Democrats demand �proof� from Bush
Card said he is confident Congress will approve Bush�s plan.
�There�s a sausage machine on Capitol Hill,� he said. �We gave the sausage machine all of the right ingredients; they have to churn. And I�m confident that when they turn that sausage out it�ll be the right kind of sausage for America.�
what the fuck is this, sausage, what the fuck???????
i say impeach bush, fire his ass
Monday, January 27, 2003
Horoscope Front Pagescorpio 10/24 - 11/21
The Sun is in Aquarius and the Moon is going from Scorpio into Sagittarius. Look for ways to increase your income without increasing your output. Amazingly, that becomes possible over the next few days
The Sun is in Aquarius and the Moon is going from Scorpio into Sagittarius. Look for ways to increase your income without increasing your output. Amazingly, that becomes possible over the next few days
Sunday, January 26, 2003
Britons concerned, resentful of U.S.Criticism of America here begins with Iraq but quickly broadens to accusations that Washington is aiding and abetting Israeli repression of Palestinians and is a gluttonous society of large cars, fast food and environmental degradation seeking cheap Iraqi oil to feed its consumption habits.
Saturday, January 25, 2003
Reagan's SonThe aim to partly privatize retirement (through individual investment accounts), education (through vouchers) and welfare (through faith-based charities) has proceeded gradually, and with some temporary retreats, but no one close to Bush doubts that it is a sustained crusade. You could easily imagine Reagan's husky chuckle the other day as Bush announced plans to outsource up to 850,000 federal jobs -- about half the government's civilian work force -- to private contractors. This is on top of the 170,000 federal employees who will lose most of their contract protections when they are folded into the new Department of Homeland Security. In the name of efficiency, Bush stands not only to weaken the federal apparat, but also to bleed the public employee unions
Reagan's SonBush is inarticulate, likely to lose his place midthought and inclined to lowbrow bluster. The conservative columnist Robert Novak has said that Bush has ''the smallest vocabulary of any president I've ever seen.'' David Frum, a conservative who worked as a Bush speechwriter, has written that ''conspicuous intelligence seemed actively unwelcome in the Bush White House.''
Both presidents, schooled in the discipline
Both presidents, schooled in the discipline
Reagan's SonBoth of these presidents inspired, and to some extent still inspire, a frisson of disbelief: how did this guy get to be president of the mightiest nation on earth?
Ashcroft Soaks Up a World of ComplaintsWhile Mr. Ashcroft said that the American aim was to prevent acts of terror before they took place rather than prosecute the perpetrators afterward, Mahathir bin Mohamad, the prime minister of Malaysia, turned to the attorney general across a stage and, in front of hundreds of participants, said, "To say you must do preventive actions irrespective of the causes is wrong
Friday, January 24, 2003
Thursday, January 23, 2003
Powell says U.S. has strong coalitionAs the dispute heated up, leaders reacted angrily Thursday to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld�s dismissal of France and Germany as the �old Europe,� saying the comments underscore America�s arrogance.
Finance Minister Francis Mer said he was �profoundly vexed� by the remarks.
�I wanted to remind everyone that this �old Europe� has resilience, and is capable of bouncing back,� Mer told LCI television. �And it will show it, in time
Finance Minister Francis Mer said he was �profoundly vexed� by the remarks.
�I wanted to remind everyone that this �old Europe� has resilience, and is capable of bouncing back,� Mer told LCI television. �And it will show it, in time
i will ride a bike again
i will
i see nothing wrong with dreams or dreaming them
i will ride a bike again
i will lift weights again
i will walk without crutches, without hinged braces on my knees
i will ride a bike again
i will do my art again
i will
i will make dreams of clay and bring them to life
i will
i will
i see nothing wrong with dreams or dreaming them
i will ride a bike again
i will lift weights again
i will walk without crutches, without hinged braces on my knees
i will ride a bike again
i will do my art again
i will
i will make dreams of clay and bring them to life
i will
Wednesday, January 22, 2003
MSNBC Cover � The Sun is in Aquarius and the Moon is in Virgo. Problems you've been putting up with are about to dissolve. Figure out how much you have to spend, and where you'll spend it.
Tuesday, January 21, 2003
Magic Johnson to promote HIV drugsBut the GlaxoSmithKline campaign is the first of its kind for HIV, which has created particularly sensitive issues of price and profit for the pharmaceutical industry
The Warts on Michelangelo: The Man Was a MiserThat is one conclusion of a recently published book, "The Wealth of Michelangelo," by a professor of art history here who found in Renaissance archives a surprising financial profile of unacknowledged wealth and unwarranted thrift.
U.S. warns against inaction on Iraq�We are greatly concerned that a military strike against the regime in Baghdad would involve considerable and unpredictable risks for the global fight against terrorism,�
Sunday, January 19, 2003
Saturday, January 18, 2003
A Matter of Principle
Not everybody agrees that this is smart politics for the GOP. Klain, for one, thinks Bush has overreached, and if the Supreme Court with its conservative record upholds diversity as a legitimate government interest, Bush will be on the defensive, not the Democrats. By forcefully entering the Michigan case, Bush has made it clear what outcome he wants to see, placing his trust once again in the court to assure his political future.
Not everybody agrees that this is smart politics for the GOP. Klain, for one, thinks Bush has overreached, and if the Supreme Court with its conservative record upholds diversity as a legitimate government interest, Bush will be on the defensive, not the Democrats. By forcefully entering the Michigan case, Bush has made it clear what outcome he wants to see, placing his trust once again in the court to assure his political future.
Friday, January 17, 2003
Words Against War Wouldn�t the overthrow of Saddam Hussein at least diminish some of the threat of terrorism?
The threat of international chaos and terror will be fantastically enhanced by the presence of a 250,000-strong Western crusader invasion and occupation of an Arab-Muslim country. Anyone who thinks the world will be safer from terrorism when Western soldiers are on every street in Iraq is living in a fool�s paradise. The one man who is praying more for this war more ardently than [U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense] Paul Wolfowitz is Osama bin Laden. This is the very confrontation that he set out to engineer.
The threat of international chaos and terror will be fantastically enhanced by the presence of a 250,000-strong Western crusader invasion and occupation of an Arab-Muslim country. Anyone who thinks the world will be safer from terrorism when Western soldiers are on every street in Iraq is living in a fool�s paradise. The one man who is praying more for this war more ardently than [U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense] Paul Wolfowitz is Osama bin Laden. This is the very confrontation that he set out to engineer.
Words Against War. But no one in Britain can understand the relationship between a Labour prime minister and a right-wing Republican zealot of such dubious democratic credentials as the current president of the United States.
Thursday, January 16, 2003
Bush Aide Sees Deficit in 2003 of $200 Billion
Bush Aide Sees Deficit in 2003 of $200 Billion
By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM and EDMUND L. ANDREWS
ASHINGTON, Jan. 15 � The White House said today that the federal deficit was likely to exceed $200 billion this fiscal year and probably hit $300 billion next year.
The ballooning deficits � the largest ever in dollar terms but smaller relative to the economy than deficits in the 1980's and early 1990's � could put President Bush's tax plan in peril.
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This afternoon, 11 moderate senators � five Republicans and six Democrats � met to discuss their qualms about the president's proposals and made plans to draft alternative tax legislation.
The group's consensus, a participant said, was that the tax plan was too costly and that its centerpiece, the elimination of individual income taxes on most stock dividends, would not help the economy enough.
Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, the most influential senator on tax legislation, said in an interview that the president's tax package would probably have to be changed to get it through the Senate.
The deficit forecasts were made by Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., the president's budget director, in answer to questions after a speech at the United States Chamber of Commerce here. The estimates assume enactment of the tax plan but do not take account of the potential cost of a war with Iraq, which officials have said could be $50 billion or more.
The forecasts are in line with those of many private economists, but this was the first time the administration had acknowledged the magnitude of the expected deficits.
Mr. Daniels did not spell out his exact deficit projections, which will be published in early February as part of the administration's budget for the 2004 fiscal year, which begins on Oct. 1.
But he said the deficit would equal 2 percent or 3 percent of the nation's gross domestic product in the next year or two. With an annual economy of roughly $10 trillion, that would translate to deficits of $200 billion to $300 billion.
Providing additional detail, Mr. Daniels said the president's tax plan would add several "scores of billions" to the deficit in 2003 and about $100 billion to the deficit in 2004.
Coming on top of last year's budget deficit, which was $159 billion, that means the president's tax plan alone could increase the shortfall to $250 billion by 2004 and new spending for domestic security and other priorities could raise the total above $300 billion. The budget Mr. Bush submitted to Congress a year ago forecast a deficit of $80 billion for fiscal year 2003, which ends on Sept. 30, $14 billion for 2004 and surpluses thereafter.
Mr. Daniels suggested today that the budget was not likely to be in surplus in the next 10 years. But he and other administration officials emphasized that the anticipated shortfalls of 2 percent to 3 percent of the nation's gross domestic product were modest in relation to the size of the entire economy.
"We ought not to hyperventilate about this," he told reporters. "By any historical measure, these are manageable deficits."
The deficit reached 6 percent of the economy in the mid-1980's under President Ronald Reagan and was more than 4.5 percent in the last two years of the administration of President Bush's father.
When Bill Clinton became president in 1993, he raised taxes, the economy boomed and the deficit shrank steadily. From 1998 through 2001 the government ran a surplus
Bush Aide Sees Deficit in 2003 of $200 Billion
By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM and EDMUND L. ANDREWS
ASHINGTON, Jan. 15 � The White House said today that the federal deficit was likely to exceed $200 billion this fiscal year and probably hit $300 billion next year.
The ballooning deficits � the largest ever in dollar terms but smaller relative to the economy than deficits in the 1980's and early 1990's � could put President Bush's tax plan in peril.
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This afternoon, 11 moderate senators � five Republicans and six Democrats � met to discuss their qualms about the president's proposals and made plans to draft alternative tax legislation.
The group's consensus, a participant said, was that the tax plan was too costly and that its centerpiece, the elimination of individual income taxes on most stock dividends, would not help the economy enough.
Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, the most influential senator on tax legislation, said in an interview that the president's tax package would probably have to be changed to get it through the Senate.
The deficit forecasts were made by Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., the president's budget director, in answer to questions after a speech at the United States Chamber of Commerce here. The estimates assume enactment of the tax plan but do not take account of the potential cost of a war with Iraq, which officials have said could be $50 billion or more.
The forecasts are in line with those of many private economists, but this was the first time the administration had acknowledged the magnitude of the expected deficits.
Mr. Daniels did not spell out his exact deficit projections, which will be published in early February as part of the administration's budget for the 2004 fiscal year, which begins on Oct. 1.
But he said the deficit would equal 2 percent or 3 percent of the nation's gross domestic product in the next year or two. With an annual economy of roughly $10 trillion, that would translate to deficits of $200 billion to $300 billion.
Providing additional detail, Mr. Daniels said the president's tax plan would add several "scores of billions" to the deficit in 2003 and about $100 billion to the deficit in 2004.
Coming on top of last year's budget deficit, which was $159 billion, that means the president's tax plan alone could increase the shortfall to $250 billion by 2004 and new spending for domestic security and other priorities could raise the total above $300 billion. The budget Mr. Bush submitted to Congress a year ago forecast a deficit of $80 billion for fiscal year 2003, which ends on Sept. 30, $14 billion for 2004 and surpluses thereafter.
Mr. Daniels suggested today that the budget was not likely to be in surplus in the next 10 years. But he and other administration officials emphasized that the anticipated shortfalls of 2 percent to 3 percent of the nation's gross domestic product were modest in relation to the size of the entire economy.
"We ought not to hyperventilate about this," he told reporters. "By any historical measure, these are manageable deficits."
The deficit reached 6 percent of the economy in the mid-1980's under President Ronald Reagan and was more than 4.5 percent in the last two years of the administration of President Bush's father.
When Bill Clinton became president in 1993, he raised taxes, the economy boomed and the deficit shrank steadily. From 1998 through 2001 the government ran a surplus
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Aquarius
� The Sun is in Capricorn and the Moon is going from Gemini into Cancer. Love and money are connected now. That simply means you're more apt to achieve a goal with somebody special on your side. Work is involved, too.
Aquarius
� The Sun is in Capricorn and the Moon is going from Gemini into Cancer. Love and money are connected now. That simply means you're more apt to achieve a goal with somebody special on your side. Work is involved, too.
Wednesday, January 15, 2003
Boos for Bush silenced at AMA? Jan. 15 � Did ABC censor a crowd�s disapproval of George H. Bush? The former president � and father of the current president � delivered a taped message at the American Music Awards on Monday night, and sources who were there tell The Scoop that the crowd booed him.
Anxiety beneath support for warAmanda Owens, the 25-year-old who holds court behind the counter at Crescent Moon, worries about body bags, too. But, for now, she has other � more immediate � concerns on her mind. As the economy gets shakier, she said, it seems as though the people in power are focused on the wrong things. There�s too much talk about sending U.S. troops all over the world, she said, and not enough about the environment and people�s livelihoods. And she is downright angry about what she perceives as unfair targeting of people of Middle Eastern descent in the United States.
Tuesday, January 14, 2003
Monday, January 13, 2003
ABCNEWS.com : Godless in AmericaAmerica is one of the most religious nations in the developed world, with far more people attending church and professing their faith than in many European countries, for example.
A Better Way to EatThe Healthy Eating Pyramid has some controversial features, including a strong endorsement of calorie-rich vegetable oils and a virtual prohibition of potatoes and white rice. But its health effects have been cleverly evaluated and
Signs of Survival in a Frozen ForestThe time in the woods had left an indelible impact, however. He says he "imprinted" on the Maine forest. In 1974, he bought 300 acres a couple of hours north of Portland. It was on this land that he built a cabin and studied ravens, setting out carcasses for them, hiding in blinds, getting to know individual birds. The resulting books, "Ravens in Winter" and "The Mind of the Raven," are among his most popular
Thursday, January 09, 2003
Can the sky clean itself?Hydroxyl, or OH, is important because it chemically reacts with a range of polluting gases, including methane and carbon monoxide, and removes them from the atmosphere.
The short-lived chemical is difficult to directly measure. Instead, scientists measure concentrations of chemicals that react with it.
The short-lived chemical is difficult to directly measure. Instead, scientists measure concentrations of chemicals that react with it.
Wednesday, January 08, 2003
Hubble peers deep into universe THE HUGE COSMIC LENS is actually a cluster of galaxies harboring a trillion stars about 2.2 billion light-years away. The combined gravity of the stars and unseen, exotic dark matter associated with the cluster exerts a strong pull on light coming from objects even farther away.
War�s cost may dwarf stimulus effectTHE PRESIDENT�S determination to push more tax cuts as the nation prepares for war has struck some economists as folly, since the economic shock of war is likely to dwarf the impact of Bush�s stimulus plan. Moreover, no tax policy at the moment could actually address what many economists believe to be the greatest drag on the nation�s economy: the uncertainty of war.
Tuesday, January 07, 2003
Thursday, January 02, 2003
Discovering the culture of orangutansResearchers investigated six sites in Borneo and Sumatra to document wild orangutan behaviors, including tool use and good-night "raspberry" sounds.
Discovering
the culture
of orangutans
Scientists document
�tricks of the trade�
among humanity�s
second-closest kin
Discovering
the culture
of orangutans
Scientists document
�tricks of the trade�
among humanity�s
second-closest kin
The Miami Herald | 01/02/2003 | Outside Montreal, Raelians have their base: UFOlandOutside Montreal, Raelians have their base: UFOland
BY MONICA RHOR
mrhor@herald.com
BY MONICA RHOR
mrhor@herald.com
Wednesday, January 01, 2003
U.S. Psyche Touched By New Anxiety: From The Tampa TribuneThis time, the pending military action is being tied to a need to thwart potential terrorism. Since the al-Qaida attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Americans have been warned repeatedly to beware of imminent danger. But why the war on terrorism has been extended beyond catching bin Laden to invading Iraq makes many stretch for answers.