Tonight on Coast to Coast, a man came forward with a story. He said
his company had been highjacked to import drugs from South America,
and in turn, arms were sent to the region to fight the communists
sprouting up in Angola.

He wrote up the entire documented plan and sent it to Sonny Bono after
his company was taken from him. Reportedly, Congressman Sonny Bono
was going to begin an investigation into this scheme that cost the
reporter not only his business, but $250,000 in cash.

After Sonny was found dead from what was reportedly a skiing accident,
the man who lost his business began his own investigation into Sonny's
death. He said that the autopsy reports showed a damaged skull that
had only a small "45 caliber barrel" indentation on the "temple"
region of Sonny's head. And, Sonny did not put up his hand to try to
stop the impact of the tree he reportedly slammed into. Other factors
in the autopsy suggest too that Sonny was not killed by an impact with
a tree. One aspect of the report states that Sonny was skiing on a
flat region of the mountain. He was not going down hill at 30mph as
we were told originally.

Pure bunk. Summer is coming on. Each Spring, the ice begins to thaw
in the arctic just as it does in the antarctic when we experience
winter in America, it is summer in the southern hemisphere.

I watch a map of all ice zones in the arctic each day. I see how much
ice there is, and I see that yes, the last ice to freeze is the first
ice to thaw but that makes perfect sense. And, the amount of ice this
year is not more, but far less than in previous years that remains on
the North Pole / Arctic Zone due to the cooling effect of ZERO
sunspots.

You might recall that just a week ago or so, there was an article out
that described our cooling as a ten to eleven year temporary window in
the global warming trend. The scientists involved said that this was
a normal cycle of cooling. And many said that if we have normal cycles
of cooling, don't we have normal cycles of warming afterward?

Veterans Day / Memorial Day Poem #256

Memorial Day

On Memorial Day they spend their days away
Although they want to come home
Our troops use pen and paper to break away
This day is for you and you
Make sure because our honored troops are you
DonÂ’t give up on us just yet
Even though we wont bet
That Memorial Day is for you
So you keep and have this day fro you

Written from the Heart by Raveen Dyer
Am 14 years old....

More Poetry: http://members.aol.com/warlib/poems.htm
Submit a poem: http://www.amervets.com/poems/mypoem.htm

I Served... SGT Carey L Gillis, Vsm, Vcm, Vcog.
Army Infantry Corps, Vietnam

Carey's Authorizations and Acknowledgements:

TV is horrible. It has become boring and nasty in many instances.
Yet Hollywood can't figure it out. Why won't Americans just plop down
in front of the TV and watch all of the stuff we feed them?

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TV viewership still down in wake of 100-day writers strike

May 11, 12:47 PM (ET)

By DAVID BAUDER

(AP) Television host Tom Bergeron, left, and television host Samantha
Harris pose on the press line at a...
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The fact that a leading figure in al-Sadr's ranks announced the deal
and pointedly rejected the Iraqi government's key demand to disarm
suggests that the cleric is still controlling the agenda tactically
and politically despite the most serious challenge his power the Iraqi
government could muster.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080511/wl_time/alsadrwinsanotherround;_ylt=AtYgS5...

Al-Sadr Wins Another Round

By MARK KUKIS/BAGHDAD Sun May 11, 10:35 AM ET

For the first time in weeks Sadr City saw no fighting Sunday, day one
of yet another hastily brokered cease-fire between U.S.-backed Iraqi
forces and the Shi'ite Mahdi Army militia.

In announcing the deal, al-Sadr aide Sheik Salah al-Obeidi said the
agreement, "stipulates that the Mahdi Army will stop fighting in Sadr
City and will stop displaying arms in public. In return, the
government will stop random raids against al-Sadr followers and open
all closed roads that lead to Sadr City."

Al-Obeidi, who issued a statement from the southern Iraqi city of
Najaf, added: "This document does not call for disbanding al-Mahdi
Army or laying down their arms."

The fact that a leading figure in al-Sadr's ranks announced the deal
and pointedly rejected the Iraqi government's key demand to disarm
suggests that the cleric is still controlling the agenda tactically...

here are 755,000 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Of that
group, the VA says more than 181,000 are collecting disability
benefits.

Growth in disabled vets to cost U.S. billions

By Jennifer C. Kerr, The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Increasing numbers of U.S. troops have left the military
with damaged bodies and minds, an ever-larger pool of disabled
veterans that will cost the nation billions for decades to come......

http://www.usatoday.com/news/2008-05-11-disabled-vets_N.htm?csp=34

Care costs rise as veteran population declines
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/05/ap_disabled_veterans_051108/

Posted : Sunday May 11, 2008 13:48:49 EDT

WASHINGTON — Increasing numbers of U.S. troops have left the military
with damaged bodies and minds, an ever-larger pool of disabled veterans
that will cost the country billions of dollars for decades to come —
even as the total population of America’s veterans has begun to shrink.

Despite the decline in the total number of veterans — as soldiers from
World War II and Korea die — the government expects to be spending $59
billion a year to compensate injured warriors in 25 years, up from
today’s $29 billion, according to internal documents obtained by The
Associated Press. And the Veterans Affairs Department concedes the bill
could be much higher.

Why?

Worse wounds. More disabilities. More vets aware of the benefits and
quicker to file for them.

Also, ironically, advanced medical care. Troops come home with
devastating injuries that might well have killed them in earlier wars.

YEP, SAY ONE THING TO THE PEOPLE THEN DO THE ABSOLUTE OPPOSITE...MC
CAIN PROVES HOW UNETHICAL HE IS..NO THANKS, 8 YEARS OF BUSH'S LIES AND
ILLEGAL ACTS WAS MORE THAN ENOUGH FOR THE CITIZENS OF THE U.S.A.
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McCain Convention Chief Tied to Burma's Junta Quits
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051108Y.shtml

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Number of Disabled Vets Up With Iraq, Afghan Wars
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051108D.shtml

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