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Newsroom – Breaking News: Some Bullshit Happening

Jim Howard — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:52:19 +0000

Flight 1549

Jim Howard — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:20:18 +0000

A couple of snippets from the Wikipedia entry for UA 1549. Post via Dick Williams "The entire crew of Flight 1549 was later awarded the Master’s Medal of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators. The award citation read, "This emergency ditching and evacuation, with the loss of no lives, is a heroic and unique [...]

Who are the true and real good Americans?

Jim Howard — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:16:03 +0000

I got the census form today in the mail. It says on the outside "U.S. Census Form Enclosed. YOUR RESPONSE IS REQUIRED BY LAW." It took only minutes to fill out. They asked for the names of the people living here. They asked for their age, date of birth, sex and race. That was [...]

FCC’s Broadband Plan: $15.5 Billion for Deployment

Jim Howard — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:28:07 +0000

"The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will recommend the deployment of a nationwide free or low-cost wireless broadband network, and it will pour at least US$15.5 billion into broadband deployment across the country over the next 10 years under a national broadband plan to be officially released Tuesday. The FCC’s national broadband plan, released to reporters Monday, [...]

Church sex abuse brings trouble to pope

Jim Howard — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:56:19 +0000

CNN has a story with video about "Church sex abuse brings trouble to pope." "(CNN) — With allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic priests piling up in Germany and Ireland and surfacing in Austria and the Netherlands, Europe appears poised to face church abuse in the broad, wrenching way the United States did in [...]

Fox News Says Taxpayers Pay No Taxes?

Jim Howard — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:16:56 +0000

OVER 100 MORE examples of Fox News Bias at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list… If you thought Fox News would try to be more accurate in its business programming where misreporting is more likely to have financial consequences, you’ll be disappointed by the false Republican talking point masquerading as news information I heard from Jonathan [...]

News sites popular but few will pay: report

Jim Howard — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:07:14 +0000

"WASHINGTON (AFP) – The good news for traditional US news organizations? Their websites are popular. The bad news? Few news consumers click on ads and hardly any are prepared to pay for news online. These and other findings are contained in a "State of the Media" report released on Monday by the Pew Research Center’s Project [...]

Social Security to start cashing Uncle Sam’s IOUs

Jim Howard — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:43:27 +0000

Great story about Social Security at Yahoo! News (AP Story). The story is by Stephen Ohlemacher and he writes in a very clear and simple matter. "PARKERSBURG, W.Va. – The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in this small town along the Ohio River: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the [...]

Clarence Thomas’ Wife a Teabagger Leader

Jim Howard — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:43:44 +0000

The following story is from Ameriablog. "Science, media, government – their goal, for whatever reason, is to undermine. It’s what they’re doing to congress and the presidency, it’s what they’ve been doing to the courts for years (arguing that courts are no longer impartial arbiters), and now it’s what they’re doing to the Supreme [...]

I am a welfare mother?

Jim Howard — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:58:09 +0000

I just got back from CVS Pharmacy. I had to get Avodart and Carvedilol. I will get Lisinopril tomorrow. I will have to wait to get Flomax until I get my SS money on the 24th of this month. I filled out some paper work [...]