Archive for 'News'
3.1 Trillion Dollar Budget: That’s A Lot of Zeros…
4 February 2008 President Bush’s proposed budget is ready for review from Congress, already put down by Democrats and some Republicans who say it uses Budgetary gimmicks to project a surplus by 2012. (Yahoo News)
Here are the highlights:
3.1 Trillion Dollars spent in a 12 month period
Stimulate Economy
$150 Billion Stimulus Package for Individual Refunds and Business Investment [...]
Pork, The Other White Meat in Congress…
30 January 2008I always loved that commercial, but it always reminds me of Congress. Unfortunately when I hear Pork, my mind doesn’t think of Baby Back Ribs or succulent Pork Chops for Dinner, I think of all the wasted Taxpayer money that is going to our Representatives friends and their Pet Projects. Instead of going to help [...]
No, the World Economy Is Not Comming To An End…
22 January 2008At least not today. As the rest of the world’s financial markets, dropped up to 10% overnight, American Financial Markets prepared for an onslaught of SELL Orders. World fear that the US Economy will slip into a recession and cause American consumers to stop buying products from around the world is what caused the [...]
Argentina And US in Parallel Universes
28 October 2007
As if in parallel universes, Argentina and the US are having elections and current and former First Ladies are front runners in the race for President.
In Argentina: Cristina Fernandez Kirshner, wife to current President Nestor Kirshner is currently a Senator and close adviser to the president, and a lawyer. Nestor Kirshner managed to get [...]
Could this be the turning point in Iraq?
24 October 2007According to American Commanders, the drastic drop in US military and Iraqi Civilian deaths is due to the US Troop increase and the Iraqi surge against al-Quaeda and Shiite militia extremists.
Over the last four months, Shiites and Suni citizens have been joining the Americans in the fight against these extremists. Commanders attribute the drop in [...]
Burma’s Dictator Tells Another Lie
19 October 2007Under heavy International pressure, the military Junta in Burma has announced that it is taking steps towards the “Road Map” that will take the country towards Democracy and free elections. They’ve created a 54 member committee that will be in charge of drafting the long-awaited constitution. No starting date for the committee was announced.
It appears [...]
France’s Divorce Rate Up By One
18 October 2007Frances President Nicolas Zarkosy and First Lady Cecilia have called it quits. After months of speculation by the public and the press, it was announced today that their divorce is finalized.
Although a first for a French President, their rocky relationship was suspect for a time now, evidenced by her absence at official occasions and [...]
S.F. to Guarrantee Health Care To All It’s Citizens.
10 October 2007While everyone else in our Government, meaning Congress, the President and Presidential Candidates just talk about Health Care Reform, the City of San Francisco is doing something about it. They may become the first city in the U.S. to guarantee Health coverage to all it’s citizen’s.
Individual States have taken the problem of Health [...]
Ahmadinejad Meets The World
26 September 2007Ahmadinejad speech started out with a conciliatory tone,”Today human thought reflects outstanding commonalities which provide appropriate grounds to build upon”. He went on to talk about peace, human dignity, justice, the need to end poverty, the gap between rich and poor countries, the spread of terrorism, especially state terrorism, the existence and proliferation of weapons [...]
Bush takes on the World’s Plights
25 September 2007During his speech at the UN this morning, President Bush covered many issues the most prominent being terrorism in the world today, and how the UN an all Nations of the world have a tremendous opportunity to “fight radicalism and terror with justice and dignity … and to achieve a true peace, founded on human [...]
Should we be afraid of Iran? Poll
21 September 2007Taking the Pulse: With the UN meeting coming up and the World ramping up it’s fears about Iran’s Nuclear resistance, should we be afraid of Iran, or is it all hype?
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US and Iran Meet at the UN!
21 September 2007Both the US and Iran will be making speeches at the UN on September 25. Washington is already stepping up rhetoric about the new “Middle Eastern Threat”, Iran. At the same time UN security council meetings are planned to discuss whether to extend UN Sanctions, for refusing to go along with the UN’s restrictions [...]
Fed Rate Cut
18 September 2007The Fed rate cut surprised everyone. The Fed’s lowered the Fed Fund Rate 50 basis points down to 4.75%, much better than the expected 25 basis points. The Fed Discount Rate also went down 50 basis points down to 5.25%, surpassing expectations that were a 0-25 basis point cut. This sent the message out [...]
“Post Partisan”: Republican Quotes
6 September 2007“Well. there we go again”, Ronald Reagen would say. Arnold Schwarzenegger is in the lime light as usual, causing waves again. This time with his own party. He’s making public his feelings that the Republican party should widdle their platform rhetoric down to a couple of sentences, mainly focusing on lowering taxes, shrinking the long [...]
Track Record for our Congressmen
26 August 2007Want to know who in Congress, has the most success in getting Bills passed, has had no Bills passed, or just simply doesn’t show up to vote. Interesting statistics about our dear Congress over at GovTrack.us.
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Statistics Nutshell (see more)
These representatives are the most . . .
Absent: Del. Faleomavaega [D-AS] (43% votes [...]
KGB Taking Russia Back
25 August 2007Ex-KGB member and now President Vladimir Putin is apparently not the only ex-KGB member in today’s Russian Government. Has the old KGB slowly creep-ed in while no-one was looking?
“Three out of four senior Russian officials today were once affiliated to the KGB and other security and military organizations.” Greed and corruption rule, and although Russia [...]
Stop the Abuse in Darfur
21 August 2007On September 27th, join 1,000s of bloggers around the world in BlogCatalog’s Blogging for a Great Cause Challenge.
Join Bloggers to sound out about the abuses that take place all around the world.
My challenge is to get the word out about the genocide happening in Darfur. If enough people make a raucous about it [...]
Bush on Border Security and Immigration
11 August 2007President Bush and his cabinet announced the actions they will be taking to address immigration problems and border security. “These reforms represent steps my Administration can take within the boundaries of existing law to better secure our borders, improve worksite enforcement, streamline existing temporary worker programs, and help new immigrants assimilate into American society.” (source: [...]
Courts Deny Experimental Drugs
9 August 2007The Federal Court of Appeals denied a request to make it a Constitutional right for terminally ill patients to be treated with experimental drugs. By a vote of 8-2 the court overturned an earlier decision by a lower court,”to create a constitutional right for patients to assume “any level of risk” without regard to medical [...]
Darfur Rebels Agree on Talks with Government
8 August 2007Darfur rebel factions have agreed to finals talks with the Sudanese Government. Meeting in a luxury resort in Arusha, Tanzania the rebels have agreen upon a common platform to include “power and wealth sharing, security, land and humanitarian issues.” They would like talks to be held three months from now. The [...]
