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BP's new plan risks worsening oil spill
BP's new plan risks worsening oil spill A maneuver that includes severing a leaking pipe from the well may increase the flow as much as 20%. Officials also say there is no immediate remedy to plug the well until August....
May 31, 2010, 7:07 am - truesee

Obama: Aid for middle class
Obama's middle-class pitch: Dream alive 'We all know what the American dream is'' -- pledging to keep it alive. January 25, 2010 1:00 PM Michael Muskal Chicago Tribune With what will serve as a preview of his State of the Union speech, President Barack Obama today gave the nation an outline of new...
Jan 25, 2010, 7:49 pm - truesee

Pricing Afghan troop buildup: $500,000 a soldier?
Pricing an Afghanistan troop buildup is no simple calculation The White House estimate is twice the Pentagon's. Some see politics at play. Christi Parsons and Julian E. Barnes Chicago Tribune November 23, 2009 Reporting from Washington - As President Obama measures the potential burden of a new war st...
Nov 23, 2009, 8:35 am - truesee

Medicare update.
Unfortunately, I don't have to check this out because all of us have heard or read about it. Just remember that those bloated SOBs in congress take very good care of themselves and crow about all the good they are doing for the 'people', and that's from both sides of the House and Senate. Use your power to vote them out. For your friends who voted for the 'messiah', Idon't think that this is the Hope Change they thought it was going to be. 2010 COLA For t...
Oct 29, 2009, 8:46 am - jarasan

The army & marines and their salary...
The army marines : The army and the marines don t get paid enough, for the kind of job they do i feel they don t get paid enough...They get paid less than the navy and airforce and is wrong...I still don t understand how can someone who graduate from college with a chemistry degree get paid 52,000 a year and someone who is giving his life to save everyone in your country and to wipe your ass, gets paid 1,3...
Mar 20, 2008, 3:24 pm - pumpi76

Lie detector: Heart Imaging
Lie detector: Heart Imaging : You know i was just thinking about lie detectors and i came to the realization that lie detectors wouldn't work on all situations...What i think will work better is if they could somehow invent a machine that could view the heart beating and the machine could register when a heart increases heart beat...Because a person's heart beat will increase if that person it telling a lie... This wa...
Nov 8, 2007, 2:36 pm - pumpi76

New York Taxi Will Go Hybrid By 2012
NEW YORK (May 22) - The city's yellow taxi fleet will go entirely hybrid within five years, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Tuesday. There's an awful lot of taxicabs on the streets of New York City, Bloomberg said. These cars just sit there in traffic sometimes, belching fumes. This does a lot less. It's a lot better for all of us, he said of the hybrid plan. Nearly 400 fuel-efficient hybrids have been tested in the city's ta...
May 24, 2007, 8:25 am - LOTTOMIKE

Caution
Recent news reports of increase in bites by rabid animals in georgia. Be carefull all my Georgia friends....
Jan 27, 2007, 5:09 am - cashinn

nicotine increasing in cigarettes,study says
BOSTON (Jan. 18) - Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health say they have confirmed a study by the state that found nicotine levels in cigarettes increased from 1997 until 2005. The analysis, based on data submitted to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health by cigarette manufacturers, found that increases in smoke nicotine yield per cigarette averaged 1.6 percent each year, for a total of about 11 percent over a seven-year period. Cigarettes are...
Jan 18, 2007, 1:42 pm - LOTTOMIKE

gang wars and senseless violence
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16 The Latino gang members were looking for a black person, any black person, to shoot, the police said, and they found one. Cheryl Green, perched near her scooter chatting with friends, was shot dead in a spray of bullets that left several other young people injured. She was 14, an eighth grader who loved junk food and watching Court TV with her mother and had recently written a poem beginning: I am black and beautiful. I wonder how I will be living in...
Jan 17, 2007, 8:23 pm - LOTTOMIKE