Schwarzenegger Needs To Face Reality: California Is Insolvent
• Michael Shedlock / MishMany other states are in the same sinking ship, all attempting to postpone the day of reckoning via sleight of hand trickery and magic mirrors.
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Bruce Trowbridge: Spending Summer Biking and Running Across the Nation
• MondorebWhat I Did on My Summer Vacation: Biked and ran 2487 miles across the USA to help raise money for clean water in Africa. Along the way, outran a pack of coyotes and had a run-in with a band of gypsies. Meet the guy who's actually doing it: Bruce
Tazing a blind woman in her home just comes with the job
• CNN videoPolice say they didn't realize a suspect's mother was blind when they tased her. So? I thought using the taser was dependent upon circumstances, or does the claim she threw a punch at a cop ring less true when delivered by a blind woman in h
All 177 Mervyn's Department Stores Could Close Within 30 Days
• Bloomberg.comMervyn's LLC, the long-struggling California department-store chain, is fighting for survival as some of its vendors have halted shipments to the company and key lenders have pulled financing...
Document forensics expert: Obama "birth certificate" a "horrible forgery"
• Israel InsiderI find it entertaining as heck that we have the two main presidential candidates accused of not being eligible to run for president of the USA because one was allegedly born in Kenya, and the other in Panama. What a country.
David Bromwich on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio
Mark Jokel
Paulson braces public for months of tough times
• news.Yahoo.com"I think it's going to be months that we're working our way through this period — clearly months," he said.
US: The World's Biggest Blue Light Special
• WallstreetExaminer.comWe should see this BLS primarily conducted by foreign corporate and elitist interests, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), and private equity firms. The criminals on Wall Street will also play a role accelerating the process, as there are fees to be colle
INSIDERS AGREE: BANK RUNS IMMINENT
• 2cents.dailyreckoning.comYou can hear the panic in his voice. He told me, point-blank: "It's all coming down. The whole system is crashing." He is quickly turning into an urban survivalist -- outfitting his home with solar, buying biodiesel, stocking up on food
RON PAUL 4409 -- Small puppy wants his MONEY back !
Google 4409This small puppy is pissed and he wants his MONEY back!....Why would he want it back? Does he have the power to get it back?
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Freddie and Fannie Bailout is Unconstitutional
• Fox.newsIn this video Judge Andrew Napolitano explains why bailing out Freddie and Fannie is unconstitutional.
Beijing Olympics and Pollution: When Is a Gas Mask a Performance Enhancer?
• Mondoreb & RidesAPaleHorseThe Chinese are concerned about pollution during the Olympics. Will wearing a gas mask get an athlete disqualified?
Barack Obama, Mainstream Media: Obama’s Excellent Adventure
• MondorebNeed more proof that the Mainstream Media isn’t the PR wing of the Democrat Party? Look no further than their coverage of Obama’s Excellent Adventure.
Liberty and Responsibility
• Shawn-PoliticsWhen we give government our responsibility we also give it our liberty. The more liberty that government has, the less we have. This works both ways. That is why our founders tried to restrain the government with the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
I.O.U.S.A.: The Movie
• The Pissed Off Citizen[movie trailer] I'm really glad that a documentary movie is finally being released on the U.S. economy and not some fabricated action movie. Coming way too late to a theater near you.
Alaskans suffer nation's highest gasoline prices
• ReutersThink you're feeling pain at the gas pump? Consider the residents of Lime Village, Alaska, an isolated Denaina Athabascan Indian community where gasoline prices have hit $8.55 a gallon. The price is severely curtailing movement around the
As Wars Lengthen, Toll on Military Families Mounts
• APDivorce lawyers see it in the breakup of youthful marriages as long, multiple deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan fuel alienation and mistrust. Domestic violence experts see it in the scuffles that often precede a soldier's departure or sour a br
Library confrontation with cops points up privacy dilemma
• APChildren's librarian Judith Flint was getting ready for the monthly book discussion when police showed up. Five state police detectives wanted to seize Kimball Public Library's public access computers as they frantically searched for a 12-yea
Amazing technology from Japan . . . but can you guess what it is ?
• etceteracommunityMiniaturization and wireless bringing portable computing to a new level.
U.K. Nanny State Roundup: Mastering the Broom and Binge Drinkers
• patUK Nanny State Roundup in not-so-Great-Britain: brooms don't cut it and Britain's laws encourage binge drinking, which produces a tragic result.
US: Iran must choose between cooperation and confrontation
• Rawstory.com/news/afpBurns did not meet or speak with separately any member of the Iranian delegation, the spokesman added.
Battered mortgage giants spent about $186 million on lobbying, political contributions
• APFor years, mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac tenaciously worked to nurture, and protect their financial empires by invoking the political sacred cow of homeownership and fielding an army of lobbyists, power brokers and political contributors
Merrill Drops After $4.65 Billion Second-Quarter Loss
• BloombergMerrill Lynch & Co. declined in New York trading after the third-biggest U.S. securities firm reported a wider-than-estimated second-quarter loss on $9.7 billion of credit-market writedowns.
Md. ACLU releases docs detailing police monitoring
• APUndercover Maryland state police officers infiltrated meetings of peace and anti-death penalty groups for more than a year, and included the name of at least one prominent peace activist in a federal database for tracking terrorists and drug dealers.
Human Speech Traced to Talking Fish
• LiveScienceFish communicate with sound, too. And researchers say your speech skills and, in fact, all sound production in vertebrates can be traced back to this ability in fish. (You got your ears from fish, too.)
House prices could fall for two years: Citigroup
• BBC news (video)Citigroup chairman Win Bischoff has warned that house prices in Britain and the United States are likely to keep falling for another two years.
Photo radar citations could net state $210M a year
• East Valley TribuneArizona's coffers could be fattened by $210 million a year - or more - under the terms of the new contract for statewide photo enforcement of speed and red-light laws. Figures provided by the state Department of Public Safety show that the eig
No rush to register handguns in D.C.
• USA TodayRon Jones, 33, was expecting a crowd when he arrived at 6:05 a.m. to obtain an application. Jones said he is planning to purchase a weapon for self-defense. "It's our constitutional right. I'm here to exercise that right. The way things
OIC Wants U.N. to Outlaw Free Speech
• BabbaZeeThe Organization of the Islamic Conference is again attempting to outlaw speech it finds disagreeable–and the United Nations is its weapon of choice.
Northcom chief: Homeland command is now grown up
• APRenuart, commander of the U.S. Northern Command, seems unnaturally upbeat for a man whose job is to figure out what disasters might befall the American homeland, and lay plans to prevent or cope with them. "I think we're doing really good th
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