Although John Edwards dropped out of the race, his wife Elizabeth Edwards is taking John McCain to task for not offering universal healthcare. I sure would of liked to see her and her husband in the White House. McFriendy said the following statement wasn’t true. He didn’t receive federal healthcare when he was a prisoner of war. Sorry McFriendy, that doesn’t count.

“He has not spent a single day not protected by a federal health plan, not a single day of his entire life, and yet he denigrates this care,” said Edwards in a recent article in the Wall Street Journal.

Full article at Political Radar

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Tina Turner
“A Change is Gonna Come”

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More lies from this administration. If there’s a problem, instead of FIXING it, they spend more energy on covering it up and lying about it. Gee I wonder if they are wearing their flag lapel pins when they work on covering up this shit and let veterans continue to suffer. CBS News has reported that the VA has lied about the number of suicides and attempted suicides among veterans.

New documents reveal the number of veterans who commit or attempt suicide are substantially higher than the number the Department of Veterans Affairs has stated in the past - including what CBS News was told during an exclusive investigation.

In a series of e-mails, Dr. Ira Katz, the head of Mental Health for the VA, also made it clear that he did not want the damaging information revealed.

Last November, a CBS News investigation yielded startling results.

According to data from 45 states, 6,256 men and women who had served in the armed forces took their own lives in 2005 - that’s 120 suicides every week.

There’s a class action lawsuit to be heard in San Francisco, charging the department’s “inadequate care” is “unable to deal with the growing incidence of depression and suicides.”

Gordon Erspamer, the lawyer for the veterans groups, “We find that the VA has simply not devoted enough resources … They don-t have enough psychiatrists.”

A recent RAND report found that “300,000 U.S. troops - about 20 percent of those deployed - are suffering from depression or post-traumatic stress from serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

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This republican economy, (YES, I said republican), is literally robbing us of our livelihoods. Any worse, and it could mean murder!

Burglaries Have Surged 21 Percent

Burglaries are on the rise in the District, with police blaming the souring economy as a contributing factor in a 21 percent increase in break-ins over the same period last year.

Criminals are jimmying locks, kicking in front doors, breaking through roof hatches and skylights, and sometimes even sawing security bars off windows to get into houses and businesses, police said. They are hauling off computers, flat’screen televisions, jewelry, digital media players and other items, which they then sell.

Police data show that 922 burglaries were reported in the city in the first quarter of the year, compared with 761 in the same span last year. The biggest increases have been reported on Capitol Hill and in neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River, including Congress Heights.

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Once it reaches $4.00/gal., it might as well be $20.00/gal.

Retail gas hits record $3.50 a gallon as oil marches higher

NEW YORK - Rising gasoline prices tightened the squeeze on drivers Monday, jumping for the first time to an average $3.50 a gallon at filling stations across the country with no sign of relief.

Crude oil set a record for the sixth day in a row - this time closing above $117 a barrel - after an attack on a Japanese oil tanker in the Middle East rattled investors.

“It’s killing us,” said Jean Beuns, a New York cab driver who estimated he now makes $125 to $150 less per month than in the fall because of costlier gas. “And it was so quick. Every day you see the price go up 5, 6, 10 cents more.”

As bad as that is, it’s this part that worries me the most:

Diesel prices at the pump also struck a record high of $4.20 a gallon, according to AAA and the Oil Price Information Service. That’s sure to add to truckers’ costs and drive up the price of food, clothing and other goods shipped by truck.

“You and I are going to pay more,” said Bob Costello, chief economist of American Trucking Associations. “Exactly how much … I can’t tell you, but it’s got to show up.”

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Call me crazy but this isn’t the way to make friends and influence people. Another scapegoat. The Air Force. Gee, that’s nice. Hey Bobby…. if you’re not happy with the leaders, can’t you change them???? Isn’t that your job? And if they are dragging their feet, maybe there’s a reason. Maybe it’s time to GET OUT!!!! Talk about a dumb thing to say.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday the Air Force is not doing enough to help in the Iraq and Afghanistan war effort, complaining that some military leaders are “stuck in old ways of doing business.”

Gates said in a speech at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., that getting the Air Force to send more surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft to Iraq and Afghanistan has been “like pulling teeth.”

More at Yahoo News

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BRILLIANT! Not to mention her trip was a total failure.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Sunday called Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al Sadr a coward who’s hiding in Iran and praised Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki for his recent offensive against Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia in the southern port city of Basra.

The March 25 government offensive sparked an uprising by Sadr’s militia, and on Saturday, one day before Rice arrived in Baghdad on an unannounced visit, Sadr threatened an all-out war against the Iraqi government.

The Sadrists have angrily accused Maliki’s U.S.-backed government of trying to undercut their movement prior to provincial elections in October, when they will likely win many of the Shiite southern provinces from their Shiite rivals in Maliki’s government. If Sadr’s militia, conservatively estimated at some 60,000 men, were to rise up, it could mean the end of the drop in violence in Iraq and an inter’sectarian war that could make it more difficult for the U.S. to withdraw any further troops from Iraq.

Thousands of government soldiers already have deserted in Basra and in Baghdad’s Sadr City, refusing to fight the Shiite militia. Some deserted because of threats to their families, others from a moral objection by the mostly Shiite Iraqi security forces to fight their Shiite brothers.

More at McClatchy

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