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Monthly Archives: August 2007
Phone-y Rumor Claims Listings on National Do Not Call List Set to Expire
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Don’t panic: your listings on the national Do Not Call List are NOT about to expire.
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Avoid these online iPhone scams and hoaxes.
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Report reveals the true cost of not protecting your computer.
Phone-y Rumor Claims Listings on National Do Not Call List Set to Expire
Steve Irwins’ Daughter Bindi to Launch Fashion Line
The daughter of late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin is launching her own children’s clothing line.
Eight-year-old Bindi Irwin, who recently launched her own TV show Bindi: The Jungle Girl, will donate all proceeds from Bindi Wear International to conservation programs in her native Australia.
She says, “My Daddy was working to change the world, so everyone would love wildlife like he did. Now it is our turn to help.”
Irwin’s daughter to launch fashion line
Dogmatists Seethe, Spirituality Betrayed
The “infallible” pope declared all non-Catholic churches inherently false or, at best, defective if they didn’t accept papal authority. A few days later, Bible-waving fundamentalists screeched “Lord Jesus, protect us from this abomination” when Rajan Zed, a Hindu chaplain from Reno, Nevada offered a serene invocation to open a session of the United States Senate.
Falwell’s Death Clears Debt of University, Church
LYNCHBURG, Va.—The Rev. Jerry Falwell had life insurance policies worth $34 million and the money has been used to erase the debt of Liberty University, the school he founded.
“Progressive” Most Favorable Ideological Term In America
Progressivism is winning the day in American politics. That it is more net favorable than the term “conservative” is a major finding about American politics, and a serious blow to the conservative notion that they are a natural plurality.
Open Left:: “Progressive” Most Favorable Ideological Term In America
Bill Clinton Authors New Book on Citizen Activism
“Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World” is a look at how the act
of giving takes many forms, and how offerings of time, skills, objects,
and ideas can be just as important as contributions of money.
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“These people are part of the family – that’s why I keep this darn
place. People are crossing the border because they are starving to
death. I don’t care what their status is. If they are hungry and
thirsty, I am going to feed them.”
~ Jack Dixon, owner of LBJ, one of the largest
watermelon farms in the western US
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Michael Vick may face long road back to the gridiron
The Atlanta Falcons quarterback agreed Monday to plead guilty for his role in dogfighting case.
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New misgivings on wiretap law
Some Democrats regret updating FISA to expand the NSA’s ability to tap American calls.
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US farmers using prison labor
With tightening restrictions on migrant workers, some farmers are turning to the incarcerated.
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To fight crime, Mesa, Ariz., targets guns
The fast-growing city is seeing early success in its new partnership with federal firearms officials.
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An Alaska icon comes under fire
As controversy swirls around Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens’s financial conduct, state politics may enter a new era.
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Driving in the Wrong Direction — unless you happen to be in the oil business
A 3 percent increase in fuel-economy standards for vehicles would
save more gas than the entire 2006 production of corn ethanol.
For the past five years, U.S. gasoline consumption has increased
by 1.4 percent annually, and diesel by 3.6 percent.
2005 Incomes, on Average, Still Below 2000 Peak
The government’s blaming it on the dot-com crash, but…
The growth in total incomes was concentrated among those making more than $1 million. The number of such taxpayers grew by more than 26 percent, to 303,817 in 2005, from 239,685 in 2000.These individuals, who constitute less than a quarter of 1 percent of all taxpayers, reaped almost 47 percent of the total income gains in 2005, compared with 2000. …
People with incomes of more than a million dollars also received 62 percent of the savings from the reduced tax rates on long-term capital gains and dividends that President Bush signed into law in 2003, according to a separate analysis by Citizens for Tax Justice, a group that points out policies that it says favor the rich.
The group’s calculations showed that 28 percent of the investment tax cut savings went to just 11,433 of the 134 million taxpayers, those who made $10 million or more, saving them almost $1.9 million each. Over all, this small number of wealthy Americans saved $21.7 billion in taxes on their investment income as a result of the tax-cut law.
The nearly 90 percent of Americans who make less than $100,000 a year saved on average $318 each on their investments. They collected 5.3 percent of the total savings from reduced tax rates on investment income. …
More millionaires, huh? I must be doing better than I thought, if the economy’s that good.
2005 Incomes, on Average, Still Below 2000 Peak – New York Times
Arctic Sea Ice Extent Hits Record Low
“During the first week in July, the Arctic sea ice started to disappear at rates we had never seen before,” said Sheldon Drobot, who leads the Arctic Regional Ice Forecasting System group at the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research, CCAR.
Here’s a thought: a disappearing ice pack will make it one helluva lot easier to get all that oil out of the arctic, won’t it? Who cares about damage to the permafrost and pipeline if you can ship direct?
Am I paranoid? Yeah……..probably. Or not.
A Little Bit of History — You never knew who you’d run across back in those days
Louie was the first gay man to introduce me to piercing. After a career as a geologist for Getty Oil,
he had retired in Palm Springs and owned an up-scale house off Farrell
Street, at the end of Santa Ynez Way. His home was chock full with
mementos, pictures of his kids, grandkids, art he had gathered on his
travels; a library full of books, all kinds of videos, a fantastic
classical CD collection — it was a place I felt at home. A mutual
friend had said, “I think you’ll like Louie.”– A Little Bit of History [BME Guest Column]
Archbishop of Wales to Debate Religion at City Nightclub
The Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, will be talking to young clubbers at Cardiff’s Dempsey’s club on Sunday night.
The debate, titled “Is Religion Bad?”, will question whether religion causes more problems in the world than it solves.
Dr Morgan said: “Some of the best debates and conversations young
people have these days are at nightclubs and Solace offers a great
alternative for those looking to combine a fun night out with
stimulating chat in a responsible atmosphere.”
The event is organised by Solace, the city’s first “church in a bar” which opened in April.
First the Buddhists, now the Anglicans. Can Witnesses be far behind?
