03 Sep
QuestionGirl 10:33 pm (Bush, SPP)
The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America summit in Canadareleased a plan that establishes U.N. law along with regulations by the World trade Organization and World Health Organization as supreme over U.S. law during a pandemic and sets the stage for militarizing the management of continental health emergencies.
The “North American Plan for Avian [...]
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03 Sep
QuestionGirl 10:07 pm (Voting)
Next year we’ll have the second presidential election since the horribly botched one in 2000. Can we expect better? An answer comes from the highest election official in the most populated state in the Union. Worried about a string of reported vulnerabilities, Debra Bowen, California’s secretary of State, had asked computer scientists at the University [...]
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03 Sep
QuestionGirl 10:01 pm (Data Breaches, Pentagon)
The Chinese military hacked into a Pentagon computer network in June in the most successful cyber attack on the US defence department, say American ÂÂofficials.
The Pentagon acknowledged shutting down part of a computer system serving the office of Robert Gates, defence secretary, but declined to say who it believed was behind the attack.
Current and former [...]
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03 Sep
Jim Swanson 10:00 pm (Club Blue)
03 Sep
QuestionGirl 5:53 pm (Health)
It just never ends……..
In an attempt to raise the nation’s historically low rate of breast-feeding, federal health officials commissioned an attention-grabbing advertising campaign a few years ago to convince mothers that their babies faced real health risks if they did not breast-feed. It featured striking photos of insulin syringes and asthma inhalers topped with [...]
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03 Sep
QuestionGirl 4:10 pm (Iraq)
I keep reading and hearing how U.S. troops casualties are down since the surge. They are not down. If you compare them to last years numbers, they are WAY not down! Casualties in the summer traditionally go down because it’s so friggin hot. This year they didn’t. They are down from April, May [...]
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03 Sep
QuestionGirl 11:34 am (2008 Presidential Election, John Edwards)
Go Edwards Go!!!!
Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards is getting the endorsement of two unions, the United Steelworkers and the United Mine Workers of America, on Labor Day.
Edwards is scheduled to be in Pittsburgh, home of the Steelworkers’ international headquarters, for a Monday rally and will accept the endorsements there.
More at USA Today
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03 Sep
QuestionGirl 9:36 am (Holiday)
03 Sep
QuestionGirl 8:52 am (Bush, Iraq)
Didn’t fly into Baghdad. Bypassing Baghdad in a symbolic expression of impatience. How about a symbolic expression of fear of getting his ass shot at it Baghdad. He only likes death when it’s someone else doing the dying. And has anyone noticed the headlines regarding the British withdrawal from Basra? It doesn’t [...]
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03 Sep
Jim Swanson 5:00 am (Miscellaneous, Odd news)
Shark dies after scaring NYC beachgoers
NEW YORK - A 5-foot-long shark scared hundreds of swimmers out of the water, but on Sunday its lifeless body washed ashore.
The thresher shark frightened crowds at Rockaway Beach on Saturday as it splashed along the Long Island shore.
Although it wasn’t believed to be a threat, hundreds of swimmers [...]
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