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Iconic Pinup Model Bettie Page Dies at 85

E.Rich — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:00:00 +0000

Iconic Pinup Model Bettie Page Dies at 85

Bettie Page, the 1950s secretary-turned-model whose controversial photographs in skimpy attire or none at all helped set the stage for the 1960s sexual revolution, died Thursday. She was 85.

story and photos at The Huffington Post

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Military atheists claim religious discrimination in the services

E.Rich — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:18:43 +0000

Jesus in a foxhole with a Rabbi and an aethist

A coalition of atheists and agnostics wants the new White House to protect young military members from what they see as rampant religious discrimination in the services.

read the original article at Stars and Stripes

OJ Simpson gets 15 years in prison

E.Rich — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:55:23 +0000

OJ Simpson gets 15 years in prison

A broken O.J. Simpson has been sentenced to at least 15 years in prison for a Las Vegas hotel armed robbery by a judge who rejected his apology and said, "It was much more than stupidity."

read the Associated Press article

Bush Legacy?

E.Rich — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:59:20 +0000

Bush Legacy - Worst President Ever

Karl Rove, a close confidant and former adviser to President Bush, said Tuesday he did not believe the administration would have gone to war in Iraq had intelligence indicated Saddam Hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction, contradicting some of his former boss's previous statements.

Read "Is Bush the Worst President in the Last 50 Years?" from ABC News

Russian analyst predicts decline and breakup of U.S.

E.Rich — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:50:09 +0000

Russian analyst predicts decline and breakup of U.S.

A leading Russian political analyst has said the economic turmoil in the United States has confirmed his long-held view that the country is heading for collapse, and will divide into separate parts.

read the article at the Russian News & Information Agency

Ted Stevens' defeat in Alaska marks end of an era

E.Rich — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:46:05 +0000

Convict Ted Stevens - End of an era

Defeat of once-powerful Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens' is end of an era in state, nation's capital

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16-year-old becomes first woman in Japan's all-male baseball league

E.Rich — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:46:11 +0000

Japanese Manga 16-year old Baseball Girl

She weighs a mere 52kg and stands a little over five feet tall, but Eri Yoshida is to about to become the first woman to play in Japan's all-male professional baseball league.

article from guardian.co.uk

Obama win spurs U.S. gun sales boom

E.Rich — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:52:47 +0000

Obama win spurs U.S. gun sales and Newspaper Boom

Barack Obama is good for business. Last Wednesday, the day after Mr. Obama beat Arizona's own Mr. McCain to become the president-elect, Mr. Chee sold $30,000 worth of guns - mostly the semi-automatics the National Rifle Association claims Mr. Obama's administration will restrict.

Call this an economic crisis? Just wait

E.Rich — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:24:49 +0000

Baby Boomers: The Next Economic Crisis

Actually, don't wait, because we've got to stop a bigger economic disaster in the making: 78 million baby-boomers eligible for Social Security and Medicare.

Read the article from Fortune Magazine

Obama for President

E.Rich — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:11:41 +0000

HOPE

However this election turns out, it will dramatically advance America's slow progress toward equality and inclusion. It took Abraham Lincoln's extraordinary courage in the Civil War to get us here. It took an epic battle to secure women the right to vote. It took the perseverance of the civil rights movement. Now we have an election in which we will choose the first African-American president

from the Chicago Tribune

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Yahoo to lay off 10 percent of workforce as quarterly sales decline

E.Rich — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0000

YYahoo to lay off 10 percent of workforce as quarterly sales decline

Yahoo announced Tuesday it would lay off 10 percent of its workforce, or about 1,500 people, as sales declined for the third consecutive quarter.

real article at San Jose Mercury News

CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret Memos, Waterboarding Got White House Nod

E.Rich — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0000

wake up america

The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects -- documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials about a possible backlash if details of the program became public.

article from the Washington Post

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Politics of Attack

E.Rich — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0000

John McCain Race Baiting

It is a sorry fact of American political life that campaigns get ugly, often in their final weeks. But Senator John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin have been running one of the most appalling campaigns we can remember.

editorial at NY times

Historic bailout bill passes Congress; Bush signs

E.Rich — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0000

Bush signs Historic bailout bill

With the economy on the brink of meltdown and elections looming, a reluctant Congress abruptly reversed course and approved a historic $700 billion government bailout of the battered financial industry on Friday. President Bush swiftly signed it.

article from Yahoo! news

Despite Rain, 26,000 Virginians Show Up For Obama-Biden Rally

E.Rich — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:29:57 +0000

Despite Rain, 26,000 Virginians Show Up For Obama-Biden Rally

So it's Saturday evening in Fredricksburg, Virginia, and the rain has just started to fall.
How many people do you think are going to show up for the political rally? If you guessed 26,000....then you're right.

Story, images, and video at the Huffington Post

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Chinese Astronaut Takes Nation’s First Spacewalk

E.Rich — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:32:30 +0000

Chinese Astronaut Takes Nation’s First Spacewalk

A Chinese astronaut orbiting the earth lifted himself out of the Shenzhou VII spacecraft Saturday afternoon and performed the nation’s first spacewalk, another milestone in China’s space program.

from the New York Times

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