Iraq is STILL a domestic issue: a story about children dying of cancer

From now on, whenever you see any article that talks about the US budget being "tight," it means that money has been stolen from some worthy cause by George W. Bush, who diverted those precious tax dollars to pursue what is turning out to be one of the biggest financial…

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Since we’re here ANYWAY, we’ll take your oil.

DemocracyNow reports that the Iraqis have always known what this war is about: In one of the first studies of Iraqi public opinion after the US-led invasion of March 2003, the polling firm Gallup asked Iraqis their thoughts on the Bush administration’s motives for going to war. One percent of…

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Representative Pete Stark comes out of that OTHER closet

Stark is the "highest ranking elected official that rejects God." Here's more on the story, from the Washington Post: Stark, whose district is in the San Francisco Bay-area town of Fremont, confirmed his belief in a statement to The Associated Press late Monday. He said he was "a Unitarian who does…

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You can’t find important information on your computer and it’s driving you crazy? A solution: Windows Desktop Search

I’ve been in this position many times.  I know important information is somewhere on my computer, or is it?  And if it’s on my computer, is it in the form of a wordprocessing file or is it something I received or sent on an e-mail?  What’s the best way to find it?  Do I go to dozens of subdirectories, opening in reviewing hundreds of documents, or do I use the simplistic “Find” feature of Outlook, and watch the search results slowly trickle in?

I’ve read articles suggesting that many professionals spend more than five hours per week simply hunting down information that they know is on their own system.  I am sure that I spent several hours per week looking for such information. To say that it can be irritating is truly an understatement.

This constant frustration recently led me to a pleasant discovery, but it wasn’t obvious at first. I started looking at various shareware packages that claimed that they could track down your files based upon Boolean searches.  Many of them seemed promising, and I tried a few, but I really didn’t see anything that stood out, and I wasn’t inclined to try very many of these packages, since there is a learning curve associated with each of them.  Another option was to purchase an expensive package, such as Isys.  Then again, I really didn’t want to be spending several hundred dollars unless I had to.

I then discovered Windows Desktop Search, free to all who …

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John McCain doesn’t “know” whether condoms reduce risk of HIV

This is mind-blowing.   To think that I used to have some respect for John McCain.   The question recently put to McCain, on his Straight-Talk Express campaign tour, was straight-forward.  Here's the transcript of what unfolded: Q: “What about grants for sex education in the United States? Should they include instructions…

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