This is just gross...Republicans keep trying to shove ANWR and offshore drilling down our throats as a way to achieve energy in dependence.
As it turns out, for the first 4 months of 2008, oil exports from the US were at an all time high! The sad part of this is that I had to go to the UK version of the Reuters News Service to read this.
WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - Top Bush administration security officials ignored FBI concerns over abusive treatment of terrorism suspects, which one agent called "borderline torture," a four-year Justice Department probe found.
First Republicans gave us Ohio, voter ID law. It required a registered voter to produce any one of a number of IDs or utility bills in order to vote.
But that wasn’t good enough for Republicans, it just didn’t make voting hard enough. So in Indiana you must have a registered voter must have a photo ID in order to vote.
Whatever happened to Ron Paul's campaign, which seems to have disappeared? Here's one answer: the media in this country buried it. For a look at the power of media persuasion and its ability to focus our attention on whom they want us to look at, check out this clip of the relative popularity of the candidates from another perspective.
NEW YORK (AP) - A pile of dinosaur dung 130 million years old sold at a New York auction Wednesday for nearly $1,000.
The prehistoric deposit fetched $960, said a spokeswoman for Bonhams New York. Its pre-auction estimate was $450.
The fossilized dung is from the Jurassic era, the auction house said. It looks like a rock on the outside and a colorful mineral inside.
this is a story that you need to click on the site to see the jeans.......
It's a design for the really slim or really brave woman - ultra low-rise jeans with a built-in bikini or thong.
The Brazilian-made trousers would not look out of place among the bronzed bodies on
Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro but their effect on the British high street has yet to be seen.
MANILA (AFP) - Staff at a Philippine government hospital are under investigation after a former patient threatened a lawsuit over a YouTube video clip of his rectal surgery, officials said Thursday.
Top Bush administration officials signed off on using torture against suspected terrorists after asking the Justice Department to endorse their legality. "Who would have thought that in the United States of America in the 21st century, the top officials of the executive branch would routinely gather in the White House to approve torture?"
It has been sixty-seven days since a young, unarmed mother was gunned down and her child severely wounded by a Lima SWAT shooter. We learned on February 27th that Ohio BCI turned a report over to a special prosecutor. That was two weeks ago. Why all the foot dragging? If no charges are filed, the BCI report becomes public record.
The United States now has the highest rate of incarceration in the world! With this dubious distinction, it surpasses China, Russia, and every other country. Over two million of its citizens are behind bars, 1 out of 99 persons in the country. The War on Drugs has been spectacularly expensive and thrown into jail a huge number of non-violent people.
WTOL did a piece yesterday on non-compliance with the smoking ban, in which the reporter noted that the ban is not being complied with. Grossman, head of Lucas County Health Department, said in an interview that it's like bootlegging times all over again.
http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?s=7897124
For some reason Ann Coulter came to mind. I looked at a few pictures of the Right's pin-up girl, and saw that she smokes. I began to get some images in my prurient mind, and realized that she is a good image for the Right: a smoking ashtray. Out of date, and not much pleasure. Good to the last puff?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a plan to suspend the rules against illegal detention and arrest up to 12,000 Americans he suspected of being disloyal, according to a newly declassified document.
Here's an unbelievable account of how the government lures soldiers into re-enlisting by offering them signing bonuses and then asks for the money back after they have been wounded and separated from the service because of their wounds.
"The U.S. Military is demanding that thousands of wounded service personnel give back signing bonuses because they are unable to serve out their commitments.
All of the Great Lakes, except Lake Erie, have recently begun to spike in varies pollutants. In Lake Ontario, for example, eight categories of fish became more contaminated between 2005 and 2007, while only one category improved. Certain toxin levels are going down in all the Great Lakes, but the number of fish advisories is increasing.
U.T. Sports betting case is getting more serious. You can download a newly released e-mail between Mr. O'Brien and the head of the NCAA director of gamling activities that has a date of November 6, 2006.
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