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Their Wholly-Owned & Wholly Influenced "News" media are selling the Obama Product because Obama is in favor of Nukes. In 2005 Obama Voted FOR the Cheney Energy Bill (H.R.6) which ENABLED the nuke industry to make its Plans to build 29 new nukes-by Guaranteeing Taxpayer Payback of any nuke loans that default. (No nukes were built for the past 30 years because the banks wouldn't loan the money - too risky) Obama Voted FOR the Cheney Energy Bill-despite the fact the Congressional Budget Office rated the risk of default on the nuke loans at 50% or greater. (Does that sound like…GOOD…JUDGMENT to You?) [NY Times has several articles about the nuke plans & a map showing all 29 locations; Wikipedia covers the subject] Clinton Voed AGAINST the Cheney Energy Bill and said her Energy Plan does not include nuclear.
Two murders and two life sentences won't alter one convict's ...
At the center of this movement is J.P. Borda, a 31-year-old software analyst who lives in Dallas. Borda started blogging in 2004 during his National Guard deployment in Afghanistan as a way to keep in touch with family and friends. He now runs the site milblogging.com, an aggregator of military-related blogs from around the world. There are more than 1,400 military blogs, Borda says, and most share a common goal: to take on the mainstream media. The way Borda sees it, the media tend to ignore positive news coming out of Iraq while overplaying negative stories. "It's tough for veterans. You turn on the news, and there's a lot of negative coverage," he says. "It's frustrating to hear that when there's so much positive going on there." Military blogs offer a boots-on-the-ground alternative, and Borda says they are catching on because many people have lost their trust in what they see as a leftist, anti-military media.
Bright idea?: CFL bulbs, symbolic of green trend, are raising concerns ...
If you put it in an enclosed fixture, maybe it will last 3,000 or 5,000 hours, not 10,000." Incandescent bulbs usually 750 to 1,000 hours.n One size does not fit all. The more light a CFL puts out, the bigger it must be. The CFL equivalent of a 60-watt bulb is tiny. The 120-watt equivalent is bigger and won't fit in many lamps and fixtures.n Many CFL bulbs don't work well with dimmer switches and three-way light fixtures. A few will work, but they're hard to find. "If you put a regular CFL on a dimmer, in some cases it will hum and snap; it won't live as long, and it won't dim," Horowitz says.When used with a dimmer switch, CFL bulbs typically will dim to about 20 percent of their full intensity and then cut out. They also must be turned on at a high setting and then dimmed, says Philip Scarbro, consumer division director at Energy Federation Inc., a group that promotes conservation.n They're still not widely available.
Baseball is back as Giants pitchers, catchers hit camp
Rowand, acquired from the Philadelphia Phillies, drove in 89 runs last year and banged 27 homers, one shy of Bonds' mark in his final season. Rowand said the Giants must be aggressive running the bases this year to provide more offensive support for a pitching staff that he thinks is one of the best in baseball. Giants expectations competitive "We only have to score four or five runs and we should be in just about every game," Rowand said. The 30-year-old fielder, who reported to camp early, does not set personal goals for himself, preferring to focus on the team's success. "I just want to make the playoffs," he said, adding that he thinks Giants can rise to the top of a tough NL West. To accomplish that, the Giants are promoting a commando ethic with black, gray and white camouflage shirts that read: "Warrior Spirit, Find the Swagger." This season will be a big change for the Giants, Molina said, with Bonds gone and the young players freed up to be themselves in the clubhouse and play their game.
Kidman's pregnancy confirmed
The New York Post overnight reported that Kidman dropped plans to shoot a major new film in Germany to protect the health of her unborn child. Kidman's representatives last week attempted to shoot down the pregnancy reports, describing them as "gossip", but the Post quoted "extremely well-placed sources" as saying Kidman was expecting. "Of course, everyone knows she's pregnant and lying about it," the source told the Post. Kidman was to begin shooting the Stephen Daldry-directed post World War II drama, The Reader, with Ralph Fiennes this month. The Post said Kidman, who has suffered miscarriages in the past, is "so concerned about the welfare of her unborn child" that she quit the film. The film is produced by Hollywood studio Weinstein Company and is based on Bernhard Schlink's prize-winning book about a man who carries a long-time sexual obsession with an older woman who is later prosecuted for war crimes after it emerges she was a member of the SS and a guard at Auschwitz.
The good, bad and flinty: Western rivalries
New to DVD, "3:10 to Yuma" (Lionsgate, R, $29.95) was one of 2007's most entertaining films and featured an epic rivalry between Russell Crowe as a charismatic outlaw and Christian Bale as the desperate rancher determined to get him to the train bound for Yuma Prison. After you've finished the DVD - whose extras include some deleted scenes that add a little texture, and a respectable documentary about outlaws - you may have a hankering for more of the same. So here's a roundup of great Western adversaries you can hunt down for yourself. "Deadwood"
Timothy Olyphant vs. Ian McShane
(HBO, $99.98 per season box set): In David Milch's brilliant, profane, mud-caked cable series, Olyphant's Sheriff Seth Bullock could captain the U.S. Olympic Seething team, emanating a rage so palpable that there ought to be a cloud of it around him.
Hillary's Mutnemom!
Dickerson vs. Maguire: Did Karl Rove dissemble to the special prosecutor by not revealing he'd talked to Time's Matt Cooper about Valerie Plame? Slate's John Dickerson (Cooper's former Time colleague) suspects yes. JustOneMinute's Tom Maguire tries to shoot holes in Dickerson's account. Rove apparently claims he didn't remember talking to Cooper--it was only when Time reporter Viveca Novak tipped off his lawyer that his memory was jogged. Dickerson says it's implausible that Rove would forget the Cooper conversation after: a) Rove wrote an ass-covering email about it; b) Cooper wrote a story saying unnamed "government officials" had leaked to him about Plame; c) Washington made a big fuss over the Plame disclosure; d) Plame's husband specifically accused Rove of outing her; e) Bush's press secretary was barraged with questions about Plame leaks and seemingly denied Rove was involved; f) Rove received a subpoena with Matt Cooper's name on it; and g) Cooper made headlines by almost going to jail for refusing to talk.
Lamp posts padded to protect dopey texters
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Bucks couple struggling as debt crisis hits home
I discovered the wonderful world of refinancing," he said. Cash from the first three refinancings - $160,000 in 1997, $230,000 in 2000 and $360,000 in 2003 - went mostly into home improvements including kitchen repairs, a new roof, a new furnace, vinyl siding, new windows, a new outside staircase, an upstairs addition, and hardwood floors for the living room. The size of the Salamones' refinancings outpaced the growth in average house prices in Warwick Township. The median sale price there - meaning half the homes in the township sold for more and half sold for less - climbed from $168,650 in 1997 to $375,000 in 2006. That's a 122 percent gain, compared with a 165 percent gain for the amount lent against the Salamones' house. Trouble started after the 2003 refinancing, the first involving a so-called piggyback loan.
Rate cuts possible
On Wall Street, stocks were mixed with the Dow Jones industrials edging up 9.36 points. Bernanke admitted under questioning that the Fed faces "a difficult situation." The economy is slowing, inflation is rising and if those trends aren't enough, the slide in home prices and turmoil in mortgage markets show no sign of abating. These developments threaten a vicious economic cycle in which declining home prices depress consumer confidence and dampen consumer spending, which drives two-thirds of U.S. economic activity. "That's three difficult areas where the Fed has to worry about, three different fronts," Bernanke said. "That's the kind of balancing we have to do going forward." Much of yesterday's hearing focused on the struggling housing market, which is at the epicenter of today's economic downturn.
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