a blaze in which 2,000 pounds of marijuana went up in smoke breathed so much of it that they would have failed a drug test, a fire chief said.
It took more than 35 firefighters, 1,000 gallons of water and five gallons of chemical [...]
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22 Jun
Jim Swanson 11:35 am (Heroes, News)
By BRUCE SMITH, Associated Press Writer
from YAHOO! NEWS
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. - Nine caskets lined the front of a coliseum Friday as thousands of firefighters from across the nation, their hats in their hands, honored nine colleagues killed in a furniture store blaze.
Uniformed escorts walked the men’s wives, siblings and children to their seats in a [...]
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